Tangent Projects Studio Residency Winter/Spring 2024
For our Winter/Spring 2024 residency programme we are very happy to welcome Anna Andrzhievskaya & Dimitra Stavropoulou to Tangent Projects studios.
Many thanks to the selection team - Maria Monegro, Sejal Parekh and Jorge Sánchez.
Anna Andrzhievskaia is a visual artist, working with painting, graphics and installation, but also loves doing food performances and wine fountains. In her artistic practice, Anna references traditional media such as paintings and graphics, as well as the aesthetics of simpler materials such as coloured gel pens, pencils, gold markers and copper watercolour.
In her paintings, Anna creates worlds filled with surreal images resembling colourful dreams or hallucinogenic states. Such visual depictions bring the artist’s works closer to surrealism and its poetry. Her main sources of inspiration are the beauty of natural forms and graphics of video games.
Anna is a member of the group ‘North-7’. As a member of the group, she was the winner of the Present Continuous Prize of the V-A-C Foundation in 2018 (in collaboration with the M HKA Antwerp Museum). She was also the winner of a special prize from the French Institute of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize for Contemporary Art.
Annas works have been presented at the III Moscow International Biennale of Young Art and in MANIFESTA 10.
Her works are in the collections of the Museum of Political History of Russia, Museum of Art of Saint Petersburg, Museum of Modern Art M HKA (Antwerpen), Museum of Modern Art PERMM, Street Art Museum (Saint Petersburg) and various private collections.
Dimitra Stavropoulou is an artist based in Athens. She studied at Athens School of Fine Arts, as well as at the Schools of Fine Arts of Barcelona and Thessaloniki.
A multidisciplinary artist, Dimitra works between installations and constructions made from industrial materials, video and sound as well as ink drawings.
Often she utilises materials she collects such as tubes, iron balls and used materials, that she uses as a reference to modern industrial culture. Her constructions tend to become coverings, costumes or tools.
Dimitra's main influences are folklore elements, costumes and traditional objects of different cultures, thereby seeking to bridge the past and present.
Sewing and knitting with contemporary materials and habits characterises a wide range of Dimitra's practice, whereby she aims to redefine manual work in relation to industrialisation and automation. With video, photography and sound, her works gain movement and come out into the public space.
More recently, Dimitra has participated in SYMBOLS II’ MEMORY’ an exhibition of contemporary art and architecture in Chania, ‘Back to Athens 10 ΄Disorientation΄’ at Megaro Isaia in Athens, Mystery 56 ΄In From The Margins΄ of Eleusis and also in the exhibition ΄ Art A Silent Revolution' at the Athens Conservatory.