Vika Ilyushkina
Born in 1971 in Leningrad, USSR.
Victoria Ilyushkina is a media artist and curator. She graduated from the Academy of Arts Russian in Saint Petersburg, where she studied art history and theory, hold a degree New Media program of the Pro Arte Institute.
Currently she is the program curator of the CYLAND Video Archive and International Cyfest video programs.
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”, at The State Russian Museum, at The Hermitage Youth Education Center, “Russia contemporary exhibition” Galerie Gmurzynska (Switzerland), Anna Akhmatova Museum, Al Gallery in St. Petersburg, Russia; Iragi Gallery (Moscow), Gislaved Kunsthalle (Sweden) etc.
Artist and curator with a diploma in Art History and Theory of the Academy of Fine Arts and in New Media Programs from the Pro Arte Institute; St. Petersburg, Russia. 2009-2022 curated Videoforma International Video Art Festival at the Sergey Kuryokhin Art Centre, St. Petersburg. In 2023 Co-curator Gyumri Art Week, Republic of Armenia. She was part of the jury in several international film and video festivals.
She is currently the program curator of the CYLAND Video Archive and International Cyfest video programs. Featured screenings at the Made in New York Media Center, USA; at Platoon Kunsthalle in Berlin, The Short Film Festival Oberhausen-66, Germany; Videoformes Festival in Clermont-Ferrand, France; Empire Projects, Istanbul; programming at the parallel events at Venice Biennale; Youth Education Center of Hermitage museum, St. Petersburg; video festivals in Sweden, Poland, at SOFA festival in Bogota, Colombia; in Brazil; Dartington, UK; NPAK Contemporary Art Center, ICA Institute for contemporary Art Foundation, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia and more.
Her curatorial research interests are aimed at studying the mutual influence and transition from analogue media in film and video art to digital media and its further transformation with using 3D and AI technologies in time-based art. She curated numerous of video exhibitions and projects among them Video /Text/ Art; Screens; “Seeking for the keys” Andrey Krisanov artist and musician. Curator of the project and author of the introduction article “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.
I try to transfer the subconscious into day-to-day life through the plasticity of motion, to reveal the hidden psychological processes. Dance and teamwork with the choreographer has become a fundamental element of my work. In my films I address modern dance including it into daily environments as a contrasting element.
