LKKL art-group

Lyudmila Kalinichenko / Ksenia Larina

2015

Our collaboration offers us an opportunity for broader understanding, reflection and critical interpretation of our artistic observations. We enjoy working online together and opposing our arguments. Our collaboration has turned into a dialog of our artistic observations and exchange of visual and intellectual experience. We can make use of each other’s theoretical and practical experience and make something new from it. Since we began to work together our artistic views have become broader and at the same time more meaningful. It is a constantly renovating process based on the keen interest and artistic exploration. This is why even after we united this process keeps changing.

Having united, we work both at our common projects and at independent ones. In the course of our collaborative creativity we formulate a new visual language corresponding to our views. At the moment we have come to the mixture of digital techniques which can be noted as digital surrealism. We base our creativity on the ideas of such icons as Alexander Rodchenko, Mark Chagall, Rene Magritte, Andrew Wyeth. At different times we were influenced by the followers of the Dusseldorf School of photography especially Thomas Struth and photographers from other countries: Cindy Sherman, Sophie Calle, Martin Parr, Nikki S. Lee and others.

We can designate the place of our art in the modern photography as the space for exploration of social issues and creating a new artistic language.

Ksenia Larina

2004-2007 postgraduate studies at the department of "social philosophy" of the Russian State Vocational University, Yekaterinburg

2009 Summer Intensive at the High School of Graphic Design, Moscow
Professor of special disciplines and the course "Digital Photography" in the Ural College of Applied Arts.
Member of international, national, regional, urban photography and exhibitions of contemporary art.

Selected group exhibitions:

2003 environmental exhibition project "Territory of PRO-1" Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts

2007 environmental exhibition project "Territory PRO-2" Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts
- Indoor installation at the Sverdlovsk Film Studio as part of the "Week of High Fashion Interior" Festival of Architecture and Design "Eurasian Prize", Ekaterinburg, Russia
- Participation in a copyright action art objects "Top Design", Ekaterinburg, Russia

2008 Photo project "Co-relationship" STUDIODIVANGALLERY, Chelyabinsk, Russia
(composed SOUP STUDIO)

2009 Participation in the exhibition "Inner Ural" in Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts (November 6-29) (comprising SOUP STUDIO)
- Photo project "Inner Observer", the exhibition "The Inner Urals" in the festival "Live Perm ', Perm, Russia (as part of SOUP STUDIO)
- Participation in a special project of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art "Internal Ural" gallery "Mars", Moscow (as part of SOUP STUDIO)
- Participation in the finals of the international competition of Video Art Bluebanana Video Art Contest "Water", Landau, Germany (in the inner Ural "gallery" Mars ", Moscow (as part of SOUP STUDIO)

2012 installation for OCS Distribution dedicated to the distribution of Apple in Ekaterinburg

2013 - accession to the Union of Designers of Russia, membership card number 4663

2014 - Supervision of projects and the organization of exhibitions of contemporary art gallery SPASE PLACE

2015 - personal exhibition "Magic Realism". A series of photos. Gallery of Contemporary Art at the Central Library SPASE PLACE. Nizhny Tagil

2016 - "The final product," Speech-project together with Lyudmila Kalinichenko. The Union of Russian Artists. Nizhny Tagil

2016 - The project "Binary code" in the fair "Artrooms", week Art Fair / London / Britain

Lyuda Kalinichenko

I was born in the Urals in Chelyabinsk region. Miass. Now live in Ekaterinburg. I received a degree in interior design. At present I work as a web designer and also do photography.

Cameras, films, lamps in our house have been since childhood, my grandfather was engaged in amateur photography.

Truly the strength of the frame I felt in 2013 during the week of workshop in GCSS with Frauke Thelking. Photography for me has become not just a way to lock the moment in memory, but also an excellent medium for self-expression.

I purposely use everyday things and the aesthetics of kitsch. Using your own body, I transform reality. In my photographs the artist acts as a mediator between the usual perception of reality and the projected possible. Pre-build photos, is part of the practice and makes the end result performative.

THE PHOTO
2013 - "We are Like Insects" / workshop with Frauke Thielking / NCCA / Yekaterinburg
2013 - "Yekaterinburg of Near Future" / Museum Night 2013 / Fixazh Gallery / Viberoom / Yekaterinburg

2014 - "Self Staging / Personal exhibition / Garage RESTART / Miass

2015 - "We Are Boundless" / Personal exhibition / Space Place Gallery / Nizhniy Tagil
2015 - "Household Surrealism" / Personal exhibition / Cultural Transit Foundation / Yekaterinburg
2015 - "Zebra"/ Space Place Gallery / Nizhniy Tagil
2015 - "Skirts" in series “Finish Goods” / LKKL / House of Artists / Nizhny Tagil

2016 - "Binary Code" / "Artrooms" / Week Art Fair / London / UK

2016 - "Household Surrealism" / "Young photographers of Russia-2016" / Pushchino / Moscow region

2016 - "Dialogue" & "London. Designer of Stereotypes" / LKKL / "Tempus Locus" / Museum of Fine Аrts / Nizhny Tagil

2016 - "Household Surrealism" / Art festival "Marsciano Arte Giovani" / Marsciano / Italy

2016 - "Gelendzhik" / "When I'm Appear "/ FotoDepartament / Saint Petersburg

2017- "Household Surrealism" / Personal exhibition / OkNo gallery / Chelyabinsk

THE INSTALLATION
2015 - "Loophole" / curator Max Sudhues / light festival "Undark 2015" / Cultural Transit Foundation / Yekaterinburg

2016 - "House of Desires"/ gallery «ЖэБэИ Гэллери» / Yekaterinburg

2016 - "Here and Now" / "Nonrandom connection" / NCCA / Yekaterinburg

2016 - "A Chick in Search of Yolk " / light festival "Undark 2016" / Cultural Transit Foundation / Yekaterinburg

2016 - "Delicate Wash" / Bring Your Own Beamer Vol.1 / Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / Yekaterinburg

2017 - "Better Shut Up" / "Building - Wall" LKKL / Bring Your Own Beamer Vol.2 / Yeltsin Center Art Gallery / Yekaterinburg

2017 - "A Chick in Search of Yolk" / Personal exhibition / OkNo Gallery / Chelyabinsk

BOOKS
2013 - Launch of the "Tale about how the horse Zoe learned to fly" / Author, illustrator and art director / zoyabook.com