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ANNA KUSHNEROVA
www.annakushnerova.com
www.humanclaicic.com
Mobile: +44 7908209949
E-mail: a.kushnerova@mac.comwww.instagram.com/hilarypearlis/
SELECTED FESTIVALS/EXHIBITIONS/AWARDS
2026
Weaving the Threads of Bhutanese Heritage, Feature Documentary (in development),
Development support: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, Endorsed by the Royal Textile Academy of Bhutan
To Die into a Bird (2025, 21 min)
Screening and artist workshop, Mirror Gallery, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, UK , November 2026
Official Selection, Aesthetica Film Festival, York, UK, November 2026
Official Selection, Elevation Film Festival, Plymouth, UK, October 2026
Official Selection, Palermo International Film Festival, Italy
Official Selection, Swedish International Film Festival, Sweden
Official Selection, Kraken International Film Festival, Milan, Italy
Artist Presentation, Radical Ecology, Dartington, UK
Artist Presentation, Field System Gallery, Ashburton, UK
Hole In The Ground (2025, 6min)
Official Selection, Tokyo Women Film Festival, Japan
Official Selection, Kyoto Independent Film Festival, Japan
2025
Hole In The Ground (2025, 6min)
Official Selection, California Women Film Festival, USA
Official Selection, Milan Filmmaker Awards, Italy
Official Selection, Director's Cut International Film Festival Budapest
Founder of Human Clay CIC, Practice Based Collective, Devon, UK
Slugs (2023, 7min)
Official Selection, Red Movie Awards, France
FOMO HOUSE, Intimate Histories, London, UK
Body In Land, Performance by Anna Kushnerova Photography by Raul Bartolome - Matter Is Messy - Embodied Ecologies, Group Show, Forum, Stadpark, Graz, Austria
Peeled Bodies, on Multiplicity of Being, Presentation, Artistic & Cinematographic Gathering, Cabo de Gata, Almeria, Spain
Ontological Mutany, Video Screening, digital Platform IFPA7
Silver Times, Performance (Solo), Butohfestival, Urbanguild, Kyoto, Japan
2024
Ontological Mutiny, Performance by Human Clay Collective, Starptepla, Riga Performance Festival, Latvia
Ice Cure, Performance, Ashburton Art Center, Devon, UK
2023
Pavilion of Opacity, Performance, Daniel Sannwald Space, La Condesa, Mexico City, Mexico
Alliances Inside and Outside These Rooms, Performance, Spazio500, Palazzo Malfatti, Vigolo Vattaro, Italy
Butterfly, Performance, Go Wherever You Wish For Verily You Are Well Protected, Group Show, Dartington Hall Estate, UK
Sculptural Installation, Go Wherever You Wish For Verily You Are Well Protected, Group Show, Dartington Hall Estate, UK
Host/Curator, Go Wherever You Wish For Verily You Are Well Protected, Group Show, Dartington Hall Estate, UK
2022
Sweet Rivers, Green Mosses, Film Screening/Lecture, Reclaiming Romanticism, Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Belgium
Totipotency, Video Screening, International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece
Mycelia Memories, Performance, Spazio500, Palazzo Malfatti, Vigolo Vattaro, Italy
Grimspound, Performance, Sentient Performativities, Thinking Alongside the Human Symposium b y Art.earth, Dartington Estate, Devon, UK
Grimspound, Performance, PERFORATIONS: Bodies and Beyond, Movement Network South West performance platform, Studio1, Devon, UK
THE GENE, Costumes and Performance, Video 360, Cameye Studios, director Ana De Matos, UK
2021
Spanda, Curator/ Artists, Series of Performances and Laboratories, at Fivizzano27, Rome, Italy
My Boundaries are Made out of Sugar and Ions, (Solo) Performance, Municipal Art Gallery, Larnaca Art Biennale, Republic of Cyprus
Girls in Mud, Video Screening, Larnaca Art Biennale, Republic of Cyprus
Performance on Soft Beach, Performance, Hackney Marshes, London, UK
Groaning for the Absent Ant Greatness, (Solo) Performed at Tiyatro Medresesi, Izmir, Turkey
Micro Rebellion, (Solo) Performance, Tiyatro Medresesi, Izmir, Turkey
Heron’s Blues, (Solo) Performance, Tiyatro Medresesi, Izmir, Turkey
2020
Curator/Artist at Aller Park Studios, Dartington Estate, Devon, UK
Girls in Mud, Video Screening, International Forum of Performance Art, Drama, Greece
Ice Ma, Performance, Dartington Woods, Devon, UK
Excessively Wild Mataspecies, (Solo) Performed at Soma Space, Lviv, Ukraine
In Safety, Performance, Plymouth Market, Plymouth, Devon, UK
Wonderful Weekend, Video Awardwinner, Virgin Spring CINEFEST, International Film Festival, Kolkata, India
Monomaniacal About Your Own Moment of Being, Video Screening, REALLY//REAL, Fringe Arts Bath, UK
Girls In Mud, Video Screening, International Short Film Festival, Regensburg, Germany
2019
Autumn, Devotion, a Lively Encounter, Performance, Table Dance, Antwerp, Belgium. Performance with Romain Brau
Paradise Found, Performance, Klosterruine, Berlin. Directed and Cooked by Michelle Woods. Performance by Michelle Woods, Elise Gettliffe, Laura Walker, Anna Kushnerova. Produced by TableDance (Antwerpen) & Creamcake (Berlin)
Girls In Mud, Video Screening, Mamu Gallery, MAVF Festival, Budapest
Girls In Mud, Video Screening, Dual Gallery, MAVF Festival, Budapest
Girls in Mud, Video Screening, The Grounding Story, 7th ASLEC-ANZ Biennial Conference, University of New England, Armidale, New Zealand
2018
Erotic Ecology Series, Video Screening, Table Dance, Antwerp, Belgium
2017
Real Life Fantasies, Performance, West Space, Melbourne, Australia
2014
Cannibalistic Supper, Performed at Foundation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
The Almanac of the Old Fish, Performed at RA13 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Group Show (artist/curator), Time is like that – both point AND duration,
Objective Exhibitions Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2013
The Glass Thrower, Performed at The Kiosk, Art Basel, Switzerland
Almond Matter, Installation, Park 5 Group Show, Park Migrating Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Harp Play, Performed at RA13 Gallery, Paris, France
Sugar House, Group Show (artist/curator), Arnhem Mode Biennale, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2012
The Love Event 18+, Performed at RA13 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Heroes, Performed at RoomsLink, Tokyo, Japan
2010
MFA End of Year Group Show, Royal Art Academy, Antwerp, Belgium
RESIDENCIES/CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2025
(- present) Founder and Curator, Human Clay CIC, Devon, UK
Reasearch Artist and Facilitator, Peeled Bodies: on Multiplicity of Being, Artist & Cinematographic Gathering, Cabo de Gata, Almeria, Spain
2024
Series of Workshops in Nature, Sensorial Theater, Butoh, Social Ritual & Sensorial Sculpture, Devon (UK) Almeria (SP) Trento, Italy
2021
Curator, Spanda Residency, Fivizzano27, Rome, Italy
Artist in Residence, Palazzo Malfatti casa dell’Arte, Spazio.500, Vigolo Vattaro, Italy
2019
Artist in Residence, Intimacies with the Inhuman with Nita Little and Kerstin Kussmaul, ImPulsTanz, Vienna, Austria
Artist in Residence, Himalayan Subbody Butoh Center with Rhizome Lee, Dharamsala, India
2018
Artist in Residence, JOYA:Air (arte + ecologia), Almeria, Spain
2015
Artist in Residence, Shigaraki Culture park, Japan
2014
Artist in Residence, Hector Mavridis Studio, Thessaloniki, Greece
2013
Apprentice, stone sculpture at Athar Jabber Studio, Antwerp, Belgium
2009-2014
Curator/Director, RA13 Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Curator/Director, RA13 Gallery, Paris, France
PUBLICATIONS/ LECTURES/ JURIES/ EDUCATOR
2026
Editorial Board Member, The Breath We Share: Embodied and Creative Practices for a Living and Dying World, Art.Earth, UK
2021
[Ongoing] Educator and Facilitator of Body Poetics, Butoh Methods, Movement in Nature, Dartington, UK
2022
Reclaiming Romanticism, Lecture at the University of Sint Lucas Antwerpen, Belgium
2021
Series of Lectures and Workshops on Butoh & Improvisation Methods, Fivizzano27, Rome, Italy
2019
Contemplations on Water, Liquidscapes, Artdotearth Publication, UK
2016
Creative Processes & Dreamtime in Aboriginal Culture, Lecture, ESMODE, Tokyo, Japan
2013
Projet pour une Livre, Projet pour un Film, Art Book Publication, in collaboration with Nico Dockx & Helena Siridopoulos, Antwerp, Belgium
References for the Contemporary, Scalpel Magazine, Foundation Pernod Ricard, Paris, France
Jury Member, RA Award, ITS (International Talent Support) Trieste, Italy
RA Award, Fashion Department, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium
2012
Jury Member, RA Award, La Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Jury Member, Lichting Awards, Netherlands (Netherland’s seven art academies – Academy of Fine Art/Zuyd University, Willem de Kooning Academy, Utrecht School of the Arts, Royal Academy of Art, Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Artez Academy of Visual Arts and AMFI Amsterdam Fashion Institute)
Jury Member, RA Award, Polimoda School of Design, Florence, Italy
2011
Jury Member, Hyeres 28th International Festival of Fashion & Photography, Hyeres, France
EDUCATION
Ongoing Butoh Dance Training (past mentors: Imre Thormann, Atsushi Takenouchi, Yumiko Yoshioka, Minako Seki, Adam Koan, Ozerk Pamir, Julie Becton Gillum, Kea Toneti, Imre Thormann, Ken Mai, Tebby Romasike, Yuko Kaseki)2020
Research Space: Psyche, a practice of new research with Hagit Yakira, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London, UK
2019
Choreography with Materials with Florence Peake, Siobhan Davies Dance Studios, London, UK
Butoh Dance Training, Himalayan Subbody Butoh Center with Rhizome Lee, Dharamsala, India
2018
MA, Holistic Science, Schumacher College, University of Plymouth, UK
2018
Diploma, Intersection of Science and Spirituality, Schumacher College, UK
2011
MFA, Royal Art Academy, Antwerp, Belgium
2007
Arts Folio, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2005
BSc Finance, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences, London, UK