Natalie Maximova is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher. Lives and works in London, UK.
Her work interrogates the shifting thresholds of meaning that emerge at the intersection of digital aesthetics, liminal spaces, and speculative narratives. Engaging with video game environments and harnessing the transformative potential of game engines, her practice explores the inherent instability of constructed meanings and how technology reconfigures identity, memory, and perception in our post-digital era.
EDUCATION
2021 – ECAL / Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne, MA Photography.
2015 – Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia, BA Photography.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS
2025 – Awaiting Oblivion – Touchstone Independent Film Festival, USA
2025 – Awaiting Oblivion – VRAL, Milan Machinima Festival. Milan, Italy (31 January – 13 February)
2024 – Sickhoes #6 Imitate – manipulate – simulate. Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (28 June – 1 September)
2024 – Now Play This (Liminal: Playing Between Worlds), Somerset House, London, UK (06 – 14 April)
2023 – Electricdreams – Between Fiction and Society II International Film Festival. IULM University Milan, Italy (16 – 21 October)
2023 – Sickhoes. Rijksmuseum Twenthe, Enschede, Netherlands (2 September – 6 October)
2023 – KO(O)RTS (short films festival). Sickhouse, Enschede, Netherlands
2023 – The Edge of the World – VRAL, Milan Machinima Festival. Milan, Italy (Solo show)
2023 – Contrastes. Echos' Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2021 – ECAL Diplomas. Espace Arlaud, Lausanne, Switzerland
2021 – There is no spoon installation. Talent Days. Ecal, Lausanne, Switzerland
2020 – Lockdown Art. Metamorphosis (permanent collection). CitizenM hotel, Geneva, Switzerland
2018 – 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Main Project). District “Rassvet”, Moscow, Russia
2017 – Video Art Festival. NIIDAR, Moscow, Russia
2016 – The Pleasure of Love. Тhe 56th October Salon. Belgrade City Museum, Serbia
2016 – Hyperborea. Tbilisi Night of Photography, Georgia
2016 – ISSP. Kuldiga Art House, Kuldiga, Latvia
2015 – BALAGAN!!! Contemporary Art from Russia and Beyond by Momentum & Nordwind Festival, Kühlhaus Berlin, Germany
2015 – Generation Next. 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2015 – Boundaries reflection. Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2015 – Contemporary Udmurtia. VDNKh, Moscow, Russia
2015 – What to say when there is nothing to say. Udarnik, Moscow, Russia
2015 – Silver camera. The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
2014 – 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Museum of Moscow, Russia
2014 – Radar. Hilger NEXT Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2014 – Silver camera. Royal Tower of Kazan Station, Moscow, Russia (Grand Prize winner)
2014 – Sensibility. Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia
2013 – Bobya Ucha Contempo. Izhevsk, Russia
2013 – Die Brücke / Most. Frankfurt (Oder) - Germany / Słubice - Poland
AWARDS
2025 – Touchstone Independent Film Festival, best machinima short
2025 – Wolf Suschitzky Photography Prize, shortlisted
2023 – Hungarian Contemporary Art Prize. Video Art, winner
2022 – Peggy Art Prize. Video Art, special prize winner
2016 – Artpil. 30 Under 30 Best Women Photographers
2013 – Silver camera. Grand Prize winner
PUBLICATIONS
Magazines
Spectator, Il Giornale dell'Arte, Camera Austria, Bird in Flight, Calvert Journal, Fisheye Magazine, Bird in Flight, Artpil, Leverage Magazine, Colta, FotoRoom, Calvert Journal, Aint-Bad Magazine, Sleek Magazine, Vice
Books
2023 – Screen Images In-Game Photography, Screenshot, Screencast by Winfried Gerling, Sebastian Möring, Marco De Mutiis. Publisher: Kadmos Verlag, Berlin.
2018 – Weiser by Marcel René Marburger. Publisher: Edition_, Vienna.
Video Essays
2023 – A closer look at Natalie Maximova's The Edge of the World
2023 – Bending spoons, forking paths: On Natalie Maximova’s There is no spoon
2023 – Glitched rituals, uncanny replicas. Decoding Natalie Maximova's Episodes
COLLECTIONS
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Mediatheque of Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum, Georgia
CitizenM Hotel, Geneva, Switzerland
COLLABORATIONS
2021 – Collaboration between ECAL and Citizen M hotel in Geneva (Switzerland). Selected among 2 other artists to produce photographs for the hotel rooms (permanent collection).
2014 – 2018 – Herwig Weiser (Austria), experimental art film (16mm and 8mm film) “Government House / Haus der Regierung”(Executive / supervising producer, cinematography, editing.)
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