Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist art collective and protest movement founded in Moscow in 2011. Through masked performances, music, video and direct action, the group has transformed public space into a site of confrontation with Vladimir Putin’s government, the Russian Orthodox Church, patriarchal power, censorship and war.
This archive brings together articles and interviews examining Pussy Riot’s actions, from Punk Prayer and the imprisonment of several members to their opposition to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Their work reveals how performance can operate simultaneously as art, political resistance and personal risk, while exposing the uneasy relationship between protest, repression and global media visibility.
Pussy Riot at Biennale in Venice 2026 Some Venice Biennale articles reached Google’s first page. Others on Gaza, Israel, Russia and institutional power almost vanished. This essay follows the machinery of visibility from museums and markets to search engines and AI.
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Semyon Skrepetsky at Biennale. Ph ANSA Three encounters with three forms of Russian dissent: Semyon Skrepetsky outside the Giardini, Pussy Riot in front of the Russian
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Pussy Riot and FEMEN protest performance at the Venice Biennale 2026 “Russia’s art today is blood” Between pink balaclavas, slogans against Kremlin propaganda, and direct accusations aimed at the Venice Biennale
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Pussy Riot at Biennale in Venice 2026 The dissident collective led by Nadya Tolokonnikova said they had repeatedly attempted to open a dialogue with Pietrangelo Buttafuoco in
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