Anastasia Tsayder is a photographer and curator based in Moscow. She works in photography, video, archives, sculpture, and installation. Her artistic practice focuses on the cultural and visual transformations of post-Soviet society. Tsayder is a winner of multiple prestigious prizes, including the Silver Camera award. Her curatorial work has been nominated for the Innovation and Kuryokhin art prizes.
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From the Arcadia series, 2016-2018. In this project, cities are re-conquered by plants: these pastoral views are the new romantic landscape of the post-Soviet space
Arcadia, 2016-2018. Shot across four countries from Belarus to Kyrgyzstan, the series shows the remaining uniformity of the post-Soviet landscape
Arcadia, 2016-2018. Arcadia is an attempt to explore the collective experience formed by social conditions and nature
Arcadia, NEMOSKVA exhibition, St Petersburg, 2020. Сurator: Artem Filatov
Arcadia, NEMOSKVA exhibition, St Petersburg, 2020. Сurator: Artem Filatov
Arsenal, 2019. This project is a visual inventory of cameras produced at the Krasnogorsk Mechanical Plant that initially specialised in military production.It is easy to forget that military and civilian products often share the same components
Arsenal, 2019. 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg. Curator: Xiaoyu Weng. As a metaphor of cultural memory, Tsayder deliberately uses gelatin silver prints that exposed to light, will gradually deteriorate
Moscow Olympics, 2013-14. The series looks at the heritage of Moscow 1980 Summer Olympics—the last big event to happen in the Soviet Union that was meant to prove the superiority of the communist ideology
Moscow Olympics, 2013-14. Objects built for the 1980s Olympics still bear the signs of the optimism and hope of that era
Moscow Olympics, 2013-14. Tsayder chooses this subject on the eve of the 2014 Sochi Olympics. The preparation for the games was marked by mass relocations of local residents, corruption scandals, and constant growth of expenses
Moscow Olympics, 2013-14. 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg. Curator: Xiaoyu Weng
