Vita Buivid – CV - Vita Buivid

Was born in Dnepropetrovsk (USSR, now Ukraine).

Worked with animation and painting. Graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk State University in 1988, moved to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg, Russia) in 1989. Graduated from the Dutch Art Institute and currently lives and works in Amsterdam (Netherlands).

Is engaged in contemporary art since the late 1980s, initially photography and photo-based art. In the early 1990s begins to add to her work watercolour, textiles, collage and oil.

Since 1990 taking part in numerous exhibitions in Russia and worldwide. In 1994, Vita received a Grant from the «Circ» Atelier in Amsterdam and worked on a project regarding the influence of Dutch art on Russian culture. In 1998 with the CEC Artslink and the Rutgers University grant, Buivid travelled to New York to work on a photo project. In 2000 got a grant from la Mairie de Paris and spent three months in Cité Internationale des Arts residence working on the project “Paris. Red” and produced a limited-edition artist book.

Shortlisted for Kandinsky Prize in 2009 and 2017, and Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award in 2012 and 2013.

Buivid is considered to be one of the forward-thinking feminists in Russian art. An especially memorable project has been a series of «How I Spent My Summer», nominated for a Kandinsky Prize in 2009. In this specific project, the artist appears in the role of Russian Martha Rosler, colliding the collage images of peaceful relaxation with a military invasion.

2021	Relatively (Not) Old. MP project, Amsterdam
2019	Cold Summer. Jump Art Centre, Poltava, Ukraine
2017	Fragments. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	Family portrait in an Interior. We-Fest, Urban culture centrum, Perm, Russia
2016	My Love Is Not a Wisp of Smoke. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2014	For Cosiness. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	Team. Erarta museum, St. Petersburg
2013	Peonymania. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	Mad Dogs. AL gallery, St. Petersburg
	Acts of a civil status. Karas gallery, Kiev
2012	Heat. Dnepropetrovsk State Art Museum, Ukraine
	Nevsky Ave. Special project of the 16th International art fair Art Moscow
	Past Painted. Museum-Residency “Art-Kommunalka Erofeev & others”, Kolomna, Russia
2011	Piccolo Amore. Karas gallery, Kiev
	Corporate Dream. DS gallery, St. Petersburg
	Workdays. Museum of the History of Photography, St. Petersburg
	If you willing to swim - swim. RuArts gallery, Moscow
2010	Love me as I love you. Karas gallery, Kiev
	Acts of a civil status. AL gallery, St. Petersburg
2009	Dream book. Karas gallery, Kiev
	Vita Aperte. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	Corporate Dream. Fine Art gallery, Moscow
2008	How did I spend my summer. ARTStrelka projects gallery, Moscow
	Methods for the ornament studies. DS gallery, St. Petersburg
2007	Photo-knitwear. “Fashion and style in Photography Biennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
	Piccolo Amore. Artistico gallery, Moscow

2006	Rapid eyes movement. Glaz gallery, Moscow
	Familia. Freud Museum, St. Petersburg
	Territory of love. Moscow Photo Biennale
	Paris.Red. Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
2005	The last call. Village life gallery, St. Petersburg
2003	Friday, the 13th. Fashion and style in Photography Biennale, Moscow
2002	Antifashion. White Space gallery, London
2001	8+3=10. James gallery, Moscow
	Empire in things. Moscow Art Center
1998	Rutgers University. USA
1997	Men in a bathtube. Gallery 21, St. Petersburg
	Love me as I love you. Werdermann Art gallery, Hamburg
1996	Vestals. New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
	Solo for contrabass. Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg
1995	Goethe Institut, Moscow
1994	De Moor photo center, Amsterdam
	Kunstsalon Dolberg, Berlin
	Photo Medium Art gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
	Megalomania. Contemporary Art Institute, St. Petersburg
1993	Ann Westin gallery, Stockholm
1991	Tallinn Art Museum, Estonia
	Narva Art museum, Estonia
1990	House of Scientists, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

2021	Chapter 4OUR: Abundance (part of the video programme). Het Hem, Zaandam
	Do You Think It Is A Commodity? Monthly Payment project, Amsterdam
	Sorry, We Are Closed. Monthly Payment project, Amsterdam
2020	History of the Development of Multimedia Art in Leningrad - St. Petersburg 1985-2000. Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Centre, St. Petersburg
2019	UPHA. Made in Ukraine. AKT Art Space, Kiev
	Night Seminar. 2^nd Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands
	Focal Length / Photo Chronicle of Pushkinskaya-10. Museum of Non-Conformist Art, St Petersburg
2018	Women at Work: Subverting the Feminine in Post-Soviet Russia. White Space Gallery, London
	Fructus Temporum.Hortus gallery, Moscow
	Quiet Vices. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Russia
2017	Personal Structures. European Cultural Centre, Palazzo Bembo, Venice
	Inner Manifest. GRAUND art centre, Moscow
	Too Much as Not Enough. Shtager gallery, London
	Quiet Voices. State Museum of the History of St Petersburg
	Scary Tale. GRAUND art centre, Moscow
2016	Sfumato. Arkaniya Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
	Co-author.Gogol’s House, Moscow /Urban culture centrum, Perm, Russia
2015	Way Out. Monthly Payment project, Amsterdam
	Influence: Contemporary Painting. ARTPLAY, Moscow
	WAR/SHE. Kharkov, Ukraine
2014	Ukrainian complex. Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
	Sub Rosa. State Darwin Museum, Moscow
	Ukrainian Landscape. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev
	Joseph Boys – my Boys. Museum of modern fine art. Rostov-on-Don, Russia
	Monthly Payment project’s group shows in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vilnius, etc.
	Famous people’s death. Fabrika Art Centre. Moscow
2013	Dinner invitation. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees, St. Petersburg
	ARCHSTOYANIE, Land art festival, Kaluzhskaya Oblast, Russia
	Beauty without glamour. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Monthly Payment project’s group shows in Moscow, Venice, Kiev etc.
	Beautiful. RuArts gallery, Moscow
2012	Der Klare Blick. Pop/off/art gallery, Berlin
	Cult of the body. Leisure gallery, London
	Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees, St. Petersburg
	Anonymous. Perm Museum of Modern Art, Russia
	Fotofest. Huston, USA
	Divergence. Form at Midland Atelier, Australia
	Noir. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	100 years of Pushkin Museum. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
2011	On Nothingness. The parallel program of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	Hydrotherapeutic procedures. L gallery, Moscow
	A4 / Ball pen. Karas gallery, Kiev
	Artist’s House. Special project of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. NCCA / Landscape park South Butovo, Moscow
	Chernihiv Photo Fest. Ukraine
	OBIM. The parallel program of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Open club gallery, Moscow
	INDEPENDENT: new art of the new country 1991-2011. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev
	Gates and Doors. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Space Odyssey 2011. Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kiev
	Mothers/Daughters. Era foundation, Moscow
	Duel. RuArts gallery, Moscow

2010	A4 / Ball pen. Karas gallery, Kiev
	October. White Space Gallery. London
	GogolFEST.VAP. Kiev
	ŽEN d’АRТ. The Gender History of Art in the Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
	In Memoriam. RuArts gallery, Moscow
	Machismo. Open gallery, Moscow

2009	Kandinsky Prize 2009 nominees' exhibition. Central Huse of Artist. Moscow
	A4 / Ball pen. Karas gallery. Kiev
2008	Era foundation, Moscow Photo Biennale
	Waterpower. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Mirror. Moscow Photo Biennale
2007	Photoquai. 1st World Visual Arts Biennial, Paris
	Adventures of the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Russian touch. MIMA Art district, Verona / Wawe gallery, Brescia
	Architecture: AD MARGINEM. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2006	Photo estafet: from Rodchenko to our days. Moscow House of Photography
2005	Photo Museum, Antwerp
	Interactive Reaction. The 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
	Home Exhibition Project: retrospective. The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg
2004	Catharine the 2nd. Bonn, Potsdam, St. Petersburg, Moscow
	Ship of fools. White Space gallery, London
	S&M institute project. Home exhibitions @ Netherland, Russia, Germaine, Belgium, Denmark, UK and USA
2003	Volga faces. N. Novgorod, Moscow, Paris
	Moscow: city, spectacle, capital of photography. Wallach Art gallery, Columbia University, New York
2002	Men in my life. St. Petersburg Historical Museum (curator)
2001	Moscow through the time: 1920-2000. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
	The four seasons, Oulo Taidemuseo. Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
2000	Manly. Art in General gallery, New York
	Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
1999	INTERFOTO. Moscow
	Without the wall. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	New collection. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Constant 2000. Contemporary Art Center of St. Petersburg State University
1998	A little bit about love. Profi gallery, Bratislava
	Head. M.Sandman Gallery. Hamburg / Berlin
1997	The fruits of education. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
	Photo-based art from St. Petersburg. Zalman gallery, New York
	New collectors – new collections. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa-Fe, USA
	16 Rippen. Schwules Museum, Berlin
1996	Paris Month of Photography
	Emerging Images. Contemporary Photography in Russia and Eurasia. Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, University of Texas, Austin, USA
	Russian photographers. Renewal and Metamorphosis. From the Soviet era to the 1990’s. MIT Museum, Boston / Fitchburg Art Museum, USA
	Short stories. Gottingen
	Metaphors of Renunciation. Topical art from St. Petersburg. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995	New photo art from Russia. Hanover, Berlin, Frankfurt, Herten
	Stereo – Tip. Ljubljana, Slovenia
1994	Photoreclamation. The Photographers gallery, London
	Ostwest. Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne
	The portrait of my mother. Edinburgh, London
	Self Identification. Kiel, Berlin, Sopot, Oslo, Copenhagen
1993	Photopostscriptum. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1992	Rutgers University. USA
	Drops from a fountain. Goteborg, Sweden
1991	Contemporary photography from the USSR. Photomanifesto. Baltimore, USA
	Photography from Perestroika. Long Island University, USA
1990	Self-consciousness of woman. Ethnographical museum, Leningrad

COLLECTIONS:

Moscow House of Photography
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
RuArts Foundation, Moscow
Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
The Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa-Fe, USA
The Forbes Collection. Navigator foundation, Boston, USA
Mőlndal commun collection, Sweden
Russkoee Polee collection 2x3 m, Berlin
New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas, Austin, USA
Private collections