Vika Ilyushkina

Victoria Ilyushkina is a media artist and curator. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg, where she studied art history and theory, holds a degree from the New Media program of the Pro Arte Institute. Currently she is the program curator of the CYLAND Video Archive and International Cyfest video programs. Curator of the project “A History of the Development of Media Art in Leningrad — Saint Petersburg, 1985-2000”, 2021. Author of the publication “Aspects of the digital fermentation of moving images” in Leonardo journal V55/6, 2022.

As an artist, she presented her video works at numerous solo and group exhibitions such as On My Way parallel project to the 56th International Art Exhibition in Venice, Manifesta 10 Parallel Program “The Other Home”, “Sleepless Art Night” 2025 (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice), Cyfest 13 at The Hermitage Youth Education Center, Anna Akhmatova Museum, Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand 2020 (France), Cyfest 14 Dartington (UK), Gyumri Art Week (Armenia); including solo shows Al Gallery 2014 (St-Petersburg); Gallery Pfeister (Gudhjem, Denmark) 2012, Iragi Gallery 2009, Gislaved Kunsthalle 2014 (Sweden), etc.