Exhibitions / Выставки

 

2024
The Territory, Angkor Photo Festival, 19 – 28 January, Siem Reap, Cambodia.
Территория, Ангкорский фото фестиваль, 19 – 28 января, Сиемреап, Камбоджа.

2023
The Territory, Imago Lisboa photo festival, Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes,
8 September – 8 October 2023, Lisbon, Portugal.
Территория, Имаго фото фестиваль, 8 сентября – 8 октября, Общество Изящных Искусств, Лиссабон, Португалия.

Галерея A-s-t-r-a, ЦСИ «Винзавод», 15 декабря 2022 – 22 января 2023, Москва, Россия.
A-s-t-r-a gallery, 15 December 2022 – 22 Jan 2023, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.

2022
«The Lonka Project. Человек под номером», Еврейский музей и центр толерантности,
17 февраля – 22 мая 2022, Москва, Россия.
The Lonka Project: Numbered at The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center,
17 Feb – 22 May 2022, Moscow, Russia.

2021
The Ian Parry Scholarship Charity Auction 11 – 24 November online on Artsy
and on show 17 – 23 November at Phillips Auction House, London, UK.
Благотворительный аукцион имени Айна Пэрри, 17 – 23 ноября, Аукционный дом Phillips, Лондон, Великобритания.

Helsinki Photo Festival, 7 July – 30 September, Helsinki, Finland.
Хельсинский фото фестиваль, 7 июля – 30 сентября, Финляндия.

2020
Encontros Da Imagem, International Photography and Visual Arts Festival,
11 September – 31 October, Braga, Portugal.
Фестиваль фотографии и визуальных искусств Encontros Da Imagem, 11 сентября – 31 октября 2020, Брага, Португалия.

Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Photographic Portrait Prize,
12 September – 18 October, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Галерея ILHAM, Куала-Лумпурский международный портретный конкурс, 12 сентября – 18 октября, Куала-Лумпур, Малайзия.

2019
Women in Focus, National Museum Cardiff, 5 May 2018 – 27 January 2019.
Женщины в Фокусе, Национальный музей Кардиффа, 5 мая 2018 – 27 января 2019.

2018
5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona, Spain.
5-ая Биеннале Изящных икусств и документальной фотографии, Барселона, Испания.

«По Краям», Павильон №64, ВДНХ, 13 сентября – 14 октября, Москва, Россия.
At the Fringes, Pavilion №64, VDNKh,13 September – 14 October , Moscow, Russia,

Salty Taste of the Black Sea, Tbilisi Photo Festival,13 – 20 September, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Соленый привкус Черного Моря, Тбилисский фото фестиваль, 13 – 20 сентября, Тбилиси, Грузия.

2017
The Song of Tkvarcheli, Fondazione Studio Marangoni,
3 November – 2 December Florence, Italy.
Песнь Ткварчели, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, 3 ноября – 2 декабря, Флоренция, Италия.

VICE Magazine Photo Show, 10 – 17 August, New York, USA.
Выставка журанала VICE, 10 – 17 августа, Нью-Йорк, США.

The Song of Tkvarcheli, Fondazione dell’Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. della Provincia
di Milano, 22 May – 6 June, Milan, Italy.
Песнь Ткварчели, Fondazione dell’Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. della Provincia
di Milano, 22 мая – 6 июня, Милан, Италия.

The Song of Tkvarcheli, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, 14 – 29 April, Milan, Italy.
Песнь Ткварчели, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, 14 – 29 апреля, Милан, Италия.

2016
The Universe and Art exhibition, Mori Art Museum, 30 July 2016 – 9 January,
Tokyo, Japan.
Вселенная и Искусство, Художественный музей Мори, 30 июля – 9 января, Токио, Япония.

The Borders of Russia, Carte Blanche Finnish Museum of Photography, projection at Night of the Year, Les Recontres d'Arles, France.

The Borders of Russia, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland.

2015
Borderlines, Athens Photo Festival: Reframe Memory, Athens, Greece. 

2014
LensCulture Exposure Award, LCC, London, UK.

IC – Visual Lab & Some Cities: In Common, Photographic screening,
MAC Birmingham, UK. 

2013
Photographic screening and publication by Self Publish, Be Happy;
Serpentine Galleries and 89plus Marathon, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London, UK.

IC - Visual Lab: In Common, Photographic screening, Bristol, UK. 

Night Contact: multimedia and photography festival, Photographic screening, London, UK.

The Story of the Creative, Photographic screening and exhibition, See|Exhibition Space, New York, USA.

Portfolio Russie, Photographic screening, Russian issue, Recyclart, Brussels, Belgium. 

2012
Fresh Faced Wild Eyed, The Photographer’s gallery, 15 – 30 September, London, UK.

Joyful Archipelago group show, Yinka Shonibare Guest Projects, 12 – 28 April, London, UK.  

Transience group exhibition, Alliance Francaise, Malaysia.    

2011
Foto8 Summershow, Host gallery, London, UK

Transience group exhibition,
Galerie Huit Open Salon: Photography competition – Finalist, Arles, France. 

Photography screening, Instant-coffees Photography-Projections 4,
Bristol Photo Forum, Bristol, UK. 

Photographic screening, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia.

2010    
VOLTA6 Basel, Switzerland.     

Направление – Космос!, галерея Победа, Москва, Россия.
Direction — Space! solo exhibition at Pobeda gallery, Moscow, Russia.

Awards / Награды

Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Photographic Portrait Prize.

Marco Pesaresi Award for Contemporary Photography - Finalist.

Gabriele Basilico International Prize in Architecture and Landscape Photography
Biennial Award – Winner.

11th Julia Margaret Cameron Award:
Documentary category – Finalist;
Portrait category – Honorable Mention.

Magnum Photos & IdeasTap Photographic Award – Winner.

Forbes Magazine 30 Under 30 – Arts Category.

30 Under 30, The Photography Show & Magnum Photos.

Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer.

LensCulture Exposure Award – Finalist.

30 Under 30 | Women Photographers – Photo Boite. 

Kontinent Awards Documentary Projects Category Official Selection.

Joop Swart Masterclass 2018 - Nominated.

Fresh Faced Wild Eyed.

Lectures, Conferences
& Workshops /
Лекции и Конференции

2021
Работа фотохудожника и исследования России: подготовка, архив, путешествия.
Лекция Марии Груздевой, Парк «Зарядье», Москва, Россия.
The Importance of Research and Working with Archive,
Artist Talk, Zaryadye Park, Moscow, Russia.

2018
Why Do They Shoot the World? Trialog Vol.2 and IMA magazine, Tokyo, Japan.

2017
Artist talk, Brighton and Hove Camera Club.

La Canzone di Tkvarcheli, Artist Talk, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy.

2016
Direction-Space! Artist talk, The Eye International Photography Festival, Aberystwyth.

The Universe and Art, Artist talk, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

Power Shots – Can Photography Make a Change?,
Festival of Political Photography, The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki.

2014
On Russian Landscapes, Panel discussion, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, UK.

2013
Women in Focus, Invited Speaker, Miniclick Photography Talks, March 2013, Brighton, UK.

2012
Promises: Crises and Socio-Cultural Change, Invited Speaker,
CRESC Annual Conference, Manchester University, UK .

Depicting change: experiments in photography and social science,
The Social Life of Methods Workshop, Invited Speaker,
Centre for Research on Social-Cultural Change,
The University of Manchester and Open University, UK.

Publications / Публикации

2022
The Territory project at The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment feature, IMA Magazine Vol.37 Japan, Spring/Summer 2022.

2020
The Territory project by Maria Gruzdeva, Images of the World Today, IMA Magazine Vol.33 Japan, Autumn 2020.

2019
Photoworks #3 Space – Maria Gruzdeva shares images from her series Direction–Space! for our third issue Photography+Space. Timed to coincide with the anniversary of the moon landing, Gruzdeva shares an insight into her process, how she thinks about photography and why she makes work.

2018
Tokyo and Me Vol.7: Maria Gruzdeva, IMA Magazine Vol.25 Japan, Autumn 2018.

"It" Photographers in Millenials, IMA Magazine Vol.24 Japan, Summer 2018.

2017
Portfolio: Maria Gruzdeva; L’impero colpisce ancora, text by Luigi Offeddu, Amica, September Issue 2017.

Maria Gruzdeva on Mark Power, Two Photographers' Idyllic Images of Russia and England, VICE, Photo Issue, August 2017, Vol.24, No.6.

La Canzone di Tkvarcheli; La Republicca, 13.04.17, Edizione Milano, p.18.

Cartoline da una città-fantasma; Corriera della Sera, 12.04.17, Edizione Milano, p.17.

Maria Gruzdeva: Identity Borders, Lamono #111 EMPTY, February/March 2017.

Man Versus Machine, How do we make technology work better for us?
Photos by Maria Gruzdeva, VICE, February 2017, Vol.15, No.1.

Border Land: Maria Gruzdeva's travels on the edge of Russia – in pictures; Maria Gruzdeva took photos spanning the 60,000km Russian border – from the military in Kaliningrad to wooden neighbourhoods in Arkhangelsk, The Guardian online, 26 Jan 2017.

2016
Langs de Grenzen, NRC newspaper, 23 December 2016.

The Photographer Searching for Belonging in Russia's Most Isolated Areas, Sleek Magazine.

Revolution; Maria Gruzdeva, Katalog 27.2, Journal of Photography & Video.

BORDER: A journey along the edges of Russia, Ydoc foundation.

Border, Russian Life magazine, November/December 2016.

A photographic journey along Russia's 60,000km border; Border: a photographic travelogue by Maria Gruzdeva documents the rare and often undiscovered frontiers of Russia, Creative Review.

Borderland: the edge of Russia, Photographer Maria Gruzdeva recounts her journey along Russia’s 60,000 km border – the longest national border in the world, Port Magazine.

Exploring 60,000km of Russian border territory, Maria Gruzdeva tells a story of a complicated nation..., We Heart.

Maria Gruzdeva, Border: A journey along the edges of Russia, L'Oeil de la Photographie.

Stars as Illusion: from the USSR space industry to private satellites,
Roshia NOW, Mainichi Shimbun, Japan, 31 March 2016.

A view on the edges: The Borders by Maria Gruzdeva, Esquire Russia, February issue.

A photographer investigates life along Russia's vast borders, Atlas Obscura: guide to the world's wondrous and curious places.

Maria Gruzdeva explores the cosmonaut training facilities of Russia, Its Nice That.

2015
Star City aging gracefully: Maria Gruzdeva captures the aesthetics of the secretive Russian space facilities, SME Newspaper weekend supplement,  31 October 2015.

Inside Star City: Russia's retro cosmonaut training facility – in pictures, Documenting the country's space centres, photographer Maria Gruzdeva offers a rare look inside the secretive facilities, still in use today, The Guardian online, 21 Oct 2015.

Shooting the Edges: a photographic survey of Russia's borders by Maria Gruzdeva,
VICE, March 2015, Vol.13, No.2.

The Borders of Russia: a survey, FK magazine.

2014
L'extrême Europe, text by Michael Foucher, photos by Maria Gruzdeva;
The Eyes, le magazine, Europe & Photography, issue #3, Fall-Winter 2014.

Direction – Space! by Maria Gruzdeva,
GUP – Guide to Unique Photography #41: Professions issue.

2013
February Feature – Maria Gruzdeva,
Firecracker: supporting women photographers.

2012
The Borders of Russia by Maria Gruzdeva,
The Sunday Telegraph Seven Magazine, 13.05.2012.

Russian Females in the Frame by Ben Luke, exhibition review, 
Evening Standard, 13.04.2012.

2011
Direction–Space! by Maria Gruzdeva, Story of the Week, Foto8.

Star City Exposed: Photographer Maria Gruzdeva’s Direction-Space! delves into Russia’s cosmonaut training center, NOWNESS.

Behind the scenes of cosmonaut history by Kat Austen, Culture lab, New Scientist online.

Direction–Space! by Maria Gruzdeva,
Independent on Sunday, book review, 27.03.2011, pp.66-67

Direction–Space! Inside Russia’s space facilities by Piers Bizony.
Telegraph magazine, 26.03.2011, pp.42-49

Cosmonaut ghost town: a photo essay Maria Gruzdeva May – June issue, Design Bureau Magazine, pp.6, 94-103.

‘El cosmos a ras de suelo: Con su cámara de fotos como único telescopio, María Gruzdeva explora las interioridades el espacio exterior’, El Mundo, Spain, 12.04.2010.