Anna Zvyagintseva
Anna Zvyagintseva (1986, Dnipro) is an artist from Kyiv, Ukraine.
She studied painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture from 2004 to 2010. In 2020, as a recipient of the Gaude Polonia scholarship, she worked with Professor Mirosław Bałka in the media art department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2021-2022, she was a resident at the Jan Van Eyck Academie for Art, Design and Reflection.
Zvyagintseva works with themes like the body, paths, useless actions, and small gestures. Her artwork interweaves drawing in various forms and transmedial variations like sculpture, installation, video, and painting. She focuses on the idea of potentiality doing something without clear purpose, she researches how hesitation and mistakes can lead to unexpected encounters and outcomes. Many of her works speaks about potentiality of doubt and are an attempt to observe movement of thought.
Anna participated in Pavilion of Ukraine “Hope!”, at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, 2015; in Luleåbiennalen 2024, Sweden; Manifesta 14 Pristina/Kosovo; in Kyiv biennale: «The school of Kyiv» 2015, «The Kyiv International» 2017, Kyiv Biennial 2023. Zvyagintseva received the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2017 and was shortlisted for FutureGeneration Art Prize in 2018. Since 2010, she has been a member of the Hudrada curatorial group.
Works have been shown in such institutions and galleries as: Palais de Tokyo, Paris (France), Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), the Neues Museum in Nuremberg (Germany), Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (Netherlands), Kazerne Dossin Mechelen (Belgium), WurttemberischerKunstverein Stuttgart (Germany), Galeria Labirynt (Lublin, Poland), Centre for Fine Arts Bozar (Brussels, Belgium), Kunstforum Wien (Austria), The Royal Museum of Art and History in (Brussels, Belgium), Galeria Arsenał (Białystok, Poland), Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warszawa, Poland), MQ -MuseumsQuartier – AzW(Vienna), KunstCentret Silkeborg (Denmark), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga), BadischerKunstverein Karlsruhe (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (Germany), Galeria Municipal do Porto (Portugal) and National Art Museum of Ukraine, PinchukArtCentre, Sevastopol Art Museum, Mystetskyi Arsenal, Visual Culture Research Center, The Naked Room, Artsvit gallery (all - Ukraine).
Works are in museum collections of Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (Netherlands) and M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (Belgium). (2025)
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