world of ideas
Gosha Ostretsov, Daria Krotova, Sergey Pakhomov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Dmitry Kavka, Olga Bozhko, Roman Savchenko, Kristina Yatkovskaya, Natalia Struchkova, Lyudmila Konstantinova, Peter Bystrov
Winzavod Art Centre, entrance 22
31.05 - 18.07.2023
On May 31, a-s-t-r-a gallery opens a group exhibition "World of Ideas", which presents the work of 11 artists: Gosha Ostretsov, Oleg Kotelnikov, Dasha Krotova, Sergey Pakhomov, Dmitry Kavka, Olga Bozhko, Roman Savchenko, Kristina Yatkovskaya, Natalia Struchkova, Lyudmila Konstantinova, Peter Bystrov. All of the authors are members of VGLAZ, an independent community founded by artist Gosha Ostretsov in 2008, uniting about 20 members.
A complex narrative, bright visual images, the use of unconventional mediums, and the conceptual understanding of the exhibition space are the main features of "Vglaze" art practice. The artists of "Vglaz" took part in the Moscow Biennale, held cinema marathons, and exhibited at a separate booth at the Art Moscow Fair. The association's exhibitions have been held not only in Moscow but also in European cities such as Maastricht and Geneva. Works by "Vglaz" artists are in the collection of British collector Charles Saatchi, which he purchased in the early 2000s to build his collection of Russian art. In 2010 the members of the Vglaz self-organization created their own journal of the same name. The new edition was positioned as an alternative to the text-dominated Art Magazine, and became a phenomenon of note on the Moscow art scene.
Project "World of Ideas" marks an important date for the gallery: May 31st marks exactly one year since a-s-t-r-a took up permanent space at Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art.
"Some collectors have the opinion that the artists of this circle continue the traditions of punk culture (visual provocation), which is hard to disagree with. The uniqueness of the association is that it includes and works with artists of three generations: 80s, 90s, 00s. At the exhibition, the viewers will see the actual works of the timeless collective", Gosha Ostretsov, artist, curator of the "World of Ideas" exhibition
"The Feast of the Artist's Spirit. Dialogues."
Text by Gosha Ostretsov
Artist: Tell me, should an artist have doubts?
Spirit: Absolutely. Everyone doubts his talent, his genius. To stay on the chosen path, you have to choose teachers and companions, people that you yourself consider to be geniuses. Finding such people will yield results.
Artist: How many like-minded people does an artist need to feel part of a community whose energy will be enough to create a direction, to say a new word in art?
Spirit: An artist should not limit his circle. On the contrary, he should be fueled by the genius of his environment. The more geniuses an artist attracts to his fellow artists, the richer their influence on each other will be.
Artist: What qualities do all members of the community need?
Spirit: The main quality is the ability to see another's talent, to believe in their genius.
Artist: Do all members of the community have to be equal in talent, or does someone have to be the leader?
Spirit: There is no need to appoint leaders. Someone from the community will always be more proactive and take over the organization of the group. Each participant moves in their own direction, the overall direction emerges through process or history.
Artist: Today I have gathered at an exhibition of contemporary Russian art geniuses. Each of them implements a different idea with its own sacred meaning. Let's see if a common idea emerges and gives energy
to the general direction.
Spirit: We'll see.
Kavka Dmitry
Multidisciplinary artist, creates projects in the intersection of digital and material reality.
Dmitry Kavka (b. 1974, Moscow), an artist and graphic designer. Creates projects at the intersection of digital and material realities. The combination of various means of expression and media allows the artist to explore the paradoxes of new sensitivity, social shifts and transformations of images in the digital environment. In his works he uses both new media — digital sculptures, videos, static computer games, and more traditional techniques — such as graphics. He also experiments with new ways of representing art projects in virtual reality. For instance, in 2013, he created an online game that houses digital sculptures of the artist. In 2017, he presented an exhibition of drawings on Google Maps using Google Street View technology — the project was shown in Venice, during the 57th Biennale of contemporary art.
EDUCATION
- Higher academic school of graphic design
- British School of Design
- Ahn Sang-Soo Workshop
- Moscow School of New Cinema
- School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" (MMOMA)
- 2021 - Tin can, Nekrasovka, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - What didn't exist will live forever, L.E.S. Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2017 - Learned Helplessness, CCI Fabrica, Moscow, Russia
- 2017 - Google drawings, La Biennale di Venezia, The 57th International Art Exhibition
- 2016 - Postreality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - Mama Game (Online)
- 2013 - Room for drawing, The State Museum of V.V. Mayakovsky, Moscow, Russia
- 2013 - Poster Stars, New Holland, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2012 - Earth Attack!, "180 m2" Project, Moscow, Russia
- 2011 - Kurskiy Vokzal, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
- 2010 - Oil project (Gruppa "Krovi"), Bordeaux, France
- The best of the best of the best of logo design, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - Last tour (Gruppa "Krovi"), Flacon Design Factory, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - Dollars and roses (Gruppa "Krovi"), Novosibirsk, Russia, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 - Interaction, Znachimoe gallery, Moscow
- 2021 - Game Junction, The Khodynka Exhibition Hall, Moscow
- 2021 - Sonic fiction, HSE Art Gallery, Moscow
- 2020 - Art Prospect, Ivan Gaza Palace of Culture, St. Petersburg
- 2020 - This cry will turn into joy, HSE Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - 4 boys, Afimall, Moscow, Russia
- 2018 - Future Unhuman Unhuman, QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2017 - Pink Flamingos, BLEEK, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
- 2017 - Make it new Future Unhuman, Artplay, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - Raw Magic, Galerie Iragui, Moscow, Russia
- 2015 - B movie, Bogorodskoe Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - Plums Fest, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - Identical to natural, New Wing of Gogol House, Moscow, Russia
- 2013 - The Wrong Biennale Pavillion (Online)
- 2013 - Studying the Fruits of Investigations, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia)
- 2013 - Typomania, Flacon Design Factory, Moscow, Russia
- 2012 - Rejected reality, Artplay Design Center, Moscow, Russia
AWARDS
Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award. Shortlist (St. Petersburg. Russia), 3rd prize of the International Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont (France), Bronze at European Design Awards, Participant in Special Exhibition within 20-years Anniversary of Poster and Graphic Design Festival of Chaumont (France), The best work of Russian graphic design in the judgment of Printmag in European Design Annual, Winner of Design Innovation Awards (Moscow. Russia).
Works
Konstantinova Ludmila
Since 2010, Lyudmila has been a member of the VGLAZ group. Konstantinova's main theme is the loss of balance between the real and its representation. Her paintings are like fragments of the mirror of reality in all its diversity: objective reality, virtual reality or reality as an object of perception.
Born in 1980 in Moscow.
Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute and the Institute for Problems in Contemporary Art.
Since 2010 she has been a member of the VGLAZ group, which unites artists who focus on the visual component of art based on the principle of dialogue.
Lyudmila Konstantinova combines traditions of Moscow conceptualism with contemporary aesthetics of digital memes and social networking in her works. Her works often contain quotations from art movements of the past, Suprematism, Pop Art, Conceptualism. Konstantinova always creates bright and complex images with the help of the technique of combining incongruity, borrowed from postmodernism. Despite the principle of quoting and playing with reformatted ready-made images, in the works of Lyudmila Konstantinova there is always the author's ironic intonation. Often some of her paintings are perceived as abstract, in fact they depict different textures or fragmented objects of reality. Konstantinova's main theme is the loss of balance between the real and its representation. Her paintings as fragments mirror reality in all its diversity: objective reality, virtual or reality as an object of perception.
"In her work, Konstantinova refers to a variety of artistic currents, from Suprematism to Conceptualism, and to multiple episodes of art history, including the legacy of the totalitarian Soviet past and the new wave of the 1980s. The author uses his omens as a vehicle for ironic inference, encoded in associations. Konstantinova makes a reference to the phenomenological reduction in the series, where deliberately innocent images illustrate the slang words written in alphabetical type. For example, a cow is inscribed "heifer," a snow-white airplane means "flying," and an elderly woman seated on a bench is signed by the artist as "grandmother. It's all a peculiar attempt to relate the signifier to the signified and to make sense of that chasm that separates our consciousness from existing things." MMOMA, curator Elvira Tarnogradskaya
Lyudmila Konstantinova's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Saatchi Gallery (London), the Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg) and in private collections.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2015 - "It's Not Abstraction. Triangle Gallery. Moscow.
- 2015 - "Intertext", Erarta Museum. St. Petersburg;
- 2015 - "Illumination". "Hypercube, Skolkovo, Moscow;
- 2014 - Liberation continued. Graz museum, Graz;
- 2014 - "Metamorphosis of VGLAS". Pechersky gallery, Moscow;
- 2013 - "Parts of the Whole". Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow;
- 2012 - Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union. Saatchi Gallery. London
- 2011 - "Running". Arthouse Squat Forum. Moscow;
- 2011 - "Russian Landscape. M. and Yu. Gelman Gallery, Moscow;
- 2010 - "Moscow in a Suitcase. "Les Salaisons, Romainville, France;
- 2008 - "Fast Art 24". Vinzavod Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow;
- 2008 - "Invasion/Evasion. Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow;
- 2006 - "White Men". S'Art Gallery, Moscow;
- 2005 - "Russian Pop Art". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
- 2004 - "Art-Klyazma", Moscow Region;
- 2003 - Festival of Young Art "Stop! Who's Coming!", Moscow;
- 2001 - "Among Things. Museum of Decorative and Applied Art, Moscow.
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Kotelnikov Oleg
Oleg Kotelnikov is a legendary figure in the history of Leningrad underground culture, an artist, poet, and musician.
Oleg Kotelnikov was born in St. Petersburg in 1958.
Oleg Kotelnikov is a legendary figure in the history of Leningrad underground culture, an artist, poet, and musician.
"Consistent avant-garde and informal Oleg Kotelnikov has been a prominent figure in St. Petersburg and all Russian art since the 1980s. A friend and classmate of Timur Novikov, in 1982–1987 he was a member of the New Artists group. In full accordance with the creative credo of the "new" he was engaged not only in fine arts. Talent in music: Kotelnikov played in the Monsters group created with Novikov, the Automatic Satisfiers group led by Andrei "Pigs" Panov, and Sergei Kuryokhin's Pop Mechanics Orchestra. Talent in the cinema: he drew cartoons directly from the film, which became “Bananan's dreams” in the film “Assa”, together with Yevgeny Yufit created “Fat Wax” and other necrorealistic films of the Mzhalalafilm studio. Talent in poetry: the author of aphoristic lyrics, he gave the Northern capital the name "City of Peter, Ilyich and Tchaikovsky." It was Kotelnikov who invented the battle cry “Assa!”, popular among the “new” ones, which was then made the title of the film by Sergei Solovyov. All this is somehow reflected in his paintings so far. In the second half of the 1990s, together with Andrei Medvedev, Kotelnikov carried out a project to change the geopolitical axis in the form of a book and an exhibition "North-South". At the same time, the artist spent a long time in Japan and organized the Russian-Japanese Free Society, exhibited Japanese artists and his watercolor miniatures in Russia.
Kotelnikov's creative method is well characterized by the title of his work "Brush Stroke" (it was chosen as the title for the large exhibition "New Artists" held at the Russian Museum in 2010). Kotelnikov from a rare breed of authors who are able to absorb all the influences, themes, plots and pictorial manners, melting them down with their own artistic power. The cheerful and frantic expressionism of the 1980s is replaced by the simple to elementary style of his work of the 1990s, and in the 2000s the artist often turns to watercolor and collage techniques. Ekaterina Andreeva, an art critic and chronicler of the “new” activities, characterizes his art in the following way: “Kotelnikov, a master of spontaneous painting, brought up, like his friends from the New Artists, on The Word on Painting from a Mustard Seed Garden, controls the magical properties of the picture plane, the thinnest touch to which, a grain of paint can open the cosmos and ignite a new world." VLADEY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2020 - LA MORT EN ROZE. ART4. Moscow
- 2020 - Black narrow baguette. Art Square Gallery. Saint Petersburg
- 2012 - Chaos theory from M. Maus. Pechersky gallery. Moscow
- 2011 - Oleg Kotelnikov. Loft-project "Etazhi". Saint Petersburg
- 2007 - Reference to collective action. Dream Museum of Sigmund Freud. Saint Petersburg
- 2007 - Maturity. Navicula Artis Gallery. Saint Petersburg
- 2007 - Oleg Kotelnikov. Nobody wanted to work/heroic period. Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint Petersburg
- 2007 - Waste products. Petersburg Archive and Library of Independent Art. Saint Petersburg
- 2001 - Exhibition of paintings by Oleg Kotelnikov. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2021 - Andy Warhol and Russian Art. Sevkabel Port. Saint Petersburg
- 2019 - Philosophy of the common cause. Glossary. GUM-RED-LINE. Moscow
- 2019 - Echo of Expressionism. Art of Leningrad in the middle - second half of the XX century. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
- 2018-2019 - Radical fluidity. Grotesque in art. Museum of Art of St. Petersburg XX-XXI centuries. Saint Petersburg
- 2018 - Pre-auction exhibition The Moscow Times. Vladey. Moscow
- 2015 - The art of being close. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
- 2014 - Clubs of Friends. Timur Novikov's New Artists and the New Academy. Gallery Calvert 22. London. Great Britain
- 2013 - Decoration of the beautiful. Elitism and kitsch in contemporary art. The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Moscow
- 2012-2013 - Without barriers. Russian Art 1985-2000. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
- 2012 - New ones are coming! Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
- 2011-2012 - Passion Bild. Russische Kunst seit 1970. Kunstmuseum Bern. Berne. Switzerland
- 2011 - Classics and modernity. VZ "Small Manege". Saint Petersburg
- 2010 Glasnost: Soviet non-conformist art from the 1980s. The Haunch of Venison. Salisbury. Great Britain
- 2010 - Brush stroke. "New Artists" and Necrorealists 1982-1991. Gallery "Formula"; State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
- 2009 - The Russian Schizorevolution: An exhibition that might have been. Marres. Maastricht. Netherlands
- 2008 - In memory of Timur Novikov. State Museum of Urban Sculpture. Saint Petersburg
- 2007 - Petersburg penguinism. Museum of Nonconformist Art. Saint Petersburg
- 2003 - Money. third millennium. State Museum of Urban Sculpture. Saint Petersburg
- 2001 - The image of Timur Novikov in Russian art of the XX century. Gallery "D-137". Saint Petersburg
- 1999 - Museum of Modern Art. Russian Art of the 1980s-1990s. Central House of the Artist. Moscow
- 1996 - Self-Identification: Aspects of St. Petersburg Art in the 1970s-1980s. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
- 1996 - 2x3m. Russkoee polle. Berlin. Germany
- 1996 - Kunst im Verborgenen. non-conformist. Russland 1957-1995. Sammlung des Staatlichen Zarizino-Museums, Moscow. Staatliches Lindenau-Museum. Altenburg; Documenta-Halle. Kassel; Wilhelm Hack Museum. Ludwigshafen. Germany
- 1993 - Modern self-portrait. Central Exhibition Hall "Manege". Saint Petersburg
- 1991 - Geopolitics. Russian ethnographic museum. Saint Petersburg
- 1988 - DE NYA från Leningrad. Culturehuset. Stockholm. Sweden
- 1988 - Exhibition of the New Artists group. Palace of Culture of the Leningrad Machine-Tool Production Association. Ya. M. Sverdlov. Leningrad
- 1986 - "Popular Mechanics" in the Leningrad Palace of Youth. Leningrad Palace of Youth. Leningrad
Works
Krotova Daria
Daria Krotova has been working with the VGLAZ association founded by artist Gosha Ostretsov since 2007. Daria is a member of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) and the International Association of Art Critics (AICA).
Born in 1971 in Moscow.
EDUCATION
- 1989-1991 - Lomonosov Moscow State University, Department of Psychology
- 1991-1993 - University of North Carolina at Wilmington, USA, majoring in Neuropsychology, studies in the field of A.R. Luria's legacy;
- 1993-1996 - Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, art history department;
- 1996-1998 - Universite de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, France, postgraduate course "Text and Image in the Russian Avant-garde Art".
Since 2007 she has collaborated with the VGLAZ association founded by the artist Gosha Ostretsov.
For four years, Daria taught ceramics and sculpture at the Tretyakov Gallery and developed an inclusion policy: with her help, the museum created art classes for people with disabilities.
Daria is a member of International Council of Museums (ICOM) and International Association of Art Critics (AICA), a member of ICA/AIC (International Academy of Ceramics) and a member of IAPMA (International Association of Artists Working with Paper).
Daria Krotova's works are in various galleries, museums and private collections: in the United States (The Kramlich Collection), Britain (The Saatchi Collection), France, Belgium, Austria, Israel, Switzerland and Russia. Regular participant of European art fairs: Art Paris, Vienna Contemporary, Cosmoscow, Art Vilnius, Art Moscow, Tbilisi Art Fair.
The series "Memes" (fabric, transfer paper, prints, hand embroidery) was made for the exhibition Renaissance, curated by Gosha Ostretsov. Daria works with the idea of visual profanations, twists and layering to which images of classical painting are subjected in social media and masmedia.
Works
Ostretsov Gosha
Today his works can be seen in the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery. In 2009, Georgy was one of the participants of the exhibition in the Russian pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art.
He was born in 1967 in Moscow.
In 1984 he graduated from the Theatre and Art School at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Was a member of the group of artists "Children's Garden". From 1988-1998 he lived in Paris and worked with Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Jean-Paul Gautier and Luc Besson.
Works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow, the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Moscow, the Arctic and Antarctic Museum in St. Petersburg, the Dreams Museum in St. Petersburg. The Gallery's collections include the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the RACh Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Arctic and Antarctic Museum in St. Petersburg, the Z. Freud Dreams Museum in St. Petersburg, and the private collections of Charles Saatchi, Simon de Pury and Lawrence Graff.
In his work, Ostretsov appeals to the aesthetics of the comic strip. He creates authorial iconography in the spirit of mainstream comics. At the same time, unlike American artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein, Ostretsov does not copy other people's illustrations, but develops his own graphic story close to action comics.
"New Government" is a series of fantasy installations arranged like an American comic book. There are no direct references to either country or architecture. But something, probably irrational, gives away the origins of the works. Maybe because we are all inheritors of totalitarianism, and the audience somewhere in Saatchi says after the exhibition, "Well, now we understand how things work in Russia. Art reveals national codes. International communications arise naturally.
The project "Gems of Dissent" is a kind of gray gloomy supremacist world of reliefs, reminiscent of house models, in which suddenly emerge dynamic abstract forms of bright colors, exploded architectons - the gems of dissent. These are both intimate and monumental forms. In each installation I set the subject: the pursuit, the prison, the escape, the explosion, the crown of thorns." Gosha Ostretsov
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
- 2022 - Gems of Dissent. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2021 - Imitation of the Similar to the Similar. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - Party for Time Travelers. Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - Sunshine Fighters. GUM-Red-Line, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - How To Learn The Upside Down World? NK Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
- 2018 - 360 Degrees from the Inside. Artis, Moscow, Russia
- 2017 - I've been abducted hundreds of times! Palazzo Nani Bernardo, Venice, Italy
- 2016 - I've been abducted a hundred times. Triangle gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - Motor Vehicles NP. Central Art Center Zarya, Vladivostok, Russia
- 2010 - Heavy Patients. Rabouan Mousson Gallery, Paris, France.
- 2010 - Love For Electricity. TM Project, Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2009 - Apocalypse. M.&J. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2009 - Banality and Eternity. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2009 - Robbing Good. Paradise Row Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
- 2009 - Coolville. Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, USA.
- 2008 - Dead Souls. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2008 - Milk SOS. Ravenscourt Galleries, Moscow, Russia
- 2007 - Salon Beaute. Rabouan-Moussion Gallery, Paris, France.
- 2007 - Repairs. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
- 2005 - Lawlessness. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2004 - Performance Art. Ceremony of presentation of New Government to the "Silver Order of Honour" of the best people of Russian Federation. S.Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2002 - Vandals and Generals of New Government. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2001 - Agitation for Art. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2000 - New Government. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2000 - Visitor. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, Saint Petersburg, Russia
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS:
- 2022 - New from the Old. Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, Moscow.
- 2021 - 2MAP. Media Center of Zaryadye Park, Moscow
- 2019 - Actual Art. Contemporary Artists. Red Line GUM, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - Collections! Contemporary Art in the USSR and Russia. 1950-2000. Center Pompidou, Paris, France.
- 2016 - Russian artists participating in the Venice Biennale. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 2015 - Something Different. Outside the Biennale, Cairo, Egypt.
- 2015 - Enlightenment. As part of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia.
- 2015 - Pink Box. Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
- 2015 - Liberation Continues. Graz Museum, Graz, Austria
- 2014 - Reconstruction 2 Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - Modern Drawing. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2013 - Parts of the Whole. Within the framework of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
- 2012 - Gaiety Is The Most Outstanding Feature Of The Soviet Union. Saatchi gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 2011 - Russian Landscape. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - Russian Pavilion 53rd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. Venice, Italy
- 2009 - Another Mythology. SCCA, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - Invasion: Rejection. Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 - Dead Souls. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2008 - Russian Roulette. Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany.
- 2008 - Laughterlife. Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 - Zoo Art Fair (Paradise Row). London, Great Britain
- 2008 - Domestic Appliance. Flowers East Gallery, London, United Kingdom
- 2007 - Sots Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2006 - Amateurs. Marres Centre for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, Holland.
- 2005 - Russia 2 Bad News from Russia. WHITE BOX, New York, USA.
- 2004 - Russia 2 Special Project at 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- 2001 - Art for Time. Graz, Austria.
- 1996 - Collection of latex costumes and masks in the galleries of the 13th Quarter (Jenifer Flay Gallery, Emmanuel Perrotin Gallery, Gallery Praz - Delavallade e.t.c.).
- 1996 - Correction. Gallery e.o.f., Paris, France.
- 1993 - Biennial of Contemporary Art in Istanbul, Turkey.
- 1992 - Manifestation of Illustrators of France. Bibliothèque Municipal, Villeurbanne, France.
- 1990 - Arte Sacra Biennal. Pescara, Italy.
- 1985-1986 - Exhibitions with non-conformist artists of "Detskiy Sad" group. Moscow, Russia
- State Tretyakov Gallery, Contemporary Art Department, Moscow
- State Russian Museum, Modern Art Department, Saint Petersburg
- Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
- Erarta Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg
- Saatchi Gallery Collection, London, UK
- Zabludowitcz Collection, London, United Kingdom
- Arctic and Antarctic Museum, Saint Petersburg
- Z. Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia. Z. Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg
- Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
- Private collections in Russia and abroad
Works
Ostretsov Gosha
Супрематистская композиция «биссектриса», треугольник и круг, 2023
Фанера, акрил
250 х 200 см
Ostretsov Gosha
Супрематистская композиция «биссектриса», треугольник и круг, 2023
Фанера, акрил
100 х 77 х 70 см
Pakhomov Sergey
Sergey Pakhomov (Pakhom) is a multidisciplinary artist, actor, musician, widely known both in the artistic environment and in popular culture.
Born in 1966 in Moscow.
"Sergey Pakhomov is an artist, theater and film actor, musician, as well as the infamous character DED PAKHOM, who turned his life into a work of art. PAKHOM's style of writing combines the technique of icon painting and Russian folk crafts - Khokhloma, Palekh, Zhostovo. Starting from the 80- In the 1990s, he participated in exhibitions, performances, performed in musical groups. In the 90s, he began acting in films and talk shows. He got widely famous owing to the film "The Green Elephant" in 1999. PAKHOM's psychic abilities thundered throughout Russia in 2015 year after the release of the 16th season of the TV show "Battle of Psychics". In 2002-2009 he worked as an art director in several glossy magazines. The works of the Russian Foolish PAKHOM, a man "OUT OF THIS WORLD", were already popular among foreign collectors in the 80s, looking for new geniuses behind the "Iron Curtain" of the Soviet Union. Since then, he has participated in exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin, London, New York, Paris, Moscow - repeatedly in the Tretyakov Gallery, his works are in the collection of London's Saatchi Gallery. " VLADEY
Sergey's paintings are characterized by a wide format, a bright palette and "psychic themes". The artist describes his style as "a mixture of idiocy and absurdity." In performances, he embodies the collective images of a Russian peasant and a holy fool. Being a well-known figure in social networks, repeatedly replicated in different images, Pakhomov refigures his images and calls this method "artistic DJing".
EDUCATION
- 1981 - Krasnopresnenskaya art school
- 1985 - Moscow Art and Industrial School named after Kalinin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 - Les fleurs du…, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow
- 2022 - Six female portraits painted in blood, gallery "Eto ne zdes", Moscow
- 2017 - Living Water, Regina Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2016 - Charged with goodness, Vladey Space, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2013 - Heavenly Office, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2012 - Altare, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 - Red Branch, ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow
- 2009 - Yellow. Gallery D-137, St. Petersburg
- 2009 - Bony gentleman, gallery TsekhV. Winzavod, Moscow
- 2008 - And we are already dead, or Pizdyulkin is listening, gallery D-137. Saint Petersburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 - Philosophy of a common cause, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow
- 2019-2020 - Let the lucky star shine in height, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow
- 2012 - Fun is the main feature of the Soviet Union, Saatchi Gallery, London
- 2011 - Russian Landscape, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 - Alla Gloria Militar, Aircraft Gallery, Bratislava
- 2010 - Duel, Ruarts gallery, Moscow
- 2010 - Art Therapy, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Birth of Darwin (State Darwin Museum, Moscow) - 1996 - Neuve Zwerg, East Side Gallery, Berlin
- 1996 - 4th International Biennial of Easel Graphics "Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg 96", Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts, Kaliningrad
- 1994 - Exhibition in memory of Alexander Kharitonov, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 1993 - Traditions and Postmodernism, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 1992 - Art-Expo, New York
- 1991 - Group exhibition, Natan Fedorovskij Galerie, Berlin, Basel
- 1988 - First erotic exhibition, Moscow
- 1987 - Group "Iris", Club of avant-garde artists, Moscow
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Bystrov Peter
Peter Bystrov is a contemporary artist and curator, a member of the art community VGLAZ.
Born on November 4, 1980 in Moscow.
In 2002, he graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy of the Russian State University for the Humanities. From 2005 to 2006 he was a professor at the New Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. From 1999 to 2008, he was a member of the Radek Society, a group of artists and activists which continued the work of students at the Avdei Ter-Oganyan School of Contemporary Art - one of the key representatives of Moscow's Actionism. In 2007, Pyotr Bystrov and Alexey Buldakov became finalists for the Kandinsky Prize in the Media Art category. His work, "Party Without Underpants," summed up his decade-long participation in the Radek Society group, showcasing documentary material from performances and exhibitions.
In 2008, Bystrov became a finalist for the state prize "Innovation" in the category "Young Artist". Since 2012 he has been a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. In 2017, he curated the performance art program of the "Forma" festival at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center. After working with performances and video art in the late 2000s Peter Bystrov, in a combination of plywood and construction staples, created the author's "graphic" technique - "staple gravure"; later among the works of Bystrov you can also find "staple gravure", "tether gravure".
The artist uses various a priori non-artistic materials (wire, sandpaper, fur, cable) and constructs various social types (for example, in the series "Moscow Types" and "Encyclopedia of Moscow Types"), depicts iconic characters from pop culture (Karl Lagerfeld, John Lennon), historical periods and events (Yuri Gagarin), literature and folk art (Vladimir Mayakovsky, Ilya Muromets). Non-standard, non-classical materials eventually outline familiar, recognizable, partly "classical" images; Peter Bystrov creates a unique associative game based on cultural (collective) memory.
Bystrov's works are in the collection of the State Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia) as well as in private collections.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 - "People. Money". JART Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2017 - "Susami. Coat Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2017 - "Orchestra of Lonely Hearts". Artica Project, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - "Encyclopedia of Moscow Types". Museum of Moscow; Kuntsevo Plaza, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - "Sacred. Secular". Dukley Art Center, Kotor, Montenegro
- 2015 - "Workshop on the Way Out". Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - "Sotwaha - system of training with improvised objects". KOP Studio, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 - "Sheets with Thread". Cheremushki Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2003 - "Guirismo". Gallery "France", Moscow, Russia.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 - World of Ideas, Gallery a-s-t-r-a, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow.
- 2020 - "Beautiful Night of All People. 2nd Triennale of Russian Contemporary Art. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- 2020 - "A Man of Bone, Flesh and Blood". Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - "Forza Uovo". In collaboration with Alterazioni Video. Medica Palace, Bologna, Italy
- 2018 - "The Real Portrait of Dorian Gray". Artica Project / Georgy Ostretsov Workshop "Center of Everything", Moscow, Russia
- 2018 - "Only the Beatles". Elena Kovylina Workshop, Moscow, Russia
- 2018 - "Vs. Cravan". Brera Academy of Fine Arts, Milan, Italy
- 2017 - "The Collector's Cabinet. Pereletnyi Kabak Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - "Metamorphosis". Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2014 - "Other Sports". A3 Gallery. Moscow, Russia
- 2012 - "Kosmos as Presence". InteriorDAsein, Berlin, Germany.
- 2011 - "Paper Time". State Centre for Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia
- 2011 - "Time Machine - No network! I Biennale of Contemporary Art D-0 ARK Underground, Konjic, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 2011 - "We are the Artists". Kusnthalle, Winterthur, Switzerland
- 2011 - "Exfoliation of Society. Independent Art Platform KNIPSU, Bergen, Germany
- 2010 - "Musperformfest". Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - "Keep on Dancing". Cinema Elysees Biarrit, Paris, France.
- 2008 - "Industrial Lies". Dispari&dispari project space, Reggio Emilia, Italy.
- 2008 - "Young, Aggressive". Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan.
- 2008 - "Energy of Delusion". House Cultural Centre, Moscow, Russia
- 2007 - "Sots Art. Political Art in Russia and China.
State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia. - 2007 - Artist's Diary. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
- 2007 - Sots-Art. La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
- 2007 - "Progressive Nostalgia". Centro d'Arte contemporanea Luigi Pecchi, Prato, Italy.
- 2007 - "On Geekdom". Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
- 2006 - "Dignity". Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
- 2006 - "Re-action. Play gallery for still and motion pictures". Berlin, Germany.
- 2006 - "Waking up". Galerie Cortex Athletico, Bordeaux, France.
- 2006 - "People's Choice". Art Isola Center, Milan, Italy.
- 2006 - "Liar. Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2006 - Self-Education. State Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow,
Russia - 2006 - "Bunker No Bunker". CEDIM, Ramis Barquet gallery, Monterrey, Mexico.
- 2006 - "Mixed Pickles-Overloaded". k3 space, Zurich, Switzerland.
- 2005 - "Portrait of a Face". M'APC Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
- 2005 - Russian Pop Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2005 - "Disobedience". Kunstzentrum Kreuzberg / Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
- 2005 - "Collective Creativity". Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany.
- 2004 - "Controlled Democracy". White Space Gallery, London, UK
- 2004 - "Tomu ty ver." Dudas center for contemporary art, Bratislava, Slovenia.
- 2004 - "Bubble: Comics in Contemporary Art". Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
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Bystrov Petr
Sneaker N 7. From the series "Are you sure about the shoe?", 2021
collage, assemblage
45 х 60 cm
Struchkova Natalya
Natalia Struchkova was one of the pioneers of web-design in Russia, creating three-dimensional graphics. Since 2001, she has been turning to painting. She translates the system of digital technology from a medium into a story.
Was born in 1968.
She lives and works in Moscow.
Natalya graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute (1993) and the Institute of Modern Art Problems (2000). In the mid-1990s, Natalia Struchkova was one of the pioneers of web-design in Russia, creating three-dimensional graphics. Since 2001, Natalia Struchkova turns to painting. She translates the system of digital technology from a medium into a subject. Exploring the theme of information addiction in the daily consumption of media images, the artist creates a series of paintings imitating the primitive early digital graphics. Natalia Struchkova is the winner of the national Intel Internet Award in the Network Art nomination. Her works are in the collection of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Art4 Museum (Moscow), and the Vanmoerkerke Collection, Ostend (Belgium).
BIENNALE
- 2017 - "Longing for the Sky", Parallel Program of the 7th Moscow Biennale - Moscow, Russia
- 2011 - "Space State of Transcendental Revolutions", Special Project of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow, Russia
- 2007 - "Only Notes? Art in the Age of Social Darwinism", Main Project of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow, Russia
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 - "Origin of Styrene", Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - "Neither Dead nor Alive", Vladey Space, Moscow, Russia
- 2012 - "Procrastination", Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2010 - "New Models", Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - "Plein air", Art-Business Consulting Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2006 - "800×600", Art-Business Consulting Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2004 - "FUTURUSSIA", Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 - "Communities and Space", CCI Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 - "Heroes of Our Time", Vladey Pre-Auction Exhibition - MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
- 2018 - "In Loco parentis", Athens, Greece
- 2018 - Art of the 2000s, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - Russian Space, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia - Space Authority - Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - "6 Sotok". Park of Gardeners - GCCI, Moscow, Russia
- 2016 - "Social Themes in Women's Art", Gwangju National Museum, South Korea.
- 2015 - "Pink Box", Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2013 - "Museum of Modern Art: Department of Labor and Employment", New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2010 - "Russian Utopias", Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
- 2009 - "21 Russia", Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine
- 2009 - "Sputnik. Sputnik. Space Sphere", XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2008 - "Layers. Table Graphics", XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2007 - "abc.etc" (with ABC group), Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
- 2007 Annual Report (jointly with ABC Group), Educational Center of the State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2006 - "Origin of Species: Art in the Period of Social Darwinism" - Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
- 2006 - "Origin of Species: Art in the Period of Social Darwinism", Hiroshima City Museum of Modern Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
- 2006 - "Spank The Monkey", Baltic Art Center, Gateshead, UK.
- 2005 - "Russian Pop Art", State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2004 - "Beyond the Red Horizon", Centre for Contemporary Art Widzowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland.
- 2003 - "New Countdown. Digital Russia with Sony", Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
- 2002 - "Melioration", ARTKlyazma International Open Air Art Festival, Russia.
- 2002 - Mayakovsky Festival - Gallery L. Moscow, Russia
- 2002 - "My tender and gentle beast", Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2000 - "ABC/Art Business Consulting" - OGI Street Gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2000 - Dolly in Wonderland - Institute of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
FAIRS
- Art Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia (2002)
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Yatkovskaya Kristina
Kristina Yatkovskaya is a contemporary artist who paints paintings (abstraction, pop art, sensual conceptualism), prose, draws comics, and photographs. She is a member of the artistic community VGLAZ.
Was born in 1989 in Moscow.
Graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University in 2011. In 2011 she graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University (Faculty of Philosophy).
She paints (abstract, pop art, sensual conceptualism), prose, draws comics, and takes photographs. He is a member of the art community VGLAZ.
"I combine painting and literature, painting and banter, color and rhythm. I want my art to bring joy. There's too much grief around as it is. All of this is something I can't help doing: the paintings come to mind instantly, the whole, like a novel written in one's head, they don't let go. It remains to make them tangible."
Christina's work is in private collections in Russia, Europe and the United States.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
- 2022 - "Space and Time", NGB gallery, Moscow
- 2021 - "Parade of Planets", Cubed gallery, Cube.Moscow, Moscow
- 2019 - Solo exhibition and performance as part of Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Russia, Moscow Museum
- 2019 - "Portraits", Rosa Azora Gallery, Moscow
- 2019 - "Marine exhibition" in collaboration with Classica Plus project, Art Center, Moscow
- 2018 - "Art is you" installation at Moscow Fashion week, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow
- 2017 - "Portraits", KOP Studio, Moscow
- 2017 - "Roundabout Abstraction", Larks and Owls Cafe, Moscow
- 2016 - Giraffe art object as part of the Moscow Seasons festival, Bolotnaya Square, Moscow
- 2015 - publishing a book of short stories with illustrations "Cheese"
- 2014 - "Pangea Ultima", KOP Studio, Moscow
- 2013 - "The Organized World", CUP Studio, Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
- 2023 - World of Ideas, Gallery a-s-t-r-a, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
- 2020 - "2020 → 2070", Shchusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow
- 2020 - LOVE/HATE, Center of Everything, Moscow
- 2019 - Fairytale Exhibition, Rosa Azora Gallery, Moscow
- 2019 - S E L E C T I O N Art Show, Touchon & Co Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- 2019 - "ART IS...", ART IS Gallery, Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2019 - "NEW POINT" as part of EverArt Weekend Festival, ART IS Gallery, Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2018 - "The Real Portrait of Dorian Gray", Center of Everything, Moscow
- 2017 - "Asia Contemporary Art Show", Hong Kong
- 2017 - "Private Territory. Away from Everyone", ART IS Gallery, Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2017 - "Dreams of Something More" as part of the ART IS project, White Shop, Vinzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2016 - "Positive Art. Facets" as part of the project "ART IS", Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2015 - "Intertext", Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
- 2015 - "Illumination", Skolkovo Foundation, Moscow
- 2015 - "Pink Box", Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
- 2015 - "Influence 2015: Contemporary Painting" (as part of the comics festival ComMission), ARTPLAY Design Center, Moscow
- 2014 - "Metamorphosis of VGLAZ", Pechersky Gallery, Moscow
- 2013 - "Parts of the Whole" as part of the parallel program of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
FAIRS
- 2022 - Cosmoscow, Cube Gallery, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
Works
Savchenko Roman
Graduated from the State Academy of Architecture and Art in Rostov-on-Don, as well as the Institute of Modern Art. Lives and works in Moscow.
Born in 1983.
Graduated from the State Academy of Architecture and Art in Rostov-on-Don, as well as the Institute of Modern Art. Lives and works in Moscow.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 - World of Ideas, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow.
- 2017 - "EliCook and Friends", VLADEY Space (Winzavod Contemporary Art Center), group exhibition, Moscow
- 2016 - VGLAZ collective (curator Gosha Ostretsov), group exhibition, Moscow
- 2012-2013 - Fun is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union", Saatchi Gallery, London, webpage: www.saatchigallery.com/artist/roman_savchenko
- 2011 - "MUSIC", Factory project, Oliver Hall, group exhibition, Moscow
- 2010 - "Wherever They Fall", Wilkinson Gallery, London
- 2010 - "Intimate Capital", part of the Second Moscow International Biennale of Young Art QUI VIVE, Moscow
- 2010 - Salt project at the Second Moscow International Biennale of Young Art QUI VIVE, Moscow
- 2010 - Art Space "Spider and Mouse", personal exhibition "Roman S. EXHIBITION", Moscow
- 2009 - Sputnik Art TSUM, Moscow
- 2009 - "Art after the End of History", group exhibition of ICA alumni course "New Strategies in Contemporary Art Education", Moscow
- 2009 - "Let Me Think", group exhibition, special project of the Third Moscow Biennale, Krasny Octyabr, Moscow
- 2008 - "Mausoleum of Revolt", group exhibition, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
- 2008 - "New Fossil Uebermenschen", painting. place "Art Arrows", Anton Litvin Gallery, Moscow
- 2008 - "The New Superman", personal exhibition. Painting, photography, video, performance. M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, web page: www.guelman.ru/eng/gallery/moscow/asse
- 2008 - "Piglet (Piglet) and Rabbit (Stepashka) Dialogue", photodocumentary performance venue "Art Arrow", Refl ex Gallery, Moscow.
- 2007 - First Livejournal auction of contemporary art (curator Oleg Mavromatti)
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