Ir:c Solza

Ir:c Solza (Iр:ць Солза), an artist, poet, researcher, art critic currently based in Bishkek, Kyrgystan. Feminist and queer, pronouns: he\they.

As an artist I create complex installations, art objects, poetic and textual works, art books, video art and performances. My practice revolves around themes such as fluidity and resistance, queer experience, religious concepts outside the context of the religious canon (miracle, martyrdom), liberation practices, anarchic virtual communities and spaces, criticism of totalitarian political reality, institutional criticism and research into the boundaries of censorship, the creation of a Kafkaesque non-existent people and a choir of dubious voices, and the feminist study of the human body as the boundaries of the individual and public.

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Featured Exhibitions

Showcase of BODILY, Bat Yam project
2026

BODILY, Bat Yam

Group exhibition BODILY at the Jacob Epstein Art Institute, Bat Yam, Israel, 2026.

Showcase of Kokui Sirenada Exhibition, Samara project
2026

Kokui Sirenada Exhibition, Samara

Solo exhibition at osssi mi, 17 May – 7 June 2026. Photos: Denis “Рыба Ебать” and Eva-s.

Showcase of Tech.Dep.Obs.Fau.&W.Phe, Samara  project
2026

Tech.Dep.Obs.Fau.&W.Phe, Samara

Collective exhibition at osssi mi, Samara, 15 Feb – 15 Mar 2026. Curated by Ir:c Solza with Ilya Mikheev and Donald Cooper.

Showcase of ARYQ Fest, Almaty project
2025

ARYQ Fest, Almaty

Independent festival of artistic practices in Almaty, 19 Sept – 5 Oct 2025, themed “Bottom-up” — linking artists, curators, and non-institutional venues across the city.

Showcase of Artists Against the Kremlin: VIRUS, Amsterdam project
2025

Artists Against the Kremlin: VIRUS, Amsterdam

Group exhibition at De Balie, Amsterdam — Artists Against the Kremlin: Virus (2025).

Showcase of Bureaucracy of Miracles' Exhibition, Samara project
2023

Bureaucracy of Miracles' Exhibition, Samara

October 1-22, 2023. OSSI MI, Samara, Russia The project was presented in the form of a journey that begins with a scene - Hellin's Square - depicting either an apocalyptic scene of a fall into hell, or a revolutionary act. The journey included several locations where the viewer could get acquainted with either the virtual part of the project or the physical exhibition. These points were: the Revolution Square, the Museum of the Literature, a tram, a forest with a swamp, an apartment gallery on the outskirts of Samara. Curator: Ilya Mikh eev Travel modera tor: Snezhana Mikheeva Bot developer: Ksenia Kovshova Photos: Dima Ptitsyn

Showcase of One Cannot Be Too Careful, Brighton, Berlin, St. Petersburg project
2017–2018

One Cannot Be Too Careful, Brighton, Berlin, St. Petersburg

Exhibition on censorship and self-censorship: Brighton, UK (2017); Berlin and the feminist version “Eve’s Ribs”, St. Petersburg (2018). Curated by Maxim Evstropov.

Showcase of NOT-PEACE II, Kyiv project
2016

NOT-PEACE II, Kyiv

Site-specific guerrilla exhibition and anti-war action on the outskirts of Kyiv, initiated by Katrin Nenasheva.