Marina Koldobskaya (born 1961 in Leningrad),

Marina Koldobskaya is a Russian artist. She lives and works in St Petersburg. She studied at the Vera Mukhina Higher School of Arts and Design in Leningrad.

In the mid-1980s, during perestroika, she began working as a freelance artist. In the early 1990s, she became a member of the first post-Soviet women’s art group Я люблю тебя, Жизнь! (I love you, life!), which focussed on the artistic aspects of everyday life. The group organised picnics, parties and installations in flats and urban public spaces. In the mid-1990s, Koldobskaya founded another group of artists, Любимые люди (Beloved People), which used traditional elements of folk art in contemporary art.

From the mid-1990s to the 2000s, she worked as an art journalist and art critic. She curated numerous art projects and, since the mid-2000s, also the exhibition and education programme at the Hermitage and major festivals such as the Cyberfest media art festival (www.cyberfest.ru). From 1999 to 2001 she was director of the Museum of Nonconformist Art in Saint Petersburg and from 2003 to 2001 director of the Saint Petersburg branch of the State Centre for Contemporary Art. In 2007, together with Anna Franz, she founded the Cyland Media Laboratory (www.cyland.org).

Koldobskaya works as an artist in the genres of painting, graphics, objects and design. She also incorporates her great interest in mythology, ideology, folk art and pop culture into her works.