Evgeny Antufiev

Evgeny Antufiev

BornNationalityBased In
1986RussianMoscow
Biography

Evgeny Antufiev (b. 1986 in Kyzyl, Russia) lives and works in Moscow, Russia. Antufiev grew up in the Siberian republic of Tuva, a remote region which maintains active practices of alchemy, oral folklore and shamanism to this day. It serves as a point of departure for the artist’s engagement with real but mythical space – one where bodies of knowledge are able to accumulate and hybridise across time and place. The artist carves wood, boils bones and embroiders traditional fabrics with recurring images that blur the legibility of geography and temporality, collapsing physical and symbolic orders. Part of a generation that grew up negotiating the real and imagined experiences tied to the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Antufiev builds a mythology of fraught ambiguity and cultural anxiety. ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled
Evgeny Antufiev
Untitled, 2017
55 x 30 x 30cm
Untitled
Evgeny Antufiev
Untitled, 2023
30 x 14.5 x 3.5cm
Untitled
Evgeny Antufiev
Untitled, 2021
57.5 x 25 x 27cm
Untitled
Evgeny Antufiev
Untitled, 2024
50 x 41 x 39cm
Gallery Representation
Awards
Kandinsky Prize2019
Kandinsky Prize2019
Biennals
Manifesta2018
Manifesta2018
Manifesta2016
Manifesta2016
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