b. 1996 — Ukhta, Russia
Lives and works in Bali, Indonesia
statement:
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.
Works with installation, performance, sculpture and video. She explores ways of perceiving the world as information, questions about intuition and transformations, reflections on speculative history, and the spectator’s visionary experience. Her work is a site-specific installation, in which artifacts of post-digital reality are combined with elements of a lost natural landscape, and Eastern spiritual practices with modern Western critical theory, reflecting the problems of our time. Tapping into the complexities of postcontemporary, Skidan raises questions around updated understandings of human and non human identity within today’s technogenic culture in the anthropocene.
education:
2013-2018 Saint-Petersburg university of Cinematography and TV
2014-2017 Rodchenko art school
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 The 15th Gwangju Bienalle, Gwangju, South Korea
2024 Fictional Landscape, Foundry, Dubai
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:
2020 Award «Digital dreams» by Cultural Creative Agency Qatar-Russia
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”