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Anna Jermolaewa
November 2024, Marco, Venice, 60th biennale, artwork by Anna Jermolaewa, Austrian Pavilion, Kodak H35, LomoChrome Color '92 Sun-kissed 400.
Anna Jermolaewa
Research for Sleeping Positions, 2006
Anna Jermolaewa’s video "Research for Sleeping Positions" refers to the conditions which many refugees have to face upon their arrival in Vienna. Shot at a train station, Vienna’s Westbahnhof, the video documents a place where many trains arrive from Eastern European countries and where the homeless sometimes seek refuge. From her own experiences as a refugee from Russia, Jermolaewa knows all too well the conditions under which people have to live in a foreign country before being granted asylum or given a decent home. Dressed in sweatpants, a hoodie and a grey coat, the artist sleeps on a bench right in front of the entrance to the platforms. The solid wooden bench forces her to try several positions in order to rest, all of which are uncomfortable no matter how one leans, lies or curls up. For more than a quarter of an hour, the artist demonstrates the impossibility of feeling well in this situation while other individuals and families wait next to her. W.S.
Anna Jermolaewa - Leninopad, 2015
By now the Hermitage cats, the troupe of feline pest control agents residing at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, are well known — the museum even commissionedczarist-style portraits of its furry workers — but Anna Jermolaewa is providing some historical context for all the cuteness. The St. Petersburg-born, Vienna-based conceptual artist, currently in Brooklyn for a residency at the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), sees the cats’ story as illustrative of a particularly dark episode in Russian history.
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Anna Jermolaewa, still from Kiss, 2006
Kiss
2006
Anna Jermolaewa
Kerstin Engholm Gallery
Anna Jermolaewa - Überlebensversuche, (2000), Videostill