Leni Smoragdova

Leni Smoragdova is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice engages transaction as an artistic medium. Leni is the founder of the Transaction Art Universe.

Her practice looks closely at what our systems capture—and, more significantly, at what escapes them: glitches, failures, losses, distortions, and disappearances.

Part of her practice is developed under the collective name {Transaction}, often in collaboration with anonymous participants. Authorship is intentionally left open and cannot always be clearly attributed.

2022 - Bang Bang Education, Illustrators / Artist
2012 - Central Saint Martins, Fine Art
2007 - Ural Federal University, The Sociology Teacher

Selected Exhibitions and Screenings

2024
Human Landscapes, Rome Art Week, LoosenArt, Rome, Italy
Sight Unseen, Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland
Creative Talents Magazine and Virtual Gallery, online exhibition

2022
Auto Focus: A Portrait of the Self, LoosenArt, Millepiani, Rome, Italy

2019
The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, United Kingdom
Women in Photography, FastForward Photography, University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom

2017
Videoart in Loop: Contemporary Visions, international video art exhibition, Italy
HUMAN RIGHTS? #H2O, Italy
International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Trinitapoli, Italy

2016
FastForward Photography, FFconversation, University for the Creative Arts, United Kingdom
Museo degli Ipogei, Trinitapoli, Italy
Museums at Night, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2015
HUMAN RIGHTS?, Italy
Venice Experimental Cinema and Performance Art Festival, Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi, Venice, Italy
Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2012
GAA Foundation, Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Selected Publications

2022
Figures Collection, Icon Magazine, issues 63–64
Figures Collection and A Man. A Hidden Man, APHRO Magazine
Figures Collection and A Man. A Hidde...