Mila Dolman
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| Born | January 8, 1984 Moscow, Russia |
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| Known for | Artist |
| 🌐 Website | https://miladolman.com |
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Mila Dolman (full name: Mila Borisovna Dolman, Russian: Мила Борисовна Долман, was born in 1984 in Moscow) contemporary artist, based in London. She is known by public art projects and anti-war performances. After moving to UK she started to work a lot with idea of preserving national heritage and archaic cultures.
She has recently explored its theoretical underpinnings in her MA dissertation 'A journey back to the future: reflections on the theme of cultural heritage in contemporary art'.
She is interested in the ideas of archives and ruins, the ways in which they represent human perception of knowledge and the cyclical model of history. Dolman is working with various sculptural media, with a particular focus on ceramics and bronze.
Biography[edit]
Journalism
Mila Dolman was born in Moscow with her parents coming from Tajikistan where their families were exiled during the Stalin's Great Purge.
The collapse of the Soviet Union and the death of her uncle in Dushanbe during Tajik Civil War in 1990s played a formative role. Being an artist, he contributed to Dolman's development also informed by her parents' academic careers in natural sciences.
After getting a degree in Broadcast journalism at Lomonosov Moscow State University Dolman worked for several years in Russian media, eventually coming to realisation that there was no creative and political freedom left there. She worked (with a name Mila Kuzina and many other pseudonyms) as a correspondent for the Kommersant newspaper, Ogoniok magazine, Business FM radio station, MK newspaper, and the leading morning broadcast of NTV channel.
One of her most famous articles was the publication[1] from the French Alps ski resort Courchevel, where were described how Russian officials rested in company with Russian oligarchs at the time of the Financial Crisis of 2008. The article had a great response and after it, Russian Category A officials had to coordinate their trips abroad with President Dmitry Medvedev for several more years.
Art
Mila Dolman did her second BA in Ceramics at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry.
With great scandal and support only of her professor famous Russian contemporary artist Oleg Tatarintsev, she presented her Final work at degree show. She was accused of being too radical in her project. Dolman use in her sculpture old bricks without working with a row clay and kiln firings. This happened for the first time in this classic academy.
Just after this scandal, she decided to move to London and in a year she started her MA in Sculpture at the Royal College of Art.
Since … Dolman has been based in London, but she feels that her practice is still defined by her Russian background. Personal and global histories are a major theme of her work and recently she has focused on the problem of preservation of world's cultural heritage in the era of international conflicts.
Dolman has got distinction in her MA thesis 'A journey back to the future: reflections on the theme of cultural heritage in contemporary art'.
Dolman has participated in several projects of the IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art[2], VI Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art[3], XI International Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale[4], VI ArtbatFest in Almaty Kazakhstan[5]. In 2015 Dolman won the first prize in the Absolut Space competition for young artists with the project 'Communion by the Black Square'.
In 2017 Mila Dolman founded RED DOOR Project Space[6] in her own art studio in collaboration with curator Olga Pogasova, where they started to show young independent artists not for commercial purposes.
Charity[edit]
An important part of Mila's practice is charity work within the art sphere. She is participating in several projects as a donating artist or a founder and manager.
Knit in Need
When her father fell ill with Alzheimer's, she decided to organize a fundraiser for single elderly people living in her local community in Russia.
The Labyrinth
The children's Department of the Bakulev Scientific Center of Cardiovascular Surgery commissioned this public art project with no artist fee.
The Avant-garde Zoo
Together with the children of Moscow hospital, Mila Dolman painted large figures of animals made of polystyrene foam, thus they create a zoo on the lawn near the hospital.
Stop Corona Art Project
Mila Dolman and her friend journalist Victoria Malyutina-Lukashina organized a charity sale of masks. Mila drew any pictures, logos or inscriptions on masks and sent them to the buyer via Facebook. Raised money was spent for the gifts and food for lonely elderly people from artist’s local community.
Education[edit]
2011 BA TV Journalism, Lomonosov Moscow State University
2015 BA Fine Art Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry
2016 Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Moscow
2019 MA Fine Art (Sculpture) Royal College of Art London
Selected group exhibitions[edit]
2019
'Critical Cartographies: Marketing Suite', Filet Space, London, UK
'Summer show 2019', The Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
'Marketing Suite', The Assembly Point, London, UK
'Another Atmosphere', Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow, Russia
2018
'What are you staring at?', RED DOOR Project Space, London, UK
2017
'__Borders__ Borders' Part II, Sculpture Court of Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
'Virtuality Mortality', Ugly Duck, London, UK
2016
'II' group exhibition of ICA Students, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow, Russia
'__Borders__ Borders' Part I, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2015
International Festival of Contemporary Art ARTBAT FEST, Almaty, Kazakhstan
'Intervention', All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
'Patience?', Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
'Illumination', Hypercube Skolkovo Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia
'Safety', ICA Kabakov studio, Moscow, Russia
2014
'Ceramics on the grass', The State Museum of Ceramics in Kuskovo, Moscow, Russia
'Bestiary -2014', State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
STUDENT Art Prom, Artplay Design Center, Moscow, Russia
'Kittens in the Manege', New Manege, Moscow, Russia
Awards and prizes
2015 -- First prize in the competition 'Absolut Space' among young artists
External links[edit]
https://www.russianartandculture.com/36444-2
https://afisha.london/en/event/line-flight-exhibition-red-door-project-space/
https://www.artslant.com/ew/artists/show/492231-mila-dolman?tab=PROFILE
https://curatingthecontemporary.org/2017/11/30/openings-exhibitions-december-2017/
https://virtualitymortality.wordpress.com/artists/
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