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Annouchka Brochet 
Marina Chernikova 
Valery Chtak 
Group exhibition 
Dubossarsky - Vinogradov 
Alla Esipovich 
Laszlo Fehér 
Dasha Fursey 
Georgy Gurianov 
Valery Koshlyakov 
Vlada Krassilnikova 
Andrei Molodkin 
Ivan Plusch 
Aidan Salakhova 
Arsen Savadov 
Sergei Serp 
Yuri Shabelnikov 
Stephen J. Shanabrook 
Sergey Shekhovtsov 
Rupert Shrive 
Olga Tobreluts 
Evgeny Yufit 


Alla Esipovich was born in Leningrad, Russia

STUDIES:

- Graduated from the State University of Arts and Culture majoring in Cultural Studies and Art-expertise.
- Attended the photographic authors course of American photographer Deborah Turbeville and participated in the joint exhibition in the State Museum of History of Saint-Petersburg in 2002.
- She is the prizewinner of the competition «Se-Zam 2002» for the series «Portraits» in «St-Psobaka.ru» where she was the head of the photo-department in 2000–2004.


PERSONNAL EXHIBITIONS:

2010
“No Comment”, Galerie Alex Daniels, Amsterdam.

2009
International Festival of the Moscow House of Photography Museum «Fashion and Style in Photography», personal exhibition «Marriage» in Zurab Tseretely Art Gallery, Prechistenka, 19, Moscow

2008
“Galerija Kloviсevi dvori", Zagreb, Croatia

2007
Sandbox, Angel Orensanz Center for the Arts of New York
The men in my life, Fifth International Festival: Fashion and Style in Photography 2007, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Storytellers, NNOV, Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia

2006
No comment and Stars of the scene, Orel Art Gallery, Paris
Photo-video installation, Marina Gisich Gallery, Saint Petersburg
Kunsthaus Oberkassel, Mikhael Zaevits Gallery, Germany
Personnal exhibition at the Lianzhou International Photo Festival, China
No comment, Maya Polsky Gallery, Chicago

2004
No Comment, The Marble Palace, The State Russian Museum, Ludwig museum in the State Russian Museum, Russia (catalogue)

2003
Pervaja Linija Gallery, Saint Petersburg


GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2011
Biennale Wasser, Bad Breisig (Germany) with the No comment series.
RUSSIAN SENSUALITY, organized by ALEXANDRE GERTSMAN CONTEMPORARY ART 652 Broadway, New-York, USA.
Contemporary art exhibitions Gateways and Doors with the work from series Happiness, The State Russian Museum
Participation with Olga Kisseleva, video KPD in "Focus Russia",
Valladolid contemporary art museum, Spain.
2010
"La Scene Russe Contemporaine", organized by Galerie OREL ART, France. (catalogue).
RAPPEL - Les Russes! Portrait photographique russe. 1970-2010. Galerie OREL ART, Paris, France
Evolution of the Russian photography from the middle 1970 to 2010th, LES RENCONTRES D'ARLES, Arle, France.
Alya Esipovich and Olga Kisseleva with the video project "Double life", MNAC, Bucharest, Rumania.
Photographer of the new Russia. 1990-2010. Presented by The Moscow House of Photogaphy. Paris, France.
GOGOLFEST with video "Star of the scene", Kiev, Ukraine.
FUTUROLOGY. Alya Esipovich and Olga Kisseleva with the video project "Double life". GARAJ, Moscow.
2009
Participation in the final exhibition “Kandinsky prize” 2009, Moscow
the yearly Spring exhibition of Russian Artist's Union, S.-Petersburg
Project exhibition Russian's Landscaper, Namur, Belgium
Participation in the Selections from the Claude and Nina Gruen Collection of Contemporary Russian Art, Zimmerli Art Museum, USA

2008
Charity project Art-Stroyka, Moscow
Rauma Biennale Balticum 2008, Flower Power, Finland
Exhibition Power of water, The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
Exhibition From Non-Conformism to Feminisms: Russian Women Artists from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Chelsea Art Museum, New-York


2007
I believe, Complex VinZavod, Moscow, Russia (curator O. Kulik)
Artist’s Diary, Central House of Artists, Moscow
Architecture: ad marginem, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

2006
Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Participation in the Forum «Art Fair», Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Participation in the Forum «Cologne Fine Art», Cologne, Germany
Participation in the Sixth International Festival of the Moscow House of Photography «Photo biennale 2006», Project Happiness, Bolshoj Manege, Project Star of the scene, The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue)

2005
Participation in Portfolio Russian Contemporary photography for the exhibition Russia, Guggenheim Museum, New York
Project Sandbox: Participation in the Fourth International Festival of the Moscow House of Photography Fashion and Style in Photography, Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky per., Moscow, Russia (catalogue)

2004
The Beauty of Darkness, Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (where the works by Roger Ballen, Boris Mikhailov, Nobojshi Araki were also exhibited)
Participation in the forum Photofair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Summer Show, Reflex New Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Participation in photographic biennale Photokina
Mikhael Zaevits Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Participation in the 38th International Forum of Modern Art Art-Cologne, Cologne, Germany (Within the framework of the project of The State Russian Museum -catalogue)
Participation in the exhibition from the collections of The State Russian Museum: Kandinsky and Russian Soul, Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy (catalogue)


COLLECTIONS:

The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
The Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Moscow House of Photography, Moscow
Kolodzei Art Foundation, USA
Private collections in Germany
Private collections in the Netherlands
Private collections in USA