This episode we are thrilled to be talking with the incredible artist Nadya Tolokonnikova.

Nadya is the creator of Pussy Riot, a global feminist art movement. In 2012 she was sentenced to 2 years' imprisonment following an anti-Putin performance Punk Prayer. Punk Prayer was named by The Guardian among the ‘best art pieces of the 21st century."

Tolokonnikova's Putin’s Ashes art installation at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery in January 2023 propelled her into a new criminal case and put on Russia’s most wanted criminal list. On June 21st, 2024 her debut museum exhibition RAGE, opened at OK Linz, Linz, Austria, and shortly after she performed the piece at the Neue Nationalgalerie on July 4. 

Tolokonnikova's work is held in the permanent collections of The Brooklyn Museum, Dallas Museum of Art, Museum of Art and Design, and American Folk Art Museum, among others.

Some artists discussed in this episode:

• Dmitri Prigov
• Judy Chicago
• Guerrilla Girls

You can read more about Nadya's show with Jeffrey Deitch in Los Angeles here:

https://deitch.com/los-angeles/exhibitions/pussy-riot-putin-s-ashes

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