Lyuda Kalinichenko
Retreat
2026
video performance, 90 seconds
SCA-2 Art Satellite, low Earth orbit
Xu Bing Space Art Residency
recorded on 28 April 2026 at 11:00 UTC
latitude 41.555° N, longitude 17.7° E, altitude 369.13 km
Video documentation of RETREAT, Lyuda Kalinichenko, 2026. Recorded on the SCA-2 Art Satellite.
Courtesy of Xu Bing Space Art Residency
A 90-second video performance shown on the SCA-2 Art Satellite in low Earth orbit. The artist’s body appears curled in a foetal position against a black background, making almost imperceptible movements. The work explores retreat not as escape, but as a return to the self, where the body becomes a fragile signal between inner space, technology, and the cosmos.
Industrial Baby
2019–2023
public sculpture / recycled cast aluminium alloy
Industrial Baby / LKKL art group, Vizovsky Pond, Yekaterinburg. Photo courtesy of ChӦ Public Art Festival
A public art object created from recycled aluminium for a public art festival in Yekaterinburg. The work refers to the city’s industrial identity and imagines the “industrial baby” as a fragile new body born from metal, labour, memory, and the urban environment.
The Book About My Family
2016–2022
Artist’s book, 188 pages
Limited edition
An artist’s book based on the accidental loss of the artist’s family photo archive in 2016. Combining text, images, and fragments of memory, the work reconstructs a personal history through absence, loss, and the fragile remains of family narratives.
Best Before: Unlimited
2017–2019
Multimedia installation: garden sculptures, inflatable pool, salt, running line, digital picture frames
A multimedia installation reflecting on food culture, consumer choice, and the imagined future of lab-grown meat. Drawing from personal memory, childhood experience, and research into “clean meat”, the work creates a speculative world where the boundary between care, consumption, technology, and violence becomes unstable.
500 Meters Online
2017–2019
photographic installation in a natural landscape
500-metre printed image sequence
A large-scale photographic installation based on waste produced around the artist’s online life over the course of a year. The work transforms everyday remains connected to digital time into a 500-metre printed image sequence, creating a corridor between the virtual and physical worlds.