Anastasia Sosunova’s multidisciplinary practice, combining video, installation, graphics and sculpture, grows from personal histories and their entanglements within broader cultural, economical and spiritual structures. Her work focuses in particular on the bonds around which communities are forged, from local vernacular art to social neighborhoods to religious organisations. She observes how these closed groups are developed, often in reaction to other values or beings, and how they subsist through shared sentiments and the development of rituals, traditions and collective agreements.

Through a process of distortion and the interweaving of elements belonging to old mythologies, history of print and the surveillance society, Sosunova creates alternative forms of ‘contemporary folklore’. Spanning lifestyle concepts to pillars of belief, these new folklores are at once a play with notions of home and belonging, a questioning of existence and coexistence, and a critical view on structures of power and the psychology of collectivity. Her work serves as a proposition for new ways of living by rules, ethics, codes and agreements between beings.

Sosunova graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts with BA in Graphic Art and MA in Sculpture. Her work was part of 15th Gwangju Biennale (2024), 17th Lyon Biennale (2024), Kaunas Biennial (2023), Baltic Triennial (2021), Manifesta 13 (2020) and Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art 2 (2020). Recent solo and duo exhibitions include: Fandom at Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius (2025), Ghost Ship at Arsenal Gallery in Bialystok (2024), DIY at Editorial in Vilnius (2023), Employee of the Month at eastcontemporary in Milan (2023), Dance As You Wrestle at Cell project space in London (2022), and Screens Series: Anastasia Sosunova at New Museum in New York (2021). Her work has been shown in group exhibitions at KADIST Foundation (2024), Palais de Tokyo (2024) and Centre Pompidou (2024) in Paris, Salzburger Kunstverein (2024) in Salzburg, Margot Samel Gallery in New York (2024), KIASMA in Helsinki (2024), ICA (2023) and Whitechapel Gallery (2020) in London, as well as MACRO  in Rome (2023), among many other institutions and galleries.