Anastasia Ryabova


Anastasia Ryabova is a contemporary artist who won the 2011 Kandinsky Prize in media projects for her work, Artist's Private Collections, a virtual "museum of contemporary art based on artists' private collections". She is known for works that play "linguistic games." She was also the Soratnik awards laureate for 2011.. Her art has been exhibited in Russia, Austria, Italy, and Germany..
She holds a Master of Philosophy from the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Biography

Born in 1985 in Moscow. The creator of “Artist's Private Collections” is an online archive of works of contemporary art from private collections of artists. The site project “Artist's Private Collections” was carried out with the initial financial support of the Victoria Foundation and the :it:Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo|Sandretto Re Rebaoudengo Foundation in the framework of the Russian-Italian exhibition Modernikon. One of the authors of the megazine.biz project, an online store where you can’t buy anything.
On the initiative of Anastasia Ryabova and Aleksey Buldakov, the project “Agency Supostat” was launched in 2011, “an initiative of artists, theorists and journalists to create and develop a platform aimed at studying, analyzing and developing the artistic environment in which we work”.
In 2011, she was twice nominated for the Kandinsky Prize. For the prize of the young artist of the year, Anastasia Ryabova put on the plastic work “Where is your banner, dude?”, And for the prize “Project of the year in the field of media art” - her own no-art project “Artist's Private Collections”. As a result, the artist won the second nomination and became the only woman to receive the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination “Project of the Year in the Field of Media Art”. Starting next year, the media nomination was canceled, so Anastasia Ryabova was also the last to win it.
In the same 2011, a few months earlier, the artist also became the laureate of the Soratnik Prize, taking third place.
In 2011, she carried out the project “Artist's Ride Space”, arranging on her own bicycle, in a small “window” under the wheel, an art gallery of one work. During the year, the works of Alice Yoffe, Alexei Buldakov, Valery Chtak and other artists were exhibited there.
In 2012, with the support of the Victoria Foundation, it launched The False Calculations Presidium project. The exhibition was held in a non-standard place for Moscow - in the Museum of entrepreneurs, philanthropists and benefactors.

List of exhibitions

Personal shows