Konstantinova Ludmila

Born in 1980 in Moscow.

Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute and the Institute for Problems in Contemporary Art.

Since 2010 she has been a member of the VGLAZ group, which unites artists who focus on the visual component of art based on the principle of dialogue.

Lyudmila Konstantinova combines traditions of Moscow conceptualism with contemporary aesthetics of digital memes and social networking in her works. Her works often contain quotations from art movements of the past, Suprematism, Pop Art, Conceptualism. Konstantinova always creates bright and complex images with the help of the technique of combining incongruity, borrowed from postmodernism. Despite the principle of quoting and playing with reformatted ready-made images, in the works of Lyudmila Konstantinova there is always the author's ironic intonation. Often some of her paintings are perceived as abstract, in fact they depict different textures or fragmented objects of reality. Konstantinova's main theme is the loss of balance between the real and its representation. Her paintings as fragments mirror reality in all its diversity: objective reality, virtual or reality as an object of perception.

"In her work, Konstantinova refers to a variety of artistic currents, from Suprematism to Conceptualism, and to multiple episodes of art history, including the legacy of the totalitarian Soviet past and the new wave of the 1980s. The author uses his omens as a vehicle for ironic inference, encoded in associations. Konstantinova makes a reference to the phenomenological reduction in the series, where deliberately innocent images illustrate the slang words written in alphabetical type. For example, a cow is inscribed "heifer," a snow-white airplane means "flying," and an elderly woman seated on a bench is signed by the artist as "grandmother. It's all a peculiar attempt to relate the signifier to the signified and to make sense of that chasm that separates our consciousness from existing things." MMOMA, curator Elvira Tarnogradskaya

Lyudmila Konstantinova's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Saatchi Gallery (London), the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg) and in private collections.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2015 - "It's Not Abstraction. Triangle Gallery. Moscow.
2015 - "Intertext", Erarta Museum. St. Petersburg;
2015 - "Illumination". "Hypercube, Skolkovo, Moscow;
2014 - Liberation continued. Graz museum, Graz;
2014 - "Metamorphosis of VGLAS". Pechersky gallery, Moscow;
2013 - "Parts of the Whole". Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow;
2012 - Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union. Saatchi Gallery. London
2011 - "Running". Arthouse Squat Forum. Moscow;
2011 - "Russian Landscape. M. and Yu. Gelman Gallery, Moscow;
2010 - "Moscow in a Suitcase. "Les Salaisons, Romainville, France;
2008 - "Fast Art 24". Vinzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow;
2008 - "Invasion/Evasion. Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow;
2006 - "White Men". S'Art Gallery, Moscow;
2005 - "Russian Pop Art". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
2004 - "Art-Klyazma", Moscow Region;
2003 - Festival of Young Art "Stop! Who's Coming!", Moscow;
2001 - "Among Things. Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, Moscow.