PRESS:

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Painting the Terrifying Beauty of Abortion-Inducing Flowers
In Plant Parenthood, Alina Bliumis portrays the plants that have been used to terminate pregnancies for hundreds and thousands of years.
By Elaine Velie, March 7, 2023

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Bliumis renders flowers used as folk medicine to induce abortion in various countries throughout history. Using watercolors and pencils on boards, the artist figures the flowers in sexualized gestures as subtle odes to reproductive organs.

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Exhibition Review by Claudia Bodin, May 2023 (in print)

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Sex, Death and Original Sin: This Exhibition Celebrates the Flower in Art
Les Fleurs du Mal at Maison Guerlain in Paris pays tribute to flowers, and the sacred place they have come to occupy in art

By Alex Peters
November 2023

PUBLICATIONS:

Art and Climate Change (World of Art), Maja Fowkes, Reuben Fowkes, Thames & Hudson, Apr 7, 2022

Specters of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art, Texts by Boris Groys, Catherine Carl, Brian Kuan Wood, Published by e-flux and James Gallery, The Graduate Center CUNY, 2015

SLAVS AND TATARS Crack Up – Crack Down – The 33rd Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Published by Mousse Publishing, 2020

EmergencyIndex 2013 and 2012, Ugly Duckling Presse

Media Impact. International Festival Of Activist Art, Published by ZKM Institute for Visual Media, 2012

Political Art and Activism, Art & Agenda, Texts by R. Klanten, M. Hubner, A. Bieber, P. Alonzo, G. Jansen, Published by Gestalten, 2011

Ultra-New Materiality, Text by Caroline Bourgeois, 3rd Moscow Biennale catalog of parallel program, 2009

Shape Of Things To Come: New Sculpture, Text by Meghan Dailey, Published by Rizzoli, 2008

Hello, USA? Text by Andrey Parshikov, Published by Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia, 2008

MoBY Hosting, Text by Milana Gitzin-Adiram and Leah Abir, Published by MoBY, Bat Yam Museum for Contemporary Art, Israel, 2007

Left Pop, Text by Nicola Lees and Georgina Jackson, 2nd Moscow Biennale catalog of parallel program, 2007

Victory Over The Sun, Text by Vitaly Patshukov, Published by the National Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia, 2007
Busan Biennale catalog, 2006

The Aesthetics of Resistance, Text by Roberto Pinto and Anna Daneri, Published by Ratti Foundation, 2006

Post Diaspora, Text by Olga Kopenkina, 1st Moscow Biennale catalog of parallel program, 2005

MONOGRAMS:
Alina Bliumis Most of Us Are, artist book, 2019
Alina Bliumis Poems Without Borders, artist book, 2009
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, From Selfie to Groupie, Text by Joshua Ellison (editor), David Shneer, Anya Ulinich, Jenya Gorbatsevich and Konrad Bercovici, Published by Genesis Philanthropy Group, 2015
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Cultural Tips For New Americans, artist Book, 2011
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Dam Lines, Text by Elizabeth M. Grady, Published by Andrea Meislin Gallery, 2008
Alina and Jeff Bliumis, Receiving the Stranger, Text by Adam Kleinman, Aniko Erdosi, Nicola Lees and Georgina Jackson, Roberto Pinto, Gerald Janecek, Sylvia Grace Borda and Elisa Tjin, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Vitaly Patsyukov, and Yulia Tikhonova, Published by CheckOffArtPress, 2007