Rita Salnikova

Rita Salnikova is an artist from Siberia, France-based, working primarily with collage and lamination.
Her practice begins with collecting fragments of everyday life: found photographs, packaging, labels, flowers, fabrics, paper, objects and textures gathered from streets, second-hand shops, attics and travels. She combines these materials with her own photographs and images, transforming ordinary fragments into layered compositions.
Through collage and lamination, Salnikova explores memory, personal experience, loss, displacement and the idea of home. Lamination allows her to preserve fragile materials and give found fragments a new context and a second life.
In 2025, Salnikova presented her exhibition “Topography of Memory” at the Ancien Musée de Peinture in Grenoble, France. The exhibition brought together a large body of collage works exploring memory as a collection of fragments, images and traces of lived experience.
The works presented here are the remaining “Memories” from the exhibition, each created as an individual work while belonging to the larger series.

2026 — Fragments of my h— International Art Gallery, Paris, France

2025 — Lost &Found. Where is Home? — Rowena G. Gallery, Grenoble, France

2025 — Cinq minutes d’arrêt — Librairie L’accent qui chante, Chambéry, France

2025 — Acte Transparent (Topographie de mémoire) — Ancien Musée de Peinture, Grenoble, France

2022 — Speak or Be Silent — Artist-run Space, Moscow, Russia

2022 — Please Don’t Tell Anyone That I Live Like This — Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Moscow, Russia

2022 — E2E2 — Whaler’s House Exhibition Center, Kaliningrad, Russia

2022 — SOMNIA — Molbert Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2021 — Cut and Glue FEST — Na Peschanoi Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2021 — Consecration — Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM) Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

2021 — Glad for Everything — Artist-run Space, Moscow, Russia

2021 — Frequencies 2.0 — ChipEXPO-2021, Skolkovo Technopark, Moscow, Russia

2020 — Post-truism — Dobrolyubova Library, Moscow, Russia

2020 — Migrants: A Personal Journey — Bogorodskoe Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2019 — Cut and Glue FEST — Na Peschanoi Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2017 — The Year of Depression — Vysotka Space, Moscow, Russia

2016 — Unknown World — ArtVorota Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia