Marina Naprushkina

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marina Naprushkina
Occupation	Video Artist
Date Of Birth	Nov 23, 1981(1981-11-23)
Age	43
Birthplace	Minsk
Country	Belarus
Horoscope	Scorpio

Marina Naprushkina Biography

Marina Naprushkina is one of the most popular and richest Video Artist who was born on November 23, 1981 in Minsk, Belarus. Marina Naprushkina (Belarusian: Marina Naprushkina born 23rd Nov. 1981) is an Berlin politically active artist and campaigner. She is a prominent proponent for democratic change in Belarus.

“The President’s Platform” (2007) is sculpture. It’s a replica of the huge red podium used for important occasions of the state in Belarus. Belarusian government. According to the long explanatory notice included when it was unveiled in the Istanbul Biennial, it represents an instrument of public relations that President Lukashenko and his senior officials employ to increase their significance and divert attention away from political topics. The notice also urged to reflect on “the absurdity of this solitary red pedestal [which] reflects on the excessive use of the term ‘platform’ as an imaginary basis for dialogue and freedom of speech, whilst at the same time this freedom of speech is stifled in most ‘democratic’ societies”. The huge podium was provided as an “stage where subjects that are otherwise suppressed can be discussed and reflected upon in a way that is beyond real politics”.

“My Daddy is a Policeman” (2011) applies a colouring book format. It was designed by Marina Naprushkina and then printed and distributed via activists across Belarus by a non-government organisation called “Nash Dom” (“Наш Дом” / “Our house”. It was also displayed at an exhibition, with spare copies of the work, on which visitors were invited to draw, attached to the wall,.

Naprushkina’s art is considered controversial in Belarus. Displaying it there has been forbidden since 2012 or earlier. However, she has found ways to exhibit in the country of her birth in privately operated gallery spaces, although works exhibited are chosen selectively in order to try and avoid attracting major conflicts with officialdom.

In 2000, she was awarded the Minsk City’s Art Prize. In November 2015 , Marina Naprushkina’s art work was recognized with the prize of EUR5,000 in the Anni und Heinrich Sussmann Foundation in Vienna.

Marina Naprushkina Net Worth

Marina Naprushkina is one of the richest Video Artist from Belarus. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marina Naprushkina 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Marina Naprushkina was born in Minsk. In the years 1997-2000,, she was a student at Minsk’s National Glebov Arts Academy, which she later declared to be “a very traditional art school” prior to moving to the Fine Arts Academy in Karlsruhe. In Germany and pursuing study at Stadelschule (fine art academy) situated in Frankfurt am Main between 2004 between 2004 and 2008. There she was instructed under the guidance of Martha Rosler, an American artist who specializes in photography and video art, along with performance and installation art.

The art work of the artist has been supported by bursaries and scholarships in the United States as well as overseas. In 1999, she was awarded the presidential scholarship of Belarus. In 2007 she was awarded an award through the Rhineland Palatinate Culture foundation, under the title “The Russians are coming” and allowed her to stay for a month at Bad Ems at the Schloss Balmoral Arts Centre. In 2013, her work was acknowledged by receiving a stipendium of visual arts of the Senate of Berlin, and that same year she received an award from the Paul Klee Centre in Bern.

Naprushkina created the “Büro für Anti-Propaganda” in 2007. This is a long- term research and documentation project which investigates how manipulation and control are used to retain power. The Büro für Anti-Propaganda also involves itself in political activity, launching in 2011 “Self # governing”, a news journal in Russian and English, which in its first edition elaborated on the ways in which manipulation mechanisms are applied, in order to provide the reader with at least a measure of immunity against them (“….wenigstens ein bisschen dagegen zu immunisieren”). The objective of the newspaper is to develop a future path for Belarus beyond the power blocs of Russia and the European Union, and also to develop alternative state structures worldwide. The Russian language version was widely distributed inside Belarus. The Second edition offered a feminist perspective, containing an analysis of the patriarchal government system in Belarus, showing how women themselves support the structure, but also identifying possible alternatives. This edition became Naprushkina’s contribution in the Seventh Berlin Biennale (2012). Despite positive responses, finance for the news journal was exhausted in 2015, and at present it is not clear when the next edition will appear.

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Marina Ranked on the list of most popular Video Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Belarus. Marina Naprushkina celebrates birthday on November 23 of every year.