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Hostile Architecture, 2019/2022
Diaprojektion/ slide projection, 6 min. | | | | | | NUMBER TWO | | | | ... until 5 March 2023 | | | | Anna Jermolaewa will represent Austria at the Venice Biennale 2024. | | | | | | Schlossmuseum Linz Schlossberg 1 . A-4020 Linz
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Singing Revolution, 2022
3-Kanal-Videoinstallation, je 28 Min./ 3-channel video installation, 28 min. each
Fotografie: Scott Clifford Evans | | | | | | The Linz Palace Museum is showing the largest survey to date, and the first large-scale exhibition in Linz, devoted to the work of Anna Jermolaewa, who has been Professor of Experimental Design at the University of Arts Linz since 2019. Born in 1970 in Leningrad/ St. Petersburg, Jermolaewa was co-founder of the first Soviet opposition party and co-editor of a newspaper critical of the regime. Forced to flee the Soviet Union, she was granted political asylum in Austria, where she has been living since 1989.
In her artistic work, Anna Jermolaewa proves to be a painstaking observer of interpersonal relations in the context of social constraints and political implications. Often, she chooses seemingly insignificant, mundane manifestations of the human condition as the subject of her penetrating yet humorous inquiry. Her investigations have given rise to videos, photographs, and drawings, as well as extensive stagings and installations. Jermolaewa’s art is witty and anecdotal only at first glance, however, for behind it lies a trenchant critique of political power structures, ideologies, and social grievances. | | | | | | | | | Anna Jermolaewa
Singing Revolution, 2022
3-Kanal-Videoinstallation, je 28 Min./ 3-channel video installation, 28 min. each
Videostill | | | | | | The exhibition at Linz Palace brings together a selection of key works from the past 25 years in order to provide an in-depth look at Jermolaewa’s multifaceted oeuvre. Also on view are several new works made expressly for the exhibition, including the three-part video installation Singing Revolution, for which the artist traveled this past summer to Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
The term "Singing Revolution" refers to the mass protest movements in the Baltic nations that demanded their independence from the Soviet Union in 1988 to 1991. People gathered in large groups and expressed their longing for independence by singing together. For Singing Revolution, the artist assembled a choir in each of the Baltic capitals and recorded some of these liberation songs – a continuation of her research into expressions of civil resistance and peaceful protest. | | | | | | | | | Anna Jermolaewa
Singing Revolution, 2022
3-Kanal-Videoinstallation, je 28 Min./ 3-channel video installation, 28 min. each
Fotografie: Anna Jermolaewa | | | | | | The slide series Hostile Architecture, shot in London, was likewise produced for the Linz exhibition. More and more former common areas in urban public space are being fitted with spikes and pointed metal studs to keep homeless people in particular from lingering or sleeping there. Hostile Architecture demonstrates the physical effects of sitting on these "defensive design elements." The marks they leave on the artist’s body render palpable the aggressive attitude behind them, illustrating how they are not only directed against the weakest in society but also make the city itself hostile to the general public.
The exhibition is accompanied by the publication "Anna Jermolaewa NUMBER TWO" (German/English, 320 pages, Distanz Verlag, Berlin), featuring numerous illustrations and essays by authors including Silvia Eiblmayr, Anna Tolstova, Claus Philipp, and Robert Pfaller. | | | | | | | | | Anna Jermolaewa
The Doubles, 2021
Installation (4-Kanal-Video, 17-27 Min., Möbel)/ installation (4-channel video, 17-27 min., furniture)
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