Anna Zavediy
St.Petersburg, Russia
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
2022
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:
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Subcultural landscape — exhibition of sketches of public art projects, Museum of Applied Art of the Stieglitz Academy
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Art dissolves into society like a pill in a glass of water — educational marathon
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Artists are not talking about themselves — a series of lectures from artists in studios
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:
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You Are Not The Only One Cursed With Knowledge, You Are Not The Only One Cursed With Knolwdghe — Alexey Taruts, Museum of Applied Arts of the Stieglitz Academy
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CRUSH — art in public space, Ekaterina Sokolovskaya, Evgeny Granilshchikov, Vladimir Abikh, Herzen Russian State Pedagogical University
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Studio Studies — A series of video interviews with artists in their studios
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
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