biography

Anna Slobozhanina (born 1993) is a multimedia artist from St. Petersburg, Russia.

She works with media: site-specific installations, sculpture made of ceramics, pearls and other natural materials, photos. She explores the states of transition - "exercises in death" in nature, man and culture, often referring to the images and meanings of the northern territories.

She graduated from the Department of Ceramics at the Stieglitz Academy. She is a recipient of grants from the Frants Art Foundation, a nominee for the Kuryokhin Award and the Ruarts Foundation grant program. Selected solo projects of the artist were shown at the FFTN Gallery, the Anikushin Museum, the Antonov Gallery, and the Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvory. She has worked in residences: Wynwood residence, Mira centre, Marjin Dom, ARKA, Karelian Air Residency. As part of group exhibitions, she exhibited in the spaces: MMOMA, Permm, the Luda Gallery, Museum of 20th and 21st Century St Petersburg Art, Kuryokhin Center, Kargopol Art Museum and others. She has also participated in art fairs such as Brafa, Cosmoscow, Art4, Port Art Fair, Vladey, and 1703.


artist statement

The way I create art feels to me like casting a spell over and over again. Every time it lets me go deeper and deeper inside my inner universe. While in the evening I might burn everything to the ground, in the morning I can recreate my world again from fragile dreams and subtle threads of thoughts and feelings. In art I can close my eyes and rely on my feelings touching the surface of art pieces which might feel cool or warm, smooth or harsh, soft or solid. I can listen to the calming sounds. This world feels elusive. It can go away as fast as a dream or raindrops when they touch hot wooden boards. I am able either to keep it or destroy it. As in fingering prayer beads, I laugh in the mornings and cry at night.



CV

Education:

2018-2020 Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design – Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Arts, Ceramics and Glass Department (master’s degree), St Petersburg, Russia
2014-2018 Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design – Faculty of Monumental and Decorative Arts, Ceramics and Glass Department (bachelor’s degree), St Petersburg, Russia
2009-2013 Russian Traditional Culture College. Degree «Artist of Miniature Painting», St Petersburg, Russia

Solo projects:

2024 "Dream on a chain", Masters bookstore, St. Petersburg
2022 “planet № 3358”, Memorial workshop of M.K.Anikushin, project “Livingwirhart”, project of the St. Petersburg Center for Contemporary Art and Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, St.Petersburg, Russia
2022 “maguu uino|sleep”, art residence studio in Sortavala, Karelia
2021 “My heart is inside a seashell” a Severodvinsk Local Lore Museum, Severodvinsk, Russia
2021 “Gentle snowy names”, Public art project “City says”, Center for contemporary art ARKA, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2021 “It’s just a liquid it’s not just a liquid” with Matvey Korochkin, “Mastelereya”gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
2020 “Dowry”, Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvory Museum, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2020 “Fragile”, FFTN Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 “Warm windows”, Kurba Art Expedition “Kurbavillage”, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia


Selected group exhibitions:

2024 "Indifference of the middle lane", Mira Center, Suzdal
2024 "Antifragility", PERMM museum, Perm, Russia
2022 "Divovanie. Contemporary Art of the North", Arkhangelsk Gostiny Dvory, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2022 "Reassembly", library-residence “Shkaf", St. Petersburg, Russia
2022 "Passengers. Dialogues about the landscape", "Triumph" gallery, "Tsarskaya Tower" place, Moscow,Russia
2022 "Divovanie. Kargopol", Kargopol Art Museum, Arkhangelsk region, Russia
2021 “A leap in the dark”, LUDA gallery, the finalists of the St Petersburg Young Design competition, St Petersburg, Russia
2021 “Forms of Artistic Life” Education Center of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2021 “maK?аBre_LoOp”, MISP (The Museum of 20th and 21st Century St Petersburg Art), as a part of INTERVAL Festival St Petersburg, Russia
2021 “Anthology of the poor in fine arts and design. Russia vs Italy”, Heritage gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Ordinary things”, cultural center “DK Gromov”, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 "Winter seedlings", Winter Garden project, Benua 1890, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 “I am joining in”, Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, as a part of Curatorial Forum exhibition program, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 Exhibition of nominees of the competition "Invented and Made in Russia", All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow
2018 MORS Festival exhibition, International independent festival of book illustration and visual literature, Moscow, Russia
2017 Exhibition based on the results of the international student ceramics symposium BURO-BOX, Riga, Latvia
2016
"Let's meet - Wroclaw by the International Ceramic Mural”, Wroclaw, Poland

Art fairs and auctions:

2024 Port Art Fair, Saint-Peterburg, Russia
2023 New year Art Fair, Sistema gallery, Moscow, Russia
2023 Tupik, Art4 museum, Moscow, Russia
2023 Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia
2023 Port Art Fair, Saint-Peterburg, Russia
2023 1703, Saint-Peterburg, Russia
2022 Vladey, Moscow, Russia
2021 Brafa, Brussels, Belgium


Participation in the project as a mentor:

2022 "New cultural geography", managing the creation of a public art object by a group of students and graduates of different universities for the place "Boiling Point", project by Foundation for the Support of Innovations and Youth Initiatives of St. Petersburg, Committee on Culture St. Petersburg and St. Petersburg Center for Contemporary Art, Russia

Grants and awards:

2022 Nominee of the Kuryokhin Prize (shortlist, nomination "art in public space")
2021 Nominee of the Ruarts Foundation Grant program (shortlist)
2021 Grant for artistic research, "More than a project"
2021 Winning the competition of projects for further implementation within the framework of the residence "City says"
2020 Winner of the first grant program for artists of the Frants Art Foundation
2018 Nominee of the contest "Invented and made in Russia", All-Russian Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts (shortlist)


Art Residences:

2024 "Mira centre", Suzdal, Russia
2023 Wynwood hotel residence, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2022 "At the factory" Sysertskaya art residence, Sverdlovsk region, Russia
2021 “Mariin dom”, Chakola village and Nyonoksa village, Arkhangelsk region, Russia
2021 Public art project “City says”, Center for contemporary art ARKA, Arkhangelsk, Russia
2021 Portfolio Review Program, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 Karelian Air Residency, Sortavala, Republic of Karelia, Russia
2020 “Mariin dom”, Chakola village, Arkhangelsk region, Russia




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