Mariko Gelman

Марико Гельман

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Concept

After several years of working with a Japanese television company and spending months in Japan, I fell in love with the nature of Japan. Evening nostalgic landscapes accompanied by the crackling of cicadas, or a rainy day in noisy Osaka, flakes of snow from the sky early in the morning in Sapporo - all this has become my endless source of inspiration. Let's share these feelings together!

Concept

After several years of working with a Japanese television company and spending months in Japan, I fell in love with the nature of Japan.

Evening nostalgic landscapes accompanied by the crackling of cicadas, or a rainy day in noisy Osaka, flakes of snow from the sky early in the morning in Sappor...

After several years of working with a Japanese television company and spending months in Japan, I fell in love with the nature of Japan.

Evening nostalgic landscapes accompanied by the crackling of cicadas, or a rainy day in noisy Osaka, flakes of snow from the sky early in the morning in Sapporo - all this has become my endless source of inspiration.

Let's share these feelings together!

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Find 6 original artworks & painters by Mariko Gelman. Check out Mariko Gelman's profile, artwork prices, exhibition information, and buy art online.

“Mariko Gelman's Artworks”

The end of a long journey (Cafe at dusk)

USD 820.00 Year.2024 w76.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

Short stop in the rain (by shinkasen from Kagoshima)

USD 770.00 Year.2022 w76.00 x h56.00 x d0.10 cm

Walking around Kyoto

USD 480.00 Year.2024 w28.00 x h36.00 x d0.10 cm

Near park in Kamakura

USD 210.00 Year.2022 w25.00 x h32.00 x d0.10 cm

A rainy night in Hachioji

USD 510.00 Year.2022 w70.00 x h46.00 x d0.10 cm

Late way home

USD 510.00 Year.2022 w70.00 x h46.00 x d0.10 cm

Medium

#Painting

Price Range

USD $210 ~ $820

Biography

Mariko was born in Kyiv in 1986, the year of the Chernobil accident.
Due to the disease and subsequent surgery, Mariko has a disability.
She graduated from the University of Architecture (Master of Arts) and the Kyiv Academy of Media Arts (contemporary art).

Mariko works in such spheres as painting, installation and performance.
As a person with special needs, many of her projects aim to raise awareness of disability visibility issues.

Examples can be:
• Installation "Transparency", presented in Kyiv;
• Installation "Transparency Japan", presented at art festivals in Yokohama, Tokyo, Minomasoma;
• A series of ceramic works "Bizarre objects", presented in Oxford and Rome;
• Performance "Decontamination" presented in the city of Lviv etc

She became the heroine of the Exposure project (World press photo award) and one of the main characters in the films “Maria and Fukushima” and “Moyai: wind from Fukushima” (by Kansai Telecasting Corp.)
These films won several international awards: Sakata Memorial Journalism Award; Winner of WorldsMediaFestivals Television & Corporate Media Awards (Hamburg, Germany); Silver Award US International Award (LA); Japan Federation of Commercial Broadcasting Award. Special Award for Excellence in Youth Programs.

In these films, Mariko conducts art workshops for children and families displaced by the Fukushima tragedy (in Osaka, Kyoto), paints a library bus in Minamisoma with a local artist, and also meets and shares her experience with people having similar health issues.

She also participated in exhibitions in Japan:

2023: Installation “Transparency: Japan” moved for permanent exhibition to おれたちの伝承館・もやい展 (“Our folklore museum/Moyai exhibition”), Minamisoma, Japan;
2022: Exhibition for supporting Ukraine, Tokyo Opera City Tower, Tokyo, Japan;
2022: “AWAKES”, ARTS CHIYODA 3331, Tokyo, Japan;
2022: “The IFA Exhibition, Hyogo Prefecture Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan;
2022: “Moyai: next”, Azamino Art Forum, Yokohama, Japan;
2019: EXPOSURE project, SAI gallery, Osaka, Japan;
2018: Tokyo International Mini-Print Triennial, TAMA University, Tokyo, Japan;
2016: EXPOSURE, Gallery "Off Greed", Fukushima, Japan;
2016: EXPOSURE, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan.

Mariko now lives and works in Prague, Czech Republic. Favorite hobby is taking a backpack and discovering new places in Japan - huge snowdrifts in Aomori, the Hakkodamaru ferry, the fort in Hakodate, Okunoin Cemetery on a rainy night...

"A world in which art serves as a guiding light, a source of strength, a place to soothe the soul - what a wonderful world that could be! Please, I invite you to see the world through my eyes. I hope you find it interesting"

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