2КМ

2KM is a duet of two artists Artur Krivoshein and Vlad Maltsev.

Artur Krivoshein

He was born in Ufa in 1994.

He is a graduate of the Bauman Moscow State Technical University (2012-2018) and the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art at MMOMA (2021-2022). He lives and works in Moscow and Paris.

Arthur's works are in private collections.

In Arthur's works, abstraction is a way of knowing and recording the processes of variability of the surrounding world and making decisions that affect our lives. The artist's paintings begin with a single point on the canvas and end with a multi-layered mass of elements, like our thoughts, which overlap and intertwine with each other for further actions. The final outcome of a particular work is never initially known to the artist, but working on a canvas is not a pure improvisation, but rather a thought process, decision-making and choice that a person is doomed to make endlessly.

SELECTED PROJECTS:

2024 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2024 — "Razdvatrichetyrepyat", ZAMAN Museum, Ufa
2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair "1703", a—s—t—r—a Gallery, Manege, St. Petersburg
2023 — "Forêt imaginaire", Faux gallery, Paris, France
2023 — Seller of colored shells, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2023 — Les primevères, Microcredit, Paris
2023 — "Sorting Center", ZAMAN Museum, Ufa
2022 — Blazar young art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2022 — "The future is already", MMoMA (Gogolevsky, 10), Moscow
2022 — a-s-t-r-a Open.Vol 1, gallery a—s—t—r—a, Vinzavod, Moscow
2022 — St. Petersburg Art Fair "1703", a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manege, St. Petersburg
2022 — Collective self-fulfilling prophecy about our beautiful tomorrow, a—s—t—r—a Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
2021 — Solo exhibition "Google page 7", 2021, Moscow
2021 — "Watching the Earthlings", gallery HERE on Taganka
2021 — Exhibition "Fields"; BLAZAR ART
2020 — Solo exhibition, IMPULSE, 2020, Moscow
2020 — Opening/Collection/Plans, New sincerity gallery, 2020, Moscow

Vlad Maltsev

Born in 1999 in the city of Pavlovsky Posad.

He is a graduate of the Orekhovo-Zuyevo Railway Technical College and the Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art, MMOMA. Participant of the NGO "Red Circle" under the supervision of Avdey Ter-Ohanian.

Vlad's art is like a wandering nomad, a punk-jazz-rap artist with linear boldness and deliberately ignorant forms in which the artist expounds his worldview and the full range of humanitarian dimensions.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

2023 — "Pareidolia", Object Gallery, Tbilisi
2023 — "TV off", Object Gallery, Tbilisi
2020 — "Playing Field", New Sincerity Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2024 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
2024 — "Funny Vegetables", Most Wanted Gallery, Moscow
2024 — Planetarium, Q art Gallery, Moscow
2024 — "Questions of Art", Kashirka Gallery, Moscow
2023 — "I can do this too", Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow
2023 — "Paris Apartment", Anvil Gallery, Moscow
2022 — "From essay to vector", Syntax Gallery, Moscow
2022 — "Great Wizards of Painting 2", Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow
2021 — "Ouroboros", JART Gallery, Moscow
2021 — "Exit from the White Cube", "Shoots" Association, Moscow
2021 — "Safe as milk", gallery Arusha, London
2021 — "Little dark age", gallery New Sincerity, Moscow
2021 — Loh-fi, SWO Association, Moscow
2021 — "Watching the Earthlings", gallery Here on Taganka, Moscow

"My art is like a wandering nomad, a punk-jazz-rap artist with linear boldness and deliberately ignorant forms in which I express my worldview and the full range of humanitarian dimensions. Art –. Telling stories that happened on the way, but it seems sometimes time travelers doing a "monkey trick" with David Teniers Jr. (humor) depending on my mood, but it's important here that the plot is kind of "at hand" something like this: "Last night with friends playing billiards, where the black ball in The American pool was so bad that the game ended instantly or hiking in the mountains in sunny weather, where I can charge my Garmin from the sun and I have to take a picture right away, as I am very impatient. You can continue here for a long time, but I'll leave some of my thoughts for future work."

Vlad Maltsev