Anastasia Sosunova lives and works in Vilnius
Born in Ignalina, Lithuania, 1993
Solo and two-person shows:
2023
DIY, Editorial, Vilnius LT Employee of the Month, eastcontemporary, Milan IT
2022
Dance As You Wrestle, Cell Project Space, London UK Insiders, Loggia, Vienna AT They Say We Are Seeking to Understand What’s Been Going On, SixtyEight Art Institute, Copenhagen, DK
2021
Diluvial Valleys, Swallow, Vilnius LT Screens Series: Anastasia Sosunova, New Museum, New York USA Jubilee, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich DE
2019
Barry Walking Himself, Kogo, Tartu EE
2018
Second Skin, Editorial, Vilnius LT
2017
Demikhov Dog, Ignalina Culture and Sports Center, Ignalina LT
Group shows and SCREENINGS (selection):
2023
Ocean of Cheese, TRAFO Center for Contemporary Art, Szczecin, PL Make it real. Like What?, MOCAK, Krakow PL A human being after all, eastcontemporary, Milan IT 67th BFI London Film Festival - Experimenta programme, ICA, London UK Long-Distance Friendships, Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas LT Long-Distance Friendships, Survival Kit, Riga LV Rīga Confidential, kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga LV Whispering Loudly at Vilnius Short Film Festival, National Art Gallery, Vilnius LT In the beginning the was the deed!, Kaunas Artist House LT Letters to Jonas Mekas. Hot afternoon with Autarkia and Syndicate, MACRO, Rome IT Mingling with Againness, Catwings, Leipzig DE
2022
The Latvian Collection, Malmö Konstmuseum, Malmö SWE Folk Fiction, One Minute Space, Athens GR Beyond Nuclear Family: Recipes for Happiness, Display Gallery, Prague CZ Cafe de Mar, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna AT (Fortune) Telling. (Zombie) Coding. (Gelatin) Catwalking, Smack Mellon, New York US Infringements of a species, online at 5th floor Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève CHE The Double (Holly Childs & Gediminas Zygus), Palais de Tokyo, Paris FR The International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen DE Difficult Pasts. Connected Worlds, National Gallery of Arts, Vilnius LT The Thing Is, Kunsthalle Osnabrück DE Agents of Perception, KAI Art Center, Tallinn EE I am Sitting in a Room, Rupert at Expo Chicago, Chicago USA BAITBALL II, Palazzo San Giuseppe, Polignano a Mare IT
2021
Objectif Vidéo Nice, Windsor Hotel, Nice FR Prospectif cinéma, Centre Pompidou, Paris FR Avoidance, FUTURA, Prague CZ Biennial of Contemporary Arts BoCA, Lisbon PT Haus Wien, Former wire rope factory, Vienna AT On Survival, Galerie Britta Rettberg, Munich DE 14th edition of the Baltic Triennial: Endless Frontier, CAC Vilnius LT European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück DE Artists’ Film International: Language, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromsø NOR
2020
Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London UK Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2, Riga LV Double Exposure - Screening Programme, Le Corbusier, Marseille FR Baltic Triennial 14: Intro ‘The Maze and The Lighthouse’, CAC Vilnius LT The Vampire Squad from Hell, international video screening program: HOT BED, Philadelphia; The Standard, Miami Beach USA; Auroras, Sao Paulo BR Head With Many Thoughts, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius LT
Living Ornament, Atletika, Vilnius LT
2019
Inner Pockets, Editorial, Vilnius LT
The Vampire Squad from Hell, an online pavilion for the Wrong Biennale If a door is closed, a window opens, Achterhaus Ateliers, Hamburg DE
Ghost Islands, I: project space, Beijing CHN
Sweet Sweat of the Future, National Art Gallery, Vilnius LT
Self does not understand, Cubitt, London UK
XVII century, Autarkia, Vilnius LT
Survival Kit 10.1, Former building of the faculty of phys-maths, Riga LV
Triple book launch, Contemporary Art Center reading room, Vilnius LT
2018
JCDecaux Prize 2018: Dignity, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius LT
Four Rooms with a View, Vartai, Vilnius LT
DEPOT, Locomotive Depot, Letvaris LT
Survival Kit 10.0, Riga Circus, Riga LV
Entangled Tales, Rupert, Vilnius LT
Transeuropa Fluid, Former Job Center, Hildesheim DE
Cosplay at the Family Dinner, The Sunroom, Richmond USA
Movienight: Comrades, sleep faster!, ll Caminetto, Hamburg DE
2017
StartPoint Prize, Trade Fair Palace of the National Gallery, Prague CZ
Rupert exhibition at the international ArtVilnius art fair, Litexpo, Vilnius LT
Meno Celės, Titanikas, Vilnius LT
Publications:
2021
Artist Notebook Express Method:
https://sixchairsbooks.org/Anastasia-Sosunova-Express-metodas-Express-Method
2019
PDF artist book Detox Siblings:
http://blunt.cc/757939/notebooks/3/detox-siblings
Awards:
2023
Marval Collection Prize,
Received at Art-O-Rama, Marseille FR
2021
Young Artist Award,
Received from Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
2018
JCDecaux Prize winner,
Received from Lithuanian Contemporary Art Centre and JCDecaux
Residencies:
2022
Cell Studios, London UK
2021
Nida Art Colony, Nida LT
2020
Tromsø Kunstforening AiR, Tromsø NOR (virtual)
2019
Achterhaus-Residency, Hamburg DE
PAiR summer residency, VV Foundation, Pāvilosta LV
RUPERT, Vilnius LT
2018
Transeuropa fluid residency, Hildesheim DE
Funen Art Academy and Nordic Culture Point residency, Odense DK
Education:
2015 - 2017 Vilnius Academy of Arts
MA Sculpture, Deimantas Narkevičius course
2015 - 2017 Art education centre, Vilnius
Pedagogical studies, Qualification
2016 Rupert, Alternative Education programme, Vilnius
2011 - 2015 Vilnius Academy of Arts
BA Graphic Art