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Graphic artist, sculptress, video artist, performance artist. Born in Dushanbe in Tajikistan (1971). Graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry (1996) and the Accademia di belle Art...
Lena Martynova was born in the city of Makhachkala in Dagestan (1985). She studied in Moscow at Professional Lyceum of Animation Cinematography No. 333 (2002–04) and the Sergei Gerasimov Institute of...
Misha Most was born in Moscow in 1981 and took up graffiti art in 1997. In many ways, the paradigm of the worldview expressed by the artist in the phrases “consume, work, kick the bucket” (to quote o...
Zhanna Kadyrova was born in the Ukrainian town of Brovary (1981) and graduated from the department of sculpture at the Taras Shevchenko School of Art in Kyiv (1999). Since 2002, she has contributed t...
Photographer. Born in Moscow (1984). Graduated from the Moscow Municipal Pedagogical University, Vadim Guschin School of Photography and the Alexander Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia. ...
Photographer. Born in Ufa (1979). Graduated from the Alexander Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia in Moscow (2009). Specialises in the photography of spaces, urban landscapes, architectur...
Photographer. Born in the city of Khimki in Moscow Region (1986). Graduated from the Russian University of Cooperation in Mytishi. Specialises in portraiture, street photography and townscapes. Featu...
Video artist. Born in Moscow (1982). Specialises in people coming out of a coma or prison, her parents, her own body and linguistic projects linked to the theme of migration. Actively helps her frien...
The main theme of Shirin Neshat’s works is the status of women in Islamic culture. She was born in Iran in 1957, but went to America to study in the 1970s. For a long time, she was unable to return h...
Michal Rovner is an Israeli video, photo and cinema artist. She was born in Tel Aviv in 1957 and moved to New York in 1987. Michal Rovner is interested not in the fates of individuals, but in the str...