Maria Pask is a Welsh artist who lives and works in Amsterdam. Her art primarily focuses on processes and includes people from a wide variety of societal groups. Her installation works interpret the nature of collective creativity, empowerment, and the live moment. The notion of reciprocity is central to Maria Pask’s current artistic practice. Her recent projects are centred on working as an artist in a service-based role within local communities in Amsterdam. The artist creates collaborative scenarios through which to examine themes of collective creativity, empowerment, and community service. Whether performance or installation, each of her works come to be shaped by shared experience, through which to foster an openness to difference and change.
Maria Pask received, has performed, and exhibited internationally at institutions including Kunstinstituut Melly; NEST, The Hague; Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford; Athens Biennale, Greece; White Columns, New York City; W139, Amsterdam; Münster Sculpture Project, Germany; If I Can’t Dance I Don’t Want to Be Part of Your Revolution, Amsterdam; Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany; BAK, Utrecht; De Appel, Amsterdam and Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana.