Anna Zvyagintseva

Anna Zvyagintseva (b. 1986, Dnipro) is a Ukrainian artist. In 2010 she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, department of painting, Kyiv. In 2020, as a recipient of the Gaude Polonia scholarship, she worked with professor Mirosław Bałka in the media art department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw. In 2021-2022, Zvyagintseva was artist in residency at the Jan Van Eyck Academie for Art, Design and Reflection. Anna participated in Pavilion of Ukraine “Hope!”, at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia, 2015; in Luleåbiennalen 2024, Sweden; Manifesta 14 Pristina/Kosovo; in Kyiv biennale: «The school of Kyiv», 2015, «The Kyiv International», 2017, Kyiv Biennal 2023. Zvyagintseva received the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2017 and was shortlisted for FutureGeneration Art Prize in 2018. Since 2010, she has been a member of the Hudrada curatorial group. Zvyagintseva works with themes like the body, paths, useless actions, and small gestures. Her artwork interweaves drawing in various forms and transmedial variations like sculpture, installation, video, and painting. Works have been shown in institutions and galleries such as: Albertinum, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (Germany), Kazerne Dossin Mechelen (Belgium), Wurttemberischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Germany), National Art Museum of Ukraine, PinchukArtCentre, Sevastopol Art Museum, Mystetskyi Arsena, Visual Culture Research Center, The Naked Room, Artsvit gallery (all – Ukraine), Galeria Labirynt (Lublin, Poland), Centre for Fine Arts Bozar (Brussels, Belgium), Kunstforum Wien (Austria), The Royal Museum of Art and History in (Brussels, Belgium), Galeria Arsenał (Białystok, Poland), Centre for Contemporary Art Zamek Ujazdowski (Warszawa, Poland), MQ-MuseumsQuartier – AzW (Vienna), KunstCentret Silkeborg (Denmark), Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art (Riga), Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe (Germany), Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (Germany), Galeria Municipal do Porto (Portugal) and others.