Anna employs personal stories and nonfictional media. Moving towards the general from the particular, she investigates how aesthetic experience mutates within a corrupt society, under conditions of propaganda and alienation.
Here, the boundaries between labor, artistic gestures, and everyday life become blurred. Anna explores the capacity of popular consumer tools
and technologies to be recoded in order to create content such as apps, videogames, and so on. Her installations often possess an “inverted” interactivity
and complicate the entertainment aspect of visual experience. Moving from one project to the next, Anna analyzes her own experience of vulnerability.
Head of the media art workshop at the online school of contemporary art Conception.
Her works are in the collections of the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MMAM) and Moscow Museum of Modern Art (МMOMA).
rotaenkoann@gmail.com
education
2016 – 2018 Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Sergey Bratkov's studio
2015 – 2016 Institute of Contemporary Art Moscow, New art strategies
2014 – 2015 School of Contemporary Art «Free Workshops», Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow
awards
2021 The projects "Ringtone" was longlisted for the Kandinsky Prize
2021 The projects "Ringtone" was included in the short list of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize for the "Best Work of Visual Art"
2021 The projects "My mom turns into a neural network" and "Ringtone" were included in the short list of the 2nd Moscow Art Prize
2021 Laureate of the Blueprint – 100 list. 10 best young artists of Russia.
2019 Laureate of the special prize of the French Institute for the Innovation Prize
2019 The work "Real weapon" was included in the short list of the "New generation" Innovation Prize
2018 The work "Real weapon" was included in the short list of the Sergey Kuryokhin Award 2018 for the "Media Object"
2018 – 2019 Laureate of Garage Museum grant program in support of Russian contemporary art
2016 Laureate of the Dostoevsky List "The most relevant photographers of Russia and Ukraine"
solo exhibitions
2021 “balance / cage”, Kz gallery, online
2020 “Ringtone”, Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Magic precautions”, Cité internationale des arts, Paris, France
2016 “Underside”, Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2015 “Waiting room”, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
festivals / biennale
2021 International Biennale "Art for the Future", Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2021 Special project of the 6th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Tyumen, Russia
2020 VIDEOFORMA VIII, Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 New Russias 2020, Manchester, UK
2020 Bad Video Art festivāla izlase (Ūdensgabali # 6), Riga, Latvia
2019 the wrong biennale / thewrong.org
2019 WIPE film festival, Moscow, Berlin
2018 Inrocks festival, La Gaite Lyrique, Paris, France
2018 ELECTRO-MECHANICS XIII, international multimedia festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 Artagon.IV, Magasins generaux, Paris, France
2018 Academiae Biennial, Franzfeste, Italy
2017 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, parallel program, Moscow, Russia
2017 YOUNG ART SHOW 10, Slovakia
2016 V Moscow International Biennale for Young Art «Deep Inside», a special project & parallel program Moscow, Russia
2012 The festival "Gotovopolzuj!", Krasnoyarsk, Moscow, Russia
selected group exhibitions
2021 “Summer Collection”, Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2021 “Ostranenie: how to see the world differently”, Springs.Video platform, online
2021 “Sovremennik. The beginning", Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2021 "Game junction", Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 “NotLand”, FFTN + Kz gallery, online
2021 “Self-Isolation Museum", Museum of Moscow and Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 “Break for 15 minutes. Part 1 ", Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 “Caucasian freewoman”, Krasnodar Regional Art Museum n.a. F.A. Kovalenko, Krasnodar, Russia
2020 "non-moscow not far away", Central Exhibition Hall «Manezh», St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 “20:20. Time has stood still", Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia, + online
2020 "I love you Internet", NCCA Ural, online
2019 “Good old 2020s. Final avant-garde", K. Smirnov and V. Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2019 "Melioration", FFTN in the framework of the curatorial forum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 Exhibition of the nominees for the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize, Center for Contemporary Art. S. Kuryokhina, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 "Innovation-2019" Exhibition of nominees, NCCA, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2019 “FemFest -KA", Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2019 "In the Fog of War", Khodynka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 "Dysmorphophobia, or the war within you", Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Pavilion Russia”, Depo, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Cyber-body and its trail”, Kovcheg, Moscow, Russia
2019 “Post 3D”, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
2019 III International Bad Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia
2018 “A-real”, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia
2018 “The school of Rodchenko. Selected.”, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2018 “Cold Heat”, Volna, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 “WHITE THRASH” project on Academiae Biennial, Franzensfeste, Italy
2018 “Test Group”, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2018 “To move on?”, Prophere Launch, Moscow, Russia
2018 “Endless March”, ‘EMME, Krasnodar, Russia
2017 “Rehearsals of pleasure and other conditions”, REGINA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Versus”, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
2017 “I am afraid”, Solyanka VPA, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Orgy of Things”, Foundation of V. Smirnov and K. Sorokin, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Start of the season”, АРXIV, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Over There, Where No One Dreams: from Sacred Geography to Non-Place”,
Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Unheimlich”, АРXIV, Moscow, Russia
2017 “Video rhythms vol.1”, Untitled, Moscow, Russia
2017 “This may will be...”, Exhibition Center «Worker and Collective Farm Girl», Moscow, Russia
2016 “Father”, The Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Only non-official language”, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Psycho”, Fabrica CCI, Moscow, Russia
2016 “Then it was unknown for us”, Poligraph tzeh, Moscow, Russia
2015 “Suspected”, Voronezh Centre of Contemporary Art, Voronezh, Russia
2015 “Remember and forget”, Typography Cultural Center, Krasnodar, Russia
2015 “A - art. F - feminism. Actual dictionary”, ISS MAG gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015 “Sub observationem”, Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2015 “Development of freedom”, Fabrica CCI, Moscow, Russia
2015 “WAR MUSEUM”, Мoscow Мuseum of Мodern Аrt, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Bookart”, National Library, Ulan-Ude, Republic of Buryatia, Russia
2014 “Artist’s Book”, Prospectus, Moscow, Russia
2014 “Inculcation”, Ground Khodynka Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
lectures / performances
2020 "Contemporary art in memes", 5 educational videos, blizhe.education, online
2020 "Protective mesh stretched at the edge", with the support of the K. Smirnov and V. Sorokin Foundation, online
2020 "Methods of playing with reality", a series of group lessons, Khodynka gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 “Documentary? Ways of Working with Reality", NCCA, Moscow, Russia
2018 "God is a dj and she loves you", DK Rosa, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017 “Accident management: generative video editing. Vertical video in the latest history of video art”,
VZ-Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2016 “10inONE / generative poetry techno party”, NIIDAR, Moscow, Russia
publications
Interview. "Anna Rotaenko: My mom is turning into a neural network." Ekaterina Yushkevich. aroundart.org - 2021
10 best young artists of Russia. The Blueprint. - 2021
“In anticipation of the outcome. The sound is like a revolutionary march." Anastasia Khaustrova on the works of Anna Rotaenko. Dialogue of Arts N6. - 2021
NONFICTION 03 “STATEMENT” – 2021
"Summer Collection" in six faces - the artists of the exhibition at MMOMA reflect on gender, art and modernity. Buro - 2021
“Crimes of the future”. Sergey Babkin, Anna Zhurba, illustrations by Anna Rotaenko. Moscow Art Magazine - 2021
100 LIVING Russian artists you should know. Russia Beyond - 2021
"Art for the Future": the most spectacular exhibits of the Biennale. «Iskusstvo» — The Art Magazine - 2021
Digital diaries, memes, and me-time: 11 young Russian artists ponder over post-Covid-19 rituals. The Calvert Journal - 2020
Interview. "There was always too much content, including art", ARTGUIDE – 2020
Interview. About the RINGTONE project and the generation of thirties. Afisha Daily – 2020
NEW COOL. Online exhibition 20:20 Time has stopped. BURO – 2020
Interview in pictures. BURO – 2020
Top 50 most promising Russian artists. The Art Newspaper Russia – 2020
"Artists and labor will grind everything" about the LUXURIAT at the exhibition Break 15 minutes, part 1, SPECTATE – 2020
Gameplay as a way of life. Round table. aroundart.org – 2020
The long twentieth year: a blitz interview with the authors of projects at the Vadim Sidur Museum. syg.ma – 2020
Discover the best Russian art from the new millennium. About the festival in Manchester. The Calvert Jiurnal – 2020
Anna Rotaenko. An art project about freganism. Bird In Flight – 2020
"God-DJ and proxy bodies in the GTA sandbox". Sergey Babkin on the REAL WEAPON project by Anna Rotaenko, aroundart.org – 2019
Interview. "Use what is as close to the skin as possible", SPECTATE – 2019
Artists and Cultural Workers on Antidepressants, SPECTATE – 2019
Le prix Innovation à l'épreuve de la censure dans l'art contemporain russe. ART CONTEMPORAIN – 2019
"Cultural SPA at the Kuryokhin Center". About the exhibition of nominees, St. Petersburg avant-garde – 2019
"New Russians: Art" Cosmopolitan Russia – 2019
This is WHITE TRASH or Rodchenko School at Academiae Biennial – 2018
Versus exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Center, life.pravda.com.ua – 2017
Interview. "Each new work of an artist can be her manifesto", L'OFFlCIEL – 2017
Only unofficial language: Anna Rotaenko. Video interview for Research arts – 2016
Anna Rotaenko "Underside". Opening of the week, aroundart.org – 2016
Interview. "The viewer can feel a certain power over ideology", 365mag – 2016
Interview. "Things not inscribed", Arterritory – 2016
Discovery of the week: Anna Rotaenko, Sasha Moroz and Viktor Kokhanyukov "Suspects", aroundart.org – 2015
Never Me: Is a woman free in Russian society? COLTA specials – 2015
