Yulia Aelys Kompaniets

Yulia (born august 16, 1973, Russia) is an Italy-based photographer who lives and works in Como.

Her father is a professional photographer. That’s why since the birth she grown up surrounded by cameras, lenses, photo enlargers, day by day she absorbed this atmosphere observing how images were appearing in the dark room with hardly red light in the thickness of specific smelling solutions. She got a Masters degree in Ecology and sustainability and began her career in photography at the age of 30 but art has become an obsession and her life since that time.

Living in Moscow, she collaborated with other artists and performance groups. As a result of one of such her collaborations with “LOFT IN THE RED ZONE” project and New York-based performance group “AIR HIT AGENCY”, in 2012 Yulia started her years-long project “EMOTIONS. REFLECTION. INSIDE.” She took some pictures then but modified them later after years already living in Milan by mixing with layers of rusty iron. This project is a series of the abstract style works, the allegory that represents the destructive changes we undergo living in a world of fears. Along with the ambiguity of the subject's gender, the sexless person, it could be either a man or a woman.

In 2015 Yulia...

1993-2000 - Peoples' Friendship University of Russia - Ecology, sustainability, audit - Moscow, Russia

2003 - Bauman Moscow State Technical University - Graphic Image Processing in Abobe Photoshop, Corel Draw, QuarkXPress - Moscow, Russia

2004 - VGIK Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography - Film direction - unfinished - Moscow, Russia

2004 - Moscow Photo Academy - Photography - Moscow, Russia

2005-2006 - Pavel Smirnoff Photo school - Analogical and digital photography - Moscow, Russia

2013-2015 - Istituto Marangoni Fashion School - Fashion design - Milan, Italy

2022 - Ok School Academy - Social digital marketing - Brescia, Italy

June 2015 - Gallery Pisacane Arte - Milan, Italy - photo festival 2015 - photo series "Emotions. Reflection. Inside" - personal exhibition

Novembre 2015 - art fair ARTE PADOVA - C.A.T.S. - Padua, Italy - photo series “Il tempo”

Aprile - June 2019 - Pa.Nova Gallery - Milan, Italy - collective exhibition “Nature morte” - photo artwork “The scream breaking the silence” from series “Inside”