Lyudmila Kalinichenko
(b. 1985)
is a multidisciplinary specialist by profession, working in the field of UX/UI and graphic design. For the last 6 years she has been a practicing interdisciplinary artist. She works with video, audio, digital graphics, installation, sculpture and photography. She uses techniques from post-internet art and design as her visual language.
She explores issues of the transformation of "repetition" and the "copy & paste" effect in communication. To create an ideal world in her works, Ludmila is inspired by science fiction texts and utopian ideas. Combining innovation and tradition, the artist creates universal symbols for building a new relationship with environment and the world around us.
In 2021Lyudmila Kalinichenko was nominated for the award in the field of contemporary art "Innovation" in the category "Artist of the Year". In the same year she was shortlisted for the Present Continuous program of the V-A-C Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA). She was shortlisted for the AES+F Artist Residency Awardgrant program in New York and longlist of international competition "Foam Talent". Lyudmila is a winner of the Garage Museum grant program (2017) and a participant in the START project at Vinzavod. Her work has been shown in the main project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2017) and in the special program of the 5th Ural Biennale (2019), as well as in group exhibitions in Russia, Italy and England.
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2021 – "The Enemy Mine" Project "NitiXNiti / Aramil Knitting factory / Aramil
2021 – "Kiss-s-s" Urals branch of the Pushkin Museum / Yekaterinburg
2020 – «Best before: unlimited», the photographic museum «Metenkov House» / Yekaterinburg
2019 – «Elysium», gallery «Sinara Art» / Yekaterinburg
2019 – «500 METERS_ONLINE», gallery «OkNo»/ Chelyabinsk
2019 – «Dialogue», gallery «Narodnaya» / Nizhniy Tagil
2018 – «500 Meters online», project «Start» Winzavod CCA / Moscow
2018 - «Household Surrealism», gallery «Pro Art's» / Kaluga
2017 – «Household Surrealism», gallery «OkNo»/ Chelyabinsk
2017 – «Gradient of the linear difference», foundation «Cultural Transit» / Yekaterinburg
2016 – «Household Surrealism», gallery «Space Place» / Nizhniy Tagil
2015 – «Household Surrealism», foundation «Cultural Transit» / Yekaterinburg
2015 – «Finish Goods», museum of Fine Аrts / Nizhny Tagil
BIENNIAL AND FESTIVALS
2019 – Preview of the 5th Ural industrial Biennale of contemporary art, gallery "GUM-Red-Line"/ Moscow
2019 – «Nothing is what it seems», Special project of The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, public space interventions / Tyumen
2019 – «After Us», Special project of The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, public space interventions, Ural NCCA / Yekaterinburg
2019 – «Collectivity. Axis for peace» festival «Presence» FotoDepartament / S. Peterburg
2017 – 4th Ural Industrial Biennial: «New Literacy», curator Joao Ribas. Ural Instrument-Making Plant
2018 – «Nothing is what it seems» festival «Bazhov-Fest» NCCA Ural / Yekaterinburg
2018 – «Bring Your Own Beamer Vol.3» Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / Yekaterinburg
2018 – «Art-subject» contemporary art festival / Vladimir
2018 – «Undark Festival» / Yekaterinburg
2018 – «KosMost» - festival of contemporary photography / Kostrom
2017 – «Undark Festival» / Yekaterinburg
2017 – «Natura e artificio» festival «Trullo 227» / Martina Franca, Italy
2017 – «Young photographers of Russia-2017» photo festival / Moscow
2017 – «Bring Your Own Beamer Vol.2» Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / Yekaterinburg
2017 – «Experience of Transition» festival «Presence» FotoDepartament / S.Peterburg
2017 – «Bring Your Own Beamer Vol.1» Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / Yekaterinburg
2016 – "Young photographers of Russia-2016" photo festival / Pushchino
2016 – "Marsciano Arte Giovani" art-festival / Marsciano, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 – Exhibition of nominees for the 2nd Moscow Art Prize, Zaryadye Park / Moscow
2021 – Exhibition of nominees of the Innovation Prize 2020 / Nizhny Novgorod
2021 - "Strange Agents", Victoria Underground Gallery / Samara
2021 – "Distant Planets of DAP" for the 80th anniversary of D. Prigov / Yekaterinburg
2021 – "Garden of Unearthly Consolations", V. Smirnov and K. Sorokin Foundation / Moscow
2021 -– "Alice, please turn on the radio!" online gallery "Paul's Labyrinth"/ZIL Center/Moscow
2021 – "Invisible Women" / Gallery "Thursday" / Moscow
2021 – "New Art in Yekaterinburg" / Yeltsin Center Gallery / Yekaterinburg
2020 – «Kvartirale», Apartment Exhibition Festival / Yekaterinburg
2019 – «Gentle Touches», gallery « Victoria» / Samara
2018 – "Big Country – Big Ideas» project NEMOSKVA / Transsiberian railway
2018 – «I'm not a robot», exhibition halls of Moscow «Electromuseum» / Moscow
2018 – «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», The Krasnoyarsk Museum Center / Krasnoyarsk
2018 – «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», Arsenal, Volga-Vyatka branch of NCCA / Nizhny Novgorod
2018 – «Artseksual» foundation «Cultural Transit» / Yekaterinburg
2017 – «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», National Center for contemporary arts NCCA / Moscow
2017 – «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», Ural NCCA / Yekaterinburg
2017 – «Taming the void» NCCA Ural / Yekaterinburg
2017 – «Art in the city», gallery "Bogorodskoe" / Moscow
2017 – «Why do I dream of light?» Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / Yekaterinburg
2016 – "Artrooms" Week Art Fair / London, UK
2016 – «Nonrandom connection» NCCA Ural / Yekaterinburg
2016 – "Tempus Locus", museum of Fine Аrts / Nizhny Tagil
2016 – "When I'm Appear " FotoDepartament / S.Peterburg