Maria BelovaInterdisciplinary Artist

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Upcoming Touch Nature
Austrian Cultural Forum London
Opening Reception: April 30, 6 PM
On view until July 10, 2026

28 Rutland Gate
London SW7 1PQ

The Austrian Cultural Forum London is pleased to present the international multimedia exhibition Touch Nature curated by Dr Sabine Fellner. Since 2021, this exhibition series has travelled to fourteen Austrian Cultural Forums around the world, including in Berlin, Budapest, Istanbul, Rome, and New York, as well as being shown in a comprehensive presentation at the Lentos Museum in Linz, Upper Austria.

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About Maria Belova is an interdisciplinary artist working across sculpture, installation, and performance. She has studied Transmedia-and Fine Arts in Vienna (prof. Brigitte Kowanz, Jakob Lena Knebl, University for Applied Arts) and London (Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts). Recent exhibitions and contributions took place at Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Council Memorial Church (Konzilsgedächtniskirche) Vienna, Kunsthalle Wien, Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, as well as through multiple performances and interventions in public spaces.

Maria’s practice is a sustained inquiry into the choreography of belief — how it is performed, enforced, and aestheticized across religious, political, and cultural spheres. She explores the tension between transcendence and control, engaging with religious heritage as both a metaphysical force and an instrument of earthly power. Drawing on iconographic traditions, she examines the lasting impact of spiritual and ideological systems on individuals and society.



Education Transmedia Art (Brigitte Kowanz, Jakob Lena Knebl), University for Applied Arts Vienna, 2020–now
Fine Art (Mary Evans), Chelsea College - University of the Arts London, 2023

Art Photography (Anja Manfredi), Schule Friedl Kubelka Wien, with the teaching contributions by Elfie Semotan, Birke Gorm, Mirela Baciak, Josephine Pryde, Timm Rautert & others, 2019–2020



CV2026  WILL-O’-THE-WISP, AG18 Gallery, Vienna, curated by Julia Harrauer
Upcoming: Group Exhibition at Austrian Cultural Forum London (UK), curated by Dr Sabine Fellner

2025  Hyper-Myths, Counter-Rituals, Artemis Gallery, Vienna, curated by Manuel S. Mendonça
Driveway Dreams,
bureau fomo, Vienna
Fragile Constructs, gezwanzig projects, Vienna
re:stART International Residency, Quartier am Hafen, Cologne (DE)

2024  Maria Belova: Nobody’s Watching, solo show at Vienna Collectors’ Club, Vienna
PASSAGE, accompanying program with Jakob Lena Knebl and Ashley Hans Scheirl, Falckenberg Collection Deichtorhallen Hamburg (DE)
Budapest Contemporary Art Fair, Budapest (HU)
Women in Tech, Villa Mautner Jäger, Vienna
Interspace, Galeria WY, Łódź (PL)

2023  ReA! Art Fair, Milan (IT)
PARALLEL VIENNA, Vienna

2022  Figures of Imagination. Trans..., Georg Kargl Permanent, Vienna, curated by SHE SAID
Soft Machine, Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, Vienna, curated by Jakob Lena Knebl
Anti–Anti–Anti: de-visibility, unbiased biases and friends, Angewandte Festival, Vienna, curated by Mauricio Ianes de Moraes
Get It While You Can!, Never At Home, Vienna, co-curated by Maria Belova
Search for Your People, performative action with Mariya Vasilyeva, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
A shop is a shop is a shopbeta. Conceptual store, Kunsthalle Vienna, curated by Klaus Speidel

2021  Maria Belova: Unspoken, solo show in Konzilgedächtniskirche, Vienna, curated by Gustav Schörghofer SJ
The 8th Catholic Arts Biennial, The Verostko Center for the Arts, PA (USA)
REALITY, Kunstsalon FLUC, Vienna, curated by Anna Zwingl & Brigitte Kowanz

2020  Stille Räume, das weisse haus, Vienna, curated by Itai Margula
Bingo!, performative solo intervention, Belvedere 21, Vienna
Net Works, with Darja Shatalova, Kara Agora European Art & Research Center, online, curated by Julia Hartmann

2019  Ya I Ona, performance with Darja Shatalova, in the framework of Question Me & Answer, Improper Walls, Vienna, curated by Smaranda Krings, Osama Zatar & Justina Speirokaite

TITLE, 2022

    with XXX
    Projected color high–definition video with audio 
    4:24 min, dimensions variable