21.06.2024 – 20.10.2024
Nadya Tolokonnikova, artist and founder of the feminist collective Pussy Riot, is being persecuted in Russia for her conceptual performances and her artistic protest against the Putin regime. “RAGE” is the name of Tolokonnikova’s latest video work shot in Russia, which is directed against oppression and corruption. Filming was interrupted by the police; the crew only managed to save a few shots before they were all arrested. With the release of the 2021 video, Pussy Riot called for the immediate release of political prisoners, especially Alexei Navalny, who had been arrested just a few days earlier when he returned to Russia after being treated for Novichok poisoning in Germany.
The exhibition curated by Michaela Seiser and Julia Staudach at OK Linz will show a selection of Pussy Riot’s actions. The centrepiece is Tolokonnikova’s performance “Putin’s Ashes”, which was created in 2022.
Together with twelve women from Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, who share their experience of repression and aggression by the Russian president, she burnt a portrait of Vladimir Putin in the Nevada desert and collected his ashes in small bottles.
Nadya Tolokonnikova / Pussy Riot – RAGE
21.06.2024 – 20.10.2024
OK Linz
OK-Platz 1, 4020 Linz
www.ooekultur.at
