ANNA BIRCH
Artist
Anna Birch was born in Moscow in 1989. She graduated from Moscow State University in 2012, and then completed her art education at the British Higher School of Design (specialty in Contemporary Art) and the MMOMA's "Free Workshops".
Many years of working in the media and publishing business have affected her adherence to logocentricity in her projects and newsfeed research and analysis. The main themes are the interaction of different social groups with each other via print and online media, collective memory, and self-identity. Through irony and grotesque, she plays with the duality and contradictory of some meanings that are typical for Russian reality nowadays and also refers to some taboo topics.
She experiments with presentation and disclosure through painting and ceramics, as well as through assemblage and collage she reveals the total fragmentariness of the contemporary digitized world. She has participated in a variety of group exhibitions of young artists. Lives and works in Moscow and Nice.
Artistic statement
The core leitmotif of my artistic practice is research into the social systems' bifurcation points. This is an analytical study of country, family, lineage, society, and world history. It lets me look at history as a series of events that have value for us today as an experience. I review these phenomena through the lens of time, cyclicity, collective memory, and self identity.
I work with citations that I take from the news feed. The contrasting fixation of these quotes creates a space where the words and images interplay and create new connotations. The logocentricity of my practice stems largely from my background as a media publisher. My art practice is the result of my search for a balance between content and form, between the abstract and the concrete.
I use different techniques to suit each case. I work with painting, graphics, photography, and ceramics. It allows me to go deeper into the subject and find the most effective and interesting methods and techniques to represent a particular subject. My works are almost always related to a current agenda, but they are not provocative, but rather provide viewers an occasion to reflect and ponder on.
The core leitmotif of my artistic practice is research into the social systems' bifurcation points. This is an analytical study of country, family, lineage, society, and world history. It lets me look at history as a series of events that have value for us today as an experience. I review these phenomena through the lens of time, cyclicity, collective memory, and self identity.
I work with citations that I take from the news feed. The contrasting fixation of these quotes creates a space where the words and images interplay and create new connotations. The logocentricity of my practice stems largely from my background as a media publisher. My art practice is the result of my search for a balance between content and form, between the abstract and the concrete.
I use different techniques to suit each case. I work with painting, graphics, photography, and ceramics. It allows me to go deeper into the subject and find the most effective and interesting methods and techniques to represent a particular subject. My works are almost always related to a current agenda, but they are not provocative, but rather provide viewers an occasion to reflect and ponder on.
Education
2021/22 Free Workshops, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia.
2018/20 British Higher School of Design, Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2017/18 British Higher School of Design, Pre Foundation Art & Design, Moscow
2011/12 International Business, University of St. Andrews, UK
2010/12 Graduate School of Business, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
2006/10 Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
2021/22 Free Workshops, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia.
2018/20 British Higher School of Design, Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2017/18 British Higher School of Design, Pre Foundation Art & Design, Moscow
2011/12 International Business, University of St. Andrews, UK
2010/12 Graduate School of Business, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
2006/10 Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow
Group exhibitions
2022 The future is already here, Workshop'22, MMOMA, Moscow
2022 Tempera_YRA!_Beyond the Board, Bomba Gallery, Moscow
2022 1st Karelian Biennale, Museum of Fine Arts, Petrozavodsk
2022 Process C-41, Gallery Nazavod, Moscow
2021 Exhibition and auction of contemporary young art Action NewNow, U contemporary space, Winzavod Centre, Moscow
2021 Prime Time, Moscow Musical Theatre, Moscow
2020 TemperatYRA! 2.0, Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow
2020 Decentralisation, Winzavod Centre, Moscow
2019 Obsession, Cube.Moscow, Moscow
2019 In Search of the Beginning, (parallel program to Cosmoscow fair), Zaryadye Media Centre, Moscow
2019 Infinite Need or Need of the Infinite, Library 118, Moscow
2019 Flowers for Babes, Ground Solyanka, Moscow
2019 Not to break, Ground Solyanka, Moscow
2019 Seasons of the Year x BHSD, Seasons of the Year shopping centre, Moscow
2022 The future is already here, Workshop'22, MMOMA, Moscow
2022 Tempera_YRA!_Beyond the Board, Bomba Gallery, Moscow
2022 1st Karelian Biennale, Museum of Fine Arts, Petrozavodsk
2022 Process C-41, Gallery Nazavod, Moscow
2021 Exhibition and auction of contemporary young art Action NewNow, U contemporary space, Winzavod Centre, Moscow
2021 Prime Time, Moscow Musical Theatre, Moscow
2020 TemperatYRA! 2.0, Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow
2020 Decentralisation, Winzavod Centre, Moscow
2019 Obsession, Cube.Moscow, Moscow
2019 In Search of the Beginning, (parallel program to Cosmoscow fair), Zaryadye Media Centre, Moscow
2019 Infinite Need or Need of the Infinite, Library 118, Moscow
2019 Flowers for Babes, Ground Solyanka, Moscow
2019 Not to break, Ground Solyanka, Moscow
2019 Seasons of the Year x BHSD, Seasons of the Year shopping centre, Moscow
