Anastasia Bogomolova — artist, curator, lecturer, photobook collector. Works with installations, performance, sculpture and photography. Art projects are connected with studies of the flexible nature of memory and oblivion, boundaries of a documentary, research of personal identity.
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1985 Kostanay, Kazakhstan
Lives and works in Yekaterinburg, Ural, Russia.
EDUCATION
2017 Martha Rosler's workshop, public program «Field Research: Weekend Faculty», Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 Workshop «The Mask: What Is Standing Behind Photography?» with Jaap Scheeren, Dutch Photography Experience project, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013—2014 Educational program «Photography Post-graduate», FotoDepartament, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 Workshop «Off the Wall» by Anouk Kruithof, Dutch Photography Experience project, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Educational program «Photography as a research», FotoDepartament, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 Workshop «Experience life through photography» by Arja Hyytiainen, The Nordic Photography Experience project, St. Petersburg, Russia
2007 Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2018 «Lookbook», Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 «Under the dome», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2017 «Lookbook», Museum of Soviet Life, Ufa, Russia
2016 «Landscape», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2016 «Lookbook», Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2016 «Bakal», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2015 «Lookbook», Cultural Transit Foundation, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014 «Datcha/Garden», the main program of the 10th Photobiennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
BIENNIAL AND FESTIVALS
2018 The 3d Art Festival «Art Subject», Vladimir, Russia
2017 «Museum: Participant Observation», parallel program of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 «Russian book sales-exhibition», Tallinn Photomonth, Tallinn, Estonia
2017 «Work Never Stops», 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 «B. U. Kashkin Tribute», parallel program of The 3d Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Soviet naive, Perm, Russia
2015 «Construction. Photography in search of approach», «Photoparade festival», Uglich, Russia
2015 «We-ll-timed», the main program of the 9th Moscow International Biennale «Fashion and Style in Photography», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 «Young photography», Polar Photo Fest, Norilsk, Russia
2014 «Look into It», parallel program of the 10th Photobiennale, Zamoskvorechye gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 «We-ll-timed», «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», the Pingyao International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
2013 «From archive to book», the Savignano Immagini Festival, Savignano, Italy
2013 Contest exhibition of The Baltic Photo Biennale «Photomania», Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
2012 «Young photographers of Russia 2012», the International Young Photography Festival, Cheboksary, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 «The Fabric of Felicity», Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
2018 «Art sexual», Cultural Transit Foundation, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2018 «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», The Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2018 «The Exhibition», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», Arsenal, Volga-Vyatka branch of NCCA, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2017 «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», National Center for contemporary arts, Moscow, Russia
2017 «Relapse of private. Photobook: Personal history as a time stamp», National Center for contemporary arts, Moscow, Russia
2017 «Taming the void. 50 years of Ural contemporary art», National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 «Journey to the center of the Earth», Artplay, Moscow, Russia
2016 «INFOCUS: Juried exhibition of self-published photobooks», Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
2016 «Human‘s Spaces», International Photoscene, 68elf, Cologne, Germany
2016 «Mythologique», Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2016 Self Publish Riga Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
2015 «Pair skating. Contemporary art of the Ural», National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2015 «Experiences of Brownian motion», The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2015 «B. U. Kashkin Tribute», National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014 «The life of others», Museum of Soviet naive, Perm, Russia
2014 «Institute. Production», «Smena art center», Kazan, Russia
2014 «De la Memoria y el Olvido», Metro Coyoacán, Mexico
2014 «We-ll-timed», FotoDepartament, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 Self-publish books exhibition «I’mpressed», Taiga space, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 Self Publish Riga Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
2014 «Young photography», Academic Photography School, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
2013 «Between us», center «DNK Pervouralsk», Pervouralsk, Russia
2013 Online show «Botanicals», juried by Sharon Beals for The Kiernan Gallery, Lexington, USA
2013 «Young photography», World Ocean Museum, Kaliningrad, Russia
2013 «Off the Wall», Taiga space, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2013 «La Photographie du portefeuille», La Conserverie, un lieu d’archives, Metz, France
2012 «Young photography 2012 2/2», Center for Arts and Music, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2007 «Exclusion Zone», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
CURATING
2018 «The Exhibition», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 Fyodor Telkov. «36 views», Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 «Mythologique», contemporary art gallery «OkNo», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2017 «New Spread», I Moscow Photobookfest, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2017 Julia Borissova. «Running to the Edge», Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, 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
AWARDS & PARTICIPATION
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
2016 Short-listed: Self Publish Riga dummy contest, Riga, Latvia
2014 Winner: Krasnoyarsk International Media Art Festival, category «Photo project», Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2014 Short-listed: Self Publish Riga dummy contest, Riga, Latvia
2013 Finalist: The international competition «De la Memoria y el Olvido», Los Ojos del Tiempo Foundation, Guadalajara, Mexico
2013 Winner: The Baltic Photo Biennale «Photomania», category «Monochrome photography», Kaliningrad, Russia
PHOTOBOOKS & CATALOGUES
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
PUBLICATIONS
Feature Shoot, Urbanautica, Le Journal de la Photographie, Top Photography Films, F-Stop Magazine (# 58, Portfolio Issue 2014, issue «Where I live»), Tonelit (# 2, 4), Russkiy Mir Journal / Russian World Journal (# 5), Fmagazine, Chemodan / チェマダン, Wandering Bears, Revista Madriguera (# 3), Naturae, Photographer.ru, L’Oeil de la Photographie, PRISM (# 15), Lens Culture (EDITORS’ PICKS section), VISIONmagazine (April 2014), UP zine (# 1), Bigpicture.ru, Fotografia Magazine, The Blueprint, Bleek Magazine, Bird in Flight, IKONA, Russia Beyond the Headlines, Kiosk der demokratie, Phosmag, Josef Chladek Virtual Bookshelf, Les Branches, ASSAI magazine, YET magazine, Edge of Humanity Magazine.
COLLECTIONS
The Library Project, Dublin, Ireland
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, USA
Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
The Sverdlovsk Regional Universal Scientific Library named V. G. Belinsky, Yekaterinburg, 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 etc.
EDUCATIONAL ACTIVITIES
2016 Workshop «A place for a movement», «Photoparade festival», Uglich, 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
2011 Curator of program «Selected works of Chelyabinsk No-festival», special block of the exhibition «History of Russian Video Art. Volume 3», Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2010 Curator of educational video programs of workshops «City celebrity», Chelyabinsk, Russia
2010 Curator of the project «Videodrome» (public demonstrations of classic video art), STUDIO|DIVAN|GALLERY, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2008—2010 Program director of the Chelyabinsk International No-festival of video art and animation, Chelyabinsk, Russia