The fragility of the ideals, Blue heart with drops, 2025

Ksenia Malurika  

Born in Siberia, Russia (1993). Repatriated to Israel in 2023, later - in Batumi, Georgia. Works across painting, performative and site-specific installation, video, scenography and curatorial practice. Her work focuses on states of presence and transition, the fragility of inner structures, memory and silence. Co-founder of the creative space Merapi house (Batumi, 2022). Active member of the art communities tmp_space and Particles. Since 2025 she has been a resident of a2galerie in Potsdam, Germany and collaborates with the gallery as her representative in Europe.

ARTIST STATEMENT
Her practice explores the intimate experience of being within space, time and body. She investigates presence as a fragile structure: always partial, shifting, ungraspable. Working with silence and pause, with embodied perception and memory, she asks what it means to be here - now - with others or alone. Through painting, performative actions and site-specific interventions she creates situations in which viewers are invited not only to look, but to stay, to listen and to share a common field of attention.

Selected exhibitions

2025
– Sabantuy, Tatar & Bashkir festival, Arsenali Hill, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Utopia, Ortachala Art Residency, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Group exhibition, Make Creative Space, Batumi, Georgia

2024
– Rubezh, dead, IV International Instant Exhibition of Emigrant Art, Zazercal’e, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Identity, Itaka Books, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Particles, Auditoria Booksbar, Tbilisi, Georgia
– End of summer fest, Loft 4, Batumi, Georgia
– White: The Beginning / The End, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Far From Home / vol.2, festival Human, Zazercal’e, Tbilisi, Georgia
– Eco festival Ecology & Art, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia

2023
– Fragile Structure, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Borders, online & offline exhibition, Machindgauri, Georgia
– Being Here: Particles, Art Laboratory, Machindgauri, Georgia
– Being Here: Particles, Tato Art Space, Bridge Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
– February, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Closure, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia

2022
– Presence, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
– Old Batumi Market, kahaberi_showroom, Batumi, Georgia

2020
– Première Vision Paris, Maison de la Mutualité, Paris, France

2019
– Poetic Petersburg, Igor Minakov Award, Raphael Hall, Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014
– Retrospective Exhibition of Student Works, City Center of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia

2013
– Interregional Youth Exhibition Young Siberia, International Exhibition Center Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia, nomination “unique graphics” and “easel painting” (as Ksenia Mikhailova)
– Az Esm, Museum of Fine Arts, Kemerovo, Russia

2012
– February, Exhibition Hall of the Art School, Novosibirsk, Russia
– Meanings, Creative Student Exhibition, Academic Library, Novosibirsk, Russia

Solo exhibitions
2022 – Blue Dress, Merapi House, Batumi, Georgia
2021 – Dreams, Massolite Bar, Moscow, Russia
2020 – Colorization, Ubud, Indonesia

Curatorial projects
2023 – Closure, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2022 – Presence, tmp_space, Batumi, Georgia
2019–2020 – Performances art project Colorization, Bali, Indonesia