Factory of Found Clothes

Members Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya and Olga Egorova live and work in St Petersburg, Russia

NATALIA PERSHINA-YAKIMANSKAYA
BORN IN LENINGRAD, RUSSIA, 1969

EDUCATION
1991 Mukhina Academy of Art, St Petersburg, Russia

    OLGA EGOROVA
BORN IN KHABAROVSK, RUSSIA, 1968

EDUCATION
1993 Repin Art Academy, St Petersburg, Russia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘Plug in Nr.51 - Activist Club’, Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Holland
2009 ‘Scenes Centrales’, TriPostal, Lille, France
2009 ‘The Greatest Idiot in New Zealand’, MIC Gallery; Snow White Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
2009 11th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 ‘Food for Thought’, art festival, Denmark
2008 ‘U-TURN’, Quadriennalle of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
2008 ‘Artist-Citizens’, October Salon, Belgrade, Serbia
2008 ‘Frictions and Conflicts’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Kalmar, Sweden
2008 ‘Inertia’, W139, Amsterdam, Holland
2008 ‘Kinoshock’, Anapa, Russia
2008 ‘Zoo’, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow

2007 ‘Progressive Nostalgia’, KUMU Museum, Tallinn, Estonia; Centro per l’arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
2007 Art Moscow Workshops, Moscow
2007 ‘Becoming a Mother’, Botkyrka Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 ‘Self Education’, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2006 ‘Contested Spaces in Post-Soviet Art’, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, New York, United States
2006 ‘Electric Visions’, film programme; screenings in different countries
2006 ‘Scarlet Sails’, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 ‘Human Project’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2005 ‘Drift.’ Narvskaja zastava, NCCA, Moscow, Russia
2005 ‘1960-2000 - Collectivity in Russian Art’, Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 ‘Art-Robe:Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion’, UNESCO, Paris, France
2005 ‘Russia Redux #1’, Shroeder Romero Gallery, New York, NY, United States
2005 ‘Kronstadt FOREVER’, site-specific project, Kronstadt, Russia
2004 ‘Boys and Girls’, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2004 ‘Watch out! Contemporary Art from St Petersburg and Moscow’, Contemporary art Museum, Oslo, Norway


Installation view of Three Mothers and a Chorus (2008) Factory of Found Clothes. Photo: Stephen White