Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa
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→ Published by Bübül Verlag Berlin
→ The Giordano Bruno Cycle, Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa (works/pictures) & Wolfgang Siano (text), 2022/2025
→ The exhibition “Zwiegespräch”: Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa and Barbara Schnabel with the text by Tanja Langer, 2018
→ Love poems: Kerry Shawn Keys, pictures by Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa, 2021 “Die Reise im Zug” Fariba Vafi, pictures by Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa
→ Die Kriminellen der Frau A. – Song cycle Composition: Composers of Atonale e.V. - Text by Tanja Langer (2016)
→ The picture cycle ‘Schattenmänner’ from 2014 was published together with a text from the song cycle ‘Die Kriminellen der Frau A.’ by the writer Tanja Langer in the magazine for words, images and sound ‘Rhein!’
Catalogues
→ Works on paper 2012-2014
Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa catalogue→ Catalogue Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa
Published in Signifikante Signaturen, Sandstein Verlag, 2010 -
Her works, in which she explores the tension of light and colour in her own way, have been shown in many places, including:
→ 2021 and 2019 at KunstHaus Potsdam, at Galerie AE Potsdam
→ 2018 at Kunstverein Meissen e.V. Querung with the artist Andreas Schmid
→ 2017 in Eberswalde at the exhibition of Endmoräne e.V. Weiße Schatten - Wege durch die verlassene Papierfabrik
→ Her series Schattenmänner was shown in 2017 in the opera project Die Kriminellen der Frau A. - auf dem Weg zu Ovartaci at the Werkstatt der Staatsoper Berlin
→ In 2016 she showed her work together with photographer Barbara Schnabel at Galerie Mutter Courage
→ Berlin, 2015/16 Tragweite, Museum dkw Cottbus
→ 2014 Oppetreppe, Galerie der Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall
→ 2013 Poesie des Fragments, Kloster Chorin
→ In 2021 she presented her Giordano Bruno cycle at Galerie Fenster
→ 2024 works on the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin
→ She is co-founder of the New Flower Square in Eberswalde
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→ The Brandenburg Art Prize
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Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa was born in 1969 into a German-Russian family in Bernau near Berlin, grew up in Eberswalde, studied German language and literature/art studies at Humboldt University in Berlin (East) in 1988/89 and studied painting/graphics at the Dresden University of Fine Arts from 1991-96. After graduating, she moved to Berlin and studied for two years at the University of the Arts in the Art in Context programme. With the birth of her daughter, she moved to Eberswalde in 2008. In addition to her artistic work, she has been working as an art and movement therapist in the forensic psychiatric ward in Eberswalde since 2010.
‘Since the Enlightenment and its metaphorical passage to the light, the promise of art has been to open up society to the vastness of freedom’ (Wolfgang Siano)
We are currently living in uncertain times, characterised by the coronavirus pandemic and tangible wars, the climate crisis, general uncertainty and politically precarious developments.
I am constantly asking and re-examining myself what the role of art is and what I have to do.
And I find myself not scrutinising these topics, as I have the impression that each of these considerations is merely scratching the surface, but rather changing direction in order to explore the most intrinsic forces inherent in the arts.
The sculptor Rolf Szymanski, who died in December 2013, was reminded of a quote from the writer Philippe Soupault, who died in Paris in 1990:
"Pop art, photorealism, a new romanticism, new old forms of abstraction, monochrome, conceptual art, a re-emerging expressionism, the neo-informula, a new colour field painting. This could hold the promise of escaping the constraints of utilitarian application in a seemingly senseless act."
Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa works with and on paper. She has added a poetic and sensual component to concrete art by traversing real and spiritual spaces with a cautiousness evoked by the source material, moving between installations, forms of abstraction, monochrome and conceptual art. It is precisely this movement that makes her work so appealing.
(Kathleen Krenzlin, Galerie Parterre Berlin)
Her exhibitions and scholarships have taken her through half of Europe and she has received numerous scholarships and art prizes, including scholarships from the Stiftung Kulturfond Berlin, Villa Serpentara, a studio scholarship from the Akademie der Künste, the Brandenburg Art Prize and the Norway Scholarship sponsored by the Brandenburg Ministry of Science, Art and Culture.
