Traditionally, every December on Catholic Christmas, the “Borey” gallery presents video projects by media artist Anna Frants. She graduated from the Mukhina School and has lived in Manhattan, New York, for a long time. She is a successful, established person and artist. Following the example of other compatriots abroad, she could have forgotten about her homeland, the city, and those who live here and engage in art, she could have “shaken off the dust from her shoes,” so to speak. But she did not follow this example and did not shake off the dust. Hardly anyone among private individuals has done more to popularize Petersburg’s art than Anya. One of her first projects, conceived with art historian Olga Thomson, was the “Russian Album” website, which collected all the St. Petersburg artists who leaned towards contemporary art at the end of the 20th century. This was followed by the collective project “Moving Objects,” shown as part of the epochal exhibition at the Russian Museum “Abstraction. 20th Century”. Anna Frants organizes exhibitions of St. Petersburg artists in the USA, has collected a collection of modern Russian art. For several years, together with the State Center for Contemporary Art, she has been organizing the significant review of media art “Cyberfest,” which this year took place in the Hermitage.
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