Ksenia Galiaeva
1976, Pskov, Russia; lives and works in Antwerp, BE and Amsterdam, NL. Represented by Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Galiaeva teaches at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. Her works have been exhibited in solo and group shows, amongst others in Schiedam Museum – NL, Fries Museum – NL, Stedelijk Museum ’s Hertogenbosch – NL, Moscow MOMA – RU, Seoul MMCA Changdong – KR, generously supported by Mondriaan Fund. 

Education:

1999-2000               MFA, Post St.-Joost, Breda, NL
1995-1999               BA, Academy for Art and Design, ’s-Hertogenbosch, NL

Residencies and research trips:
2018                          North Korea, Art and Architecture Tour
2015                          MMCAChangdong Seoul, with support from Mondriaan Fund
2014                          Mondriaan Fund, Orientation Trip Korea/Japan
2012                          AIT Arts Initiative Tokyo, with support from Fonds BKVB
2010                          LIA Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, with support from Fonds BKVB

Solo exhibitions:
2018                         Unreal Estate #3: The Bookcase, Marion de Cannière,Antwerp, BE                      
2017                          Everything is as it should be, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, NL
2016                          Unreal Estate #2, Tique I art space, Antwerp, BE
2014                          Unreal Estate #1, Bradwolff Projects, Amsterdam 
2013                          Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2012                          Unter dem Baum, ICM Haarlem, NL
2009                          Art Amsterdam, Ellen de Bruijne Projects
2006                          Archive,Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2005                          Wuthering Heightsgallery, Malmö, Sweden
2004                          Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam
2002                          Pskov Museum, Pskov, Russia
2001                          Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam

Group exhibition, projects and symposiums (selection):
2022-                         Protest Appeals: The Affect & Aesthetics of Eastern European Activism, project UvA, IISG, Stedelijk Museum, van Abbemuseum, NL (future)
2022                          Homage To Older Women, billboard project, Saint Petersburg, RU (future)
2022                          Tiger1 Art Space, Seoul KR (future)
2020                          McNation: State Branding in and Beyond Russia, seminar, UvA, Amsterdam, NL (postponed)
2019                          Unreal Estate the Movie, short film programme, Extra City, Antwerpen, BE
2019 Galerie Larik, Utrecht, NL
2018                          From Vertical to Horizontal: The Changed Conditions of Art Production, symposium, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2017                          Matter, Het Nutshuis, De Haag, NL
2017                          Antwerpen Stadsfotografen, MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerpen, BE
2016                         Chang Dong, Korean Cultural Center, Brussels, BE
2016                         Unter Dem Baum, Vishal, Haarlem, NL2015                          Beyond the Horizon, MMCA Residency Changdong (National Museum of Modern and 
                                   Contemporary Art), Seoul, KR
2014                           Horizonnen/Horizonts, Fries Museum, NL
                                   New Acquisitions, Fries Museum, NL
2013                         Present/Presence, Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, NL
2012                          Point de Vue, Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2011                          Proeftuin!,G.A.N.G., Arnhem, NL
2011 VoTH, Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2010                         VoTH, KW14, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, NCCA Jekaterinburg, Moscow MOMA, RU
2009                          At Home, Fotodok, Utrecht, NL
2009                          Mélange: Kunstcollecties van De Nederlandsche Bank en het Dordrechts Museum, Amsterdam

Publications:
2020                          Academiestudent in quarantaine: een filosofischehandleiding, Mister Motley2017                          NOLEMON NOMELON, a book by Ksenia Galiaeva and Jin&Park
2016                          Где я, а где Япония. A present for my mother’s 80th birthday, book
2015                          oddly shaped rock book, blog
2014                          Unreal Estate#1, posters/newspaper
2012                          We are the snails, interview with Thom Puckey for POINT DE VUE
2012 Collage met driehoeken/Collage with Triangles,a text for Ans Verdijk
2012 Tokyo door de wolken/Tokyo through the clouds, column BK-informatie
2011                          Time. Duration. Perception. Memory. Remembrance. Continuity. Repetition. Habit.
Boredom. Escapism. Myth.essay
2010                          Dacha, a story for object/affect,  Pels&Kemper
2009                          book Dacha, Ksenia Galiaeva
2009                          Club Donny #4
1999/2001               Ksenia Galiaeva, 2 photobooks and a book with stories, self-published

Other:
2012-                         tutor Willem de Kooning Academy, Photography, Fine Art, Rotterdam
2015-2017               Antwerp City photographer 
2006-2011               tutor AKI/ARTEZ (art academy), Photography department, Enschede, NL
2009                          tutor AKV/St.Joost (art academy), Fine Art department, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, NL
2007-2009               member advisory board Fonds BKVB (the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture)
2008-2012               member advisory board CAWA (Committee for Studios and Workspaces Amsterdam)
2011-                         lectures and workshops at UvA University of Amsterdam, Zadar University Croatia, Slavic- Eurasian Research Center Hokkaido University Sapporo Japan, Hanyang University Seoul, Academie voor Schone Kunsten Antwerp, Sint Lucas Antwerp, Rat  School of Art Seoul, Arts Maebashi Japan, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, AKI Enschede,  Stedelijk Museum ‘s-Hertogenbosch, AIT Tokyo, Ellen de Bruijne Projects Amsterdam, Tique Antwerpen etc.