Julia Kissina
Schatten werfen Menschen, photography, Piezo-pigment-print, doll: 28,5 × 41,5 cm, centauros 19 × 26,5 cm, 2008–2009
Julia Kissina takes a piece of her Berlin world to Tirana: »The modern man, nomad or snail, takes his house with him. My Berlin Wall is no piece of art. It is only my kitchen wall from home which I transferred to Tirana to feel more at home here.« On this wall you find advertisements, notes, posters and some images from Julia Kissina’s photo series Shadows. The photographs have been taken on a sunny day, cause and effect have changed their places: shadows throw people. With a shortening caused by extreme perspective, people turn to minor matters while the shadows become main actors that develop a surprisingly independent existence.
Julia Kissina
Born in 1966 in Kiev, Ukraine. Lives and works in Berlin.
Education:
1983 Art High School, Kiev 1986 School of the
Moscowian Artists theatre 1990 Institute for film arts,
Moscow 1999 Academy of Arts, Munich
Selected solo exhibitions
2008 I can see what you can’t see, Bereznitsky Gallery,
Berlin ››› Unknown Masterpieces, k48, Vienna 2007 The
Phantom of the Arts (+Urosˇ Djuric´ ) Galerie 18m, Berlin
››› Workshop for serious art, Kasseler Kunstvereinsheim
(during documenta 12) ››› wild animals, Gallery Vera
Pogodina Moscow ››› Leonardo against Pollock, General
Public Berlin ››› Repin talking, Afischa, Moscow ›››
Malevitsch-conference, House of Art, Moscow 2006
Fluxus-conference, 18m Gallery Berlin; 2005 Pedigree
pur, Gallery Forward!, Berlin 2004 Toys, Osram House,
Munich ››› German authentic way to live and enjoy,
Zagreus Projekt 2003 Art and Crime, Hebbel Theatre,
Berlin 2002 Art-Frankfurt, (+ Michael Michlmayr),
Fotogallery Vienna 2001 Ornament and Crime, Gallery
Anita Beckers, Frankfurt; 2000 Protein, Grassimuseum,
Lipsia, Divine Hunting, Museum of Modern Art,
Frankfurt + numerous group exhibitions
Grants / Awards / Residencies
2009 Residency Künstlerdorf Schöppingen ››› Gisela
and Erwin von Steiner Foundation 2007 Künstlerhaus
Worpswede 2001 Residency DAAD, Zurich
2000 Jürgen Ponto Foundation 1998 Grant from the
city of Munich 1997 Prinzregent Luitpold Foundation
1995 Gisela and Erwin von Steiner Foundation
