Danot Danil

Born in 1993 in Barnaul. In 2014 he moved to Krasnoyarsk.

Since 2024 lives and works in Moscow. Received an academic education and graduated from the Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art.

EDUCATION:

2024 — Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art, “New Artistic Strategies”
2024 — Laboratory of Contemporary Art “Zech”, MMOMA
2021 — workshop “Sessions of Nightmares” with Anna Bromley, Museum Center “World Square”, Krasnoyarsk
2020 — Siberian State Institute of Arts, “Graphic Artist”, Krasnoyarsk
2014 — Novoaltaysk State Art School, “Medium Design”, Krasnoyarsk

“In my practice I focus on personal and socio-political themes, problems of the functioning of culture and the artistic community. The works often include feelings of frustration and meaninglessness; the burden of various phenomena in the context of capitalist relations. I bring out different aspects of reality by producing a kind of shifts, combinations or transpositions into a new context of familiar elements, thus emphasizing the viewer's attention to different ideas. From a visual point of view, the works refer to perfectionism and workaholism by their neatness and elaboration. I work in various mediums: painting, graphics, installation, photography, video, performance, objects.”

SOLO PROJECTS:

2023 — “WORK” exhibition on the results of the Artkommunalka residency, Kolomna
2022 — “WORK” exhibition, loft project “Kvadrat”, Krasnoyarsk
2021 — “Random Frames” exhibition of photographs, Krasnoyarsk
2017 — “Project 0+” street art project, Krasnoyarsk

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
2024 — “Street Art of the Capital”, Museum Center Ploshchad Mira, Krasnoyarsk
2024 — “Metamorphosis of Reality”, Arbuzz Gallery, Moscow
2024 — “Melancholia”, Shipping Company Office, Tyumen
2023 — “Garage:Garage”, Cooperative Garage, Krasnoyarsk
2023 — “Pulsating Matter”, Central Exhibition Center Fabrika, Moscow
2023 — virtual exhibition “Default”, Red Gallery
2023 — “Catch Me If You Can”, V Glavnoe Gallery, Tomsk
2023 — “Parajanov-100: Collage”, Yerevan
2023 — “Melancholia”, Museum Center Ploschad Mira, Krasnoyarsk
2023 — “Inversio”, Sol Gallery, Moscow
2022 — “Taigaght”, Museum Center, World Square, Krasnoyarsk
2022 — “Human Factor”, Barnaul
2022 — “Dissipated Like Smoke”, Artetazh Central Exhibition Center, Vladivostok
2022 — “No real”, Krasnoyarsk
2021 — action during the exhibition “Garage:Garage”, Krasnoyarsk
2021 — 48 Hours” festival, Novosibirsk
2021 — “Graphite of Science” festival, Novosibirsk
2021 — “Cut da glue” festival, Gallery “On Peschanaya”, Moscow
2021 — Street Vision festival, Tomsk
2021 — XIV Krasnoyarsk Biennale, Museum Center “Mira Square”, Moscow, Russia
2021 — art intervention at PubLab No1, Krasnoyarsk
2021 — exhibition of graphics “Beginning”, Ryauzov Museum, Krasnoyarsk
2021 — art intervention at the exhibition “Everything or Everything”, Krasnoyarsk
2021 — exhibition “Melancholia. Siberia”, Tomsk
2019 — participation in the youth exhibition “Inhale and Exhale”, Krasnoyarsk
2018 — festival of graphics “Vita art time” Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts
2018 — international festival “Stop censorship! Citizens for Free Countries”, Kiev
2018 — regional exhibition “Sobranie”, gallery “Republic of IZO”, Barnaul
2017 — “Az.Art” exhibition, Barnaul
2017 — “The Cheltenham Illustration Awards ” the Museum in the Park, Stroud, UK

RESIDENCES AND LABORATORIES:

2023 — Artkommunalka” residence, Kolomna
2023 — “Aks Sado” residence, Tashkent
2021 — city art laboratory PubLab No2, Krasnoyarsk
2020 — residence Garage:Garage, cooperative garage, Krasnoyarsk / artist-run space |anarchogallery “ars boiler room”, Tomsk

CONTESTS AND AWARDS:

2023 — SCAN Award shortlist
2023 — Sani Zakirov Prize
2019 — regional scholarship named after the artist V.I. Surikov

FAIRS AND MARKETS:

2024 — SCAN, Krasnoyarsk
2024 — Port art fair, St. Petersburg
2023 — Win-win, Moscow
2019-2023 — self-organized market “Pushka”, Krasnoyarsk

"10.000 hours" project

Scale-coordinate paper / ink, 30x42 cm.

2020-present.

At the moment 14 sheets out of 100 are finished.

This series can be looked at from several angles and different contents, but the core is neurotic incivility.

On the one hand, there is the saying that any activity needs 10,000 hours to become a professional. In a sense, the arrangement of dots on scale-coordinate paper is an illustration of the time spent to achieve those cherished 10,000 hours.

On the other hand, the series emerged in a period of lockdown, in a situation of stress and uncertainty. Looking at these works from this perspective, they appear to be a visual embodiment of nervousness and anxiety, but at the same time, they are also a way of meditating and detaching from anxiety.