2006-2008 Higher School of Graphic Design 2007-2009 Graduate of Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media Arts New Media faculty organised by Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev (Electroboutique) and Conceptual Photography with Vladimir Kupriyanov. 2010-2018 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria (Class of Textual Sculpture with Professor Heimo Zobernig, Performative Sculpture and Public Space with Monica Bonvicini, Object Sculpture with Julian Goethe, Figurative Painting with Amelie von Wulffen and Silke Otto Knapp, Post Conceptual Art Practice with Marina Grzinic)
Solo Exhibitions 2020 Raspberry Rave, UGOL, Moscow, Russia The Village 2016 Shifting Expectations, Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (Winner of Summer Ateliers Prize for Young Artist commissioned by Department of Culture and Moscow Centre of Museum Development together with Moscow City Galleries Network) Timeout, Colta, Cultobzor,, Artuzel, The Village 2015 Unpredictable Rise of Self-Esteem, curated by Antonina Baever at ISSMAG Gallery, NII DAR, Moscow, Russia Duo Exhibitions 2012 Enjoy Your German, with Julian Goethe invited by Lucie Stahl, Lotion Licker, Vienna, Austria Group Exhibitions (Selection) 2022 Collaboration, with Art & Language, Marina Abramovich & Ulay, Gilbert & George, Yoko Ono, Phil Collins and others. Curated by Heike Eipeldauer und Franz Thalmair, e-flux KITES & F*CKUPS, invited by STAFETT Group, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria 2020 Blazar Fair for Young Contemporary Art special project of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, satellite of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia Christies Russia ig, VOGUE, ARTOBSTREL, BLUEPRINT Archive, Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2019 Close Call, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen, Danmark Vaginale - International Feminist Art Festival, Vienna, Austria MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin INVITED BY, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia artvesti Paper Taste, Moscow Art Book Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 2018 Living Together, Savina Gallery, Russian Art and Antique Fair, Manezh, Moscow, Russia Imago Mundi, Fondazione Benetton at Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy Nezhen, Benjamin Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2017 MAD COW, SCAG Сontemporary, Vienna, Austria video gallery walk Diet Mountain Dew, Wiener Kammeroper, Vienna, Austria Tiefe Kirschen, Lisa Kandlhofer Gallery, Vienna, Austria parnass, pw, Dollhouse of a Poem, Praterstrasse 32, Vienna, Austria (with Clegg & Guttmann, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Daniel Richter, Kerstin von Gabain, Alex Ruthner, Nino Sakandelidze and others.) ig hashtag, video Do You Do, Praterstrasse 25a, Vienna, Austria Preparatory Portrait of a Young Girl, Plato OSTRAVA, Ostrava, Czech Republic Tzum, press, artycok.tv 2016 Gelitin, Gelitin Karaoke Machine, Donaufestival, Krems am Donau, Austria performance video, perrotin, Ohne Titel (Projektraum/Plattform) invited by Heimo Zobernig, Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz, Austria Off the Coast of Me, Neustiftgasse 73-75 organised by Julian Goethe, Anne Speier, Michael Part, Barbara Rudiger, Vienna, Austria BALKANIZATION, Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria
2015 #0,10 tribute to The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 with Novitskova Katja and others, Marsovo Pole, St. Petersburg Worker and Kolkhoz Woman. Personal Case, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, Russia (with Vera Mukhina, Boris Iofan, Dmitry Gutov, Valery Koshlyakov, Aleksander Kosolapov, Alexandra Paperno, Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Yuri Avvakumov, Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Arseny Zhilyaev, Alexander Povzner, Stanislav Shuripa, Leonid Tishkov) Timeout, The Art Newspaper,, m24, artterritory, manege video, Коммерсант, PORT, RUSSIANARTARCHIVE, Газета, ТАСС, Artuzel, BFM The Slump curated by Rainer Ganahl, Decatur Studios, New York Infinite Swirl-Down curated by Nina Kettinger, The Intimate Project, Berlin, Germany *curated ig profile CAFÉ FLESH at Parallel Vienna, curated by Michal Novotný, Alte Post, Vienna, Austria TRENDS curated by Antonina Baever and Roman Minaev, Moscow Biennial, Gogol House, Moscow, Russia (with Jonathan Meese, Erwin Wurm, Roee Rosen, Wim Delvoyve, Eva Würdinger, Christian Jankowski, Anna Jermolaewa, San Keller, Boryana Rossa, Deimantas Narkevicius) Glossy,, Timeout, Artuzel, Colta, video walk in 2014 SOFT NEPOTISM, curated by Rainer Ganahal, Bar Du Bois, Vienna, Austria Size Matters collateral event of 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, GROUND, Moscow, Russia 1:0, Parallel program of Manifesta X, Praktika Theatre, Moscow, Russia Strange Teaching, curated by Rainer Ganahal, Künstlerhaus HELD, Leipzig, Germany Art and Shadow, The Czech Centre and NOD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic CZ, Publication, 2013 Still Live, Bar Du Bois, Vienna, Austria esel Video Video, Rooftop Projectspace 71-13, London, United Kingdom Kunst @ Retreat festival, Tragarden, Stockholm, Sweden The Workers Club, Dream Industries, Moscow, Russia Look at you!, Gallery Victoria, Samara, Russia Volga.news, sgpress, Новая Самара, Новая газета, Самара ГИС 2012 Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria Slide invited by Barbara Rüdiger, Alexander Wissel, Josip Novosel, Roland Mathias Gaberz, INSIDE BAR and Ve.Sch, Vienna, Austria V=ABC, Katarsis Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia GO WEST! special project of III Moscow Biennale of Young Art, MUZEON PARK OF ARTS, Moscow, Russia SKREW, Smotrim.ru, Диалог Искусств, Артхроника, Газета Systems Of Order, Gum Studio, Turin, Italy New Woman Feminist Performance Festival, MUZEON PARK OF ARTS, Moscow, Russia Yakimanka Various Artists, HHDM, Vienna, Austria 2011 Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria PANEL, Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria 2009 Watch Out, Akadmija Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania Beginners, Graduation show at Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media Arts, Artplay, Moscow, Russia RemoteControlledArtProduction, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway 13th Art Moscow Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 2008 CRITI/POP invited by Electroboutique, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Artforum, Wired 50 50 2008 ↓ ↑ Touch My Body, Seventeen Gallery, London The Bad Vibes Club The General Location, Photobiennale 7th International Month of Photography in Moscow, Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media Arts, Moscow, Russia
Residencies / Grants 2019 Kultur in Bewegung, Goethe Institute Moscow 2019 Gender Awareness Program, Heinrich Boll Foundation Moscow 2015 Strange Teaching New York, Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna (PARSE journal, The New Yorker, Publication) 2009 Art-O-Thlon, the first in the world reality show focused on contemporary artists aired on Lithuanian national TV, Vilnius European Capital of Culture 2009, Lithuania (promo, week two promo, concept, clip, best of me)
Prizes 2016 Winner of Summer Ateliers Prize by Department of Culture and Centre of Museum Development, Moscow, Russia 2008 Nominee of Silver Camera Award, Moscow, Russia
Works in Collections Worker And Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, Russia Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy Private collections in Russia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Denmark.
Talks and Lectures
2019-2020 Guest Lecturer at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 2020 From Traditional Approach to Learning from Nature, Art FootPrint Conference, Online, Interwebnonstop 2018 Artist and Tech. Areas of Influence and Platform for Discovery, Nekrasovka Library, Moscow, Russia 2017 On Spirituality and Blockchain, Petrovski Blvrd 17, Moscow, Russia 2016 New Russian Rave, Dance and Politics, The Waag, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016 On Unity and Core Countries Theory and How it Plays Out in Arts, NII x Alpbau, Moscow, Russia 2015 Artist Talk, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, Russia
CV
Ania Shestakova
aniashestakova@gmail.com
2006-2008 Higher School of Graphic Design 2007-2009 Graduate of Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media Arts New Media faculty organised by Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev (Electroboutique) and Conceptual Photography with Vladimir Kupriyanov. 2010-2018 Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria (Class of Textual Sculpture with Professor Heimo Zobernig, Performative Sculpture and Public Space with Monica Bonvicini, Object Sculpture with Julian Goethe, Figurative Painting with Amelie von Wulffen and Silke Otto Knapp, Post Conceptual Art Practice with Marina Grzinic)
Solo Exhibitions 2020 Raspberry Rave, UGOL, Moscow, Russia The Village 2016 Shifting Expectations, Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow, Russia (Winner of Summer Ateliers Prize for Young Artist commissioned by Department of Culture and Moscow Centre of Museum Development together with Moscow City Galleries Network) Timeout, Colta, Cultobzor,, Artuzel, The Village 2015 Unpredictable Rise of Self-Esteem, curated by Antonina Baever at ISSMAG Gallery, NII DAR, Moscow, Russia Duo Exhibitions 2012 Enjoy Your German, with Julian Goethe invited by Lucie Stahl, Lotion Licker, Vienna, Austria Group Exhibitions (Selection) 2022 Collaboration, with Art & Language, Marina Abramovich & Ulay, Gilbert & George, Yoko Ono, Phil Collins and others. Curated by Heike Eipeldauer und Franz Thalmair, e-flux KITES & F*CKUPS, invited by STAFETT Group, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria 2020 Blazar Fair for Young Contemporary Art special project of the VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, satellite of Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia Christies Russia ig, VOGUE,ARTOBSTREL, BLUEPRINT Archive, Peresvetov Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2019 Close Call, Kunstscenen, Copenhagen, Danmark Vaginale - International Feminist Art Festival, Vienna, Austria MISS READ: Berlin Art Book Festival, House of World Cultures, Berlin INVITED BY, Solyanka Gallery, Moscow, Russia artvesti Paper Taste, Moscow Art Book Festival, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia 2018 Living Together, Savina Gallery, Russian Art and Antique Fair, Manezh, Moscow, Russia Imago Mundi, Fondazione Benetton at Gallerie delle Prigioni, Treviso, Italy Nezhen, Benjamin Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2017 MAD COW, SCAG Сontemporary, Vienna, Austria video gallery walk Diet Mountain Dew, Wiener Kammeroper, Vienna, Austria Tiefe Kirschen, Lisa Kandlhofer Gallery, Vienna, Austria parnass, pw, Dollhouse of a Poem, Praterstrasse 32, Vienna, Austria (with Clegg & Guttmann, Franz West, Heimo Zobernig, Daniel Richter, Kerstin von Gabain, Alex Ruthner, Nino Sakandelidze and others.) ig hashtag, video Do You Do, Praterstrasse 25a, Vienna, Austria Preparatory Portrait of a Young Girl, Plato OSTRAVA, Ostrava, Czech Republic Tzum, press, artycok.tv 2016 Gelitin, Gelitin Karaoke Machine, Donaufestival, Krems am Donau, Austria performance video, perrotin, Ohne Titel (Projektraum/Plattform) invited by Heimo Zobernig, Austrian Sculpture Park, Graz, Austria Off the Coast of Me, Neustiftgasse 73-75 organised by Julian Goethe, Anne Speier, Michael Part, Barbara Rudiger, Vienna, Austria BALKANIZATION, Friday Exit, Vienna, Austria
2015 #0,10 tribute to The Last Futurist Exhibition of Paintings 0,10 with Novitskova Katja and others, Marsovo Pole, St. Petersburg Worker and Kolkhoz Woman. Personal Case, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, Russia (with Vera Mukhina, Boris Iofan, Dmitry Gutov, Valery Koshlyakov, Aleksander Kosolapov, Alexandra Paperno, Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov, Yuri Avvakumov, Boris Orlov, Dmitry Prigov, Arseny Zhilyaev, Alexander Povzner, Stanislav Shuripa, Leonid Tishkov) Timeout, The Art Newspaper,, m24, artterritory, manege video, Коммерсант, PORT, RUSSIANARTARCHIVE, Газета, ТАСС, Artuzel, BFM The Slump curated by Rainer Ganahl, Decatur Studios, New York Infinite Swirl-Down curated by Nina Kettinger, The Intimate Project, Berlin, Germany *curated ig profile CAFÉ FLESH at Parallel Vienna, curated by Michal Novotný, Alte Post, Vienna, Austria TRENDS curated by Antonina Baever and Roman Minaev, Moscow Biennial, Gogol House, Moscow, Russia (with Jonathan Meese, Erwin Wurm, Roee Rosen, Wim Delvoyve, Eva Würdinger, Christian Jankowski, Anna Jermolaewa, San Keller, Boryana Rossa, Deimantas Narkevicius) Glossy,, Timeout, Artuzel, Colta, video walk in 2014 SOFT NEPOTISM, curated by Rainer Ganahal, Bar Du Bois, Vienna, Austria Size Matters collateral event of 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, GROUND, Moscow, Russia 1:0, Parallel program of Manifesta X, Praktika Theatre, Moscow, Russia Strange Teaching, curated by Rainer Ganahal, Künstlerhaus HELD, Leipzig, Germany Art and Shadow, The Czech Centre and NOD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic CZ, Publication 2013 Still Live, Bar Du Bois, Vienna, Austria esel Video Video, Rooftop Projectspace 71-13, London, United Kingdom Kunst @ Retreat festival, Tragarden, Stockholm, Sweden The Workers Club, Dream Industries, Moscow, Russia Look at you!, Gallery Victoria, Samara, Russia Volga.news, sgpress, Новая Самара, Новая газета, Самара ГИС 2012 Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria Slide invited by Barbara Rüdiger, Alexander Wissel, Josip Novosel, Roland Mathias Gaberz, INSIDE BAR and Ve.Sch, Vienna, Austria V=ABC, Katarsis Project Space, Tallinn, Estonia GO WEST! special project of III Moscow Biennale of Young Art, MUZEON PARK OF ARTS, Moscow, Russia SKREW, Smotrim.ru, Диалог Искусств, Артхроника, Газета Systems Of Order, Gum Studio, Turin, Italy New Woman Feminist Performance Festival, MUZEON PARK OF ARTS, Moscow, Russia Yakimanka Various Artists, HHDM, Vienna, Austria 2011 Rundgang, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Vienna, Austria PANEL, Pro Choice, Vienna, Austria 2009 Watch Out, Akadmija Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania Beginners, Graduation show at Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media Arts, Artplay, Moscow, Russia RemoteControlledArtProduction, Atelier Nord, Oslo, Norway 13th Art Moscow Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 2008 CRITI/POP invited by Electroboutique, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Artforum, Wired 50 50 2008 ↓ ↑ Touch My Body, Seventeen Gallery, London The Bad Vibes Club The General Location, Photobiennale 7th International Month of Photography in Moscow, Rodchenko School of Photography and New Media Arts, Moscow, Russia
Residencies / Grants 2019 Kultur in Bewegung, Goethe Institute Moscow 2019 Gender Awareness Program, Heinrich Boll Foundation Moscow 2015 Strange Teaching New York, Academy Of Fine Arts Vienna PARSE journal, The New Yorker, Publication 2009 Art-O-Thlon, the first in the world reality show focused on contemporary artists aired on Lithuanian national TV, Vilnius European Capital of Culture 2009, Lithuania promo, week two promo, concept, clip, best of me Prizes 2016 Winner of Summer Ateliers Prize by Department of Culture and Centre of Museum Development, Moscow, Russia 2008 Nominee of Silver Camera Award, Moscow, Russia
Works in Collections Worker And Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, Russia Museum of Modern Art Ludwig Foundation (MUMOK), Vienna, Austria Fondazione Benetton Studi Ricerche, Treviso, Italy Private collections in Russia, Austria, Germany, Sweden, Italy, Denmark.
Talks and Lectures 2019-2020 Guest Lecturer at National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia 2020 From Traditional Approach to Learning from Nature, Art FootPrint Conference, Online, Interwebnonstop 2018 Artist and Tech. Areas of Influence and Platform for Discovery, Nekrasovka Library, Moscow, Russia 2017 On Spirituality and Blockchain, Petrovski Blvrd 17, Moscow, Russia 2016 New Russian Rave, Dance and Politics, The Waag, Amsterdam, Netherlands 2016 On Unity and Core Countries Theory and How it Plays Out in Arts, NII x Alpbau, Moscow, Russia 2015 Artist Talk, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, Russia
