MishМash

1999, Moscow

The art duet of Mikhail Leykin (1968, Volgograd) Maria Sumnina (1977, Moscow) was founded in 1999. Mikhail graduated from the Moscow Architecture Institute in 1994; from 1997 to 2001 he was a member of the group “Iced of Architects”. Maria was born in Moscow in 1977, in 2001 she graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, faculty of artistic and technical design of printed products. In 2007, 2014, 2015 and 2016 they became finalists of the Kandinsky Prize, in 2011 of the Innovation Prize. In 2013 they became laureates of the Terna Prize.

Live and work in Moscow.

Personal site: http://www.mishmash.ru/

Photos of the works are provided by the artists.

MISHMASH. Atlas.

MISHMASH. Besofter

MISHMASH. From the series GEOPSYCHOISOMETRICAL EXAMINATION of the city: Ekaterinburg

MISHMASH. Vyksa

MISHMASH. From the series Maps.

MISHMASH. From the series GEOPSYCHOISOMETRICAL EXAMINATION of the city: MOSCOW

MISHMASH. From the series LOOBA

MISHMASH. From the series GEOPSYCHOISOMETRICAL EXAMINATION of the city: Pervouralsk

MISHMASH. PROSTHESES and SUBSTITUTIONS

MISHMASH. Wind Faces.

Selected Exhibitions

2000 — Defile. L-Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2004 — Masterskaya Art-Moskva Exhibitions. Central House of Artists. Moscow, Russia

2006 — Mini. ABC Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2006 — Аtlas. ABC Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2007 — SuperJew made in China. ABC Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2007 — Believe. Winzavod. Moscow, Russia

2007 — Woe from Wit. Literary museum. Moscow, Russia.

2007 — Performance ‘SuperJew gives the advice’. Art-Strelka. Moscow, Russia.

2007 — Masterskaya Art-Moskva Exhibitions. Central House of Artists. Moscow, Russia.

2008 — Russian Dreams. Buss Museum. Miami, the USA.

2008 — Apples fall simultaneously in different gardens. Winzavod. Moscow, Russia

2009 — Europian Atelier. Central House of Artists. Moscow, Russia

2009 — Absolut creative future. Winzavod. Moscow, Russia

2009 — The Stone Soup. Atelier#2. Moscow, Russia

2009 — The secret life of bodies. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2010 — Memories and Dreams. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2010 — Performance festival. Garage center for contemporary art. Moscow, Russia

2010 — Glob(E)Scape. Artplay Design Center. Moscow, Russia

2010 — Vis-à-vis. National Center for Contemporary Art. Moscow - Lyon, Russia - France

2011 — See You. Moscow Multimedia Art Museum. Moscow, Russia

2011 — Microdistrict. Modernariat. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2011 — The port-city: There is no sea here. National Center for Contemporary Art. Ekaterinburg, Russia

2011 — In search of a masterpiece. First prize in the category ‘Masterpiece’. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2011 — The volume of desires or various types of voids in the Circulo de Bellas Artes. Madrid, Spain

2012 — Geopsichoisometrical examination of Moscow. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2012 — Terna Prize Nominee Exhibition. Rome, Italy

2012 — V-museum. Berliner Festspiele. Berlin, Germany

2012 — Limited Edition. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2012 — The Shadow of Time. State Museum Tsaritsino. Moscow, Russia

2012 — I am - who I am. Kunsthalle Dusseldorf. Germany

2012 — In complete disorder. Russian contemporary art. Kandinsky Prize 2007-2012

2013 — Transportation. XL Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2013 — Weightlessness (group exhibition). Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa, National Center for Contemporary Art. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

2013 — No obstacle course at ArtBat Fest. Almaty, Kazakhstan

2013 — Geopsichoizometrical examination of Pervouralsk. Pervouralsk, Russia

2013 — Sopromat. Artplay Design Center. Moscow, Russia

2014 — OGLANAZ. Roza Azora. Moscow, Russia

2014 — Subject of Art. National Center for Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia

2014 — VIII exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees. Udarnik exhibition space. Moscow, Russia

2014 — What we hear, when we look. MANIFESTA'10 parallel program in Saint Petersburg, Russia

2014 — The beauty of ugliness. Belyaevo State Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2014 — Childhood years. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

2014 — A Nouveau festival / Allegories of Forgetting. Centre Pompidou. Paris, France

2015 — The museum in itself. Museum-apartment of A. Kuindzhi. Saint Petersburg, Russia

2015 — Hope. Trekhgorka. Within the framework of the 6th Moscow Biennale. Moscow, Russia

2016 — Prostheses and substitutions. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia

2016 — The dog buried bone. New wing of the Gogol’s house. Moscow, Russia

2016 — Interaction. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia

2016 — Modified. K2 Gallery. Izmir, Turkey

2016 — Co-author. New wing of the Gogol’s house. Moscow, Russia

2016 — Сompression. Open Gallery. Moscow, Russia

Awards

2007 — Finalists of the Kandinsky Prize. Russia

2011 — The Innovation Prize. Russia

2013 — Laureates of the Terna Prize. Italy

2014 — Finalists of the Kandinsky Prize. Russia

2015 — Finalists of the Kandinsky Prize. Russia

2016 — Finalists of the Kandinsky Prize. Russia