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Maria Koshenkova

Maria Koshenkova is a Russian-Danish artist primarily working with glass sculpture.

About
Maria Koshenkova (born 1981 in St. Petersburg) graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (1998–2004) and the Royal Danish Academy, School of Glass and Ceramics (2004–2006). She lives and works in Copenhagen.
Primary media
Glass sculptures
Contact
mariakoshenkova.com/
Maria Koshenkova is a Russian-Danish artist whose glass sculptures hold a muscular tension within the material itself. Pushing glass to the edge of its physical limits, Koshenkova forms twisting, tensile bodies that hover between abstraction and corporeality, evoking hybrid figures caught in states of tension and transformation.
Inspired by her early training in ballet, Koshenkova approaches glass through a highly physical and performative process. Grounded in classical training in drawing, sculptural modelling, and traditional casting techniques such as lost-wax casting, her practice combines technical precision with intuitive experimentation. Working with both free-blown and cast glass, Koshenkova develops each sculpture through repeated blowing sessions, kiln processes, and cold work in close collaboration with master glassblowers. She has also devised her own tools to manipulate the molten material, allowing heat, gravity, and pressure to shape the final structures.
Koshenkova has exhibited internationally across Europe, Asia, and the United States.
Her work is represented in public collections including the New Carlsberg Foundation (DK), the European Museum of Modern Glass in Rödental (DE), MUDAC Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts (CH), Toyama Glass Art Museum (JP), Glasmuseet Ebeltoft (DK), Hempel Glass Museum (DK), Shanghai Art Collection Museum (CN), the Ludwig Museum, St. Petersburg (RU), the Museum of American Glass, NJ (USA), and the Perm Foundation, Perm (RU).
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