MARTA DJOURINA

Marta Djourina, born in 1991 in Sofia, studied art history and completed her studies in fine arts as a master student at the UdK Berlin. Her works have been shown in numerous international exhibitions, most recently at the Berlinische Galerie, Sofia Arsenal - Museum of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut Bulgaria, ICA-Sofia. Her works are in the collection of the Berlinische Galerie and the Eskenazi Museum of Contemporary art, Indiana University in the USA, among others. She has received the BAZA Award (2021), the Eberhard Roters Scholarship, the AArtist in Residence of the Federal Foreign Office (2022), the Marianne Brand Prize for Photography (2022), and others. Her works are currently on display in her solo exhibition “Glowing Attraction” at the Haus am Kleistpark (until March 16).

Marta Djourina’s practice uses light as a subject, tool and object of investigation on analogue photographic paper. In her ongoing series of large-format unique works, she transforms the photo lab into a stage for performative light gestures, moving from corner to corner with various light sources and describing the entire image surface of ​​the photographic paper of 6 m x 1.83 m. She combines photographic and painterly gestures to make the hidden visible and capture fleeting moments.

Her approach combines long exposure techniques and spontaneous light interactions, creating a balance between precision and unpredictability and transforming her movements into visual traces, redefining photography as a physical performance.