Kurliandskaia Anastasiia

Born in 1986 in Moscow, Russia, Nastya Rodionova is an author. She studied prose at the Gorky Institute of Literature, worked for the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, wrote columns for Moskvich.mag and Zanovo.media, and short stories and poems for literary journals and Musical Life. Her story Kukolka (The Doll) was published in Exmo Publishers’ Live! collection in 2018. She has collaborated on theater and music projects in Russia, Germany, France, and Italy; she notably wrote the libretto for the opera Eurydice (music by Dmitri Kourliandski, directed by Antoine Gindt). Her novel Ubit Lenin (Killing Lenin), published in 2021 by Jaromír Hladík, was nominated for the Big Book and Fiction-35 prizes.

She created the installation-novel Cache-cache at the Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris, with support from the Porosus endowment fund. She authored the exhibition-novel À l’intérieur de la baleine as part of the Re: location project in Olga Kisseleva’s studio in Paris, and the performance Fourure at Villa Paradis – Galerie La Traverse in Marseille. She has been a member of the Agency of Artists in Exile since 2022.