Anisia Affek (1989, Zaporizhzhia) is a Berlin based multidisciplinary artist concerned with issues of cultural erasure and the survival of identity within oppressive environments. Using embroidery, sculpture, installation, photography, text and sound, Anisia explores systems of value, appropriation, sexuality and the body. Anisia’s practice is deeply influenced by her Ukrainian-Russian-Mongolian heritage, Eastern European mythologies and collective traumas.
EDUCATION
Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin—MA, 2017-2019
Shenkar College for Art and Design, Tel-Aviv—BA, 2012-2016
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
«Bingo», gr-und, Berlin, 2024
«Taboo», CLB, Berlin, 2023
«Freundeskreis», S6, Berlin, 2023
«The Show Must Go On», KINDL—Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2022
«Koller», R52L, Berlin, 2022
«Zeitraum für Zweifel», Top e.v, Berlin, 2022
«I’ve Got You Under My Skin», Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen, 2021
«Women in Labour», A Room of Her Own, Berlin, 2021
Festival der Weißensee, Online Exhibition, 2020
«The Rolling Art», Online Exhibition, 2020
Rundgang, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin, 2019
«Sichtweisen», Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2018
«Slavic Girls» IPF—Independent Photography Festival, Melbourne, 2016
«Eternity», Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, Tel-Aviv, 2016
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
LABA Berlin, 2023
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen, 2021
Ateljé Stundars, Solf, 2021
AICF, New-York, 2016
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
«Echoes of Slavic Pagan Magic and Philosophy», Artist Talk, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Gelsenkirchen, 2024
«За Вашу и Нашу Свободу / Für Deine und Unsere Freiheit», Workshop, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, 2022
Artist Talk, The Novia University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, 2021
SELF PUBLICATIONS
«i Hate You So Much Right Now», Tel-Aviv, 2017
«Slavic Girls Magazine», Tel-Aviv, 2016
CATALOGS AND PRESS
«Das Beste herausholen, wo man ist», Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2023
«Krit-Kölln», Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, 2022
«Stipendiat:innen 2021», Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, 2021
«Nothing’s Gonna Change My World?», Raum WWW, 2021
«Artist of the Week—Anisia Affek», Art Connect, 2021
«100 artists produced a work of art within a day», Haaretz, 2020
«Featured Artist—Anisia Affek», AICF, 2020
«Featured Artist—Anisia Affek», The A5 Magazine, 2017
«Slavic Girls», Curated By Girls Magazine, 2016
«The most promising graduates of art and design schools for 2016», Mako Magazine, 2016
«Double Refugeehood», Yale University, 2015
EDUCATION
Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin—MA, 2017-2019
Shenkar College for Art and Design, Tel-Aviv—BA, 2012-2016
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
«Bingo», gr-und, Berlin, 2024
«Taboo», CLB, Berlin, 2023
«Freundeskreis», S6, Berlin, 2023
«The Show Must Go On», KINDL—Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, 2022
«Koller», R52L, Berlin, 2022
«Zeitraum für Zweifel», Top e.v, Berlin, 2022
«I’ve Got You Under My Skin», Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen, 2021
«Women in Labour», A Room of Her Own, Berlin, 2021
Festival der Weißensee, Online Exhibition, 2020
«The Rolling Art», Online Exhibition, 2020
Rundgang, Weißensee Kunsthochschule, Berlin, 2019
«Sichtweisen», Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2018
«Slavic Girls» IPF—Independent Photography Festival, Melbourne, 2016
«Eternity», Edmond de Rothschild Foundation, Tel-Aviv, 2016
RESIDENCIES AND GRANTS
LABA Berlin, 2023
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Schöppingen, 2021
Ateljé Stundars, Solf, 2021
AICF, New-York, 2016
TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
«Echoes of Slavic Pagan Magic and Philosophy», Artist Talk, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Gelsenkirchen, 2024
«За Вашу и Нашу Свободу / Für Deine und Unsere Freiheit», Workshop, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, 2022
Artist Talk, The Novia University of Applied Sciences, Vaasa, 2021
SELF PUBLICATIONS
«i Hate You So Much Right Now», Tel-Aviv, 2017
«Slavic Girls Magazine», Tel-Aviv, 2016
CATALOGS AND PRESS
«Das Beste herausholen, wo man ist», Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 2023
«Krit-Kölln», Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, 2022
«Stipendiat:innen 2021», Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, 2021
«Nothing’s Gonna Change My World?», Raum WWW, 2021
«Artist of the Week—Anisia Affek», Art Connect, 2021
«100 artists produced a work of art within a day», Haaretz, 2020
«Featured Artist—Anisia Affek», AICF, 2020
«Featured Artist—Anisia Affek», The A5 Magazine, 2017
«Slavic Girls», Curated By Girls Magazine, 2016
«The most promising graduates of art and design schools for 2016», Mako Magazine, 2016
«Double Refugeehood», Yale University, 2015
Interests&
Fascinations
Readings
Qu’est-ce qu’une nation?
Ernest Renan
Imagined Communities:
Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism
Benedict Anderson
Bandits
Eric Hobsbawm
Inventing Eastern Europe
Larry Wolff
Between East & West
Anne Applebaum
Gilles Deleuze
Women who Run with the Wolves:
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Clarissa Pinkola Estés
Orientalism
Edward W. Said
Le Deuxième Sexe
Simone de Beauvoir
