About Mari Skakun
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Education
2018 - 2020
BGIK
2007 - 2012
Institute of Modern Knowledges named A. M. Shirokova, Minsk
2003 - 2007
Minsk State College of Architecture and Civil Engineering
1994 - 2003
Gymnasium College of Art №1 of Minsk
Awards
2024
My Works Are Now Officially Listed on Akoun
The Akoun listing is a mark of recognition in the professional art market. Akoun is one of the most renowned and authoritative catalogs of art valuations worldwide. It is widely used by collectors, gallery owners, auction houses, and art professionals to determine the market value of artworks.
Now, my works have an established market value:
• A painting measuring 140×170 cm is valued at €3,500 and above.
• The minimum price for my works is €500.
This milestone is the result of a long journey filled with experiments, the search for my style, and endless inspiration.
Thank you to everyone who supports me on this path!
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Event: Artrip exhibition in Saint Mandé
Dates: 28 Jun 2024 - 30 Jun 2024
Artrip exhibition in Saint-Mande, took place in Paris
Event: "Arts Mantevillois”, France, 2023
Dates: 21 Oct 2023 - 26 Oct 2023
International group art exhibition
Event: Exhibition, Paris, 2023
Dates: 29 Sep 2023 - 30 Sep 2023
Exhibition of paintings by Mari Skakun as part of the Paris fashion air event
Event: Broken phone
Dates: 24 Sep 2022 - 8 Oct 2022
The first artist created a unique image and verbally described it to the second artist. the second artist contacts the third artist, introduces him to the idea of the project and tells him what he did according to the description from the first artist. Information is transmitted by telephone until it reaches the last participant.
I was the last member.
This is my 13th group exhibition.
Event: Faces and eyes
Dates: 19 Apr 2022 - 3 May 2022
Line
Ease
imperfection
Fluidity
Sight
Observation
Draw intuitively
let go of the line
follow yourself
Trust the process
Live emotions
Refuse canons and academism
Event: Art philosophy of Maria Skakun
Dates: 1 Apr 2022 - 15 Apr 2022
“My painting can be attributed to intuitive painting. The process for me is a deep journey into the unconscious, helping me to live my own emotions and states.
Through art, I explore the self-identification of personality, physicality and the experience of emotions. I am inspired by people, psychology, synesthesia of feelings, nature, music and the world of the unconscious. I often write in the style of abstract expressionism.
The exhibition presents works from different stages of life in Belarus and Poland.”
Event: Festival of Russian contemporary dances “Proba”
Dates: 1 Feb 2021 - 11 Feb 2021
Festival of Russian contemporary dances “Proba” with the cinema-dance project “N”
Event: “Love line. Eroticism in the works of the great masters of the 20th century”
Dates: 15 Dec 2020 - 8 Mar 2021
“Love line. Eroticism in the works of the great masters of the 20th century”
Event: Befor/After, Belarus 2020
Dates: 30 Oct 2020 - 1 Feb 2021
Befor/After, Belarus 2020 Krakow, Poland
Event: Autumn salon’20
Dates: 8 Oct 2020 - 30 Oct 2020
Autumn salon’20 In Palace of Arts, Minsk
Event: Exhibition “Art Capital 2020”, France
Dates: 11 Feb 2020 - 16 Feb 2020
Grand Palais
Art Capital 2020
Vernissage
This time in Paris I am greeted as a Belarusian artist, a participant in the “Art capital” Paris Salon in Grand Palais.
For me this is the first experience of an exhibition abroad of such a scale.
Under the dome of the palace gathered 2,000 artists from different countries.
The exhibition runs from February 11 to 16.
Event: Immersive exhibition “Labyrinth Bardo”
Dates: 27 Oct 2019 - 31 Oct 2019
The LABYRINTH BARDO @ labyrinth.bardo art and poetry exhibition is designed as a two-story labyrinth. Six black rooms with paintings inside. The paintings are accompanied by music and poetry, for which they were written. You can listen to the works through your own headphones. From time to time, paintings come to life from light installations directed at them.
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BARDO is a Tibetan Buddhist concept that means "transition" or the interval between the completion of one situation and the beginning of another. The passage from one room to another symbolizes the six states of BARDO: the process of dying, dharmata, birth, life, sleep and meditative concentration.
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Event: “Immersion. Portraits”
Dates: 8 Mar 2018 - 20 Apr 2018
exhibition of picturesque portraits and photographs
Biography
Maria Skakun is an abstract expressionist painter, teacher, and art therapist, and a participant in international exhibitions. The artist lives and works in France, in Paris. Was born in Belarus.
“For me, a free and confident line is a way of communicating and energetically interacting with the world. I create not just works that inspire but a world that immerses the viewer and reveals new meaning,” notes the artist.
In her works, Maria explores the intuitive nature of lines, the subconscious, and experiences various psychological states. She works with emotions and feelings and, through painting, investigates the nature of corporeality and sexuality. Performance allows her to be more open to the world and feel art more deeply.
The process of creating a painting is very important to the artist. Initially, Maria creates an emotional expression on the canvas, pouring out all her emotions and inner states—it’s like a dialogue with the subconscious. Then the artist seeks form for this expression, which is conscious and always an interesting process, as at the beginning of the work, she fully trusts herself and never knows what the final result will be.
Maria often works without preliminary sketches—in such an approach and style, she feels bold and alive. The artist creates abstractions, portraits, and nudes. Her works are characterized by a series format, allowing for a deeper immersion into the theme.
Maria uses a mixed authorial technique involving oil, acrylic, wax crayons, and other materials.
The artist has 7 solo exhibitions and participated in 14 group exhibitions.
Collaborations with other artists and designers helps her experience the purity of creativity through synergy and improvisation. The artist is open to exchanging ideas and creative collaborations
From childhood, Maria engaged in drawing and studied visual arts, but since 2017, painting has become her main occupation. For eight years, the artist built a career in IT and the fashion industry as a designer and art director before deciding to leave that field and fully dedicate herself to art.
Collections
Pantings are in private collections in Belarus, France, USA, Poland, Germany, Russia, India, Sri Lanka, Israel, Lithuania.
