EDUCATION:

• 2004-2008 - Tver Art College named after A.G. Venetsianov. Specialty-painter-teacher.
• 2010-2016 - St. Petersburg Art and Industry Academy Stieglitz. Specialty - artist-ceramist.
• 2021-2022 - MMOMA Free Workshops, sculpture and installation.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - "When I Grow Become a Tree" "Open Workshops", Ligovskaya Library, Russia, St. Petersburg.
• 2021 - "Project ears" Space "Sklad 17". Russia, St. Petersburg.
• 2021- Exhibition "Naked Senses" in my room. Russia, Saint Petersburg.
• 2021 - Participatory project at the Krupskaya Cultural Center "I See You".

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
• 2022 - MMOMA Gogolevsky 10 "The Future is Already", Exhibition of graduates of the free workshops of MMOMA, installation "Paradise" Russia, Moscow.
• 2022 - Gallery "Bogorodskoye", "Cultural Layer", project "City Hears" Russia, Moscow.
• 2022 - CTE "Fabrika" exhibition "Adaptants", installation "Rebirth", "Diary" objects
• 2022 - Museum "Battle of Borodino Panorama" exhibition "Imaginary Journey", installation "From a Clean Page
• 2022 - Exhibition Halls of Moscow, Gallery "Belyaevo installation "Contact" and object "When I Grow, I Will Become a Tree
• 2022 - Gallery "At the Plant" Group exhibition of students of MMOMA "C-41 process.
  Installation "When I Grow Become a Tree". Russia, Moscow.
• 2021 - Kvadrat Youth Center. Samizdat festival "On Paper". Russia, St.
  Petersburg.
• 2021 - Exhibition of teachers and graduates in Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry "One Square Metre". Russia, St. Petersburg.
• 2021 - Installation "Secrets" for the Biennale Krasnyaya. Russia, Saint Petersburg.
• 2021 - Exhibition "Garden", installation "Subconsciousness" Russia, Moscow.
• 2021 - Exhibition "New Energies" at the Gamma Art Cluster, Russia, Moscow.
• 2020 - Online exhibition "Ceramics on the Grass". Russia, St. Petersburg.
• 2019 - Installation for the festival "4ceramics" Russia, Moscow.
• 2018 - Ceramania Ceramics Festival Russia, St. Petersburg.
• 2016 - Exhibition at the Stieglitz Stieglitz St. Petersburg State Academy of Arts and Industry. "Dialogues". Russia, St. Petersburg.
• 2014 - Exhibition of ceramics and graphics at ArtGogolev Center. Russia, Sortavala.
• 2012 - Exhibition at Stieglitz Stieglitz Art Museum "Solovki". Russia, St. Petersburg.

ART RESIDENCIES:

• 2020 - Get Art Fit, Online Residency.
• 2016 - High Fire Symposium in Gavrilov Yama, Russia.
• 2015 - High Fire Symposium in Gavrilov Yama, Russia.
• 2012 - Gas Firing in Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry. Moscow, Russia.
• 2011 - High Fire Ceramic Symposium, Latvian Academy of Arts. Riga.
  Latvia.

CONTACT PROJECT, 2022

Connections are fragile and subtle, so very valuable. Without people and support, one survives, not lives.

Now, when society is divided because of divergent views, it is difficult to be with those who think differently, you want to cut ties, you are afraid to create new ones.

But at the same time, the connections with those people who are "in the same boat" with me have lit up and become even more important. Their support and understanding are incredible.
Ties are like threads - very easy to break, but with this work I want to encourage you to protect them by being attentive to one another.

One person can do a lot. And together, people can move mountains!
Together we can create this world and the future, individuals coming together is a tremendous force.

Maria Gruzdeva is a photographer, researcher and multimedia artist, who mainly works on long-term projects. Her photographic series have been exhibited internationally with group and solo shows in Russia, Europe, UK, USA, Asia and featured in a number of festivals across the world. Her works are included in the permanent collection of National Museum Wales and are part of the i-mediatheque of Tbilisi Photography & Multimedia Museum.

Maria is a member of the Contemporaries Committee at The Photographers’ Gallery, London. She is the first winner of the biennial Gabriele Basilico International Prize in Architecture and Landscape Photography, Magnum Photos & IdeasTap Photographic Award, Magenta Flash Forward Emerging Photographer and other awards.

In 2016 Maria was named one of the 30 Under 30 by Forbes Magazine in the Arts Category and in 2018 named one of the "It" Photographers in Millenials by IMA Magazine Japan.

Maria's projects have been published into three monographs and also included in Firecrackers: Female Photographers Now published by Thames & Hudson.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 — a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, a-s-t-r-a gallery, WInzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — The Lonka Project: Numbered at The Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Feb 17th – May 22nd, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — The Ian Parry Scholarship Charity Auction, Artsy & Phillips Auction House, London, UK.
• 2021 — Helsinki Photo Festival 2021, July 7th - September 30th, Helsinki, Finland.
• 2020 — Imago Lisboa Photo Festival, Lisbon, Portugal.
• 2020 — Encontros Da Imagem, International Photography and Visual Arts Festival, Braga, Portugal.
• 2020 — Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards, Photographic Portrait Prize, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
• 2019 — Women in Focus, National Museum Cardiff, Wales, UK.
• 2018 — 5th Biennial of Fine Art & Documentary Photography, Barcelona.
• 2018 — At the Fringes, Pavilion №64, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Salty Taste of the Black Sea, Tbilisi Photo Festival, Georgia.
• 2017 — The Song of Tkvarcheli, Fondazione Studio Marangoni, Florence, Italy. 
• 2017 — VICE Magazine Photo Show, House Atype, New York, USA.
• 2017 — The Song of Tkvarcheli, Fondazione dell’Ordine degli Architetti P.P.C. della Provincia di Milano, Milan, Italy.
• 2017 — The Song of Tkvarcheli, Fondazione Riccardo Catella, Milan, Italy.

Vasilisa Lebedeva is a modern artist and co-founder of the Art.Boloto creative community in Moscow.  

Across multiple disciplines she works with such themes as awareness, self-knowledge, human interaction, interaction with the surrounding world. She is also interested in things like personal mythology and how the world works. This is reflected in her work, thematically and in terms of the materials and objects used. For her it is important to create a field of multi-level experiences for the viewer. This is accomplished through interactive installations.  

Having a professional degree in clothes design, she often uses textiles in m work and create objects out of cloth. She create sculptures as well, using new technology, found objects, natural objects, embroidery, plaster, silicone, ceramics, readymade objects. She also works in painting and graphics.

EDUCATION:

• 2020 - 2022 — Institute of Contemporary Art  Moscow 
• 2019 - 2020 — “Free Workshops” School of Modern  Art at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art 2019 - 2020. - British Higher School of Design.  Modern Art.  
• 2014-2016 — British Higher School of Design.  Clothes design foundation course.  
• 2012 - British Higher School of Design. Pre-foundation courses.  
• 2007 - 2012 — Moscow State Pedagogical University.  Post-graduate program. Ph.D. in Philology  

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2021 — “ROMANTICISM” Tretyakov Gallery Lab 
• 2021 — «Multiplicity» at the “VINZAVOD OPEN”
• 2021 — «The Time of Things” at the “VINZAVOD OPEN”

RESIDENCIES:

• 24.07 - 2.08.2021 — “Art Dacha” Residency at the  Riabushinsky Dacha Estate in Vishny Volochek, Russia
• 12.07 - 15.07.2021 — Nikolay Polissky Creative Lab in  Nikola-Lenivets, Russia (by the New Tretyakov Gallery)
• 14.03 - 20.03.2020 — “Vetki” Residency

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 27.05-18.06.2021 — AVOS’ outdoor exhibition, Moscow Region  
• 27.12.2020-10.01.2021 — “Waiting room” at the exhibition space “NAZAVOD” 
• 10.12.2020 - 17.01.2021 — “Weather Forecast” outdoor  exhibition, Moscow Region 
• 05.09.2020 — Art Boloto outdoor event and exhibition, Moscow Region

EDUCATION: 

• Lomonosov Moscow State University, Faculty of Journalism
• Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute, Department of Monumental Painting, studio of I. Lubennikov
• Free workshops at the Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, gallery a-s-t-r-a, CCCI Vinzavod, Moscow
• Tin Club personal exhibition "Somebody in the City
• ZIL Industrial Art Residence
• CTI factory, "Coordinates" exhibition
• CTI factory, "Free Off" exhibition
• Leo Tolstoy Park exhibition "New Still Life"
• Gallery "Park" exhibition "About walks in the fresh air"

Alexey Ryabov (b. 1986) is a Moscow-based artist.

Works with computer 3D-modeling, digital graphics, video games and VR-technology.

Participant of the "Bagryanka" association of artists.

Graduate of the "Free Workshops" at the Moscow State Museum of Modern Art in 2020 and the Moscow Architectural Institute in 2009.

Participant of the 8th season of "Open Studios" Winzavod.

Born on March 16, 1973 in Batumi, Adjara Autonomous Republic, Georgia.

In 1995 he graduated from the Tbilisi Academy of Arts, Faculty of Monumental Painting.

In 2000. graduated from the American Academic School of Art in Paris, Department of Interior Design and then returned to Georgia.

In 2003. Moved to Moscow, in 2020 returned to Georgia.

Georgi Chaushba - an artist who creates abstract and figurative paintings. Works in different techniques - acrylic, oil. 

He lives and works in Batumi.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022: Gallery Factory Tbilisi. Tbilisi 
• 2010: Batumi State Museum 
• 2008 : Gallery "we art". Moscow
• 2000 : Comité de Salut Artistique. Paris
• 1998 : Tbilisi State Museum
• 1997 : Sardapi Gallery. Tbilisi
• 1995 : Batumi State Museum

Born June 29, 1988 in St. Petersburg.

Since 2022 he has been living and working in Moscow.

Kirill Doeshvili is an artist, poet and musician. He studied art, philosophy, poetry and literature. Attended courses for free students at the Academy of Repin. Studied at Dnepropetrovsk Art School. Participated in Russian and international exhibitions and residencies. 

Kirill sees his art through an eye that does not obey the man-made laws of perspective, an eye that is not corrupted by compositional logic, an eye that does not respond to the names of everything, but which must learn every object encountered in life through the adventure of perception.

"I dig deep to find the clearest water, and that's my way to go."

Doeshvili tries on a plane of paper subjective and metaphysical time, taking the position of an artist working with reality. Drawing itself turns into an interlocutor and a stranger with whom he begins to juggle images. In the process, they change, as does their relationship to space and to each other. New layers of interactions with the force that governs this dimension emerge. "As the universe flows, so do we transpire, because we are its stardust," says the artist.

The artist is the architect of worlds. Symbolically, to create his characters Doeshvili uses exactly archival architectural paper. Fictional characters suddenly come to life on the sheets: Treschak the Unpunished, Friendly Pirate the Rascal, Wandering Apollo, Unscientific Chatterbox, Neptune's Unspent Client, Romeo the Sad Man, Lunatic Pierrot and others.

The characters are constantly communicating telepathically and are in the same field, in the process of exchanging something for which the stars give them their blessing. Each work is a new situation in which events unfold dynamically, but they are all simultaneously linked by a common logic and characters. There is no good or bad among them. They are all embraced by the flame of love, but they don't know how to express it properly. Just like us.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - Juice from Stone and Earth, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
• 2022 - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, gallery a-s-t-r-a, CCCI Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2020 - art residence "South Coast" theme: "Secret".
• 2020 - participant of the project NEW REALITY. TO THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNOVIS.
• 2020 - art forum Berlin Art.
• 2020 - exhibition of expressionism, Gostiny Dvor
• 2020 - creation of psychedelic objects at Sunburn art festival Goa, India.
• 2019 - art residence "South Beach".
• 2018 - art festival "Colors of the World" Koktebel.
• 2017 - creation and art design, "Extreme festival".
• 2016 - "Tavrida".

Doeshvili's works are in private collections in Russia, Ukraine, the United States, Australia, England, Germany and the Czech Republic.

THE WORLD OF DOESHVILI

An instinctive Belief in the artistic form, a symbiosis of internal and external journeys, signs on the way forward in art.

Without thinking that death is near, I am constantly trying to comprehend the emptiness of all forms, which are distorted and modified, have their own magnitude and even a formal notion of time. When one paints or writes diligently, one has two types of signs of progress along the path, definite and indefinite, which indicate that the result will soon be reached. 

Uncertain signs, called basic signs, appear because of previous connections, even if one has never practiced art at all. Since they cannot be relied upon, I will not describe them here.

Certain signs appear as a result of drawing and are of two kinds: transient and unchangeable.

Transient signs can appear in reality as well as in mood. As for the first kind, when you are making preliminary sketches, you may feel as if your body is about to fall apart like the walls of a cracking house. Your voice may weaken, as in a state of extreme exhaustion. You may start convulsing like you are possessed by spirits. These are indicators that you have separated reality from the world of images.

Frustration with your own body, speech, and mind may appear in the mood. This demonstrates that you have purified yourself . If these states do not appear, then you have not had enough experience, so you need to dive further into the form.

As a result of fatigue, the actual signs show up in the bliss of the physical body, in the fact that you want to speak out, and in the mind everything is experienced as space. You can feel, "Nothing exists!" Along with that comes a joy pure as the sky. You may get the feeling that you have forgotten that there is a body, you don't notice your breath, and you don't want to leave the state of no thought, thinking, "This is it!" These are signs of mastering the stability of one's natural state, which is inherent in us. 

This understanding can also manifest itself in sensation: wherever your attention moves, you realize and comprehend that it is your own mind, you see the projections and returns of your thoughts as your own manifestation and realize that they are absolutely unobstantial, like space. These are signs that you have determined through seeing that the phenomena are your mind.

Мария Молянова - художник ,дизайнер, музыкант и dj из Нижнего Новгорода.

ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ:

• 2009 - 2015 - Нижегородский государственный архитектурно-строительный университет. Специальность - художник-проектировщик (дизайнер интерьеров).

В 2016 году создала собственную марку одежды с ручной росписью "salamaaashop". С 2015 года пишет музыку и диджеит под псевдонимом "salama". Рисование и музыка "саламы" имеют общую связь. Маша взаимодействует со всем миром. Ее работы печатались в Брюссельском журнале "Girls Like US" в Швейцарском "annabelle". В ее арсенале музыкальные релизы в разных странах, в том числе LP пластинка на парижском лейбле Badance, гостевые миксы на NTS Radio и Rinse France.

ИЗБРАННЫЕ ВЫСТАВКИ:

• 2022г — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 2, галерея a—s—t—r—a, ЦСИ Винзавод, Москва
• 2021 — "На краю природы: черный лес", Арт- резиденция , г. Выкса.
• 2016 — персональная выставка "Лужа" , "Галерея 1", г. Нижний Новгород.
• 2011 — "Subway", ГЦСИ "Арсенал" г. Нижний Новгород.  

Maria Shishova was born on February 22, 1989

• 2006-2012 - studied at the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, Department of Graphic Art
• 2015-2017 - studied on Viktor Melamed's course at BWSHD

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - a-s-t-r-a open.vol. 2, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
• 2022 - Collective exhibition "Some Kingdom" HSE Art Gallery
• 2021 - collective exhibition of Kisety "Gardens of Earthly Institutions" at Kashirka Gallery
• 2019 - collective exhibition of graphic art at MIBF
• 2017 - collective exhibition of Kisety at the Fumetto festival in Lucerne
• 2017 - collective painting exhibition of Viktor Melamed's course at Rosa Azora
• 2012 - Collective exhibition of graphics at MDH

"In my work, regardless of medium, I capture frames from the story of one larger universe, focusing on its inhabitants and their relationships rather than on the space and time in which the scenes depicted take place. Painting, graphics, ceramics, assemblages in this case are simply different ways of storytelling and are embedded in one artistic practice. 

Almost always the search for expressive and emotionally fulfilling characters leads to a play with form, to its exaggeration and redundancy. This world is undoubtedly an attempt at escaping and distancing from reality, a world of mysterious characters, symbols and signs, moving from one picture to another, from canvas to paper, from plane to volume. The psychedeles and brooding beauties of Hollywood's golden age, the cold-blooded hunters and gentle victims, the careless vegetables and wise living skeletons, the journeys through a world too cheerful than the afterlife, but more dusky than the real one. Stories for which no end has been invented, riddles that assume no right answers."