ARIADNE ARENDT
Born in Crimea in 1987, after the fall of the USSR I moved to London with my parents as a child. There I studied art history, and subsequently completed an interdisciplinary cultural research Master's. As an artist I am self-taught, or rather, taught by various informal teachers in a horizontal web of travel and knowledge exchange, from Serbian craftsmen, Portuguese porcelain factory workers to Japanese nerikomi specialists. My interests include animal and plant life, folklore, children's art, craft traditions, posthumanism. I have been involved with working in the field of outsider and folk art, and find much inspiration there.
Ceramics has been a medium of focus in the past ten years.
In the past three years I have been running community initiatives: a small gallery (Everything is Art) an artist-run studio space (To i To), both in Montenegro. And now starting the Papardes residency in Latvia.
Sometime curator and performer (puppeteer, DJ). I regularly write about art for Art Focus Now.
EXHIBITIONS:
2021 Mamadets residency, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 Likovna Scena, group show, Josip Bepo Benković, Herceg Novi, Montenegro
2018 Fragile Things, group show, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Duo presentation with Tomoko Konno, Kunstlerhaus Stadttopferei, Neumünster, Germany
2018 Fountain of Dreams, duo show with Maria Arendt, Alexander Gallery, Rose, Montenegro
2017 Proljećno Blato [Spring Mud], with Rose de Borman, Dukley Art Centre, Montenegro
2016 Dedushkina vnuchka [Grandpa’s girl], duo show with Yury Arendt, Roza Azora, Moscow
2013 New Times of Biopolitics, group show, Artplay, 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2012 Cabinet Exhibition, group show, Islington Arts Factory, London
2012 A Joyful Archipelago, group show, Yinka Shonibare's Guest Projects, London
2011 International Space State of Transcendental Turnover, group show, Proekt Fabrika, Moscow
2011 Home-Made, Dialects 4, Pushkin House, London
2011 Frinton Press Group Show, Jaguar Shoes, London
ART FAIRS:
2017 Cosmoscow, Moscow. Flea market installation with Roza Azora gallery
2015 The Other Art Fair, London. Matchbox project, group show with The House of Fairy Tales
RESIDENCIES:
2021 Mamadets, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2018 Zlakusa Ceramics Colony, Serbia.
2018 Tandem Ceramic Exchange residency, Neumünster, Germany.
2018 ID Pool design residency, Vista Alegre, Portugal.
2017 DEAC, Montenegro. Resident artist in studio complex.
OTHER PROJECTS:
2017 Burning eyes G. Lukomnikov exhibition co-curator
2016, 2017 Grandma’s Right! self-published illustrated poetry, with N. Arendt
2008-2017 DJ Mourrka, DJ performer
2010-2017 Borscht: Travelling Vegetable Theatre, founder and puppeteer, UK
2011 First Biennale of Sandwich Art curator, 4th Moscow Biennale parallel programme
EDUCATION:
2011 – 2012 London Consortium (AA, Birkbeck, ICA, Science Museum, Tate), MRes culture studies
2005 – 2009 Courtauld Institute of Art, London, BA (Hons.) History Of Art
