Margarita Gluzberg
b. 1968, Russia
The work of Margarita Gluzberg often explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Gluzberg’s practice ranges from drawing, photography and performance to sound and film installation while drawing upon historical events and semi-biographical stories in its content, form and presentation.
Born in Moscow in 1968, Margarita Gluzberg has lived in London since 1979. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. 'Otherwhere', Gluzberg's most recent solo exhibition at Alma Pearl, showcased works where the artist used vintage pastels from the 60’ and 70’ to negotiate the present as well as the past alongside her contrasting experiences of East and West. Other solo exhibitions include Proper Time, Karsten Schubert, London (2022); In Paradise, Pushkin House, London (2019); For Children Not For Children, Filet Space, London (2018); Avenue des Gobelins, Paradise Row, London (2012).
Her work was presented at major contemporary art spaces including the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris; Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius; Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö; Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; The British School at Rome (where she was a Wingate Scholar); Drawing Room, London; and Site Gallery, Sheffield. In 2016, her Wellcome Trust project ‘Rock on Bones’, a series of multimedia performance lectures, was staged at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; the London Performance Studios; and the Royal College of Art. Her work was featured in Artforum, Art Review, The Guardian and Frieze Magazine, amongst others.