Marina Belikova is an award-winning Berlin based media artist, open to freelance and artist collaborations: 2D animation, UI & graphic design, motion design, video postproduction, photography and other visuals.
Marina has 10+ years of experience in the field of art and design, having worked for Crazy Panda Games, MOMENTUM Berlin, LemonOne (now BOOM!), various art and freelance projects, and is one of the organisers and producers of the Factual Animation Film Festival.
In 2012-2013 she completed an M.A. in Communication Design at Kingston University, London and in 2016 she graduated from the Bauhaus University, Weimar with an M.A. in Media Art and Design, specializing in oil-on-glass animation techniques and creating “The Astronaut’s journal” as her graduation project. Marina animates her narratives through the traditional technique, where each frame is painted individually and subsequently captured with a camera as stop motion animation.
She also works with photography and mixed media, exploring the topics of human memories and interaction between people and urban spaces. Her award-winning animations have been screened at numerous film festivals in more than 10 countries, and her photo series have been nominated for Sunny Art Prize (2021), received the Bauhaus Essentials Prize (2016) and have been shown in various international exhibitions.