Alla Bogdanovic (b. 1982, Lithuania) is a London-based artist working primarily in painting. Her practice centres on the female body within transitional, often overlooked spaces—particularly bathrooms—as sites of vulnerability, performance, and confrontation.

Trained within a Soviet-influenced art education and later completing a BA in Fine Art at Middlesex University, Bogdanovic’s work is shaped by a lived experience of post-Soviet cultural transition. The collapse of the Soviet Union during her childhood continues to inform her interest in systems of control, and how they persist in shaping behaviour, identity, and especially the construction of femininity.

Her trajectory moves between documentation and reconstruction. After more than a decade working as a photographer within London’s nightlife and fashion industries, she developed an “insider” perspective on bodies operating within public and performative environments. Her current painting practice reworks these observations through a more subjective and psychological lens.

In her ongoing series Toilet Diaries, Bogdanovic uses temporary, functional spaces as what she describes as “portable thresholds”—zones where private and public identities collide. Through staged, exaggerated figures, the work explores exposure, self-surveillance, and defiance, often navigating the tension between control and release.

Her work engages with questions of agency, digital intimacy, and the legacy of post-Soviet attitudes toward the body and sexuality, particularly in relation to women’s autonomy in contemporary culture.

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  Education:​

• 2012–2015: BA Fine Arts, Middlesex University, London

• 2011–2012: Foundation in Art and Design, College of West Anglia, King’s Lynn

• 2003–2006: BA Multimedia Design and Animation, VTDK, Vilnius, Lithuania

• 1996–1998: Vienozinskio School of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

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Selected Exhibitions & Residencies:​

• 2025: Portable Frictions, Annex Koppel Project, London

• 2023: This isn’t a sex pic, Aspex, Portsmouth

• 2019: Club Culture, Fabric night club, London

• 2015: Summer Salon 2015, Islington Arts Factory, London

• 2015: Thirty for Thirty, Buro Four, Royal Academy of Arts, National Theatre, London

• 2015: Group Show, Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London

• 2015: BA Degree Show, Middlesex University, London

• 2015: LGBT History Month, University of Kent

• 2015: Watch this SPACE, Beaconsfield Contemporary, London

• 2014: Restricted Space, Cre8 Space, London 

• 2014: Green and Brown Residency, Ouessant, France (Academia Belle Arti di Macerata)

• 2013: Food4Good, Barbican Art Centre, London

• 2012: Innovative Contemporary Art, Greyfriars Art Space, King's Lynn

• 2005: Kino Festival “YRA”, Feature Film Nomination, Vilnius