Hello!

I am Maria Virzhe, a multidisciplinary artist working at the intersection of street art and performance. My work explores presence, embodiment, and engagement with urban space as a site for collective experience.

My ongoing project, The Walk of Tears, reveals the unseen side of the journey toward success. It is a participatory work in which real people contribute their gestures and stories, dissolving the boundaries between viewer, artist, and artwork.

In 2020, I founded The STARS & TEARS with my children, creating projects that merge the personal and the public within a shared artistic process.

My practice also extends into unique art objects that materialize the emotional and physical movement of my work, as well as VIRZHE ART LAB, a studio dedicated to exploring presence and creative thinking through visual and sound-based experimentation.