Exhibition Dates: March 1 – April 5, 2025
Ivester Contemporary is proud to present Un/Broken, a solo exhibition by multimedia artist Yuliya Lanina, opening March 1, 2025. The exhibition showcases a collection of paintings on paper, where Lanina confronts themes of absurdity, sexuality, and trauma. At the heart of Un/Broken is a series of individual paintings grouped tightly together on a single dark form, creating the illusion of a unified body that stretches across two walls. This visual structure embodies Lanina’s exploration of how rfagmented experiences can be reconstructed into something whole.
In addition to her two-dimensional work, the exhibition features an animation “Never and Both at the Same Time” with music by Russell Pinkston and a mechanical sculpture created in collaboration with engineer Theodore Johnson and composer Yevgeniy Sharlat. This multidimensional approach creates an immersive environment that invites viewers to engage deeply with the artist’s vision.
“My process is intuitive. I let the subconscious take the lead. I leave analytical thinking behind and embrace the nonsensical and surprising,” says Lanina. “Stemming from my specific experiences, my work aims to speak to the nature of being, to the heart as well as the intellect, to make difficult topics accessible and to facilitate healing.”
Lanina has exhibited and performed extensively both nationally and internationally, including SXSW Interactive (TX), Seoul Art Museum (Korea), SIGGRAPH Asia (Japan), 798 Beijing Biennial (China), Cleveland Institute of Art (OH), Patrick Heide Gallery (London, UK), Teatro Santa Ana (Mexico), Blanton Museum of Art (TX), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Russia), Vienna MuseumsQuartier (Austria) and Xposed gallery on New York City’s High Line.
Lanina’s professional honors include fellowships and scholarships from Fulbright (Vienna, Austria), Headlands Art Center (CA), Yaddo (NY), Artpace (SA), Yaddo Fellowship (NY), Marble House Project (NY), The Puffin Foundation (NJ), and Honorable citation from New York State Assembly (NYC). Lanina’s most recent animation Gefilte Fish won Best International Short Film at Tamuz Shomron Film Festival (Israel) and an Honorable Mention at the Female Eye Film Festival (Canada). Lanina’s latest collaboration, the interactive ballet MoonFall, for which she created projection design was nominated for a B. Iden Payne Award for Outstanding Media Design.
Lanina is an Assistant Professor of Practice at the Department of Arts and Entertainment Technologies at The University of Texas at Austin.
