LITA (Life Is Torturing Awesome)
Currently based between Dresden and Berlin
Education
2018 Aalto University, School of Art and Design, Master of Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2012 St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design. Honors Master’s degree in graphic design, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009 Baltic University of Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communications. Honors diploma in graphic design, St. Petersburg, Russia
Additional education
2015 Lucy Lippard Feminist Workshop. Centre for Independent Social Research. St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 The Kitchen. Workshop project for female artists. Moscow, Russia
2014 Space of Photography. The State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO. St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Educational program Photography and Time Foto Departament. St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Saint-Petersburg Photofaculty of U.A. Galperyn. Photojournalist diploma. St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 Educational program Photography as a Research. Foto Departament. St. Petersburg, Russia
Solo shows
2019 B(lo)ody, Ex14, Dresden, Germany
2019 Entrance I$ Free Art I$ Not, Urban Shit, Dresden, Germany
2019 Coming Inside Out, Chashama, New York, USA
2019 Introspective in Perspective, Werkstadt, Berlin, Germany
Selected group shows
2019 Art for Humanism, Kunsthalle in Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany
2019 Fe*male Intervention, Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, Germany
2019 …Where the digital becomes physical, Galerie Salon Halit Art, Berlin, Germany
2018 Micro Magma, Unicorn Project Space, Berlin, Germany
2018 BABEL. University Center of Culture and Art of UEFS, Feira de Santana, Brazil
2018 DIN A4, Kunst-Quartier Gallery, BBK, Osnabrück, Germany
2018 Transnational Queer Underground: #5 Berlin, Germany
2018 The Palace Meets Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2018 Colourful Chaos, the Laundry Artspace, Brisbane, Australia
2018 Girls, uninterrupted, Creative Debuts Gallery, London, England
2017 Inarte Werkkunst Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2017 Blue Bleu Blau Blu Biennale, Wien, Austria
2017 Fu:bar, Zagreb, Croatia
2017 Metadatos Festival, Tuxtla, Mexico
2017 The Blind Curator. F.K. Kollectiv, Berlin, Germany
2017 RUNO KOE (2): Erotic Fictions, Third Space Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
2017 Glitch art is dead. Gamut Gallery, Minneapolis, USA
2017 Transnational Queer Underground: #1 Raamatupood Puänt, Tallinn, Estonia; #2 Sofia, Bulgaria
2017 What Doesn’t Let Us Rest. VOS #3, online gallery
2017 Puderpink. Puderraum gallery. Berlin, Germany
2016 Joulukalenteri. Jänis Gallery. Turku, Finland
2016 Intimacy. PH21 Gallery. Budapest, Hungary
2016 We live only once. St. Petersburg, Russia
2016 SOAK. Helsinki, Finland
2016 Antimuseum. Part II. Moscow, Russia
2016 More than She. Minsk, Belarus
2015 Public Interrogation: Outside the White Cube. Manila, Philippines
2015 Contemporary Dictionary. Moscow, Russia
2015 Moscow Art Communities. Moscow, Russia
2015 Ordinary Martyresses. Moscow, Russia
2015 Interpretation – The Museum: Within and Without. Hermitage and NY Parsons School of Design. St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 What About Love? Lucy Lippard Feminist Workshop. St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Photography Biennale. Vargas Gallery. Florida, USA
2014 50 SLOV / WORDS #5. Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Interpretation – Still Life & Man. Hermitage and NY Parsons School of Design. St. Petersburg, Russia
Residencies
2019 OUTSIDEININSIDEOUTINSIDEOUTOUTSIDEIN, Torhaus Wehlen, Wehlen, Germany
2016 Process Space Art Festival. Ruse, Bulgaria
Awards & participation
2020 Art fair Neue Art. Dresden, Germany
2019 Neustadt Art Festival. Kultur Aktiv gallery, B33. Dresden, Germany
2017 Graphic Matters poster competition. Finalist. Breda, Netherlands
2016 Public Experiment. MUDVibes course by Pia Lindman within the frame of the 32nd Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2016 Aalto Arts project grant
2016 Process Space Art Festival full-paid residency award. Ruse, Bulgaria
2015 Language of Memory. PhotoVisa. 1st prize. Krasnodar, Russia
2015 To be Queer. Prints Competition. 1st prize. Minsk, Belarus
2014 Moscow International Foto Awards. Honorable mention. Moscow, Russia
2013 International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts: SPb Art Week;
2nd prize in photography. St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Design biennale «Modulor». Art category. St. Petersburg, Russia
Interviews and publications
2018 Kolaj Magazine, interview,#24, print
2018 Artwort, interview, online
2018 Food and Nuclear War, Food&, #3, print
2017 The Graphic Matters poster competition selection, print
2017 Fresh Contemporary, online
2017 Skinned Knee Collective. Vol. III. Natural Instinct, online
2017 Average Art #10, UK, print
2017 Pleasure’s Journal #1, cover, LA, USA, print
2017 Mind’s Eye zine #3, UK, print
2017 Sassify Zine #3, UK, print
2017 Sea Foam Mag, interview, online
2017 Bonk! Magazine #2, Estonia, print
2017 MAKE8ELIEVE #10, online
2017 Power of Identity – Circumstances do not Define You. Art Narratives, interview, online
2017 Kulttuurivihkot #1, editorial illustrations, Finland, print
2017 Annual 2016 by Collage Collective CO, Australia, print
2017 Monday Submissions: Lita Poliakova Y Su Visión Fragmentada Del Mundo De La Moda. Lamono Magazine, online
2016 Chapter89, interview, online
2016 DeJonDe Magazine, interview, online
2016 Integrant: Collages by Lita Poliakova. Empty Mirror, online
2016 Zest Fest: Tempting Flesh In Landscapes. Creative Thresholds, online
2016 Ismology Magazine #2, online
2015 For Example, online
2015 Make8elieve #8, online
2015 Ripening Dolls. The Eye of Photography (L’Oeil de la Photographie), online
2015 Le blog du kitsch, online
2014 33 Photographers Reveal Their Definition of Intimacy (NSFW). Feature Shoot, online
2014 Natalya Reznik, Ksenia Belash. Photography and time. What remains. Urbanautica, online
2014 Creaturemag, online
2014 Antidepressivo, online
2014 Crossconnectmag, online