Fondazione Brescia Musei announces first Italian solo exhibition of Victoria Lomasko, Russian dissident artist

From November 11, 2022 to January 8, 2023, the Municipality of Brescia, Fondazione Brescia Musei and the Festival of Peace are hosting at the Museum of Santa Giulia venue the first solo exhibition in Italy of Russiandissident artist Victoria Lomasko, entitled The Last Soviet Artist, curated by Elettra Stramboulis.

Presented as part of the Brescia Peace Festival, the exhibition constitutes the third act of the research undertaken by Fondazione Brescia Musei under the curatorship of Elettra Stamboulis in 2019 with Zehra DoÄŸan’s exhibition, We Will Also Have Better Days. Works from Turkish Prisons, and continued with Badiucao’s in 2021, China is Not Near. Works by a Dissident Artist.

The exhibition project aims to present an itinerary designed specifically for the spaces of the museum venue. The artist will spend a period in residence in Brescia to create site-specific works, dedicated to what he has been experiencing and observing in recent months. Lomasko’s artistic research allows for a detailed reconstruction of Russia’s social and political history from 2011 to the present: from the anti-Putin demonstrations that the artist has drawn live to representations of “deep Russia,” that of the forgotten and marginal, which have always been her favorite subjects.

Victoria Lomasko was born in Serpukhov, 99 kilometers south of Moscow, in 1978. Her father, a metalworker in this town entirely devoted to industrial production, acted as an artist provocateur in secret. Graduating from Moscow State University in Graphic Arts in 2003, Lomasko immediately embarked on an art that combines observation and action, documentary drawing and performance, activism and personal engagement understood as the artist’s body that does not escape being part of a group. Since March 2022 she has lived in Europe.

Regarded by critics and the Anglo-Saxon press as Russia’s foremost graphic social artist, Lomasko is essentially still unknown to the Italian public, although her books have long been translated into English, German, French, and Spanish. The other Russia won the Pushkin House Book Prize in 2018, although the book has never been published in Russia. A documentary, The Last Soviet Artist directed by musician and composer Geraint Rhys, was made about her. Her works have been exhibited at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, which acquired part of the archive, in Basel, London and now at Documenta in Kassel.

For info: bresciamusei.com.

Fondazione Brescia Musei announces first Italian solo exhibition of Victoria Lomasko, Russian dissident artist

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