Lada Neoberdina is a visual artist and storyteller.
Born in 1988 in northern Russia, the artist has been living and working in France since 2005.
With a Master’s degree in Urban Space Design with honors (ESBA, Le Mans, 2013), Lada Neoberdina has developed a multidisciplinary artistic practice: textile art, urban art, curation, performance, writing, and participates in multiple projects in France and abroad (Belgium, Germany, Iran, Russia, Singapore, Switzerland, United States).
Lada Neoberdina is currently continuing her work in writing, publishing, and curation.
In the winter of 2024, the artist received support from the experimental and inclusive contemporary art space MDAC (Cagnes-sur-Mer, France) for a solo exhibition entitled Exposition-Laboratoire: teinture, ornement, écriture (Exhibition-Laboratory: dyeing, ornamentation, writing). In the spring, she gave birth to her first child.
In 2022, Lada Neoberdina taught at the Paris College of Art (Paris, France) in the Fine Arts / Mixed Media Textile department.
In 2021, the artist joined the Urban Space section at ENSAV La Cambre (Brussels, Belgium) for a year of study, and benefited for a research residency at the Ferme-Asile contemporary art center (Sion, Switzerland).
The year 2020 was marked by a curatorial project at La Manufacture, museum of memory and textile creation (Roubaix, France) for the exhibition Broderie: point de départ (Embroidery: the starting point) as part of the CLEA (Local Art Education Contract).
Lada Neoberdina is a visual artist and storyteller. Her multidisciplinary practice includes textile art, urban art, curation, performance, and writing.
Recent motherhood has had a considerable influence on the artist’s work and has led to the start of a new cycle, MAC: body, space, speaking. Transforming the maternal experience into visual or literary art is a matter of artistic and personal survival and a political stance. The first two projects in the cycle, two micro-editions — N ou N comme le post-partum (N or N as in postpartum) and Que du bonheur ! (Nothing but happiness!) — have been completed.
For the artist, writing is a way to escape demagogic and propagandistic discourse. The magical autofiction style allows her to include performance and create unique space-time dimensions. This is how the project Les contes de la Petite Marchande de fraises (The Tales of a Little Strawberry Seller) was born.
Whether ephemeral or permanent, Lada Neoberdina’s work is deeply rooted in urban space: in situ work, encounters, failures, disappearances. The techniques, tools, and mediums vary depending on the location, audience, intention, means, and needs: murals, performance, poetry, public benches, embroidery.
Lada Neoberdina pursues theoretical and practical research into motifs as part of local and global human history. In order to activate and include ancient motifs in the contemporary ecosystem, the artist works with them using traditional and modern techniques: embroidery, knitting, painting, felting, urban art, neon lights, ice cubes, performance.
In 2019-2020, Lada Neoberdina designed and organized the exhibition Broderie: point de départ (Embroidery: the starting point) at La Manufacture, the museum of memory and textile creation in Roubaix, France. Entirely devoted to embroidery and its variations, it was initially intended to be a solo exhibition. However, instead of glorifying the genius of a single person, the artist decided to share this opportunity with other creatives and celebrate the community and embroidery together.