Lives and works: Maikop – Bern Russia
Website: https://taplink.cc/mmotyleva
E-mail: maria.mmotyleva@gmail.com
Skills/disciplines: hand/machine embroidery, thread and ceramic, installation, soft/3d sculpture, mixed media.
Types/Themes: animal/animality, committed art, feminism, woman, mask, memory, migration.
Unique piece
Book of death
Discipline: Wire drawing
Unique piece
My home was here
Discipline: Performance
Unique piece
VINCULOS / TIES _ Performance
Discipline: Performance
Unique piece
Hideaway
Discipline: Installation
Unique piece
Sleep
Discipline: Installation
Unique piece
Ladder
Discipline: Installation
Unique piece
Red corner
Discipline: Wire drawing
Unique piece
Beast
Discipline: Wire drawing
Unique piece
The end
Discipline: Wire drawingMy home was here
My home was here, Maria Motyleva and Maria Bezuglaya
Galeria na montra
Silvia Perloiro
Caxias
Lisboa
Portugal
Hörst du Geliebte: ich hebe die Hände, Maria Motyleva and Nadja Karpinskaya
Hörst du Geliebte: ich hebe die Hände
TOBE gallery
Bern
Switzerland
Sprachloser Dialog
Sprachloser Dialog, Maria Motyleva and Veronica Moshnikova
Dreiviertel Art Space
Anna Fatyanova
Bern
Switzerland
Repair
Dreiviertel art space, PROGR
Anna Fatyanova
Bern
Switzerland
Ar.Co - Bolseiros & Finalistas’22
Pavilhão Branco
Manuel Castro Caldas
Lisboa
Portugal
Lisbon, Portugal
I II III IV V - five decades of ar.co - centro de arte e comunicação visual
Nacional Museum of Contemporary Art
Archive curator Diogo Pinto
Lisbon
Portugal
«Wireless», Cortex Frontal
«Wireless»
Plato gallery
Mercedes Vidal-Abarca, Diogo Ramalho
Evora
Portugal
Mycelium festival
Chateau Chapiteau
Pobegi Les
Lagodekhi
Kakhetia
Georgia
Kunstprozessionen.
Waiting society
Wandfluhkapelle.
Raron
Valais
Switzerland
Ar.Co Bolsiros e Finalistas collective show
Not A Museum
Lisbon
Portugal
Self-isolation anthology
Smolny Exhibition Hall
St. Petersbourg
Russia
Ural kvartiralle parallel program
Weird
Personal space
Pavel Kovalenko
Basel
Switzerland
Mycelium festival
Chateau Chapiteau
Pobegi Les
Lagodekhi
Georgia
Self-isolation anthology
St. Petersburg
Russia
My home was here
My home was here
Abandoned house in Lisbon
Nina Danilova
Lisbon
Portugal
Maria Motyleva is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who primarily uses textiles and embroidery as her main medium in object creation, socially engaged art and performative practice.
Maria grew up between Moscow and Adygea, in the Northern Caucasus and has lived in Europe for over twelve years.
Being an emigrant, she is not currently living in any fixed location and moves between the Caucasus Mountains, Switzerland and Portugal.
She graduated from Moscow State University of Printing Arts and studied illustration and visual arts at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte e Comunicação Visual in Lisbon.
Maria is mostly focused on embroidery and textile as an artistic medium and as a performative, social and cultural practice.
Her work is built around the act of repair: touching up the old or damaged pieces with embroidery and celebrating the damages holding memory traces.
This practice centers the care of personal memories through the objects, representing them in the physical world with the very slow, therapeutic and almost archaic practice of embroidery.
Aside from studio work, Maria’s interests lie in the spaces of participatory art.
Collaborating with people through education, activism and social projects has become the foundation of her recent practice.