Selected Works
Lena Liv (Born in 1952, Leningrad, USSR)
Lives and works in Italy and Israel.
Liv works in a range of mediums, including photography, works on paper and sculpture using found objects. She captures a timeless essence in her work, leaving a residue of memories and melancholy. Liv strays far from the obvious, and offers few explanations. She constructs her work in the form of questions rather than answers, devising a search with no end – a search for the enigmatic. A delicate balance between materiality and transience is achieved, drawing the viewer in closer to an inexplicable narrative.
Liv has exhibited solo shows in Germany, Italy, Russia, Switzerland, Israel, and the United States, at institutions such as the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, and the Centro Pecci in Prato. She has participated in group exhibitions held at the Villa Croce, Museum of Contemporary Art in Genoa, Italy; the MUAR in Moscow, Russia; the Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig in Vienna, Australia; and the Kunsthalle Helsinki in Helsinki, Finland. Liv was also included in the Roundabout touring exhibition at the City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.
EXHIBITIONS

Group Show
Territory of Tenderness
Sep 10 - Nov 30, 2020

Group Show
91-DIVOC
Jun 1 - Aug 31, 2020

Group Show
French Salon 2
Jul 1 - Aug 31, 2019

Group Show
Winter
Feb 14 - Mar 22, 2019

Group Show
French Salon
Mar 8 - Apr 27, 2018

Group Show
Collection Highlights
Apr 30 - May 20, 2015

Group Show
Summer Show 12
Jul 10 - Sep 1, 2012

Group Show
2012
Mar 15 - Apr 15, 2012

Group Show
Purity & Danger
Dec 23, 2010 - Feb 23, 2011
ART FAIRS

Pulse New York
May 9 - 12, 2013

Context Art Miami
Dec 4 - 9, 2012

SF Fine Art Fair
May 16 - 20, 2012

Fresh Paint 5
May 15 - 19, 2012

Pluse Los Angeles
Sep 30 - Oct 3, 2011

Fresh Paint 4
Apr 4 - 8, 2011
PUBLICATIONS

Lena Liv, Cenno dell infinito Chair, 2006
Iron, hand-made paper, pigment, glass, 115 x 74 x 75 cm

Lena Liv, Vestito Bianco,
Iron, development of photographic image

Lena Liv, Untitled Lamp,
, 175 x 125 x 30 cm

Lena Liv, Cup, 2003
Emulsion on glass, 52 x 38 x 17 cm

Lena Liv, Assenza, 2003
Emulsion on glass, 52 x 38 x 17 cm

Lena Liv, Room with a window, 1999-2004
Emulsion on glass

Lena Liv, Lavandino Bianco, 2003
Emulsion on glass

Lena Liv, Untitled ( Man with owls),



