Alla Efimova

Alla Efimova is an art historian and curator who divides her time between New York City and Lisbon, Portugal. ^[1]

Efimova was the Director of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life at the University of California Berkeley (2009–14) ^{[2] [3] [4]} and a curator at the Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. ^{[5] [6]} She taught modern and contemporary art history at the University of California Santa Cruz and San Francisco Art Institute. ^[7] In 2014, Efimova founded KunstWorks, an agency focused on legacy advancement for contemporary artists and artists' estates. ^[8]

Efimova has served on the boards of the Woodman Artist Residency Foundation, ^{[9] [10]} the Carl Heidenreich Foundation, ^[11] Wild Projects, ^[12] the Center for Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, ^[13] the Council of American Jewish Museums, ^[14] and as an advisor to the American Photography Archives Group (APAG). ^[15]

Education

Alla Efimova received her B.A. from New York University, and a Ph.D. in Visual and Cultural Studies from the University of Rochester. ^[16]

Exhibitions and publications

Selected exhibitions

• Carl Heidenreich and Hans Hofmann in Post-War New York. Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive, 2004. ^[17]
• Acting Out: Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. With guest curator Tirza True Latimer. The Magnes, Berkeley, 2005. Presented at The Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA.
• They Called Me Meyer July. The Magnes, Berkeley, 2007. Presented at The Jewish Museum (NY) ^[18] and Jewish Historical Museum (Amsterdam).
• Through the Eyes of Rachel Marker: A Literary Installation by Moira Roth. The Magnes Collection, University of California Berkeley, 2013. ^{[19] [20]}

Exhibition catalogues

• Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia. Center for Art, Design, and Visual Culture, UMBC, 1996.
• Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel. The Magnes, Berkeley, 2005. ^[21]

Selected books

• Textura: Russian Essays on Visual Culture. Alla Efimova and Lev Manovich, eds. The University of Chicago Press, 1993.
• The Jewish Worlds: 100 Treasures of Art and Culture from The Magnes Collection. Alla Efimova and Francesco Spagnolo. Skira Rizzoli, 2014. ^[22]
• Thought Experiments: The Art of Jonathon Keats. Alla Efimova and Julie Decker, eds. Hirmer Publishers, 2021.
• Kim Anno: Rebel Splendor. Alla Efimova, ed. Anglim/Trimble, 2023. ^{[23] [24]}

Articles

• "On Sleep and Oblivion in Post-Soviet Film." In The Imprints of Terror : The Rhetoric of Violence and the Violence of Rhetoric in Modern Russian Culture, ed. Anna Brodsky, et al. (Wien: Sagner, 2006). ^[25]
• "The Gifts," Brill (January 2007)
• "To Touch on the Raw: The Aesthetic Affections of Socialist Realism," Art Journal (May 2014)
• "On the Art of Jonathon Keats," Zyzzyva (April 2021) [26]

References

1. Efimova, Alla. "Biography". Alla Efimova.
2. Rothstein, Edward (2012-01-22). "A Jewish Museum Shifts Identity (Published 2012)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-03.
3. Pine, Dan (2011-12-08). "Magnes opus: Museum springs back to life with new Berkeley facility". JWeekly. Retrieved 2021-03-21.
4. Banjo, Shelly (2010-05-20). "Several Forge Partnerships With Universities, Even Hand Over Artwork, to Keep Doors Open Amid Deficits". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
5. "Alla Efimova". The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley. 9 February 2010. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
6. Baker, Kenneth (2010-06-22). "Magnes museum's Judaica to get new homes at UC". SF Gate. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
7. Pacheco, Juan Pablo. "Take Me! Delusions of Control in Contemporary Art". San Francisco Art Institute. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
8. Middleman, Rachel (2017). "Preserving Artists' Estates: A Professional Perspective" . Art Journal. 76 (1): 116–120. doi:10.1080/00043249.2017.1332895. JSTOR   45142452. S2CID   192862482 . Retrieved 2021-03-21.
9. Knox, Gordon. "Director, Board, and Staff". Woodman Residency Foundation. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
10. Woodman, Charles. "Home". Woodman Residency Foundation.
11. "Carl Heidenreich Foundation Trustees" . Retrieved 2021-03-05.
12. "Wild Projects Board of Directors" . Retrieved 2021-03-05.
13. Dinkelspiel, Frances. "An exhibit of contemporary art serves as a balm to anti-Muslim rhetoric". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 15 March 2025.
14. "CAJM Leadership". Council of American Jewish Museums.
15. "American Photography Archives Group Board" . Retrieved 2021-03-05.
16. "Curators". People and Institutions, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life, University of California, Berkeley. Retrieved 2021-03-05.
17. Wagner, Anne M. (2005). "Heidenreich's Abstraction". The Threepenny Review (101): 22. ISSN   0275-1410. JSTOR   4385419.
18. Smith, Roberta (2009-05-07). "From Memory to Canvas, Lost Way of Life in Poland (Published 2009)". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved 2021-03-03.
19. Silvers, Emma (2013-02-01). "Fact and fiction weave historical narrative in Magnes exhibit". J. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
20. Tanner, Marcia (2013-02-21). "At Magnes, fictional woman illuminates 20th-century life". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2021-03-03.
21. Selz, Peter. "Surviving Suprematism: Lazar Khidekel". www.berkeleydailyplanet.com. Retrieved 2021-03-04.
22. Tanner, Marcia (2015-03-09). "Book Review: 'The Jewish World: 100 Treasures of Art & Culture – The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life'". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2021-03-22.
23. Anno, Kim. "Rebel Splendor". Wild Projects. Retrieved 2 March 2025.
24. Efimova, Alla (2023). Kim Anno: Rebel Splendor. San Francisco, CA, USA: Anglim/Trimble. ISBN   9780984986958.
25. Brodsky, Anna (2006). The Imprints of Terror. Vienna: Sagner.
26. Efimova, Alla (2021-04-15). "On the Art of Jonathon Keats". ZYZZYVA.

External links

• Official website
• Video of San Francisco Arts Commission reading and conversation on Ed Aulerich-Sugai