Maria Kruschewsky is a contemporary visual artist whose work explores memory, gesture, and presence through poetic abstraction. Working primarily with works on paper, painting, and mixed media, her practice investigates the tension between materiality and emotion, creating visual fields that evoke time, movement, and inner landscapes.
Rooted in a research-based and process-driven approach, her work embraces repetition, layering, and intuitive gesture as a form of visual language. Each piece carries traces of previous actions, revealing a dialogue between control and chance, permanence and transformation.
With an international trajectory, her work has been exhibited in museums, biennials, and contemporary art fairs across Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and has received recognition and awards in international exhibitions, engaging in a global conversation on contemporary artistic practices.
About me
Maria Kruschewsky is a contemporary visual artist based in the United States. Her practice is rooted in poetic abstraction, exploring memory, gesture, and presence as central elements of visual language.
Working with painting, works on paper, and mixed media, Kruschewsky develops a research-based and process-driven body of work that investigates the tension between materiality and emotion. Through layering, repetition, and intuitive gesture, her compositions reveal traces of time, movement, and transformation, creating spaces for contemplation and emotional resonance.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in museums, biennials, and contemporary art fairs across Europe, Asia, and the Americas. She has received recognition and awards in international exhibitions and has participated in significant cultural contexts, including the Louvre Art Fair (Paris), the Biennial of Contemporary Art in Macedonia, the Biennial of Portugal, the Japan International Printmaking Exhibition (Tokyo), Arts of the World (Berlin), and exhibitions in New York. Her work is also part of institutional collections, including a donation to the Brazilian Consulate in Miami.
Kruschewsky's practice engages in a global dialogue on contemporary abstraction, positioning her work within an expanded artistic landscape. She is open to curatorial dialogue, exhibitions, and institutional collaborations.
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Exhibitions
- USA — Solana Fine Arts
- WEB — 3D Gallery Showroom International — ArtMov
- Brazil — Exhibition Casa Cor Bahia
- USA — Exhibition at Saphira & Ventura Gallery in New York, March
- USA — Exhibition at Saphira & Ventura Gallery in New York, August
- Bulgaria — Miniprint Kalanzak – Art Gallery Kazanlak (Honorary Mention)
- Europe — Mapping Printmaking World Book
- The ICM Artista Index
- Brazil — Exhibition in São Paulo, curated by Heloísa Azevedo: International Contemporary Exhibition “Between the Lines — Plots and Narratives” (The São Paulo art and culture hotspot)
- USA — Exhibition at Saphira & Ventura Gallery in New York, August
- Brazil — Exhibition at the Concept House in 3 different spaces
- Brazil — Exhibition in Pena Cal Gallery spaces, Bahia
- Portugal — Douro: 10th International Biennial of Douro
- Brazil — Exhibition Salvador, Bahia: “Arte Gente”
2019
- Germany — 5th 'Enter into Art' International Installations (miniprint and mixed media)
- Germany — Bernkastel-Kues (Jan 31, 2019); Nassau, Colonia, Bonn (Feb 28, 2019)
- Exhibition locations: Bad Breisig (Cultural Center), Bernkastel-Kues (Nicolas Cusa Museum), Nassau (Municipal Museum), Cologne (Cultural Center), Bonn-Bad Godesberg (Municipal Library), Bad Ems (Town Hall Foyer)
- USA — Member of the Academy of Visual Arts Awards 2019; Art Judde – Visual Arts Awards 2019, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
- USA — Volunteer at the Orlando Museum of Art
- Portugal — Douro: 4 Global 2019
2018
- Paris — Musée Mola: auction sale of 240 Brazilian artists (only MK and two other artists sold)
- USA — Miami Beach: Art Exhibition, “Celebration of Motherhood and Art” — “Unwritten Stories”
- USA — Miami Beach: Exposition of Miami Beach Standards — representing Brazil
- Portugal — Douro Museum / Côa Museum: 9th International Douro Engraving Biennial (Aug 10 – Aug 31, 2018)
- Europe — Paris, Louvre Museum: Exhibition at the Louvre — Salon d'Art Contemporain
- Europe — Paris: Special participation — Guide to International Cataloging d'Oeuvres d'Art
2017
- Brazil — Jury and curator at UFBA, ICHU City; workshop coordinator, jury and curator of Ação Gráfica
- USA — New York: Exhibition in Expo Art NYC Conventions
- USA — Fort Lauderdale: Exhibition at Art Blend Gallery
- USA — Miami: Award finalist – Figurative Painting – Focus Brasil
- USA — Fort Lauderdale: Art Brazil – Exhibition at Gallery Art Serves
- UK — London: Exhibition at Espacio Gallery
- Japan — Tokyo: Exhibition at Manabu Mabe Gallery and Tomie Ohtake
- Portugal — Douro: Exhibition 3rd Global Print 2017
- London — Expo Art Brazil UK, Galeria Espaço
2016
- Europe — Macedonia: Osten Biennial of Design, Skopje
- Brazil — 44th Contemporary Art Fair Luiz Sacilotto, Santo André / SP
- Brazil — Collective Exhibition Surreale International Gallery, São Paulo
- Brazil — Solo exhibition at Palacete das Artes, Museu Rodin
- Brazil — Launch of the book “Paintings and Engravings” at Palacete das Artes Museum
- USA — Fort Lauderdale: Art Brazil at Artserve Gallery (Aug 12, 2016)
- USA — Miami: Miami River Fair of Art, Miami Convention Center (Art Basel)
- Miami — “Fragments” Exhibition, Duo Gallery
- Bulgaria — Miniprint Kazanlak Biennial
- Macedonia — Skopje: Osten Drawing Biennial
- Brazil — Collective Exhibition at Galley International Surreale
Earlier
- Europe — Portugal: 8th International Printmaking Biennial of the Douro
- Europe — Portugal: 1st International Biennial of Douro Printing
- Europe — Bulgaria: Kazanlak Mini Print Biennial
- 2nd overall print
- Collective — Salvador, Bahia
- Collective and individual exhibitions — Salvador, Bahia
