Diana Vouba
Painting, drawing, object
Biography
Diana Vouba – graphic artist, painter, was born in Abkhazia in 1958.
In 1986 she graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts.
Since 1988 – Member of the Union of Artists of the USSR Union of Artists of Russia.
1991 The Art Workshops Academy of Arts.
1993 Admitted to the International Federation of Artists, the International Art Foundation, the Creative Union of Culture of Moscow Workers.
Participant in numerous group exhibitions, including “Modern Art of the Northern Caucasus” at the State Museum of Oriental Art, “Bulldozer Exhibition – then everywhere” Creative Union of Artists of Russia, “Abstraction in Russia XX Century” at the State Russian Museum, the projects Kolodzei Art Foundation: «Women in Art», «New Identities New Forms Contemporary Russian Women Artists» was exhibited in museums and cultural centers of the U.S., “Moscow – New York. A simultaneous” in the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA), Moscow, Chelsea Art Museum Home of the Miotte Foundation (New York). More than 30 solo exhibitions in Russia, USA, France, Switzerland and Tunisia.
Her works are in the collections of the Russian Academy of Arts, in Kolodzei Art Foundation, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, in galleries and prestigious collections around the world.
Selected solo exhibitions
1991 – Foreign policy association, Moscow
1992 – Central House of Artist, Moscow
1994 – “Russia” Gallery, Moscow
1996 – “Khayachi” Gallery, Tunisia; Russian cultural center, Tunisia
1997 – “EastGallery”, Moscow; HS Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland; Central House of Artist, Moscow
1998 – “Silence Poetry”, “Pan-Dan Gallery”, Moscow; “MARTin Gallery”, Switzerland
1999 – “Grant Gallery”, New York
2000 – “Pan-Dan Gallery”, Moscow
2001 – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2002 – Maliy Vlasyevsky 5, Moscow
2003 – “MARTin Gallery”, Switzerland; The first retrospective exhibition in the fund supporting, social, cultural and educational programs “Arden”, Moscow
2004 – “Tetris”, Central House of Artist, Moscow
2005 – “Ocean City”, Central House of Artist, Moscow
2008 – “Geometry of Rose”, Vincent Gallery, Moscow; «Abkhazia: New_Generation», Central House of Artist, Moscow
2009 – “Resonance of forms”, Theatre “School of Dramatic Art”, Moscow
2011 – “Red Moscow”, Panopticum Inutero, Artplay, Moscow
2014 – “The Silence Dimension”, “Erarta” Gallery, Saint Petersburg; “Winter practice. Great in art”, “Ground” Gallery, Moscow
2017 – Installation “Kokoshnik like a Russian Space”, New Arbat street, Moscow; Installation on the theater square “Temple of poetry”, Sukhum, Abkhazia
2018 – Installation “Kokoshnik like a Russian Space”, New Arbat street, Moscow; “Universe. Compiègne”, Galerie de l’Est, Compiègne, France; “The Road Home”, Totibadze Gallery, Moscow
Selected group exhibitions
1993 – “Golden Brush”, Central House of Artist, Moscow
1994 – International festival of Fine Arts in Mahares-Sfax, awarded a golden medal
1996 – “Art Manege”, “East Gallery”, Moscow
1998 – “Art-Salon”, “Pan-Dan Gallery”, Manege, Moscow; “Contemporary art of the North Caucasus”, State Museum of Oriental Art, Moscow; “Mosaic of the twentieth century”, “Pan-Dan Gallery”, CHA, Moscow; “Art-Manege”, “Pan-Dan Gallery”, Manege, Moscow
1999 – “Women in Art”, Kolodzei Art Foundation, Friendship Gallery, Washington DC
2000 – “Art-Manege”, “Pan-Dan Gallery”, Manege, Moscow; “Women in Art”, Kolodzei Art Foundation, Atrium Gallery, Morris County Administration Building, New Jersey, United States; “Bulldozer Exhibition – then everywhere”, Moscow, Gogol Boulevard
2001 – Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France; “Art Manege”, “Pan-Dan Gallery”, Manege, Moscow; “Abstraction in Russia in the twentieth century”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2002 – New Identities New Forms Contemporary Russian Women Artists. Kolodzei Art Foundation, Georgetown University Art Galleries, Washington, United States
2003 – “Art Manege”, Manege, Moscow
2007 – “Moscow – New York. A simultaneous”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
2008 – “Moscow Underground”, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
2011 – “3 x Heimat Kaukasus”, GAViK, Berlin
2013 – “Color Scores”, Kultproekt Gallery, Moscow
2014 – “Sub Rosa”, State Darwin Museum, Moscow; “20 years later”, Central House of Artist, Moscow
2015 – “Winter practice” / Art-Perm. Museum of Soviet Naive, Perm; “Federico García Lorca: between color and word”. Instituto Cervantes, Moscow; “Yellow Submarine”. Central House of Artist, Moscow; “Promise of the Landscape” / Art-Perm. Museum of Modern Art PERMM, Perm; “East – West”, “Na Kashirke” Gallery, Moscow
2016 – “Homage”, Central House of Artist, Moscow; “Red and Black”, “Na Kashirke” Gallery, Moscow; “Augmented reality”, Smolensk; “Artists in Times of Change”, The exhibition hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow; “Actual Russian: Habitat”, The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow; “Co-Author”, “New Wing”, Gogol House, Moscow; “Moscow Ring: New Way”, Museum of Moscow
2017 – Who Am I, WHO I AM Gallery, Moscow; “Actual Russia: Game in classics”,
Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art, Moscow; “Print on white horse”, Fashion and Design Center, Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Art, Moscow
2018 – “Metro”, “Open Gallery”, Moscow; “Moscow”, “Open Gallery”, Moscow
From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, The Museum of Russian Art (TMORA), Minneapolis MN; “Vibrations of the Earth”, East Meets West Gallery, Design Centre ARTPLAY, Moscow
