Pre-school
first materials
3 – 5yearsAn hour of touching, mixing, tearing, printing. Paper, colour, clay. Nothing has to become a picture. Spilled water is part of life.
Group7 maxLength60 minFormatTerm blocks
A small studio
for slow art —
children & adults.
01At the table —
the studio, Pankow
the studio, Pankow
№ 01Classes & sessions
Groups for children and evenings for adults.
Pre-school
3 – 5yearsPrimary school
weekly classes
6 – 10yearsWeekly blocks, never more than seven children. Materials laid out, a short conversation, then ninety minutes of calm work: drawing, watercolour, texture, clay. We don't correct mistakes — they are part of the path.
Group7 maxLength90 minFormatTerm blocks
Teens & adults
evenings in the studio
12+yearsAn evening at the long table or at an easel. Come with a painting in mind, or simply to explore the materials. Guidance is there, but never imposing: no skill assumed, no result expected. The pace is yours.
Group5 maxLength2 hFormatSingle or series
№ 02The space
One quiet room in Pankow.
Easels, after an afternoon
Oil pastel, mid-drawing
Books, and a watercolourAbout the space
Malevala is a single, quiet room in a courtyard building in Berlin-Pankow. Tall windows, a long wooden table, drawers of graphite, watercolour, paper, fabric, clay. Maria's own studio practice happens in the same room as the teaching — the two are not separate.
Groups are deliberately small — five to seven people — so every piece of work gets the attention it needs. Nobody has to begin with a plan. We follow the material, change direction halfway, and the work takes as long as it needs.
Slowly, sincerely, without pressure.
№ 03Children's artworks · 2022 – 2026
What the children actually make.
Selected works · shown with permission
№ 05Maria Lukomsky
Artist and educator — under one roof.
Maria, in studioArt is a way of thinking and of being in contact with the world.
Visual artist and educator. Born and trained in St. Petersburg — graphic design at university, four years of evening drawing classes at the Academy of Arts, and ten years in the studio of watercolourist Viktor Zhadanov. I have lived and worked in Berlin since 2019.
At Malevala my studio practice and my teaching live under one roof. I believe in slow processes, in material that leads the way, and in art as a way of thinking, sensing and being in contact with the world.
