Exhibition: Drawing Thesaurus

GREY GROUP
Pedagogical Methodology of Advanced Drawing Practices

STOOJ FINE ART  GALLERY
Schillerstraße 6
15–19 July

15.07 - 18 00 - 21 00 - Opening
16.07 - 14 00 - 18 00
17.07 - 14 00 - 18 00
18.07 - 14 00 - 18 00
19.07 - 14 00 - 18 00 - Presentation the pilot English translation of the book Politics of Drawing — a collaborative publication by Anastasia Ryabova and Nikolay Smirnov.

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The exhibition presents DRAWING THESAURUS — an educational program designed and led by Anastasia Ryabova during the winter semester 2025/2026 at UdK Berlin (Studium Generale). It displays materials from preliminary focus groups, the content of each seminar, including practical assignments and student responses.
The program is also complemented by a series of visual and textual comments contributed by Nora Ashwood, Marina Pinsky, Yozhy Stolet, Alexander Wolff & others.
The exhibition also features the pilot English translation of the book Politics of Drawing — a collaborative publication by Anastasia Ryabova and Nikolay Smirnov.

FOCUS GROUP
Michael Baers, Andrei Belyaev, Oleg Galkin, Vladimir Kabanov, Elena Martinova, Daria Orlova, Anna Rotaenko, Konstantin Volodarskii & others.

STUDENTS
Nora Ashwood, Charlotte Avenarius, Akim Bakulin, Emma-Marie Broska, Ella Marlene Conzen, Julian Eckert, Nathanael Ben Pablo Elsler, Florian Heinemann, Charlotte Hiltmann, Emil Holthausen, Zifan Jiang, Yutian Jin, Kaiwen Kang, Isabel Kiefer, Daria Kim, Huynh Minh Kha Le, Helene Lorenz, Damla Mutlu, Holly Paynter, Lilli Peters, Damian Rohde, Finn Sauter, Paulina Sepp, Emily Nicole Simba Jacome, Alexandru Spinu, Paula Tritto, Taro Usami, Emma Vollert, Karla Vorkauf, Ella Walker. 

The seminar ARE YOU LYU, OR AM I YOU? with artist Illia Todurkin was attended, in addition to the regular participants, by: Niko Angiuli, Michael Baers, Artem Bychinsky-Nikitin, Natalya Grinina, Katya Kopeikina, Frankie Lo, Alex Mashtaler, Moksha Richards, Odesa Varen, Sasha Yurieva.

DRAWING THESAURUS is a continuation of Ryabova's analytical work begun in 2008 with megazin_biz, and further developed through the Star Roads, Candy, Untangled, +, From Your Morning to My Night and Thread in the City. The project is dedicated to exploring formal categories specific to drawing in their clash with modern political constraints. The core of the course is practice-based and organized around a series of exercises. Their aim is to learn how to deviate from the traps of the contemporary visual industry and its unsuitable politics of images, while also tracking the reconfiguration of the drawer's optics — all the while keeping in mind the reconfiguration of the learning process itself.

GENERAL BLOCKS
Biometrics vs Anatomy / Defetishization / Hypernorms + Radical Deviation / Line and Point / Blind Room