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"... Pop Art, Photorealism, a new Romanticism, new old forms of abstraction, monochrome, conceptual art, a resurgent Expressionism, the Neo-Informula, a new color field painting. This could promise: 'To escape the compulsion of usability in an apparently senseless act.' (Soulpault) The underlying idea is to link the idea of a task with that of failure, that we first experience only questions and only then these questions are before us. 'Come into the open, friend...' or girlfriend, this, 'because there is no other answer than the question itself...' (H. Broch). Ina Abushenko-Matveyeva has been my favourite for years."

Rolf Szymanski, February 2002 (on the exhibition at the Akademie der Künste Berlin)

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Ina Abuschenko-Matwejewa was born in 1969 in Bernau, studied German language and literature/art studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1988/89, from 1991-96 she studied paint/graphics at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. After graduating, she went to Berlin, studied for two years at the University of the Arts in the Art in Context course. With the birth of her daughter she moved to Eberswalde in 2008. In addition to her artistic activities, she has been working as an art and movement therapist in the Forensic Psychiatry Department in Eberswalde since 2010.

Her exhibitions and scholarships took her through half of Europe, she received numerous scholarships and art awards, including scholarships from the Stiftung Kulturfond Berlin, Villa Serpentara, studio scholarship from the Akademie der Künste, art sponsorship award from the State of Brandenburg and most recently the Norway Scholarship, sponsored by the Ministry of Science, Art and Culture of the State of Brandenburg.

Her works, in which she explores the tension between light and colour in her own way, have been shown in many places, including the KunstHaus Potsdam in 2019, the Galerie AE Potsdam, the Kunstverein Meissen e.V. Querung with the artist Andreas Schmid in 2018, and the exhibition of the Endmoräne e.V. Weiße Schatten - Wege durch die verlassene Papierfabrik in Eberswalde in 2017. Her series Schattenmänner was shown in 2017 at the opera project Die Kriminellen der Frau A. - auf dem Weg zu Ovartaci in the workshop of the Staatsoper Berlin, 2016 she showed her works together with the photographer Barbara Schnabel in the Galerie Mutter Courage, Berlin, 2015/16 Tragweite, Museum dkw Cottbus, 2014 Oppetreppe, Galerie der Bausparkasse Schwäbisch Hall, 2013 Poesie des Fragment, Kloster Chorin and many more.

She is co-founder of the Neuer Blumenplatz in Eberswalde.

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