ABOUT
After co-founding White Space Gallery in London, 2001, I organised over 50 exhibitions by young and leading contemporary artists, including Yuri Albert, Oleg Kulik, Dmitri Prigov, Olga Chernysheva, Stephen Gill, Rimaldas Viksratis, Timur Novikov, Superflex, Juergen Teller, David Goldblatt, Martin Parr, Antanas Sutkus, Andrey Tarkovsky, Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Michael Grobman and many others.
EXPERIENCE
I have placed White Space Gallery artists into many important collections, including The V&A in London, Huss Marseille Photography Museum (Amsterdam), French Ministry of Culture (CNAP), Museum of Modern Art in Oslo, private collections of Elton John, David Knaus, Nina and Claude Gruen, Oxana and Alexander Tarakanov, Art Ex East collection, Zimmerly Art Museum (USA), Archive of Modern Conflict, Tosca Foundation, Vladimir Dobrovolsky, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
PUBLICATIONS
Bright Bright Day. Polaroids of Andrey Tarkovsky (2007)
Seeing through the artist’s hand by Rustam Khalfin (2007)
Lithuanian Portraits by Antanas Sutkus (2008)
Acquaintances by Olga Chernysheva (2008)
Grimaces of the Weary Village by Rimaldas Viksratis (2010)
King Ludwig of Bavaria by Timur Novikov (2011)
Mirror and Pomegranate: Archives of Andrey Tarkovsky and Sergey Parajanov (2012)
The Other St Petersburg: Photographs by Dmitri Konradt (2016)
In Memoriam. Dedicated to survivors of Kaunas and Vilnius Ghetto. Photographs by Antanas Sutkus
Horizons: Joseph Brodsky and Timur Novikov in conversation (2018)
Norilsk. Photographs by Grigory Yaroshenko.
Sparrow. Orthodox magazine for children and young adults.
2012 – 2019. Ongoing project
ART FAIRS
Art London: 2002, 2003
Photo London: 2006, 2007, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019
Madrid Photo: 2010, 2011
Photo Off (Paris), Art Chicago, Art Amsterdam, SCOPE Basel: 2011
Art Paris: 2012, 2016, 2017
Madrid Foto; SCOPE Basel; Art Moscow, Photo Off (Paris); Moscow World Fine Art Fair: 2012
Cosmoscow, Moscow: 2016
EVENTS & PERFORMANCES
Film screening and panel discussion with Evgeny Yufit, ICA in September 2003
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Performances by Oleg Kulik, Dmitri Prigov and Vitaly Komar Performance (demonstration) by Georgy Ostretsov in front of Houses of Parliament, London 2004
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Sergey Bratkov (photographer) in conversation with Charlotte Cotton 2003
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Lectured at a conference on contemporary Russian art at the National Art Museum, Oslo, in 2004
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Lectured on Russian Lens-based practice at the Photographer’s gallery in London in 2005
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Boris Mikhailov’s presentation at the National Portrait Gallery in 2005
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Antanas Sutkus’ presentation at the National Portrait Gallery in 2008
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Olga Chernysheva in conversation with David Thorp, ICA, London 2009
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Co-curated an exhibition of Rimaldas Viksraitis at the Arles Photo Festival, with Martin Parr, 2009, which won the Discovery Award
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Timur Novikov exhibition in the German Embassy in London 2011
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Lectured as visiting lecturer on Eastern Orthodox Art (Iconography and History of Church Art) at Haughton College, in Skopje, Macedonia.
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Vladimir Tarasov’s performance and exhibition at White Space Gallery, London 2018
CONTACT
+44(0)7949 100 956
anya@whitespacegallery.co.uk
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