BIO
Marina Stanimirović (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, the project space GR_UND in Berlin in 2021 and more recently at Untiled Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2022 Marina Stanimirović 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 2022, she created DERIVAT, a platform that invites actors from the art world to exchange ideas around the concepts of the Art market.
In 2023, she was co-directing the project space Gr_und, Wedding Berlin.
In 2025, she created the project M S WO, a project exploring social justice and empowerment through wearable objects.
Alongside her artistic practice, Marina Stanimirović is a social worker at WILDWASSER e.V., an organisation supporting women, transgender and non-binary persons who have been exposed to sexual violence in their childhood.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Marina Stanimirović works with installations that merge sculpture, photography, and writing into layered assemblages. Through collage, she creates constellations of objects that open up multiple narratives at once, oscillating between humour and derision, familiarity and estrangement.
Everyday elements—refrigerator shelves, windows, metal shelving, silicone seals—become protagonists when displaced from their function. Whether imagined and fabricated by Marina Stanimirović herself or fetched from the streets, these objects are re-staged as sites of tension, revealing broken systems and deferred maintenance.
Her narratives emerge from personal experience while addressing and confronting broader societal concerns. Heritage, systemic violence and inequality recur throughout her work, with trauma, loss and grief as their lasting repercussions. These experiences shape resilience and frame how individuals adapt —as both a survival strategy and a constraint.
Marina Stanimirović’s practice is informed by a deep political and social awareness; alongside her artistic work, she engages directly with these issues through her role as a social worker at Wildwasser e.V.
Her installations, in turn, become mediators to confront, reflect on, and render visible these often-hidden realities.
Photograph by Merve Terzi
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Keeping the shambles running Untiled Galerie - Sofia, BG
2024 Josie Cabine Cabinet, Ubahn Sophie-Charlotte-Platz - Berlin, DE
2023 J'étends nos peines avec application, Ateliers ouverts, Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris, FR
2021 Lullaby Gr_und, project space – Berlin, DE
2019 The animal behind your neck Galerie TATOR – Lyon, FR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Dead Darlings #20 Art auction, Heimathafen Neukölln – Berlin, DE
2024 Euphemism of a disquiet day Gr_und, project space – Berlin, DE
2024 DRAGONER #2 StadtWERKSTATT, project space – Berlin, DE
2024 Fight or Flight StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg at Rathausblock, project space – Berlin, DE
2022 Se nourrir de résistances et de mémoires solidaires curated by Léuli Eshraghi, Ateliers ouverts, Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris, FR
2022 Off Water II Saint Anne Gallery – Paris, FR
2021 Off Water Interface – Berlin, DE
2019 Dead Darlings #12 Art auction, The Spring House – Amsterdam, NL
SCEENING, AUDIO LISTENINGS AND PERFORMANCES
2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt – Berlin, DE
2023 Display, Sliding Self on Shelf, SOUND #4 – Architecture de Silence poetry broadcasted.
2023 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Centre Wallonie Bruxelles – Paris, FR
2022 PATTERN Patterns Radio Nr. 48
2017 Sculpting in Sound Sound live performance + workshop, Canterbury Christ Church University – Canterbury, UK
2017 Coupé Décalé Live score electronic sound performance, Le Brass – Brussels, BE
2013 Intangible Oscilliations The Holy Trinity with All Saints Church – London, UK
WORKSHOPS
2026 BLING Six weeks metal workshop, Citoyenneté Jeunesse & classe de SEGPA du collège Léon Jouhaux - Livry-Gargan,FR
2023 - on going I ACTUALLY DID IT MYSELF Weekly jewellery workshops for WildWasser – Berlin, DE
2020 Temple of Love Perspektive 2020, Gäelle Choisne and the Ecole des Actes, La Villette – Paris, FR
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2025 Passerelles One year mentoring program with "Contemporaines" – Paris, FR
2023 Une artiste / Une entrepreneure One year mentoring program from Les Amis du National Museum of Women in the Arts – FR
2022 Neustart Kultur Stipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds - Germany, DE
2022 Cité Internationale des Arts Laureate Trame Program, 3 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2013 Royal College of Art Sound Arts Prize 1st Prize – London, UK
RESIDENCIES
2025 Cité Internationale des Arts 2 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2023 Cité Internationale des Arts 2 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2022 Cité Internationale des Arts Laureate Trame Program, 3 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2019 Moly Sabata, Fondation Albert Gleizes 1 month artist residency – Sablons, FR
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 - on going DERIVAT Founder of the artist-run platform – Berlin, DE
2024 Open Studios with Laure Boer, Wataru Murakami, Georg Scherlin, Frederick Vidal – Berlin, DE
2023 GR_UND Curatorial board of the artist-run project space gr_und – Berlin, DE
2023 Open Studios with Wataru Murakami, Laure Boer, Frederick Vidal, Art Ashram – Berlin, DE
2022 Open Studios with Wataru Murakami and Frederick Vidal – Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
2011 - 2013 Royal College of Art MA Goldsmithing, silversmithing, Metalwork – London, UK
2009 - 2011 SEPR BA Contemporary Art Jewellery – Lyon, FR
2005 - 2009 Lycée Nicolas Flamel (Ecole Boulle) Vocational baccalaureate & City of Guilds, Art of Jewellery Making– Paris, FR
BIO
Marina Stanimirović (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, the project space GR_UND in Berlin in 2021 and more recently at Untiled Gallery in Sofia, Bulgaria. In 2022 Marina Stanimirović 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 2022, she created DERIVAT, a platform that invites actors from the art world to exchange ideas around the concepts of the Art market.
In 2023, she was co-directing the project space Gr_und, Wedding Berlin.
In 2025, she created the project M S WO, a project exploring social justice and empowerment through wearable objects.
Alongside her artistic practice, Marina Stanimirović is a social worker at WILDWASSER e.V., an organisation supporting women, transgender and non-binary persons who have been exposed to sexual violence in their childhood.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Marina Stanimirović works with installations that merge sculpture, photography, and writing into layered assemblages. Through collage, she creates constellations of objects that open up multiple narratives at once, oscillating between humour and derision, familiarity and estrangement.
Everyday elements—refrigerator shelves, windows, metal shelving, silicone seals—become protagonists when displaced from their function. Whether imagined and fabricated by Marina Stanimirović herself or fetched from the streets, these objects are re-staged as sites of tension, revealing broken systems and deferred maintenance.
Her narratives emerge from personal experience while addressing and confronting broader societal concerns. Heritage, systemic violence and inequality recur throughout her work, with trauma, loss and grief as their lasting repercussions. These experiences shape resilience and frame how individuals adapt —as both a survival strategy and a constraint.
Marina Stanimirović’s practice is informed by a deep political and social awareness; alongside her artistic work, she engages directly with these issues through her role as a social worker at Wildwasser e.V.
Her installations, in turn, become mediators to confront, reflect on, and render visible these often-hidden realities.
Photograph by Merve Terzi
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Keeping the shambles running Untiled Galerie - Sofia, BG
2024 Josie Cabine Cabinet, Ubahn Sophie-Charlotte-Platz - Berlin, DE
2023 J'étends nos peines avec application, Ateliers ouverts, Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris, FR
2021 Lullaby Gr_und, project space – Berlin, DE
2019 The animal behind your neck Galerie TATOR – Lyon, FR
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 Dead Darlings #20 Art auction, Heimathafen Neukölln – Berlin, DE
2024 Euphemism of a disquiet day Gr_und, project space – Berlin, DE
2024 DRAGONER #2 StadtWERKSTATT, project space – Berlin, DE
2024 Fight or Flight StadtWERKSTATT Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg at Rathausblock, project space – Berlin, DE
2022 Se nourrir de résistances et de mémoires solidaires curated by Léuli Eshraghi, Ateliers ouverts, Cité Internationale des Arts – Paris, FR
2022 Off Water II Saint Anne Gallery – Paris, FR
2021 Off Water Interface – Berlin, DE
2019 Dead Darlings #12 Art auction, The Spring House – Amsterdam, NL
SCEENING, AUDIO LISTENINGS AND PERFORMANCES
2024 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt – Berlin, DE
2023 Display, Sliding Self on Shelf, SOUND #4 – Architecture de Silence poetry broadcasted.
2023 Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin Centre Wallonie Bruxelles – Paris, FR
2022 PATTERN Patterns Radio Nr. 48
2017 Sculpting in Sound Sound live performance + workshop, Canterbury Christ Church University – Canterbury, UK
2017 Coupé Décalé Live score electronic sound performance, Le Brass – Brussels, BE
2013 Intangible Oscilliations The Holy Trinity with All Saints Church – London, UK
WORKSHOPS
2026 BLING Six weeks metal workshop, Citoyenneté Jeunesse & classe de SEGPA du collège Léon Jouhaux - Livry-Gargan,FR
2023 - on going I ACTUALLY DID IT MYSELF Weekly jewellery workshops for WildWasser – Berlin, DE
2020 Temple of Love Perspektive 2020, Gäelle Choisne and the Ecole des Actes, La Villette – Paris, FR
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2025 Passerelles One year mentoring program with "Contemporaines" – Paris, FR
2023 Une artiste / Une entrepreneure One year mentoring program from Les Amis du National Museum of Women in the Arts – FR
2022 Neustart Kultur Stipendium Stiftung Kunstfonds - Germany, DE
2022 Cité Internationale des Arts Laureate Trame Program, 3 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2013 Royal College of Art Sound Arts Prize 1st Prize – London, UK
RESIDENCIES
2025 Cité Internationale des Arts 2 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2023 Cité Internationale des Arts 2 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2022 Cité Internationale des Arts Laureate Trame Program, 3 months artist residency – Paris, FR
2019 Moly Sabata, Fondation Albert Gleizes 1 month artist residency – Sablons, FR
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2022 - on going DERIVAT Founder of the artist-run platform – Berlin, DE
2024 Open Studios with Laure Boer, Wataru Murakami, Georg Scherlin, Frederick Vidal – Berlin, DE
2023 GR_UND Curatorial board of the artist-run project space gr_und – Berlin, DE
2023 Open Studios with Wataru Murakami, Laure Boer, Frederick Vidal, Art Ashram – Berlin, DE
2022 Open Studios with Wataru Murakami and Frederick Vidal – Berlin, DE
EDUCATION
2011 - 2013 Royal College of Art MA Goldsmithing, silversmithing, Metalwork – London, UK
2009 - 2011 SEPR BA Contemporary Art Jewellery – Lyon, FR
2005 - 2009 Lycée Nicolas Flamel (Ecole Boulle) Vocational baccalaureate & City of Guilds, Art of Jewellery Making– Paris, FR