Born in 1984 in Vladivostok, Russia, Mariia Nikiforova curates art projects in public space and runs the 33+1 art-community in Vladivostok. Her goal is to provoke a dialogue between artists, city inhabitants and the architectural environment with the belief that only by discussing societal problems together, looking at them from all possible perspectives and learning to listen to each other can people live comfortably in a city. And the best beginning for such communication is art.