Anastasia Nefedova ~ Keywords: curator, researcher, unlearning archival regime, collective projects, moving image, feminism, counter-narratives, frontier spaces.

Anastasia Nefedova (b. 1991, Zhukovsky, Moscow region) is a curator and researcher currently based in Amsterdam. In her practice, she rethinks the role of exhibition-making and curating, working with shifting narrators, non-linear temporalities, and counter-narratives. By intertwining archival materials with photography, video, and audio, she challenges official linear histories and questions the role of the narrator. Thinking critically about exhibition production, she facilitates collective events, organises educational and festival programs.

Her recent research is dedicated to archives, focusing on the concept of unlearning the archival regime by Ariella Aïsha Azoulay. Based on Anastasia’s personal experience of working with the collection of the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art for almost four years, she became interested in alternative ways of engaging with archives through subversive strategies that can reveal what dominant histories try to hide.

Among her curatorial and group projects are Garden Gathering with the KOKRA family, Rotterdam (2023);Grain Forecasting by Co(in)cidentally Kollektiv, Rotterdam (2023); Speed-Placing Game: What’s the Point, RIB Gallery, Rotterdam (2023); Dream Wasteland by Mats Adelman and Ylva Westerlund, MMOMA, Moscow (2022); and Unnamable. Selected Works from the Collection of MMOMA, Centre of Contemporary Arts Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod (2021-2022). Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, she worked as a curator and researcher at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (MMOMA) from 2019 to 2022.

Anastasia@DAI:

*Learn more about Anastasia Nefedova's's 20 minute performance Tales Heard in the Chronicles of Light when Transmissions Whispered Our Stories for Chameleon Orbit ~  DAI's Aeroponic Acts 2024 at Centrale Fies in Italy. 

*Learn more about Anastasia Nefedova's written MA thesis (DAI, 2024): Unlearning the Archival Regime: The Story of the Moscow Archive of Russian Contemporary Art.

*During her journey with DAI, Anastasia made significant contributions to: COOP Summit 2023 ~ Evergreening the Cut [towards and beyond film's photosynthesis] as well as COOP SUMMIT 2024 ~ Assembling Land: Rehearsals towards Place-making                                             

*Follow Anastia's 'Life after DAI' via Instagram