Fabifa, Confidence, 2020

The artwork Confidence describes the internal state of the depicted girl boldly looking forward in the hope of conveying a sense of confidence and motivation to the viewer. The bright colors of the artwork convey a positive attitude, and the abstract lines on the right reflect the vibration of the contours of the girl’s face, while the corals at the back symbolize symbiosis with the environment and the calmness of the sea

• Künstlername | artist name: Fabifa
• Vorname | First Name: Valeryia
• Nachname | Last Name: Losikava
• Email address: artfabifa@gmail.com
• Mobile phone: +4917623604344
• Website URL: https://artfabifa.com/
• Instagram URL: https://www.instagram.com/tape_fabifa/
• Address Line 1: Hasenheide, 34
• Address Line 2: 34
• City: Berlin
• Zip Code: 10967
• Country: Germany
• State: berlin
• Portraitbild | Portrait picture:
• Künstler-CV | Artist Bio:

  Born and raised in conservative Belarus, Fabifa discovered a new found freedom when moving to Berlin in 2015. The city‘s open attitude provided a perfect platform for self discovery and reflection which she shows within her art.
  Her body of work captures harmonious moments, aiming to reflect her subject‘s sensations and feelings, in a perspective from which she is in control.
  A further focal point is Fabifa’s aesthetic preference and perception of beauty. We see examples of scarification, tattooing and clear depictions of Fetish elements all of which trigger positive emotional responses within her.
  Fabifa’s material of choice, tape, has powerful connotations to fetish in itself. With it’s shiny, smooth surface it reflects other frequently fetishized materials such as latex or leather. Coupled with her use of sharp, bold shapes and vibrant colors, she visually enhances the way in which she communicates her ideas and perceptions with the viewer.

  Fabifa uses tape art as a political protest, as an expression of her personal and sexual freedom. She sees most of her art as a tool of communication that is supposed to raise awareness to political justice, equality and self-expression.

  Statement:

  “My work brings up social and cultural questions, by examining traditional, popular and subcultures, notions of freedom and how these influence and form society.
  I close the gap between social stereotypes and open new ways for people to perceive different cultures in a globalized world.
  Graphic rawness and clarity of lines are delivered through the properties of tape, my primary medium. My preference to this aesthetic was subconsciously influenced by USSR propaganda art and later in life, in stark contrast, by pop and comic art.
  Ironically the function of tape to ‘stick together‘ or bond lends itself perfectly in combining two opposing sources of inspiration. Essentially, my purpose as an artist is to embody the tape’s characteristic to make bonds and unite different ideas.
  Furthermore my recent color palette has been greatly influenced by Ultraviolet glowing corals and sea creatures in correlation with the urban night life of a modern metropolis.
  Human existence and perception are at the center of my work with the exploration of creating a blueprint of the future human.”

  E-mail: artfabifa@gmail.com
  Web-site: artfabifa.com
  Instagram: @tape_fabifa
  Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/artfabifa/

  BIOGRAPHICAL DATA
  Date of Birth: 14/09/1987
  Place of Birth: Minsk, Belarus, USSR
  BILDUNG 2003 – 2007 Minsk State Architectural College Architect, Architecture
  Since 2008 Artist, Illustrator, Freelancer
  Since 2016 tape artist

  SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES

  2023

  11.02-11.05.2023 - “Hidden emotions”, Mora Mora Gallery, solo exhibition, Cancun, Mexico

  2022

  26.08-17.11.2022 - “GEKAUFTE LIEBE”, Not a gallery, group exhibition, Berlin
  17.05-21.05.2022 - TAPE ART CONVENTION 2022, group exhibition, Berlin
  01.05-31.09.2022 - GAME OVER 2, group exhibition, Berlin
  20.06-24.06.2022 - Tape art Performance, MELT Festival
  01.07-02.07.2022 - Tape art Performance, NEXT NOW Festival, Berlin
  03.07-05.07.2022 - Tape art Performance, Hoffest, Rotes Rathaus Berlin

  2021

  13.06.2021 - Tape art Installation, Alternative Belarussische Botschaft, Berlin
  13.08.2021 - “REFLECT”, group exhibition, FernsehTurm Berlin
  01.10-31.01.2021 - GAME OVER, group exhibition, Berlin

  2020

  06.07.2020 - Tape art Performance, Alex TV, Berlin
  21.08.2020 - Tape art Performance, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  10.09-19.09.2020 - Tape art Protests, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin
  01.11.2020 - Tape art Performance, Art Hause Rising, Berlin

  2019

  19.10.2019 - Tape art Performance, Festival Borschsch, Berlin
  04.10.2019 -06.10.2019 - BERLIN GRAPHIC DAYS - group exhibition, Berlin
  29.09.2019 - Tape art Performance, RAW Festival, Chemnitz
  03.07.2019 - Tape art Performance, Yard5 Festival, Berlin
  16.06.2019 - Tape art Performance, AVA club, Berlin
  29.05.2019 - 02.06.2019 - DUO EXHIBITION with Anne Bengard, Eigengrau, Berlin
  25.05.2019 - Tape art Performance, Anomalie Club, Berlin
  01.05.2019 - Tape art Performance, Kit Kat Club, Berlin
  18.03.2019 - Street Art Festival against racism, Center for Art and Urbanism, Berlin
  16.03.2019 -17.03.2019 - BERLIN GRAPHIC DAYS - group exhibition, Berlin

  2018

  01.09.2018 -13.10.2018 - “Monumenta” - group exhibition, Leipzig
  25.08.2018 -27.08.2018 - “Hometown” - group exhibition, Berlin
  07.07.2018 -28.07.2018 - TAPE ART CONVENTION 2018 - group exhibition, Berlin
  05.07.2018 -06.07.2018 - Millerntor Gallery #8 - group exhibition, Hamburg
  18.05.2018 -21.05.2018 - BERLIN MURAL FEST - group exhibition, Berlin
  26.04.2018 -29.04.2018 - WANDELISM 2.0 - group exhibition, Berlin
  25.04.2018 - Tape art Performance on the BVG Bus for RBB and RadioEins, Berlin
  17.03.2018 -31.03.2018 - WANDELISM - group project and exhibition, Berlin
  20.03.2018 — Tape art Performance, Intertraffic Amsterdam 2018
  7.03.2017 — 9.03.2017 — Tape art Performance, ITB Berlin 2018

  2017

  11.10.2017 - 27.12.2017 - ARTCADEN - group project and exhibition, Berlin, Germany
  5.10.2017 - Tape art Performance, Street Art Festival, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany
  30.09.2017 - Tape art Performance, Project Nautilus, Berlin, Germany
  22.09.2017 - 24.09.17 - Candy Shop Graffiti Jam, Aerosol Arena, Magdeburg, Germany
  1.09.2017 - 11.09.2017 - Tape art Performance, Stilbruchfestival, Teufelsberg, Berlin, Germany
  23.08.2017- 27.08.2017 - Exhibition “A-part”, 25 rue de la République, Marseille
  10.08.2017- 13.08.2017 - Art Festival “The Take Over”, Nau Bostik, Barcelona
  22.07.2017 - Tape art Performance, Stickermesse 2017, YAAM Gallery Berlin
  15.07.2017 - Art Jam, Leipzig
  07.07.2017 - Tape art Performance, Street Art Festival, Kempten
  24.06.2017 - Art Jam, Dresden
  19.06.2017 - Tape art Performance, Street Art Festival, Potsdam
  17-18.06.2017 – Art Festival “Murales”, SAGE-Beach, Berlin
  02.06.2017 – Tape art Performance, Street Art Festival, Siegen
  1.04 – 31.05.2017 - THE HAUS - group project and exhibition, Berlin

  2016

  25.11 - 26.11.2016 – Art Festival "Ruberoid", gallery ACUD, Berlin
  8.10 - 15.10.2016 – Tape Art Convention 2016 - group exhibition, Berlin.
  5.10 - 6.10.2016 – Street Art Festival, Hamburg
  27.08 - 03.09.2016 – Tape art Performance, Street Art Festival, Berlin
  23.07.2016 – Tape art Performance, Street Art Festival, Hamburg
  16.07.2016 – Festival "Red Bull Flugtag", Zurich
  03.06-05.06.2016 - Festival "Ost-Anders", Nuremberg
  1.04 – 17.04.2016 - SINGLE EXHIBITION "Weissdeutchland", gallery "Berlin Art School", Berlin

  bibliography / publications
  “Kunst mit dem Klebeband”. Berliner Morgenpost, 09.09.2022.
  Der Berliner Fernsehturm bekommt eine geklebt. Berliner Zeitung, 14.08.2021

  Alina Xenia Troniarsky. “The Ocean on the LomoMod NO.1 - Fabifa’s Amazing Tape Art Design”. Lomography Magazine, Berlin, March 2020.
  Julia. “Die Künstlerin Fabifa über Livemalerei und Tape Art in Berlin” (The artist Fabifa about live painting and tape art in Berlin). Neoavantgarde, Berlin, 28.05.2019
  Bart Van Kersavond. “Studio Fabifa”. Urbanpresents, Berlin, August 2019.
  Fonti. “ Fabifa: la grande scoperta della Tape Art” (Fabifa: the great discovery of Tape Art). Tape Art Altervista, Milan, September 2018.
  Jean Gautier. “Le festival A-Part en route vers un nouveau cycle en 2018” (The A-Part festival on the way to a new cycle in 2018). La Provence, Marseille, 03.09.2017
  “Weissdeutschland: выставка живописи Валерии Лосиковой” (Weissdeutschland: exhibition of paintings by Valeria Losikova). Belarus in Focus. Minsk, 22.04.2016

  TV show
  EURONEWS. "Game Over" in Berlin ist die perfekte Spielwiese für Kunst 3.0. Berlin, 11.10.2021
  BELSAT TV. “Мастачка дала адпор берлінскім ябацькам”. Berlin, 01.06.2021
  ALEX Berlin NV. “Tape Art by Fabifa im ALEX Berlin Radiostudio”. Berlin, 5.07.2020
  BERLIN-av. “Valeryia Losikava -Tape Art”. Berlin, 24.04.2018
  BELSAT TV. “Тэйп-арт мастачка з Берліну”. (Tape Artist from Berlin). Minsk. 29.05.2018
  BELSAT TV. “Weissdeutschland”. Minsk. 01.04.2016

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