Kholkina Lena

Artist, choreographer, independent publisher. She works with photography, video, objects, dance and book format. The themes that the artist raises to date are non-existent worlds, reinvention of things, escape from the everyday, dreams.

EDUCATION:

2013-2015 — IPSI/Iosif Bakstein “New Strategies in Contemporary Art”
2013-2014 — Photography Department “Photography Postgraduate”
2000-2005 — MSLU, linguistics

“I'm interested in the artist's book:
- as a physical object
- “as a tool for living, for immersion.
- “as a way of communication.
- “as a scenario for the future.
- as an opportunity to slow down
- as a bridge to connect people, to see new things or to see in a new way; to immerse oneself in the reality created by the author through the combination of paper, format, binding, cover, paper, font, text, type of printing, and so on.”

Lena Kholkina, artist

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:

2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, галерея a—s—t—r—a, Central Exhibition Center Winzavod, Moscow
2024 — “Worlds that apparently did not exist” - Graund Solyanka, curated by Anna Zaitseva, Moscow
2024 — “We Dreamt of Tomorrow” - Open Studios of Winzavod, curated by Anna Zaitseva, Moscow.
2023 — Photobook: History, Document, Object - Pennlab gallery, Moscow
2023 — Rogue Dancer film festival, USA
2022 — Blois Dance film festival, France
2021 — Leitrim Dance Festival, Ireland
2021-2019 — Open Vision Film Fest Msk, Heart of Europe International Film Festival, Inheritance Film Festival Northern Ireland, High Tatras Film Festival, Slovakia
2018 — “Super Cover”, Krasnodar
2018 — “Familienarchiv”, Theater am Steg, 25KADR gallery, Baden
2018 - MOPLA Photobook Exhibition at 10th Month of Photography, Los Angeles
2017 — “Private Relapse”, GTSI Moscow
2017 — “Big events through private stories” Photo Parade, Uglich
2017 — Voies Off Awards - evening screenings, Arles
2017 — “New U-Turn”, Lumiere Brothers Gallery Moscow
2016 — “Intervention” - ArtKorobka, Riviera Shopping Center Moscow
2016 — “Special Edition: photo books in Russia” - Metenkov House, Yekaterinburg
2016 — Reminders Photography Stronghold gallery, Tokyo
2016 — “On the shelf”, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago
2016 — “Unbound5!” - Candela Gallery, USA
2015 — “While eating” - CSI Fabrika Moscow
2015 — 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Main Program/VDNKh.
2015 — 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special Program/Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa, Moscow
2015 — “Expanding Space: Art Practices in Urban Environment ”V-A-C Foundation, Moscow.
2015 — The Photobook as an Art Object - Delhi Photofestival, India
2015 — Military Museum, MMSI

SHORTLISTS AND BOOK CONTEST WINS:

2017 — Moscow Photobookfest ("The girl in front of the lake" artist book)
2014 — Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam - photobook Doorways in the shortlist
2013 — Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam - book dummy shortlisted
2013 — Paris Photo 2013 - photobook Did we ever meet? won the "Rock your dummy!" contest

CURATING AND TEACHING:

Dokdokdok School — permanent teacher of the block on creation of project photo books
Universal University/ MARSH — lecturer on creating a portfolio in book format
Photoplay — teacher of lectures on contemporary photography and a course on photobook.
2023 - 2024 HPP-2 Workshops on book creation in the workshop of Ksenia Plotnikova
2023 — Workshop on creating portfolios in book format MARSH (course at Daria Zaitseva's preparatory department)
2023 — Workshop on creating a group zine with teenagers, Lipetsk (Young Photography)
2023 — Workshop on creation of author's books, Samara/School of Project Photography
2022 — Workshop on creating zines, Norilsk/Creative Industries Agency
2017 — “ZIL ZIN” - group workshop, KC ZIL Moscow
2017 — “Artists rule the world” - group workshop, Uglich
2017 — Portfolio Revier, Photo Parade in Uglich
2017 — “Renovation in Moscow” - curator of workshop, Lumiere Brothers Gallery