Ioulia Akhmadeeva
We Are All Migrants

04.03.24 05.04.24

Ioulia Akhmadeeva was born in Russia and emigrated to Mexico in 1994. A visual artist, teacher and researcher, she holds a Master of Fine Arts in Graphic Art (Honourable Mention) from the Russian National Academy of Fine Arts, and a PhD in Pedagogical Sciences and Art Education from the Moscow National Pedagogical University. As a teacher and researcher, she has taught several undergraduate courses in drawing and printmaking, lectures and conferences in postgraduate courses in Mexico and abroad. Since 2001, she works at the Facultad Popular de Bellas Artes of the Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo (Morelia, Michoacán). Since 2013, she is part of the basic academic core of the Inter-institutional Doctorate in Art and Culture (DIAC).

Her graphic work and artist books can be found in public and private collections in several countries: Center for Book Arts (NY, USA), Bancroft Libraries, Latin Collection, California University, Berkeley (USA), Special Collections of Stanford University Libraries (USA), Museum of Fine Arts of Republica Tatarstan (Russia), University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries (UTSA Libraries,USA), Art Library Artist’s Book Collection of University of North Carolina (USA), Library of University of New Mexico (USA), Universitat Politècnica de València (Spain), Museum of Fine Arts F. I. Kovalenko, Krasnodar (Russia), Museo José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes (Mexico), Museo Nacional de Estampa MUNAE (Mexico), State Museum at Majdanek, Lublin (Poland), Bratislava City Gallery (Slovakia), Taiwan Museum of Art, Taichung, Taiwan (Republic of China), Ostrobothnian Museum, City Art Gallery, Vaasa (Finland) among others.

In 2024, Ioulia came to ´ace for the second time to do a Production Residency — third time doing a program with us, as she was also part of our online programme Together Apart. This time, she focused on the diaspora of Russian immigrants here in Buenos Aires, where she met with some of them to interview them and document her encounters. She then used their images (portraits, archival material) to construct her printmaking pieces.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is my life and my memories are my work. Artist’s book — it’s the container which conserves inside a time and a memory for me. My purpose is to register this moments, senses and memories… My works are created in base of a story, it might be a personal story, family’s, or from my country of origin, they might have texts or be only a visual narrative, it depends on the project or on the idea. It’s a whole…

BIO
Ioulia Akhmadeeva
1971 | Krasnodar, Russia. Lives and works in Morelia, Mexico

STUDIES
2008 | PhD in Pedagogical Sciences, Faculty of Graphic Arts, Kuban National University
1996 | Specialty and Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, Specialty in Graphic and Easel Art (Honorable Mention). Russian State Academy of Plastic Arts, Surikov Institute, Moscow, Russia

EXHIBITIONS
2021 | Escrituras tangibles, Palacio Clavijero, Mexico
2021 | IMPACT 11, International World Graphic Conference, Hong Kong, China
2020 | Desde y para la memoria. MACJ (INBAL), Mexico
2018 | III International Triennial of Contemporary Graphic Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia
2017 | PROTEST ≠ PROFEST: GLOBAL BURDENS, Center for Book Arts NY, USA

AWARDS
2019 | Shortlisted at Awagami International Miniature Print Exhibition—AIMPE, Tokushima, Japan
2015 | Honorable mention in III Concurso Internacional de Libros de Artista (LÍA). Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
2013 | Acquisition Award in Engraving in XV Encuentro Estatal de Pintura y Estampa Efraín Vargas, Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico
2003 | First Prize at the XI Concurso Nacional de Grabado José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes, Mexico
2002 | 2nd place, International Ex Libris José Guadalupe Posada “1852-2002”, Aguascalientes, Mexico

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Artists in dialogue

04.04.24

On April 4, 2024, we held the second Open Studio of the year, presenting the works of March-April residents Zhino Yousefi, Ardine Nelson, Fred Marsh, Geneviève LeDuc, and Ioulia Akhmadeeva.

Zhino Yousefi (an Iranian-born, Canadian-raised artist now living in the United States) presented her installation Iranian Whispers: A Zen Garden in the Polyglot Room. Ardine Nelson shared the results of her stay in Buenos Aires, a presentation with the photographs she took of our local flowers and plants. and Fred Marsh showed the photolithographs that he made from a photographic series of cave paintings in the Dialogue Space. Geneviève LeDuc presented a pictorial intervention with colossal female figures guarding the 4 corners of the terrace space, as part of her Palimpsest Project mural painting residency. Finally, Ioulia Akhmadeeva shared with the local public, and with part of the Russian diaspora she interviewed in Buenos Aires, the process she carried out as part of her Production Residency researching Russian families who recently emigrated to Buenos Aires. Aires.

We shared these works with an interested public, which was attended by members of the CCEBA-Centro Cultural de Buenos Aires in Argentina, local artists, members of the Russian diaspora residing in Buenos Aires, and friends and family of ´ace and the artists. .

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