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Liza Neklessa (b.1989) is an artist and poet from Moscow, Russia. She has participated in artistic and literary projects in Russia, Great Britain, Germany, France, Estonia, Kazakhstan, etc. She was a 2024 Museum Quarter Vienna Artist-in Residence. Her last solo exhibition «Igor» took place in 2023 at Center for Creative industries FABRIKA (Moscow). She has published three collections of poems in Russian, each accompanied by her own illustrations: «A Sieve Filled with Berries», «Phenomenology of Death: Some Notes» and «1917». «A Sieve Filled with Berries» was also published in Russian and English by Calque Press (London) in 2023. The book Phenomenology of Death: A Few Notes was included in the list of the most important poetry books of 2018-19 by the editors of Feminist writing (Moscow). The poetry collection A Sieve Filled with Berries was included in the top 10 most important poetry books of 2022 by the literary critic Lev Oborin. Since 2019, she has been included annually in the Russian Investment Art Rating I LIKE, which represents contemporary artists under the age of 37.

Liza is interested in folklore, personal mythology, nature, feminist discourse and the connection between visual art and contemporary poetry, leading to the creation of new multimedia works. In some projects she also works with traditional imagery, incorporating it into new contexts and appropriating it into a new discourse.

Graduate:

2013 - The Maxim Gorky Literature Institute, Moscow, Diploma in Creative Writing
2007 - Moscow Academic Art Lyceum of the Russian Academy of Arts

Solo exhibitions:

2024 - Mixed forest, Lesnoe Art Residency, Moscow Region
2023 - Igor, Bomba gallery, Center for Creative industries FABRIKA, Moscow
2021 - Metamorphoses, This is not here Gallery, Moscow
2014 - Light Optics, Russian State Literary Museum, Moscow

Selected exhibitions:

2024 - Fanzineist Vienna: Mail art Book & Zine Exhibition, Semperdepot, Vienna, Austria
2024 – Open studios, Museum Quarter, Vienna, Austria
2024 - Exploding cinema, The cinema museum, London, UK
2024 - 1st GRAUND Biennale. Textiles in contemporary art. Participation with A-s-t-r-a gallery. GRAUND Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
2023 -A Cup of Consonances. Approaching Rozanova, House of Culture GES-2, Moscow
2023 -Open. Vol 3. A-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
2023 -Almaty Underground Screening Series, House 36, Almaty, Kazakhastan
2023 - Anthology of Khton, Center for Contemporary Art Terminal, Nizhny Novgorod
2022 - Gifts for friends, Center for Creative industries FABRIKA, Moscow
2022 - Festival of Contemporary Poetry, Soundart and Video Art "Poetronica-2022: Metaphysics of Language and Objects", cultural center DOM, Moscow
2022 - Myths, Izmailovo Gallery, Moscow
2022 - Anthology of Russian Khton, Zverev center of contemporary art, Moscow
2022 - TKANINA, "Own" space, Nizhny Novgorod
2022 - Festival of independent printed culture "Koreshki", Novosibirsk
2021 - Video club of Bomba gallery, Center for Creative industries FABRIKA, Moscow
2021 -GROUND zine fest, gallery on Solyanka, Moscow
2021 - DEFICIT, International Art Book Festival, Flakon Design Factory, Moscow
2021 - Invisible women, Fund for cultural projects "Thursday", Moscow
2021 - Eve's Ribs, Feminist Art Festival, Meyrhold Center, Moscow
2020 – Photobook and zine: Draft, Souz Pechat, WINZAVOD contemporary art center
2020 – Exhibition in support of Yulia Tsvetkova, Kulturfabrik Moabit, Berlin
2020 - The hopscotch, Open Studios, WINZAVOD contemporary art center
2020 - This world wasn't invented by us: the female word and gender agenda, WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2019 - 1st Feminnale of contemporary art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2019 - The Microbiennale of Horizontal Initiatives, Moscow
2019 - Infographics, CUBE.MOSCOW, The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow
2019 - Commercial exhibition in support of the uncommercial, CUBE.MOSCOW, The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow
2019 - ArtFemFest "-KA", WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2019 - WINZAVOD Open (parallel program), WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2019 - Draw this! A case of art therapy for seven artists, Center for Creative industries FABRIKA, Moscow
2019 - SubCONSCIOUS, Zverev center of contemporary art, Moscow
2019 - POETRONIKA contemporary poetry, sound and video-art international festival, ROSIZO-NCCA, The State Contemporary Art Center
2019 - DEFICIT international art book festival, desigh factory FLACON, Moscow
2019 - Normal daughter, CCI Fabrika (as part of the Fabrika's Workshops program), Moscow
2019 - Female worker 2.0, Peresvetov pereulok art gallery of Moscow City Galleries Network (supported by the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation)
2019 - Fem rhizome, Mitino Gallery, Moscow
2019 - Non-Existence, Zverev center of contemporary art, Moscow
2016 - Fish Day, Rosa Azora Gallery, Moscow
2016 - Sine finibus (Without Borders), I-Gallery, Paris

Residences:

2024 - Lesnoe Art Residency, Moscow Region
2024 –Museum Quarter Vienna Artist-in-Residence, Vienna, Austria
2020 –Open Studios WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow, Russia

Markets and fairs:

2024 - GRAUND zine fest, Na Solyankegallery, Moscow
2023 –Blazar young contemporary art fair, The Museum of Moscow
2023 –Striped Saturn, Albus Corvuspublishing house, Moscow
2023 –Spring Art Market«Lampa», Artplay, Moscow
2021 -New Year's Market of Mors Festival, On Peschanaya, gallery,
2021 -BOOKS AROUND THE CORNER 3, art book market, Rovesnik,Moscow
2021 - GRAUND zine fest, Na Solyankegallery, Moscow
2021 –DEFICIT, international art book fair, design factory Flakon, Moscow
2019 -Ninth print market “Vkusbumagi", WinzavodContemporary Art Center, Moscow
2019-DEFICIT, international art book fair, design factory Flakon,

Books:

A sieve filled with berries. Collections of poems with author's illustrations. Calque Press, London, UK. 2023.Presented at the British Library.
1917. Collections of poems with author's illustrations. Created and produced by order of the House of Culture «Ges-2», Moscow. 2023.
Revolve:R. Edition four. London, UK.
Best before date. Collection of ecological prose about man and the planet, M. 2022.
Contemporary feminist poetry. Anthology. No Kidding Press. 2021
Sieve with berries. Collection of poems with author's illustrations. 2021.
Fairy Tales. Artistic and poetic zine with Vladimir Korkunov. Moscow, 2021. Presented in the library of the House of Cultures ‘GES-2’.
CORONAART. Ludvig Rage, Berlin. 2020.
Artistic and poetic zine "Female voice", 2019.
Zine «Women Disability Feminism». 2019
Modern russian free verse. Anthology. 2019
Catalog of the exhibition "Normal daughter", CCI Fabrika, 2019.
Catalog of the exhibition "Draw it! A case of art therapy for seven artisrts", CCI Fabrika, 2019.
Catalog of the exhibition "Piramid of contemporary art", CCI Fabrika, 2019.
The book «Phenomenology of Death, Notes», St. Petersburg, 2018. Presented in the Educational Center of the GARAGE museum of contemporary art.
Artistic and poetic zine "Female voice", 2018. Presented in the Educational Ceenter of the GARAGE museum of contemporary art.
Exhibition catalog Sine finibus (Without Borders), I-Gallery, Paris.
Exhibition catalog Per aspera ad astra, Moscow 2016,2017, 2018.

Organized events:

2020 - Great night of feminist poetry, WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2020 - This world wasn't invented by us: the female word and gender agenda, WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2015 - Diary as a journey to oneself (exhibition of diaries by St. Petersburg artists, literary readings, online programme) as part of the Biblionoch festival, V.G. Belinsky Library, Moscow
2014 - Festival of contemporary poetry and short prose "Look above" (Yaroslavl)

Selected speeches and lectures:

2024 - Presentation of the book «A sieve filled with Berries", Gamayun bookshop, Vienna, Austria
2023 –Ivan the Wolf and the Gray Tsarevich. Presentation of video poetry, gallery "Bomba", Center for Creative industries Fabrika, Moscow
2023 -An evening of mushroom poetry by Liza Neklessa, gallery "Bomba", Center for Creative industries Fabrika, Moscow
2023 - Author's poetry evening,Center for Contemporary Art Terminal, Nizhny Novgorod
2022 - Author's poetry evening, Zverev center of contemporary art, Moscow
2022 - Author's poetry evening, art cafe "Bufet", Nizhny Novgorod
2022 - Poetry evening, Winzavod workshops, Moscow
2022 - Eco-event in support of the release of the book "Expiration date", Blagosfera, Moscow
2022 - Author's poetry evening, Spacemodel gallery, Moscow
2021 - Joint poetry evening with Vladimir Korkunov from the "Poles" cycle, State Literary Museum, Moscow
2021 - Women's Writing Festival "Author's Tears", Basmanny Dvor, Moscow
2021 - Feminist Writing Festival (international online event)
2021 - Women's Poetry: Space and Time (as part of the Biblionnale "Oriental Vector: Women's Literature of Asian Countries")
2020 - Lecture "Women's writing", WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2019 - Lecture "Womanhouse and home space", Open Studios, WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2019 - Lecture "Feminist art and woman's writing" for the Svalka project, House of Cultures, Moscow
2019 - Poetry readings in support of the Khachaturian sisters, Avangarden 2.0
2019 - Lecture "How to make Feminist Literature" for the FEM TALKS project, Library of Foreign Literature, Moscow
2019 - Public talk of the artist Maria Ivanova and the creators of the feminist project "Female voice", WINZAVOD contemporary art center, Moscow
2019 - Presentation of the book "Phenomenology of Death", Zverev center of contemporary art, Moscow
2019 - Presentation of the book "Phenomenology of Death", State Literary museum
2018 - Presentation of the "Female voice" zine, "Poryadok slov" of the Pereletnyi kabak bar-gallery, Moscow
2015 - International poetry festival "Lubok k Rodine", Ryazan
2015 - Landscape poetry festival "Pushkin laboratories" Pushkin-Pavlovsk
2015 - IX poetry festival "M-8", Vologda
2014 - 16th International non/fiction intellectual literature fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow, participant of the literary programm "Contemporary authors in the halls of the State literary museum"
2013 - Yound poetry week, Moscow
2013 - Contemporary poetry festival "Strelka", Nizhny Novgorod
2013 - Interregional festival of contemporary poetry "GolosA", Cheboksary

Сontacts

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