Biografie

Nastassja Nefjodov is a German/Russian artist living in Amsterdam

Her work is based on family stories around (war)trauma. Stories which show how the political impacts the personal, how experiences and memories are passed down and sometimes repeated in the next generation.

She is using archive material and combining it with her own photography. Her photography is poetic, metaphorical, performative, nostalgic. It plays with the notions of memory and its non-linear nature, highlighting that even though some things stay unknown in the subconsciousness, they do have an impact on our emotional state of being.

Education

  • 2016- 2021 

    Fotoacademie Amsterdam (cum laude)

  • 2020- now 

    Work-show-grow school

  • 2019 

    ISSP Photography and the World, Latvia

Solo Exhibitions

  • 2022 

    „Why being quiet is so loud“ The garden room, Berlin, Germany (upcoming)

Group Exhibitions

  • 2022 

    The Photobook Exhibition, Athens Photo Festival

  • 2022 

    Lighthouse open Studio, FOTODOK Utrecht, Netherlands (upcoming)

  • 2022  

    Dispatch, New Forest Museum Lyndhurst, England (upcoming)

  • 2021 

    Here we are, Amtsterdam, Netherlands

  • 2021 

    Photobooks Exhibition, Encontros da Imagem, Galeria do Paço da UMinho, Braga, Portugal

  • 2021 

    Talents selection at Fotofestival Naarden

  • 2020 

    Reiz, Neue Schule für Fotografie, Berlin

  • 2019 

    Photography and The World ISSP, Latvia

  • 2019 

    Nachbilder, Atelier für Fotografie, Berlin

  • 2019 

    Screening at Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg Museum, Berlin

  • 2019 

    City limits, Rotterdam Photofestival

Grants, Awards, Nominations, Residencies

  • 2022 

    Athens Photofestival Finalist (Photobooks)

  • 2022 

    PRAKSIS residency: Repression - Expression // Violence - Creative Resistance. Oslo, Norway

  • 2022 

    Lighthouse program FOTODOK Utrecht

  • 2021 

    Photography Graduate Mentoring Scheme, Redeye The Photography Network

  • 2021 

    Dispatch Residency, Work Show Grow, Lyndhurst, England

  • 2021 

    Fotofestival Naarden Talent Prijs, nominated

  • 2021 

    Photobook Award Encontros da Image, Finalist

  • 2020 

    Photobook Award Encontros da Imagem, Winner

In Books, Publications

  • 2021 

    Mini Album Neighbourhood, Album East central

  • 2021 

    United, Work Show Grow Publication

  • 2020 

    home is..., Julia Borissova

Work in Libraries

  • ISSP Library, Riga, Latvia

  • PhotoBookMuseum, Cologne, Germany

Artist talks

  • 2022 

    Meet the artist, FOTODOK, Utrecht, The Netherlands

  • 2021 

    Artist Salon, Work show grow