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Maria Magdalena founded the CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE of artists, musicians, dancers, curators and cultural entrepreneurs based in Berlin. It brings together artists from various disciplines who co-create unique street art performances. The collective was founded in January 2022 in Neukölln.

Interplay – Street Art Performance – 48h Neukölln 2023

The CONTEMPORARY COLLECTIVE’s Interplay at the skatepark on July 2023 heightened the senses. The stage was set for dreams to unfold before the waking eye, transforming the cityscape into another Berlin midsummer night’s dream.

Shadowplay – Street Art Performance – 48h Neukölln 2022 

Visitors were welcome to join the street performance in analogy to Plato’s cave allegory, with lit candles, on Saturday evening, June 25th 2022

BESTIMMUNG – VISION 2020* – 48h Neukölln Festivalbeitrag, Sommer 2020

“Menschheitsgeschick ergreifend, im Zeichen neuer ZEIT- weben in ANTEIL, LOS und SCHICKSAL Dir, ein Friedenstuch…“

Source of Creation* – 48h Neukölln Festivalbeitrag, Sommer 2015

Performance by Maria Kossak and Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, shot by Michał Andrysiak, sounddesign: Manos Simotas.

ARTE POVERA of the DIGITAL AGE – Der Künstlerin NEUE KLEIDER,  autumn 2018

“I have the great advantage to being able to present myself in a NEW DRESS without of having to buy one …”

Autumn 2018, Medusa Invicta EXHIBITION  @ SUGAR Food Art Week PARIS
„The way our myths are commonly framed is merely a reflection of patriarchal demands and projections“ 
Summer 2018, woke up perfect- GALATEA  @ 48h Neukoelln Festival, Berlin.
„Myths are a point of reference in the understanding of our misogynist culture“ 
Spring 2018, Hashtag- I will never be #MariaMagdalena @ DECYDENTKI Dom Norymberski CRACOW
“Ich habe verstanden, dass ich als Frau immer Projektionsfläche des Betrachters bin. Damit lebe ich…
Fall 2017 RESIDENCY – ART PRESENTATION and ARTIST TALK @ GOETHE INSTITUTE CRACOW, Poland

The #crackineverything: TĘTNICO świata mego. Arko tradycji Marji i MAGDALEN- t w o r z ę

MOMENTUM air Berlin- artist talk, 21 June 2017

“Art is a compass in the search for my own identity”

SCHLACHTHAUS fresh and fine art, summer 2017

“Love is the greatest magic we can experience as human beings.”

REYKJAVIK, Icelandic residency in Kopavogur, summer 2017

“The state of a creative mind is an alternation between destruction and construction …”

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