Maria Volokhova

Maria Volokhova is a Berlin-based artist born in Kyiv, Ukraine, whose innovative porcelain pushes the boundaries between art and design. She holds a diploma in Painting and Printmaking from Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design Halle (1997–2004) and has pursued advanced studies at Accademia di Belle Arti in Bologna, Ohio University, and Tokyo University of the Arts, where she was a research student in ceramics from 2006 to 2009.

Rebecca Dologoy describes Volohova’s work as offering “uncanny three-dimensional portrayals of the inner and outer topographies of human and non-human animals,” noting her ability to challenge perceptions of the beautiful and the beastly.

Exhibited globally, Volokhova’s work is in prestigious collections like the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Berlin and the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Hamburg, Stadtmuseum Berlin, Porzellanikon and she has received accolades including the Naspa Prize for Ceramics. Active as a lecturer since 2017, she teaches at BBK Bildungswerk Berlin, HTW Berlin, University of Saxony-Anhalt, and Justus-Liebig University Giessen.

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Maria Volokhova
Fine Arts
m.volokhova[at]berlin.bard.edu