Anna Zavediy


St.Petersburg, Russia

aazavediy@gmail.com

Short bio

Сurator of Masters Digital Gallery, PORT ART FAIR and Wynwood hotel art-residency. Member of the international community Art Ambassadors, the community of Art Residences of Russia, participant Cross Pollination program for curators with Maria Lind, mentor of educational and exhibition projects, author of texts. From 2018 to 2022 Head of the Department of Special Programs of the North-Western Branch of the Pushkin State Museum,  curator of the Kronstadt art residency. Curator of special projects of the Curatorial Forum and Art Weekend (2019-2021). Jury member of the Lumen Prize in the field of media art (London, 2018–2021), curator of the CyLand media laboratory (2017-2018), exhibition and educational projects Art-a-hack, Digital makers collective and Seminaria Sogninterra (Maranola, 2018)

Exibitions and projects

2023

PORT ART FAIR 

MASTERS DIGITAL GALLERY

2022

MASTERS DIGITAL GALLERY

UNICORN AND LOST KINGDOM, group show, Béton, Moscow

The Storyteller, duo show at Anna Nova Gallery, Ustina Yakovleva and Sylvia Javen

2021

Subculture landscape vol.2, exhibition of public art projects for historical centre, Museum of Applied Art of the Stieglitz Academy

Through the ave — public art in vitrines of St.Petersburg

3rd Curatorial Forum — special projects:

Sleeper’s club — Evgeny Gavrilov, Myth Gallery

Water under the Bridge — Exhibition of Young Artists, Interval Project, MISP

BUSTOPOCHKA, public art project by BIOROBOTY019

This is big big big, this is small small small — Katerina Sokolovskaya (RU), Karla Chaim (BR)

2020

2nd Curatorial Forum — special projects: exhibition at universities, a series of video interviews with artists Studio Studies:

Vegetal porn — BIOROBOTY019 group, 24X4 gallery

LURKMOAR — a group exhibition of students of the Stieglitz St.  

Karate poetry — Nikita Seleznev, Myth Gallery 

2019

1st Curatorial Forum — special projects: Art bus, Super party

Housekeeping — a group exhibition of young artists from St. Petersburg, Wynwood Hotel

The Lookout — site-specific art festival at Fort Constantine

Look above, the sky is falling — group exhibition of young Russian art, Myth Gallery

Spherical book — Alisha Wessler (USA), Kunsthalle Nummer Sieben

Paradise engineering — Museum Line project, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall

Kronstadt Art Residence

2018

Seminaria Sogninterra — Land Art Festival, Maranola, Italy

I hope no one heard us — Alexander Sedelnikov, Liza Bobkova, FFTN

Hologram — Ksenia Galkina, Dmitry Akhmediev, Tate Exchange, Tate Modern, London

Cyfest-11 — media art festival

Nominations for curator’s projects

2021

2021 — Kuryokhin Prize — nomination “Best Visual Art Object” — Ekaterina Sokolovskaya “Eyes”, “Best Media Object” — Yan Posadsky, Oleg Soroko “Termen”

“Innovation” Prize — “Young Generation” nomination — Nikita Seleznev “Karate Poetry”

Moscow Art Prize — “Fine Arts and Architecture” nomination — Alexey Taruts “Not only you are cursed by knowledge, not only you are cursed by Knolwdghe”

Awards

2021

Sobaka Top-50 — laureates in the team — nomination “Art”

2020

Innovation Prize — laureate in the team — “Best Regional Project” — Curatorial Forum

Education

2013—2015

St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Art- criticism and Curatorial Studies

2009—2013

St.Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Art History, Diploma with Honors

2014, april—june

Manifesta 10, Professional training in the field of museum education

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