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   Matveeva Anna

Personal information:
Art critic, curator
Date of birth: 25th of October 1975
Place of birth: St Petersburg

Education:

1998—2001 — post-graduate programme, Department of Philosophy, St Petersburg State University
1992—1998 — St Petersburg State University, Department of Philosophy, Major: philosophy

Work experience:

May 2002 — present: a free-lance curator

2000—2002 — Curator at the Museum of Non-Conformist Art, the Cultural Centre, 10 Pushkinskaya Street

1999 — present: free-lance journalist, contributions to newspapers: the «Petersburg — on Nevsky prospect», «Time St Petersburg», «St Petersburg News\\\\\" (St Petersburg), «Arguments and Facts», Kommersant\\\\\" (Petersburg„s editorial office), «Week», «Time Moscow News\\\\\" (Moscow) and others.

1996-97 — research worker, «Eidos» St Petersburg Philosophic and Cultural Center,

1998—2000 — editor, St Petersburg contemporary art magazine «Maximka», where she regularly contributed her articles, reviews and translations. Since 1999 she has been a steady contributor at „The Art Magazine\\\\\" (Moscow). Translator of books on contemporary art: Slavoj Zizek «Looking Askance» and Rosalind Krauss «the Authenticity of Avant-garde and other modernist myths».

Exhibitions and Curator Projects:

2000 — «All We Wanted. Young Petersburg Photography», the Navicula Artis Gallery (St Petersburg), 12-25 May

2000; the exhibition was also represented at the First All-Russian Photo-festival «Proзрение», Nizhny Novgorod, 25 December — 30 November 2000.
«Songs of Innocence and Life Experience. Four young Petersburg photographers». The Museum of Non-Conformist Art (The Cultural Center at 10 Pushkinskaya, St Petersburg), December 2000.

2001 — «Greetings, dear ladies», May 2001, The Museum of Non-Conformist Art (The Cultural Center at 10 Pushkinskaya, St Petersburg).
«Electric Blanket», photo-slide project (authors: Nan Goldin, Allen Frame, Frank Franka) — organizer at St Petersburg (together with the CEC International Partners), The Museum of Non-Conformist Art (The Cultural Center at 10 Pushkinskaya, St Petersburg), 23-26 May 2001.

Tirana Biennial of Contemporary Art (The First Biennale of Contemporary art in Tirana), September-October 2001, the National Art Gallery, Tirana, Albania, curator of the Russian part.

2002 «DAVAJ! Contemporary Russian art «, curators Peter Noewer and Bettina Busse; the exhibition hall at Postfuramt, Berlin, 9 January — 27 February 2002, — curator for St Petersburg.
«Artgenda 2002», international festival of young art, 6 — 27 June 2002, Hamburg, Germany — city coordinator for St Petersburg.
«Eternal happiness, eternal life», the Marat Hellmann Gallery, Moscow, 22 May — 10 June 2002.
«Estestvo. Contemporary art of St Petersburg», Lennstrem Art Museum, Rauma, Finland, 14 June — 6 October 2002, co-curator and editor of the catalogue.

Functions, Conferences, Events

Summer school on philosophy «Self-Determination of Philosophy in Transforming Societies: the Problem of Tradition», Minsk, Belorussia , 14 -27 July 1997, participant
The Fourth International Symposium on Philosophy and Culturology «Culturology