Anastasia Vepreva (b. 1989, Arkhangelsk) is an artist, curator, and art critic based in Saint Petersburg. Using different media from video art to sculpture, she works with such subjects as memory and new technologies. Along with solo exhibitions, she participated in many international shows, including Manifesta 10 and Stuttgarter Filmwinter. She is a winner of Garage Museum Grant and an organiser and co-curator of the Suoja / Shelter festival in Helsinki. Vepreva has contributed to various Russian and English-language publications and is an editor at the KRAPIVA portal.
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Battle Scenes, 2018
Corpses-Beds, 2017. Photo by Vera Barkalova
Still from the Judges video, 2016
“Young mother from Alapaevsk killed her husband protecting herself and her children.” Library Cards, 2017
Lost Machine, 2015
Mustard Gas, 2020
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Still from the interactive video Nightmare (Beta), 2019
Still from the video PRL-A perfect Refuse letter, 2020
In Rupture (2013), brief personal notes about homesickness are accompanied by quotes from philosophers and thinkers: in this case, from Marshall McLuhan.
Still from the video Requiem for Romantic Love, 2015
Still from the video She Has to, 2014
“Anastasia Vepreva, practising Lomonosov expert, art worker.” Still from the video The Legacy of Lomonosov Exemplified by one Palace of Culture, 2018
From Wadded White, 2014. The text is made of distilled clichéd language of Arkhangelsk crime news
Still from the video We, the Militant Radfem Gang Named after Valerie-Andrea Dworkin-Solanas, 2016
