Marta & Slava
The artist duo, living in Maastricht and born in St. Petersburg, combine mythical and scientific themes with philosophical and political reflections, sometimes playful and ironic in tone. They explore the space between reality and fiction, reality and collective mythology. They find inspiration where reality takes absurd forms.
Selection 30 x 30 x 30
1. From the series ‘Performative Practices’:
Performance ‘Me and my Teddy Bear’ by an American artists’ collective
was a highlight of the Holland Festival, watercolor and pencil on paper, 2024.
2. From the series ‘Performative Practices’:
A 24-hour non-stop performance by an Australian artist with St.
Pietersberg as a backdrop attracted a lot of interest from the Maastricht public,
watercolor and pencil on paper, 2024.
3. From the series ‘Performative Practices’:
Performance by a young artist from Estonia with the telling title ‘One life
is not enough to understand everything’ received much critical acclaim,
watercolor and pencil on paper, 2024.
CURRICULUM VITAE
Exhibitions (selection):
2025 “Hidden Messages”, Kasteel Wilre Estate, Wijlre, The Netherlands.
2024 “Miss Seafood and the Nightmare Devourers”, PontArte gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2023 “Will beauty save the world?”, West, institute for contemporary art, The Hague, The Netherlands.
“Siebold’s Dreams”, museum De Lakenhal, Japanmuseum/Siebold house, Leiden, museum De Schat van Simpelveld, The Netherlands.
2021 “Melancholia”, PontArte gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2020 “This is Titian, baby”, PontArte gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2019 “The Transylvania Archive”, The Dr. Guislain museum, Ghent, Belgium.
“Strange Games”, ARTTRA gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
2017 “The Transylvania Archive”, The New Institute, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2016 “The Altai Files”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2012 “In Anticipation of Economic Boom”, SCHUNCK museum, Heerlen, The Netherlands.
2009 “The Russian Schizorevolution”, Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2008 “Marta Volkova & Slava Shevelenko”, Palais für Aktuelle Kunst, Glückstadt, Germany.
2007 “Last Day of Pompey”, Society of the Friends of Young Art, Baden-Baden, Germany.
2006 “Dying for the Art”, Post & Garcia gallery, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
2005 “Unexpectedly”, The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2002 “Ene mene mu…”, Art Agents gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
2000 “Girlfriends and other people”, Angelika Kallenbach gallery, Bonn, Germany.
1998 “Women and Heroes”, Werdermann Art gallery, Hamburg, Germany.
“A terrorist and unknown one”, Kunstfabriek, Potsdam, Germany.
1997 “Cabinet of Mirrors”, Museum Panorama Mesdag, The Hague, The Netherlands.
Other and group shows: 2025 Art on Paper Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 2024 “Dream on”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands. “16UP”, 38CC, Delft, The Netherlands.
2023 “Yes, I Do”, Nieuw Dakota, Amsterdam. Art The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands.
“Sharing Stories”, Castle Old Rekem, Belgium. 2022 Art Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany.
2021 Art The Hague, The Hague, The Netherlands. 2020 “Metamorphosis of the memory”, The Province house of Limburg, Maastricht, The Netherlands. “Beating around the bush #6: Scenes from the Anthropocene”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
“Mirrors of Time”, Castle Old Rekem, Belgium. The Limburg Biennale, Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Art object “Border Remover” for the exhibition “Welcome to Leiden”. Rembrandt Park, Leiden, Netherlands. 2018 “The uncanny string”, Jan van Eyck Academy, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 2014 “Lost Paradise”, Kai 10 / Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany. “Coming soon”, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 2013 Installation “About Space and Love” for the show “The Russian Atelier on the Amstel”, Hermitage, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Installation “Paintings about me”, for the show “The Big Change”, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands. 2012 “The New are coming”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
2010 “Brushstroke”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2008 SCOPE Basel with Saatchi Online Gallery. 2007 “Artists of Perestroika”, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland. 2005 “Home Exhibition Project”, for 1st Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia. 2001 “Abstraction in Russia. XX Century”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. 1998 “In my likeness”, The Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1992 “Contemporary Leningrad Art”, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, N.Y., U.S.A. 1991 “Geopolitics”, Museum of Ethnography of Nations of the U.S.S.R., Laningrad, Russia. “Contemporary Leningrad Art”, Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, Pensilvania, U.S.A. 1990 “New Art at the State Russian Museum”, The State Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia. “Keepers of the Flame”, Fisher gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
