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2026.03.13
Opening of the public art installation Memories 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.

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maria 
lezhnina







Maria Lezhnina is an artist and architect based in Taipei. Her practice includes installation, public art, photography, and spatial research, with a particular interest in perception, landscape, and everyday forms of inhabiting space.

Born in Kazan, she has worked across different cultural and urban contexts, developing exhibitions, residencies, public art projects, and collaborative works. Her architectural background informs the way she approaches material, structure, and site, while her artistic work often focuses on atmosphere, environment, and the relationships between people and places. 

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






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recent exhibitions: 

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

2025 Memories of Those Sunny Days, National Chengchi University, Taipei

2023 Aurora Crypto, 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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