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Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist specializing in installations, video, and objects. Born in 1987 in Kyiv, she began her creative career as an illustrator after earning her first degree in Printmaking and Graphics. In 2010, she moved to Russia, first to Kaliningrad, then to Saint Petersburg, where

she studied decoration and staging. This degree in Theatrical Decoration and Scenography had a significant influence on her development as an artist, as she integrated many techniques and crafts into her work.

 

Since March 2022, Fedora has been living and working in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Paris. Before February 24, her works resembled plastic experiments used to express global civilizational and philosophical issues, reflecting an escapism into a hypothetical world devoid of humanity. The full-scale invasion, her relocation, and the upheaval of her daily life compelled her to reevaluate her identity and artistic strategy, leading her to reinvent her artistic language and incorporate more political and socially charged themes into her work.

Education:

2017-2018: Free Workshops, art, (Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow)

2011-2017: Academy of Arts, Scenography and Scene Design, (Saint-Petersburg)

2004-2008: Graphic Arts, NTUU (KPI), Kyiv

 

 

Some Personal Exhibitions and Projects

  • La Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, art residency at Montmartre, September 2024 - August 2025

  • Program PAUSE, Art Residency at École de Design Supérieur de Saint-Étienne, September 2022 - August 2024, Saint-Étienne (France)

  • Curatorial Project: «histoire(s)_Histoire», Saint-Étienne (France), May 2023

  • Project «Homin», About the war in Ukraine Ria Keburia Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia, July - September 2022

  • Installation: «Noah», Light object installation Voskhod Gallery, Basel, March 2022

  • Project «Silt», Video objects installation Lazy Mike Gallery, Moscow, November 2022

  • Solo Stand: «Antianthrop», Blazar Young Art Fair, Moscow, September 2021

  • Personal Exhibition: «Artwork Code», Video-project with installation (video made at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg), Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10, Moscow, March - April 2021

  • Mini-Exhibition: «Obscura», Gallery "Betweenwindows", Moscow, June - July 2020

  • Project «Masha. Forest», Painting installation and embroidery Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow, September 2018

  • Project «Amalgama», Art object, video, and paintings, Gallery "Artis", Vinzavod Contemporary Art Center, April 2018

  • Project «Point of Landscape», Video and paintings personal exhibition, Gallery "Izmaylovo", Moscow, September 2017

Some Group Exhibitions and Projects

  • Group Exhibition: «Censure», POUSH Space, (l'Atelier des artistes en exil), Paris (Aubervilliers), October - November 2024

  • Group Exhibition: «Inherited Memories», Paris, September 2024

  • Group Exhibition: «Tears and Roses», Sisters room space, Tbilisi, August 2024

  • Group Exhibition and Charity Auction: «Sans Drapeau», Support for Ukraine, Yellow Cube Gallery, Paris, June 2024

  • Pop-Up Group Intervention: «Cellule», Cloakroom Storage Lockers at the Pompidou Center, Pompidou Center, Paris, March 17, 2024

  • Group Exhibition: «Rituels», POUSH Space, (l'Atelier des artistes en exil), Paris (Aubervilliers), October - November 2023

  • Group Exhibition: "What Happened, When", Yerevan (Armenia), September 28 - October 1, 2023

  • Group Exhibition: «Field of Vision», ZUZEUM Art Centre, Riga (Latvia), September 8 – December 3, 2023

  • Group Exhibition: «Doh Ayay!», POUSH Space, (l'Atelier des artistes en exil), Paris, February - March 2023

  • Group Exhibition: «In the Dust of This Planet», Art4 Museum, Moscow, January - March 2022

  • Cosmoscow Art Fair, Lazy Mike Gallery, Moscow, September 2021

  • Group Exhibition: «Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene», (Installation, textile/embroidery), Garage Museum, Moscow, March - August 2021

  • Installation: «Noise», Sound installation, Group Exhibition "Systems of the Signs" of the students of Free Workshops school of contemporary art, 2018, Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10, Moscow, August 2018

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press
 

https://www.russianlife.com/the-russia-file/russian-artists-crash-the-pompidou/


https://www.liberation.fr/culture/arts/artistes-russes-antiguerres-exposes-a-paris-la-peur-et-limpossibilite-de-mexprimer-librement-mont-pousse-a-quitter-le-pays-20240611_6AOVWCROOBG6VAPXGFU6SOCKGM/

 

https://www.citedudesign.com/fr/a/histoire-s-_histoire--2649

https://www.stirworld.com/see-features-artist-fedora-akimova-on-loss-of-home-post-colonialism-and-war

https://hammockmagazine.ge/post/gomin-ukraineli-artistis-fedora-akimovas-proekti-ria-keburias-fondshi/2288

https://amarta.ge/fedora-akimova-samudamod-dakarguli-mshveniereba/

https://rustavi2.ge/ka/news/233341

https://www.vogue.ru/lifestyle/hudozhnica-fedora-akimova-ob-apokalipticheskom-budushem-abyuze-zhivopisi-i-tochnosti-hudozhestvennogo-vyskazyvaniya

https://www.mutualart.com/Exhibition/Fedora-Akimova-Artwork-Code/1428478470784B93

https://garagemca.org/en/exhibition/assuming-distance-speculations-fakes-and-predictions-in-the-age-of-the-coronacene/tour/fedora-akimova

about exhibition in MMOMA (Moscow Museum of modern art):

https://mmoma.ru/en/exhibitions/gogolevsky/fedora_akimova_artwork_code/

https://theblueprint.ru/culture/art/garazh-vybiraya-distanciyu

https://moscow.arttube.ru/event/fedora-akimova-kod-proizvedeniya/

https://obdn.ru/articles/fedora-akimova

https://zen.yandex.ru/media/id/5ebaf96db26e5049f7a4e224/interviu-fedora-akimova-5f58c549653f43353993580b

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMSBr577vmw&t=113s

https://www.vzmoscow.ru/events/archive/2017/08/vistavka_tochka_peyzazha/index.php?lang=en

http://lazymike.art/fedoraakimova/en

press about group projects

https://russianartfocus.com/issue29/the-coronacene/

https://garagemca.org/en/exhibition/assuming-distance-speculations-fakes-and-predictions-in-the-age-of-the-coronacene/tour/fedora-akimova

https://www.zuzeum.com/en/exhibitions/exhibition-field-of-vision/

ⓒ2024 Fedora Akimova

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