selected projects:



2026.10.05
Under construction - Particle Bloom.
From arranging flowers to an image that changes with the weather. This work brings together my photography and the hand-painted dots I explored in the works shown at IT Park.
I began by arranging and photographing seasonal flowers from Taiwan. Working with an engineering team, I developed these images into a digital artwork that changes daily using data from online weather forecasts. Colour, movement and texture shift as the flowers dissolve into fields of moving marks.
The photographic image becomes a changing composition, connecting the flowers’ seasonal rhythms with the weather beyond the screen.


2026.03.13
Opening of the public art installation Memory of Those Sunny Days at National Chengchi University, Taipei. 
A public art project, exploring the campus path as a luminous landscape surface — part walkway, part gathering space, part night-time experience. Conceived as a thermodynamic artwork, the installation absorbs light throughout the day and releases it at night as a soft blue-green glow. The project continues my exploration of color systems in space, where perception unfolds through movement, proximity, and the body. Opening performance directed by Mauro Sacchi, with a soundscape by DJ Yi-Chen Lin.


2023.05.20 
Aurora Ice Rink, permanent public art installation, Noke Mall, Taipei, 2023
A 20-meter light box installation developed in collaboration with Bias architects and installed at the Aurora Ice Rink.
The chromatic system is derived from the Aurora Borealis. Through dioptric PVC panels, color and pattern shift with the viewer’s position, evoking ice formations suspended beneath changing auroral light. Perception unfolds through movement rather than a fixed viewpoint.




2023.12.10
Timeless Weight of Beauty, permanent public art proposal, National Palace Museum Southern Branch, Chiayi, 2023
Developed for the invited competition at the National Palace Museum Southern Branch.
The project is conceived as a mound of indigenous flowers, informed by the color systems and compositional logic of Tang Dynasty landscape painting and Chinese fine arts. Seasonal transformation functions as a temporal device, while a hypogeum space with an opening to the sky articulates time through light, shadow, and spatial enclosure.
Soil, reinforced concrete structure, bougainvillea plants




2023.02.11
Forms of Arrangement, Solo exhibition at IT Park Gallery (伊通公園), Taipei, 2023
佈局 (bùjú) is a Chinese term meaning layout or strategic arrangement, commonly used in the context of chess. The exhibition is composed of discrete elements that function as individual figures while remaining bound by a shared relational system.
Rather than an introspective narrative, the work proposes a structure in which totemic references intersect with everyday space, exploring the coexistence of animistic thinking and contemporary life shaped by acceleration and relative alienation.







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Maria Lezhnina is an artist and architect born in Kazan and based in Taipei. Her practice—spanning visual arts, spatial research, and public art—explores how light, colour, materials, and atmospheric conditions shape human perception of the environment.

Since 2017, her practice has gradually evolved from early investigations of light, materiality, and perception into large-scale installations and permanent interventions in public space.

Drawing on her architectural background, she often translates scientific concepts into poetic spatial experiences. Through this, her works engage directly with the physical conditions of their surroundings: for example, her public art installations can harness thermodynamic principles, absorbing and storing solar energy during the day to emit light at night, while her digital installations can change in appearance in response to real-time environmental data, such as online weather forecasts.

She holds a Master of Arts in Urban Vision and Architectural Design from Domus Academy and a Master of Architecture from KSUAE.

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selected exhibitions & happenings: 

2026 Memory of Those Sunny Days public art project opening, National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taipei; with performance directed
by choreographer Mauro Sacchi and soundscape
by DJ Yi-Chen Lin - event

2024 Zhongshan Road, The Studio - solo exhibition

2023 Forms of Arrangement 佈局, IT Park, Taipei - solo exhibition

2023 Marble is a state of matter, Jiaruen, Taipei - solo exhibition

2022 The 31st Anniversary Group Exhibition - 
Encounter, light infiltrates slowly into the cornea
, Galerie Pierre, Taichung - group exhibition

2021 Artist in Residency Program Exhibition, Taitung Art Museum, Taitung

2021 Something about Fuzhong, curated by Xue Xue Foundation - group exhibition

2020 Starry Winter Night, 嘉俬房 & other Art things, Taipei - group exhibition

2020 戀戀仲夏 Summer of love at 嘉俬房 & other Art things, Taipei - solo exhibition

2020 36 hours of artist`s cinemas, 台北當代藝術中心 Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei - screening

2020 茶香流動, Xinfangchun Tea Shop Dadaocheng, Taipei - installation 

2020《氣候. 無名》瑪莉.利茲尼娜攝影發表 (已額滿) curated by FLOW at Understory, Taipei - solo exhibition

2020 曠野 Through the wildness, Jing Lü Art Gallery, Taipei - group exhibition

2019 人的星球 The Planet of Human, Lishui International Photography Festival, Art 35, Lishui - group exhibition

2019 Taipei Art Book Fair, Taipei - fair

2019 Contemporary Photography & Video Art Salon, Auction Center, Taipei - group exhibition

2019 I Never Read Basel, Kaserne, Basel, as part of parallel program at Art Basel - fair

2019 臺灣文博會 On the Move, Taiwan Creative Expo, Taipei - key visuals

2018 台北製造 / Made in Taipei, Onfoto Gallery, Taipei - group exhibition

2018 In Balance - Taiwan, Hua Nan Commercial Bank Corporate Plaza Lobby, Taipei - group exhibition

2018 In Balance - Italy, Torre di Ligny, Trapani / Palazzo Borromeo, Cesano Maderno - group exhibition

2018 草山氛—土與空氣的詩 / Air&Clay, URS27M, Taipei - solo exhibition

2018 The City is Tapestry, Umkt - JUT Foundation for the Arts and Architecture, Taipei - group exhibition

2017 Unknown Asia photography exhibition, DMO Arts gallery, Osaka - group exhibition

2017 アンノウン・アジアの写真 Unknown Asia Art Exchange, Herbis Hall, Osaka - fair

2017 Independent Tokyo, Hulic Hall, Tokyo - fair

2017 Wonderfotoday Awards 2017 exhibition, G.Gallery, Taipei - group exhibition

2017 Wonderfotoday, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei - fair




public art:

2026 Timeless Weight of Beauty, National Palace Museum, Chiayi (together with Alessandro Martinelli) - ongoing

2026 Memory of Those Sunny Days (那些陽光明媚的記憶), National Chengchi University, Taipei

2023 Aurora Ice Rink, Noke Mall, Taipei (together with Bias Architects)

2022 Temple Square, Keelung (together with Bias Architects)





awards and grants:

2019 Pahparn Sirima Chaipreechawit Award, Wonderfotoday, Taipei

2017 Ryoko Kodo Award, Independent Tokyo, Tokyo

2017 Ishibashi Koki Award, Independent Tokyo, Tokyo

2017 Yoshihiro Taniguchi Award, Wonderfotoday, Taipei

2011 Grant of President of Tatarstan Republic, Kazan

2010 Grant of Kazan Mayor in the field of Architecture, Kazan




residency:

2023 California1Taiwan, Yilan

2021 Taitung Art Museum, Taitung

2019 Lishui Artist Village residency, Art35 Hotel, Zhejiang Province



publications:

2019 Islands / In Balance, List Lab, Barcelona - exhibition catalog

2018 Photography is Art Magazine 4, Hong Kong - review

2018 The City is Tapestry, JUT Foundation U-mrkt, Taipei - exhibition catalog

2017 Unknown Asia Photography, DMO Arts, Osaka
- exhibition catalog




teaching experience:

2026 Shih Chien University, Taipei

2019-2020 Huafan University, Taipei




education:

2012 Domus Academy, Master of Arts in Urban Vision and Architectural Design, Milan

2011 Kazan State University of Architecture and Engineering, Specialist degree in Architecture





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