Julia Kissina | SHADOWS CAST PEOPLE | 10 September — 20 October 2010

born in 1966, Kiev, Ukraine
education All-Russia State Institute of Cinematography (Moscow, Russia), Academy of Arts (Munich, Germany)
currently lives and works in Berlin

Selected solo-shows:
2010 “Shadows cast people”, POBEDA GALLERY, Moscow
2008 “I can see something you can’t see.” Bereznitsky Gallery Berlin/Kiev, «Dead Artists Society», k48 — An attack on contemporary perception, Wien
2007 “The Phantom of the Art” Gallery 18M Berlin “The serious art Workshop” Kunstverein Kassel (documenta 12), “Predators” Vera Pogodina Gallery, Moscow, «Unknown Masterpieces/Leonardo against Pollock», «General Public», Berlin, Performance «Conference with Malevitch», CHA, Moscow, Performance «Repin Speaking», AFISHA, Moscow
2006 «Dead Artists Society/Fluxus», 18m Gallery, Berlin
2005 «Pedigree pur», Atelier Gallery «Forward!», Moscow-Berlin,
2004 «Toys», Gallery Osram, Munich, «German Authentic Way to Live and Enjoy», Art-Forum Berlin, Zagreus Gallery

2003 «Art and Crime», police department Nr. 4/42 in Berlin, «Absolution/Public Confessional Box», Hebbel Theatre, Berlin
2002 «Awake!» Art-Frankfurt, Gallery Anita Beckers, «Foto Galerie Wien», Wien
2001 «Protein», Saviour’s Church, Mainz-Kastel, «Ornament + crime», Gallery Anita Beckers, Frankfurt-am-Mein
2000 «Protein», Grassi Museum, Leipzig, «Toys», Photography Forum, Frankfurt-am-Mein, Wigmore Fine Art Gallery, London, «The holy hunt», Museum for Modern Art, Frankfurt-am-Mein
1998 «Gourmets and Predators», Gallery Stefan Vogdt, Munich
1997 «Verena», Gallery Lotringerstrasse, Munich

Selected Group exhibitions:
2008 «Obscurum per obscurius» Tallinn Art Hall, «Nest» Gallery 18m Berlin
2007 «Hugo Ball: fuga saeculi» Cabaret Voltair, Zürich, «Sequences» art festival Reykjavik, «Wir are Paula» Artists Hous Worpswede, «Art News Projekt», Berlin, «Thinking Realism» State Tretyakov Gallery, «I Believe», 2nd Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2006 «We Have no Problems...», Bakfabrik, Berlin, Lucky Loft Gallery, Hamburg
2005 «Hop Stop», Zverevs center, Anti-Biennial, Moscow
2004 «First Comes the Food and then Comes the Morality», Gallery HFG, Leipzig
2003 «Innocence & Experience», The Apartment Gallery, Athens, Festival «The Art Without Crime», Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin
2002 Biennale Meran «Genetics and Vision», «The second skin», Bellerive museum, Zurich
2001 «Cattle» Het Van Reekum Museum, Apeldoorn, «Desire», Ursula Blickle Foundation, Gallery of mod¬ern art, Bologna, «Food», Kunstferein Heidelberg
2000 «Hair», Bellerive Museum, Zurich
1999 «Surface», Gallery 5020, Salzburg, Bandits Mages Festival, Bourges, France
1998 «Eat Please!», Bavarian American Hotel, Nuremberg, Photobiennial, Moscow

Awards:
1994 Project scholarship of the Academy Association, Munich
1995 Scholarship of Gisela and Erwin von Steiner Foundation
1997 Scholarship of Prince Regent Luitpold Foundation
1998 Scholarship of the City of Munich
2000 Scholarship of the Juergen Ponto Foundation in Frankfurt/M, 2001 Award in the competition «The Food» Kunstverein Heidelberg, DAAD, Zurich