Artist Talk with our Artists in Residence: Anna Jermolaewa and Scott Clifford Evans.

Anna Jermolaewa and Scott Clifford Evans were selected in an open call as part of an Artist-in-Residence Exchange Programme “Central & East Europe Calling” co-organized by <rotor> center for contemporary art in Graz, Austria.

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Anna Jermolaewa, www.jermolaewa.com
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1970. Living in Vienna, Austria since 1989.
Anna Jermolaewa is considered one of Austria’s most outstanding contemporary artists. She works mainly with photography, video and installation. In her works, she analyses functional structures of society, as well as social relations in everyday life. She focuses on the basic conditions and limits of human existence.

Since 2018 Professor for Experimental Design at University of Art and Design Linz, Austria.
2017-2016 Guest Professor of Art in Contemporary Context, Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany
2011–2006 Professor of Media Arts, State School of Design/ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
2002 graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (Painting & Graphic Art/New Media) at Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna.
1998 graduated from University of Vienna (Faculty of Art History).

Her work is held in the collections of the Stedelijk Museum, Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, MUMOK-Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Volpinum Kunstsammlung, MUSA, Museum auf Abruf, Vienna, Tiroler Landesmuseums Ferdinandeum, Vehbi Koc Foundation, Kontakt-The Art Collection of Erste Group, Belvedere, Landesgalerie Linz, Vienna Museum, Collection of Bank Austria, EVN Collection and Arbeiterkammer Vienna.
 
A winner of numerous awards and grants
2017 MAK-Schindler Scholarship Program at the Mackey Apartments, Los Angeles
2014 Artist Residency and New York Studio Grant at ISCP by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
Anna Jermolaewa, Galerie Johann Widauer, Vienna, Austria
Anna Jermolaewa, Zwei linke Füße, Kunstraum Weikendorf, Austria
Anna Jermolaewa / Recurrence, Zeller van Almsick, Vienna
Anna Jermolaewa, Kremlin Doppelganger, Alkovi, Helsinki
 
2017
Flag / Reenactment, Museum of the History of Photography, in frame of Festival “Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum”, St. Petersburg, Russia
 
2016
Anna Jermolaewa, Galerie Johann Widauer, Vienna
Anna Jermolaewa, Beide Weiß, 21er Haus, Vienna
Anna Jermolaewa. A Noble Experiment, Kunsthaus Nexus, Saalfelden
Anna Jermolaewa – Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna
 
2015
Anna Jermolaewa. Dobrze czasy, złe czasy / Good Times, Bad Times, WRO Art Center, Wrocław
Kiss, Motherhood, Untitled by Anna Jermolaewa, The Function Room, London.
Anna Jermolaewa. Good Times, Bad Times, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland.
 
2013
Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
The Way Up, Victoria Gallery, Samara.
Anna Jermolaewa and Audronė Vaupsiene, A SORT OF HOMECOMING, CAC Vilnius.
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
WITH VIEW TO THE SEA, Museum of Western and Oriental Art, Odesa, Ukraine
ARBEIT, LEBEN, KUNST Schüttkasten Allentsteig, Allentsteig, Gemeindeamt, Yspertal, Zeitbrücke Museum, Gars am Kamp, Austria
Auf Herz und Nieren, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden-Rot, Germany
Zero Gravity, ERES Stiftung, Munich, Germany
Cannot Make Out Your Flags, Come Nearer, Festival der Regionen 2019. Soziale Wärme / Social Warmth, Austria
Collective Exhibition for a Single Body The Private Score – Vienna 2019, Haus Wittgenstein – Bulgarisches Kulturinstitut, Vienna, Austria
Wunderkammer Oberösterreich | Wiar a Hünderl sein Herrn, OK Linz, Austria
States of Focus, Wroclaw Contemporary Museum (MWW), Wroclaw, Poland
Play Art! Kunst für Alle. Art for All, Museum Stift Admont, Admont, Austria
 
2018
Bodyscan – Anatomie in Kunst+Wissenschaft, ERES-Stiftung, München, Germany
Notes on the Beginning of the Short 20th Century, The Artists’ House, Tel Aviv, Israel
Echt jetzt? KlasseKunst / Schlossmuseum Linz – Oberösterreicher Landesmuseum, Austria
Vienna Transit, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, curated by_vienna 2018, Vienna, Austria
Ein Brunner-lienz Alto Adige – Kustraum Am Schauplatz / Büro Weltausstellung, Vienna
In the Cut – Sexualität in der Feministischen Kunst Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken
Die 90er Jahre, Ein Viennaer Diwan, Vienna Museum MUSA
Glaube Liebe Hoffnung, 800 Jahre Diözese Graz-Seckau, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
17×24, Every Day is a Good Day – Magazin4 – Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz
 
2017
The Unreliable Protagonist, Netwerk Aalst, Belgium
Display Praterstern – Wir sind ihr, FLUC, Vienna, Austria
LOOK! New Acqusitions/Neuerwerbungen, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Welt Kompakt? – Q21- Frei Raum- Museums Quartier Vienna, Vienna, Austria
Still searching – Benaki Museum, Athen, Greece
NSK State Venice Pavilion in Vienna – Thinking Europe – ARCC.art Open Space,Vienna, Austria
Romanze mit der Revolution – A Romance with Revolution ACC Galerie Weimar, Weimar, Germany/Museum of nonconformist art/Pushkinskaya street 10 , St. Petersburg, Russia
Jakob Lena Knebl. Oh…, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig
Taumel. Navigieren im Unbekannten, Kunsthaus Graz
Silly Symphony – hoast – artist run space vienna, Vienna
Under Construction – Schau Fenster, Berlin
 
2016
Looking for the Clouds. Contemporary Photography in Times of Conflict, Eyes On – Monat der Fotografie Vienna 2016, MUSA
show 000, Instant Edition
Get Involved: Focus Direct Urbanism, Open Arts Foundation, Austrian Cultural Pavilion – FLUCA
Off Is, Traungasse 12
Ikony i Ikonki – Aristoi, Krakow
Die Sprache der Dinge -Materialgeschichten aus der Sammlung – 21er Haus, Vienna
Amor – Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ
Aus der Sammlung: Stadt in Bewegung, Landesgalerie Linz am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz
Die Schule des Reichtums / The School of Prosperity, MUSA, Vienna
 
2015
Creating Common Good – KunstHaus Vienna, Vienna
The School Of Kyiv, Leipzig Class. Seminar: Politics Of Form, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst (GfZK), Leipzig, Germany.
Flirting with Strangers, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria.
Parallel Vienna 2015, Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
body interference, Künstlerhaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Political Populism, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Creating Common Good, Kunsthaus Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
Trends. Special Project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Wing of Gogol House, Moscow, Russia.
6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia.
The School of Kyiv, 2nd Kyiv Biennale, Kiev, Ukraine.
Face Forward, Kunst Arzt, Kyoto, Japan.
MACHT?GEWINN, Kunstforum Montafon, Schruns.
Love at the Edge, Galeria Arsenal, Bialystok.
Female Views on Russia – Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich.
Beastly / Tierisch – Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur.
instant edition. Editionen/Multiples Leopold Museum, Vienna.
Private Public Partnership, Lust Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Europa: Die Zukunft der Geschichte, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland.
SHARE. Too much history, MORE future, Banja Luka Museum of Contemporary Art, Republika Srpska, Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
 
 
Scott Clifford Evans (b.1979) is an artist, writer, and performer from Utah, USA who currently lives and works in Vienna. His most recent video, 20 out of 19,733 Killing Fields (2017), is a documentation of twenty “killing fields” in Cambodia left by the Khmer Rouge regime. His video Manipulating Currency (2016) premiered at the One Work Gallery in Vienna and has shown in exhibitions in London, Berlin, and Graz.
In 2019, Evans participated as script consultant and actor in the collaboration of Liam Gillick and Gelatin for the Kunsthalle Wien exhibition/film Stinking Dawn. He also starred in Christian Kosmas Mayer’s video Memory Palace (2016) and performed with Gelatin in Karaoke Machine at the 2016 Donaufestival in Krems, Austria. In addition, he assists Anna Jermolaewa on many of her video and documentary projects, including: The Pit (2019), Ecce Multitudo (2017), Political Extras (2015), and LENINOPAD (2015).
Evans recently co-taught a workshop on mudwrestling, Schlammgrübe 3000, at Impulstanz in Vienna and is currently filming his first feature, trash-horror installation/film project, Murderkino.