Lomasko, Victoria Valentinovna

She graduated from the Moscow State University of Press ( 2003 ) with a degree in book artist.

C 2008 Lomasko develops the genre of "graphic reporting" that existed in pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia, but disappeared after the collapse of the USSR. It is based on the traditions of the Russian reportage pattern (blockade, concentration camp, military albums). Author of lectures and articles on reportage graphics ^[1] . As an artist, an activist collaborates with the media and human rights organizations. In addition, she teaches drawing to adolescents in juvenile colonies ^[2] .

In 2011-2012 she led the " Chronicle of Resistance " as a correspondent artist. By 2015, the project was transformed into the Chronicle of a Muddy Time.

Since 2012, Victoria Lomasko, in collaboration with the art historian Nadya Plungyan, has organized a series of exhibitions “ Feminist Pencil ”.

In 2013, the artist gets experience in the jury of the side-by-side film festival, after which she is interested in LGBT issues . As a result, a hand-drawn report about the guests and detractors of the festival itself and the 18+ graphic series (about lesbian clubs and lesbian families) appear.

Included in the top ten most authoritative cultural figures in 2013 according to the "Russian Reporter" ^[3] . In recent years, more often exhibited abroad than in Russia.

The best-known works are the book — the court report “Forbidden Art” (with A. Nikolayev ), a series of reports from opposition rallies “The Chronicle of Resistance” ^[4] , posters in defense of Pussy Riot and the report “Slaves from the Moscow“ Products ”store.

As the curators of one of the exhibitions Lomasko N. Goncharova and A. Litvin ,

The Lomasco phenomenon is in its unusual intermediate position between the world of activist contemporary art, the culture of social comics and the seriously accepted tradition of modernist graphics. The artist is interested in current events of the day: social, political processes, chamber stories of the “little man”, old age, mental hospitals and other topics actively driven out of public consciousness ^[5] .

According to the critic Igor Gulin, “The Chronicle of Resistance“ by Victoria Lomasko is the most successful attempt to date not only to comprehend the protest movement, but also to write it into history ” ^[6] .

• 2015 - “Post-Soviet Cassandra” (in the group of curators) . Gallery in Körner Park , Berlin ^[7] .
• 2014 - “The heroine of our time” (jointly with N. Plungyan) . Gallery 69, Oslo.
• 2014 - “Drawing court-2” (jointly with Z. Ponirovskaya) . Memorial Society, Moscow ^{[8] [9]} .
• 2014 - “Feminist pencil-2” (jointly with N. Plungyan) . Gallery "Borey", St. Petersburg.
• 2013 - “Feminist pencil-2” (jointly with N. Plungyan) . “Artplay”, Moscow ^[10] .
• 2013 - “Drawing court-2” (jointly with Z. Ponirovskaya) . Kirov .
• 2012 - “ Feminist pencil ” (jointly with N. Plungyan) . Fabrika Hostel & Gallery ^[11] , Moscow.
• 2012 - “Resistance Forever” (joint with A. Voronkova) . Cultural Center of the Workers' Party , Buenos Aires.
• 2011 - “Freedom of choice” (jointly with T. Volkova and A. Voronkova) , Project Fabrica, Moscow ^[12] .
• 2004 - “Act of Mercy” (jointly with A. Buldakov ) . ArtStrelka , Moscow.
• 2004 - “Act of Mercy” (jointly with A. Buldakov) . Gallery "France", Moscow ^[13] .
• 2004 - “Without glamor” (jointly with P. Mikitenko) . Zverev Center , Moscow ^[14] .

• 2017 - “Other Russias: Angry”. Ellis Gallery, Carnegie Mellon School of Art , Pittsburgh.
• 2017 - “Unwanted Women”. Projects Ortega y Gasset, New York ^[15] .
• 2016 - “Bishkek - Yerevan - Dagestan - Tbilisi. Feminist Journey ”, Goethe Institute, Tbilisi.
• 2015 - “In the area. Moscow - Bishkek - Yerevan. AJZ space, Yerevan .
• 2015 - "HIV: unequal." Gallery "Borey", Petersburg ^[16] .
• 2014 - “Included observation” (jointly with K. Mamonov ). University of Birmingham , Birmingham .
• 2014 - “„ Side-by-side “: homosexuals and homophobes”. Project Fabrika, Moscow.
• 2013 - “Formal Relations” (joint with K. Mamonov). Gallery of the International University , Moscow ^[17] .
• 2012 - "Forbidden Art". New Gallery, Erlangen ^{[18] [19]} .
• 2012 - Street exhibitions "May Holidays" and "Everyday OccupyAbay." Occupy , Chistoprudny Boulevard , Moscow.
• 2012 - “Tagansky Justice” (jointly with A. Nikolaev ). Hans Knoll Gallery, Vienna.
• 2011 - "Forbidden Art" (joint with A. Nikolaev). Gallery "Art re.FLEX", Petersburg.

• Lomasko V., Nikolaev A. Province. - SPb. : Bumkniga, 2010.
• Lomasko V., Nikolaev A. Forbidden Art. - SPb. : Bumkniga, 2011. - 156 p. - ISBN 978-5-9902108-7-5 .
• Lomasko W., Nikolajew A. Verbotene Kunst = Forbidden Art. - Berlin: Matthes & Seitz Berlin, 2013. - 171 p. - ISBN 978-3-88221-984-5 .
• Lomasko V., Nikolaïev A. L'Art Interdit = Forbidden Art. - Paris: The Hoochie Coochie, 2014. - 160 p. - ISBN 978-2-9160-4944-1 .
• Lomasko V. Other Russias. - n + 1, 2016. - ISBN 978-0-9970318-4-3 .

The works of the artist appeared on the covers of publications:

• 2009 - NPH number 4
• 2012 - Dschungel number 7
• 2012 - Will number 3 (35)
• 2012 - Will number 4 (36)
• 2012 - Will number 5 (37)
• 2012 - art
• 2012 - Will number 8 (40)

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  Series “Weekday OccupyAbaya” (2012) on OccupyAbay . Chistoprudny Boulevard, Moscow, May 14, 2012

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  Series "May Holidays" (2012) and "Everyday OccupyAbaya" (2012) on OccupyAbay , May 14, 2012

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  From the “Chronicle of Resistance” series, a type of exposure

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  From the series “Black portraits” (2010–2013), were demonstrated at the exhibition “Formal Relations”

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  From the series “Black portraits” (2010–2013), were demonstrated at the exhibition “Formal Relations”

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  From the series "Women" (2012-2013), were shown on the first "Feminist pencil" and the exhibition "Formal Relations"

• Page on ArtGuide website
• Artist's blog
• Works in the project "Draw a court"
• Graphic series "Girls"
• Jeanne Krömer, “Sexism rolls over” : Interview // Journal “I”. - 2013. - № 1 (32).
• Victoria Lomasko: “Images already exist, but I only need to show them” : Interview // Deutsche Welle , 21.02.2013.
• Talk show “Freedom in Clubs”, the theme of the show is the graphic exhibition “Drawing the Court-2”
• Victoria Lomasko in the Artists' Private Collections project
• Selection of interviews