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Liza Bobkova born 1987 in Ostrov, Russia. Contemporary artist based in London. Graduated from the Department of Artistic Metalworking of St. Petersburg State University of Fine Arts named after A. L. Stieglitz. Bobkova’s work seeks to explore the new shape of communication in the 21st century. The artist favours the creative use of material and medium, finding ways to re-express our familiar forms of communication. Through her work Bobkova encourages a shift in perspective. She unveils the texture of a message or conversation in the new context of bold materials like metal and glass, through total installation or an act of performance. From videographic portraiture in Presence Detection Methods (2022), to engravings on window panes in There Were 10 Sunny Days in January (2019) or the scintillating wire sculptures of Period of Oscillation (2016), her work is ambiguous and often surprising, whereby the invisible aesthetic properties of an ordinary message become its defining features. Her personal exhibitions in 2022 were held at the Musikmusemum (Basel, Switzerland), Spread museum (Entrevo, France) and the Museum of the St. Petersburg Avant-garde. Liza has also been a participant foreign contemporary art fairs, such as Vienna Contemporary (Vienna, Austria) and BAD+ (Bordeaux, France). According to the Austrian magazine Les Nouveaux Riches, Liza is one of the prospective young artists of 2022. Bobkova's works are stored in significant Russian and foreign collections.

“The artist creates massive metal installations (brutal, heroic and at the same time precious and delicate) and works with graphics. The characteristic motif present in these both mediums is the wave, which can be interpreted as a pulse, a sound, or a beat that shapes space-time.” Vladimir Dudchenko

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Selected Works

Past Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

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2024 Between the square of the window and the portrait of great-grandfather

One And Half Rooms Iosif Brodsky museum, St. Petersburg. Curated by Marina Loshak

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2024 A restoration of time

ART4 Gallery, London

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2022 Presence detection methods. A manual for invisibld.

MYTH gallery, St.Petersburg

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2022 A restoration of time

The Museum of St.Petersburg Avangarde, St. Petersburg

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2021 I see a catastrophe all the time I sleep

Iragui gallery, Moscow, Russia

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2021 Gesture slightly stuck

Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, St.Petersburg

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2021 A bronze conversation archive and one torn dress

SPREAD museum, Entrevaux, France

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2020 Quarantine drawings

www.lizabobkova.com

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2020 Greedily to love dear friend

Richter, Moscow

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2019 Buffer Zone

MYTH gallery, St. Petersburg

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2018 Post love

Bobby Lee, FFTN space, St. Petersburg

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2018 Once We Became the Time

Pink Pong gallery, Moscow

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2017 When all rastamans let their cats go.2.0

Untitled, Moscow

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2017 I am everything

Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow

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2017 Furseal mirage

Art Hub residence, Abu Dhabi

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2016 When all rastamans let their cats go

Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris

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2016 Period of Oscillation

Winzavod CCA, Moscow, Russia

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2015 Essays, computer-generated paintings, video

Printcafee, St. Petersburg

Selected group shows

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2024 Summer Exibition

Royal Academy of Arts, London

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2024 Particolare

Kursalon, Vienna. Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler

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2022 Subtle citizens | (closed by government)

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

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2022 State of Disaster. Centre Point

Musikmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

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2021 Phantasma

Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

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2021 Millennials

State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg

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2020 Auf der Party Ohne Ende

Aperto gallery, Berlin

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2019 Sounds of a beautiful past

The Vietnam National Museum of History, Hanoi, Vietnam

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2019 Abstraction in the avantgarde.

Kuryokhin art center, St. Petersburg

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2017 So close. So far.

Consulate General of Finland, Taiga, St. Petersburg

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2016 Russian Contemporary | Drawings. No Limits.

Pushkin House, London

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2016 Russian Contemporary | Drawings. No Limits

Russian House of Science and Culture, Berlin Germany. Sparta Art Agency & Savina Gallery

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2015 Lights and Sounds of the city

The Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg

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2012 Inconclusive analysis

Museum of Modern Art, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Moscow

FAIRS

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Bordeaux Art & Disign (2023, 2022)

Bordeaux

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Cosmoscow (2022, 2020, 2018, 2016)

Moscow

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Viennaconteporary (2024, 2021, 2020)

Viena

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SWAB (2016)

Barcelona

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