Maria Loboda is an intercultural artist, who builds her vocabulary by drawing from the resources of various cultures. She refers to her own work as an archaeology, for it contains references to history, art, philosophy, literature, science, folklore, alchemy, and various aspects of spirituality and transcendence in the wider sense.
The artist also explores the possibilities of language – the workings of translations, codifications and cyphers, as well as the role signs and symbols play in the structure of languages. In her works, she refers to the history of architecture and design, as well as archaeology and anthropology, folklore and popular culture. This background gives foundation to her research on the political and social dimension of human activity, as well as the relevance of ideologies encapsulated in objects, works of art and architecture that were mainly used as propaganda tools in various periods of history.
Maria Loboda (born 1979) has been based in Germany for over 30 years; she is a graduate of the Städelschule Frankfurt, an academy that offers its students maximum creative freedom and a focus on maximum independence from all non-artistic circumstances or considerations. Maria Loboda has participated in dOCUMENTA (13) and the 2014 Taipei Biennale, exhibited works at the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid, and the Palais de Tokyo in Paris. In 2015, Loboda completed a project for Kraków’s Bunkier Sztuki. She has also participated in the Tatra Conference (Kraków, Zakopane) and in the Mycological Theatre in Rabka, at Paulina Ołowska’s Kadenówka.
