Viktoria Valentinovna Lomasko

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Victoria Lomasko (Exhibition opening University Library of the Ruhr University Bochum, 2017)

Wiktorija Walentinowna Lomasko ( Russian Виктория Валентиновна Ломаско , scientific transliteration: Viktorija Valentinovna Lomasko , born on August 6, 1978 in Serpukhov , RSFSR ) is a Russian artist and curator. Victoria Lomasko is an artist who not only creates her graphic reports on Moscow's political courts and protests and who documents the social processes that shape modern Russia.

Career

Lomasko was in the city of Serpukhov in the Moscow Oblast born. In 2003 Lomasko graduated from the Moscow State Printing University (MGUP) with a focus on book art.

Lomasko deals with social graphics. Since 2008 she has been developing the genre of "graphic reportage", which existed in pre-revolutionary Russia and the Soviet Union and which disappeared after the collapse of the Soviet Union. This genre is based on the traditions of Russian reportage drawing (blockade, concentration camp and military albums). Lomasko is the author of lectures and articles on the subject. Several publications have been translated into German, French, Czech, Polish, Spanish and other languages. As an artist and activist, she works with the media and human rights organizations.

Victoria Lomasko travels the country and the former Soviet republics, examining the private, psychological and intellectual lives of the various marginalized groups. Her heroines are sex slaves from Nizhny Novgorod , women from secret lesbian clubs, teachers in the abandoned village school, prisoners of the penal colony for minors, people (especially women) from the post-Soviet area.

From 2010–2014, Victoria Lomasko volunteered with the Center for Support for Criminal Justice Reform and gave drawing lessons in the penal colonies for minors. The “Drawing Lessons” project was part of the center's human rights and education initiative. As part of this project, Lomasko developed programs and teaching methods for drawing lessons for minors in these penal colonies. During the project not only graphic reports were created, but also calendars and postcards with the work of the students were issued. The archive of the project is part of the collection of the Museo Reina Sofia (Madrid, ES). The artist still applies the methods she developed in her workshops with women in the former Soviet republics.

Victoria Lomasko is co-curator of two projects to promote social graphics: “We Draw the Court” (with Z. Ponirowskaja) and “Feminist Pencil” (with N. Plungian). The subjects of the exhibition “Feminist Pencil” include women's rights, but also topics such as domestic violence, abortion, children's rights, the everyday life of migrant women, women with disabilities, poverty and discrimination against women in old age.

In 2009 Lomasko was awarded a prize in the competition “We draw the court”. In 2010 she was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize. In 2013, Lomasko was one of the top ten personalities of cultural life, according to Russian Reporter magazine. In 2014, Victoria Lomasko was named one of the twenty most influential artists in Russian art, according to Artgid (Internet platform for artistic life in Moscow and St. Petersburg ).

In Germany, Lomasko first appeared in public in 2013 as a representative of the genre of social graphics, through the book “Verbotene Kunst” - one of the first and best-known graphic novels in Russia. There followed several solo and group exhibitions, appearances at international cultural events, conferences and literary festivals. In addition, the artist took part in several research projects on graphic reportage. Since 2016, the TV channel ARTE has published two articles with and by Victoria Lomasko. She lives and works in Moscow .

Projects at universities

From November 8, 2017 to December 30, 2017, the exhibition by Victoria Lomasko took place in the university library of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum under the title "Drawing (s) of change - from revolutionary to post-post-Soviet space".

The exhibition was divided spatially and thematically into two parts. A selection of the most interesting works from Lomasko's many series could be seen on two walls on five floors of the library. One of the two walls provided space for a chronological representation of some important protests in Moscow since 2011. The viewers could see how the protest mood in the capital developed - from the mass protests in 2011/2012 with a clear political agenda (“For just elections ! ") To the more local protests of recent times, which concentrated on pragmatic demands (" Give the oak trees back to the park! "," Rehabilitation means deportation! ").

The other wall was dedicated to a post-Soviet project by Victoria Lomasko that she has been running since 2014. As part of this, the artist visited Armenia , Georgia , Kyrgyzstan and the Russian republics of Dagestan and Ingushetia . The selected drawings reported on the places and their inhabitants, but also on the coexistence of several nationalities in the big city and the interactions of the artist with the heroes of her reports. The sketches and interviews were intended to show how differently and inconsistently the communist ideas were received in the Soviet era and how contradictory and controversial the relationship to the Soviet heritage was in these regions.

As part of the exhibition at the Ruhr University in Bochum , Victoria Lomasko's works were brought into an alternative narrative form, detached from the specific reportage context, in order to offer a different perspective on Lomasko's work. On the one hand, her artistic work was to be classified in a larger historical context - in relation to the anniversary of the October Revolution - and, on the other hand, the critical potential of Lomasko's drawings, which are displayed in monumental formats, should be explored. The centenary of the Russian Revolution should provide an opportunity to reflect on the links between events today and the past.

Solo exhibitions (selection)

Curatorial projects (selection)

  • 2012: Resistance FOREVER (together with A. Voronkowa), Cultural Center of the Workers' Party, Buenos Aires , Argentina
  • 2012: Feminist pencil: an exhibition of female social graphics (together with N. Plungian), “FABRIKA”, Moscow , Russia
  • 2013: Feminist pencil: an exhibition of female social graphics (together with N. Plungian), a project within the framework of the 5th Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, part of the MediaUdar festival , ArtPlay, Moscow , Russia
  • 2014: Feminist Pencil: an exhibition of social graphics against gender violence (together with N. Plungian), Borey Art Center , Saint Petersburg , Russia
  • 2014: We draw the court - 2 (together with Z. Ponirovskaya), Memorial International, Moscow , Russia
  • 2014: Feminist Pencil: Heroine of Our Time (together with N. Plungian), The First Supper Symposium, Galleri 69, Grünerløkka Lufthavn, Oslo , Norway
  • 2015: Exhibition POST-SOVIET CASSANDRAS. Gallery in the Körnerpark , Berlin , Germany. Team of curators: Dorothee Bienert, Victoria Lomasko, Nadia Plungian, Antje Weitzel
  • 2016: Exhibition of Feminist Graphics Respect each of my braids. Art cafe Brio, Osh , Kyrgyzstan
  • 2017: Exhibition of Social Graphics Time is different and I am different. Joint work Metro, Nazran, Ingushetia

literature

  • together with A. Nikolaev: Provincija. Saint Petersburg 2010.
  • together with A. Nikolaev: Zapretnoe iskusstvo. Saint Petersburg 2011, ISBN 978-5-9902108-7-5 .
  • together with A. Nikolajew: Verbotene Kunst. Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-88221-984-5 .
  • Other Russias. New York City 2017, ISBN 978-0-9970318-4-3 .
  • Biškek - Erevan - Dagestan - Tbilisi: Issledovanie s al'bomom v rukach. In: Iskusstvo. No. 11/12, 2016, pp. 16–21.
  • Viktorija - označaet "POBEDA". In: Slovo ženščiny. Pervyj kavkazskij ženskij žurnal. No. 1 (7), 2016, pp. 26–29.
  • Poezdka v Dagestan. In: Slovo ženščiny. Pervyj kavkazskij ženskij žurnal. No. 1 (7), 2016, pp. 30–34.
  • Iskusstvo bystrogo reagirovanija. Social'naja grafika v Rossii. In: Iskusstvo. No. 4, 2015, pp. 50–53.

Picture gallery

Pictures for the exhibition "Drawing (s) of change - from revolutionary to post-post-Soviet space" (Bochum University Library, 2017):

  • Pictures of the clash between police officers and demonstrators during protest movements in 2012

  • Protest demonstration against violations of fundamental rights in the 2011 State Duma elections

  • Soviet symbolism in the "post-Soviet space"

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carmen Eller: Court Report "Forbidden Art" Peepshow for Putin Wiktoria. In: SPIEGEL online / culture. March 5, 2013, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Kerstin Holm: Lomasko: Verbotene Kunst: Justitia in a rag dress. In: FAZ. April 2, 2013, accessed December 27, 2017 .
  3. ↑ perlentaucher.de: Author Wiktoria Lomasko.Retrieved on December 27, 2017
  4. ↑ risuemsud.ru: Виктория Ломаско (Russian) Retrieved December 26, 2017
  5. ↑ Forbidden Art at Perlentaucher.Retrieved December 27, 2017
  6. ↑ ub.rub.de: Viktoria Lomasko: Zeichen (n) en des Wandels Retrieved on December 27, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Lomasko, Viktoria Valentinovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lomasko, Viktorija Valentinovna; Ломаско, Виктория Валентиновна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian artist and curator
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Serpukhov , RSFSR