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Anna Jermolaewa

Press release

National Participation - Austria

Artist Anna Jermolaewa is to conceive the Austrian contribution to the Biennale Arte 2024 in Venice. The curator of the Austrian Pavilion is Gabriele Spindler. In her work, Anna Jermolaewa, born in Leningrad (USSR) and based in Vienna since 1989, has proven a precise observer of human coexistence, its social conditions and political prerequisites. Her process results in videos, photographs, and drawings, as well as room-spanning mises-en-scène, where she questions, in a critical yet humorous fashion, seemingly insignificant and trivial manifestations of the human condition. However, Jermolaewa’s art is humorous and anecdotal only at first glance, behind it lies a clear critique of political power structures, ideologies, and social grievances.

Commissioner: The Arts and Culture Division of the Federal Ministry for Art, Culture, the Civil Service and Sport of Austria
Curator: Gabriele Spindler