Fedora Akimova

Fedora Akimova is a mixed-media artist born in 1987 in Kyiv. Since March 2022, she has been living and working in Tbilisi (Georgia) and Paris.

"I pay particular attention to materials that carry traces of memory, care, and decay. Textiles and embroidery, traditionally relegated to the “female” sphere, become in my projects a means of expression and resistance. I work with fabrics, objects, waste, and organic matter — materials that preserve history and transformation. For me, they are not just forms, but a way to bring into visibility processes of care, everydayness, and bodily routine that remain hidden from the official language of culture.

The philosophy of Édouard Glissant and Gilles Deleuze, the ideas of creolization and “and… and… and,” inspire me to think in terms of multiplicities, mismatches, and rhythms. I seek artistic forms that do not aim to erase differences but insist on their value. Art becomes a laboratory for thinking “beyond binaries.”

Today, in the context of war and the radicalization of society, the return of simple dichotomies — “us/them,” “good/evil” — is especially acute. I see this as a symptom of imperial and totalitarian thinking, where unity is possible only through the image of an enemy. In this sit...

2024-2025: l’Ecole Supérieure d'Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ésadhar), France
2017-2018: Free Workshops, art, (Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Moscow)
2011-2017: Academy of Arts, Scenography and Scene Design, (Saint-Petersburg)
2004-2008: Graphic Arts, NTUU (KPI), Kyiv

Selected Projects :
• «A.P.I.S.E.», vitrine of La Cité internationale des Arts in Paris, June 2025 – August 2025
• «histoire(s)_Histoire», Curatorial project, Saint-Étienne (France), May 2023
• «Homin», About the war in Ukraine, Ria Keburia Foundation, Tbilisi, Georgia, July – September 2022
• «Noah», Light object installation, Voskhod Gallery, Basel, March 2022
• «Silt», Video objects installation, Lazy Mike Gallery, Moscow, November 2022
• Group Exhibition: «Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene», (Installation, textile/embroidery), Garage Museum, Moscow, March - August 2021
• «Antianthrop», Solo stand, Blazar Young Art Fair, Moscow, September 2021
• «Artwork Code», Video-project with installation (video made at the Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg), Moscow Museum Of Modern Art, Gogolevsky 10, Moscow, March – April 2021
• «Obscura», Mini-exhibition, Gallery "Betweenwindows", Moscow, June – July 2020
• «Masha. Forest», Painting installation and embroidery, Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow, September 2018
• «Amalgama», Art object, video, and paintings, Gallery "Artis", Vinzavod Contemporary Art Center, April 2018 • «Point of Landscape», Video and paintings personal exhibition, Gallery "I...