Anna Parkina (Russian: Анна Паркина; born 1979) is a Russian artist who lives and works in Moscow. She uses collage as her key artistic method but also works in a variety of media, including performance, sculpture and video.

Anna Parkina
Born1979
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Education

Education edit

Parkina graduated from the University of Paris VIII in 2002 and was an intern at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, in 2005, where she worked with American artist Mike Kelley and musician Mayo Thompson.[1] Parkina graduated from the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 2006.

Career edit

Between 2003 and 2006 Parkina maintained an apartment-based gallery in Paris where she ran one-day shows, conferences, and performances.[2] In 2004 she founded Tramway Editions that specializes in publishing experimental journals and books by artists.[3] In 2005 Parkina had one of her first solo shows in Germany at Galerie Meerrettich in Berlin that went by the title Zapovednik, on which she also launched a book of the same name.

In 2008 Parkina took part in the show Apples Fall Simultaneously In Different Gardens, curated by Anna Kuznetsova, which became part of 1st Moscow Young Art Biennale.[4] In 2009 Parkina was featured on the main project of the 53rd Venice Biennale Making Worlds, curated by Daniel Birnbaum.[5] That year she opened her first solo show in Moscow, Silent Corner of Field, at GMG gallery.[6] In 2010 she participated in the show Modernikon: Contemporary Art from Russia, hosted by Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo in Turin and curated by Francesco Bonami and Irene Calderoni.[7] In 2011 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ran her solo show Fallow Land, curated by John Zarobell, as part of a programme to display promising young artists. Among other participants of the programme were Luke Twyman, Doris Salcedo, and Rachel Harrison.[8] In 2013 Parkina took part in the show Space of Exception, part of the 5th Moscow Biennale, curated by Elena Sorokina and Jelle Bouwhuis.[9] In 2014 Parkina had her second solo show in Moscow, Eyes Instead of The Eye, at the Regina Gallery,[10] where she displayed sculptures and assemblages along with works on paper. In 2014 she was featured on the show entitled Detective in the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, curated by Valentin Dyakonov.[11] Parkina was represented on the inaugural Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, organized by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.[12] She collaborates on a regular basis with Regina Gallery, Wilkinson Gallery in London and Leonhard Ruethmueller — Contemporary Art in Basel[13]

Critical reaction edit

Parkina works in a variety of media, including performance, sculpture, paper and video works. She uses collage as her key artistic method. Her works contain multiple references to Soviet constructivism, American noir movies of the 40s and 50s, and pop art, especially collages by Richard Hamilton. American curator John Zarobell considers her pieces of political character but not motivated by politics; he believes they successfully combine Kazimir Malevich’s idealism with technical characteristics of constructivism, but lack in didacticism at the same time. Curator and critic Valentin Dyakonov interprets her practice as a reaction to the post-ideological Russian environment of 1990s and 2000s and compares her works to collages by German post-war artist Kurt Schwitters.[1] According to Dyakonov, Parkina creates a situation of alogical and rhythmical layering of images, which corresponds with a faceted vision of the contemporary world.[14] Critic Dominic Eichler compared her practice to Frances Stark’s drawings and drew parallels between Parkina's selection of zines from recent years with the aesthetics of Tracey Emin, Jonathan Meese, Nicole Eisenman, Raymond Pettibon and Elke Silvia Krystufek. According to Eichler, Parkina explores through her work the opportunities that conceptual art faces when combined with narrative and imagery. In her 2013 work, Valentin Dyakonov saw references to early cubism with its deconstruction of image, and a shift from object to abstract and back to object, which froze in a form of surrealistic images, evoking the memory of works by Louise Bourgeois and Max Ernst.[1] According to art historian Yana Yukhalova, these works criticized the media environment of being overloaded with imagery, which was exposed by Parkina in her study of the nature of human vision and its fragmentary character in particular.[15]

Exhibitions edit

Personal shows edit

2014Eyes Instead of The Eye, Regina Gallery, Moscow[10]

2013Only a Sleeping Person Doesn't Blink, Wilkinson Gallery, London[16]

2012Sacred Ambush is Full of Parrots Screaming,[17] in collaboration with Andrew Gilbert, Svit Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic

2011For a Black Day,[18] Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva

2011Fallow Land,[19] San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

2010Egg in the Fist, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2010The Ticket is for Today,[20] Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom

2010Nests,[21] Gladstone Gallery, New York

2009Open Space, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

2009Silent Corner of Field, GMG gallery, Moscow, Russia[22]

2008White Time, COMA, Berlin, Germany

2008Winners and Witness, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2008Winners and Witness, Autocenter, Berlin

2007Pocket Chrystal, Kjubh, Cologne, Germany

2006Corn Rush the movie II — Dark Room,[23] Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, New York City

2005Zapovednik, Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin

2004Hier geht’s raus, Golden Pudel, Hamburg, Germany

Group shows edit

2016Tutti Frutti,[24] Regina Gallery, Moscow

2015Hooray! Sculpture!,[25] Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow

2014Detective,[11] Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2013Space of Exception,[9] Special project of the 5th Moscow Biennale, Artplay, Moscow

2013First International Online Biennale,[26] online project

2013Perspectives on Collage, The Photographers' Gallery, London

2013Hort Family Collection, annual private collection show, New York City

20132Q13: Women Collectors, Women Artists,[27] Lloyds Club, London

2012Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union,[28] Saatchi Gallery, London

2012Reload,[29] Red October Gallery, Moscow

2012Things, Words, and Consequences,[30] Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2012The Triumph of Kaissa, Dedication to Marcel Duchamp<ref"Press release". tretyakovgallery.ru. Archived from the original on 2016-06-02. Retrieved 2018-01-18.</ref>, Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow

2011Outrageous Fortune Tarot Deck,[31] Focal Point Gallery, Southend-on-Sea, England

2011Modernikon: Contemporary Art from Russia, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy

2011Painted Over/Under part 2,[32] LACE, Los Angeles

2011East Ex East,[33] Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2010Modernikon: Contemporary Art from Russia,[34] Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2010East Bound,[35] KAI 10 Raum Für Kunst, Düsseldorf, Germany

2009Really?,[36] Parallel programme of the 3rd Moscow Biennale, Artplay

2009Making Worlds,[5] Main programme of the 53rd Venice Biennale

2009Sound, online project, whyandwherefore.com

2009No Capry for an Old Man, Venice Beach, Los Angeles

2009The Show Must Go On, GMG Gallery, Moscow

2009Do Not Lean,[37] Ru.Litvin Gallery, Moscow

2008Madonna, Christian Nagel Gallery, Berlin

2008Apples Fall Simultaneously In Different Gardens,[38] as part of the 1st Moscow International Young Art Biennale, Winzavod, Moscow

2008The End Was Yesterday, Kunstzeitraum, Innsbruck, Austria

2008Collage, Forever a Day Buro, Berlin

2008Freedom of Choice, National Center of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow

2008The End Was Yesterday, Autocenter and Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Berlin

2008The Object is the Mirror: part II,[39] Wilkinson Gallery, London

2008Cut,[40] Thierry Goldberg Project, New York City

2007Dracularising, NeueAlteBrucke, Frankfurt

2007Hello, I am crashing,[41] Salon 94, New York City

2007Group project with Joep van Liefland, Galerie 127, New York City

2007Bellevue, Galerie Eva Winkeler, Frankfurt

2006Mental Odyssey, COMA, Berlin

2006Group project with Andrew Gilbert, Bianca Schoenig and Anne Tismer, Ballhaus Ost, Berlin

2006Summer Show, Daniel Hug Galerie, Los Angeles

2006A room with...., Michael Janissen Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2006Corn Rush the movie-I, California State University, Long Beach, Los Angeles

20051/x,[42] ENSBA, Paris

2005Sammlung Taubenstrasse, Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany

2005En : Ton ! Die ! Sjans!?, Galerie XX Multiples, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2004La Maison Piégé, Apartment-based gallery, Paris

2002Collective 10, Galerie L., Paris

Performances edit

2015The Dream of the Volunteer,[43] Whitechapel Gallery, London

2011Fallow Land, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,

2010Concrete book, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

2010Biryulevo, supported by Focal Point Gallery, the Railway Hotel, Southend-on-Sea

2008Terminal.Suspension.Expansion, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2008Aelita, Her Memory of a Planet Monogo, University Settlement Society of New York

2007Online Empire, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles

2007Beyond the Green Door, Galerie Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany

2006Corn Rush the movie II-Dark Room, Haswellediger & Co Gallery, New York City

2006Corn Rush the movie I, California State University, Long Beach, Los Angeles

2006Join us (with Barry Johnston), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California

2006Breaking News, COMA, Berlin

2003Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

Curatorial projects edit

2010Wherever they fell, Wilkinson Gallery, London

2006Daniel Buren conference by Hank Schmidt in der Beek, 6 rue Pihet, Paris

2005Show Time, with Barry Johnston, 6 rue Pihet, Paris

2004Baulieu Bellevue II, with Stef Heidues, Paris

2003L'effondrement de E-commerce, with Roberto Ohrt and Juli Susin,[44] 6 rue Pihet, Paris

Books edit

2010Biryulevo,[45] artist book, 250 copies, Onestar Press, Paris

2010Четыре (The four), zine, 40 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2009In full bud, lithography, 50 copies, New Museum of Contemporary Art publishing, New York City

2008А ты гори звезда (Shine the Star, Shine), zine, 30 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2007Pocket Chrystal, zine, 50 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2006Corn Rush – The Movie, artist book, 49 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2005Phantomaster, zine, 40 copies Tramway Edition, Paris

2005Ochag (The Hearth), zine, 35 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2005Zapovednik, artist book, 43 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2004L’ére des congelés et des surgelés, zine, 100 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2004Appendix, zine, 100 copies, Tramway Edition and Silverbridge Edition, Paris

2003Never Alone, zine, 100 copies, Tramway Edition, Paris

2003Par ici la sortie, zine, 100 copies, Tramway Edition and Silverbridge Edition, Paris

2003Rabbit hunter / Rabbit saver, artist book, one copy, Tramway Edition, Paris

2003Patron Model, artist book, one copy, Tramway Edition, Paris

2003Les Aventures, artist book, one copy, Tramway Edition, Paris

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