Maria Tkachenko
(⠀M a s h o o l y a a⠀)
Photographer & Visual Artist
I capture what I feel: silence, anxiety, the body, vulnerability. Simple details—light, wind, sounds, fatigue—are, for me, living fragments of the world. I catch them, collect them, and transform them into images.
Photography and sound help me stay honest and attentive to the subtlest shades of life.
For me, the most important thing is to learn to feel, to see, and to share this with others.
Publications:
2025 — Featured in MYTHOGRAPHY VOL.V — JUNO, VENUS, AND VESTA, official publication curated by Exhibit Around APS for Trieste Photo Days 2025 (Trieste, Italy).
2024 — Dito Piblishing, Moon, Rome, Italy
2024 — Uncommon.Images zine Changing Times, Ahmedabad, IN
Education:
2025 — Educational routes of the Projection platform, Photodepartment, St. Petersburg
2024 — Course in classic hand binding, Rare Book Academy, St. Petersburg.
2024 — School of modern photography Docdocdoc, post-documentary photography, St. Petersburg.
2023 — 2024 — Laboratory of project photography and creating photo books NIZINA, St. Petersburg.
2021 — 2022 — Museum internship at the VMII Mashkova, Volgograd.
Selected exhibitions:
2025 — Group exhibition “And I spoke with some houses”, Mayakovsky Library, St. Petersburg.
2025 — Group Exhibition CONTACTS AND CONNECTIONS, Rome city, Italy
2024 — PHOTOPLAY STREET AWARDS, honorable mentions category, Moskow.
2024 — Intensive and exhibition dedicated to the artist’s book: “Two-Volume Book”, BKC Nota.
2024 — Online Group Exhibition — “Image Within the Image”, Analog Forever Magazine.
2022 — “Everything will be fine”, Museum of Contemporary Art Art-Muse, St. Petersburg.2021 — PERS VLG Photo Exhibition “Russian street”, II Mashkov Museum of Fine Arts, Volgograd.
Other expieriens:
2024 — Participated in zine festivals: Ground-fest (Moscow), Razvorot (Voronezh), Gerdela (Rostov-on-Don), Stavropol, Nizina (Saint Petersburg).
2024 — Artist-talk as part of the festival, Mashkov Museum of Fine Arts, Volgograd.
2024 — PHOTOPLAY STREET AWARDS in the category HONORABLE MENTIONS, Moskow.
