Vita Buivid was born in 1962 in Dnepropetrovsk (Ukraine). In 1988, the artist graduated from the Dnepropetrovsk State University, the philology faculty. She moved to Leningrad in the late 1980s. In the 1990s, Buivid received a grant from the Rutgers University (New York). In the USA, she became interested in fashion photography; upon her return to Russia, she collaborated with glossy magazines. Vita Buivid has been a photo director and a columnist for the Russian Pioneer magazine since 2009. In her artistic practice, Vita Buivid appeals to the topic of family relations, and she uses the feminist idea of transforming the personal into political and public. In 2016, with the support of Ruarts Foundation, MMOMA hosted a Vita Buivid’s personal exhibition My Love Is Not a Wisp of Smoke. The artist’s projects were nominated twice for the Kandinsky Prize; in 2017, a personal exhibition at MMOMA was shortlisted in the Project of the Year nomination. In 1988, the artist graduated from Dutch Art Institute/ ArtEZ University of Arts. Lives and works in Moscow and Amsterdam.
Relatively (Not) Old. MP project, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Cold Summer. Jump Art Centre, Poltave, Ukraine
Hydrotherapy. Alexander Gallery, Rose, Montenegro
Fragments. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
My love is not a wisp of smoke. Moscow museum of modern art, Moscow, Russia
For Cosiness. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Team. Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Peonymania. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Reservoir Dogs. AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Acts of Civil Status. Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Heat. Dnepropetrovsk State Art Museum, Ukraine
Nevsky Ave. Special project of the 16th International Art Fair Art Moscow, Russia
Past Painted. Museum-Residency “Art-Kommunalka Erofeev & others,” Kolomna, Russia
Piccolo Amore. Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
If You Willing To Swim - Swim. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Workdays. Museum of the History of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
Corporate Dream. DS Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Love me as I love you. Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Acts of civil status. AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Dream-book. Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Vita Aperte. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Corporative dream. Fine Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
How I spent my summer. ARTStrelka-projects Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Methods for the Ornament Studies. DS Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Photo Tricot. "Fashion and Style in Photography" Festival. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Piccolo Amore. Artistico Gallery, Moscow, Russia
REM Sleep Dreams. Glaz Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Familia. Museum of Dreams of Sigmund Freud, St. Petersburg, Russia
Territory of love. Photobiennale. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Paris. Red. Schusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
The call. Selskaya Zhizn Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
Friday the 13th. "Fashion and Style in Photography" Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Antifashion. White Space Gallery, London, Great Britain
8+3=10. James Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Empire in Things. Moscow Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Vita Buivid. Rutgers University, USA
Men in Bath. Gallery 21, St. Petersburg, Russia
Love Me as I Love You. Werdermann Art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Vestals. New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
Solo for Contrabass. Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vita Buivid. Goethe Institut, Moscow, Russia
Vita Buivid. De Moor photo center, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Vita Buivid. Kunstsalon Dolberg, Berlin, Germany
Vita Buivid. Photo Medium Art Gallery, Wroclaw, Poland
Megalomania. Contemporary Art Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
Vita Buivid. Ann Westin Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Vita Buivid. Tallinn Art Museum, Estonia
Vita Buivid. Narva Art Museum, Estonia
Woman Theatre. House of Scientists, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
In the mood for Love. The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Too Much, The Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
THE GREAT VOID, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Personal Space, a collective retrospective exhibition, The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Escape! Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Soft Homeland. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
UPHA in da Office. AKT Art Space, Kiev, Ukraine
Night Seminar. 2nd Worldwide Apartment and Studio Biennale, Arnhem, Netherlands
Focal Length / Photo Chronicle of Pushkinskaya-10. Museum of Non-Conformist Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Women at Work: Subverting the Feminine in Post-Soviet Russia. White Space Gallery, London, UK
Quiet Vices. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Personal Structures. The European Cultural Centre, with the support of RuArts Foundation, Palazzo Bembo, Venice, Italy
Way Out. Monthly Payment Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Influence: Contemporary Painting. ARTPLAY, Moscow, Russia
WAR/SHE. Kharkov, Ukraine
Ukrainian Complex. Museum of Modern Art, Odessa, Ukraine
Sub Rosa. State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Ukrainian Landscape. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
Joseph Boys – My Boys. Museum of Modern Fine Art, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Monthly Payment Project’s group shows. Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vilnius, etc.
Famous People’s Death. Fabrika Art Centre. Moscow, Russia
Invitation to Dinner. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees. St. Petersburg, Russia
ARCHSTOYANIE. Land art festival, Kaluzhskaya oblast, Russia
Beauty Without Glamour. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Monthly Payment Project’s group shows. Moscow, Venice, Kiev etc.
Beautiful. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow
Studio KOP. (Exhibitions Still Waters, Poly, Pschick etc.). Moscow, Russia
Der Klare Blick. Pop/off/art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees. St. Petersburg, Russia
Cult of the Body. Leisure Gallery, London, UK
Anonymous. Perm Museum of Modern Art, Russia
Fotofest. Huston, USA
Divergence: Photographs from Elsewhere. Form at Midland Atelier, Australia
Noir. RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
100 Years of Pushkin Museum. Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Nothingness. Parallel program of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Hydrotherapeutic Procedures. L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A4 / Ballpoint. Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
“South Butovo / Dormitory district” House of Artists. Special Project of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. NCCA / South Butovo
Landscape park, Moscow, Russia
Chernihiv Photo Fest. Chernihiv, Ukraine
Open Air Swimming Pool Named After Malevich. Parallel program of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Open club Gallery, Moscow, Russia
INDEPENDENT: New Art of the New Country 1991–2011. Mystetskyi Arsenal, Kiev, Ukraine
Gates and Doors. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg , Russia
Space Odyssey 2011. Mystetskyi Arsenal. Kiev, Ukraine
A4 / Ballpoint. Karas Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
ALL of AL. AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
October. White Space Galley. London, England
GogolFEST.VAP. Kiev, Ukraine
ŽEN d’АRТ. The Gender History of Art in the Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
Resume. AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
In Memoriam. RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Machismo. Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Mothers/Daughters. Era Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Duel. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A4 / Ballpoint. Karas Gallery. Kiev, Ukraine
Kandinsky Prize nominees’ exhibition. Central house of Artist. Moscow, Russia
Waterpower. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Mirror. Moscow Photo Biennale
Photoquai. 1st World Visual Arts Bienniale, Paris, France
Adventures of the Black Square by Kazimir Malevich. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Russian touch. MIMA Art district, Verona / Wawe Gallery, Brescia, Italy
Architecture: AD MARGINEM. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Photoestafeta. From Rodchenko to Our Days. Moscow House of Photography, Russia
Interactive Reaction. The 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia
Exhibition Project: Retrospective. The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia
Екатерина II. Могущественная и великая? (Catherine the 2nd). Bonn, Potsdam, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Russia
Ship of Fools. White Space Gallery, London, England
S&M Institute Project. Home exhibitions in the Netherlands, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, UK and USA
Volga Faces. N. Novgorod, Moscow, Russia \ Paris, France
Moscow: City, Spectacle, Capital of Photography. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Neue Ansätze – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Moskau. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Men in My Life. St. Petersburg Historical Museum (curator), Russia
Moscow Through the Time: 1920–2000. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia
The Four Seasons, Oulo Taidemuseo. Oulu City Art Museum, Finland
Manly. Art in General Gallery, New York, USA
INTERFOTO. Moscow, Russia
Without the Wall. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Exhibition of New Arrivals. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Constant 2000 Contemporary Art Center of St. Petersburg State University, Russia
A Little Bit About Love. Pro Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
Head. M. Sandman Gallery. Hamburg / Berlin, Germany
Dnipropetrovsk School of Photography. Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
Aufbruch: Die Neue Russische Fotografie. Leverkusen, Germany
The Fruits of Education. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Photo Based Art from St. Petersburg. Zalman Gallery, New York, USA
New Collectors – New Collections. New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa-Fe, USA
16 Rippen. Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
Women Answers. Teatro, Moscow, Russia
The New Images. Contemporary Photography in Russia and Eurasia. Harry Ransom Center - The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Russian Photographers. Renewal and Metamorphosis. From the Soviet era to the 1990’s. MIT Museum, Boston / Fitchburg Art Museum, USA
Short Stories. Gottingen, Germany Metaphors of Renunciation. Topical Art from St. Petersburg. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
New Photo Art from Russia. Hanover, Berlin, Frankfurt, Herten
Stereo – Tip. Ljubljana, Slovenia
300 Jahre des Verlangens. Erotik Museum, Berlin, Germany
Neue FotoKunst aus Russland. Karlsruhe, Frankfurt, Hannover, Düsseldorf, Berlin
Photoreclamation. The Photographers Gallery, London, England
Ostwest. Galerie Lichtblick, Cologne, Germany
The Portrait of My Mother. Edinburgh, London, England
Self Identi cation. Kiel, Berlin, Sopot, Oslo, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art of Contemporary Photography: Russia. Ukraine. Belarus. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Photopostscriptum. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2 Petersburger Kunstsalon. Kunstsalon Dolberg, Berlin, Germany
Drops from Fountain. Goteborg, Sweden
Contemporary Photography from the USSR. Photomanifesto. Baltimore, USA
Photography from Perestroika. Long Island University, USA
Self-consciousness of woman. Ethnographical Museum, Leningrad, USSR
Moscow House of Photography, Russia
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
The Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow, Russia
Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
Museum of the Russian Photography, Kolomna, Russia
Museum of the History of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa-Fe, USA
Forbes Collection. Navigator Foundation, Boston, USA
Mőlndal Commun Collection, Sweden
Russkoee Polee Collection 2x3 m, Berlin, Germany
The New Mexico Museum of Art / Jane Reese Williams Collection, Santa Fe, USA
Private Collections
Vita Buivid. My love is not a wisp of smoke. Ruarts Foundation together with Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia. 2016
