Maria Kobylenko (1993, Pyatigorsk) is a transdisciplinary artist and freelance multimedia designer working for artists, cultural and commercial clients. Her work is located at the intersection of animation, visual live performance, digital and bio art. In her projects, she combines theory with experimental visual narratives. Maria‘s artistic practice is characterised by interdisciplinary collaborations and a xenofeminist attitude. In her work, she playfully explores questions of spatial appropriation and posthuman narratives and uses digital media as tools to deconstruct anthropocentric power structures and activate collective modes of knowledge-making. By examining mycelium as a socio-artistic medium, she creates objects, leads workshops and collaborates with the Mitkunstzentrale at the Pilz Kunst Labor. She is inspired by the lessons of fungal networks. Not only biologically, like living in symbiosis, waste-free existence, and healing polluted ecosystems, but also as metaphorical models for rethinking society.

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.