B I O

Liza Shkirando (Swe/Rus, b.1986) a visual and performance artist and an interaction designer based in Sweden, MSc in Interaction design (Malmö University, 2014)

My art draws from my lived experiences, exploring identity, paradox, and binaries while navigating diverse cultures, political views, sexualities, and genders. The transgressive, the queer, and the anarchist embody a moving utopian horizon, while mourning the lost culture I grew up in. Through my practice, I challenge the norms, pushing the boundaries of taste and symbolism. My work, grounded in the Monster Theory, exposes raw emotions, expressed through the body as a vessel, a prison, and medium. 

At the moment, my practice explores gravity as both a physical force and an existential condition shaping bodies, materials, and identities. I approach Gravity as a co-creator, pulling, deforming, and resisting control, allowing form to emerge beyond authorship and a material force. Gravity also acts as a conceptual tool. I explore the theme of belonging and how we gravitate toward places, histories, people, (sub)cultures and identities in search of roots, while never fully arriving. Between grounding and falling, my work reflects on how identity is shaped by forces we inherit and cannot escape. 

I have exhibited throughout Europe and Canada, including Kunsthal Aarhus (Aarhus, Denmark), FRANK Gallery (Malmö, Sweden) and Duplex Gallery (Lisbon, Portugal), performed at Lindenow festival (Leipzig, Germany) and currently booked by Inkonst for the fall of 2026. I’ve been a guest lecturer at Linnaeus University (Växjö, Sweden) and Malmö University speaking about my artistic practice and research. I am involved with the art-based research group led by Professor Susan Kozel and Monster Lab led by Line Henriksen, Phd, at Malmö University.