Anna Zhukova
She was born and lives in Kyiv, Ukraine in 1976. In 2003, she graduated from the Faculty of Cinema and Television of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts, Ada Rogovtseva's workshop.
From 2003 to 2013, she worked on the 1+1 TV channel and TRK Ukraine as a producer of entertainment projects, as well as in the cinema as a director of feature films.
In 2018-2020 studied photography at the Kyiv School of Photography and the Vadym Doctorov School of Photography. In 2021, she began studying at the MYPH School of Arts, where, in addition to the basic course of modern art photography, she attended a course of lectures on conceptual photography
by Roman Pyatkovka, an outstanding figure of the Kharkiv School of Photography.
She took part in collective exhibitions in the galleries of Ukraine, European countries and the USA, in particular in the Tbilisi art fair in 2022, the exhibition "Rozgostitsa" at the Motanka Fest in Kühlhaus Berlin in 2023, as well as in the collective exhibition of authors and actresses of the MYPH community "Depths of Psyche" at the Museum of modern Ukrainian art Korsakiv 2024.
Has a publication in a book - a collection of authors of the MYPH community. Anna's works are kept in private collections in Europe. Member of the MYPH community, and CUTOUT COLLAGE art project.
COLLAGE
ARTIST STATEMENT
У своїй мистецькій практиці я зазвичай використовую цифрову фотографію та, часом, колажування.
Цифрова фотографія має спільне з природним поглядом людини, яка миттю вихоплює щось, що привертає її увагу та змушує замислитись про побачене, а також знову поглянути на цей предмет чи явище для того, щоби порівняти перше враження з тим, як мозок інтерпретував побачене після першого погляду. Колажування допомагає відтворити процес сприйняття та наслоювання образів.
Основна тема та принцип моєї практики- споглядання, той неквапливий процесс, коли об’єкти в процесі споглядання набувають нових та часто неочікуваних сенсів. В який момент починається небуття, чи має воно межі, чи здатні ми хоч трохи наблизитися до розуміння, де межа переходу, що реальне, а що ні- ось питання, на які я намагаюся відповісти своєю практикою. Емоції, які виникають на перетині контрастів найсильніші, водночас, сильні емоції контрастують зі станом споглядання, на цьому перетині і існує моя практика.
EXHIBITIONS
2026
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Zaporizhzhia Contemporary Art Center, Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine.
2025
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Kyiv National Art Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Between Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
- “Identity Code: Nation, Culture, Politics,” third international collage festival CUTOUT, Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant Gallery, Paris, France.
- “For the Sake of a Letter,” Annex Aoyama, Tokyo, Japan. An art activism project aimed at supporting prisoners.
- “For the Sake of a Letter,” Berlin Story Bunker, Berlin, Germany.
- “For the Sake of a Letter,” Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France.
-"For the Sake of the Letter", Antropia, Culture and Conference Centre, Driebergen, Netherlands.
- "Fragments", Eye Sea Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine.
2024
- "More than houses", art space Spadschyna, Kyiv, Ukraine
- “For the Sake of the Letter”, an exhibition dedicated to the rights of Ukrainian prisoners of war, organized by the community My Ministry of Culture under the patronage of CUTOUT, Le Bonheur est Dans L'instant gallery, Paris, France.
- “Looking into Ourselves”, a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents as part of the KAOS collage festival, Kranj, Slovenia.
- "Looking into Ourselves", a collective exhibition of CUTOUT residents, CUTOUT COLLAGE STUDIO, Kyiv, Ukraine
- "Depths of the Psyche", Museum of Modern Ukrainian Art Korsakiv, Lutsk, Ukraine
- "Shared Body: Mykolaiv Young Photography", Ukraine House in Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark
2023
- World Biennial of Student Photography, Gallery of the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, Serbia
- "Crossing the Line", Norfolk Center for the Arts, USA
- "MYPH in storage", Warehouse Gallery No. 5, Cherkasy, Ukraine
- UKRAINE. RESIDENCE OF FREEDOM, Riga dome. Riga, Latvia
- "Rozgostitsa", Motanka festival, Berlin, Germany
- "5 years anniversary MYPH" virtual platform Baroque
- Video presentation of the project "Fairy Tale" Department gallery, Oslo, Norway
2022
- "Crossing the Line", Walker Gallery, Kearney, USA
- "Celebration Life" at the Institute of Contemporary Art Research, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine