Amsterdam takes its first look at young Russian photographers

During the second edition of Unseen Photo Fair, Moscow’s Pobeda Gallery will bring to Amsterdam the work of three Russian artists, Anna Skladmann, Gosha Rubchinskiy and Alexey Kiselev.

Anna Skladmann will show The Memory of a Ceremony, a series that featured as part of the Small Is Beautiful group exhibition earlier this summer in Moscow. The series includes a number of polaroids that Skladmann shot during a summer spent in Cape Cod in 2007. “The images encapsulate a small world of inhabitants that created a shared ‘home’ for one summer,” Skladmann told The Calvert Journal. “These memories, as well as the original polaroid images, have one thing in common: their colors will fade, horizons will blur, but memories will remain nostalgically unique.”

Skladmann, born in Germany to Russian parents, made her first trip to Russia aged 14 and has since then been in love with the country. “Being exhibited next to other artists such Kiselev and Rubchinskiy is a great honor,” said Skladmann. “[They] are the insiders of this generation, whereas I feel like I’m partly the insider with the outsider vision, more analyzing and observing then living through it myself.”

Photographer and fashion designer Gosha Rubchinskiy’s Transfiguration series will feature in the show alongside Yekaterinburg-born Alexey Kiselev’s series Dancer. “I am showing a series of works called Dancer, produced together with model and artist Danila Polyakov. I don’t know much about Unseen but I’m happy that my old photos have a new life.”

Unseen Photo Fair runs until 29 September at Amsterdam’s Westergasfabriek.