margarita gluzberg

The work of Margarita Gluzberg often explores the tensions and reciprocal interplay between the past and the present, memory recall alongside recurring fiction, and the politics of desire. Her practice ranges from drawing, photography and performance to sound and film installation while drawing upon historical events and semi-biographical stories in its content, form and presentation. In her most recent body of work, Gluzberg deploys vintage pencils and pastels–from the US and eastern Europe from the period of the Cold War–on both canvas and paper to produce a body of work that strives towards a conceptual zone freed of any figural associations–their meaning is, in this instance, fully contained within the iridescent vintage materials deployed.

Born in Moscow in 1968, Gluzberg has lived in London since 1979. She studied at the Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, and the Royal College of Art in London. Solo exhibitions include Otherwhere, Alma Pearl, London (2024); Proper Time, Karsten Schubert, London (2022); In Paradise, Pushkin House, London (2019); For Children Not For Children, Filet Space, London (2018); Avenue des Gobelins, Paradise Row, London (2012). Her work was presented at major contemporary art spaces including Towner Eastburne (2024-2025);  Drawing Room, London (2024); Site Gallery, Sheffield (2019);  the Musée d’Art Contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris (2010); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2001); Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (2001); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort; Lunds Konsthall, Lund; and The British School at Rome (where she was a Wingate Scholar). In 2016, her Wellcome Trust project ‘Rock on Bones’, a series of multimedia performance lectures, was staged at the De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill; the London Performance Studios; and the Royal College of Art. Her work was featured in Artforum, Art Review, The Guardian and Frieze Magazine, amongst others.