Lyudmila Kalinichenko
born in 1985, Miass/Ural
lives and works in Lodon, UK
She is a multi-discipline artist, works with installations, video, text and photography
Lyudmila was born in Ural, Russia and now lives in London, UK. In order to adapt to a new place, environment and culture after emigration, she places fleeting motivational quotes on the city streets through video projections and creates street installations as temporary public art.
The main themes Lyudmila works with are personal and historical memory. By collecting and recording personal memories and stories, she continues the family tradition of telling stories through the female line, from grandmother to granddaughter. She transforms the collected material into various media: photography, video, installation, sculpture, text, fixing it in the format of an author's book, trying to foresee the future by rethinking the past. Because she grew up in an industrial region, her work often carries an industrial heritage.
A frequent technique used by the artist is the method of repetition (Ctrl+C / Ctrl+V). Although mechanical copying can lead to depersonalization, it paradoxically emphasizes the uniqueness of personal memories, thus reinforcing the notion of individuality. Each project is based on memories and references to the past, raising domestic, social and political issues. For example, the installation "Better Things Ahead: Unlimited" begins with a story of childhood trauma associated with life on a farm and then explores the topic of artificial meat production, advertising manipulation and consumer culture.
CV
«Best before: unlimited» shortlisted for the "Innovation-2021" Prize in the "New Generation" category. 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.
SOLO AND DUO EXHIBITIONS /SELECTED/
2022 – "The book about my family", Urals branch of the Pushkin Museum / Yekaterinburg
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 – «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 – «Finish Goods», museum of Fine Аrts / art-gru LKKL / Nizhny Tagil
BIENNIAL AND FESTIVALS /SELECTED/
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 / Yekaterinburg
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 – «KosMost» - festival of contemporary photography / Kostrom
2017 – «Undark Festival» / Yekaterinburg
2017 – «Natura e artificio» festival «Trullo 227» / Martina Franca, Italy
2017 – «Experience of Transition», festival «Presence» FotoDepartament / S.Peterburg
2016 – "Young photographers of Russia-2016", photo festival / Pushchino
2016 – "Marsciano Arte Giovani" art-festival / Marsciano, Italy
GROUP EXHIBITIONS /SELECTED/
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 / Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / 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
2020 – «Kvartirale», Apartment Exhibition Festival / Yekaterinburg
2019 – «Gentle Touches», gallery « Victoria» / Samara
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
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
ART-RESIDENCIES
2020 – « New stories of Yekaterinburg», the photographic museum «Metenkov House» / Yekaterinburg
BOOKS
2013/2022 – Launch of the "Tale about how the horse Zoe learned to fly" / Author, illustrator and art director / zoyabook.com
2022 – "A book about my family" / https://issuu.com/lyudmilaka/docs/cook_book_min
PUBLICATIONS WITH ME:
- The article by Anton Shebetko in the online magazine "Bird in Flight" about the project "Best before: unlimited"
- The article by Maria Domracheva about the project "Gradient of Linear Changes" in the online magazine Aroundart
- Cahiers d’Artistes collection in Russia, Author's Zine released with the support of Pro Helvetia.
- 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art: New Literacy /e-flux
2017– 2019 Maternity leave. Curating young projects.Curator of the youth contemporary art laboratory at the Ural Industrial Biennale. Conducting children's workshops. Curator and speaker for the youth mobile photography contest "The Golden Apple".