Konstantinova Ludmila

Born in 1980 in Moscow.

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture and the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems.

Since 2010 she has been a member of the VGLAZ group, in which artists who emphasize the visual component of art have united on the principle of dialogue.

“In her work, Lyudmila Konstantinova has combined the traditions of Moscow conceptualism with the contemporary aesthetics of digital memes and social networking. In her works there are often quotes from art movements of the past, Suprematism, Pop Art, Conceptualism. Konstantinova always creates vivid and complex images with the help of a technique borrowed from postmodernism of combining the incongruous. Despite the principle of quoting and playing with reformatted ready-made images, Lyudmila Konstantinova's works always have an author's ironic tone. 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 are like shards of a mirror of reality in all its diversity: objective reality, virtual reality or reality as an object of perception."

Elvira Tarnogradskaya, curator

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

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2023 — The World of Ideas, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
2015 — “This is not abstraction”, Triangle Gallery, Moscow
2015 — “Intertext”, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg.
2015 — “Insight”. “Hypercube”, Skolkovo, Moscow
2014 — Liberation continued, Graz museum, Graz
2014 — “Metamorphosis of the Eye”, Pechersky gallery, Moscow
2013 — “Parts of the Whole”, Vinzavod, 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 Y. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
2010 — “Moscow in a Suitcase”. “Les Salaisons”, Romanville, France
2008 — “Fast Art 24”. Vinzavod, Moscow
2008 — “Invasion/Evasion”. Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow
2006 — “White People”. S'Art Gallery, Moscow
2005 — “Russian Pop Art”. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2004 — “Art-Klyazma”, Moscow region
2003 — Festival of Young Art “Stop! Who is coming?!”, Moscow
2001 — “Among Things”. Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, Moscow