Annouchka Brochet is a Russian artist.
Educations
1988 Graduated from the Kalinin Art Academy, Moscow
1995 Graduated from the State Book Design Institute as a graphic artist, Moscow
1997 Member of the Russian Union of Artists
2019 Member of the INTERNATIONAL ACADEMY OF CERAMICS
She graduated from the State Institute for Book Design as a graphic artist.
For the last 17 years she actively took part with her paintings, light boxes and ceramic installations to the main events in Russia such as the Moscow Biennale (Special and Parallel programs 2005, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2015), “The Future depends on you. New Rules” (exhibition held in 8 museums in 8 Russia’s cities), “International Woman’s Day. Feminism from the Avant-Garde until Now”, 2012, “Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitsch in Contemporary Art”, 2013. In 2014 she was one of eight artists from Russia invited to the special project of The International Biennial of Vallauris – Creation and Ceramic, (Vallauris, France). In 2015 she won the special price of the Jury at the 8th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, South Korea with her ceramic-video installation Last Dream. In 2017 participated to the 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, South Korea with two ceramic installations (Year 2338 and Amnesia 2). In January 2020 she attended the project Connection at the Hong Kong Cultural Center and in 2021 exhibited in the Vantaa Art Museum Artsi, Finland. In 2021-22 the artist actively develops the theme of collaboration of contemporary art and traditional folk crafts, the influence of archaic manual techniques on consciousness and definition of identity today. She did a big project as curator and artist in the Republic of Komi, “Collaboration” – a special project for the 1st Komi Biennale of Contemporary Art and for the Russian Museum of Ethnography, in St. Petersburg. Since 2019 Annouchka Brochet is a member of the European Academy of Ceramics AIC.
She produces ceramics, installations using ceramics and videos, also using old ceramics as ready-mades. She also do paintings (oil on canvas), paintings on glass and Plexiglas, light boxes, installations with Plexiglas and shadows, and works on mirrors. Annouchka concentrates her works mainly on the Cult of Beauty, the consumption ideology, and the position of women in society and art. Her feminist position is quite unique in the Russian scene.
She lives and works in Moscow.
Solo exhibition
| 2003 – “Should One Believe in Beauty?”, VP Studio Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2005 -“Behind the Mirror” (parallel program, 1st moscow biennale of contemporary art), VP Studio Gallery,
Moscow, Russia |
| 2005 – “In the framework of the body”, New Academy, Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| International festival of contemporary art, Shargorod, Ukraine |
| 2006 – “Read on the lips (shadows of whisper) or Women’s Tales”, |
| 2006 – “Read on the lips”, Bereznitsky Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine |
| 2007 – “KinoKiss”, Garage Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2008 – “Extase-Ekstasy”, Galerie Orel Art, Paris, France |
| 2009 -“Vera Pavlovna’s Dreams”(parallel program, 3d moscow biennale of contemporary art) ,
The State Literary Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – “In the studio” (Festival “Fashion and style in Photography”), Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
Moscow, Russian |
| 2011 – “Vulnerability”, Mironova Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine |
| 2011 – “Wikiantipedia” (Special project of the 4th Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Festival
“New Cultures”), Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russian |
| 2012 – “Lucidity”, Brusov Art Communication Creativity lab, Moscow, Russia |
| 2012 – “Vulnerability 2”, Erarta Galleries, London, Great Britain |
| 2013 – “Vulnerable ecstasy”, Galerie Frangulyan, Paris, France |
| 2014 – “Miss Vulnerable”, Erarta Galleries, Zurich, Switzerland |
Group Exhibition
| 1987 – Youth Exhibition, Moscow Union of Artists exhibition hall on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow, Russia |
| 1988 – “Labyrinth”. Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia |
| 1989 – “Hors Genre”, Youth Palace, Moscow, Russia |
| 2005 – “Egalitarianism” (Special projects, 1 moscow biennale of contemporary art), Museum Center of
the Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia |
| 2005 – “Gynecology”, State Institute of Art Studies, Moscow, Russia |
| 2006 – “Art place Shargorod”, International festival of contemporary art, Shargorod, Ukraine |
| 2007 – “I Believe” (Parallel project, 2 moscow biennale of contemporary art), Winzavod Center of
Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russian |
| 2008 – “From Non-Conformism to Feminisms”, Chelsea Art Museum, New-York, USA |
| 2008 – “The Future depends on you – New Rules”, Regional Museum, Vladivostok – Regional Historical
Museum, Krasnoiarsk – Dalnevostochny Art Museum, Khabarovsk – Airport Tolmashevo, Novosibirsk – Regional Museum of art and history, Ekaterinburg – Samara Region Art Museum, Samara – Krasnodar Region Art Museum, Krasnodar – Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2010 – “Sanatorium Art”, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2010 – “Doors open day. A mansion – a gymnasium – a clinic – a museum. Russian Art, 1989-2009, from
the Museum Collection”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2010 – “Imperfetto” , “Vera Pavlovna’s Dreams 2”, Spazio Carbonesi, Bologna, Italy |
| 2010 – “ŽEN d’АRТ. The Gender History of Art in the Post-Soviet Space: 1989–2009”, Moscow Museum
of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – “Women’s Nano” (Special projects, 4th Moscow biennale of contemporary art), Museum Center
of the Russian State University for Humanities, Moscow, Russia |
| “Light of women”, Seoul, Korea |
| 2012 – “Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitsch in Contemporary Art”, The State Tretyakov Gallery |
| 2013 – “International Woman’s Day. Feminism from the Avant-Garde until Now”, Museum and Exhibition
Centre “Manege”, Moscow, Russia |
| 2014 – “Rossiya”. Special project The International Biennial of Vallauris – Creation and Ceramic, Vallauris,
France |
| 2015 – “Last dream” (Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale), South Korea (International competition
prize winner) |
| 2018 – “Finite resource” (Parallel project, 7 st Moscow biennale of contemporary art), Stroganov Academy
of Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 -International ceramic symposium, Gzhel, Russia |
| 2017 – The 9th Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, Two projects selected (“Year 2338”, “Amnesia 2”),
South Korea |
| 2018 – “Small Scale of Big history”, “Body framed” series of plates with drawings, Moscow Museum of
Modern Art, Russia |
| 2019 – “Not spoilage”, “Cobalt ceramics”, A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2020 – “2020 AIC New Members Exhibition and International Ceramic Art Seminar”, Beijing, China |
| 2020 – “Connection – International Ceramics Cultural Exchange Exhibition”, Hong Kong Cultural Centre
Exhibition Gallery, China |
| 2020 – “Perfect. Graft ceramics”, Heritage gallery in the art space Cube, Moscow, Russia |
| 2020 – “Flying like a dream”, State Central Theater Museum A.A. Bakhrushin, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – “The Nets. How to NET Brains” installation with ceramics and ropes, Vantaa Art Museum Artsi,
Finland |
| 2021 – “From Form to Surface”, “Last dreams” installation with ceramics and video, Vantaa Art Museum
Artsi, Finland |
| 2021 – “Caucasian Riviera. Battles for Paradise “, “Vera Pavlovna’s Dreams” installation with ceramics and
three-channel video, All-Russian State Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – “Collaboration” Special project of the 1st Komi Biennale “New Discovery of the North”, National
Gallery of the Komi Republic, Syktyvkar |
| 2022 – “The Raw and the Cooked”, Russian Ethnographic Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia |
| 2022 – “Female totality”, Gallery “Kultproject”, Ground Solyanka, Moscow, Russia |
| 2022 – “Now it’s time to launch the quick brown Fox again… Isn’t it?”, All-Russian State Museum of
Decorative Arts, Moscow, Russia |
Сollections
Moscow Museum contemporary art, Russia
Moscow House of Photography, Russiaс
Korea Ceramic Foundation, Gyeonggi, South Korea
Magnelli, Vallauris, France
Chelsea Museum, New York, USA
New Rules Foundation, Switzerland
SDV collection, Moscow, Russia
Smirnov-Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Private collections around the world
