MARINA STANIMIROVIC
KEEPING THE SHAMBLES RUNNING
Opening reception:
Friday 16 May 18.00 – 21.00
Photographs: Ivo Nedyalkov
Rooted in personal experiences that evolve into collective narratives, Marina Stanimirovic's practice addresses the interwoven layers of trauma, silence, adaptation, survival, and heritage. Her installations, composed of industrial materials such as steel, glass, silicone, and found domestic objects, explore how personal and cultural heritage is embedded in the everyday and particularly through objects tied to domestic rituals and shared memory.
In Keeping the Shambles Running, Stanimirovic continues her investigation into how violence, both systemic and personal can inscribe itself onto bodies, architectures, and daily life. Stanimirovic creates fragmented spatial compositions that resemble the remains of a dysfunctional infrastructure by showing wall-mounted elements, bent steel forms, padded or bound fragments. These sculptural forms echo medical devices, household hardware, and tools of restraint.
Photographs embedded in steel, silicone sheeting, and hand-crafted industrial fittings all speak to the fragility of structure either physical, emotional, or social. One work features a curved steel form anchored to the wall, offering support to a framed image, sheet of glass, and a photograph of an after-dinner scene. Another pairs marble with a mound of sand like a sculptural contradiction of solidity and impermanence.
While the materials speak the language of modern industry, their arrangement suggests a poetics of broken systems and deferred maintenance.
Marina Stanimirovic lives and works in Berlin. Her work has been exhibited at Galerie Tator (Lyon), Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris), and in numerous group exhibitions across Europe.
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Транспортни услуги-НФК "Създаване" програма Нови Хоризонти, изложба Мартина Вачева, Мич Брезунек
Marina Stanimirovic (1988, Colombes, France), based in between Berlin, Germany and Paris, France.
She studied Contemporary Jewellery at the École Boulle and obtained a Master’s degree from the Royal College of Art in London (2011-2013). Her exhibitions include solo shows at the TATOR gallery in Lyon, France as well as the project space GR_UND in Berlin in 2021. She was awarded by the TRAME residency grant from the Cité Internationale des Arts and was selected in 2023 to participate in the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin festival where her video work was screened at Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
In 2023, she was co-directing the project space Gr_und, Wedding Berlin. In 2022, she created DERIVAT, a platform that invites actors from the art world to exchange ideas around the concepts of the Art market.
Alongside her artistic practice, Marina Stanimirovic worked as a social worker at WILDWASSER e.V., Selbsthilfe und Beratung, an association that supports women, transgender and non-binary people who have been exposed to sexual violence in their childhood.
Photorag 188g, fine art paper velvet, aluminum frame
60 x 42,5 cm
Edition of 5 + 2 AP
Stainless steel shelf, fujicolor paper, painted steel, glass, rubber, brass, stainless steel miniature sculpture, leather clown nose
86 x 74 x 12 cm
50 x 12 x 12 cm
Stainless steel shelf, Photorag 188g, fine art paper velvet, fridge shelf, fujicolor paper print, used game card, rubber, stainless steel
80 x 71 x 12 cm
Stainless steel, fujicolor paper print, vintage niagara falls paper card, glass, silicone
44 x 34 cm
Construction sand, second hand marble pieces, hand made silver engraving
Made in collaboration with the funeral stone engraver Remy Durupt
Dimensions variable
Hand made recycled silver necklace and brooch, stainless steel shelf
15 x 56 x 12 cm