Marina Buening
Biography
I was born and grew up in northern Germany. Art always played a big role in my parents’ home, but I wanted to learn something proper and studied economics. After a few years in the profession and shortly before my exam as a tax consultant, I gave up everything to become an artist, especially a sculptor. I then studied at various summer academies in Salzburg and also in Hamburg Pentiment with Prof. Jan Koblasa, among others, who then became my personal teacher.
Later I worked intensively with stone and also taught it near Pietra Santa.
In 1998, I emigrated to Italy for love and moved to Sabina, 70 km north of Rome. It was very difficult at the beginning because it was almost impossible to exhibit or teach. I had already discovered my passion for teaching in Germany.
In 2003 I also started teaching in Rome at Italian schools and at the German school in Rome. Later I taught at an American high school and then at two American universities, AUR and Temple University Rome. I opened an online business in 2018 where I teach art classes and also offer an art mentoring program.
Since 2007 I have also been working intensively with printing techniques and photography. I combine all of this in my work and installations. I have never been able to commit myself to one material or one technique, but I enjoy playing with and using a wide variety of techniques. For me, art has something playful about it, on a deeper level, I discover new aspects of myself, which then become something general again in their most deeply personal aspects
Curriculum
Teaching experiences
2018- to 2024 Tempel University Rome, digital photography
Since 2018 Online courses, private business under MarinaBuening.com
since 2012 to 2023 AUR ( American University of Rome), Sketchbook, printmaking and sculpture
2008 till 2015 St. Stephen’s School Rome, digital photography and IB Art
2011/2012 Brown university- St Stephen’s Pre College Summer Program, digital photography and sketchbook
2009/2010/2017/18 St.Stephen Arts Humanities Summer program sketchbook and painting From 2001 till 2007 Upter (l’universtà populare e terza età) in Rome
In 2005 laboratory in the liceo classico Orazio in Rome
In 2005 teaches at St. Stephen’s School Rome sculpture
From 1999 to 2004 teaches art at the Scuola Germanica di Roma (German school of Rome)
From 1994 to 2006 teaches sculpture at the Volkhochschule (open university) of Hamburg
From1993 to 2005 teaches sculpture at “Campo dell’Altissimo”, summer academy, Pietrasanta (Lu)
Personal exhibitions
2019 “looking at the trees, gazing at the sky” with Anita Guerra and Lucy Clink in the cultural center of St. Stephen’s Rome
2018 “Terra incognita” StudioTieplo38, Rome
2012 “Who do you Think we are?” St.Stephen Cultural Center Rome
2010 Studio Tiepolo 38, Roma “ endless chain” with Daniela Monaci(Photography),
Kunstverein Buxtehude, “sehn sucht nach oben”, mit Daniela Monaci (Photography) Text Jutta de Vries
2009 “secret objects and flying stones” together with Lucy Clink in the St.Stephen’s cultural center, Rome
2008 “cena nella giungla” curated by Tiziana Musi in the Gallery Studio TiEpolo 38, Rome
2007 “cut and paste, Made in Italy” Freiburg curator Dr. Ruth Woebkemeier (C)
2006 “Pelouche goes Rome”, Porta blu gallery, Rome, with Barbara Lorenz
Ferro di Cavallo, Roma, “interface” project of Zweiart
“Werkstatt Rom”, Bolseno, project of Zweiart
“Relazione in scatole e pietre volante” Rome, Gallery Stella, project of Zweiart
2005 “Parentale”, gallery EIDOS, Bassano Romano, Test of Uta Zorzi
2004 “Schiffe im Haus” Stade (Germany), Text Jutta de Vries
2002 “Lana” Installation in the “Camera oscura” San Casciano dei Bagni
2000 “Im Flug” KuBa Hamburg
1998 ”Gefährte”, KuBa Hamburg
1996 e 97 “one day, one room, one woman” Grundriss of Hamburg,
Collective exhibitions
2023 Temple University Rome Faculty show (C)
2022 “Remanso” 10 reflection on Fiber art, curated by Maria Costanza Viarreal and Vittorio Beltrami. “The world is fragile and so am I” Installation (C)
“contro Vento” Artisti per Pasolini a cura di Sandro Polo e Silvia Calvarese participa con un’installazione “I mei genitori sono il signor Dubbio e la signora Coscienza”
2021 Arte Porto, fuori confine, with an Installation „All roads go to Rome sometimes passing Lampedusa“ (C)
Bibliotheca Nationale di Roma, curated by Sala Uno Marie Angela Schroth, IO e Me, participated with a Monoprint: Nature saved my brain
Stamperia die Sales 69 changes/ chances
Exhibition together with temple faculty at the American Embassy in Rome
2020 Stamperia Ripa di Sales 69
2018-2022 Faculty show of Temple University Rome
2018 “under another roof” collective exhibition at IA&A at Hillyer, Washington DC
2018 “under the same Roof” collective Installation with Anita Guerra, Maria Korporal and Kristien de Neve at Sala I, Rome
2016 “universe inside and outside the box” Biblotheka Angelica, winner of the competition “oltre i libri”, Roma
2014 “Immaginazioni dal Sottosuolo”, Colleferro (C)
2012 “anima l’arte” Sant’Oreste , Museonaturalistico
2011 “Contempo_area,” Montopoli, Sabina
2010 Participation at the “Premio Internazionale Lìmen Arte 2010” in Vibo Valentina (C)
2009 “sull’indentità” Porta San Polo, Roma (C)
“tempo corre” giorno della contemporaneità Studio TiEpolo 38, Roma
“senza Parole” exhibition for the fall of the wall in Berlin “Altri Muri” curated by Tiziana Musi in Studio TiEpolo38, Roma
scenography for a theaterplay “La mia casa in fondo al mare” with Giorgio S. Prosperi, Roma
2008 “Globi celeste visitando la terra” installation, Studio TiEpolo 38 , Rome
2007 Art Doq in Rome, Premio Salmona (C), porta blu gallery
“No roses e le fate?” installation, Opera bosco, Calcata (C)
2006 “l’arte seduta”, Viterbo (C)
“Luce e ombra” Oratorio di Santa Silvia, Rome,
“Morra cinese” Rome, (C)
“le rose e le Fate” installation, Opera bosco, Calcata (C)
2005 “Boote zum erinnern” Installation, Nordart in Budelsdorf, Kiel, IV cultural week of the enterprise, Rome
“fatelo/mare”, installation, Opera bosco, Calcata (C)
2004 “7 boats and 79 roses” installation, KIC Nordart in Büdelsdorf,
“ mi hanno raccontato” installation Capranica with the” Centro G. di Sarro”, (C)
“ caduto del cielo” installation, Ecosistemi d’arte, Villa Fogliano, (LT), (C)
” Meret Opppenheim updated “Installation, Art Job@Jolly Lido, Anzio,
2003 ”boats from nowhere” Installation “Centro G.di Sarro” in Rome, (C), Blagnac (Francia) “s’eait l’eau …”,
2002,03,04 “In Sabina, Castelli e Borghi” under the guidance of Ass. Cul. Massenzio per l’Arte, installation (C)
2002 “Wenn Wasser wäre….Undine” Installatione in the museum of Buxtehude (C)
1998 Moving to Italy,
1995 e 96 the art week in Jesteburg,C) Means Catalogue
1995 “Rapunzels Einzimmerwohnung”, Kunstverein Buxtehude Installation Artistic summer in Winsen/Luhe (Marschkunst Kunstmarsch)
( C means catalog)
Critics:
Prof. Tiziana Musi, Gorgio Di Genova, Prof. Ruth Woebkemeier, Prof. Uta Zorzi, Dipl. Paed. Jutta de Vries, Partrizia Ferri, Micol di Veroli, Roberta Melasecca
Most of the text you find in the website www.marinabuening-art.com or in the catalogues
I mei genitori sono il signor Dubbio e la signora Coscienza
2022, installation size vary, wood, photography on aluminium, and string
Universes inside and outside the box
2016 – Wood, Etching and cardboard, marble – installation size vary
Terra incognita
2019 – Clay different pieces together 1,40 per 1,40 m – more or less, depends on the hanging
Tutte le strade portano a Roma a volte passando a Lampedusa
Iron, Wicker stone, installation, size vary
The world is fragile and so am I
2022 porcelain, print on Tissue, Iron, Installation, size vary