Svetlana Kopystianskaia was born in Voronezh in 1950. Her versatility as an artist has allowed her to concentrate various accomplishments in her Conceptualist art. She takes as her primary subject a book or text and its coded symbolism. The immediate reality, material or social, is considered from a distance to achieve philosophical depth, whereas anything remote, such as bygone eras and artistic concepts are considered from an intimate, very personal viewpoint.
Kopystianskaia received the Munich scholarship in 1989 followed by the most prestigious German scholarship – the DAAD – in 1990. Her personal exhibitions have taken place in some of the largest European and American museum centers. Kopystianskaia lives and works in New York and Berlin.
