Bio / CV / Contacts. Elena Anosova is an award-winning visual artist

“As an artist, I work with the themes of boundaries and respect them. Both — personal and countries”
El. Anosova

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Elena Anosova (b. 1983) is a visual artist and researcher working with documentary and art photography, video, archive, and installations. Originally hailing from the region of Baikal (Russia, Siberia), she is currently based in Moscow, Lake Baikal (Irkutsk), and the Baltic Sea (Kaliningrad).

The most important part of her professional activities is devoted to personal, long-term projects that are centered around lives in closed institutions, small communities, and isolation. The impulse of research of such themes arose in a reflection of her teenage period spent at the closed rehabilitation boarding school.

Elena Anosova works with subjects of borders, identity, and collective memory in the territory of Siberia, Far North, Russian Far East, and Baltic Sea borderlands. Anosova has been a winner of various competitions. She is a recipient of The Aaron Siskind Foundation, Garage Museum’s Grant Program, World Press Photo, Center Project, LensCulture, and others. Her works have been published around the world including National Geographic (USA), Stern, Marie Claire, Guardian, New Yorker, Washington Post and others.

Elena is an independent curator and since 2015 she teaches visual arts at Russian and European art schools. Elena is a curator and one of the founders of the Artist-in-residence Program on Lake Baikal.

For print sales contact one of the galleries:

Netherlands → Schilt Publishing & Gallery
schilt@schiltpublishing.com

Portugal and Spain → SALUT AU MONDE!
pablo@salutaumonde.info

Outside of these territories and for commissions, lectures and workshops or to request further information, please contact: info@anosova.com

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WhatsApp and Telegram +7 915 466-84-12

In the case of a bad connection, Elena often works in remote places, please contact with producer Anna Zekria: anna@saltimages.ru

Awards (selected)

2019 The Aaron Siskind Foundation grant / Winner
2018 Garage Museum’s Grant Program for Emerging Artists / Winner
2017 The LensCulture Exposure Awards / 1st place series
2017 World Press Photo / Daily Life, 2d prize stories
2016 Center Project Launch / Winner
2016 Portraits — Hellerau Photography Award / 1st place
2016 Photogrvphy Grant / Story, 1st place
2015 The V annual World. Report Award — Documenting Humanity / Spot Light Award
2015 Direct Look photo contest, FOTODOC Center for Documentary Photography at Sakharov center / 3d place
2015 Andrei Stenin International Press Photo contest / Grand Prix
2015 Baltic Biennale “Photomania” / Documentary, 1st place

Solo shows

2023 MIRADAS CRUZADAS (dual exhibition with Javier Arboledas), Colección Museo Ruso / Malaga, Spain
2022 Atlas of the First Snow, Planta1 / Madrid, Spain
2019 Out-of-the-way, Gallery SALUT AU MONDE! / Porto, Portugal
2018 Out-of-the-way, Schilt Publishing & Gallery / Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Beyond The Boundaries, Metenkov’s House Museum / Yekaterinburg, Russia
2016 Section, Photo-Eye Gallery / Santa Fe NM, USA
2016 Section, Galleria Passante in Porta Venezia / Milan, Italy
2015 Polite Fish, CCA ZARYA / Vladivostok, Russia
2015 Section, Red Square Gallery / Moscow, Russia

Groupe shows (selected)

2023 Human.Kind / Musée international de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge / Geneva, Switzerland
2023 We Are Family / galleries of Teatro de Vila Real / Douro area, Spain
2022 ¡Somos Familia! / Centro Niemeyer / Aviles, Spain
2021 The Zverev Art Prize / Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2021 WE ARE FAMILY! XS / Gallery SALUT AU MONDE! , Porto, Portugal
2020 NEMOSKVA is just around the corner / Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 The Twelfth Time Zone: A Contemporary Art Report from Russia / BOZAR Center for Fine Arts / Brussels, Belgium
2019 Urgent Perspective #3 / Aa Collections Gallery / Vienna, Austria
2019 Shot List / NEW WING of the Gogol’s House, Moscow, Russia
2018 One North-East / CCA ZARYA / Vladivostok, Russia
2018 Strategic project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art “Please, thank you, I’m sorry”, NCCA / Moscow, Russia
2018 Connections, Gallery Kvaka 22 / Belgrade Photo Month, Serbia
2017 Grow/Conserve, Somerset House / London, UK
2017 MT. ROKKO International Photo Festival / Kobe, Japan
2016 Kolga Tbilisi Photo / Tbilisi, Georgia
2016 Rodchenko Art School. 10 Years, Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow, Russia
2016 After the Event, Museum and Exhibition Center “Worker and Kolkhoz Woman” / Moscow, Russia
2015 Fotoistanbul Festival / Old Orphanage, Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Exhibition “Silver Camera” / Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia

Art-Residencies (selected)

2023 Garage Museum’s Studio Program
2022 Garage Museum’s Studio Program
2019 Docking Station / Amsterdam, Netherlands
2019 KulturKontakt / Vienna, Austria
2018 Art Vorota / Kaliningrad, Russia
2017 Metenkov’s House Museum / Yekaterinburg, Russia
2015 CCA ZARYA / Vladivostok, Russia

Education (selected)

2020−2021 Second Curatorial School of the NEMOSKVA Platform
2013−2016 The Rodchenko Art School / Moscow, Russia
2013−2015 Master program in the World Economy, ISTU / Irkutsk, Russia
2001−2006 Master program in Technology of art processing of materials, ISTU / Irkutsk, Russia

Artist talks, events, seminars, other activities (selected)

2021 Conversations at International Conference in Vyksa “The Art and Practice of Hospitality”
2021 Art director of the literary festival “Antonovskie apples” / Kolomna, Russia
2021 Jury member of the contest “Makers of Siberia Photo Prize” / Omsk, Russia
2021 Organizer of an open meeting and portfolio-review of curators and experts with the art community of Irkutsk
2021 Curatorial excursion (with Petr Antonov and Anastasia Tsayder) of the Herbarium exhibition, PENNLAB Gallery / Moscow, Russia
2020 Jury member of the international project New East Photo Prize / London, UK
2020 One of the founders of the project (with Maria Muzdybaeva) CURATED, the first open database of the Russian artists recommended by experts
2020 Online conversation with Mary Gelman at VII Interactive (VII Photo Agency) about barriers and possible ways to advance for women in photography, based on personal experience
2020 Organizer of an online portfolio-review of the participants of the curatorial school of the NEMOSKVA platform with artists from Eastern Siberia
2020 Artist Talk at Park of Arts “Muzeon” for NIMA museum / Moscow, Russia
2020 Jury member of the Young Photographers of Russia contest / Kaluga, Russia
2020 Zoom meeting: Archival photography. Strategy and methods for Bird in Flight
2019 Three-side conversation with curator Susana Lourenço Marques and Pablo Berástegui, founder of Salut au monde! program at Fine Arts School of the University of Porto’s Maestrado em Design da Imagem / Porto, Portugal
2019 Artist Talk at Humanity House / Hague, Netherlands
2019 Workshop and portfolio-review for the finalists of the competition “Makers of Siberia Photo Prize” / Omsk, Russia
2019 Workshops at Katholisches Oberstuferealgynasium / Innsbruck, Austria
2019 Artist Talk at Lofoten Internasjonale Fotofestival — LIFF / Kabelvåg, Norway
2018 Artist Talk at Theater Vrijburcht / Amsterdam, Netherlands
2018 Artist Talk at Tomsk State University / Tomsk, Russia
2018 Artist Talk at the Museum of the World Ocean / Kaliningrad, Russia
2018 Artist Talk at the n-ost / Berlin, Germany
2018 Artist Talk at LUMIX-Festival / Hannover, Germany
2018 Artist Talk at Extra Fort by RECYCLART, Botanique / Brussels, Belgium
2018 Jury member of the documentary photo contest Neighborhood / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2018 Artist Talk at V. Bronstein Gallery / Irkutsk, Russia
2017 Workshop and Artist Talk at Metenkov’s House Museum / Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 Workshop and Lecture at PiterPhoto Festival / Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017 Artist Talk at World Press Photo / Amsterdam, Netherlands
2017 Workshop and Artist Talk at Art-Subject Festival / Vladimir, Russia
2016 Artist Talk at Center Santa Fe Photo Festival / Santa Fe NM, USA
2016 Lecture at Young photographers of Russia Festival / Ples, Russia
2015 Artist Talk at Festival della Fotografia Etica / Lodi, Italy
2015 Artist Talk at Fotoistanbul Festival / Istanbul, Turkey
2015 Artist Talk at CCA ZARYA / Vladivostok, Russia