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
Artist
Bobkova Liza
Selected Works
Past Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
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
2024 A restoration of time
ART4 Gallery, London
2022 Presence detection methods. A manual for invisibld.
MYTH gallery, St.Petersburg
2022 A restoration of time
The Museum of St.Petersburg Avangarde, St. Petersburg
2021 I see a catastrophe all the time I sleep
Iragui gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 Gesture slightly stuck
Stieglitz Museum of Applied Arts, St.Petersburg
2021 A bronze conversation archive and one torn dress
SPREAD museum, Entrevaux, France
2020 Quarantine drawings
www.lizabobkova.com
2020 Greedily to love dear friend
Richter, Moscow
2019 Buffer Zone
MYTH gallery, St. Petersburg
2018 Post love
Bobby Lee, FFTN space, St. Petersburg
2018 Once We Became the Time
Pink Pong gallery, Moscow
2017 When all rastamans let their cats go.2.0
Untitled, Moscow
2017 I am everything
Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow
2017 Furseal mirage
Art Hub residence, Abu Dhabi
2016 When all rastamans let their cats go
Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris
2016 Period of Oscillation
Winzavod CCA, Moscow, Russia
2015 Essays, computer-generated paintings, video
Printcafee, St. Petersburg
Selected group shows
2024 Summer Exibition
Royal Academy of Arts, London
2024 Particolare
Kursalon, Vienna. Curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler
2022 Subtle citizens | (closed by government)
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2022 State of Disaster. Centre Point
Musikmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
2021 Phantasma
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2021 Millennials
State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
2020 Auf der Party Ohne Ende
Aperto gallery, Berlin
2019 Sounds of a beautiful past
The Vietnam National Museum of History, Hanoi, Vietnam
2019 Abstraction in the avantgarde.
Kuryokhin art center, St. Petersburg
2017 So close. So far.
Consulate General of Finland, Taiga, St. Petersburg
2016 Russian Contemporary | Drawings. No Limits.
Pushkin House, London
2016 Russian Contemporary | Drawings. No Limits
Russian House of Science and Culture, Berlin Germany. Sparta Art Agency & Savina Gallery
2015 Lights and Sounds of the city
The Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg
2012 Inconclusive analysis
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. Moscow
FAIRS
Bordeaux Art & Disign (2023, 2022)
Bordeaux
Cosmoscow (2022, 2020, 2018, 2016)
Moscow
Viennaconteporary (2024, 2021, 2020)
Viena
SWAB (2016)
Barcelona