Honor Fraser is pleased to announce an artist residency with Nadya Tolokonnikova — Siberian artist and a creator of the feminist protest art collective Pussy Riot. Tolokonnikova’s political actions and wide-ranging performance interventions have established her as a leading voice in the fight against authoritarian power. During her residency, she will compose a series of artworks and performances that demonstrate her multifaceted approach to resisting systems of oppression and dehumanization.
Honor Fraser will serve as a sounding board for Tolokonnikova’s unruly compositions, featuring artworks that underscore the shifting tonalities of political unrest. Please join us for an opening reception, including a live performance by Pussy Riot Siberia on January 10th at 7PM. RSVP for free entry HERE.
Born in Norilsk, Russia in 1989, Tolokonnikova emerged as a critical voice in contemporary art following her imprisonment from 2012 to 2013 for staging a protest performance at Moscow’s Cathedral of Christ the Saviour. Her practice, which centers the body as a dynamic site for political revolution, spans performance, experimental music, video, calligraphy, and sculptural installation. In her new series at Honor Fraser, Tolokonnikova explores the delicate choreographies of resistance—revealing how embodied action, language, and collective ritual intertwine to forge new pathways for political liberation.
The exhibition features sculptural installations created from objects related to sites of protest and imprisonment, displayed alongside large-scale Tolokonnikova’s self-portraits wearing a mask. Rather than recreating the literal confines of a prison cell, these works transmute Tolokonnikova’s experience of confinement into a symbolic vocabulary of resistance and renewal. The portraits showcase the group’s signature balaclavas rendered through calligraphed phrases—transforming this iconic protest symbol into a new tool for political messaging.
Throughout the exhibition, Tolokonnikova will activate these artworks through performances and live music, creating a temporal archive where acts of resistance are documented, organized, and reperformed.
Find more here:
https://honorfraser.com/programming/nadya-tolokonnikova-punks-not-dead/
https://www.instagram.com/ nadya
https://twitter.com/ pussyrrriot
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