Anna Scherbyna and Christina Werner

Anna Scherbyna (born 1988, in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine) lives and works in Berlin. Scherbyna’s works cover a wide range of topics including natural landscapes and their political connotations, war, gender performativity, and violence. She is also interested in and sensitive to the distribution of power and knowledge, using imagination to envision possible futures. Her practice examines the critical potential of artistic media such as installation and video, drawing and painting. Scherbyna graduated from the National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture in Kyiv and also studied at the Course of Art in Kyiv. She is currently studying in the “Meisterschüler:innen” program in Clemens von Wedemeyer’s “Expanded Cinema” class at the Academy of Fine Arts in Leipzig. She has participated in numerous exhibitions and film festivals, including Woman at War, Fridman Gallery, New York (2022); Imagine Ukraine – Art as a Critical Attitude, M HKA Antwerp (2022); The Portal, VBKÖ, Vienna (2021); Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (2020); A Space of One’s Own, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kyiv (2017), among others. Christina Werner (born 1976 in Baar, Switzerland) lives and works in Vienna. Her current artistic works deal with the resurgence of nationalism, the culture of remembrance, identity politics, and questions of representation. Werner studied photography and filmography with Tina Bara and media art with Alba D’Urbano at the Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig from 2007 until 2013. Her works have been shown at Deichtorhallen – House of Photography, Hamburg; Lentos Museum Linz; Mattatoio, Rome; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; National Gallery Prague; Fotogalerie Vienna; Goethe Institut Los Angeles; Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna; Gallery Photon – Center for Contemporary Photography, Ljubljana; and others. Werner is represented in the following collections: Austrian Federal Collection, BKA, Wien Museum, Collection of Lower Austria, Lentos Museum Linz, Vienna Chamber of Labour.