Born in Moscow in 1984.

The artist works with painting, graphics and textiles in such directions as abstraction, primitivism and appropriation. In her work, the author draws on analytical psychology, Old Russian mythology, fairy tales and primitive art, working with themes of psychological development, mental hygiene and integration of shadow aspects of the psyche.

Egor Voskresensky was born in 1997 in St. Petersburg, where he lives and works now.

The author works with the artistic heritage of the past, occasionally borrowing some artistic techniques and, afterwards, transforming them into something closer to himself. The author is also often inspired by the thinking of neural networks, sometimes completely unpredictable.

Each artist's work is multi-layered. It begins with a tonal substrate for which he uses various pigments, solvents and inks. This is always followed by traditional materials such as watercolours, pastels and others.

EDUCATION:

• 2022 - I.Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, Faculty of Theory and History of Art

SOLOO EXHIBITIONS:

• 2019 - (Non)Perfect Forms, FossArt Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2019 - Reflections on Form, GB Gallery, St. Petersburg

"I call my work an interdisciplinary research. Being both artist and art historian, I play several roles at once. This allows me to occupy a kind of middle ground between philosopher and creator of the material."

Egor Voskresensky, an artist, art historian and collector

Rinat Mustafin was born in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Region, in 1991.

 In Moscow he received a higher education in the specialty of Architect. Since 2011 is engaged in artistic practices in the field of modern art, combining with with projects in the field of curatorship, scenography, architecture and design. In 2020, together with the team of the creative association WIP, he opened an experimental gallery, where he took the position of chief curator.

His works are a part of the collections of the Nakovalnya Gallery Foundation, the private collection of artist Aidan Salakhova.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "Territory", Cube Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Zenith", Anvil Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - performance "Shell", Mutabor club, Moscow
• 2022 - performance "Shell", WIP Gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - "Forma", Kommunalka Gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - video art installation "Rain", WIP gallery, Moscow.
• 2021 - Abstract Meanings in Visual Forms, WIP Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "Loading", Art Kvartal, Erevan
• 2023 - "Rinat & Segotchka", Object Gallery, Tbilisi
• 2019 - "Good Weather", Užupio Meno Incubatorius, Vilnius
• 2016 - "Alternative Theories of Evolution", Dravidian Museum, Moscow

"I believe in perfect form, colour and composition. The silent power of visual art leaves me in awe, and the emergence of ever new media and tools makes me mesmerised by the vividness of the visual world.

In my works I explore: the relationship between new and old technologies, in which lies the beauty of human thought, new signs and symbols that replace the old without changing their nature, themes of humanism and anti-humanism.

Based on the experience, principles and discoveries of modernists and postmodernists of the 20th century, I try to use new approaches and develop original techniques. I do not see myself outside the context of my time. I am in love with the era I'm living in"

Rinat Mustafin, artist, curator

Born in 1990 in St. Petersburg.

Russian artist, teacher of drawing and silkscreening printing at the Ilya Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Creates his works in printing techniques such as lithography and silkscreen.  Along with large format works and contemporary materials.

The artist dedicates his work to the human body in all its manifestations and forms. And if there is a body, there is also a soul, thought, consciousness and subconsciousness, about which one can endlessly talk and think. His works embody the complexity of the human soul, its metamorphosis and interaction with the surrounding space, as well as its boundless loneliness. Curved, tense bodies are often contrasted and connected to absolute all-consuming darkness, which vividly contrasts with the whiteness of the background.

EDUCATION:

• 2007 - 2012 Nizhny Novgorod Art School (artist - painter)
• 2012 - 2018 St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Arts (graphic artist)
• 2018 - 2023 Assistantship at the St. Petersburg Ilya Repin Academy of Arts

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2019 - Laureate of the competition and participant of the exhibition "Nature Class", Museum and Exhibition Center "St. Petersburg Artist", St. Petersburg
• 2018 - International exhibition "Russia Italy", Rome, Italy
• 2018 - International exhibition "Russia Italy. Raphael Hall of the Repin Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2018 - International exhibition "Overcoming", Central Exhibition Center Manege, St. Petersburg.
• 2016 - Laureate of the Internet contest "Igor Minakov Prize" "Love Will Save the World" in the nomination "Graphics".
• 2015 - 2016 г. - International exhibition IV GABALA International Art Exhibition "SPORTS! BEAUTY! LIFE!", Gabala, Azerbaijan
• 2015 - Exhibition "St. Petersburg in the Space of World Culture", Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2015 - Laureate of the IX exhibition "Youth of St. Petersburg" in the nomination "Graphics", St. Petersburg.
• 2015 - Exhibition "Essay on the Body" as part of the 25th Festival of Documentary Films "Message to Man", Open Film Studio "Lendok", St. Petersburg
• 2015 - International exhibition "THE SENSE OF THE BODY", First International Festival of Schools of Art and Design, Italy.

The artist was born in 1982 in Kaliningrad. In order to better convey his idea, the author used to draw from photographs for a long time. However, now he takes the subject "from his head", combining what he has seen with his memories.

This makes the drawing more free and brings it closer to the way children draw. 

His subjects are a diary of everyday life, romanticisation of everyday life, notes on impressions, observation and outlining of life.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "Monotony", Novichok Gallery, Kaliningrad
• 2023 - "View from the Window", Siyaniye Centre, Apatity
• 2022 - "Silence", Triangle gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - "In the Room", Triangle gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2021 - "Group Show", Shrine Gallery, NY (online)
• 2020 - "Let's Hang the Portrait Here", HERE Gallery on Taganka, Moscow, (online)
• 2020 - Raumpace Festival, Kaliningrad
• 2019 - "Exhibition of Kaliningrad artists", GTSI, Kaliningrad
• 2019 - "Velvet Ropes drawing show", Shrine Gallery, New York, New York

"To better convey my vision, I used to paint from photographs for a long time. But now I like to take subjects from my head. I like to combine what I see with my memories. This makes drawing more free and brings it closer to the way children draw.

A man quickly gets used to life and stops noticing the simple beauty of existence. But an artist is endowed with the gift of noticing the beautiful, and is able to see and then transfer his feeling to the canvas, showing the viewer his view of the world."

Yakovlev Anton, an artist

A professional muralist whose works are executed mainly in the mosaic technique for secular interiors, institutions, church religious buildings in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Sochi, Yekaterinburg, Vladivostok.

Graduated from Vladivostok Art School (VKU) and St. Petersburg Stieglitz Academy, studied at the Far East Academy of Arts and Pro Atre Institute (St. Petersburg).

Alongside his studies, he has participated in various youth exhibitions as an artist and as a sound maker for sound design of exhibitions and performances.

For the last few years he has been working on his own Contemporary Art projects.

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2000 - "Young Artists of Primorsky Krai" Arsenyev Museum, Vladivostok
• 2005 - Exhibition of Pro Arte students, St. Petersburg
• 2006 - Exhibition of projects of small architectural forms "A Look into the Future", Committee for Urban Planning and Architecture of St. Petersburg
• 2006 - International exhibition on the programme "School of Dionyssia", Ferapontovo, Vologda region
  2006 - Annual exhibition at the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg, applied department
• 2019 - Jubilee exhibition of the 75th anniversary exhibition of the Russian Academy of Arts, Vladivostok
• 2020 - Artists of Primorye. Travelling exhibition of the Union of Artists of Primorye, Primorsky Krai

"What I do, I suppose, belongs to 'Actual Art'. Sometimes it is the result of an intuitive premonition, sometimes it is a direct reflection of past or current events, sometimes it is simply the result of sensual experiences.

In some works I use text. Sometimes as an independent statement, sometimes as a supplement to the image (as an additional semantic load, or as an oxymoron, or in order to change the semantic angle of reflection).

Some self-contained text works, augmented with decorative elements, become essentially Art Objects."

Piperov Victor, an artist

• 2023 - "MAN" - Instructions for Use, ArtMaison, Moscow
• 2023 - "Faces of Big City", ARTe Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
• 2023 - "Dreamcatcher", ArtMaison, Moscow
• 2023 - "Pop ART: Russian Style", ARTe Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Moscow
• 2023 - "Full Brut", ArtMaison, Moscow
• 2022 - "Avant-garde: from Russian Archaic to Contemporary Art", All-Russian Museum of Decorative Art, Moscow, Moscow
  Decorative Arts Museum, Moscow
• 2021 - "Via Fantasia", Perotti School of Art, Moscow
• 2020 - "Poetry of the Present", Perotti School of Art, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - ProSvet, Moscow's Art-Turns with the assistance of the Association of Cultural Centres of the Western Administrative District of the City of Moscow
• 2022 - Moonlight, Perotti School of Art, Moscow

"When we become adults, living the changes in the world around us, we remember our childhood and our old children's toys take us back to those distant times, when the whole world belonged only to us, and there was a whole life ahead of us, full of joy and happiness. How do our children's toys live now, mute witnesses of our victories and disappointments, care and indifference, loyalty and betrayal, our love and cruelty?

Then the (non-)children's stories are born, which I tell in my paintings.

The use of pointillism in my works allows me to fully convey that magical state when memories of childhood evoke warm feelings in us and fill our lives with joy. This painting method is more than 130 years old, but it is still relevant today, as the technique of drawing an image on canvas can be compared to pixels on computer screens. Pointillism uses optical illusions to create images from many small dots placed close together. When viewed up close, the picture appears blurred, indistinct; from afar, the object is accurately viewed. Thanks to the effect, the image is alive and multidimensional. If you get closer, the picture breaks up into dots. My goal has been achieved - I have conveyed the magic and instability of the state, the unreality and illusory nature of what is happening."

Lesha Nepetrovich, an artist

Born in autumn 1987, a graduate of the Modern Art and Illustration programmes, a regular contributor to literary magazines, and a lecturer in visual communication at the Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov. She is currently working on her dissertation on transmedia translation.

In her practice she uses hybrids of mediums to create the most three-dimensional statement possible - installation, painting, collage and video art, objet Trouvé, photography, graphics and sculpture. For the artist, it is particularly important to use performative practice, her own corporeality, to act as a kind of conduit between the statement, the realised object and the person who looks at it.

EDUCATION:

• 2020 - 2022 Moscow School Of Contemporary Art, direction Contemporary Art
• 2020 - 2023 British Higher School Of Art & Design, direction Illustration
• 2010 Interschool, direction Scriptwriting

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and everywhere", Plague Space, Krasnodar
• 2023 - "And You Don't", Flacon Design Factory, The Cube, Moscow
• 2023 - "Who is Ophelia", Eulengasse, Frankfurt on the Main
• 2023 - "Suspended the Earth on Nothing", Bis Art Gallerey, Moscow
• 2023 - "This is a sign", Na Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 - "Finding Inner Mongolia" (part I, part II), Arbuzz gallery, Moscow
• 2023 - "Forms of Memory", Nikolai Ostrovsky Museum, Moscow
• 2023 - "Loss of Balance", U contemporary, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2022 - "OK, I'll think about it", START space, Central Exhibition Centre Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 - "Between Dream and Reality", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Graduation-2022. Media Centre", Zaryadye Park, Moscow
• 2022 - "While the grown-ups are talking" (exhibition in two parts), CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 - "Liquidation of norms", pre-auction exhibition, auction. P.Y.E. Optics. Garden of the Richter Hotel, Moscow
• 2022 - "How to Live Together?", bar "Rovesnik", Moscow
• 2022 - "Refraction of Time", All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow
• 2022 - "Youth", A3 gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Save as...", Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
• 2022 - "Others", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Borders of Freedom", pop-up exhibition, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, David Razi'el Street 6
• 2022 - "Mythologemes", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Accumulated", U contemporary, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2021 - I Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk
• 2021 - "Liquidation.21", U contemporary, CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• 2021 - "Double Solid", Shop Red, CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• 2021 - "New Energies", Gamma gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - "Art Fair of Art", A3 gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - "Hidden Figures", Room and Wall in DK GAZA, St. Petersburg
• 2021 - "In Search of Light", U contemporary, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023-"The First Negative", Sol, Moscow,
• 2023- "Serenkyi Volchok", Rostokino Gallery, Moscow
• 2023- Performance Week at Montemero Art Residency, Spain
• 2010 - Kuindzhi Art Museum, Mariupol. Kuindzhi Art Museum, Mariupol

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 2023 - "One to One", Na Peschanaya Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "While the grown-ups are talking" (exhibition in two parts), CSI Winzavod, Moscow

"The main theme of my practice is the Space of Timelessness, the state before emotion. An opportunity to observe and reason without hurry and pain (as if from the outside) about ourselves, people, events and things. Distancing and slowing down, it is as if we get a chance to consider the object in every second of its existence. Personal and mental memory, storytelling, trauma, the fragility of the world and the human being, empathy, asceticism, fears, dreams, stillness and waiting - it is important for me to choose my words and mediums carefully in order to be correctly understood."

Olga Makhno,  an artist

Born in 1998.

Practising architect-designer. 

The author's artistic journey began in 2021 with the transfer of his ideas and thoughts onto canvas. But the desire to create was long before that moment. The first experience of presenting works for public viewing was at a contemporary art fair at the Winzavod site. Feedback from visitors and fellow artists gave confidence, and the impetus to continue this endeavour. The type of art in which the artist works is painting, in the direction of conceptualism.

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - Open-call-exhibition "How I will spend this summer" in the N.A. Nuzhin Hall, Yaroslavl
• 2023 - Open-call-exhibition within the festival "A3-Art. Art is Here", "I am an artist, I see it this way", Moscow
• 2022 - Participation in the winter market of contemporary art "WIN-WIN" at Winzavod, Moscow
• 2021 - Participant of the TNT "Battle of Designers"show, Moscow.

"All my experiences and the influences of the surrounding world are woven together in my subconscious to create something unified. This is how my ideas for paintings are born. They are expressed by a worldview, scraps of thoughts containing experiences, irony, conjectures and rethinking of things that have arisen in the head for a moment but never leave it. This image, which appeared in the mind for seconds, acquires clearer features only on the canvas. It is a note, a sketch of a thought that impressed me. But they can be interpreted in different ways: twist, turn and turn, but what was originally there is already imprinted on the canvas as a monument. And even if it is not always rainbow-coloured, life is made up of different periods, and that is its beauty."

Mikhail Kropin, an artist

Born in Krasnoyarsk, lives and works in Moscow. 

In her practice, Tatiana addresses themes of self-determination and control in a rapidly changing world. The artist is interested in communication in an unsupported society and the human response to the constant change in the context of life. In her works, Tatiana captures the continuous struggle of man for self-determination, attempts to maintain balance, addressing the essence of man and his values. Often her research is based on her own experience and experiences.

As a foundation, the artist uses classical materials and techniques (etching, metal work), combining them with the plastic possibilities of new media.

SOLO GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 Читатели вещей, галерея Соль, Москва, Россия
• 2023 "Contexts of Time", exhibition of contemporary prints, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ulyanovsk, Russia
• 2023 "Memory of the Body", Izmailovo Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 Mini Print International, Fundació Tharrats d'Art Gràfic, Pineda de Mar (Barcelona), Spain
• 2023 "Open, Close, Repeat", CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 "View Features", MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 Mini Print International, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spain
• 2023 "Dark Room", CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
• 2022 "On the Edge of Graphics", Art Maison Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2022 "Femina", Molbert Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
• 2022 "Moscow 22", curator A. Steiner, Renova Lab, Skolkovo, Moscow, Russia
• 2022 "Harmony", Molbert Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
• 2022 "On the Edge of Graphics", Cultural and Exhibition Centre, Smolensk, Russia
• 2022 International Biennale of Printed Graphics "Kubachinsk Tower", Makhachkala, Russia
• 2022 "On the Edge of Graphics", Volgograd Museum of Fine Arts, Volgograd, Russia
• 2022 Future, Gallery A3, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 IV International Biennale of Printed Graphics, State Museum of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia
• 2021 "Starfall", Here on Taganka, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 Mini Print International, galerie d'art contemporain L'Étangd'Art, Bages, France
• 2021 Mini Print Internacional, Taller Galeria Fort, Cadaques, Spai
• 2021 "Watching the Earthlings", curated by A. Bartenev, Here on Taganka, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 "Skies", Colors of Humanity Gallery, US
• 2021 "Graphia", curated by T. Karaffa-Korbut, Innovative Cultural Centre, Kaluga, Russia
• 2020 "CURARTA". Cube. Moscow, Moscow, Russia
• 2019 "Moscow 360", Trekhgorka Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2019 "In M...city", Exposed Gallery, Moscow, Russia

   

   

Born in 1995 in Sergiev Posad, lives and works in Moscow.

In her works, the artist most often explores her own state of mind at a particular period of her life. In her practice the author often conveys her feelings through the image of nature. She usually chooses printed graphics as a visual representation.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 — «На ночь глядя» галерея «На каширке», Москва

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "Views", MMOMA, Moscow
• 2023 - "Untitled So Far", Mukha Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - III Biennale of Printed Graphics "Kubachinsk Tower", Makhachkala
• 2022 - "Art to the House", Bogorodskoye Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Youth-2022", Exhibition Hall of the Russian Union of Artists, Moscow
• 2022 - "Youth Exhibition", Sergiev Posad branch of the ARF, Sergiev Posad
• 2021 - VI Kazan Biennale of Printed Graphics "Horseman", National Gallery "Khazine", Kazan
• 2021 - Exhibition "Graphics", Bogorodskoye Gallery, Moscow

“As an artist I set myself the task to create a new space and atmosphere in it. All my works are an internal reflection. My art and my work on it help me to experience different periods of life. Sometimes, it is sublimation or those feelings that I can express only this way. But most of the time I create my own new spaces - similar to reality, but not completely. What unites these works (places) is that they are all out of the city, it's always a natural motif. My works are about a kind of escape to nature.

I most often use printed graphics as visual representation. I use etching or linocuts. I am attracted by the unpredictability of the result. The process involves not just myself, but also a coincidence. It is like a tandem and unity between me and the world around me. I like the effect of coincidence in our lives and I find a parallel in it. Both in life and in printmaking, that chance can be fortunate or vice versa."

Маргарита Гущенец, художница

Born in 1988 in St.Petersburg. 

Multidisciplinary artist exploring the crisis of technology. Studied at Berlin's Weizensee Hochschule für Kunst (KHB), took personal master classes with Fabio Viale (Italy) and Sarah Esser (Germany). Participant of international exhibitions. His works are kept in private collections in the USA and Europe. Currently lives and works in Moscow.

EDUCATION:

• 2006 - 2012 - St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry
• 2011 - 2012 - Berlin Higher School of Art Weizensee (KHB)
• 2003 - 2006 - St. Petersburg Art Academic Lyceum

SOLO PROJECTS:

• 2021 - Ammo/tool, Private Space Gallery, Moscow
• 2015 - Lithe, Erarta Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg
• 2013 - Blindfolded, Erarta Museum of Modern Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - Ivory Tower III, Radio House, St. Petersburg
• 2023 - Collector's track, Noodome, Moscow
• 2022 - At the Fingertips, Inart Gallery, Moscow
• 2019 - Plastic Mask, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2015 - Game Changes, Erarta Gallery, Hong Kong
• 2014 - Spuren, Pavilon am Michov, Berlin
• 2014 - Contemporary Russian Art, Erarta Gallery, London
• 2011 - Alle, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
• 2011 - Ich Haise, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin

In his work, the artist aims to move away from romanticising technology and to put this attitude under critical analysis. The author asks whether it is possible to overcome the idealised image of technology through its deconstruction and to what extent technology can transform and define our lives. The artist reflects on the boundary between the virtual and the real, which is increasingly being blurred. The impossibility of complete control over the flows of generated information is also one of the themes the author deals with.

The artist creates objects using a combination of advanced digital printing technologies and traditional sculpture techniques. The author combines recognisable elements of industrial aesthetics as well as materials that are not typical of high-tech approaches, such as plaster, steel, concrete and nitro-enamel. Through the formal breakdowns and shifts thus manifested, a critique of stereotypes about the refined and perfect image of new technologies is made. Polemising with the ideological myth of their dominance, the author resorts to the deconstruction of industrial artefacts, disrupting their function and diverting them from associations with the direct purpose of the object.

In her works, the artist reflects on the fragile constructions that exist both within society and on its periphery. The theme of the trace left behind and the contact with it, as well as the area of involuntary memory, interests her as an opportunity for spontaneous, almost random convergence.

In the author's practice, participatory methods are the key and  used to build a dialog with the outside world, which can influence the overall course of the process and allow for elements of chance.

EDUCATION AND EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMMES:

• 2022 - 2024 Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art
  2011 - 2015 Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - "Other", Museum-Residence "Art-communal, Erofeev and others", Kolomna
• 2022 - "Worlds i [i]", Centre for Contemporary Culture "Zero Room", Samara

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - Exhibition "ART WEEKEND 2.0", DKC Pomorandza, Podgorica, Montenegro
• 2023 - Exhibition "Quantum critic" in metaverse space, Helsinki, Myymälä 2 gallery, Finland
• 2023 - Final exhibition of the Art Residency at the Grad Cultural Centre, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2023 - "On the Other Side of the River", Silk Factory Museum-Lab, Kolomna2023 - "Pulsating Matter", CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2023 - Instant exhibition "Frontier: Home", Bishkek
• 2022 - "Single color", Reloft Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Waiting", exhibition space of "Thursday" Foundation, Moscow
• 2022 - Marathon of group exhibitions, Arts Square Gallery in collaboration with Sturm curatorial group, St. Petersburg.
• 2022 - "Evolutionary Symphony", Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, 2022
• 2021 - Exhibition within the framework of the All-Russian Art Festival "Youth of Russia", New Tretyakovka Museum, Moscow, 2021
• 2021 - "Nature in the City. Nonhuman Heterotopias", Nordic Festival, Kunsthalle nummer sieben gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2021 - "Pavilion Russie", Haze Gallery, Berlin
• 2021 - Exhibition based on the results of the laboratory "Episode", exhibition space Liniya, St. Petersburg
• 2021 - "Own Game", International festival "Cut da glue fest", gallery "On Peschanaya", Moscow, Russia
• 2021 - Finalist of the contest for the concept of art object for Naro-Fominsk Silk Factory
• 2021 - Sensitive Art Exhibition "Takt", Liniya Exhibition Space, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2021 - "Data 6" at Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
• 2018 - Winner of the Samara of the Future competition in the Urban Project category, Samara
• 2017 - Curating and participating in the group exhibition "Avant-garde. New Interpretation" in the House of Architect, Samara
• 2016 - Exhibition at the Contemporary Art Department of TCM "Vyunosti", Togliatti

RESIDENCES:

• 2023 - online residency Virtual Belgrade AIR Paris Programme, Centre 424
• 2023 - residency at KC Grad space, Belgrade, Serbia
• 2022 - residency "Art Communal, Erofeev and others", Kolomna, Moscow region, Russia.
• 2022 - residence "SHKAF. ACT I", library and art residence "SHKAF", St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2021 - participation in the residency "Youth of Russia" from the ARF, in the direction "New Forms"

AWARDS:

• 2021 - The concept of the object "Point of Presence" was among the 3 finalists of the competition for the concept of an art object for the Naro-Fominsk Silk Factory
• 2018 - Winner of the Samara of the Future competition in the Urban Project category
• 2018 - The implemented project of Michurin Square in Samara was included in the All-Russian TOP of the best improvement projects implemented in the Russian Federation and competitively selected by the Ministry of Construction of the Russian Federation. https://sgpress.ru/news/143061 

"Considering everyday processes as an area of emotional, deeply personal, private living that is difficult to enter without a personal invitation, I modulate different situations. I use them to understand how flexible and receptive this boundary can be. For example, in the project "Strangers" I built communication with strangers through a mediator, and in the project "Worlds i [i]" I worked with anonymous data from libraries in different cities. Such processes at the same time allow me to experiment with my own boundaries."

Daria Goncharova, an artist

Evgenia Bolyukh is an interdisciplinary artist, born in 1983 in Moscow, where she lives and works. She is currently studying at the MMOMA Free Workshops for the "New Art" program. She took the Fundamentals of Fine Art course at the British Higher School of Design, studied analog photography at the Complutense University in Madrid, self-taught in UNITY and learned programming skills at the New York University Tandon School of Engineering in Creative Coding (generative art).

EDUCATION:

• 2023 - present. - MMOMA Free Workshops, Contemporary Art
• 2022 Creative coding - NYUx
• 2020 British Higher School of Design - Fundamentals of Fine Art (Yulia Reznikova, Natalia Kondratova)
• 2018 Academy of Photography - Theory and practice of digital photography (I and II stages)
• 2004 Complutense University of Madrid (ERASMUS), Media & Communication Science (marketing, advertising, photography)
• 2001 MGIMO - Commerce and Marketing
• 2023 Contemporary Sculpture - Art Academy at Gallery 19 DEVYATNADTSAT'
• 2021 Teaching Models - Bauhaus Open Studios (Project of the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation in cooperation with IGUMO)
• 2020 Workshop on Conscious Coincidences, Cosmoscow Foundation in cooperation with Voronezh CSI

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - Out of town, Gallery 19 DEVYATNADTSAT', curated by Anna Tagantseva-Kobzeva, Moscow
  2023 - One-One, Gallery on Peschanaya, curated by Mikhail Levin and Olga Makhno, Moscow - more details
  2022 - While the grown-ups are talking, U-Contemporary (CSI Winzavod), curated by Olga Makhno, Moscow 
  2022 - META CREATIVE as part of Russian Creative Week (NFT section), curated by Stella Labuzhskaya and Elena Levitt - SAS Metagallery 
  2022 - DeCIPRland - NFT art exhibition within the framework of the CIPR conference, Nizhny Novgorod 
  2022 - Poetry of Space. Point in[s]move. - Digital Art & NFT Expo, Third Place NFT, St. Petersburg 
  2021 - Unreal Bonfires, Svetlobna Guerrilla & Noks Collective international video art festival, curated by Weronika Morawiec and Robert Sochacki, Slovenia 
  2021 - Watching the Earthlings, Gallery Here on Taganka, curated by Andrei Bartenev, Moscow

"We are living the period of an anti-utopia in real time and the deconstruction of reality as a method comes to the fore, gives the author an opportunity to make some understanding of this most unfamiliar present. As Don Juan taught in his mythology, to see and understand how a leaf falls from a tree, one should tilt one's head differently and perhaps realize that it moves in other planes and trajectories. The desire to deconstruct and reassemble the symbols of time is aimed at trying to understand them and to find points of support, whether it is belonging, detachment or escape from new images and meanings. For some it is support, for others it is rejection, as a starting point for one's reflection on this very "here and now" and finding one's own personal coordinates.

I work with objects, installations, cyclic animations and participate in performative practices. My work is based on deconstructing images and reflections on dichotomies, conformism and trauma."

Bolyukh Evgenia, an artist

Born in 1996 in Moscow.

Graphic artist, working mainly in monotype technique - for the last year about 100 works were created in it. The author also combines different techniques, combines tempera, acrylic, oil pastel and watercolour pencils. She likes to work with spots, silhouettes, textures. When working with colour, the artist chooses a limited palette, prefers complex colours to open ones.

EDUCATION:

2022 Alexander Brodsky's laboratory "Architecture through etching"
2014 - 2020  S.G. Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts, Graphic Arts Department

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "Across the River", Silk Factory, Kolomna
• 2023 - "Finding Inner Mongolia" at ARBUZZ Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 - "Returning Home" at ARTKvartal, Yerevan
• 2022 - Solo exhibition at LULU SPACE, Moscow
• 2022 - "Black&White" at UGallery, Tbilisi
• 2022 - "On the Nature and Patterns of Traditional Societies" at Arts Square Gallery with the curatorial group Sturm, St. Petersburg
• 2022 - exhibition "Demiurge forges his destiny" by residents of the online gallery Lubov 24 at The 3rd floor Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - pre-auction exhibition "Tochka" at IGUMO Gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - "Graphics" in Bogorodskoye Gallery, Moscow

"The characteristic feature of my works are deserted spaces, but they are not devoid of human beings.

Through architecture I create an echo of his presence. Often industrial and rural buildings are the protagonists of my paintings, they are traces that can give a psychological portrait of their authors and inhabitants. Many buildings have long been empty and are no longer used by people. They have lost their original purpose, but have acquired a new one. Now the buildings exist on their own, outside the temporal and social context. They have become ideal plastic forms. My goal is to capture and convey to the viewer the passing nature, the beauty of proportions, the plasticity of simple geometric forms. The rich texture of natural materials: wood, metal, earth."

Maria Stadnick, an artist

Born in 2001 in Tver, where she works and lives.

The artist uses various mediums, particularly painting and graphics.

The main task for the author is to increase the visibility of women, to draw attention to the problems of adults and children who have experienced or are experiencing violence.

The important theme for the author is memories that have disappeared due to traumatic experiences. Violent subjects become the basis for the creation of the works. It is a reality that we face every day but rarely notice.

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 — TUPIC  Fair
• 2023 - present — Residency at Garage Museum workshops
• Solo exhibition at ART4 Museum "Mum, where are you?"

"The figures in my works are deconstructed, some parts of them becoming a gentle, innocent gradient. In places a pile of muscle flying fast in the air. A strong frame ready to fight for their body right now. Often the women's extremities are torn off and their faces are blurred, a sense of oppression and helplessness that comes from the suppression of will. The background is made up of parts, similar to a stained glass window. It can act as the ground beneath your feet, which is about to collapse and suck you in, or the inner chaos that destroys the figure and its perception from within.

My artistic practice is not focused on the application of one painting technique. The colours and mediums I use are dynamic. For me, the flexibility of the medium is another way of reflecting on events and conveying their content."

Arina Frank, an artist

Anastasia Charugina was born in 1984 in Moscow.

Graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art School in memory of 1905 (theatre and decoration department) in 2004.

Graduated from Moscow State University of Printing (Faculty of Graphic Arts) in 2010.

Member of the Moscow Union of Artists (book graphics section).

Designer at AST Publishing House, Moscow.

Since 2001 participates in art projects, exhibitions and festivals in Russia and abroad.

Lives and works in Moscow. 

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2019 — "Image of the Book", Exhibition Hall Kuznetsky Most, 11, Moscow
• 2018 — ""AR|T|BAT 525", Omelchenko Gallery, 2018, Moscow
• 2016 — "Golden Bee", Central House of Artists, Moscow
• 2014 — "El Greco: Toledo 1614- Moscow 2014", Instituto Cervantes, Moscow
• 2013 — Youth Exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists, Moscow
• 2013 — "Nunez de Balboa. To the 500th Anniversary of the Discovery of the Pacific Ocean", Instituto Cervantes, Moscow
• 2013 — "Art Salon 2013", Central House of Artists, Moscow
• 2012 — Cultural Centre "Kristalljin" together with A. Charugin, Mol, Belgium
• 2012 — "Gabriel Garcia Marquez. One Hundred Years of Solitude. 45 years of the novel - 45 views from Russia", Instituto Cervantes, Moscow.
• 2012 — "Typomania" exhibition hall Flacon, Moscow
• 2011 — "Artesania", New Manege, Moscow
• 2011 — Design Week, Milan
• 2011 — "Kartonia", Moscow
• 2010 — Moscow Design Week, Moscow
• 2010 — "Golden Bee", Central House of Artists, Moscow
• 2010 — "Family Values", New Manege, Moscow
• 2009 — "Binnal de Art del Desecho", Castillón, Spain
• 2007, 2009 - "Moscow Book Artist"
• 2008 — "Long Hands", Moscow
• 2006 — "Open Stage" Theatre Centre on Strastnoy, Moscow
• 2001 — Cultural Centre 'Gettou' together with A. Charugin and E. Kornilova, Mol, Belgium. Kornilova, Mol, Belgium

Graduate of the Moscow Automechanical Institute in the programme "transport design". Trained at the VolksWagen design studio near Berlin.

 Worked as an illustrator-designer in such agencies as Milk, Leo Burkett, Grey, BBDO, VMLY&R Commerce. He taught fashion sketching at the British Design School for 5 years.

He started to make art in 2011.

At the current stage of creative development, the artist creates symbolism-filled works that combine abstract and figurative painting, as well as experiments with composition and texture. The author's paintings are characterized by an abundance of details, which create a certain visual noise that engages the viewer in a prolonged visual dialogue with the work.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2021 — 2022 - "Starfall" Here on Taganka Gallery
• 2019 — Artoholocs street art auction 6 "Artoholocs traffic"
• 2019 — Moscow street art fest
• 2018 — Artoholocs street art auction 5 "Artoholics awards"
• 2018 — Artoholocs street art auction 4 " Artoholocs heretic"
• 2018 — Artoholocs underwater gallery
• 2017 — Artoholocs street art auction 3
• 2017 — Artoholocs street art auction 2
• 2017 — Artoholocs street art auction 1
• 2012 — Y4Y "The young for the young" Art Ru agency, Moscow

"I am pushing my creative boundaries that started in industrial and graphic design. The themes and subjects of my work are rather secondary, they are like a colourful wrapper with a reflection of modernity for my abstract experiments. I seek to shape colour and tone not by mixing colours, but through abstract patterns composed of brushstrokes and visual noise consisting of pencil strokes, paint splatters and scratches. I explore how changes in composition and framing alter the perception of the work. I also analyse how my background in industrial and graphic design influences my work. I look for illogical solutions in the creation of my works, trying to destroy this very background, as I believe that I am constrained by its rules and frames. Each new work is an experiment that gives the key to the next, on the way to finding my own identity and realising my vision of figurative expressionism.

In my works I want to partially reflect my subjective view of the times in which we live, through the image (NOHEROES), which represents in my understanding the modern man, which is filled with symbolism and aggression, inherent in my opinion of the whole generation.

NOHEROES is a comedic compilation of my frustrations."

Konstantin Chirkov, an artist

Born in 1991 in Moscow.

Member of the TCAA since 2021. 

The artist chooses techniques, mediums and materials based on the theme and idea of the project. She works in graphics, mixed media, painting and ceramics.

EDUCATION:

2023 ART BOOST, Резиденция Gel art fit

2008 - 2015 Russian State Stroganov University of Industry and Applied Arts

1999 - 2005 Moscow Central Art School at the Russian Academy of Arts

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - ART Maison Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - Artplay, Moscow
• 2021 - Albert Gallery, Moscow

"Through art projects, I reflect on and express my views on human relationships. I am interested in man and his perception of the world. I strive to reveal for myself and others the structures of the human structure, simplifying, removing unnecessary things in order to come to the essence, to generalise."

Anastasia Kulikova, an artist

Born in 1980, lives and works in Moscow and St.Petersburg.

Artist and street art theorist, co-founder of the Partizaning movement.

Author of the books "Art and the City" and "Russian Urban Art: History and Conflicts". Winner of the IIC Garage programme to support Russian artists, winner of the Sergei Kuryokhin Prize for Contemporary Art, nominee for the Kandinsky Prize and the Moscow Art Prize. Curator of exhibition and festival projects in Moscow, St Petersburg, Berlin, as well as in Kazan and Bishkek.

In the studio art practice he combines collage and assemblage techniques, in the city space he works in the format of art intervention and performance.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - Fictional Journey. Syntax Gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - Cutting the Walls. Urals Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg
• 2021 - Included Observation. Syntax Gallery, Moscow
• 2020 - Cutting the Walls. CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
• 2018 - Is It Dangerous To Take A Shower During A Thunderstorm. The Coat Gallery, Miami
• 2017 - GARAGE L6 #17. GARAGE L6, Freiburg
• 2016 - Thaw. In collaboration with Brad Downey. CTI Fabrika, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FESTIVALS:

• 2023 - Archipelago of Dreams. CSK "Smena", Kazan. ZIM Gallery, Samara
• 2023 - Space is the case. GEH8 Kunstraum, Dresden
• 2023 - Out of Place. New Landscapes. CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2023 - Collector's Room. CUBE Art space, Moscow
• 2022 - New from Old. Krasnokholmskaya Gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - 2MAP, Media Centre of Zaryadye Park, Moscow
  
• 2020 - rePlastic. Electromuseum, Moscow
• 2019 - Post-Posters. Syndicat Potentiel, Strasbourg
• 2019 - The Absurd. Candid Arts Trust space, London
• 2018 - Habitat Happy. Neurotitan Gallery, Berlin
• 2018 - Partizaning: Participatory Urban Replanning. Nosna Gallery, Krakow
• 2018 - Meine Strasse? My Street? August Bebel Institut, Berlin
• 2018 - Bien Urbain, festival, Besançon
• 2017 - Cultural Hijack. International School of Architecture ARCHIP, Prague
• 2017 - Hand luggage only. Nuart Gallery, Stavanger
• 2017 - Nuart, festival, Stavanger
• 2016 - XXI Triennale di Milano International. Exposition EXPERIENCE (Ex Expo Area), Milan
• 2016 - Across Borders / Through Limits. Museum of Street Art, St Petersburg
  
• 2016 - Life o' Banner. Cracow Gallery Weekend KRAKERS, Krakow
• 2015 - Russland vs. Russland Kulturkonflikte. Studio 1 Kunstquartier Bethanien, Berlin
• 2015 - 2nd International Award for Public Art. Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki, Auckland
• 2014 - global aCtIVISm. the ZKM, Karlsruhe
• 2014 - 11. ICI Garage, Moscow. 2013 X Sao Paulo Architecture Biennale. SESC, São Paulo
• 2013 - Territory of joint actions. Gallery 16th LINE, Rostov-on-Don
• 2013 - Barents Spectacle, festival. Kirkenes
• 2013 - Art Ovrag, festival. Vyksa
• 2012 - Sobyanin, baby, come on! Oriental Gallery, Moscow
• 2012 - The Wall. CSI Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2008 - About mortal in art. M-Gallery, Rostov-on-Don
• 2006 - Street Art. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

"In my artistic practice I strive for diversity of approaches and methods, my street works make sense of the context in which they are created - critically or poetically. In the studio I create objects and collages, often using materials found on the street such as advertising banners and false facades. I supplement them with construction fittings and metal frames, reminiscent of the structures used for fixing adverts and referring to their natural environment in the city.

The central themes I have been working on in the last few years are the definition of the place of the individual in urbanised space, as well as the poetic reflection on borders and constraints, whether they be the boundaries of states, natural areas, public spaces or personal territories."

Igor Ponosov, an artist

Born in 2001 in Engels, Saratov region. 

Since childhood she took lessons in painting and drawing from teachers in private studios, after moving to Moscow she studied at the art school and at the preparatory courses of MAKhU 1905. - the main emphasis during her studies was on academism. At the age of 17 she started independent creative activity, in addition to individual projects she realised collaborations with artists and photographers, and at the age of 21 she entered the course "New Art" of the Free Workshops of MMOMA: at the moment she is a resident of the Open Studios of Winzavod.

EDUCATION:

• 2023 - 2024 Open studios of Winzavod
  2022 - 2023 "Free Workshops" at MMOMA, "New Art" course, "Contemporary Painting" department
• 2016 - 2017 Studied in the workshops of teachers of MAHU 1905

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - Participant in "The Wrong Biennale", meta-universe Spatial
• 2023 - Group exhibition "Memory of the Body", Izmailovo Gallery
• 2023 - Group exhibition "Open, Close, Repeat", CTI Fabrika
• 2023 - Solo exhibition "Past perfect", space Mentality
• 2023 - Group exhibition "Workshop", MMOMA
• 2023 - Group exhibition "Untitled So Far", Mukha Gallery
• 2023 - Biennale "I Will Be Near", CTI Fabrika
• 2023 - Group exhibition "Sky", SI19 gallery
• 2023 - Group exhibition "It Didn't Happen", Tchaikovsky Conservatory. Tchaikovsky Conservatory
• 2022 - "Podvypodvert izpodvypodverta", group exhibition of students of MMOMA and Rodchenko School in the Gamma space.
• 2022 - "Lesnoe 11" resident, summer season

"I like to pay attention to the places where contradictory phenomena converge, I like to follow how they confront and match. I look for such points of intersection between past and present, reality and fiction, myth and documentation. In this context, I work with themes of memory, its authenticity, the interaction between the individual and his simulation, his place in the digital environment, and the construction of a personal epic. Each of these points is an occasion for creative enquiry and an invitation to discussion."

Polina Savina, an artist

Russian artist, photographer and designer from Moscow born in 1996. Participant and organiser of exhibitions. Works and lives in Tbilisi.

Preferred methods of work - graphics, painting, object, mixed technique photography, printed graphics.

In her work the author refers to the themes of sacred, sacrificial, subconscious, as well as to the concepts of femininity and fragility.

EDUCATION:

• 2023 Art Residency Trikotazhka, Sergiev Posad
• 2022 Production course for artists by Tatiana Pinchuk
• 2017 - 2021 Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, "Theory and History of Art" direction
• 2013 - 2017 Moscow Academic Art School, "Graphic Design" specialisation

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 - "Melting", S/19 Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 - "Demiurge forges his destiny", gallery "Third Floor", Moscow
• 2021 - "ADVENT. The Beginning", State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 2020 - "The Eternity of Time", Moscow Multidisciplinary Cultural Centre, Moscow
• 2015 - MAHU. 1925 - 2015. Tradition and Modernity, Pavilion Karelia, VDNKh, Karelia

"My art is a silence in which rare sounds are heard - drops falling into a vessel of water.

In my artistic practice, I strive to move away from the secondary, unnecessary, from noise and imposed desires. My method consists in an intuitive search for the essence of things and their relationship to the human world, in meditative contemplation of fragile, impermanent beauty, and in the rejection of utilitarianism. In my perception, the acute experience of the frailty and finitude of material things is not tragic, but rather something to be ironised. Intimacy and melancholy go hand in hand with self-irony and the grotesque. I explore the notion of self-control, of violence against oneself and others, through the aesthetics of mythical hunting.

"In my search for simple expression, I keep artistic techniques to a minimum. In graphics, the transitions from saturated lines and spots to the empty space of the sheet reveal the "backbone" of the form. The background often disappears altogether, making the texture of the paper work as an infinite space. The natural materials used for the objects and archival paper are devoid of lustre, their loose surface softly absorbing the rays of light. The patina of antiquity, the patina, the darkness of condensed time create a special warmth."

Sventlana Kononova, an artist