Svetlana Kornilova

I explore the ephemerality of our current existence. Despite of the fact that we are in material space, our life is increasingly flowing into the net. The possibilities of modern technologies allow you to transfer most of your time into the nets of electronic devices, leaving real life outside of it. Thus, a person begins to live more and more not in the real world, but in the world of information phantoms. In my paintings, I try to fix a person in the material space. My characters perform intelligible, tangible actions within recognizable physical objects. I portray an ideal world where everything is in its place."

I often turn to the theme of childhood. After all, childhood is the beginning of a person, the basis of his relationship with the outside world. By placing an object in canvas space, I show the situation or stage that the person is going through. That is, the picture is like a portal through which the viewer can look back, plunge into their memories or suggest some events in the future.

• Stroganov Moscow State University of Industrial and Applied Arts in 2014
• Got Advanced course for professionals in Repin Saint Petersburgh State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. July 2015

2024
Dulwich Picture Gallery, permanent exposition as a winner of the Friends of Dulwich Picture gallery competition. 23.09.2024-TBC
Visual Arts Scotland 'Now and Then' - Dalkeith Palace, Aug-Sep 2024
118.163 SWA Annual exhibition. Mall Galleries (London SW1). 25-29 Jun 2024
2023
English Rivera Winter Open 2023. Artizan Gallery. Torque, UK. 5 Nov-24 Dec 2023
Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2023. Mall Galleries, London, SW1, 28 Nov-16 Dec 2023
2022
Personal exhibition "The Secret Garden". Curator Elina Gritchina. House-Museum of Marina Tsvetaeva, November 20-December 4, 2022.
“London Biennale: Masterpice”, “Gagliardi Gallery”, London , UK
«Royal Society of Women-artists annual exhibition», Mall Galleries, London, UK
Pop up Museum, general exposition, Moscow
2021
London Art Biennale, 5th edition, Chelsea Old Town Hall, London, UK
ArtFan FEST 2021 - “Breakthrough of the Year”, curator A. Alekseeva, co-curator A. Kurgina., Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2020
«Annual exhibition of Royal Society of Portrait Painters 2020», Mall Galleries, London, UK
2019
«Affordable Art Fair NYC», Metropolitan Pavilion, NYC, USA
"The Venetian Guests" - a joint project of the "Loreta Larkina Gallery" (Venice) and "ROSE gallery" (Moscow), ...