1./2. Greedy Grandpa. Film Stills
3./4. U Trip. Film Stills.
Greedy Grandpa. Animation
Time: 3.20 Min
Medium: hand-drawn animation, 2D Year: 2020
Genre: comedy
Animation: Maria Naidyonova Music: Aleksandr Sudin
Production: Leo Kuelbs Collection
Synopsis
“Greedy Grandpa”
The film reveals the stereotypical gender roles of man and woman in a humorously grotesque way and cheers the viewer with an unexpected ending. The basis for the animation was free interpretation of the fairy tale “Grandpa and Grandma” by the contemporary Hungarian writer Alíz Mosonyi.
Film Presentations
2020 Festival of Animation Berlin, Award Winner
Digital Fairy Tales, Digital Art and Film Festival, Online Screening
2022 Manhattan Bridge, DUMBO, Brooklyn, NYC, USA;
THE DREY Gallery, East York, CAN Scope Berlin, DE
Synopsis
“U-Trip”
U-Trip has been temporarily removed because it’s currently being shown at the Nancy Film Festival and the festival requirements restrict film screenings online, but as soon as it will be possible, the film will be put online again. We wish the artist the best of luck and much prizes!
The animated film U-Trip is the story of a day in the life of Berlin’s metro system, the U-Bahn. Train cars and stations become the meeting point of a vast array of characters drawn from the rich and tattered fabric of 21st century Berlin.
The story starts at 4:00 a.m. as the U-Bahn opens, with only a cleaning person
and homeless woman on the otherwise deserted platform. A ticking clock builds the accelerating rhythm of the film as passengers begin filling the station, each in a hurry to fulfill their morning’s destiny, all under the watchful eye of the video surveillance camera, which is always present, but cannot intervene. The characters interact, inadvertently or purposefully, changing each other as they go, while the U-Bahn rumbles and trundles along, carrying with it moments of subterranean atmosphere and isolation from the streets above. The U-Bahn, the underground train, is its own world.
The film’s title, U-Trip, has layers of meaning. “U” points not only at
“underground” in the sense of subway or metro, but also stands for “underground culture”, a counterpart to the mainstream. The word “trip” alludes to a journey into the subconscious, into the world of hallucinations, fantasies, surrealism and hyperbolization of reality of Berlin’s drug-fueled nightlife, which often extends well into the next day. But even in the harsh light of day, the U- Bahn, the underground train, sings its own songs.
Film Presentations
2022 70th Columbus International Film & Animation Festival, OH, USA 34 Filmfest Dresden, DE
17th Athens Animfest, GR
Nancy International Film Festival, FR (coming soon) Festival of Animation Berlin, DE (coming soon)
In 2022 the further development of the project is supported by the NEUSTART Kultur Federal Funding
Biography
Maria Naidyonova
Born in Kiev, UA
Lives and works in Berlin, DE
Education
Kunsthochschule Weissensee – Master of Painting (Berlin, DE)
National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture – Specialist of Painting (Kiev, UA)
National University of Ukraine „Kiev Polytechnic Institute“ – Bachelor of Arts (UA)
Kiev National University of Economics – Master of International Economy (UA)
Awards
2023 Award winner at Chania Film Festival, GR
2022 Neustart Kultur, federal grant for visual artists, DE
2020 Award winner at the Festival of Animation Berlin, DE
2019 Winner of the “Kunstpreis Brandenburg”, Wildau (II place), DE
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2025 Doomscrolling, Feinart Berlin Galerie, DE
2019 Lovers, Artgeschoss Galerie, Berlin, DE
2018 Maria Naidyonova: 2018, Fata Morgana Gallery, Berlin, DE
2017 Let’s talk about…, Meat Locker Gallery, Hudson, New York, USA
2015 Berliner Landschaften, Galerie Kunstwerk Winkler, Berlin, DE
Selected Group Exhibitions & Film Festivals
2024 [12 Rooms], Kewenig Galerie, Berlin, DE
2024 Anonymous Drawing and Lines & Fiction Project, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE
2024 5.Weissenseer Kabinett, Brotfabrik Gallery, Berlin, DE
2023 European Filmfestival Goettingen, DE
2023 Exground Filmfest, Wiesbaden, DE
2023 19th Chania Film Festival, Crete, GR
2023 Courant3D, Angouleme, FR
2023 29th Nancy Inernational Film Festival, FR
2023 International Shortfilm Festival Detmold, DE
2023 Fresh Legs, Galeri Heike Arndt, Berlin, DE
2023 Visioni Fantastiche Film Festival, Ravenna, IT
2023 Under the Radar, interdisciplinary film/media festival, Vienna, AUT
2023 Pop-Up Art Show Now! at Europa Center Berlin, DE
2022 Goettinger Kurzfilm Festival, DE
2022 Festival of Animation Berlin, DE
2022 28th Nancy International Film Festival, FR
2022 Obvious Surprise at Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, NYC, USA; THE DREY, East York, CAN and Scope Berlin, DE
2022 Utopie, Kunstverein Burgwedel-Isernhagen, Hannover, DE
2022 Flimmerfest Film Festival, Hamburg, DE
2022 Lines & Fiction as part of the 48 Neukoelln Festival, Berlin, DE
2022 Vierte Weissenseer Kabinettausstellung, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin, DE
2022 The Male Figure XI, Kunstbehandlung Galerie, München, DE
2022 70th Columbus International Film and Animation Festival, Columbus, Ohio, USA
2022 34 Filmfest Dresden, DE
2022 17th Athens Animfest, GR
2021 Figuratively Speaking, Kunsthaus Am Tacheles, Berlin, DE
2020 Kunst kennt keine Ausgangssperre, Villa Blunk, Wriezen and Rathenau-Hallen, Berlin, DE
2020 Kunst Supermarket, DNA Gallery, Berlin, DE
2020 Digital Fairy Tales: Dark Nights & Black Cats, video art show, Manhattan Bridge, New York, USA
2020 Grande Finale, 3.Weissenseer Kabinett, Brotfabrik Galerie, Berlin, DE
2019 Digital Fairy Tales at Elizabeth Street Garden, Manhattan, New York, USA
2019 Digital Fairy Tales, Soho House, Berlin, DE
2019 Digital Fairy Tales, FLUCA-Austrian Cultural Pavilion, Plovdiv, BG
2019 Perfekte Zustaende, X LANE, Berlin, DE
2019 Transformat, XTRO Ateliers, Berlin, DE
2019 Digital Fairy Tales: Vengeance is Mine, Berlin/New York, DE/USA
2019 Contemporary Art Ruhr, Leo Kuelbs Collection, Essen, DE
2018 Neue Malerei, Museum Kesselhaus Herzberge, Berlin, DE
2018 Schauwerk: Retrospective, Werkbund Galerie, Berlin, DE
2018 Light Year 41: Ephemeral Movements, Manhattan Bridge, New York, USA
2018 Defying Currents, The Shelf by Pandion, Berlin, DE
2018 NGORO NGORO II, Artist Weekend Berlin, DE
2018 Zeitpunkt. Art From Observation, Atelier Alen, Munich / Studio Weissensee, Berlin, DE
2018 Open House by Leo Kuelbs Collection, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2018 Solstice Supermix, Fata Morgana/coGalleries, Berlin, DE
2017 Implication and Instigation, Meat Locker Gallery, Hudson, New York, USA
2017 Kuboshow Art Festival, Herne, DE
2017 Spring Forth, Fata Morgana Gallery, Berlin, DE
2017 Studis, Museum FLUXUS+, Potsdam, DE
2017 Artgeschoss, Salzgitter-Bad, DE
2016 Kuboshow Art Festival, Herne, DE
2016 Schauwerk, Art Stalker, Berlin, DE
2016 Kunstmittenmang, Lehrter Straße, Berlin, DE
2016 KunstBoulevard, Boulevard Berlin, DE
2016 Under My Thumb, Gallery Neu West Berlin, DE
2015 Dezembersalon-2015, Taube Galeire, Berlin, DE
2015 Kuboshow art festival, Herne, DE
2015 Cirrus & Capillatus, Haus des Rundfunks, Berlin, DE
2015 Soma, Autohaus Heise, Dessau-Roßlau, DE
2014 Dezembersalon-2014, Taube Galerie, Berlin, DE
2013 Dezembersalon-2013, Taube Galerie, Berlin, DE
Projects
2019 Open Art Academy, educational art project between KHB Weiseensee and Firma Boesner, Berlin, DE
2019 Cooperation with DUMBO District Administration (creation of the visual materials and animation film), Brooklyn, NYC, USA
2019 Licht Malerei Duett, live performance with Alyona Voynova during Potsdamer Lichtspektakel, Potsdam, DE
2016 Kunst Mittenmang, Art Project for Groth Gruppe, Berlin, DE