Yanina Boldyreva Yanina Boldyreva was born in 1986 in Novosibirsk, Russia. Her main mediums are project photography, including photobook, easel graphics, muralism, installation. In 2009, she graduated from the Novosibirsk State Academy of Architecture and Fine Arts (NSAAFA) as a muralist. While still a student, she began working as a street artist, creating murals on social topics. She continues to work as an independent street artist to this day. In 2012, Yanina met the Ukrainian video artist Oleksandr Isaenko, and together they made several video and photo projects, which were shown at international festivals, and the Duo Tone video won first place at the international competition «Video Art Review» by The Video community, Krakow, Poland. In 2014 Yanina started making photo books and photo zines. Her books have been received at international festivals and shown in different parts of the world. Yanina is an independent book publisher, and makes her own photo books and art-books with print runs of up to 350 copies. Prior to the outbreak of the Russian War in Ukraine, Yanina organized festivals of independent art books and zines in Siberia. In 2020, Yanina enriched her artistic practice with easel graphics; she opened two large solo exhibitions of graphic projects in 2020 and 2022.
Statement
As a rule I am dealing with art photo, printmaking, drawing, video-art, mural-art, installation. I’m interested in borderlines, undeveloped territories, exceeding the frames of genres. I use different visual languages for my projects because I believe that each art conception should have its own style. The esthetic and formality not less than disclosure of a idea is important for me. I am trying to do multilayered projects and make it interesting at the different levels of understanding. At the same time, my images are intuitive. I am interested in conflicts within the individual and within society, borderline transitional states, undeveloped territories on the map of human ideas, the variability of the course of life and ideas about it. Like many artists, I work with personal themes or those in which I can find parallels with my own experience. The concepts I work with: the subjectivity of human perception, conflict, oblivion, oblivion, disappearance, destruction, the variability of life, objective and subjective, banality and madness.
CV
Awards
2024 Skan Award for artist from Siberia, best work nomination, Krasnyarsk, Siberia
2022 Scholarship for an art project from the Goethe Institute, Russia-Germany
2022 Gomma grant, London, UK, finalist
2021 MoS PhotoPrize 1st place, Siberia
2021 Laureate in the nomination «Photobook», Photo Contest and Festival of Young Photographers in Russia -2021
2020 Jury’s Choice Prize, Festival of Young Photographers in Russia, Moscow-Kaluga.
2019 MoS PhotoPrize finalist 2018 first place in the competition «Originally from Siberia», NCCA, Siberia
2017 Scholarship for Young Authors, from the Union of Photo Artists of Russia
2017 Photobook award, Moscow, Russia, shortlist
2016 Scholarship for young authors, from the Union of Photo Artists of Russia
2016 Arles Cosmos PDF award Shortlisted. France
2015 Scholarship for Young Authors, from the Union of Photo Artists of Russia
2014 The third on the portfolio revue at the PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography, Krasnodar, Russia Personal exhibitions
2013 Best Exibition Project — PhotoVisa International Festival of Photography, Krasnodar, Russia
2013 01 Video Art Review by THE VIDEO COMMUNITY, Krakow, Poland
2012 Gomma Mono Vol1 — Shortlisted
Personal exhibitions:
2022 Birch peopel, Pennlab Gallery, curator Ilya Shipilovsky, Moscow
2022 Black calendar, Triumph gallery, curator Marina Bobyleva, Moscow
2021 Two exhibition projects «Sheet Happens» &“Quite still», Novosibirsk State Art Museum
2020 «Collective inaction», Post Workshops and Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia
2020 «Teplushka», Locus gallery, Tomsk, Russia
2019 «Teplushka», gallery and hand-print factory Fab 8, Novosibirsk, Russia
2018 «Sheet happens», NCCA (ROSIZO), Tomsk, Russia
2017 «Broken space», art-space Photobiblioteka, Moscow, Russia
2016 Sheet Happens, OFF_FESTIVAL, Bratislava, Slovakia
2014 Index Lost, exhibition project in collaboration with Alexander Isaenko, Festival of Fotography Encontros de imagen, Braga, Portugal
2012 Iсe, personal exhibition in Photo wall gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2010-second personal exhibition in NEPOKORENNY gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia
2007- The Files, first personal exhibition, NO SOAP gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia
Sellective collective exhibitions and festivals
2024 Impossible disco, curated by Poline Slepenkova, Caterine`s collection, Sankt-Petersburg, Russia
2023 «Street — feminine», art shop «Setka», St. Petersburg, «Kontora parahodstva», Tyumen, Russia
2023 Roman de la Rose, Nota, library cultural center, Sankt Petersburg. Russia
2023 «Aesopian language» Festival Slavica, Turin, Markthalle Basel, Viaduktstr.10, Hirscheneck, Switzerland
2023 «Stimmen des zivilen ungehorsams in russland gegen krieg & mobilisierung» organized by Kulturbuhne Neustadt, Women in Black and Friendenskreis Halle e. V. in Halle (Saale), Germany
2022 Memory Ownership: Between Censorship and a Diary» curated by Olga Bubich and Franca Wohlt AFF Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2022 48 hours festival, Berlin, Germany
2022 Fesival of independent art-books and zines «Koreshki», Novosibirsk, Russia
2022 30/7 Gallery, Moskow, Russia
2021 MoS PhotoPrize finalist exhibition, Omsk, Russia
2021 Festival «48 hours», few curatorial projects, Novosibirsk, Russia
2021 «International Triennial of Contemporary Graphics», Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2021»The game of tic-tac-toe», Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia
2021 Festival «Young Photographers of Russia», Kaluga, Novosibirsk, Russia
2021 COS20MOS21, art-center Zaryadye, Moskow, Russia
2021 «Trepang syndrome», art-center Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
2020 «Alvitr Art Winter exhibition», Artbox space, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 «Provincial Biennale», Tomsk, Russia
2020 «Behind the Clouds of Future», DK Gromov, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 «Implicit Relations», Snow Festival, Tomsk, Russia
2020 Festival «Deer Country», Museum. Shimanovsky, Salekhard, Russia
2020 Festival «Young Photographers of Russia», Kaluga, Russia
2020 «Nemoskva is just around the corner», Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 Photobookzineprintpressfest Photobook Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 exhibition of the winners of the MoS PhotoPrize competition, Omsk Museum of Art, Omsk, Russia
2019 «48 hours» festival of contemporary art, Novosibirsk, Russia
2019 International Biennale of Photography, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 Selected shells, Fragment gallery, curated Luis Morin, Moscow, Russia
2017 «I’m scared» The Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Riga Photomonth 2017 opening: Facts and Clarifications, Riga, Latvia
2017 «New Spread» collective exhibition of russian phtobook on Phobookfest, Moscow, Russia
2017 Group exhibition «Young Russian Photographers-2017», Moscow, Russia
2016 Photobook in Russia, Dom Metenkova, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2016 Street photo festival, Moscow, Russia
2016 «Breach», group exhibition, Rabbit Hole gallery, New York, USA
2016 «Paradise and hell», Exhibition, NCCA, Tomsk, Russia
2016 Group exhibition «Young Russian Photographers-2016», Pushino, Russia
2016 HIDDEN MOVE Flon Art, Lausanne, Switzerland
2015 Selfpublisher Festival «Samizdam» Novosibirsk, Russia
2012 «Art session» Krasnoyarsk museum center Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012 Festival EXPIRIENCE, Novosibirsk, Russia
2012 Art industry in Erarta museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 EXPIRIENCE, NCCA, Novosibirsk, Russia
2011 Kamerny svet (Chamber light), NEPOKORENNY gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia
2011 The Best of Russia Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
2010 Festival of accrual conceptual Arts ARTZOND «Anthology of time», Malyj Manezh St. Petersburg, Russia
2010 Snowosibirsk, St. Petersburg, Russia
My photo-books and zines
2022 Birch people, self published, 250 copies
2022 pines.mapofmemory.org/book/ (online book project)
2021 Collective Inaction, zine by Samopal Books, 100 copies
2019-2020 «Teplushka», self published, 100 copies
2017 Sheet Happens, self published, 40 copies
2017 Broken Space, self published, 100 copies
2016 NSK, self published, 10 copies
2015 RUPTURE ZONE, zine, self published, 50 copies
2014 Index Lost, self published, 20 copies
Video-art events
2024 MetaKansk Festival, multistatse
2015 EXPIRIENCE Festival «Praeparatio», Novosibirsk, Russia
2014 Streaming Festival 8th, Zagreb /Croatia
2014 10th Berlin International Directors Lounge, Berlin. Germany
2014 29 International Digital Art Festival VIDEOFORMES, Clermont-Ferrand, France
2014 AVIFF Cannes Film Festival, France
2013 VIDEOMEDEJA 17th International Video Festival, Novi Sad / Serbia
2013 Multimedia Showcase 3, Porto / Portugal
2013 The Five Best Videos Of The International Video Art Review THE 01 — Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Krakow / Poland
Publications
2024
snob.ru/
www.platformb.art/collective-inaction/
www.afisha.ru/article/
2023
www.kommersant.ru/doc/5842909
2022
artfocusnow.com/
roar-review.com/
2021
www.calvertjournal.com/
2019 Ausloeser magazine, 1issue (off-lime)
2017 Photobook «Mobile street photography,
2017 «Out of the Phone», Editions Eyrolles, France (off-line)
2017 bleek-magazine.ru
2016 fractionmagazine, colta.ru, kioskderdemokratie, treterzi.org
2015 gupmagazine.com, birdinflight.com, bleek-magazine.com, syg.ma, theunknownbooks.net, theunknownbooks.net, mutantspace.com
2014 thistlemag.com, lint-roller.com, lifeisabanana.com, phasesmag.com, dontpostme, newlandscapephotography.com, prismphotomagazine.com, docphotomagazine.com, wittykiwi-review.com, dodho.com
2013 gupmagazine.com, fstopmagazine.com, bricabrac-ezine.com
2012 point-of-simplicity, museemagazine, 591photography.com, fototazo.com, satellitevoices.com
2011 copypasteculture.com