Aurо́ra Lо́tton
Biography
Aurora Lotton’s practice is built on a profound engagement with material. Through play and experimentation with technique, she seeks an artistic method. By consciously relinquishing complete control over the process, the artist allows the material to freely express its natural properties and reveal its potential. Her works often have a dynamic, performative character.
Three main motifs travel across her projects like recurring protagonists: the egg, the cleaning rag, and stakes.
Aurora is interested in how trauma manifests in different forms and what transformations it provokes—this is reflected in the life of her objects, installations, and sculpture-happenings. She explores themes of corporeality, stigmatization and destigmatization, and cyclicality, probing the limits of freedom.
Employing irony, she reassigns the status of everyday objects, transforming them into artworks. She plays with the concept of beauty, experiments with established notions of the beautiful, and uncovers institutional paradoxes.
Three main motifs travel across her projects like recurring protagonists: the egg, the cleaning rag, and stakes.
Aurora is interested in how trauma manifests in different forms and what transformations it provokes—this is reflected in the life of her objects, installations, and sculpture-happenings. She explores themes of corporeality, stigmatization and destigmatization, and cyclicality, probing the limits of freedom.
Employing irony, she reassigns the status of everyday objects, transforming them into artworks. She plays with the concept of beauty, experiments with established notions of the beautiful, and uncovers institutional paradoxes.
Born in Dresden, GDR, 1984.
Live and work in Moscow, Russia
Live and work in Moscow, Russia
EDUCATION
2023 - Cultural Code, Skolkovo, Moscow
2017/19 - BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2007/13 - Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Fine Art, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2017/19 - BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2007/13 - Krasnoyarsk State Institute of Fine Art, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2020 - ZERO. CUBE.MOSCOW, INGALLERY, Moscow
RESIDENCY
2015 - Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Freedom of Choice, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Everything Will Pass and Be Forgotten, CTI Factory, Russia
2019 - Art Workshop XXI, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 - AAAA. CUBE. Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Safe Space, VCСI, Voronezh, Russia
2019 - The Poorest Class: Animals. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2018 - .......І...|....|.ІІІ.||||.|||.І|||І|||ІІ.., Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation, Moscow
2018 - Russia XIII, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2018 - Strange, Lost, Unseen, Useless. Winzavod, Moscow
2018 - Siberia XII, Novokuznetsk, Russia
2017 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2017 - Red Prospekt, Novosibirsk, Russia
2016 - Youth of Russia, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Young Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2016 - Red Avenue, Ningbo, China
2015 - Siberia – Far East, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2015 - Line. Point, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2015 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2015 - Opening, Paris, France
2015 - Bridge of Arts, Kansk, Russia
2014 - The Point of No Return, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2013 - Siberia XI, Omsk, Russia
2013 - Young Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2013 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2013 – I am, Tomsk, Russia
2013 - Duet of Contrasts, Yeniseysk, Russia
2013 - Pulse of Time, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 - Mira avenue – Red avenue, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 - Abstract Art, Seoul, South Korea
2011 - Young Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 - Yenisey – Irtysh, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 - Hope IX 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2011 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2021 - Everything Will Pass and Be Forgotten, CTI Factory, Russia
2019 - Art Workshop XXI, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 - AAAA. CUBE. Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Safe Space, VCСI, Voronezh, Russia
2019 - The Poorest Class: Animals. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2018 - .......І...|....|.ІІІ.||||.|||.І|||І|||ІІ.., Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation, Moscow
2018 - Russia XIII, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2018 - Strange, Lost, Unseen, Useless. Winzavod, Moscow
2018 - Siberia XII, Novokuznetsk, Russia
2017 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2017 - Red Prospekt, Novosibirsk, Russia
2016 - Youth of Russia, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2016 - Young Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2016 - Red Avenue, Ningbo, China
2015 - Siberia – Far East, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2015 - Line. Point, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2015 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2015 - Opening, Paris, France
2015 - Bridge of Arts, Kansk, Russia
2014 - The Point of No Return, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2013 - Siberia XI, Omsk, Russia
2013 - Young Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2013 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
2013 – I am, Tomsk, Russia
2013 - Duet of Contrasts, Yeniseysk, Russia
2013 - Pulse of Time, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 - Mira avenue – Red avenue, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 - Abstract Art, Seoul, South Korea
2011 - Young Siberia, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 - Yenisey – Irtysh, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 - Hope IX 9, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2011 - Az.Art.Siberia, Barnaul, Russia
COLLECTIONS
Works of art are in private collections in Russia, United Kingdom, Spain, China, France, Mexico and United States of America