Exhibition Alena Tereshko "Why f" Automatic translate

The exhibition of Alena Tereshko “Why F” is one of the stages of many years of work on the experiences of her own interaction with the paintings of the past that exist today in the status of a masterpiece. The artist invents her workshop of fake fakes, taking into account the academic practices of introducing “classics” through copying, as well as the more exciting stories of fake manufacturers, whose commercially biased attention to the artistic heritage may lead to the appearance of incorrectly cataloged originals. The exhibition presents copies of Judith by Giorgione and Vermeer’s Glass of Wine, Velasquez’s Venus in the Mirror and Rembrandt’s Danai, as well as other super-known works, unlike copies that arose from attempts to reconstruct these works from the point of view of the model model. Optical experiments, reconstruction of the “view of the era” and modern interpretations of the plot are tools that allow you to “revise” the tradition.

In the essay by Linda Nohlin, “Why were there no great women artists?”, One of the fundamental texts for the gender history of art, the researcher shows that the career opportunities of artists in the classical academic system were limited, including through the “inadmissibility” of their work with nudity. Alyona Tereshko discovers the opportunity to create her own gallery of masterpieces, checking on the artistic experience the intense significance of the connection between these social roles. The question of the place / appropriateness of a woman in the art profession turns out to be a way to live, peer, or even allow herself to enter works that are surrounded by a halo of museum inaccessibility.

Anastasia Kotyleva, curator.

Alyona Tereshko was born in 1986 in the city of Ishim, Tyumen Region. Graduate of the Department of Monumental Painting SPbGHPA them. Stieglitz / 2013 / and the School of the Young Artist of the Pro-Arte Foundation for Culture and Art / 2013 /. She is a member of the HudKruzhok group and the Parasit association. Laureate of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize - 2017 in the nomination "Best Media Object". Works with performance, graphics, animation, video, painting.

Personal exhibitions:

2018 Leib & Körper. Laboratory "Intimate Place", St. Petersburg
2017 Unforeseen. Inner Voice Gallery, St. Petersburg
2015 Conditional field. Space Taiga, St. Petersburg

Selected Collective Exhibitions:

2018 Exhibition of nominees for the Kuryokhin Prize 2017. Center them. Sergey Kuryokhin, St. Petersburg
2017 Between Fatigue: Toward New Life Forms. As part of the parallel program of the 4th Ural Biennale, Yekaterinburg
2017 Peacebuilding. Special project of the 4th Ural Biennale, Nizhny Tagil
2017 Prospect of the Unconquered. MMOMA, Moscow
2016 Theory of waves. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2016 Self portrait. Timing, St. Petersburg
2016 Buds. Liljevalchs hubb, Stockholm
2015 10 new bad works. Exhibition of the Parasite Group, Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg
2014 Another capital. Museum of Moscow, Moscow
2014 Black Envy. As part of the Manifesta-10 parallel program. Gallery Borey, St. Petersburg
2013 Lost in translation. As part of the special project of the 55th Venice Biennale, Venice
2013 Parasite +. PERMM, Perm; Winery, Moscow
2013 Beautiful. RuArts Gallery, Moscow

Festivals and shows:

2017 Art Fair Suomi. Stand of the "Parasite". Helsinki, Finland
2016 Boom Bang III Festival, Northampton, England.
2016 62nd International Short Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
2016 The 9th CYBERFEST, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2015 Residence Nordland Kulturesenter, Bodø, Norway
2015 61st International Short Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, Germany
2015 SUPERMARKET Art Fair. Stand of the "Parasite". Stockholm, Sweden
2014 CYBERFEST 2014, video program, Luda Gallery, St. Petersburg; NY Media Center, New York, USA
2013 Cabinet of Curiosity Program, Helsinki, Finland; St. Petersburg