Artist’s Statement

Anna Kirillina

Artist’s Statement

In my works, I talk about faith. Through its understanding, I explore religion as an integral part of human life.

I conduct research and draw conclusions about faith as a broad field of knowledge about the interaction between humans and God.

When creating works, I use materials that carry the meaning and associative connection of human perception with the concepts of religion and faith: textiles, wood, consecrated church candles, found objects, record and generate sounds and smells. The result of my research are objects, painting and video art.

Biography

  • Born in Ulyanovsk (Russia) in 1992.

  • Lives and works in Moscow.

  • Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia since 2016.

Education:

  • Ulyanovsk State University, specialty -fashion designer, Faculty of Culture and Art. Ulyanovsk. Graduation year is 2015. 

  • Moscow School of Radio, specialty -announcer, radio presenter. Moscow. Graduation year is 2016. 

  • RMA Business School, Gallery business direction. Moscow. Graduation year is 2021. 

  • Moscow School of Contemporary Art, specialty -Contemporary artist. Moscow. Graduation year is 2023. 

  • Pratt Institute, the specialty of the course is Modern painting. New York. Graduation year is 2024.

  • St. Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities, specialty -Fundamentals of Orthodox Theology and Culture. Moscow. Graduation year is 2025

  • Orthodox Humanitarian Institute "CO-Action". The specialty of the course is "Icon Painting". Years of study: 2025-2029.
  • St. Tikhon's Orthodox University for the Humanities. The course "Iconology". Year of study: 2025.
  • The Free Workshops School at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Direction: "Modern art". Alexey Korsi's workshop. Years of study: 2025-2026

Solo exhibitions:

2024

Goosebumps: ants of spiritual flight, MSCA Gallery, Cube Moscow, Moscow 

2024

Talking to yourself. The open area of the city. Ulyanovsk

2020

SSS -Pobeda Recreation Center, Moscow Region.

2018

CCC: Forty Stylish Old Ladies, Paradise Gallery, Moscow.

2017 «CCC: Сорок стильных старушек», Галерея «Парадиз», Москва

Group exhibitions:

2025 Expanse exhibition. Exhibition space of the Pratt Institute. New York, USA
2025 "About the tree." Izmailovo Gallery. Moscow
2025 Blazar 2025 Young Contemporary Art Fair. The Museum of Moscow. Moscow
2024

locus amoenus. Gulag History Museum, Moscow

2024

Self-portrait. Pratt Institute, New York.

2024

Connection terminated. Restore it. RuartsGallery, Moscow

2024

Third place Art Fair. Saint-Petersburg

2024

Do not open the contents. Contemporary and Sol Galleries, Moscow

2023

The Second Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Petrozavodsk

2023

Issue 23. ZaryadyePark, Moscow.

2023

A common future. Gallery on Shabolovka. Moscow

2023

ArchstoyanieFestival. Showing of video works in the Universal University group pavilion

2023

Beams, columns and self-identification. The ZotovCenter. Moscow

2023

Cartoon - joysticks. KhodynkaGallery. Moscow

2022-2023

Humgat. Cube Moscow. Moscow

2022

Apartment No. 17. Contemporary Gallery, Moscow

2022

It breaks where it is thin. Gallery In Art by Ksenia Podoynityna

2022

What is the power?, Volga Port Space, Volgograd

2022

Transformation, UContemporaryGallery, Moscow

2020-2021

Virtual exhibition project Romance of Winter by MDN and Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow

2019

Art Week Fr 2019, France, Marseille

2019

Visionary ART. Saint-Petersburg

2019

Art today". TSHR, Moscow

2018

In the space of sunlight. Central House of Artists, Moscow

2017 Art Today", Tushino Exhibition Hall, Moscow
2015

Kalidoscopeof talents.Tokyo, Japan

2013

Intershow. Zakopane, Poland

2012

Waiting for summer. Museum of Fine Arts of the XX –XXI centuries, Ulyanovsk

Teaching and scientific activities

  Teaching creative classes at the Sunday children's school "Ladder" at the Church of St. Tikhon Patriarch of All Russia in the Moscow city of Moscow
2016-2018

Teaching painting and graphics. Punctum Shopping Center, Moscow.