Shined

Liza Bobkova (b. 1987, St Petersburg, Russia) is a contemporary Russian artist. She graduated from Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (St. Petersburg) in 2011. The artist works with installations and she also works in different media such as metal work and paper drawings. She creates massive metal installations (at the same time brutal, heroic and precious, jewelry) and works with graphics. A characteristic motif present in both mediums is “a wave that can be interpreted as a pulse, as a sound, as a bit that forms space-time. Selected solo shows include: Presence detection methods. A manual for invisibled in MYTH gallery (Saint-Petersburg, 2022); I see a catastrophe all the time I sleep in Iragui gallery (Moscow, 2021) Eagerly loved dear friend in Richter hotel (Moscow, 2020), Buffer zone in MYTH Gallery St. Petersburg, 2019), Once we had the time in the Ping Pong gallery (Moscow, 2018), When all rastamans let their cats go in Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2016). Selected Group exhibitions: Viennacontemporary art fair (Austria, 2021), Summer Exhibition, The Dom Radio (St Petersburg, 2021) , Phantasma, Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow, 2021), Cosmoscow art fair (Moscow, 2020), Auf der Party Ohne Ende, Aperto gallery (Berlin, 2020), I’m Here. Do You Hear?, 2 STAGE project, Bolshoy Drama Theater ( St. Petersburg, 2019) Liza Bobkova is a winner of the “Digital Dreams” competition by Cultural Creative Agency Qatar-Russia and MMOMA (2020), participant of the residence Cite Internationale des Arts (Paris, 2016). Works are held in private collections in Russia, France, Austria, UAE, the United States, Hong Kong. Ongoing curatorial projects Dialogues – Liza created an open educational program about contemporary art at Steglitz Academy since 2017, St Petersburg, Russia. Also, a Library dedicated to contemporary art at the Department of Metal in Architecture, Sculpture, and Jewelry (Steglitz Academy) in collaboration with art foundations, museums, and private initiatives. (There were no books about contemporary art before). Liza Bobkova is a visiting lecturer at the State Steglitz Academy of Art and Design. Her works are held in private collections in Russia, France, UAE, United States, Hong Kong, Austria, United Kingdom, Germany, Bulgaria, Italy.