Maria Kogan-Lerner

Maria Kogan-Lerner was born in Moscow in 1983 to an architect mother and geologist father. After school she was preparing to go to the Moscow Architectural Institute, but then had second thoughts and decided to study animation at Lyceum No. 333, graduating in 2002. She is a volunteer at the Centre for Curative Pedagogy, and an artist and animator at Studio 25. She also heads the animation workshop for Lukovitsa i Eskalator, a creative project for people with experience of life in a psychoneurological institution.