Kovalevskaya Lilia

She is a student of the Institute of Modern Art I. Bakstein. She graduated from the Repin Academy of Arts (muralist). In her artistic practice she explores issues of cultural memory, focusing on themes of personal and collective identity, which are transformed and adapted under the influence of the contemporary world.

EDUCATION:

2014 - 2020 — St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts, faculty of monumental painting
2014 - 2009 — University of Design and Fine Arts, Faculty of Ceramic Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2024 — a—s—t—r—a open call vol.6, Moscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, curated by Svetlana Taylor
2024 — Catalog, Moscow
2024 — Mora Museum of Modern Art, New Jersey
2024 — Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art “Generating the Art of the Future”
2024 — “Youth of St. Petersburg” St. Petersburg Union of Artists
2024 — TAVRIDA, “Art.Molodost” Fair, Sudak
2024 — Gostiny Dvor “Art Russia fair 2024”, Moscow
2023 — Tretyakov Gallery “Time Forward”, Moscow
2023 — Gostiny Dvor “Art Russia fair 2023”, Moscow
2023 — Artseeker “Just summer on my mind”, Miami
2023 — CSI Creador “And I, like Frida”, Moscow
2021 — Sevkabel Port “Exhibition of contemporary art”, St. Petersburg

“I explore themes, ideas and feelings that are fundamental to human consciousness but are undergoing changes in the new reality. The modern world is rapidly changing under the influence of digital technology, affecting each individual's personality and society as a whole. My art aims to explore how our consciousness is transformed in the face of high speeds and the uninterrupted flow of information. I reimagine the age of new technologies by working with digital artifacts and computer graphics aesthetics. My theoretical framework is metamodernism. I focus on exploring human adaptation to new conditions of existence and how traditional art forms can be actualized in the context of the digital age. In my practice, I strive to create a dialog between past and present, exploring how historical memory can coexist with contemporary experience. My art serves as a support for the formation of a new culture and for understanding and internalizing our new reality. I believe in the power of art to transform an elusive modernity into a new classic. As an artist, I explore the process of its formation by analyzing how human perception changes in the face of constant reassembly of information.”

Lilia Kovalevskaya