Lucia Sotnikova

Born 1986 in Volgograd, RU, lives and works in Düsseldorf. 

Studies:

2012 — 2018      Liberal Arts, Master student of Prof. Andreas Gursky, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, DE

2010 — 2012      M.A. with Honors, Exhibition Design, EDI at University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf, DE

2003 — 2009      Diploma in Architecture, Volgograd State Architecture University, RU

Selected Exhibitions: 

2023/24: 

„Stage Lights, Kitchen Nights“ solo exhibition at Berthold Pott, Cologne, 11 May – 29 June 2024

Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Size Matters, group exhibition (Jan-May 2024)

Plus One Gallery, Antwerp, Face Time, group exhibition (Nov 2023-Jan 2024)

Art Cologne, 16-19 Oct 2023, booth Berthold Pott

Art Antwerp, 14-17 Dec 2023, booth Berthold Pott

Michael Horbach Stiftung, Cologne, group exhibition, 9 Sept – 15 Oct 2023

Museum Kunstpalast Düsseldorf, group exhibition, Germany (June/July 2023)

Tilt Shift – Experiment als Normalzustand – Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie, Darmstadt, DE (May 2023)

Past: Berthold Pott, Cologne (group, 2023), Richas Digest project space, Cologne (solo, 2022, 2020, 2017), Kunsthaus Essen, Germany (2022, group), Neue Galerie Gladbeck, Germany (2019, solo), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (2020, group), XBunker, Soenderborg, DK (2020 group),  German Embassy London (Andreas Gursky, Lucia Sotnikova, Alex Romey), together with Sprüth Magers, Museum K21 (Planet 58), Düsseldorf (group, 2019), Goethe Institut Paris, France (2017, group),  Kunstpalast Düsseldorf (2016, group), MIAC, Castillo de San Jose, Lanzarote, ES [Klasse Gursky, 2014 ] Tokio Hiyoshi, Tokio, JP 820 (2013, group), Kjubh Kunstverein e.V., Cologne, DE (2013, group), [ReKOLLEKT] Kunstraum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, DE (2012, group)

Lucia Sotnikova: Exhibition views New Talents, award of Neue Galerie Gladbeck, 2019
Lucia Sotnikova: Exhibition view Surprize, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Primordial Forum, latex print on textile, 2.9 x 15 m, 2020
Lucia Sotnikova: Exhibition view Zweiter Persönlicher Magnetismus, Kunsthaus Essen
Nonchalant and Primordial Forum — HS. Latex prints on stretched textile planes, pigment prints, each 2.6 x 1.9 m, 2022
Lucia Sotnikova: 250 x 180 cm, pigment print mounted on the wall. Sculptural elements by David Mackaay, Darmstädter Tage der Fotografie Festival, 2023
Lucia Sotnikova: Exhibition view Andreas Gursky, Alexander Romey, Lucia Sotnikova in cooperation with Sprüth Magers and German Embassy, London
Lucia Sotnikova, duo exhibition OSIP with David Mackaay at Norbert Arns Gallery Cologne, 2021
Lucia Sotnikova: Exhibition view Andreas Gursky, Alexander Romey, Lucia Sotnikova in cooperation with Sprüth Magers and German Embassy, London
Zoom in — Zoom out, enlarged LC-Display photogram, fine art print, 135 x 100 cm, 2019 Untitled, enlarged LC-Display photogram, fine art print, 135 x 100 cm, 2019
Lucia Sotnikova, installation view „Reading each letter“.
Lucia Sotnikova: Exhibition view Chess Informant, Künstlerhaus Lauenburg.
Gelatin silver print, silver spray paint on deconstructed architecture, 2019
Lucia Sotnikova: Modus Operandi, 80×120 cm, pigment print, acrilic glass, AluDibond, wooden frame, 2018
Lucia Sotnikova: Virulent Gaze I, enlarged LC-Display photogram, framed fine art print, 150 x 110 cm, 2020
Lucia Sotnikova: From the series Sechs Bilder, digitally enlarged photograms, fine art prints. Each approx 100 x 120 cm, sculptural frames by Da