Marina Poleukhina

A person stands against a black background in warm stage light, eyes closed, as if singing or listening with deep concentration. They hold a microphone in one hand near the body, while the other arm is stretched high above the head. The microphone cable runs diagonally across the face and up towards the raised hand. The person is wearing a dark top with a high burgundy collar. The scene feels calm, intimate and charged with musical focus.

Marina Poleukhina studied composition at the Moscow Conservatory and at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. She has worked as a composer, improviser and performer. Her artistic attention is focused on interdisciplinary work, which typically unites creations of worlds that transcend beyond mere sound. She likes to combine movement, light and the manipulation of commonplace devices into musical instruments. This way, she creates new and uncharted acoustic situations of intense complexity.

Works at brut

eleven. each print in the mud fills with honey (with Johanna Nielson & Agnes Schneidewind, imagetanz 2021)