Born in 1991.

Graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts, specializing in artistic ceramics.

In 2011 became co-founder and designer of jewelry brand Mineral Weather.

She took part in international exhibitions in Paris, Venice, Milan, Copenhagen and Barcelona.

Since 2016, she has been involved in ceramic sculpture.

“Everything I make is a reflection of what is happening around me, my experiences spill out into objects. I interact with the world through plastic statements on the level of tactile-sensory language.”

Anna Pavlova

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 - "Arty Advent", Liza Fetisova Gallery, Paris, France
• 2022 - "Isn't the color white what gets rid of darkness?", solo exhibition, lobby, Moscow, Russia
• 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, 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

Ilya Kutoboy is an illustrator from Moscow. Graduated from the Faculty of Physics and Technology of KSU (1997-2002), and from the Graphic Design course of the Belarusian Higher School of Art (2013). Also studied at the Illustration Workshop of the Russian Reporter Summer School (2017) and on the Design Legends course at Future London Academy (2017).

Collaborated with the illustration agency BANG! BANG! STUDIO, RBC style and others.

The artist calls his style “tropical primitivism”, inspired by his numerous travels to the islands of Asia and Indonesia. In his works Ilya mixes painting and graphics, scraps of phrases and words, creating images reminiscent of dreams with a non-linear plot. Often his heroes are animals, plants, peculiar ladies and unusual creatures who find themselves on the same plane of the ever-changing carnival of life.

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — Two turns around the rainbow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — a—s—t—r—a Open.Vol 1, a—s—t—r—a gallery, 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

Exhibition Two turns around the rainbow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, 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."

 Ilya Kutoboy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Kommersant FM - Otkritie Bank organizes exhibitions of contemporary art for Private Banking clients
• Playbill - Ilya Kutoboy. Two turns around the rainbow
• U magazine - Ilya Kutoboy: “Contemporary art could use an extra dose of self-irony”
• Snob - Ilya Kutoboy: I create a kind of oasis where I can take a break to move on
• Art Flash - “I try to be a good observer, to look around and notice different details”: Ilya Kutoboy about the exhibition at “a-s-t-r-a” gallery
• Bang! Bang! - Artist or Illustrator? Interview with Ilya Kutoboy
• Bang Bang Education - Why do bad things when you can do nothing?
• Chef.ru - Ilya Kutoboy's exhibition opened in the gastrobar SHROME

Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. She lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art Im. Graduated from Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art: New Art Strategies course, specializing in contemporary art practice, workshop of Stas Shuripa.

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, and new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.

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

She is the founder of the non-profit project Prolog.Vision, which realized the group exhibition “Planned Obsolescence” by curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the “Innovation - 2017” award in the category “Curator of the Year” for the exhibition.

PROJECTS AND AWARDS:

• 2014 / to this day — Founder of non-profit project ISSMAG gallery
• 2016 — Founder of non-profit project Prolog.Vision
• 2016 - Prolog.Vision. “Planned Obsolescence” international project, guest curator Alexander Burenkov. Parallel program of the V Moscow Biennale, Moscow 
• 2017 - Prolog.Vision, award “innovation - 2017” curator of the year. (curator Alexander Burenkov)

SELECTED FAIRS:

• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 — Blazar Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow 
• 2022 — Blazar Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — Art Moscow Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Art Moments Jakarta Art Fair, Kendys gallery, Bali
• 2024 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Москва

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — “Locus amoenus” group project, Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
• 2024 — “Dark Room No. 1” solo project, 19 DEVYATNADTSAT, Moscow
• 2024 — “Souvenir Trapa Natan”, Skaz Art Festival, Altai   
• 2023 — “Horizon brings time closer” group project Deeplist, Moscow 
• 2023 — Art residence Nuer Sang, Chiang Mai, Thailand 
• 2022 — “Dead kingdom” solo project, NOVAT, Novosibirsk
• 2022 — “Staff &|| Transparent rod” artweekend art festival, Altai  
• 2022 — “Found trophy” solo project ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2021 — “Ceremony 19742” solo project, Daipyat, Voronezh
• 2021 — “Beauty bomb” group project ISSMAG Gallery. Moscow
• 2020 — “Upper layer of the sky” solo project. Hotel Richter, Moscow
• 2020 — Art residency, Hotel Richter Workshops, Moscow 
• 2020 — “The loud sound of the serena” solo project, Villa Papi Mamie, Le Croisic, France  
• 2019 — “Minisystems”, Hotel Richter , Moscow
• 2019 — Travel agency “Noumen” Globalization and the unknown. Part l. Fabrika, Moscow

 CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 2024 — “Clouds ”Yulia Goldman. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Numb Brushes” Vika Begalskaya & Alexander Vilkin. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow  
• 2022 — “Life Force. Rhodesian Genius” Dmitry Gilen, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2021 — “Exercise in virtue” group exhibition. 
  ISSMAG gallery. Moscow
• 2021 — “All dogs go to heaven” Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — “Deformation without tearing and gluing” Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
• 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2020 — Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — “Quintessence multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” Katya Khasina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020-2021 — New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG gallery. Moscow 
• 2020 — “∅. no w” sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, gallery, Moscow 
• 2019 — Curator of projects a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 — “Protodermis” installation by Abu Blount. ISSMAG gallry, 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 — “Vctn” installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2017 — “Who if you are not” performance by Alexei Tarutz. Rabitsa, Moscow
• 2017 — “Let all your dreams come true” performance-audio installation, Alexei Tarutz. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow Cosmoscow, Moscow
• 2016 — “Respawn, exactly, if not you then who” solo exhibition by Alexei Tarutz. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2016 — “Bangs” / “Bangs” solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. Fabrika, Moscow
• 2015 — “STILL MOVING” group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow 

PUBLICATIONS:

• MOSCOW MAG article “Why You Should Know Me: Issmag Gallery founder Dishon Yuldash”
• Vogue article “Why ceramics has become so trendy and which artists to follow”
• BURO 24/7 article on the launch of a fragrance for the Richter space in bottles by Dishon Yuldash
• Esquire article about the fragrance launch for Richter Space
• The BluePrint article on Dishon Yuldash's creation of sculptural bottles for the Richter fragrance space
• Arterritory.com article “Where the rainbow led”
• Статья tzvetnik.online "All Dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• Article tzvetnik.online “All Dogs go to heaven” by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• Article tzvetnik.online “Deformation without tearing and gluing”, Group Show at Carbone 20, Saint-Etienne
• Dishon Yuldash interview for ArtUzel
• AQNB about the presentation of the video performance “ALEXEY TARUTS / WHO ISN'T YOU” at Issmag Gallery.
• AroundArt article about Katya Hasina's exhibition “Twigless multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” at Issmag Gallery

Olga Aksenova was born in 1991, she lives and works in Moscow.

EDUCATION:

• 2010-2015 — Fine Arts and Natural Resources, specialising in icon painting, Moscow Region State University, Moscow, Russia.
• 2015-2019 — private workshops, The Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021-2022 — Video art and contemporary painting, Process School of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — residency in Gallery 22, Moscow, Russia.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 — a-s-t-r-a Open.Vol 1, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — Archstoyanie, festival of contemporary art, Bird's Eyeview group project, Nikola-Lenivets art park, Kaluga, Russia.
• 2022 — Point, IGUMO gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2022 — GIVE ART A CHANCE, 3D Exibition, HAZEGALLERY, Berlin, Germany.
• 2022 — Discovering new names, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2021 — Restlessness, Gallery 22, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — All-Russian Eco-art Festival of Intellectual Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2021 — Open exhibition, New Sincerity gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — Date 6, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
• 2021 — Notification, interactive exhibition, Israel.
• 2021 — Quarantine, Kabood Atelier Art Gallery, Tabliz, Iran. 

The artist's work synthesises the traditions of the iconographic school and contemporary trends in network art, united by an interest in mysticism. The main work implies the interconnection of an internally ordered time period with external factors, the importance of understanding and observing supersensitivity – a phenomenon emerging at the junction of contemporary art and its perception. Each new element from the environment deconstructs the existing mode of being, thereby creating an ordered chaos. Awareness becomes a barrier to knowing oneself and the soundscape. It provides an opportunity to go deeper into the nature of things and phenomena, to accept one's place in the natural and human symbiosis. Boundaries become more transparent, reinforcing the contrasting perception of reality. The moment of rejection is shaped by a new meaning and a signal to action.

The artist explores such concepts as «image», «countenance» outside of time and reality in her artistic journey. The process of integrating this experience into the DNA of contemporary art is synthesised through a long involvement in icon painting practices.

There is a search for answers to questions about «spirituality», «images» and «faces» that have persisted and survived in networked spaces. In 2022, the project «Urandi Tribe» emerges from this quest, based on its own mythology as an opportunity to look into the boundary spaces of existing planes of being. This project was first exhibited at the Abramova gallery, Saint-Petersburg.

The artist finds sources of inspiration in fairy tales of different cultures, legends and myths, in art history and folklore songs. Since October 2022 the artist has been a resident of Gallery 22, a self-organisation of contemporary artists, where participants form exhibitions based on the rhizome principle and realise their own personal projects.

«My practical part are based on the intersection of contemporary art and many years of iconographic experience. In this interweaving, I am trying to understand how centuries-old traditions inherent in our religious basis have taken root in public memory and life I reflect on the ways of symbiosis of these borderline practices in the field of contemporary art». Olga Aksenova

Using fluorescent colour pigments, she tries to reveal the mystical content of the modern world by appealing to an image, a face - a concentration of cultural memory.

The artist's works are stored in private collections in Russia, America and France.