Marina Istomina
Marina Istomina (b. 1993, Ust-Kut, Irkutsk Oblast) is an artist working with studies of memory, trauma and particularly with traumatic experience. Her practice often based on interviews and archives, embodied through visual images. In 2015 she graduated in Cultural Studies from the Higher School of Economics (Moscow) and in 2019 she completed the course Experiences of Contemporary Photography at Docdocdoc School of Contemporary Photography (St. Petersburg). Exhibitions include: In the N apartment, all tricks are taken seriously, ZGA Gallery, St. Petersburg (2019); MoS Photo Prize, Art of Omsk City Museum (2019); Young Artists That Oksana Budulak and Sanya Zakirov Liked This Winter, Ploshchad Mira Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk (2020); and Young Photographers of Russia 2020, Innovative Cultural Center, Kaluga; Exhibition Hall, Tula (2020), Assuming the Distance: Speculations, Fakes and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow). She is a winner of The Calvert Journal Makers of Siberia Special Jury Prize (2019), the New East Photo Prize (2020), and the Competition Krakow ShowOFF Section at Krakow Photomonth Festival (2021). She lives and works in Ust-Kut and Moscow.
Education
2020
Summer Curatorial School ‘Curating in digital’ (Vladivostok School of Contemporary Art, Goethe-Institut)
2018 - 2020
School of Modern Photography "Docdocdoc"
2018
School of photography "FineArt" (Studio photography course)
2011 - 2015
Bachelor of Cultural Studies
Awards & Participation
2020
finalist: The New East Photo Prize
2020
short-listed: FORMAT Photography Festival
2020
short-listed: Athens Photo Festival
2020
finalist: Blurring the Lines
2020
finalist: The Russian young photographers-2020
2020
short-listed: KosMost (Festival of Modern Photography in Kostroma)
2019
Finalist: Makers of Siberia Photo Prize, Russia
2019
Short-listed: international Photography Grant
2019
Nominee: Bird in Flight Prize ‘19 — Panasonic Readers’ Choice Award
Group exhibitions
2020
The Russian young photographers-2020 (Kaluga, Russia)
2020
“Krysha“. Museum center of Krasnoyarsk World Square (Krasnoyarsk)
2019
In appartment N all the Kunststücks are taken seriously, ZGA Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2019
Siberia. Presence,
Art of Omsk Museum, Omsk, Russia
Publications
2020
Suffocation, Marina Istomina, PHROOM Magazine
2020
The New East photo prize 2020 shortlist – in pictures, The Guardian
2020
Suffocation portfolio, Urbanautica
2020
A Siberian photographer contemplates life in an isolated place, The Calvert Journal
2020
Krysha. Why photographer did the project about dead criminal group? Verbludvogne
2020
Something about 2000-s, Republic
2019
Siberia's mighty forests are ablaze: is photography futile in the face of such disaster? The Calvert Journal
2019
Suffocation. Fire in Irkutsk region, Republic
2019
Protection, International Photography Grant
2019
Krysha, Makers of Siberia