COSMOSCOW ARTFAIR 2018

Anna Titova (p. 1984, Ulan-Ude) works with various media, such as installation, sculpture, video and photography. Studied at the Glasgow School of Art, Moscow Institute of Contemporary Art and Valand School of Fine Arts. In her works, Anna Titova explores the sociocultural symptoms at the intersections of the aesthetical and the political: the systems of control and surveillance, the ideological construction of spaces, forms of life and technics of oppression. Using different means of expression, Titova creates narratives that combine documentary and fiction, critical analysis, and visual poetry. Selected group exhibitions include the Venice Biennale in 2011, the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art 2013, parallel program of Manifesta 2014, parallel programs of the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art 2015 and the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art 2015. In 2014 Titova together with Stanislav Shuripa founded The Agecny of Singular Investigations (ASI) – an independent platform for critical discussion of current issues of art and art discourse. In 2015 Titova received CCI Garage scholarship for young artists. The artist lives and works in Moscow. Public collections: Moscow Museum of Modern Art, V-A-C Foundation.

Gulnur Mukazhanova was born in 1984 in Semipalatinsk, Kazakhstan. She studied at the Kazakh National Academy of Arts in Almaty before moving to Berlin in 2008, where she continued her studies at the Kunsthochschule Weißensee until 2013. Since then, she has lived and worked in Berlin and exhibited in Moscow (4th Internationale Biennale For Young Art, 2014), Vienna (Viennafair, 2013) and Almaty (Tengri-Umai Gallery, 2010). Her art is a confrontation of two different cultures but also a dialogue between them. Her Central Asian roots are expressed in a strong physical relation to traditional materials, which, for her, have not only aesthetic value but also symbolic and historical meaning. While living in Germany she has confronted the issues of feminism, globalization and ethnology, which provide the conceptual background to her art.