b. Kyzyl-Syr, Yakutia, Russia / Ufa, Bashkortostan, Russia / since 2006 based in Berlin, Germany. She has a background as an editor, researcher, writer, and performer and studied comparative literature at the Free University Berlin.
Her creative work, which follows on from these foundations, centers on the text and the ways in which it can be loaded, instrumentalized, and reconfigured, exploring the tension between oral and written texts, poetry and reportage, draft and master copy. Taking text as a point of departure, she is interested in putting it into dialectical relation with other media and exploring its capacities in space which led her to multiple collaborations with artists, choreographers, filmmakers, and musicians. An attempt to look at the text production outside of the usual literary practices defines most of her curatorial and artistic work.
Maru Mushtrieva is as well a translator in cultural and literarily fields (between English, German and Russian) and works for films, theater plays, and festivals as part of the production team.
Selected projects
Research/writing
2020
2017
2016
Assistant director in pre-production for documentary “Ghost in Radar” by Noaz Deshe
Concept and script proposal for a theatre piece “The last Migration/Ramanaya“ for choreographer Felix M. Ott (premiere February 2018, Sandbox Collective, Bangalore)
Performances/Screenings
2020
Reading and video work for Poet’s Corner, poesiefestival berlin
2019
Sub-botnick audiovisual performance, Fridericianum Museum, Kassel
Engines of Empathy, performative reading, Berlin Atonal festival
Entrapments, performative reading at Missread, HKW Berlin
Chamber of Empathy, performance for WOS fashion label, Paris Fashion Week FW19, Elephant Paname, Paris
2017
2016
Mount Etna/ Condensation of substances, 1.59’, Supermarket Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2015
Throwing tomatoes at the green screen, performative reading, 3am, Flutgraben e.V. Berlin
Crystal clear and gemstone rare, 7.27’, video loop/voice recording
Crystal clear and gemstone rare, reading at After the Eclipse, Flutgraben e.V. Berlin
2014
Tell me what you can see, 4.22’ video, Screening @ Flutgraben 3 Studios, Berlin
Publications
2020
Collection of texts, Bridge IV, Berlin
Book of games and services, circadian, Berlin
2019
Entrapments. Collection of poems, sync. magazine (issue 2.3), Berlin
2016
Scratching The Virtual Off The Skin, While Taking A Selfie At The Seashore, text-collage for the online magazine Flee Immediately, Issue 02