Maria Kobylenko (1993, Pyatigorsk) is a transdisciplinary artist and multimedia designer working with artists, cultural and commercial clients.

Her work is located at the intersection of visual live performance, digital and bio art. In her work, she playfully explores questions of how we occupy and share space, and how stories can be told beyond human perspective. Using digital media as both material and method, she deconstructs anthropocentric power structures and activates collective forms of knowledge-making. One of her recurring topics is the investigation of environmental perception, particularly in relation to technological developments. She asks: What does nature mean and what is natural? Are technology and nature opposites? Understanding the interdependence of the human and the more-than-human, physical and virtual, space and experience is crucial to her practice.

Trough working with mycelium as a socio-artistic medium, she creates objects, leads workshops and collaborates with the Mitkunstzentrale at the Pilz Kunst Labor (Fungi Art Lab). Her practice is guided by the intelligence of fungal networks, systems that live in symbiosis, operate without waste and restore polluted environments. She explores these principles not only in a biological sense but as metaphors for rethinking society.