Galina Agafonova
multidisciplinary artist
35 y.o.
Contacts: g.agafonova.art@gmail.com, +7916-4155222, Galina
Agafonova (agafoto.ru)
Based in Moscow.
Education:
Since 2021 student of the Rodchenko
School, laboratory “Recent Contexts and Technoecological Perspectives in
Contemporary Art”.
In 2019, she studied at the School of
New Photography by Elena Sukhoveeva and Viktor Khmel.
In 2011, she graduated from higher
education in the specialty "Computer Security" at the Moscow State
University of Communications (MIIT).
Main media: photography, objects, video
art.
Works with the creation of situations of
contradictions in the real spaces of nature and the city, which implies as a
result their documentation or re-creation in objects or installations.
Group
exhibitions:
2023
Krasnenkaya Biennale 2023 (Saint
Petersburg, Russia)
2023 Planet
B (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
2023 Total
installation Anthropoland (Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia)
2023 Festival of Contemporary
Photography "Young Photography" (Kaluga, Russia)
2023
Festival of Abstract Atr "Abstractly - forms"
(Moscow, Russia)
2023
Contest
and Festival "Young Photography" 2023 (Kaluga, Russia)
2023
Festival of photobooks and zines NIZINA 2023 (Saint Petersburg,
Russia)
2023
Festival of contemporary art ARTWEEK FairyTales II 2023
(Novosibirsk, Russia)
2023
Festival of contemporary art DOCA Days of Contemporary Art
(Moscow, Russia)
2023 Festival
of photobooks «Jerdyola» (Rostov-on-Don, Russia)
2023 Exhibition
of abstract art "Abstractly - think!" (Moscow, Russia)
2022 Festival of Contemporary Photography
"Young Photographers of Russia 2022" (Kaluga, Russia)
2022 Exhibition of contemporary
art «[IN] Transition» 2022 (Moscow, Russia)
2022 Festival of Contemporary
Photography Rotterdamphoto 2022 (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
2022 Festival of Contemporary Art ARTWEEK 2022 (Novosibirsk, Russia)
2022 Exhibition Eco Art Russia
2022 (Yekaterinburg, Russia)
2020 Exhibition of contemporary
art Wells Art Contemporary 2020 (UK)
2020 Festival of Contemporary Photography
"Young Photographers of Russia 2020" (Kaluga, Russia)
2020 Exhibition "Water 2020" in New York
NYC4PA (USA)
2019 Contemporary art
exhibition London Group Open 2019 (London, UK)
Personal
exhibition:
2023 LANDSCAPES (Gallery22, Voxels Metaverse)
Awards:
2022 Silver winner and
Honorable mention Moscow International Photo Awards 2022
2021 Honorable mention for Prix De La Photographie
2021 (Paris, France)
2020 Honorable mention for Prix De La Photographie
2020 (Paris, France)
2020 Laureate and scholarship
holder of the competition "Young Photographers of Russia" 2020 (Russia)
2020 Winner of the "Water
2020" competition in New York NYC4PA (USA)
Works are in private collections in
London, Los Angeles, Krakow, Prague, Moscow.
Artist's book OASIS in the collection of
the library of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.
