Alevtina Lyapunova
Alevtina Lyapunova is an artist based in Vienna.
In her artistic practice, she works primarily with painting, drawing, and spatial installation.
Born in Russia in 1995, she lived there until 2021. From 2014 to 2019, she studied stage design at the Moscow Art Theatre School. Since 2020, she has been studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class of Professor Iman Issa.
In 2018, Alevtina Lyapunova co-founded the art collective troika.kurs. The group worked together until 2021, realizing a series of theatrical projects and exhibitions in Moscow, Prague, Vladivostok, and Schelykovo.
Since 2022, Alevtina regularly collaborates with the children’s summer school Bilding in Innsbruck.
Her works were shown in the exhibitions in Vienna, Moscow, Prague, Frankfurt am Main.
“Those situations morphing into objects wanting to be painted are united by the very distinct expression of life’s whatness. ”
I can’t define what it is that moves me when I am painting. It certainly feels like something else than me, so I create a space to welcome this energy that forces movement of colors and lines. It means less control and more play. I consider the painting finished as soon as I don’t want to work on it anymore.
As well as in the process of painting, the choice of the motives that I paint lays beyond my conscious mind. Sometimes I just experience or observe a situation and immediately know, that I have to make it into a painting. I would say that it is rather the object demanding to be painted than me choosing to paint it. Those situations morphing into objects wanting to be painted are united by the very distinct expression of life’s whatness. I meet them in the different relationships and interactions between bodies of humans, dogs, plants, birds, machines and children with each other and space as another player. I process with a method of documentation, that allows me sometimes to trace the transition of the essence (spirit) of one body into another, from one situation to another.
Usually I work with series and understand my practice as a constellation, often realized in spatial installations. Depending on the position in the space and towards other paintings, the meaning of separate paintings and of all of them together becomes fluid and starts to continuously transform discovering more space for play.
