Irca Solza

Artist, researcher, art critic. Feminist and queer, pronouns: he\they. Now living in Bishkek, Kyrgystan. Born in 1987 in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

From 2010 to 2013 curated the exhibition project in the Festival of Experimental Poetry EXPERIENCES in Novosibirsk. Since 2015, have been a member of the Rech#port poetry community, author and editor of the magazine Rech#port (syg.ma/rechport). In 2018 initiated the creation of the Siberian Archive of Contemporary Art and have been researching contemporary art of Siberia. Participant of philosophical seminars on contemporary philosophy (Deleuze, Derrida, Badiou, Delanda, etc.), in 2022 gave a course of lectures "Introduction to the Philosophy of Art" (Novosibirsk State University, Faculty of Humanities, Novosibirsk, Russia).

As an artist I create complex installations, art objects, poetic and textual works, art books, video art and performances elaborating such themes as: religious concepts outside the context of the religious canon (miracle, martyrdom), liberation practices, anarchic virtual communities and spaces, criticism of Russian political reality, institutional criticism and research into the boundaries of Russian censorship, the creation of a Kafkaesque non-existent people and a c...

Master of Philosophy (Novosibirsk State University)
History of Art, postgradute (Novosibirsk State University of Architecture, Design and Arts)
Design and Computer graphics (Novosibirsk State Technical University)
Bishkek School of Contemporary Art

Personal exhibitions and projects:
2019 — publication of the Catalog of Simple Machines
2017 — exhibition ___on_the_surface______, joint project with poet Dmitry Korolev and photographer Vyacheslav Kovalevich, Inigo, cultural center at the Catholic Cathedral, Novosibirsk, Russia

Some collective exhibitions:
2023 — A.C.T. festival, civic engagement art, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 — Lines of Freedom, Tel-Aviv, Israel
2022 — Publication in ROAR-2
2021 — "Working on mistakes", gallery "Post" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2021 — Microbiennale (3)2 days (Irkutsk, Russia)
2021 — Exhibition "Dark corner", art center "Klopovnik" (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
2021 — Ryazan Garage, Yesenin Center (Ryazan, Russia)
2021 — Exhibition "Higher than the feet from the ground", loft "Podzemka" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2021 — Exhibitions "Bar Stolichny" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2021 — Exhibition "Joseph - 100 - Beuys", Museum of Modern Fine Arts on Dmitrovskaya (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
2021 — Festival of Contemporary Art "48 Hours Novosibirsk", Parachute(s) Tandem, Free Form (Novosibirsk, Russia), by Goethe-Institut
2020 — AMFS 3rd Show, Europe (satellite of Jupiter)
2020 — "Implicit relations", artist-run space Kotelnaya (Tomsk, Russia), feminist festival SNEZHI
2019 — "Last-m...