Artists: Anastasya Kizilova

Bio:

A researcher, artist, science-fiction writer Anastasya Kizilovа was born in 1986. She began her artistic career in 2001 started her education at Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Industry. In 2013, Anastasya presented the project The Artist’s Uniform, the aim of which was to interact with the participants of the professional art system. In 2015 she co-organized the horizontal initiative, Flying Cooperation, which unites multi-skilled young artists, who were born in the Post-Soviet space (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine). Since 2016 she has collected an archive of unrealized artists’ ideas entitled Found Project: authors share their ideas for free, so other people who are in need of ideas can realize them. At the moment she works in the field of environmental communication, which focuses on posthumanist and nonhumanist ways of interacting, bringing together theoretical approaches such as queer-ecology, cyberfeminism, bioanarchism and practical methods such as performative creation of an interspecific collective body.

Exhibitions:

2019 — MOSCOW RIVER AGE, The XXII International Exhibition of Triennale Milano: Broken Nature, Milan; DEATH IS ECOSEX, Atelier Mondial, Basel;

2018 — SILENT VOICES, Museum Center Peace Square, Krasnoyarsk; YOUTH UNIFORMS OF MOSCOW, Museum of Moscow; ESCAPISM. TRAINING PROGRAM, CC Fabrica, Moscow; SANATORIUM OASIS, Rosa's House of Culture, St. Petersburg; FOUND PROJECT, CCA Typography, Krasnodar;

2017 — FOUND PROJECT, APERTO RAUM, Berlin; ORGY OF THINGS, the parallel program of 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art; COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT UNIT, the parallel program of 4th Industrial Ural Biennale; BETWIN FATIGUE: TOWARDS NEW FORMS OF LIFE, the parallel program of 4th Industrial Ural Biennale; SILENT VOICES, Museum of the History of St. Petersburg;900 AND 26000 DAYS AFTER, The New Museum, St.Petersburg;

2016 — SUCCULENTTHERAPY, Museum of St. Petersburg avant-garde; TALKS ABOUT POLICY, DKDS space; THE RAW/THE COOKED, Moscow Museum of Modern Art; NEW POVERTY, Center Red, Moskow; WORK FOR WORK, The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin, Moscow; FROM UNDERGROUND, The Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum. Moscow, Russia;

2015 — ON THE ORIGINS OF NEW, MCA GARAGE; 900 UND ETWA 26000 TAGE, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; COMPLEX ISSUES, The Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg; LEAVING TOMORROW, The Сenter of Contemporary Art Winzavod; BUKASHKIN`S TRIBUTE, Ural NCCA, Ekaterinburg; STAR CITY, The New Museum;

2014 — ART PROSPECT FESTIVAL the parallel program of MANIFESTA 10; LAST INNOVATIONS, CCA Sokol; SEVEN WAYS TO LOOK AT MIRACLE, Museum of St. Petersburg avant-garde;

2013 — WHAT IS THE ESSENCE? PRO ARTE Foundation, St. Petersburg; HEXAGONE, ANNA NOVA art gallery, St. Petersburg; RUMPET OF MARSIANS Museum of St. Petersburg avant-garde;

2008 — SPACE OF SILENCE CCA «Red Flag», St. Petersburg;

Nominations:

2017  — FOUND PROJECT in shortlist of ANNA NOVA prize, St. Petersburg;

2016 — FOUND PROJECT in shortlist of Brewhouse Art Prize, Moscow;

2015 — SUCCULENTTHERAPY in shortlist of ANNA NOVA prize, St. Petersburg; THE ARTIST`S UNIFORM in shortlist of Kuryokhin prize, St. Petersburg; THE ARTIST`S UNIFORM in the long list of Kandinsky prize, Moscow; ARTIST`S UNIFORM in shortlist of