Hey, I’m Lada!
I was born in 1991 in an artist’s family in Siberia, used to live for many years in Saint Petersburg (Russia) and since 2022 I live and work in Mannheim (Germany).
I am an artist and an author. As an illustrator I work digitally and analogue. I do illustrations and artworks. As an author I write poetry for adults and stories for kids.
I worked with such clients as Job Center Mannheim, ZEIT SPRACHEN GmbH, Kleines Cafe Mannheim, Medicinal Media, MAJO IDEAS LLC, Baltic Centre for Media Excellence, Cog design agency, The Skinny Magazine, Yandex, Teachers for Ukrainian kids.
Books:
2016 - “As a map”, Saint Petersburg. Poems from this book were translated to Italian, Latvian and Spanish.
Publications:
2024 - Grafikmagazin, Issue 4/2024, Munich.
2024 - ubi bene, Issue 3/2024, Mannheim.
Prizes and exhibitions:
2015 - Arkady Dragomoschenko prize (short list), Saint Petersburg.
2015 - Dzejnieka Asinis / The Blood of a Poet Festival, Riga.
2024 - "Vibration. Farbe. Fluss". Tamara Aptekar, photography. Lada Chizhova, graphics. COOL POOL (AT), Mannheim, Germany.
I speak Russian, English and German. Feel free to contact me: hello@ladachizhova.com.