Anastasia Bogomolova is an artist, researcher, and weaver of stories, whose practice focuses on exploring hidden traces and narratives, peripheral routes and areas of tangled memories, the nature of oblivion and difficult heritage. Starting from performative approach and turning to the study of mimicry as a theme, method and visual language, Bogomolova migrates between mediums and materials. In their installations, the artist combines video, sound, photographs, objects, handmade paper, and text.
They live and work in Yekaterinburg, Ural, Russia.
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1985 Kostanay, Kazakhstan
EDUCATION
2017 Martha Rosler’s workshop, public program “Field Research: Weekend Faculty”, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2013–2014 Educational program “Photography Post-graduate”, FotoDepartament, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Educational program “Photography as a research”, FotoDepartament, St. Petersburg, Russia
RESIDENCIES & EXCHANGE PROGRAMS
2023 Residency.ch (supported by Pro Helvetia), PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
2023 Utopiana (supported by Pro Helvetia), Geneva, Switzerland
2023 MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, South Korea
2023 Malt AiR, Ebeltoft, Denmark
2022 Mint artist-in-residency program, Stockholm, Sweden
2021–2022 “Northern Travelogue”, Artist exchange program (co-organized by Mint and after_red in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Sweden in Russia)
2020 The Shishim Hill (supported by Brusnika development company), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2019 Residency.ch (supported by Pro Helvetia), PROGR, Bern, Switzerland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 “Decision altitude” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), OkNo gallery, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 “Lookbook” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 “Under the dome” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), OkNo gallery, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2017 “Lookbook”, Museum of Soviet Life, Ufa, Russia
2016 “Landscape” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), OkNo gallery, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2016 “Lookbook”, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2016 “Bakal” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), OkNo gallery, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2015 “Lookbook”, Cultural Transit Foundation, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014 “Datcha/Garden” (curator Ekaterina Inozemtseva), the main program of the 10th Photobiennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Old mountains are losing height”, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 “Art & Life in Critical Zones” (curator Maria Lind), Konstmuseet i norr, Kiruna, Sweden
2023 “My name is…”: MMCA Residency Changdong Repot, MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, South Korea
2023 “Away”, Atelierfrankfurt e.V. (curated by Mañana Bold), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2023 “Art & Life in Critical Zones” (curator Maria Lind), Södertälje Konsthall, Södertälje, Stockholm, Sweden
2023 “The kids' 1990s” (curators Svetlana Usoltseva, Marina Sokolovskaya), Perm centre of urban culture, Perm, Russia
2023 “The kids' 1990s” (curators Svetlana Usoltseva, Marina Sokolovskaya, Ilya Shipilovskikh), Art Gallery, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2022 “Excavation in progress” (curator Artyom Antipin), The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia
2022 “Obratka / Reverse” (curators Dmitry Bezuglov and Alisa Sycheva), Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2022 “Point 55.753570, 37.638359”, GROUND Solyanka, Moscow, Russia
2021 “NOVA ART 8. New Skin: The Myth of a Technological Body” (curator Snejana Krasteva), Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 NEMOSKVA (More than Moscow; curator Svetlana Usoltseva), Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2018 “The beginning, the end and almost everything in between. To the 100th anniversary of Ingmar Bergman” (curator Svetlana Usoltseva), National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2018 “The Fabric of Felicity” (curators Valentin Diaconov, Ekaterina Lazareva, and Iaroslav Volovod), Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
2018 “Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art” (curator Vladimir Seleznyov), The Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2018 “Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art” (curator Vladimir Seleznyov), Arsenal, Volga-Vyatka branch of NCCA, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2017 “Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art” (curator Vladimir Seleznyov), National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2016 “INFOCUS: Juried exhibition of self-published photobooks”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2016 “Mythologique”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2015 “Pair skating. Contemporary art of the Ural” (curator Svetlana Usoltseva), National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014 “The life of others” (curator Vladimir Seleznev, Ilya Shipilovskikh), Museum of Soviet naive, Perm, Russia
2014 “We-ll-timed” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), FotoDepartament, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2012 “Young photography 2012 2/2”, Center for Arts and Music, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2007 “Exclusion Zone”, contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
SELECTED BIENNIAL AND FESTIVALS
2022 The 2nd Ural Kvartirale, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2021 Undark Festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020 The 1st Ural Kvartirale, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2019 “The Ideal Exhibition” (curator Svetlana Usoltseva), Special project of The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, public space interventions, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2018 Undark Festival, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 “Work Never Stops” (curator Svetlana Usoltseva), Special project of The 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tyumen Museum and Education Association, Tyumen, Russia
2017 Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Autobiography as Memory”, Focus Photography Festival, Mumbai, India
2016 “On the Shelf”, Filter Photo Festival, Filter Space, Chicago, USA
2015 “We-ll-timed”, the main program of the 9th Moscow International Biennale “Fashion and Style in Photography” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 “We-ll-timed” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), “Month of Photography in Minsk”, Minsk, Belarus
2014 “Fab 30”, Bitume Photofest, Lecce, Italy
2014 Asian Women Photographers' Showcase, Obscura festival, Georgetown, Malaysia
2013 “Relations: A taste from Russia” (curator Thomas Kellner), the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2013 “From archive to book”, the Savignano Immagini Festival, Savignano, Italy
AWARDS & PARTICIPATION
2021 Winner: Present Continuous 2021, a joint initiative of the V-A-C Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA)
2021 Finalist & grant recipient: NOVA ART 8. Theme: “New Skin: The Myth of a Technological Body”
2018 Winner: Garage Museum’s Grant Program for Emerging Artists
2018 Nominee: The Sergey Kuryokhin Award 2017 in the category “Best visual art project”
2017 Winner: Garage Museum’s Grant Program for Emerging Artists
2017 Nominee: Kandinsky Prize in the category “The Young artist. Project of the Year”
2016 Winner: Credit Suisse & Cosmoscow Prize for Young Artists
ARTIST BOOKS & ZINES
2023 “A Collection of Exercises” (in collaboration with Yegana Jabbarova): artist book, leporello, 16 sheets, handmade paper, 1 copy
2018 “Under the dome”: catalogue; in cooperation with contemporary art gallery “OkNo”
2016 “Lookbook”: photobook; first edition, 90 signed and numbered copies, self-published
2013 “Recall”: photobook; limited Russian edition, 30 numbered copies, self-published
CATALOGUES
2020 Zine series for the Art Platform project (with support of Sinara Charity Foundation), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2020 NEMOSKVA (More than Moscow), NEMOSKVA, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Russia
2018 «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art”, NCCA Ural, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014 10th Photobiennale, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Feature Shoot, F-Stop Magazine (# 58, Portfolio Issue 2014, issue “Where I live”), Photographer.ru, PRISM (# 15), VISION magazine (April 2014), Bigpicture.ru, Fotografia Magazine, Blueprint, Bleek Magazine, Bird in Flight, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Phosmag, Josef Chladek Virtual Bookshelf, YET magazine, Edge of Humanity Magazine, Garage.Reflections, Calvert Journal' Curated, Reside / Sustain, obdn.ru, ArtGuide
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium; The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA; Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts, Chelyabinsk, Russia; The Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named V. G. Belinsky, Yekaterinburg, Russia; Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
FAIRS & MARKETS
Cosmos Arles Books (Arles, France), Shifting Focus Photobook Market (Berlin, Germany), Unseen Book Market (Amsterdam, Netherlands), ViennaPhotoBookFestival (Vienna, Austria), Gazebook: Sicily Photobook Festival (Italy), Polycopies (Paris, France), LA Art Book Fair (Los Angeles, USA), Printed Matter (New York, USA), Estonian Photographic Art Fair, Garage Art Book fair etc.
AUCTIONS
2021 AW Auctions. Women Artists. One and The Other, Moscow, Russia
2020 VLADEY. Love and corruption; online
2020 Photographers for doctors. Charity auction in support of doctors, Fotografika Academy in cooperation with the Zhivoi Foundation and EverydayRussia; online
CURATING
2017 “Mythologique”, contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2017 “New Spread”, I Moscow Photobookfest, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Special Edition. A photobook in Russia”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2016 “Mythologique”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2022 Young Artist Lab, workshop “New Spread. Publishing strategies for artists”, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia
2021 Young Artist Lab, workshop “Geology of ideas and artist research”, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts / NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia
2015–2016 The course of video lectures “A Photobook: To the origins of the medium”
2015–2016 Educational online program “Mythologique of regions”, FotoDepartament, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Workshop “Archive scope”, Minsk, Belarus
RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
2020–2022 Initiator of the Ural Kvartirale, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2008–2010 Program director of the Chelyabinsk International No-festival of video art and animation, Chelyabinsk, Russia