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Valeryia Losikava (b. 1987), known as Fabifa, is a Berlin-based artist creating large-scale installations and series of hard edge figurative works using primarily tape. Her work explores themes of personal freedom, identity and self-expression.
Born and raised in Minsk, Belarus, she studied architecture and security engineering, working as a security engineer before moving to Berlin in 2015 – a city she chose specifically to pursue art. The experience of living between two worlds, between constraint and freedom, became the foundation of her entire practice.
Her works emerge from the intersection of three layers: the internal – the psychological state she is exploring at a given moment; the external – a theme or world she is obsessed with (deep-sea creatures, night megacities, cyberpunk, the human body); and the colour period she is in. Her figures are muses who are mostly real people who inspire her. Her creative process begins with photography – capturing the essence of a muse before meticulous translating it into tape. The precision of tape mirrors the structured side of her personality, while its adaptability allows for spontaneity.
Her installations have been presented at major Berlin institutions and events, including Urban Nation Museum as part of Berlin Art Week, the Berlin TV Tower (Fernsehturm), and Gallery Weekend Berlin, with further exhibitions across Germany, France, Spain, Denmark, and Mexico. She has held solo exhibitions at Mora Mora Gallery (Cancun, 2023) and Pink Dot Gallery (Berlin, 2025), and her work is held in private collections internationally.
STATEMENT
I create large-scale installations and series of hard edge figurative works using primarily tape, exploring themes of personal freedom, identity and self-expression.
I came to art through architecture and engineering – and the experience of leaving Belarus for Berlin, of living between constraint and freedom, became the foundation of everything I make.
My works emerge from three layers at once: what I am going through internally, what I am obsessed with externally – deep-sea creatures, night megacities, cyberpunk, the human body – and the colour period I am in. I am drawn to contrasts – the organic and the mechanical, the past and the future, the rigid and the fluid. My figures are muses, mostly real people who inspire me – I photograph them and meticulous translate their essence into tape.
My tape works are a language – transmitting personal experiences, sensations and analysis. The precision of tape mirrors the structured side of my personality, while its adaptability allows for spontaneity. I want people to understand what I am saying and to immerse themselves in it.
PRESS
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Valeryia Losikava (Fabifa) – artist based in Berlin, DE
Born in 1987, Minsk, Belarus
EDUCATION
2025 — Mentorship with curator Katerina Sokolovskaya
2024 — Mentorship with Art Director Charlotte Spech
2024 — Mentorship with curator Katerina Sokolovskaya
2008-2013 — Belarusian National Technical University, Security Engineering, Specialist degree
2003-2007 — Minsk State Architectural College Architect, Architecture, Bachelor degree
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2021 — Art director, Organizer, Mentor, “School of regional art managers in Belarus”, Berlin, DE
2018-2022 — Mentor, Tape Art Conventions, Berlin, DE
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 — “SOLO FABIFA”, PinkDot Gallery, Berlin, DE
2023 — “HIDDEN EMOTIONS”, Mora Mora Gallery, Cancun, Mexico
2016 — “WEISSDEUTSCHLAND”, gallery “Berlin Art School”, Berlin, DE
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2026 — “Dance into May”, Forum Factory, Gallery Weekend 2026, Berlin, DE
2026 — “Groupshow 16”, New and Abstract gallery, Berlin, DE
2025 — “FRESH LEGS”, Inselgalerie, Berlin, DE
2024 — “FLOATING WALLS”, Urban Nation Museum, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2024 — “KINESIS”, P61 Gallery, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2023 — “ZEITENWENDE”, Contemporary showroom, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2022 — “GEKAUFTE LIEBE”, Not a gallery, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2022 — “TAPE ART CONVENTION 2022”, Napoleon complex, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2022 — “GAME OVER 2”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2021 — “REFLECT”, FernsehTurm Berlin, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2021 — “GAME OVER”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2019 — “BERLIN GRAPHIC DAYS 2.0”, X-lane, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2019 — “DUO EXHIBITION” with Anne Bengard, Eigengrau, Berlin, DE
2019 — “BERLIN GRAPHIC DAYS”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2018 — “MONUMENTA”, group exhibition, Leipzig, DE
2018 — “HOMETOWN” , group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2018 — “TAPE ART CONVENTION 2018”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2018 — “Millerntor Gallery #8”, group exhibition, Hamburg, DE
2018 — “WANDELISM 1.0 and 2.0”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2017 — “ARTCADEN”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2017 — “A-PART”, group exhibition, 25 rue de la République, Marseille, FR
2017 — “THE HAUS”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2016 — “TAPE ART CONVENTION 2016”, group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2016 — “OST-ANDERS”, group exhibition, Nuremberg, DE
ART FESTIVALS and PERFORMANCES
2023 — Art Festival in Hellersdorf group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2023 — TAPE Art Festival , Odense, Denmark
2022 — Performance, MELT Festival, DE
2022 — Performance, NEXT NOW Festival, Berlin, DE
2022 — Performance, Hoffest, Rotes Rathaus Berlin, DE
2021 — Performance, Alternative Belarussische Botschaft, Berlin, DE
2020 — Tape art Protests, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE
2020 — Tape art Performance, Art House Rising, Berlin, DE
2020 — Performance, Alex TV, Berlin, DE
2020 — Performance, Potsdamer Platz, Berlin, DE
2019 — Performance, RAW Festival, Chemnitz, DE
2019 — Performance, festival Borschsch, Berlin, DE
2019 — Street Art Festival against racism, Center for Art and Urbanism, Berlin, DE
2018 — BERLIN MURAL Art Festival – group exhibition, Berlin, DE
2018 — Performance, Intertraffic, Amsterdam 2018, NL
2017 — Performance, ITB Berlin 2018, DE
2017 — Performance, Project Nautilus, Berlin, DE
2017 — Performance, Stilbruchfestival, Teufelsberg, Berlin, DE
2017 — Art Festival “The Take Over”, Nau Bostik, Barcelona, S
2017 — Performance, Stickermesse 2017, YAAM Gallery Berlin, DE
2017 — Art Festival “Murales”, SAGE-Beach, Berlin, DE
2016 — Art Festival “Ruberoid”, gallery ACUD, Berlin,
2016 — Performance, Street Art Festival, Berlin, DE
2016 — Performance, Street Art Festival, Hamburg, DE
RESIDENCIES
2017 — project “A-PART”, gallery “25 rue de la République”, Marseille, France
2017 — project “THE TAKE OVER”, Nau Bostik, Barcelona, Spain
BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICATIONS
09.09.2022 — “Kunst mit dem Klebeband”, Berliner Morgenpost, DE
14.08.2021 — ”Der Berliner Fernsehturm bekommt eine geklebt”, Berliner Zeitung, DE
03.2020 — Alina Xenia Troniarsky. “The Ocean on the LomoMod NO.1 – Fabifa’s Amazing Tape Art Design”. Lomography Magazine, Berlin, DE
28.05.2019 — Julia. “Die Künstlerin Fabifa über Livemalerei und Tape Art in Berlin” (The artist Fabifa about live painting and tape art in Berlin). Neoavantgarde, Berlin, DE
08.2019 — Bart Van Kersavond. “Studio Fabifa”. Urbanpresents, Berlin, DE
September 2018 — Fonti. “ Fabifa: la grande scoperta della Tape Art” (Fabifa: the great discovery of Tape Art, Tape Art Altervista, Milan, IT
03.09.2017 — Jean Gautier. “Le festival A-Part en route vers un nouveau cycle en 2018” (The A-Part festival on the way to a new cycle in 2018). La Provence, Marseille, FR
2016 — “Weissdeutschland: выставка живописи Валерии Лосиковой” (Weissdeutschland: exhibition of paintings by Valeria Losikova). Belarus in Focus. Minsk, BE
TV SHOWS
11.10.2021 — EURONEWS, “Game Over” in Berlin ist die perfekte Spielwiese für Kunst“, Berlin, DE
05.07.2020 — ALEX Berlin TV, “Tape Art by Fabifa im ALEX Berlin Radiostudio”, Berlin, Alex TV
24.04.2018 — BERLIN-av, “Valeryia Losikava -Tape Art”, Berlin,
29.05.2018 — BELSAT TV, “Тэйп-арт мастачка з Берліну”. (Tape Artist from Berlin), Minsk, BE
01.04.2016 — BELSAT TV, “Weissdeutschland”, Minsk, BE
“Berlin Art School”, Berlin