Anna Jermolaewa

Over the summer months, Kunsthaus Bregenz is presenting works by Anna Jermolaewa on the ground floor. KUB is closely associated with the artist—Austria’s next Venice Biennale participant—as several of her main works are part of the Kunsthaus Bregenz collection. In the exhibition in Bregenz, Jermolaewa will show her highly topical installation Chernobyl Safari, from 2014/23, Famous Pigeons, from 2021, and Dining Room, an installation from 2017, which will be on view in Austria for the first time.

Anna Jermolaewa (b. 1970, Saint Petersburg) lives and works in Vienna and Upper Austria. As a co-founder of the first opposition party in the Soviet Union and a co-publisher of its government-critical newspaper, she fled from the Soviet Union to Austria in 1989. Since 2019 she has been professor for experimental design at the University of Arts Linz. In 2022 the City of Vienna artist awarded the artist the Dr. Karl Renner Prize from for her social commitment as a member of the association “Ariadne: Wir Flüchtlinge für Österreich” (“Ariadne: We Refugees for Austria”). Jermolaewa will represent Austria at the Venice Biennale in 2024.