Marina Baisel is an artist and designer working with functional sculpture to explore the evolving relationship between humanity and the environment. Through the transformation of everyday objects, she investigates how familiar forms lose and regain meaning in the flux of technological and ecological change, and how that meaning is reconstructed within the tension between progress and fragile memory.

Baisel’s practice is rooted in reflection on how perception shapes material reality. She reconfigures ordinary elements of the surrounding world, filtering them through a deeply personal lens to construct new visual and conceptual narratives. In this process, transformation becomes both method and metaphor, a way to trace the shifting boundaries between human experience and the natural world.

With a background that bridges analytical and artistic disciplines, Baisel holds a degree in Finance from Financial University (Moscow, Russia) and a Master’s degree from Boston University (Boston, USA). This foundation in structure and logic informs her approach to artistic inquiry, allowing her to merge rational systems with intuitive expression. She later graduated from the ‘Detali’ Higher School of Design (Moscow, Russia), where she was awarded the Grand Prix, and from the British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow, Russia). Her works have been featured in major exhibitions, including the large-scale show at the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) dedicated to the History of Russian design.

In parallel with her creative practice, Marina Baisel is the founder of Rarares, a Dubai-based gallery that unites and supports artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, fostering cross-disciplinary dialogue and contributing to the growth of the UAE’s contemporary art scene.

Her recent work reflects on the erasure of primal imagery in the pursuit of an infinite future, inviting a reconsideration of our collective connection to nature and the self.

Selected Exhibitions

2025
• Second Nature — Group exhibition, Forbes Middle East Sustainability Leaders Summit, curated by O-Contemporary, Adnec Marina Hall, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Cosmoscow International Art Fair, 3L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• Elysian Awakening — Group exhibition, Rarares Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• Fish Market — Art Central, Cornerstone event of Hong Kong Art Week, Hong Kong
• Collect Art Fair, NM Gallery, Somerset House, London, UK
• Fragile. Handle with Care — Group exhibition, Rarares Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2024
• DIFC Sculpture Park. 3rd Edition — Whispers of the City: A Tapestry of Artworks, Rarares Gallery, Dubai, UAE
• Moderne — Foire d'art moderne, contemporain et de design, Rarares Gallery, Paris, France
• Editions Art & Design Fair, Dubai Design Week, Dubai, UAE
• Maison&Objet. Contemporary Art and Design Fair — V keramike, Marina Baisel & Valeria Isyak, Paris, France
• 1703 Contemporary Art Fair, 3L Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
• Cosmoscow International Art Fair, 3L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• BAD+ Bordeaux Art + Design — Foire d’art contemporain et de design, NM Gallery, Bordeaux, France
• Isekai no Shikisai — Group show, Anna Nova Gallery & 3L Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2023
• Art & Design. Pre-auction Exhibition, Vladey Contemporary Russian Art Auction House, Moscow, Russia
• Cosmoscow International Art Fair, 3L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• Tryn-Trava. Contemporary Russian Style, Muravyov-Apostol Estate, Moscow, Russia
2022
• History of Russian Design. Selected 1917–2022, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• Cosmoscow International Art Fair, 3L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020
• Invented and Made in Russia. Biennial, 1st Edition, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, Russia

Awards & Competitions

2020
• Shortlisted for ‘Invented and Made in Russia’ Biennial, 1st Edition, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
• Grand Prix of ‘Detali’ School of Design, Moscow, Russia