ArtDependence | Anna Savitskaya

Anna Savitskaya, Russia, Ukraine (co-founder, coordinator, writer)

Anna is a graduate of Moscow’s Photo Academy, with a previous background in intellectual property rights. In 2012 she founded the company Perspectiva Art, dealing in art consultancy, curatorship, and the coordination of exhibitions. During the bilateral year between Russia and The Netherlands in 2013, Perspectiva Art organized a tour for a Dutch artist across Russia, as well as putting together several exhibitions in the Netherlands, curated by Anna. Anna was the main founder of ArtDependence 10 years ago with the memorable words : "Let's start an art magazine so we can keep seeing each other" Since then Anna has taken an active role in the development and management of ArtDependence Magazine. She left ArtDependence in 2019. Anna interviews curators and artists, in addition to reviewing books and events, and collaborating with museums and art fairs.

Articles (92)

Article date: Thursday, October 6, 2016

“Intimacy, fantasy and shame” with Olivia Arthur and Bharat Sikka at the Brighton Photo Biennial

Brighton Photo Biennial, the UK’s leading curated photography festival, runs throughout the month of October in Brighton and Hove, England. Existing since 2003, Brighton Photo Biennial has always been on the verge of critical issues and disturbing themes. For its seventh edition, the Biennial has selected Identity and Self-Representation as two main topics, uniting them under the title “Beyond the Bias – Reshaping Image”. This year, Olivia Arthur (UK) and Bharat Sikka (India) collaborated for the first time to explore the issues of intimacy, fantasy and shame when covering the LGBTQ+ community in their native countries.

Article date: Wednesday, September 28, 2016

“Internalizing rejection can be detrimental to your mind, body, and work” – an interview with Arlene Rush

When it comes to rejection, there are two ways of dealing with it: one way is to continue looking for validation by changing yourself according to some desirable model; the other way requires digging deeper in search for oneself regardless of a supposed ideal. In her work, Arlene Rush draws from her personal experiences, offering the viewer her own approach to self-preservation in the face of rejection. How one can start believing in oneself and keep moving forward, regardless of non-recognition and misperception? In this interview, Arlene Rush talks to Artdependence Magazine about overcoming the negative.

Article date: Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Catching up with Cosmoscow

In just a matter of days, Cosmoscow art fair will take off once again in the Russian capital. Artdependence Magazine had a chance to ask several of the fair’s participants to share their expectations for the upcoming event, and to offer readers a sneak peek preview of what’s to come. Four gallerists talked with us about their local art scenes, the current trends they observe in contemporary art, and how they survive and succeed in the current art market.

Article date: Thursday, September 1, 2016

Cosmoscow is carving its own place within the international arts calendar

This year, the fourth edition of Cosmoscow is taking place from the 9th to the 11th of September in Moscow’s Gostiny Dvor. Russia’s only international arts fair counts with the participation of 40 national and foreign galleries, showing carefully selected work by more than 100 contemporary artists.

Article date: Friday, July 22, 2016

"Driving Off into the Sunset" - 10 Questions to Grear Patterson

NYC-based artist Grear Patterson (b. 1988, USA) uses mixed media to create ideal locations, inspired by the 1993 film “True Romance”. For his running solo show in London's Marlborough Contemporary, Patterson presents large-scale sunsets, recreating the film though visual and audio means. For an entire month, the gallery space was transformed into a dream with extreme colours in simplified forms. Patterson is playing with viewer’s nostalgia, reflecting on the themes of childhood memories and imaginary worlds, inviting us to consider how far away a parallel reality may be.

Article date: Tuesday, June 21, 2016

«My biggest dream is to find new artists' names» - Ekaterina Kibovskaya, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art

The theme of the upcoming Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, which is taking place from July 1 to August 10, 2016 at Trekhgornaya Manufactory, one of Moscow’s oldest factories and, at the same time, a fledgling exhibition space that hosts large cultural projects, is “Deep Inside.”

Article date: Saturday, May 14, 2016

“For me, art is an immersion” – an interview with Clara Feder, founder of the “Dreamchain” project

“What is my place in the world? What have I accomplished so far, and how can I improve things around me?” All of us, from time to time, ask ourselves such questions. Clara Feder, a transmedia artist with a focus on photography and participatory projects, decided to turn these questions into the focus of one of her research projects: “Dreamchain”. The concept of “Dreamchain” is to invite women from the art world to answer the most present and pressing question of all times: “How can we build a better world?”

Article date: Monday, May 2, 2016

"I am Still Alive and I am changing all the time" John Tremblay on his new Solo Exhibition in Paris

From the 21st of April until the 14th of May, Galerie Triple V is hosting it's first solo exhibition in their new space on 5 Rue Du Mail, showcasing the work of American Artist John Tremblay, who lives in Brooklyn, New York and makes abstract art. Playing with forms, agglomerations of shapes, colors and optical perceptions in his earlier works John is now applying an assortment of materials, such as found metal, to a much cleaner minimalistic effect.

Article date: Sunday, April 3, 2016

"On the whole the quality of the museum’s collection insulates us from a political controversy"

The Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art has come a long and interesting way of formation and self-determination since its opening in 1922 as Kyiv Art Gallery and continues to delight visitors with the collection’s masterpieces upto present time. The museum carries out its main purpose - the preservation, multiplication, and exposure of the Slavic cultural heritage. Iurii Vakulenko, general director of the Kyiv National Museum of Russian Art, heading it since 2004, talks with Artdependence Magazine about building the collection, the difficulties the museum has been facing over the years, future plans, information technologies and personal preferences in the collection.

Article date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Interview with Els Barents, curator for the Belgium & Holland section at the inaugural Dubai Photo Exhibition

One of today’s most outspoken events in proclaiming international contemporary photography as an art medium is the inaugural Dubai Photo Exhibition (16-19 March) organized under the patronage of HIPA (The Hamdan Bin Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum International Photography Award) and the Crown Prince of Dubai. This interesting and unique event makes it possible to see and compare contemporary photography from different countries selected by invited curators from these countries, those who are considered to have the most acute and impartial view on their local art scene.

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