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Lyubov Matyunina, born June 1st, 1985
Lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Education
2010 - 2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Gerrit Rietveld Academy
2006 “World politics” course, Gotland University, Sweden
2004 “International politics” course, Moscow State Institute of International Relations (University) MFA Russia MGIMO
2002-2007 Master of Journalism, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University
Creative Director of Screens workshop (2021 - 2023)
Creative director of fashion brand LUBUDUBUM
Fouder of the initiative UKROP moving art platform (2008-2009)
Prizes
2014 - TENT public choice award 2014, with the film "Who can be happy and free?"
2014 - Nominee in the category Fine Arts Gerrit Rietveld Academy Award
2008 - First place in “Moving Baltic Sea festival” with group video “Try to be a God”
Solo exhibition
2019 - I am a tool of gentrification. West, LAB111, LIMA, Amsterdam
2019 - I am a tool of gentrification. Noord, PlanB, Amsterdam
2017 - Carpetologia, W139 Polar room, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 - WTF? , Bloc23, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Group exhibitions
2022 KUSNTRAI Amsterdam
2022 PostMetaNeo Mythology & Natural ink prinitng stories, W139, Amsterdam
2022 Het Nieuwe Instituut – Get Real!, Housing syndrome installation, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2021 Gallery Luda – Get Real!, Housing syndrome installation. Saint – Petersburg, Russia
2020 TMI : searching for truth in the post-truth era. Nieuwe Vide, Haarlem, the Netherlands
2019 Act! “Dream is the personalized myth, the myth the depersonalized dream”
Q18, Köln, Germany
2019 Social Capital. I am a tool of gentrification, TAAK & LIMA, Amsterdam
2018 Prospects & Concepts ART Rotterdam. present - Carpetologia. Film carpet.
Van Nellefabriek, Rotterdam
2017 Duo exhibition by JLDianthus & Lyubov Matyunina - FAIRITALING at Neverneverland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Alternative Truth at Expoplu, Nijmegen, Netherlands
2017 Degrees of Freedom: human, Robot and The Medium of Automation at Designhuis, Eindhoven
2017 “Post Peace” at the Nest, den Haag, Netherlands
2017 “Post Peace” at Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
2016 "Roundelay" screening at Cracking the Frames festival, Butcher Tears, Amsterdam
2016 "Reflections and Movements", K2 Contemporary Art Center Izmir, Turkey (March 18th – 31st)
2015 Monthly payment project. Apartment exhibition, Amsterdam
2015 “Imaginary Friends”, Het Veem Theater Amsterdam
2015 Portrait of Inge Meijer. Prospects and Concepts. Mondriaan Fund.
Art Rotterdam
2014 Selected. Gerrit Rietveld Award Show. Castrum Peregrini, Amsterdam
2014 “Wish master carpet” installation, screening of the film
“Who can be happy and free?” and performance – installation “Make peace carpet” at Komentatorki / Women Commentators, Warsaw
2013 Birch, 2013, Documentation of performance, 2 screen video installation,
3'38'' "No lands man" exhibition, Petersburg building, De Punt, Amsterdam
2013 Documentary “One Look” was presented at 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, “Playing Nature” CCA Sokol
2013 "Window to the Europe" at the Hermitage Amsterdam
2012 Installation. Don't wake me up for the end of the world,
unless it has very good special effects. deSERVICEGARAGE. Amsterdam
2012 "White cube" UKROP group performance at Kunstvlaai "IN exactly this". Sint Nicolaas Lyceum, Amsterdam
2012 "Static electricity" UKROP group exhibition. de Slang, Amsterdam
2012 "Game" performance at Holland Festival "Dancing with the alphabet". Frascati, Amsterdam
2012 "Control" at the "Mixtape" screening at OT301, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2012 Participation in the group exhibition at Open Atelier Jordaan, Amsterdam
2011 Storage Space Exhibition #4, Heesterveld, Amsterdam
2011 "Limitation within Opportunity", UKROP group exhibition № 3, Hembrugstraat 11, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2011 “Identity”, Ukrop exhibition, Skalvija Cinema Center, Vilnius, Lithuania
2011 “Kombinacje”, Ukrop exhibition, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2009 “I am protesting”, installation "Zombing", Kaliningrad, Russia
Film screenings
"I am a tool of gentrification" (2018-2019)
2019 Wir arbeiten für Gentrifizierung ehrenamtlich, Werkhalle, Dortmund, Germany
2019 CityLeaks Urban Art Festival in Cologne, Germany
2019 Empowerment Film Festival - De Stad In! Actie! Vondelbunker, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2019 LAB111, LIMA, Amsterdam
2019 Vorioscoop 2.3
2019 4bit gallery
2019 Plan B Amsterdam
2018 AT5 - Rietveld TV
“Post Fairy tale” (2016)
2016 part of the LIMA collection
“Who can be happy and free?” (2014)
2017 West Wednesdays, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2016 Kassel DocFest
2016 32 Internationales Kurz Film Festival Hamburg
2016 KörberForum, Hamburg, Germany
2015 Message to Man, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2015 SCREENS #2 SSBA Salon, Amsterdam
2015 Galeri Nasional Indonesia – Jakarta
2015 31 International Short Film Festival Hamburg
2015 Medienhaus Hannover
2015 European Media Art Festival Osnabruck
2015 International Film Festival Rotterdam
2014 Luksuz film festival, Krško, Slovenia
2014 KOROCHE film festival, Kaliningrad, Russia
2014 TENT Rotterdam
“One look” (2013)
2013 Special program of 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, “Playing Nature” CCA Sokol
2013 Shortcutz Amsterdam. Canvas op 7e
“Hobson’s choice” (2012)
2012 "Welcome back, Putin!" Festival activist art in de Balie, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Grants
2021 Mondriaan Fond Werkbijdrage Bewezen Talent
2020 Mondriaan Fond Projectinvestering Kunstenaar en Bemiddelaar / “Tangled endless transitions”
2020 Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fonds supported Post Meta Neo Mythology
2020 BankGiroLoterij for Post Meta Neo Mythology
2020 AFK Cronalocket for Post Meta Neo Mythology
2019 Wilhelmina E.Jansen Fonds supported project "Portable homelands"
2018 Development Budget AFK
2018 Founds Kwadraat supported the production of the experimental documentary "I am a tool of gentrification. City Center"
2018 Dommering Foundation supported the production of the experimental documentary "I am a tool of gentrification. City Center"
2017 Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fonds supported post-production of “Carpetologia. Film-carpet”
2017 Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst grant for the Fairytaling duo show
01/01/ 2017 - 31/12/2017 supported by Mondriaan Fond, Stipendium Emerging Artists. (Werkbijdrage Jong Talent)
2016 Wilhelmina E. Jansen Fonds supported post-production of “Post Fairy tale”
Facilitator & teacher
2019 - Carpetologia workshop. Ateliers'89, Aruba
2012 - till today - UNICEF and the One Minutes Foundation
Guest Artist at One Minutes Jr workshop.
Countries visited, filmed and worked in between 2012 - 2023:
Bangladesh, Maldives, Myanmar, The Netherlands, Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Moldova, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kosovo & etc.
2012 & 2014 & 2015 November – One Minutess Jr + IDFA master class, Amsterdam
Curatorial work
2012 "Static electricity" UKROP group exhibition. de Slang, Amsterdam
2010 “Synthesis”, noise festival, at Ukrop art- territory Kaliningrad, Russia
2009 “Life” festival at Ukrop art- territory Kaliningrad, Russia
2009 Minimal art festival at Ukrop art- territory Kaliningrad, Russia
2009 “Amber Chamber” art & music festival, Ukrop art- territory Kaliningrad, Russia
2009 “World day of cotton wool”, CS Alternative, Kaliningrad, Russia
2009 “I am protesting”, CS Alternative, Kaliningrad, Russia
Residency
2022 Artwell, Amsterdam
2019 Studio Kura Japan
2019 Ateliers’89 Aruba
2018 Nida Art Colony/ work retreat
2017-2018 Cassis Art Residency
Commissioned jobs
2018 Into the Great Wide Open ART. Filming and editing.
2017 IFFR 2017 Impression. Filming and editing.
2016 "Practicing Procedures of Killing" by Basir Mahmood, editing two-channel video. Screened at Rijksacademie Open.
2016 Video documentation of the art installations and performances during the Into The Great Wide Open festival. Editing.
2016 IFFR 2016 Impression. Filming and editing. Screened at the EYE Museum 9 of April.
2015 Editing “Murmur” film by Gabriel Lester. Exhibited at de Appel arts center.
2015 Sound assistant during the filming of movie "Centaur". Kyrgyzfilm & Volya films production.
2015 Video documentation of Performance by Driewleler Collectief. Filming and editing.
2015 Ecological and environmental video “Forest restoration in Ghana”- Editing/script developing; series of 3 min videos “Commons in India” - Editing/script developing for ecologist Patrick Augenstein
2015 Promotional video for You Enter application. http://www.you-enter.nl
