Anastasia Bogomolova is the artist and researcher working with installation, performative practices and photography. Her projects are related to the studies of the flexible nature of memory and oblivion, the depiction of the trace and its display in the landscape, as well as everyday rituals and methods of mimicry.
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1985 Kostanay, Kazakhstan
Lives and works in Ekaterinburg, 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” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 “Under the dome” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2017 “Lookbook”, Museum of Soviet Life, Ufa, Russia
2016 “Landscape” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2016 “Lookbook”, Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2016 “Bakal” (curator Svetlana Shlyapnikova), contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2015 “Lookbook”, Cultural Transit Foundation, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2014 “Datcha/Garden” (curator Ekaterina Inozemtseva), the main program of the 10th Photobiennale, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED BIENNIAL AND FESTIVALS
2020 The 1st Ural Kvartirale, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2019 Undark Festival, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2019 “The Ideal Exhibition” (curator Svetlana Usoltseva), Special project of The 5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, public space interventions, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2019 “documenta”, a performance exhibition (within Eurotour project), Kassel village, Chelyabinsk region, Russia
2018 Undark Festival, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2017 “Museum: Participant Observation” (сurators Daria Kostina, Irina Kudryavtseva), parallel program of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, 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 “B. U. Kashkin Tribute” (curator Vladimir Seleznyov), parallel program of The 3d Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Museum of Soviet naive, Perm, Russia
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 “Young photography”, Polar Photo Fest, Norilsk, Russia
2014 “Look into It” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), parallel program of the 10th Photobiennale, Zamoskvorechye gallery, 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
2013 Contest exhibition of The Baltic Photo Biennale “Photomania”, Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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), Ekaterinburg, 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 “The Exhibition”, contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, 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, 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” (curator Vladimir Seleznyov), National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Ekaterinburg, 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, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2016 Self Publish Riga Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
2015 “Pair skating. Contemporary art of the Ural” (curator Svetlana Usoltseva), National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Ekaterinburg, Russia
2015 “Experiences of Brownian motion” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2015 “B. U. Kashkin Tribute” (curator Vladimir Seleznev), National Center for contemporary arts (Ural branch), Ekaterinburg, Russia
2014 “The life of others” (curator Vladimir Seleznev, Ilya Shipilovskikh), Museum of Soviet naive, Perm, Russia
2014 “De la Memoria y el Olvido”, Metro Coyoacán, Mexico
2014 “We-ll-timed” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), FotoDepartament, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 Self Publish Riga Exhibition, Riga, Latvia
2013 “Young photography” (curator Nadya Sheremetova), World Ocean Museum, Kaliningrad, 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
AWARDS & PARTICIPATION
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
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
RESIDENCIES
2022 MMCA Residency Changdong, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Shishimskaya Gorka, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2019 PROGR Artist in Residence program (supported by Pro Helvetia), Bern, Switzerland
ARTIST & PUBLIC TALKS & SCREENINGS
2020 Fotografika Academy, St. Petersburg
2020 Art Gallery, Yeltsin Center, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2019 Immer Am Achten #43. History repeating, Schwobhaus, Bern, Switzerland
2019 Dreiviertel, Bern, Switzerland
2019 PROGR Artist in Residence program, Bern, Switzerland
2018 Chelyabinsk Museum of Fine Arts, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2018 Contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2017 Museum of Soviet Life, Ufa, Russia
2016 Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2016 Contemporary art gallery “OkNo”, Chelyabinsk, Russia
2014 Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2013 Center “DNK Pervouralsk”, Pervouralsk, Russia
PHOTOBOOKS & CATALOGUES
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, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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, Garage.Reflections, Calvert Journal' Curated
COLLECTIONS
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, Ekaterinburg, 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
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
2019 Jana Romanova. “(Beside)Yourself”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2018 Fyodor Telkov. “36 views”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, 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, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2016 “Special Edition. A photobook in Russia”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2016 “Mythologique”, Metenkov’s House Museum of Photography, Ekaterinburg, Russia
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