Anastasia Jermolaewa - Anastasia´s garden

Anastasia Jermolaewa
Anastasia´s Garden
2025
Pigment Print on Hahnemühle 300g, unframed
29.7 × 42 cm 
Edition of 25 + 5 AP, with signed and numbered certificate

This edition is part of and the edition´s series "yours truly (working title)" for which two artist-friends create an edition with each other in mind.

Even if both editions are works for themself, there is a kind of conceptual collaboration behind Anna and Anastasia Jermolaewas ́ editions. Both made plans of their gardens- the one located in Austria, the other in the US. Their private exchange about those, also with Anna ́s mother, the grandmother of Anastasia, was the starting point for their idea. But the motif of the flower was already often part in the past of works by Anna Jermolaewa (*1970 in St. Petersburg, living and working in Vienna) who is known for her sharp analysis of political structures of society within everyday living circumstances. Like in her installation The penultimate (Carnations, roses, orange tree, cedar, tulips, bluets, saffron, crocuses, jasmine, lotus) which consits of arrangements of flowers which symbolize each another revolution.
Some of those flowers can be found in her private garden as well, together with others which might become symbols of revolutions in the future.
Her daughter Anastasia Jermolaewa (*1994 in Vienna, living and working in Bozeman, Montana) founded the so called Linus Farm, a flower farm following biodynamic principles and is dedicated to her deceased friend Samuel Linus Gromann, who was an artist as well. She is interested in the private, emotional connotations of flowers.