cv | Fedora Akimova

Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist specializing in installations, video, and objects. In her work, she often incorporates various textile practices such as embroidery and sewing, as well as found objects and ready-mades.
Fedora Akimova was born in 1987 in Kyiv. Since March 2022, she has been living and working in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Paris.

Before February 24, her work consisted of plastic experiments that explored global civilizational and philosophical questions, embodying a form of escapism into a hypothetical world without humanity. The full-scale invasion, forced relocation, and the disruption of her daily life prompted her to reconsider her identity and artistic strategy. This led to a reinvention of her artistic language and the inclusion of more politically and socially engaged themes in her work.

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Education:

2024-2025: l’Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ésadhar), La VAE (DNSEP )

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: «In Good hands», ITStheGallery, Tbilisi, May 2025
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