Anna Jermolaewa guides through her exhibition at the Museum der Moderne Salzburg

Join us on a tour with the artist through her solo exhibition, which the Museum der Moderne Salzburg is dedicating to her from December 1, 2023 to April 7, 2024.
UPDATE: The exhibition will be on view through April 1, 2024.
Anna Jermolaewa (Leningrad, USSR, 1970) is the winner of the 2021 Otto Breicha Prize.A self-described “realist”, she has devised a distinctive form of critical engagement with reality that is enlivened by a dark sense of humor. When the authorities launched pro­ceedings against her for anti-Soviet agitation in 1989, she escaped to Vienna, where she studied art history before completing her education at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in 2002. Jermolaewa has been professor of experimental design at the University of Arts Linz since 2018. Jermolaewa’s works often develop out of observations of everyday objects. In 1998, she started taking photographs at markets all over the world. Markets are microcosms that, Jermo­laewa believes, reflect society as a whole. Her exhibition in Salzburg is the first to fea­ture a selection of these pictures, together with works like “Back to the Silk Routes,” a video that explores the life stories of Bukharan Jews who emigrated from Uzbekistan and sell their wares on Vienna’s Naschmarkt. Jermolaewa asks them what they miss about their homeland, travels to Samarkand for them, and returns with photographs from the places they long for. Themes such as memory, social dislocation, and fresh starts are visualized in rich detail yet without sentimen­talism.
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