Anna Volchok was born 1980 at Kharkov, former Soviet Union. Her family moved to Moscow, and then immigrated to Israel.

She was influenced by post-industrial soviet aesthetics and technical drawings of her grandfather. In age of 10 she

started painting, mostly whatever

surrounded her, streets and abandoned houses, still lives made of all kinds of garbage, bottles, broken wood and

constructions .In 1996 she met her teacher, Stanislav Kirpichnikov. He taught her the classical Russian realistic

tradition of painting. In age 18, Anna met Israeli Russian artist Vadim Stepanov, and they worked together for six years in their studio. In 1999 she opened her first solo exhibition in Efrat gallery,Tel Aviv.

This current exhibition in Minotaure gallery is called the “Second Front”. It's dedicated to perpetual conflict between the artist and a conventional thought. The urban-industrial surroundings are a proper battle field for the collision of

perceptions, but the front line is not

supposed to be identificated with visual or pseudo -ideological concept anymore.

The interpretation should be intuitive and psychedelic, and the meaning of objects can be inverted and played with, in order to achieve different state of mind.

In this exhibition, the artist also chose to refer to first Russian avant-garde, since in her opinion, its passionate heritage of cultural resistance has turned into

meaningless, self recreating machine of advertisement.