Milissa Levi - contemporary artist

My name is Milissa Levi. I am an artist, contemporary art activist, as well as an organizer and facilitator of creative events throughout Moscow. I have knowledge and practical experience in various fields and areas of contemporary art, such as oil painting, sculpture, installation, photography, video art and others. I gained a deeper understanding of these felds through my higher education at the British Graduate School of Design

We saw a tremendous return and I am madly grateful to you for this. For me you have become a huge motivator to create something new, to share your creativity and to create many times more. There is nothing more satisfying than seeing people inspired by what you do. Something you put your whole soul into.

I feel like I have grown in these past two months. Spiritually, morally, mentally. You can see it for yourself. It's an experience — and with it we always learn, always grow.

I can honestly tell you that all my installations and paintings are a reflection of my feelings and experiences. There is a huge range of emotions in each of my works, from pain to very strong love. And I am talking about love in general. About love in all its manifestations. About love for a person, about love for the soul, about love for friends or a loved one, about love for family, for nature and the sky, about love for myself and the world. About love. Without love, life has no meaning. And I write about love so often that love, stammering, will write a story about me. And you know, now I am about such love, when you do not want to brag, when for the first time you want to hide love under the shelter, to protect it from all the inevitable and inclement. The strongest feelings.

And many people ask us, how did you achieve such a good result at such an age (I was 16), in such a small time? I will share with you one thought that answered all your questions: To succeed, your desire for success must be greater than your fear of failure. Just know that when you truly want success, you will never be disappointed by it. No matter how difficult the situation may become. I do not regret what I did, I only regret what I did not do when I had the chance! All people sent to us are a reflection of us. And they are sent so that we, looking at these people, correct our mistakes, and when we correct them, these people either change too, or leave our lives.

All your life you have to live with yourself, so pick the damn profession you want. Pick the person you love. Go where you want to go. Take off those clothes you do not like. Take care of yourself. Search for yourself. Become, finally, someone you will be proud of. It is hard to wait for something you know may never happen; but it is even harder to give up when you know that's all you want. Organize your life.

All detailed information and a tour of the exhibition can be found at the following links

An Independent exhibition of works of contemporary art by students of the Foundation Art & Design program at E.K.ArtBuro, Maly Kiselny per. 4.

Held from 29.06.22 to 02.07.22 inclusive.

Our exhibition presents many media, and some works combine several of them at once. The boundaries of genres are probed, pushed or, on the contrary, narrowed by artists.

Sometimes, the works cannot be united by any principle at all. The name "SUMATOHA" was not chosen by chance, it allows to unite what cannot be united. The exhibition is based on the principle of uniting the incommunicable, the primacy of the author and his intuitive interest in exploring both the individual theme and the boundaries of the selected media.

Student initiative implies the primacy of experience in organization and participation, the absence of hierarchy. During the course, students were given the opportunity to explore art and their place in it through the lens of their newly acquired experience. "SUMATOHA" is expressed in the nature of the organization, the eclecticism of the content, it is primarily the naturalness and randomness of the group's movement.

Milissa Levi's large structure "6 SPIRALS, 2022" positions itself as a sculpture, while painting techniques were used to make it.

You can read more about my work in the Projects section — 6 SPIRALS.

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Exhibition of works of contemporary art by students of the Foundation Art & Design program "Cover Version" at UContemporary gallery, at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art.

Held from 02.03.2022 - 09.04.2022.

Students of the BHSAD program reinterpreted the works of the classics of the art scene and presented their interpretations of the legendary statements at the "Cover Version" exhibition.

The "Cover Version" exhibition presents interpretations of 14 iconic statements of world art created over the last 74 years.

The earliest work, which became the prototype for Cover Version, dates back to 1945, while the most recent was created just three years ago in 2019.

— How does the view of art change through the lens of a century?

— What do we find acutely relevant in a contemporary context?

— How is the dialog between young authors and artists who have made art history?

The exhibition "Cover Version" answers these questions.

The exhibition "Cover Version" is the final point of a four-year project of young authors on the Foundation Art & Design course. At the start of the course, students are asked to research a particular aspect of visual arts practice, on the basis of which they will then identify a seminal work that will be reinterpreted later as a cover statement.

Exhibition curator: Sean Kaye

In the curatorial text for the exhibition Cover Version, Sean Kaye recalls the words of Gertrude Stein (The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas), who emphasizes that you will never understand what a book is by simply remaining a reader without having it printed and proofread. This is why, according to Sean Kaye, creating cover versions of famous works by great authors is so important for young artists.

For viewers, however, familiarizing themselves with cover stories is an opportunity to see already known works in a completely different context, looking at them through the artistic reinterpretation of their contemporaries.

While researching the theme "Text and Language" in the "Visual Arts" section, my team and I decided to choose the work "Burnt Word" ("Palabra quemada", 2012) by the famous Spanish contemporary artist Santiago Sierra. It was made in El Cabañal (Valencia), a traditional fishing town that has been fighting against the speculative plans of the city council for years. The project was carried out in collaboration with the neighborhood association and the collective Perifèries.

We chose this artwork because, firstly, we were literally obsessed with the process of burning, because fire is something that cannot be controlled and we really wanted to work with such circumstances. Even though the artist gave direction to this action of burning, the tension between man-made letters and the force of nature was our area of interest within the cover project.

A group project created by Milissa Levi, Roza Shamshieva, Marya Rudenko and Anna Knyazeva.

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