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Mariia Annenkova is a South East based interdisciplinary artist, specialising in painting, performance and new media art. Her work explores intraspecies connectivity and encounter, and the practice of non-hierarchical communal structures where human-animal and animal bodies are treated ethically.

Mariia is interested in alternative community building, where grassroots systems of care and support within institutions allow exercising care for vulnerable urban populations.Through her praxis, the artist explores the connection between animal abuse and broader societal issues such as racism and misogyny.

Mariia aims on her work for an ethical representation of notions of animality and animal life. Her methodology based on actively rearranging humans in ecological terms (instinctive, nonverbal communication) and animals in ethical and cultural terms by involving both entities in the co-constitutive cultural environment, shaped by order of respectful communication and cooperation.

For the past two years, her performances and new media art have been predominantly collaborative, both within the artistic and the broader local community. Whereas in painting and drawing she reveals an immediate experience of animal’s Otherness portraying non-human species beyond their biological functioning. 

@masha_ann
www.mariiaannenkova.co.uk


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS, PERFORMANCES AND SCREENINGS

2023. Human-Canine Artistic Mapping (upcoming), London
2022. BA Fine Art Goldsmiths Degree Show, London
2021. LiTE-HAUS Galerie, Berlin
2021. Where The Dragons Live, PSCH Gallery and @yra_artcommunity, Moscow
2021. Some Art Exhibition (online), London
2020. Who Am I Exhibition (online), London
2019. THE PROCESS. THE NEW ACADEMY, Winzavod Gallery, Moscow
2018. The Expanded Field of Drawing, at Slade, University College London, London
2018. Let the Paintings Sing, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg
2018. Смотри Как Классно, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow

EDUCATION

2019–2022. BA in Fine Arts, Goldsmiths University
2016–2019. BA in Painting, Moscow State Academic Surikov Art Institute, Moscow, Russia
2016–2017. Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at the British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, Russia

This exhibition will donate a 10% of its sales to All Dogs Matter.

“ All Dogs Matter is a dog rescue and rehoming charity working in and around London to transform the lives of unwanted and abandoned dogs. We also rehome dogs in need from overseas.
In 2021 All Dogs Matter rescued and rehomed 330 dogs with new owners. We also found forever homes for 48 unwanted and abandoned dogs from China, Egypt and Italy.”