Lera Lerner (b. 1988, Leningrad) is an artist, curator, and mediator based in St Petersburg. Her practice, which she defines as sociopoetic art, is based on mutually educative and inclusive projects. Lerner is interested in bringing artists, researchers, museum workers, and passerby together with the help of artistic coexistence practice. Through her performances, installations, and research, she explores spontaneous communication in public space. Lerner is a co-curator of the Art Prospect festival.
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∑***66@■(&@&)@&%………..*//:, 2019. 13th Krasnoyarsk museum biennial, Ploshchad Mira museum. Curator: Vladimir Seleznyov. This project explores spontaneous communication in urban spaces, as well as norms and their borders, and trauma
No Entry, 2020. Eternal Spring exhibition, Lyuda Gallery, St Petersburg. Curator: Peter Belyi. This performance takes shape of a ritual that problematises relationships and explores misunderstandings within the art community
Untitled till 17:45, 2019. Fast Forward into the Future. In collaboration with Svetlana Polyanskaya, Ksenia Safronova, Mikhail Astashenkov, Dima Kholodkov, Yulia Lepainek, Ivan Fedotkin, Dima Fedotkin. Curators: Anna Bitkina, Maria Veits, Ulrika Flink
City of Displaced Faces, 2014. Manifesta10 parallel programme, St Petersburg. Curator: Vladimir Logutov. Here, Lerner’s heroes are inadvertent artists—locals with an original and paradoxical worldview
Home on the Palm of Your Hand, 2019. Atelier of Integration and Experience Exchange, Berlin. Curator: Lilia Voronkova. The project explored the migrant experience, comparing it to the more common experience of renting and moving house
Integration 04 67 Ao, 2018. Performance lab, Geek Picnic, Moscow. Curator: Dasha Demekhina. Visitors are invited to take part in an evolutional confederacy with utilitarian objects
Novobudetlyane, 2017. 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. Curator: Vladimir Seleznyov. The title refers to a Russian futurist group; here, it describes people with “superpowers”: communicating with animals or predicting future fashion trends
Exchange Reaction, 2019. State History of Religion Museum, St Petersburg. Curator: Dmitry Ozerkov. In this mutually educational project, participants learned about theories and practices of contemporary art as well as parallels between art and religion
Heart Projectors, 2016. NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod. Curator: Alisa Savitskaya, Artem Filatov. The project was focused on legendary citizens of Nizhny Novgorod streets
Heart Projectors, 2016. NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod. Curator: Alisa Savitskaya, Artem Filatov. The project was focused on legendary citizens of Nizhny Novgorod streets
Getting Rounder Every Time. More Related. More Estranged, 2020. Blizhe platform of the Cosmocow foundation. Curator: Alexander Burenkov. Performative speculative educational course on the (im-)possibility of connecting to the optics of the non-human agents
Once on a Bus, 2019. Art Weekend public programme, St Petersburg. Curator: Anna Zavediy. Here, a bus becomes a safe space where a therapeutic exchange of doubt and shame is possible
Neighbours? 2018, NCCA Nizhny Novgorod. Curator: Lera Lerner. This utopian exhibition imagines the shared space within the apartment building as a platform for art and invention
