“I think the idea of looking together has always been something really nice.” Artist Marina Pinsky moves through photography and sculpture in her interdisciplinary practice.
In high school, American artist Marina Pinsky was unsure whether to study art or chemistry in college. But for her parents, there was no doubt: chemistry would bore her, and art was the right path for her. After her studies, she moved to Brussels: “I was just immediately welcomed by the art scene here,” she explains: “I just found it very easy.”
Starting with photography, Marina Pinsky moved towards sculpture. She says: “I think every sculptor has their own definition of what sculpture is, what it can do and what makes it different from any regular object?” A central theme in Pinsky’s art is the subject of time: “I think we all live in time, and we have to negotiate it. It’s the material of our lives.” In several works, she explores the concept of the 13 Month calendar, a fixed calendar system that George Eastman, the founder of Kodak, was a strong supporter of and used at his company for many years. But as Pinsky states: “Nobody wants to live in this efficiency-driven society, it’s just totally absurd.”
In regards to making art, Marina Pinsky shares: “I’m hoping for this sensation in your stomach,” she continues: “Like when a child gets a piggyback ride. I want art to really give you that sensation also, but through pure visuality.”
Marina Pinsky (b. 1986) is an American artist based in Berlin, Germany and Brussels, Belgium. Using photography as a basis, she creates artworks in a range of media that expand lens-based ways of seeing into three dimensions, often using sculptural means. Her work has been exhibited in institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; WIELS, Brussels, Belgium; Vleeshal, Middelburg, the Netherlands; SMAK, Ghent, Belgium; and Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany. Her work was included in the 13th Biennale de Lyon in 2015, the 1st edition of the Riga Biennial in 2018, and the 2nd edition of the Hammer Museum’s biennial exhibition , Made in L.A., in 2014. Dyed Channel, a solo presentation, opened at Kunsthalle Basel in 2016. In 2021, Pinsky presented a solo exhibition, Undertow , at Simian, Copenhagen.
Marina Pinsky was interviewed by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen at her Brussels studio in October 2025.
Camera: Jarl Therkelsen Kaldan
Produced and edited by Roxanne Bagheshirin Lærkesen
Music via Upright:
Flickering Lights by Josefine Skov
Time Unfolding by Anna Roemer
Nimbus by Sebastien Roux
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