Nadya Tolokonnikova / Pussy Riot

RAGE
OÖ Landes-Kultur GmbH

Holding the Museum to Its Promise

Nadya Tolokonnikova (b. Norilsk; Soviet Union, 1989) is a founder of the feminist art collective Pussy Riot. The performance Punk Prayer at the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, which the Guardian listed as one of the most important works of art of the twenty-first century, earned her and her colleagues’ convictions for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” and imprisonment in a penal camp. Her oeuvre encompasses objects as well as works of installation and performance art in which she grapples with her own traumatic experiences under Putin’s regime, among other subjects. Responding to a situation of fear and repression, she devised a visual language that rebels against entrenched moral and political realities: anarchist, radical, but also profoundly touching.

The publication RAGE documents Nadya Tolokonnikova’s first solo exhibition in Europe, in Linz, and surveys her oeuvre since 2009. It is rounded out by essays by Boris Groys and the curator Michaela Seiser and two conversations between Tolokonnikova and Marina Abramović and Anne Imhof, respectively.