Ilya Kutoboy is an illustrator based in Moscow. In 2013 he graduated from the BVShD "Graphic Design" course. Collaborated with the illustrator agency BANG! BANG! STUDIO, RBC style and others.

EDUCATION:

• 2017 — Illustration Workshop, Russian Reporter Summer School
• 2017 — Design Legends, Future London Academy, London
• 2011–2013 — Basic Graphic Design Course, British Higher School of Design (BHSD)
• 1997–2002 — Faculty of Physics and Technology, KSU

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — a—s—t—r—a Open.Vol 1, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — blazar young art fair, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
• 2021 — Syndrome of Tropical States, Moscow / Khlebzavod
• 2021 — MOST contemporary art auction, Krasnodar
• 2014 — Prosmotr, St. Petersburg
• 2014 — Time for art, Moscow

"Initially, my fascination with art started with music. Music for me is a big field for experimentation. I've participated in different genre projects, recorded solo albums and I'm a big music lover.

I call my style at the moment - "Tropical Primitivism". The theme of tropics appeared in my work thanks to my numerous travels to the islands of Asia and Indonesia - the heat and raging vegetation of those places have deeply sprouted inside me.

In my works I like to mix painting and graphics, scraps of phrases and words, superimpose ghostly or more concrete images on each other, which remind me of dreams with a non-linear plot. Often the heroes of my works are animals and plants, peculiar ladies and creatures who find themselves on the same plane of the ever-changing carnival of life.

I think it is great when art does not carry strict dogmas, but expands the boundaries of our imagination. I try not to forget that I'm just stardust."

- artist Ilya Kutoboy

Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. Lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art named after Joseph Backstein: course "New artistic strategies" in the specialty "modern artistic practice" workshop of Stas Shuripa.

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main task of the work is the study of the fluid medium of forms, the physical influence of materials, fluid structures, new forms of practice as therapy restoration.

As a resident of the Richter Workshops, the artist Dishon Yuldash created the design of a bottle for the Richter perfume with incense and black currant scent from Matvey Yudov.

Founder of the non-commercial project Prolog.Vision, within which was held the group exhibition "Planned Obsolescence" of curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the Innovation - 2017 prize in the "Curator of the Year" nomination.

ELECTED CURATOR PROJECTS:

• 2021 — "All dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — "Deformation without tearing and gluing" Vitaly Bezpalov, Yan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
• 2020 — "The unwavering one multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, a hollow mystery" Katia Khassine, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2019 — Curator of projects a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 — Concert-practice "m e r t s a n i e" by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2017 — "Respawn, if a prisoner, who if not you" Alexey Taruts, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - Art Moscow Program at the 48th Russian Antique Salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny dvor, Moscow.
• 2021 - Cosmoscow art fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - Blazar, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 2021 - Victor Timofeev solo exhibition. ISSMAG, Moscow (pending).
• 2021 - "All Dogs Go to Paradise" by Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2020 - "Deformation without Tearing and Gluing" by Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Viktor Timofeev, Carbone 20 Biennale, Saint-Etienne, France
• 2020 - "Quintessence" solo exhibition by Vitaly Bezpalov. ISSMAG, Moscow. 
• 2020 - Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG, Moscow
• 2020 - "Boredomless multiplies boredom, with - dead pearl, hollow mystery" by Katya Khasina, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2020-2021 - New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG. Moscow 
• 2020 - "∅. no w" sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2019 - Curator of projects a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 - "Protodermis" installation by Abu Blunt. ISSMAG, Moscow
• 2018 - "m e r t s a n i e" concert-practice by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2017 - "vctn" installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2017 - "Who if you are not" performance by Alexei Taruts. Rabitsa, Moscow 
• 2017 - "Let all your dreams come true" performance-audio-installation, Alexei Taruts. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow 
• 2016 - "Respawn, exactly, if not you then who" solo exhibition of Alexei Taruts. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2016 - "Bangs" solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2015 - "STILL MOVING" group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• МОСКВИЧ MAG "Почему Вы должны меня знать: основательница галереи Issmag Дишон Юлдаш"
• Vogue "Почему керамика стала такой модной и за какими художницами следить"
• BURO 24/7 о выпуске аромата для пространства Рихтер во флаконах работы Дишон Юлдаш
• Esquire о презентации аромата для пространства Рихтер
• The BluePrint о создании Дишон Юлдаш скульптурных флаконов для аромата "Рихтер"
• Arterritory.com "Куда привела радуга"
• tzvetnik.online "All Dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• tzvetnik.online "Deformation without tearing and gluing", Group Show at Carbone 20, Saint-Etienne
• tzvetnik.online "Quintessence" by Vitaly Bezpalov at ISSMAG, Moscow
• Интервью Дишон Юлдаш для АртУзел
• AQNB о презентации видео-перформанса "АЛЕКСЕЙ ТАРУЦ / КТО ЕСЛИ НЕ ТЫ" в галерее Issmag
• AroundArt о выставке Кати Хасиной «Безвихрастый умножает скуку, с — отмерший перламутр, полая загадка» в галерее Issmag

Anna Pavlova was born in 1991.

After finishing secondary school in 2008-2014, she studied at Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts, specialising in artistic ceramics. 

In 2011, she became co-founder and designer of the Mineral Weather jewellery brand, with which she participated in international exhibitions in Paris, Milan, Copenhagen and Barcelona.

In 2016, Mineral Weather teamed up with 6 brands to open its own Ampersand jewellery shop.

Since 2016, she has been working on ceramic sculpture in contemporary art and taking part in exhibitions and art fairs.

"Everything I do is a reflection of what's going on around me, my experiences spilling out into objects. I interact with the world through plastic statements on the level of tactile-sensory language."

• 2023 - "Arty Advent", Liza Fetisova Gallery, Paris
• 2022 - "Isn't the color white what gets rid of darkness?", solo exhibition, lobby, Moscow
• 2022 — blazar young art fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — a-s-t-r-a Open.Vol 1, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — Délices et Malices, Liza Fetissova Gallery, Paris, France.
• 2022 — Invasion, solo exhibition, Liza Fetissova gallery, Paris, France.
• 2022 — Homo Faber, Michelandgelo Foundation, Venice, Italy.
• 2021 — A Family Story, Liza Fetissova gallery, Paris, France.
• 2021 — Workspace: untitled, Azot gallery, Cub, Moscow, Russia.
• 2020 — We know it’s going to happen but, flat of director of Austrian cultural forum, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 —  Analpha-bettes, solo exhibition, Transatlantique gallery + Liza Fetissova Gallery, Paris, France.
• 2019 — Chamber of Secrets, library N67, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Revelation, fair, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
• 2019 — Re_generation, Dety Marii, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — I Feel Warm and Scared, Ovcharenko gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Baikonur now, Аrhiv space, NIIDAR, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Artdacha of Riabuschinskii, exibition of the results of the residence, Vyshny Volochek, Russia.
• 2018 — End of Sunset, the roof of Setun area, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Project Element. Earth, White Room Foundation, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Abrakadabra, The 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia.
• 2017 — Designed by a cyborg, OS.MOS / AWG Society, Moscow, Russia.

Born in 1987 г.

Yuri is a graphic artist and painter with an extraordinary background. He first started in the visual arts at the age of 20, then, after studying at the Moscow School of New Cinema (MSNC) to become a screenwriter and director, he returned to painting and drawing.

Jury's work is a methodological look into the nature of painting; in this he continues the line of abstract painters from America and the German neo-expressionists of the 1960-70s (De Kooning, Baselitz and Kiefer were particularly close). Through them, Samoilove also addresses the question of method, which for him lies in the problem of the relationship between figurative and abstract art. The artist approaches this boundary by means of automatic writing and palimpsest of textures.

In creating abstraction, there is a very great risk of entering the figurative precisely by accident, unintentionally. Automatic writing, removes this problem by making the image identical in meaning and importance to the abstraction. The line is erased, and the unambiguously figurative can use that plastic language in which it is not immediately recognized.

The same with palimpsest: Yuri applies and erases layers of paint, overlaps one with the other, scrapes the drawing with a sharp turn of the brush, and uses spray paint along with acrylics from the tube and pastels. The texture of these works gravitates toward sculptural plasticity, hence the pathos of the material. The material and its molding become no less interesting and important than the image itself.

All this creates works in which the viewer can discover the collision of different problems of the visual, each of which is attractive in its own way: from the limits of figurative painting, automatic and deliberate, to the pressurization of texture as a way of overcoming painting itself.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - "How to disappear completely", a-s-t-r-a gallery, Art Center "Vinzavod"
• 2022 - St. Petersburg Art Fair "1703", a-s-t-r-a gallery, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2021 - blazar young art fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - participation in the international project "Exit from the Black Square", Novosibirsk
• 2021 - Program Art Moscow at 46th Russian Antique Salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
• 2020 - Participation in the International Contemporary Art Project THE WALL. Kamensk-Uralsky Art Museum, Kamensk-Uralsky
• 2020 - Group exhibition "I have lost track of the world". Curator Irina Shulzhenko. Richter Space, Moscow
• 2019 - Participation in the group exhibition "One, two, three" curated by a-s-t-r-a gallery. CUBE MOSCOW, Moscow
• 2019 - Participation in the international project "Exit from the Black Square. Trekhgornaya manufactory, Moscow
• 2019 - Personal exhibition "Dead Bodybuilder". Richter Space, Moscow
• 2018 - Two guys /One Exhibition (together with American photographer John Hunter Tenney, Free Workshop)
• 2018 - Performance "Seven Gentlemen in Moscow". Osnova Gallery, Moscow
• 2018 - Performance "Round 9". "October, Moscow.
• 2017 - Performance "Sixth Symphony". Pluto, Moscow
• 2017 - "The Garden" (Meditating Dog Experimental Art Studio)

Nesterov Slava was born in Perm in 1989. Lives and works in Moscow.

«In my practice, I am looking for points at which the semi-capitalist regime, based on the production of signs, can manifest itself through the material environment. The works cover the relationship between materiality, information flows, economics and technology. They can give birth to a kind of archeology that involves the construction of new myths. The projects have an object-oriented aesthetic. Complex connections, between which it is difficult to establish correlations, are an attempt to consider the actual reality nonlinearly, multilayered, with the inclusion of chaos and chances in it.

«In my projects I use such visual forms as installation, sculpture, graphics, digital art. The main principles of work are the deconstruction of myths and work with post-history, on the ruins of which a new «world of life» is born». 

Slava Nesterov

EDUCATION:

• 2018-2020 — Contemporary Art, British Higher School of Art and Design, Moscow, Russia.
• 2017-2019 — New Art Strategies, Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
• 2007-2012 — Modern Theories of Human Capital, Perm State National Research University, Perm, Russia.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2021 — A Little Death and a Little Love, museum-residence Artkommunalka, Kolomna, Russia.
• 2020 — Absent-minded Observation, Syntax gallery, Cube Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Immortalitas Vulgaris / Ordinary Immortality, Dom molodezhi gallery, Smolensk, Russia.
• 2019 — Actants, art residence Tsvetnye Gory, Sochi, Russia.
• 2019 — Untitled, Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Red lines, The First Popular Science Library, Moscow, Russia.
• 2017 — Cyclocosmia, art residence Quartariata, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2015 — Personal Spaces, Loader's House Laboratory of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia.
• 2015 — Limits, BM50 art space, St. Petersburg, Russia.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2021 — Living Matter, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — Nonlinear Episode, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — Museum of Artificial History, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — The Sun is Unlucky, Daipyat gallery, Voronezh, Russia.
• 2021 — Gangster Baroque, Name gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2021 — The Dark Side of the Rainbow, White Room Foundation, Moscow, Russia.
• 2020 — Classics, Open studios, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — In Search of a Beginning, Zaryadye Media Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Communities, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Globalization and the Unknown, Noumen travel agency, CTI Fabrika, Olivier Hall, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Slice, Sevkabel, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2018 — Moscow Conceptualism. Communication, ArtPlay Media, Moscow,, Russia.
• 2019 — What Worries You?, workshop by Ilya Kabakov, Moscow, Russia.
• 2017 — Cyclocosmia, Perm State Scientific Research University, Perm, Russia.
• 2017 — Talking about Rothko, Central Exhibition Hall, Perm, Russia.
• 2016 — My Universities, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia.
• 2016 — Form of the Invisible, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2016 — Living Emptiness, PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia.
• 2015 — War and Peace, Perm art residence, Perm, Russia.
• 2014 — The Big Bang Theory, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2014 — Relics of Reflections, St. Petersburg, Russia.

RESIDENCES:

• 2021 — Artkommunalka museum-residence, Kolomna, Russia.
• 2020-2021 — White Room Foundation, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019-2020 — Open Studios, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Art residence Tsvetnye Gory, Sochi, Russia.
• 2019 — Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Art residence Kronshtadt, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2017 — Art residence Quartariata, St. Petersburg, Russia.

Egor Laptarev was born in 1984 in the city of Maykop, in 2000 he moved to Moscow.

After graduating from the Abramtsevo Art and Industrial College named after Vasnetsov continued his studies at the Academy of Arts named after Repin (St. Petersburg) at the faculty of monumental painting. At the moment he is studying at the School of Contemporary Art «Free Workshops» at MMOMA (Moscow).

In his work Egor turns to various types of arts: easel painting, graphics, sculpture, video art, street art and mosaics. The main theme of his work is the image of the human body, presented in different contexts. Over the past years, he has been working in his unique technique - applying paint in several layers, he hides the original image under it. Egor modifies the classic drawing and experiments with materials, this way of creating a work allows to change the course of the plot in the process. Keti Bogomaz, Art critic

«I work with the theme of physicality and aesthetics of the exposure of the human body. Using the skills of the academic drawing school, I modify the classic drawing and experiment with materials.
Over the past years, I have been working in my technique: I apply several layers of paint to the initial drawing, after which I open the image in fragments. Removing some of the paint, I then expose parts of the body, then hide them. This way of creating a work allows you to change the course of the plot in the process of work.I put a classic drawing in an abstract space, where it splits up and loses its original appearance». Egor Laptarev

SERIES «MANIFESTED», 2020

• 2022 — Process S-41, exhibition of MMOMA students, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — Freedom, group exhibition, Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — Art Russia Fair 2021, Contemporary Art Fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia.
• 2020 — NII SREDA: shaping the environment within the framework of the Art-Space-Hopping project with the support of the Museum of Moscow, group exhibition, Moscow, Russia.
• 2020 — two charity auctions to help doctors fighting the pandemiс.
• 2020 — The Manifeste solo show curated by a-s-t-r-a gallery, Cube.Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
• 2019 — Dream of the Gods, joint project for the museum night of the Museum of 20th and 21th Century Saint-Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2019 — LEVELS, group exhibition, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2019 — Dyatlov Pass, DK Gromova, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2018 — Group therapy session, Poligraf cech gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2018 — Lingwe Universala, Sevkabel Plant, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2018 — Overcoming, Manege Central exhibition hall, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2018 — Disciplinary spaces, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2017-2018 — Against All curated by Anatoly Osmolovsky, VLADEY gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2017 — Point of mind, joint exhibition with artist Julia Belova, Molbert gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2016 — Phantasmagoria, State Hermitage museum (Vyborg branch), Vyborg, Russia.
• 2015 — The World of sad clowns, PENZA Art Residences, Penza, Russia.
• 2015 — Charity art-marathon, K35 Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2014 — Essence, ArtMuza gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2013 — 1st International Exhibition of Monumental Art, Beijing, China.
• 2011 — A mobile exhibition of young artists of Russia, Guangzhou / Guilin / Shendzhen, China.
• 2009 — Exhibition of young artists of the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, San Diego, USA.
  
  

HONORS AND AWARDS:

• 2014 — First place in the competition of illustrations for stories by Victor Pelevin, conducted by the publishing house EKSMO. Illustrations published in the collected works of V. Pelevin, Moscow, Russia.
• 2014 — One of the winners in the competition «Indistinct image» and "Metaphysical head» by artist Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• www.afisha.ru/exhibition/238992/ 
• artmuza.spb.ru/events/264-vystavka-egora-laptareva-suschnosti.html 
• vyborg-press.ru/articles/29708/ 
• www.culture.ru/events/120533/vystavka-phantasmagoria