Born in Russia, Maria Lezhnina`s experience is particularly diverse, falling between research projects for the Swiss landscape to an exhibition at the Italian National Museum of 21st Century Arts on the impact of new energysystems, then teaching architecture and knowledge of space to the children with the Finnish school ARKKI, and working for design practices in Moscow (Russia), Mendrisio (Switzerland), Genova, Milan (Italy), Baku (Azerbaijan), and Taipei (Taiwan). This interdisciplinary background, as well as exposure to different cultures, has finally raised her interest in photography and the visual arts. Interested in the atmospheric, gaseous, and liquid aspects of reality that inform the aesthetic experience of vision, Maria Lezhnina is today a visual artist, too, working with photography, books, and other visual media. While she has been exhibited in Taiwan, Japan, Italy, Switzerland and China, her most famous series, untitled climates investigates new ways of landscape photography, elaborating on climate as what defines the landscape.
2018 Sweet structures workshop at Songshan, Tabacco Factory, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Dream House workshop at URS 27M, Taipei, Taiwan
Activities are part of the exhibition `Air & Clay`
2012-2013 Crescere con l`architettura I2a, Vico Morcote, Switzerland I first started teaching architecture to the children in i2a Istituto Internazionale di Architettura in Switzerland. That is where i met Pihla Meskanen, the founder of Arkki, first school in the world with full length educational activites about architecture and space for kids and youth.
