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		ZHOLUD Anya

Biographical information: Born in Leningrad, USSR in 1981. Lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Studied at St. Petersburg State Academy of Applied Art and Design.
Curator of the project Session of Young Art.
In 2007 nominated on the award Innovation, in 2008 on the award Kandinsky Prize.
Personal Website: www.zholudhome.com/
Collections where works are held
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010Ť...EXHIBITION CONTINUES...ť Moscow Museum of Modern Art ŤRoom plant. Full versionť 2009
ŤAnya Zholud in the Russian museumť. State Russian museum, St. Petersburg, Russia ŤIndoor plantť. Object in a district, St. Petersburg, Russia ŤNot the same Artistť. Art&Science Space, Moscow, Russia.
2008ŤPeople`s Projectť. Luda Gallery St. Petersburg, Russia ŤIron Weddingť. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2007ŤMuseum of Meť. ArtStrelka, Moscow, Russia ŤThings for Loveť. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2006 ŤMonument to Virginityť. S.ART gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005ŤCreative Crisisť. Culture Centre at 10 Pushkinskaya st., St. Petersburg, Russia ŤInventoryť. "Expo-88" gallery, Moscow, Russia ŤBitches and Womenť. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia ŤCrisis of Presenceť. A-3 gallery, Moscow, Russia

GROUP EXHIBITION
2009 53rd International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy ŤNord-Artť. Reisenburg, Germany (2007, 2008, 2009) Ť20, 30, 40. Step of the Generations (Anya Zholud Exhibition Plan)ť. Red Bridge Gallery, Vologda (2009) ŤWoman in contemporary art. About time and herselfť. Museum of Urban sculpture, St. Petersburg (2009)
2008 ŤRussian Poverať. Perm (2008) ŤTerritory of Feelingť. Galllery Globus, St. Petersburg (2008) Biennale of young art ŤStop! Who is going?!ť, Moscow (2005, 2008)
2007 ŤNew Angelaryť. Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2007) VIII International Exhibition ŤDIALOGUESť. St. Petersburg (2007) ŤWorkshopť. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow (2006, 2007) Festival ŤPandusť. Project Invisible I. Moscow (2007)
Autobiographical notes
What the critics say: Anya Zholud has gained almost instant recognizability. She premiered a couple of years ago, at the peak of glamorization of national mainstream. In its context Zholud`s wire reinforcing objects with traces of welding scale assumed a sort of nearly polemic character. Those were not living room or office interiors, albeit the presence of some didactics of an assembly and operation manual. They were projections of a proper lifestyle, without luxuries, presentations and stimulators of "broadening of consciousness." The timeliness of Zholud`s message was appreciated: the rye-bread of rusty armature and middle school geometry in an epoch of excess.
Besides the lure of direct sociality, the formula and extremely reduced shaping developed by Zholud possesses one more bait. The bait of pure minimalism of Donald Judd`s and Sol LeVitt`s type. The formula character of Zholud`s objects bears the traces of similar phenomenological reduction: a desire "to shake off" the burden of functional-object similarity and to achieve delight of appeal to pure speculation. Both temptations - social and minimalist representing certain matrices of consciousness - exist in the form of potentials. The artist moves around the space between these poles. In the "Not the Same Artist" project Zholud further increases the tension between the conceptual (governing, analytical, emblematic) and corporal (tactile, emotional, etc).
Alexander Borovsky
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