Victoria Lomasko at Kunsthaus Göttingen

Victoria Lomasko (born 1978, USSR) is known for her graphic reportage, through which she has been exploring and documenting social and societal life in Russia for almost 15 years. Her artistic practice oscillates between fine art, journalism, and activism. With her reportage, Victoria Lomasko paints a compelling, multifaceted portrait of Russian society and recounts the profound transformations of the recent past and present.

The Kunsthaus Göttingen presented the first comprehensive, institutional solo exhibition of the artist's work in Germany. The show comprised a selection of original drawings created between 2009 and 2022, which were initially published in book form in Germany and many other countries: excerpts from "Forbidden Art" (2013), "The Invisible and the Angry" (2018), and the book "The Last Soviet Artist," published this year. Also on display at the Kunsthaus were previously unexhibited drawings from the as-yet-unpublished book "documenta fifteen: Inside and Around" (to be published in 2024). In this work, Lomasko documents the events at documenta fifteen, to which she was invited as a "harvester" in the summer of 2022, along with other international artists. Lomasko also created an exclusive work for the Kunsthaus: the striking new, site-specific, and immersive wall drawing "The Second Life," which existed only for the duration of the exhibition.