Anna Jermolaewa

Dissident looks from Venice to Lake Traunsee

Anna Jermolaewa stages surreal images, not without a sideways glance at dictatorships.

(Bild: Karin Hackl)

No break for Anna Jermolaewa: the Biennale artist is exhibiting her highly political works at Galerie 422 in Gmunden. She also spans the arc from Venice to Lake Traunsee - and continues a tradition. 

Anna Jermolaewa is exhibiting her political art at the Austria Pavilion in Venice until November 24, as we reported.

Now her exhibition at Galerie 422 in Gmunden spans the arc from Venice to Lake Traunsee. Here you can see a series of photos documenting the journey of telephone booths that traveled from the initial reception center in Traiskirchen to Venice.

Telephone boxes from Traiskirchen on the Grand Canal in Venice

(Bild: Anna Jermolaewa und Bildrecht)

Sarah Rinderer, young artist, also at Gallery 422

(Bild: Karin Hackl)

Art and life story
On the one hand, Jermolaewa's art is biographical. The artist, who fled from Russia and holds a professorship at the Linz University of Art, works on her own migration experience. On the other hand, she questions phenomena of perception, presenting, for example, a grandstand in the middle of an empty cornfield. Here, too, there is a side-swipe at dictatorships. Or she opens up her art to non-violent resistance against authoritarian regimes.

She also continues tradition
In Gmunden, she meets Sarah Rinderer, who studied with Jermolaewa. She works with flags and linguistic images. The professor and student in a duo?

"I exhibited here in 2009 at the invitation of Peter Kogler, my former professor. This 'tradition' is now being continued, so to speak," says Jermolaewa. A great show in Gmunden at the pulse of time entitled "Changing Sight" (until November 23)!