ANASTASYA KIZILOVA
I am a multidisciplinary artist and educator exploring interactions between materials, people, and environments. I work through participatory practices, drawing on my background in theater, costume design, contemporary craft, and critical theory. My approach emphasizes sustainability through reduced production and expanded knowledge. I develop a weak aesthetic, sewing the social fabric with poetic language—an approach that resists competition and fixed hierarchies, opening space for care, inclusion, and mutual support. It engages the ordinary, transforming it through attention and collective action; through repeated encounters, these processes shift perception and invite participants to critically engage with themselves and others.
Education:
2022/2024 — MFA in medium- and material-based art at Oslo National Academy of the Arts (KHiO), Art and Craft – Textile, Norway
2013/2015 — Saint Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation for Culture and Arts, Russia
2004/2010 — Saint Petersburg Stieglitz St. State Academy of Art and Design, Costume design, Russia
Research programs:
2026 — DKS-LAB, UKS (Unge Kunstneres Samfund), Kunstnerforbundet, Fotogalleriet, Oslo, Norway
2023 — Solar Punk Academy, Summer School, Rjukan, Norway
2022/2023 — School of Emergencies by Hägerstensåsen's medborgarhus and Chto Delat, Stockholm, Sweden
2021/2022 — Curatorial course by Maria Lind and Anastasia Kotyleva, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021/2022 — Art and Life in critical zones, curated by Maria Lind, Stockholm, Sweden
2020 — GROUNDING, cultural and educational project, V. V. Docuchaev Central Museum of Soil, Art ITMO Residency
2019/2021 — RESHAPE, An Experiment in Collaborative Change-making in the Arts
2019/2020 — PEREPOSTSOVIET, SCHOOL OF ENGAGED ART CHTO DELAT, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2019 — Decolonization of Imagination, an international research school, organized by student journal DOXA (and INCO) with the support of Higher School of Economics and Oxford Russia Fund. Moscow
2015/2016 — BAZA Institute, Moscow, Russia
2014/2016 — 900 UND ETWA 26000 TAGE, international research, organized by Goethe Institut (Russia, Moscow, Saint Petersburg; Germany, Hamburg).
2015 — Polytech. Science. Art, The Polytechnic Museum & MCA GARAGE, Moscow, Russia
2014 — MANIFESTA TV, educational program for Manifesta 10 Biennial, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
2014 — CABINET OF СURIOCITY, KUVA (The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts)-PROARTE, Helsinki, Finland-Saint Petersburg, Russia
2008 — FORUMAK LETO, CEC ArtsLink, Smolny College, Bard College, KUVA, New York-Helsinki-Saint Petersburg
Exhibitions:
2025 — KUNSTBOK OSLO, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway (Curators: Nicholas Norton and Timotheus Vermeulen)
2025 — GROUP CRIT 2, Gallery 69, Oslo, Norway (Curators: Nora Stangebye and Luca Sørheim)
2024 — THE WORLD IS A KNOT IN MOTION, The Nationally Academy of the Arts, Oslo, Norway (Curator: Håkon Lillegraven)
2024 — Art And Witchcraft Presents! group show, Nordic Black Theater, Oslo, Norway
2024 — THE OBSERVATORY: ART AND LIFE IN THE CRITICAL ZONE, Kin Museum, Kiruna, Sweden (Curator: Maria Lind)
2023 — THE OBSERVATORY: ART AND LIFE IN THE CRITICAL ZONE, Södertälje Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden (Curator: Maria Lind)
2023 — Stitches of Care, Frivilling Bærum, Norway (Curator: Ekaterina Sharova)
2023 — Sound of a Seed, KHiO MA1 show, National Academy of Arts, Oslo, Norway
2023 — Tanin+Iron, Reception Gallery, KHiO, Oslo, Norway
2023 — Q! Book Club, Kunstnerhus, Akademyrommet, Oslo, Norway
2022 — CoSa Garden, St.Petersburg in Oslo, collaboration with Laterna collective, Oslo, Norway
2022 — Pop-Aganda: Revolution & Iconography, The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US (Curator: Tavia La Follette)
2021 — Oasis Project. Happy Polar Night Recipes. CCA Radiance, Apatity, Russia.
2021 — Xists: A Metabolic Laboratory Inspired by Solomon Nikritin, Bauhaus Museum, Dessau, Germany (Curator: Mikhail Lylov)
2021 — Living Matter, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moskow
2021 — Grounding, The State Museum of Soil, ARTITMO, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 — The Khibiny Massif of women`s eyes, Polar Botanical garden of Russian Academy of Science, Kirovsk, Russia
2020 — Weird, Parallel Program of Ural Kvartirale, Basel, Switzerland
2020 — Support Team, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, a special program of the Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2020 — GOOD EVENING, Mr. ORWELL!, The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin, Moscow
2019 — ANIMAL INTERNET, Khodunka Gallery, Moscow (Curator: Alexandr Burenkov).
2019 — MOSCOW RIVER AGE, The XXII International Exhibition of Triennale Milano: Broken Nature, Milan, Italy
2018 — SILENT VOICES, Museum Center Peace Square, Krasnoyarsk. (Curator: Lyudmila Belova)
2018 — YOUTH UNIFORMS OF MOSCOW, Museum of Moscow (Curators: Eugeniya Kikodze)
2018 — ESCAPISM. TRAINING PROGRAM, CC Fabrica, Moscow (Curators: Anna Remešová; Mary Sarycheva)
2018 — SANATORIUM OASIS, Rosa's House of Culture, St. Petersburg (Curator: Anastasia Vepreva)
2018 — FOUND PROJECT, CCA Typography, Krasnodar (Curator: Elena Istcenko)
2017 — FOUND PROJECT, APERTO RAUM, Berlin (Curator: Cristy Woody, Elena Yushina)
2017 — ORGY OF THINGS, the parallel program of 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art (Curator: Vladimir Logutov, Ilya Samorukov)
2017 — COMMUNICATION MANAGEMENT UNIT, the parallel program of 4th Industrial Ural Biennale. (Curator: Natalya Tikhonova)
2017 — BETWIN FATIGUE: TOWARDS NEW FORMS OF LIFE, the parallel program of 4th Industrial Ural Biennale. (Curators: Lena Ischenko, Tonya Trubitsyna)
2017 — SILENT VOICES, Museum of History of Saint-Petersburg. (Curator: Lyudmila Belova)
2017 — FOUND PROJECT, Luda Gallery, Saint-Petersburg
2017 — FOUND PROJECT, The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin, Moscow
2016 — FRAGILITY POLICY, MEG on Shabolovka (Curator: Boris Klushnikov)
2016 — SUCCULENT THERAPY, Museum of St. Petersburg avant-garde (Curator: Lera Lerner)
2016 — THE RAW/THE COOKED, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Curator: Anatoly Osmolovsky)
2016 — NEW POVERTY, Center Red, Moscow (Curators: Ilmira Bolotyan, Maryana Karysheva)
2016 — WORK FOR WORK, The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin, Moscow
2016 — FROM UNDERGROUND, The Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum. Moscow, Russia (Curator: Roman Minaev)
2015 — ON THE ORIGINS OF NEW, MCA GARAGE (Curator: Natalya Fuks)
2015 — COMPLEX ISSUES, The Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Art (Curator: Natalia Khvoenkova)
2015 — «900 UND ETWA 26000 TAGE», Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany (Curators: Haim Sokol,Lyudmila Belova, Mikhaela Мeilan)
2015 — LEAVING TOMORROW, The Сenter of Contemporary Art Winzavod (Curator: Ivan Isaev)
2015 — BUKASHKIN`S TRIBUTE, Ural NCCA, Ekaterinburg (Curator: Vladimir Selesnev)
2015 — CABINET OF CURIOSITY, KUVA, The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in Helsinki (Curator: Liisa Roberts)
2015 — STAR CITY, The New Museum (Curator: Alisa Savitskaya)
2014 — ART PROSPECT FESTIVAL the parallel program of MANIFESTA 10 (Curator: Kendal Henry)
2014 — LAST INNOVATIONS, CCA Sokol (Curator: Vladimir Logutov)
2014 — SEVEN WAYS TO LOOK AT MIRACLE, Museum of Saint Petersburg avant-garde (Curator: Gleb Ershov)
2013 — WHAT IS THE ESSENCE? PRO ARTE Foundation, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Curator: Irina Korina)
2013 — HEXAGONE, ANNA NOVA art gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2013 — TRUMPET OF MARSIANS Museum of Saint Petersburg avant-garde (Curator: Gleb Ershov)
2008 — SPACE OF SILENCE CCA «Red Flag», Saint Petersburg (Curator: Anastasia Shavlokhova)
Festivals:
2021 — Barents Spektakel, Kirkines, Norway
2020 — Ars Electronica, Grounding, KURFUTURELAB (RU), Linz, Austria
2020 — Ars Electronica, Pangardenia, KURFUTURELAB (RU), Linz, Austria
2020 — Open Out, Norway
2019 — Voolgafest, Samara, Russia
2019 — Night of Museums 2019, NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2018 — Feminism and The City. Rave, Moscow, Russia (Organisators: Highschool of Equality)
2018 — Art-Ovrag, Vuksa, Russia (Curator: Mariya Mkrtystseva)
2018 — Geek picnic, Moscow, Russia (Curator: Darya Demikhina)
2018 — Work hard! Play hard!, Minsk, Russia
2018 — Убежище/Suoya/Shelter. Festival-Laboratory, Helsinki
2017/2019 — blind_spot platform, Moscow, RU – Bazel, Switzerland (Curator: Ivan Isaev)
2018 — Art Prospect Festival, Saint Petersburg, Russia (Curator: Lera Lerner)
2017 — Work hard! Play hard!, Minsk
2016 — New Poverty, Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok (Curator: Ilmira Bolotyan)
2016 — Geek picnic, Saint Petersburg (Curator: Olga Sivel)
2015 — Contemporary art in the traditional museum, Saint Petersburg (Curator: Alisa Prudnikova)
2015 — International festival of activist art Media Impact, Red October, Moscow
2015 — Ecosynthesis, CC Taiga, Saint Petersburg
2014 — Art Prospect Festival, parallel program of MANIFESTA 10, Saint Petersburg (Curator: Kendal Henry)
Nominations:
2017 — FOUND PROJECT in shortlist of ANNA NOVA prize, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016 — FOUND PROJECT in shortlist of Brewhouse Art Prize, Moscow, Russia
2015 — SUCCULENT THERAPY in shortlist of ANNA NOVA prize, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015 — THE ARTIST`S UNIFORM in shortlist of Kuryokhin prize, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2015 — THE ARTIST`S UNIFORM in the long list of Kandinsky prize, Moscow, Russia
2015 — THE ARTIST`S UNIFORM in shortlist of Cheese prize, Moscow, Russia
2013 — First Prise of «Special Fashion» competition, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Art Residencies:
2025 — Losæter, urban farm and art cenetre, Oslo, Norway
2023 — Mirror institution, Öland, Sweden
2022 — KULTIVATOR, Öland, Sweden
2021 — CCA Radiance, Apatity, Russia
2021 — The Khibiny Massif of women`s eyes, Polar Botanical garden of Russian Academy of Science, Kirovsk, Russia
2020/2021 — Garage Museum of Contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2019 — CEC Arts link, NY, USA
2016/2018 — The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin, Moscow, Russia
2018 — Camp as One, Vityasevo, Russia
2018 — Art Prospect Residency, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
2017 — Quartariata residency of arts & technology, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
2016 — NCCA in Kronshtadt, Russia
Lectures, Artist Talks, and Art mediation:
2026 — Workshop for NBX students, Nordic Black Theater
2025/2026 — Prosjektskolen — artist talk as part of a course by Kjersti Vetterstad and Mercedes Mühleisen
2025/2026 — The National Academy of the Arts / KHiO, course on pattern making in clothing design, Oslo, Norway
2024 — Nitja Senter for Samtidskunst, Lillistrøm, Norway
2024 — Kultivator, Nina Svensson, and Anastasia Kizilova in conversation with Anastasia Shestak. As a part of public programme THE OBSERVATORY: ART AND LIFE IN THE CRITICAL ZONE, Kin Museum, Kiruna, Sweden (Curator: Maria Lind)
2023 — POSTCOMPOST seminar as a part of Art and Craft programme at The National Academy of the Arts curated by Susanne M. Winterling
2022 — Open Lecture: Anastasya Kizilova. Women-run initiatives weaving social fabric as a form of participatory art in Russia, guest lector in Kunstfack, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 — Dialog with Zoe Butt, moderated by Maria Lind, as a part of online educational platform Art and Life in Critical Zones
2022 — Dialog with Apolonia Šušteršič, moderated by Maria Lind, as a part of online educational platform Art and Life in Critical Zones
2021 — Round table ""Brilliant Losers": the effects of cancellations and non-realisations in art", GARAGE MUSEUM, moderated by Alexandra Obukhova
2021/2022 — invited lector in School of Engaged Art initiated by “Cto Delat”
2015 — 2019 — workshops and artist`s talks at contemporary art`s schools: British higher school of art and design (Moscow), IcA Moscow, Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, Paydeya (Sankt-Petersburg)
2019 — the 8th Flor, A MIRACLE OR MISUNDERSTANDING: EIGHT SOCIAL PRACTICE ARTISTS IN CONVERSATION WITH CURATOR ANA JANEVSKI, NY, USA
2019 — Cloth is a medium, NCAC Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2018 — Art-Ovrag, Vuksa, Ruissia
2017 — SHTAB, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan); Selfopend logical systems, PRO ARTE Foundation, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
2016 — The lecture on Bjorn Melkhus`s exhibition at The State Russian Museum (Goethe Institut, NBK archive, Berlin);
2016 — The lecture on the Rosemary Trockel, drawings, objects, video art exhibition at the Kuryokhin Center of Contemporary Art, Sankt-Petersburg;
Publications:
2023 — Laterna: “Utopian Gardens”
2022 — Chimeras: Inventory of synthetic cognition, Eddited by Ilan Manouach and Anna Engelhard
2020 — Animal Internet, group show catalog
2019 — RESHAPE — A Workbook to Reimagine the Art World
2018 — Feminist and queer fantasy book: Absolutely Other, SHTAB-press, Bishkek (Kyrgyzstan), Eddited by Georgy Mamedov and Olga Shatalova
2018 — Silent Voices, group show catalog
2017 — Prostory magazine
2016 — Moscow Art Magazine #101
2015 — The Star City, group show catalog
2014 — The New Innovations, group show catalog
2012 — 2019 Russian Art Archive
Selected Professional Experience:
2025–ongoing — Den kulturelle skolesekken (DKS), Pilotgalleriet, Nitja, Lillestrøm, Norway
2022 ongoing — crew member at Nordic Black Theater, Oslo, Norway
2025 — assistant at re-(t)exHile project, Oslo, Norway
2025 — Project leader at creative workshop at Spireverket, Oslo, Norway
2025/2026 — Assistant to Norwegian artist Kari Steihaug under Kulturdirektoratet grant, Oslo, Norway
2020/2021 — instructor, Tutor at Public Sewing Workshop / The HANGAR, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2015 — creative assistant for Biennale in Venice for Gluklya (Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya), Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010/2015 — worked on personal fashion label Anastasya Kizilova
2010/2014 — presented brand items at the AURORA International Fashion Week, twice per season
2011-2013 — personal clothing brand items represented in the clothing store JNBY, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 — developed sketches of wedding dresses for salon Topaza-Pella, Saint Petersburg Russia
2010/2011 — brand leader assistant, fashion designer / Tanya Kotegova fashion house, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Collaborations:
2026 — Costume for the film Facing the Spills, with Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne, Barents Spektakel, Kirkenes, Norway
2023 — Costume for the dance graduation project Puch Majeure by Ingvild Bertelsen, Oslo, Norway
2023 — Sсenography for the dance performance Amber Dreams by Georgiana Dobre as a part of The Sustinable City – Tales of horror by the Drammen Fjord, initiated by
Janne Talstad Store Gilhus Gård, Lier, Norway
2019 — Costume Design for LOCKER ROOMS TALK play, Meyerhold Center, Moscow, Russia
Grants:
2025 — Regionalt kulturfond Oslo for Stitches of Care project.
2024 — SKS, Diversestipend for nyutdannede kunstnere , Kulturdirektoratet, Norway
2022 — Ffart, Foundation for Arts Initiatives, International
Art Reviews:
Contact:
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