Anna Zvyagintseva
Anna Zvyagintseva is an artist from Ukraine. In 2010 she graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, department of painting, Kyiv. In her practice she investigates imperceptible, impalpable facets of life, showcasing their fragility and documenting elusive intangible moments. She is working with topics such as body, paths, useless action, and small gesture. Her oeuvre is made by an entanglement of drawing in various forms and transmedial variations like sculpture, installations, video and painting. Anna participated in the Pavilion of Ukraine Hope!, at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia (2015); Kyiv Biennale: The School of Kyiv (2015) and The Kyiv International (2017). She was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2018. She got the Main Prize of the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2017, and was awarded a Special Prize and has also received a Public Choice Prize in 2015. She was the finalist of the PinchukArtCentre Prize in 2013, and the finalist of MUHI prize in 2010.
Order of Things, 2015 –ongoing
First produced in 2015, Order of Things is about the echoes of war in Ukraine at the time. The artist Anna Zvyanintseva took sketches from her archive depicting everyday, peaceful scenes, and enlarged them in metal. We notice that some parts of the drawings have fallen out. The normal order of things is not the same as before. The reverberations of war have since reached relatively peaceful areas and transformed everything. In 2022, the war also reached Kyiv, the artist’s home city, and its echo has disrupted a physical form.