Marina Faust (born 1950) is an

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artist and photographer.

Life and work

Marina Faust began working at the age of eighteen as a photographer in Vienna. Between 1974 and 1975 she collaborated with

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. In the 1980s, she exhibited her work at Galerie Agathe Gaillard in

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. Faust has collaborated as a photographer with

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since 1990. In 1995, Faust began working with other media, including collages, videos and objects. She taught at the

École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts The Beaux-Arts de Paris is a French ''grande école'' whose primary mission is to provide high-level arts education and training. This is classical and historical School of Fine Arts in France. The art school, which is part of the Paris Science ...

in 2000-2001. Her group of ''traveling chairs'', first shown at Song Song, in Vienna in 2007, is part of the collection of

Museum für angewandte Kunst Wien The MAK – Museum of Applied Arts (German: ''Museum für angewandte Kunst'') is an arts and crafts museum located at Stubenring 5 in Vienna's 1st district Innere Stadt. Besides its traditional orientation towards arts and crafts and design, the mu ...

and is on display at the Contemporary Art Tower, Vienna. Her photo series are regularly published in French art magazine Frog. In October 2012, her collaboration with

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, "Talk without Words (Christopher Wool)", was exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, London.

References

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