Resume

EDUCATION
Weißensee Academy of Art, Berlin—MA, 2017-2019
Shenkar College for Art and Design, Tel-Aviv—BA, 2012­­­­-2016

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
«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
Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany, 2021
Ateljé Stundars, Finland, 2021
AICF—America Israel Cultural Foundation, USA, 2016

TALKS AND WORKSHOPS
«За Вашу и Нашу Свободу / Za waszą i Naszą Wolność / Für Deine und Unsere Freiheit», Workshop, Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Germany, 2022
Artist Talk, Yrkeshögskolan Novia—The Novia University of Applied Sciences, Finnland, 2021

SELF PUBLICATIONS
«i Hate You So Much Right Now», Israel, 2017
«Slavic Girls Magazine», Israel, 2016

CATALOGS AND PRESS
«Krit-Kölln», Beauftragten der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien, Germany, 2022
«Stipendiat:innen 2021», Stiftung Künstlerdorf Schöppingen, Germany, 2021
«Nothing's Gonna Change My World?», Raum WWW, Germany, 2021
«Artist of the Week—Anisia Affek», Art Connect, Germany, 2021
«Create art and get inspired—in one day. About 100 artists produced a work of art within a day, and passed it on to another artist who inspired it», Haaretz, Israel, 2020
«Featured Artist—Anisia Affek», AICF—America Israel Cultural Foundation, USA, 2020
«Featured Artist—Anisia Affek», The A5 Magazine, Israel, 2017
«Slavic Girls», Curated By Girls Magazine, Germany, 2016
«Getting Started—the most promising graduates of art and design schools for 2016», Mako Magazine, Israel, 2016
«Duality in design and business—Double Refugeehood», Yale University, School of Management, USA, 2015 

Statement

Anisia Affek (1989, Ukraine) is a multidisciplinary artist based in Berlin. In her work, she aims to question our sense of national and self-identity. Her practice concerns issues of cultural erasure and the survival of identity in oppressive environments. 

Deeply influenced by her Ukrainian-Russian-Mongolian heritage, Affek works mainly on handmade, large-scale embroidery pieces that push the boundaries of the traditional craft. With her tactile work, Affek evokes a spiritual space that reaches beyond the Western notions of belonging and the suffocating dichotomy of «us» versus «them.»