Katia
Lyubavskaya

Art is a way of communication. My works always have direct messages and a recognizable visual language, so this make them look like a meme, which is a modern way of transmitting information.  I address to variety of topics: from fairy tales to every day life and objects and finally to current agendas. I look around through the prism of post-truth reality, where alteration of elements and scales is a lie, the image remains recognizable and gives a delusive sense of truth - the victory of emotions over facts. In nowadays the visual distortion is self-explanatory, as it forms a new picture of reality. Synthetic hair - a material, that unites all objects, symbolizes the femininity, its strength and magic, that helps to manipulate the perception. This literally soft, anti-monumental material revives objects so you want to touch them. In the era of cyberspace subject of tangibility is more relevant than ever.

BIO

1982 / Born in Moscow, Russia

2006 / Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy)
 
2004 / Participated in Venice Architectural Biennale (Russian Pavilion)
 
2004 - 2007 / Architect at Bernaskoni Bureau (www.bernaskoni.com)
 
2007 - 2018 / Architect at TLP-AB (www.tlp-ab.ru)
 
2012 - 2016 / Land artist

 2017 - present / Artist (objects, sculptures)
 

Exhibitions

Cut Cut Cut Gallery
Russia, Moscow, Bolshaya Dmitrovka street 7/5, build.3
April 20 - May 20 / 2018
Personal exhibition ‘Do you speak hair?’


MMOMA - Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Russia, Moscow, Gogolevskiy bulevard 10
April 27 - June 10 / 2018
‘Bubble gum’ object in group exhibition project
‘My precious hair’ curated by Alya Hestanti

Wells Art Contemporary
The Bishop's Palace, Wells, Somerset
October 6 - October 21 / 2018
2018 Wells Art Contemporary award

 Online exhibition at www.yngspc.com
April 1 - April 21 / 2019

Ziferblat
Russia, Moscow, Kuznetskiy most 19s1
Group show 'Positions'
November 13 
curated by WESEEITEMS

MYTH Gallery
Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Tchaikovskogo street 61
November 27/2019 - January 25/2019
Group show 'Stranger things'
curated by Lizaveta Matveeva

Artservatory - Research center of contemporary art
Russia, Khabarovsk, Kalinina street 92
December 6/2019 - February 2/2020
Group show ' Gravitational collapse. Idea path.'
curated by Eugenia Myasnikova & Anastasia Kushnareva 

 
Publications

Aesthetica Magazine (UK) / April-May 2018 print issue + online listing

Art Maze Magazine (UK) / Spring 2018 print issue + online listing /

Curated section by Benjamin Sutton, independent curator,

art critic & news editor at Hyperallergic

A5 Magazine (UK) / March 2018 print issue

Wotisart Magazine (UK) / March 2018 print issue

Wotisart Magazine (UK) / On the cover of April 2018 print issue

Hairs How (RU) / June 2018 issue / Article about exhibition

at Moscow Museum of Modern Art
 
Wells Art Contemporary 2018 catalogue

INFRINGE Magazine (UK) / October 2018 online feature

'Tactile hair sculptures by Katia Lyubavskaya'

 

 

In blogs:

 
@wonderzine_mag

@artcontemporaryclub

@instartwort

@foule.foule.foule

@infringemagazine

@yngspc