marina maschek

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Marina Maschek




Marina (she/her) is a German interdisciplinary researcher and textile artist who approaches her work as a collaborative process. Her work investigates community building, modes of communication, and cultural tradition, centring on the question of how we can create common and alternative forms of identity.

Combining an academic approach of literary analysis and ethnography, research stands at the starting point of her work. From there, she uses participatory and collaborative methods to translate the research into artistic expressions and open it to broader audiences. Through workshops and open ateliers involving textiles, collage, and mixed media, her artistic process becomes a moment of collective intervention and community building.


Education

2024 - 2026Master of Arts in Non Linear Narrative 
Royal Academy of the Arts (Netherlands)
2021 - 2023Master of Arts in Advanced Migration Studies
University of Copenhagen (Denmark)2017 - 2021Bachelor of Arts in Comparative Literature
University of Vienna (Austria)2014 - 2016International Baccalaureate (IB)
United World College Robert Bosch College (UWC RBC) (Germany)

Additional Training

2024 - ongoingMiddle Eastern Embroidery School
Weekly embroidery school Capelle aan den IJssel (Netherlands)

Project Management

2020
 Project Management Team Expedition F23
as part of AREAL (Vienna, Austria)
https://areal.co.at/Spielstadt

2019Project Management Team Spielstadt Nordbahnhof
as part of AREAL (Vienna, Austria)
https://areal.co.at/2-Expedition-F23

Workshops & Open Ateliers

2026

Stadtmuseum Mini-München
during Spielstadt Mini München (Munich, Germany)
2026 (also 2023 & 2020) Kinderkrimi Schreibwerkstätten
with Kultur&Spielraum
https://www.kinderkrimifest.de/krimiwerkstatt/2025Stoffatelier
during Kunst und Krempel  (Munich, Germany)
https://www.ferien-kunstundkrempel.de/2024 (also 2022, 2020 & 2018)FashionLab 
during Spielstadt Mini-München (Munich, Germany)
https://www.mini-muenchen.info/2023Setting Sail 
during Kunst und Krempel (Munich, Germany)2023Geschichten Schachteln
during Bücherschau Junior, with Kultur&Spielraum (Munich, Germany) 2021Tragbares aus Stoff 
during Kunst und Krempel (Munich, Germany)2020Protective Gear 
during Expedition F23, with AREAL (Vienna,  Austria)2019Nord News 
during Spielstadt Nord News, with AREAL (Vienna, Austria)2019
Banner, Bahnen & Ballons 
during Kunst und Krempel (Munich, Germany)


Exhibitions

2026
 Graduation Show
KABK - Royal Academy of Art (The Hague, Netherlands)https://graduation.kabk.nl/2026/marina-maschek
 2026Gestern und Heute -  Ausstellung aus dem Stadtmuseum Mini-München 
Pasinger Fabrik (Munich, Germany)
https://www.kulturundspielraum.de/werkstattgalerie/2025NWO Closed Cycles 
Paradise (The Hague, Netherlands)2025NWO Closed Cycles 
NWO Life Conference (Egmond aan Zee, Netherlands)
https://www.kabk.nl/en/events/students-non-linear-narrative-and-interior-architecture-and-furniture-design-present-closed-cycles2021Tragbares aus Stoff
Akademie Galerie München ( Munich, Germany)


Prices 

2025Winner Nationale Duurzaamheid in het Onderwijs challenge, Ministry of Education  
With the project Common Ground, Common Care (Co:Hub), building a shared platform for student community building, as part of the KABK student union (The Hague, Netherlands)
https://starthubs.co/nl/updates/winnaars-van-duurzaamheid-in-het-onderwijs-2025-001





Internships

2024Documentation Centre and Museum of Migration in Germany (DOMiD)
Research Internship, Collection and Archive (Cologne,  Germany)
https://domid.org/2023 - 2024Heinrich Böll Stiftung Tunis
Research Internship, Human Rights and Migration  Department (Tunis, Tunisia)
https://tn.boell.org/en2022 - 2023Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies (IMIN)
Research Internship  (Zagreb,  Croatia)