Ir:ca Solza

Artist, researcher, art critic, feminist. Pronouns: he\they. Now based in Bishkek, Kyrgystan. Born in 1987 in Arkhangelsk, Russia.

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Instagram: @ircasolza_artworks

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Education
2024-2025 | Bishkek School of Contemporary Art, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
2019-2023 | Art History, post-graduate, Novosibisrk State University of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Novosibirsk, Russia
2018-2019 | History of Contemporary Art, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
2017-2018 | Art History, Novosibisrk State University of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Novosibirsk, Russia
2013-2015 | MA in Philosophy, Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia
2007-2009 | Design and Computer Graphics, Novosibisrk State Technical University, Novosibirsk, Russia
Solo Exhibitions
2023 — promenade exhibition "Bureaucracy of Miracles", OSSI MI (Samara, Russia)
2023 – "Earth, Air, Earth", gallery "Uncomfortable Pose" (art group BERTOLLO).
2019 — publication of the Catalog of Simple Machines
2017 — exhibition ___on_the_surface______, joint project with poet Dmitry Korolev and photographer Vyacheslav Kovalevich, Inigo, cultural center at the Catholic Cathedral (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2010 — The Pu Journey, with Alexey Grischenko, Studio 109, Novosibirsk, Russia

Featured Group Exhibitions
2025 – Resistance, queer-festival, Mairie de Paris, Mairie du 11e arrondissement, Paris, France
2024 – In the Course Of project, ВРД group, OSSI MI (Samara, Russia)
2024 – I see you, Design Terminal Gallery, Waze - Design Terminal (Bat Yam, Israel)
2024 – Let Me Be Your Friend, Koma 2 (Ramat Gan, Israel)
2023 – RUBEZH and no_war foundation (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2023 – Healing Garden (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2023 – RUBEZH : Liberty (Bishkek, Kyrgystan)
2023 — A.C.T. festival, civic engagement art (Tbilisi, Georgia)
2023 – ‘The Pain of Others’ project, The Starving Artist, virtual exhibition
2022 — Lines of Freedom (Tel-Aviv, Israel)
2021 — "Working on mistakes", gallery POST (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2021 — Microbiennale (3)2 days (Irkutsk, Russia)
2021 — Exhibition "Dark corner", art center "Klopovnik" (Chelyabinsk, Russia)
2021 — Ryazan Garage, Yesenin Center (Ryazan, Russia)
2021 — Exhibition "Higher than the feet from the ground", loft "Podzemka" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2021 — Exhibitions "Bar Stolichny" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2021 — Exhibition "Joseph - 100 - Beuys", Museum of Modern Fine Arts on Dmitrovskaya (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
2021 — Festival of Contemporary Art "48 Hours Novosibirsk", Parachute(s) Tandem, Free Form (Novosibirsk, Russia), by Goethe-Institut
2020 — AMFS 3rd Show, Europe (satellite of Jupiter)
2020 — "Implicit relations", artist-run space Kotelnaya (Tomsk, Russia), feminist festival SNEZHI
2019 — "Last-minute tours to intimate places", festival "48 hours Novosibirsk". Workshops of URA (Novosibirsk, Russia), by Goethe-Institut
2019 — II Invisible Film Festival. Word order (St. Petersburg, Russia)
2019 — Feminist Festival SNEZHI in Novosibirsk, Russia
2018 — Exhibition about censorship and self-censorship One cannot be too careful (Berlin, Germany, feminist version, "Eve's Ribs", St. Petersburg, Russia)
2018 – "Malye manii", "Inigo", cultural center at the Catholic Cathedral (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2017 – Exhibition about censorship and self-censorship One cannot be too careful (Brighton, UK)
2017 – Exhibition "Difficult", space "Art El" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2016 – Second anti-war exhibition NOT-PEACE (Kyiv, Ukraine)
2015 – School of Cynicism, TRAVA loft (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2015 –Praeparatio, documentary project, basement (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2013 – "Free workshops", MMOMA (Moscow, Russia)
2013 – "Heroes", festival of experimental poetry EXPERIENCES (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2013 – Kansk Video Festival, special screening "New Siberian Video" (Kansk, Russia)
2013 – International Festival of Independent Film 2morrow, short film program "New Cinema of Siberia" (Moscow, Russia)
2012 – "Metronome", festival of experimental poetry EXPERIENCES, SCCA (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2012 — festival of science-art "Möbius Apple" (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2011 — Techno-Opera (Tomsk, Russia)
2011 – "U: Tension", festival of experimental poetry EXPERIENCES, SCCA (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2011 – "Movement", regional exhibition of contemporary art, Regional Museum of Fine Arts (Kemerovo, Russia)

2014-2017 – rope exhibitions (Ob river, Novosibirsk, Russia)
2016-2019 — garage exhibitions organized by Alexey Grishchenko (garage cooperative "Skif", Novosibirsk, Russia)

Published Artworks
2023 – Publication in ROAR-2

Publications
  1. Irca Solza. Elusive Archives: How to Collect and Preserve Art in Contemporary Russia. Spectate, 2023
  2. Irca Solza (Kuznetsova I.P.) Post-Conceptual Art of the Glasgow Circle Artists // Bulletin of the KemGUKI, No. 63, June 2023. P. 199-208. Doi: 10.31773/2078-1768-2023-63-199-208
  3. Irca Solza, Siberian art during the war. Part 1. Rech#port, 2022
  4. Irca Solza, Siberian art during the war. Part 2. Rech#port, 2022
  5. #notowar. Rech#port, 2022
  6. Irca Solza (Kuznetsova I.P.) Contemporary art of Novosibirsk in 2009–2019 // Ideas and ideals. - 2021. - T. 13, No. 3, part 2. - P. 348–372. — DOI: 10.17212/2075-0862-2021-13.3.2-348-372.
  7. Irca Solza, 48 hours in the city of fading flames. Rech#port. SYG.MA.
  8. Irca Solza, Everything dissolves (except responsibility). SYG.MA
  9. Irca Solza, "Visibility" of art as a curse. Aroundart.org
  10. Irca Solza, My work is not involved. Rech#port
  11. Kuznetsova I.P. The Art of Glasgow Artists as a Dialogue with the History of Design // All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference "DISK-2022": Collection of Materials Part 3. A.N. Kosygin", 2022. - P.141-146.
  12. Kuznetsova I.P. A work of art as a crystal: a Delesian approach to understanding contemporary art // Second Russian Aesthetic Congress: Abstracts of the participants' reports, Yekaterinburg, July 01–03, 2021 / Compilers and scientific editors T.A. Kruglova, A.E. Radeev. - Yekaterinburg: Humanitarian University, 2021. - P. 295-297.
  13. Kuznetsova I.P. The Art of Cathy Wilkes in the Light of the Aesthetics of G. Deleuze and F. Guattari // History. History and theory of arts: Proceedings of the 59th Intern. scientific stud. conf. April 12–23, 2021 / Novosib. state un-t. - Novosibirsk: CPI NSU, 2021. - P. 110-112.

Selected Bibliography
  1. Ilya Mikheev, Irca Solza. Bureaucracy of Miracles. Conversation between Ilya Mikheev and artist Irca Solza about the project. SYG.MA, 2023.
  2. Interview: Marina Israilova, Experience of the Siberian archive of contemporary art. Interview with Irca Solza, Krapiva
  3. Marina Israilova, Irca Solza, Angelina Burlyuk, Two (New) Siberian archives: history, positions, strategies, future. Krapiva

Curatorial and Professional Experience
2024 – present | Curator, "Home, Well, Pyramid: Creating Art in Unfree Societies". A Laboratory for Emerging Artists. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Samara, Russia.
2021 – 2022 | Curator and Artist, PENA (virtual anarchist space), Online. Presented at the festival 48 hours by Goethe Institut, Novosibirsk, Russia
2018 – present | Founder and Researcher, Siberian Archive of Contemporary Art
2015 – present | Member of editorial board, founder, Rech#port Poetry Magazine, Novosibirsk, Russia
2010 – 2013 | Curator, Festival of Experimental Poetry EXPERIENCES, Novosibirsk, Russia

Grant and Fellowships
2023 – Here and There (a stipendiums and mentors’ program for cultural workers from Russia), CHto Delat Group
2022 – Goethe Institut grant

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