Sofya Skidan was born in 1996 in Ukhta, Russia. She graduated
from the Saint-Petersburg State University of Film and Television and
Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. She is
also a professional yoga instructor, which is reflected in her choice of
materials, techniques, and subject matter. Since 2022 lives and works
in Bali, Indonesia.
solo exhibitions:
2023 Conjuring up stolen/trapped memories, Voskhod gallery, Basel
2021 Within this vast zone of the impalpable, Alisa gallery, Moscow
2018 Transverse hyperspace, Fragment gallery, Moscow
2016 Dynamic pieces, Rodchenko art school, Moscow
selected group exhibitions:
2024 Write Your Name, Alisa art gallery, Dubai
2023 The Body of Work, Parq Art Space, Bali, Indonesia
2023 Ioginality, Dubai
2022 X-Nowness, Basel Art Center, Basel
2021 Le cru et le cui, Ethnographic Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
2021 Cosmoscow, Moscow
2021 Archstoynie, Nicola-Lenivetz
2021 Museum of artificial history, Darwin museum, Moscow
2021 Future cities, Public art festival, Moscow, S-Petersburg, Krasnodar, N.Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Ekaterinburg
2021 Porto design bienalle, Porto
2021 Training Fantasy, Typography, Krasnodar
2021 V-A-C.sreda, online
2020 20:20 time stopped, Moscow Museum of Contemporary art
2020 15 minutes break, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art Moscow
2020 Garage.digital, online
2019 Game club. The Coming World: Ecology as the New Politics 2030–2100, Garage museum of contemporary art, Moscow
2019 Presence, Sevkabel, Saint-Petersburg
2019 Animal internet, Khodynka gallery, Moscow
2018 Going Unconscious / Trembling / With eyes open / I see you / Surrender, HSE art gallery, Moscow
2018 Boa constrictor eating an elephant, 25 kadr gallery, Moscow biennale
2017 Unseen photo-book festival, Amsterdam
2017 8 level, Winzavod, Moscow
2017 Inside of the Art, the Pushkin museum and Tsvetnoy, Moscow
2016 About Rodchenko School. 10 Years, Multimedia art museum, Moscow
2016 Vienna photo-book festival, Vienna
awards:
2019/2020 Scholarship within the program of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art in support of emerging artists
2019 Space design and video-art for play «Locker room talk», winner of Black Box residency in the Meyerhold center
2018 Nomination for the Kuryokhin prize, Best Visual Art Project, project “Transverse hyperspace”