Curator Selection / 2024 / /
Zurich faces and bodies
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Photographer
Anna Korbut, Ukraine
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Category
Europe
People from the Zurich hippie community, studio portraits, no retouching. Those nude portraits speak about self-reliance and connection, feminine power and masculine softness, and fluidity of gender roles and social expectations. I show the raw inner part of people, stepping out from their closing and social roles, and just being their real selves. When you think about Zurich - the first things that come to your mind are banks and expensive boutiques. Look at real Swiss people, strong and soft creative individuals. The hippie community of Zurich is as far from expectations as you can imagine.
Anna Korbut (b. 1989) is a visual artist from Ukraine working with photography and mixed media, currently based in Switzerland. She explores the relationships between humans and nature and deeply engages with Anthropocene issues, starting a dialogue with science at a time of advanced climate change. Anna also delves into the individual's inner world and interpersonal connections. She experiments with digital and analogue techniques, drawing inspiration from mountains' beauty, Augusto Giacometti's and Helen Frankenthaler's vivid colours, Auguste Rodin's sculptures, and Erich Fromm's texts.
Awards Awards
Aesthetica longlisted artist, 2024
Silver Tokyo Photo Awards, category Science-Environment, 2023
ND Awards Honourable mention, 2023
Pro Helvetia Artlink Residence grant, 2023
Lane Kirkland Scholarship, 2019-2020
Finalist of HIPA contest "The Moment», 2018
Exhibitions
2024
«Aesthetica Art Prize», group show, York Art Gallery, United Kingdom
«Changing Landscapes», solo show, Literaturhaus Zurich, Switzerland
2023
«Changing Landscapes», solo show, Art House Zurich Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
«Connections», solo show, Villa Straeuli, Winterthur, Switzerland
«Healing Nature» online group show ArtDoc Magazine
2020
"The Man and the Machine», group show, gallery Millepiani, Roma, Italy
2019
"Maydan. 5 years after", group show, Stromsund, Sweden
2018
"Surfaces", group show, gallery Millepiani, Roma, Italy
"Abandoned buildings", group show, Athens, Greece
"Travelers", group show, Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
CIP international festival, Chania, Greece
2016
"Face of Islam», solo show, Ukraine: Kyiv, Vinnytsia, Sumy, Dnipro
2013
"Day", group show, Lavra gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
"Masters enter to", group show, Sevastopol, Ukraine
2010
"Stop cruelty», group show, Kharkiv, Ukraine
"Sound and Color", group show, Kharkiv, Ukraine
"Human rights", group show, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2009
"Chronicle of light", group show, Lviv, Ukraine
2008
"A look at Age", group show, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2007
"Physics behind the scenes" group show, Kharkiv, Ukraine