Anna Birch (b. 1989, Moscow) is a multidisciplinary artist. She graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University; she received her art education at the Moscow School of Contemporary Art and the Free Workshops programme of MMOMA. Her works are held in the collection of the Ruarts Foundation and in private collections in Russia, the Netherlands, France and the USA.

In my practice I explore zones of tension and mutual passage between the personal and the collective, freedom and control, cooperation and coercion.

I am drawn to the movement from the general to the particular and back: how large structures become a person’s inner form, and how the person, in turn, reproduces, displaces or transforms those structures. What stands at the centre of my attention is not one direction of this movement, but the very logic of their mutual production.

I work with painting, ceramics, embroidery, print techniques and installation. Through the layering of image and material I explore the overlap and friction of several logics within a single image, space or state.