Selection by Ilmira Bolotyan

From the very beginning of my curatorial work, I have mainly worked with artists, and this selection is no exception. All the authors somehow work with the actualization of traditional mediums and plots.

Ekaterina Zhilina (Moscow) creates images referring to medieval marginalia and the Russian splint, existing simultaneously in a romantic and ironic space.

Anna Ivanova (Tashkent) is a master of everyday scenes made in a direct individual manner, combining drawing, collage and elements of fabric applique.

Evgenia Nozhkina (Voronezh) creates tapestries, canvases and objects from fabrics, often involving viewers in the creation process, thus combining craft and participatory practices.

Irina Polonskaya (Haifa. Israel) is experimenting in the field of collage, capturing personal emotional and bodily experiences.

Lina Khasanova (Moscow) makes paintings in which she embeds people, trees and textures created by neural networks. Traditional genres of landscape, interior, portrait "break down" due to the intervention of artificial intelligence and the will of the artist, observing a fine line between the familiar eye and the generated one.

Ilmira Bolotyan is an artist, curator, Candidate of Philological Sciences.

Implemented curatorial projects: "Ordinary Martyrs" (Krasny Center, Moscow), "And - Art. F - Feminism. Current Dictionary" (ISSMAG Gallery, SI Gallery, Moscow), "Body" (Krasny Center, Moscow), "PSYCHO" (Fabrika Center, Moscow), "New Poverty" (Krasny Center, Moscow), Stem of the Black Grass (Fabrika Center, Moscow), "Alienated Body" (Fragment Gallery, Moscow), "Thumbelina" (Fabrika Center, Moscow), Moscow Land (JART Gallery, Moscow), and others. She was a member of the curatorial group of the First Russian Triennial of Contemporary Art (Garage Museum, Moscow).

EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT:

2014-2015 - "Free workshops". Artist
2011-2013 - Institute of Contemporary Art "Base". Theory and practice of contemporary art, artist
2011 — Central Saint Martins College of Arts and Design. Intensive courses "Modern illustration", "Modern collage"
2011 - BVSHD, intensive "Modern Illustration"
2006-2008 - graduate school of the Moscow State University. She defended her dissertation in 2008
2005-2006 - Higher courses of screenwriters and directors named after Gerasimov. Specialty "cinematographer"
1999-2006 - MPSU. Philologist, direction "Russian literature". Specialty "higher school teacher"