Born in Moscow in 1996 where he lives and works.

Studied at the Fedorov Moscow State University of Fine Arts (now the Higher School of Fine Arts and Design within the Moscow Polytechnic) (2014-2017, specializing as a graphic artist); since 2018 has been studying at the Stroganov Russian State University of Fine Arts, specializing in restoration of monumental and decorative painting. In 2021-2022 he studied at the Process School of Contemporary Art.

In 2023-2024 attended classes at the Workshop of Nikolay Alekseev.

“There are works that can be called “incidental” in the work of great artists: sketches, sketches, random scribbles on paper. These 'auxiliary' works were often done in passing, with the simplest means, with cheap materials. Such works have a special effect on me; I find in them a specific expressiveness that serves as a basis for my own work. In my works I try to adhere to a certain laconism and asceticism, I use a limited set of technical methods and visual elements, I prefer small formats and available materials. Strictly speaking, I am a graphic artist. I believe that even my works, which formally belong to painting, are in fact at the point where painting and graphics come into contact and cannot be confidently attributed to either.”

Yuriy Yushkin, artist

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Body stories, instagram-gallery Stories Gallery
• 2024 — Blink, online gallery Null Gallery
• 2024 — Kiosk second campaign (happening exhibition organized by Kiosk group)
• 2023 — Courage, sklad No3, Moscow
• 2022 - Expired film, Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

The Crosses project

At some point I realized I wanted to choose one element that would recur in most of my works and unite them into one vast series. I chose the cross as such an element and I did so for several reasons: it is a symmetrical geometric figure, it is associated with many meanings, it is one of the key elements in the history of Western visual art. My crosses do not refer to anything specific, religious, they are laconic signs, open to any possible readings, self-sufficient, like a pattern on the surface of paper.

Boris Bragin is an artist, born in 1998, living and working in Moscow. He graduated as an architect from the Moscow Institute of Architecture in 2022. In high school he suffered from oncology, which influenced his further practice as well as the set of themes he works with (fear of choice, personal memory, death). After graduation he studied jewelry making, in the summer of 2023 he took the art program Aza from NiiSreda, after which he entered the Rodchenko School in the workshop of Elena Anosova.

EDUCATION:

• 2023-present — Rodchenko School
• 2023 — NiiSreda's “ Azy” Lab
• 2017-2022 — Moscow Institute of Architecture

“My work explores the themes of doubt, fears and memory through personal experience and inner world. I am convinced that doubts and fears play a significant role in our lives, they shape our thoughts, decisions and actions. My work aims to explore these emotions and their influence on our behavior. Through the use of various techniques and materials, I aim to evoke an emotional response in the viewer and provoke reflection on my own doubts and fears. My work also addresses the theme of memory and its impact on our perception of the past and present, for example after the death of loved ones, or an uncertain home. Through my works, I encourage the viewer to reflect on how our own doubts and fears can affect our lives and how we can keep our memory alive to overcome these emotions and develop ourselves as individuals.”

Boris Bragin, artist

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “The Village That Doesn't Sleep”, CCA Fabrika gallery
• 2024 — “Paris Apartment”, Anvil Gallery
• 2023 — “The Cold Side of the Pillow”, Self-Delusion Space
• 2023 — “meltdown”, Rodchenko School
• 2023 — “Undergranium”, Artifact Gallery.
• 2022 — “What is art”, Bloomer gallery (London)
• 2021 — “ProBackyard”, Union of Moscow Architects
• 2019-2020 — “Synthesis”, Baumanskaya space

Graduated from the Moscow Art School of Applied Arts at mghpa im Stroganov; Moscow Polytechnic (graphic artist).  I am engaged in easel painting. Trained in the studio Irina Zatulovskaya. Participated in exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Russia, the Moscow Union of Artists, joint creative exhibitions. 

His works are held by private collectors. 

“What is most interesting in painting is painting. The aspirations in creativity may seem purely technical - to paint a picture harmonious in composition, to achieve a color sound. But in fact it is the very deep and meaningful process of creation, the birth of painting. Painting already exists, all around, everywhere. It is only necessary to bring to clarity what is at hand. To try to create, to bring out the sound-color in the material.

For me, painting is not a means of presenting any ideas, it is a touch to the fundamentals of life. And that is its unshakable value; always a causeless love.

The feeling of joy and meaning arises when something seems to have turned out, when something is lit up with colors on the surface. Any surface: canvas, cardboard, wood, a piece of stone...most often, I like to paint on materials that have already lived. Or not as neat and clean as a white canvas. Slightly torn plywood or “modest” cardboard is closer to life and to painting. It happens that something delicate, such as a flower, is easier to depict on a rough surface. The soul experiences beauty, often through pain or unsightliness.

The theme of flowers growing from the bottom edge of the “canvas” has become one of the central themes for me. It is as if the flower concentrates many meanings and different images relating to the most important moments of life.

Still life is always a pleasant subject. A pleasant opportunity to “communicate” with different forms and favorite objects, although here too, for me, the object, that is, matter, gives way to a sense of color. In still life paintings I always intuitively choose to paint subjects whose form and essence is simple and comprehensive. For example, a bowl or bread. Or a glass. Or, of course, an apple, as one Great Artist of the past had it....

I often turn to the subject of abstraction. But abstract painting is not something separate from other genres. There is a common thread of painting in everything for me, landscape, portraits and abstraction. Whatever subject I paint, it is the desire for light that is important. It is an inner process, a struggle, and sometimes its complete absence.

What does an artist want from his work? I would like the human viewer to be filled with the energy of light and purity when looking at my works.”

Alexey Frolov-Bagreev, artist

 

 

 

 

 

 

Marina Grekova was born in 1983 in Izhevsk.

She lives and works in Moscow.

Educated at Udmurt State University in Applied Informatics in Design (2005). Graduated from the Moscow School of Contemporary Art in the Contemporary Art program (2024).

Marina Grekova works with questions of time and memory. The artist finds answers to these questions through various experiments, collecting photographs of changing textures, working with family archives, creating prints on fabric with rust from old metal objects that have a history of use in everyday life. In this way, the artist finds the keys for answers to understand how the world works and how we perceive it, transmit information to each other, emotions we experience by creating non-verbal languages. Experiments can be in different directions, such as painting, graphics, collages, video art, performance, music, dance.

Menzhilyi Olga, artist-painter. 

Participant of more than 50 group exhibitions.

EDUCATION:

• 2009 - 2011 — A free student of the I. E. Gorky Academy of Fine Arts. Е. Repin, drawing, painting
• 2005 — Rostov Art School named after M. B. Grekov, design
• 2002 — Don State Technical University, environmental engineer

“I choose light, white color and garden as a metaphor for the eternal solitude of man in the world. A metaphor of solitude, where observation of the form and plasticity of light, care of plants become a form of cognition. The white still lifes in my works symbolize the shades of existence, and the light playing on the surface of the glass reflects the fragility of our existence. The three lines of my art merge into one . White color for me is the basis on which I build my compositions. It creates a purity of form that is the perfect canvas for my experiments. Each work of art for me is a journey in which I explore these elements and their interrelationships to create something new and meaningful. Each of my paintings must go through a period of intense emotional immersion, so I work on my paintings for a long time. My painting is built on nuance. Using oil paints and the surface of the canvas, layer by layer I get to the right image.”

Menzhiliy Olga, artist

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — participant of the group exhibition “Three Chapters from the Life of a Woman”, ARTSTORY Gallery, Moscow (curator Anna Apresyan)
• 2024 — Solo exhibition “Voices and ringing of dishes”, gallery “Kovcheg”, Moscow.
• 2024 — XIV All-Russian Exhibition “Russia”, New Tretyakovka Gallery, Moscow.
• 2023 — 8th interregional exhibition “Picturesque Russia. Modernity of traditions.”, Moscow
• 2023 — auction of contemporary art, Elohovskiy gallery, Moscow.
• 2023 — participant of the group exhibition “Games of Ladies”, Elohovskiy gallery, Moscow (curator Marianna Petrenko, Andrei Yakovlev).
• 2022 — participant of the fair “Art-Moskow”, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow.
• 2022 — “Andromeda Nebula” Moscow, gallery “INART” (curator Maria Nam).
• 2021 — “Frequencies-2.0. Live and Inanimate Antennas” Moscow, Khodynka Gallery (curator Elena Kovylina))
• 2020 — Academic jubilee exhibition in honor of the 250th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts. Krasnodar. 
• 2017 — Exhibition of the group of artists “On the Earth” in the Moscow Union of Artists of Russia, Moscow.
• 2016 — Prize-winner of the international competition-festival “Da Dun”, Fr. Taiwan, Taichung. 
• 2015 — “Art -prewy”, Moscow.
• 2008 — prize of audience sympathy, competition “Freedom of Choice”, Moscow.

Born in 1997. Lives and works in Moscow. 

Contemporary artist, postgraduate student of the UNESCO Department at the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 

EDUCATION:

• 2022 - 2024 — Postgraduate of the UNESCO Chair Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration. 
• 2016 - 2022 — Artist-Restorer. Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture Ilya Glazunov. 
• 2015 - 2016 — Painter. Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts. 

“I strive for each of my works to evoke pure and touching emotions in the viewer. My desire is to visually convey the sensual charge that I myself experience. And when the viewer finds something in my work that genuinely touches them, my mission as an artist has been realized.”

Donna Tserne, artist

 

Born in 1986 in Gorky.

Works in graphic techniques: tempera, watercolor, pastel, diatipia, etching, linocut. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. A regular participant of various art exhibitions. 

In 2021 she made to order 7 panels for the interiors of the foyer of the Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Philharmonic named after Mstislav Rostropovich, which hang there to this day.

EDUCATION:

• 2006 — Nizhny Novgorod Art School
• 2012 — Herzen Russian State University. A.I. Herzen Russian State University (St. Petersburg), Department of Painting

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• “On the Shore” solo exhibition at the Culture Center ‘Record’, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2022 — “Life in Graphics”, “Record” Culture Center, together with M. Dutsev, Nizhny Novgorod.
• 2022 — “Children.Flowers.Life”, Museum of Mordovian Folk Culture - a branch of the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S.D.Erizi, Saranks, Russia
• 2021 — “Watercolor, Pastel and Others” (Bor State Museum of Local Lore, Bor, Saranks, Russia).

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• Exhibitions of the Union of Artists of Russia: “January vacations”, “Autumn vernissage”.
• 2023 — Biennale of printed graphics in Yerevan
• 2022 — 2023 - “Lights and Stars” (together with O.Lageda, S.Pogudina, M.Dutsev, D.V.Koryukalova), gallery “9B”, Nizhny Novgorod.
• 2022 — Cultural Center “Record”
• 2021 — 2024 - International art exhibition “Art World” (Nizhny Novgorod Fair, 2021-2024)
• 2021 — Exhibition projects “Art Russia”, Nizhny Novgorod Fair.
• 2021 — Art exhibition dedicated to the 800th anniversary of the city, “Nizhny Novgorod. Details”, Nizhny Novgorod State Art Museum
• 2019 V “ARTICUL”, “Mayak” 

“In art I love lightness, suddenness, unpredictability, movement! In my works, I value understatement, so that there is space for the viewer's associations and feelings. The process of working on a painting is not a dry repetition of pre-conceived ideas, but a lively, sensitive and unpredictable process, when unexpectedly flowing paint can become a motive to lead the work on a new. To create a painting, it is important for me to get a vivid visual impression from nature or from inner images. I am convinced that only feelings can change people, so I do not turn to intellectual concepts, but try to get into the soul of the viewer through visual images.”

Anna Lageda, artist

Born in Kirov (Vyatka) in 1987. Lives and works in Moscow.

Resident of the 7th season of Vinzavod Open Studios, resident at Eduard Steinberg's Workshop. Solo exhibitions in Kirov in his own apartment, Nizhny Novgorod in the gallery Futuro, Tarusa in the Workshop of Eduard Steinberg. Member of the Monumental Section of the Moscow Union of Artists.

EDUCATION:

• 2009-2015 — V.I. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute, Department of Painting, workshop of V.M. Sidorov
• 2005-2009 — A.A. Rylov Higher Art University, Department of Painting

RESIDENCES:

• 2024 — Artistic Residency at the Eduard Steinberg Workshop, Tarusa
  2021-2022 — Open Studios, CSI Winzavod, Moscow

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — “To Myself from Myself”, Eduard Sheinberg Workshop, Tarusa
• 2022 — “Traces of Life”, Futuro Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2021 — “Traces of Life”, own apartment, Kirov
  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — “Object”, Moscow House of Artists, Moscow
• 2022-2023 — “Titled Vasari. Renaissance”, GCCI Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2022 — “Something Will Remain in Memory,” CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• 2019 — “Ethics of Dust”, Kirov

FAIRS AND AUCTIONS:

• 2023 — Contemporary Art Fair “Tupik”, Moscow
• 2023 — 2nd St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — Contemporary Art Fair “Port Art Fair”, St. Petersburg
• 2022 — 9th Charity Auction of Cosmoscow Foundation, Peredelkino
• 2021 — Fair of young contemporary art “blazar”, Moscow
• 2021 — Charity auction “Art for Heart”, Moscow

AWARDS AND GRANTS: 

• 2024 — State Scholarship of the Government of the Russian Federation for young artists
• 2023 — Gratitude of the Russian Academy of Arts
• 2022 — Gratitude of the Russian Academy of Arts
• 2020 — Acknowledgement of the Russian Academy of Arts
• 2019 — State Scholarship of the Government of the Russian Federation for Young Artists
• 2016 — State Scholarship of the Government of the Russian Federation for young artists
• 2013 -—D.K. Mochalsky Scholarship. D.K. Mochalsky Scholarship of the Faculty of Painting of the V.I. Surikov Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts
• 2012 — Vincenzo Bianchi and RAKh Grant, entitling to creative practice in Italy.
  practice in Italy

“To live life is to know and communicate one's experience as accurately as possible-in other words, to create. Art is a good way to create and live.

I express my thoughts in the language I know and in the way I know how, in the form of art objects. They are not translations and cannot be translated into any other language. They are formulas embodied by visual means.

My area of interest is the relationship of man, time, place and their relationship to nothingness.”

Boyarintsev Sergey, artist

Myachina Anastasia is a visual artist originally from Samara, living and working in St. Petersburg.

In 2017-2019 studied at Lobachevsky NNGU at the philological department. In 2017 she participated in the PROscenium laboratory of the art group “ProvMyza”. Since 2022 participated in group exhibitions in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod and Rome. Since 2023 she has been studying at the Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art in the New Artistic Strategies program.

EDUCATION:

• 2023 — 2025 ICA Moscow (IPSI)
• 2023 — 2024 Common Ground Lab, curated by Alina Belishkina and Ekaterina Yushkevich
• 2023 — Letter in Komarovo residence curated by Alina Belishkina, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — Art Lab at Foto.Department, course by Nadezhda Sheremetyeva, St. Petersburg
• 2022 — Academy of Contemporary Photography “Fotografika”, St. Petersburg
• 2017 — Art Lab “Proscenium”, curated by art group ProveMyza, Nizhny Novgorod

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — PAF: All Flowers, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — XII Winwin, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — PrintMarket, ZernoGallery, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — House Upside Down - St. Petersburg
• 2023 — Loosen Art, Rome, Italy
• 2023 — “Anthropoland”, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2023 — “Re:store - everything is possible”, Moscow
• 2023 — NIZINA, zine-festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2023 — SamIzdal, festival of samizdat books and zines, St. Petersburg
• 2022 — “Tax on the Road”, St. Petersburg

“My practice is organized around linguistic and semiotic concerns within the field of the visual -- exploring the internal politics of the gaze and the limits of representation, I work with phenomena such as perception, image origination, literalism, mythological aspects of perception, artistic thinking and memory.

In the project “572, my charm personal” I investigate the remnants of representations of mythological thinking at the interface with algorithmic thinking through the collision of different contextual images.
In the 'in other words' project, I explore the inner workings of art production, the emergence of meaning and the ultimate idea, using and critiquing from within the medium of photography.”

Anastasia Myachina, artist

Born in 1994 in Kazan, Russia. Lives and works in Moscow. 

Alexander is a multidisciplinary artist whose creative range encompasses graphics, poetry and sculpture. He is best known for his work with poetry. In his drawings he turns to simple materials - paper, pen, pencil, ink and markers. Working with text, he utilizes practices of experimental and visual poetry. 

Gordeev's work explores themes of identity in the midst of change. Influenced by his modeling experience, Alexander pays attention to the relationship between clothing, body and self-perception in his work. One of his significant projects was the calligraphy-inspired Asemic Letters 2020 series, which marked a turning point in his career. This series was widely recognized in the institutional art world, leading to subsequent exhibitions and participation in renowned Russian art fairs.

In 2022, Alexander began organizing and curating poetry readings with different poets, exploring poetry as an artistic medium. Readings have already taken place in Russia, France, Denmark and Germany.

Alexander Gordeev's works are in various private collections in Russia, France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain, Japan and the United States.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Athens Digital Arts Festival “TECHNO(S)CENE”, Santaroza Courthouse, Athens, Greece
• 2024 — Essayage (group exhibition), Villa Paradis Art Association at La Traverse Gallery, Marseille, France
• 2023 — Nur Media Art Festival (group exhibition), National Library of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan, Russia
• 2023 — Work in progress (group exhibition), Serene Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — The Night Is Young (group exhibition), Serene Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2022 — Angels of The Wonderful World of Dissocia (group exhibition), Galerie Charraudeau, Paris, France
• 2021 — Day of Poetry (solo exhibition), Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 — To embrace and to cry (group exhibition), Sinara Art Gallery (special project within the Ural Biennale), Yekaterinburg, Russia
• 2020 — (solo exhibition) Betweenwindoows Gallery, Moscow, Russia

PARTICIPATION IN ART FAIRS:

• 2022 — Blazar, Koshta collective media art section, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
  2022 — Win-Win, ArtGuide booth, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia
  2020 — Cosmoscow, Lunar Hare booth, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, Russia

AWARDS:

• 2020 — Video Art (shortlist), 7th International Biennale of Young Art x Gucci, Moscow, Russia

Born in Siberia, in the city of Angarsk in 1977. In 2021 she moved to St. Petersburg.

Most of her creative life was engaged in collectible toys. In 2019, she started practicing art. Now is interested in all available mediums. 

The artist is interested in both applied techniques (textiles, ceramics, embroidery, papier-mâché) and graphic and pictorial art. Mixing them, she achieves greater freedom in the embodiment of her world, balancing on the edge of the abstract and recognizable.
The artist creates characters and objects that inhabit the space of her personal mythology, memories, feelings and bodily sensations.
She is preoccupied with the small narratives, dreams and nightmares of everyday life; she is attracted to the invisible part of everyday existence: the sphere where our expectations are formed, where neuroses flourish and memories mutate.

EDUCATION:

• 2020 — GET ART FIT
• 2020 — ANGRY POTTER SCHOOL
• 1996 - 2002 — Novosibirsk State University of Architecture, Design and Arts, Department of Monumental and Decorative Arts, Faculty of Ceramic Art

EXHIBITIONS ANS ART FAIRS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — The Third Place Art Fair: Summer Edition”, Tretye Mesto space, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2024  — III International Art Textile Festival “Constellation” of the Guild of Textile Workers of St. Petersburg
• 2024 — exhibition “RAF: All Flowers”, St. Petersburg, Sevkabel Port  
• 2024 — contemporary art fair PORT ART FAIR, RAF Gallery, St. Petersburg, Sevkabel Port
• 2023 — “Past.Present.Future” (ceramics, textile objects), Art and Brut gallery, Moscow.
• 2023 — “Just Because” project “The House That” (objects, creatures) (papier-mâché, ceramics) Museum Workshop Anikushin, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — WIN-WIN Fair, Moscow
• 2022 — “L'Amour a horreur du froid !” Out of the box (textile sculpture) Bruxelles, Belgium
• 2022 — Art Festival “Land of the Reindeer” (textile sculpture, installation), Salekhard
• 2022 — Exhibition-competition “Point of reference” Get art fit + Ceramania (second place) (ceramics, textile)
• 2021 — Group project “Sprouts”, Post Gallery and Workshops, Novosibirsk (ceramics, textile sculpture)
• 2021 — 48 Hours Festival, Novosibirsk
• 2020 — All-Russian competition “Invented and Made in Russia”, ceramics (short-list), Moscow.
• 2020 — Exhibition project “Ice”, Novosibirsk, Krasny Art Center (ceramics)
• 2019 — International Siberian Ceramics Festival, work “Melancholia” (Grand Prix)
• 2019 — Festival of Contemporary Art “48 Hours Novosibirsk”
• 2019 — Pavilion of Siberia at the Venice Biennale in Novosibirsk-2019

Alina Koryakina was born in 1993 in the town of Valuiki, Belgorod region. Since 2024 she has been living in St. Petersburg.

In 2022 she defended her thesis “Concrete with photoluminescent properties for small architectural forms”, receiving the degree of Candidate of Technical Sciences. She is a member of the youth association at the Union of Artists of Russia.

EDUCATION:

• 2016 — V.G. Shukhov Belarusian State Technical University, specialization “Architect-Designer” 
  

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — “POCHVA”, CSI Byl, Stary Oskol
• 2023 — “Green Man”, National Research University Belgorod, Belgorod
• 2023 — “Bubbles of the Earth”, CSI “Chudo”, Kursk
• 2023 — I Interregional Exhibition of Contemporary Art
• 2023 — “Parallels”, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod
• 2023 — curating and participation in “Sasha 2.0. We all need memories to know who we are”, MegaGrinn shopping center, Belgorod
• 2023 — “Bubbles of the Earth”, MAUK “Cultural Center ‘October’, Belgorod
• 2022 — “In the Center of Attention”, BGKhM, Belgorod
• 2022 — personal exhibition “Color! Color! Color! Color!”, CMI, Belgorod
• 2021 — solo exhibition “Search”, BGNIB, Belgorod
• 2021 — “Green Day X. on/off (must choose)”, KC “Oktyabr”, Belgorod
• 2020 - 2017 — solo exhibition “Magic of Colors”, VGKhM, Valuiki
• 2020 - 2017 — VIII Regional Youth Exhibition, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod.
• 2020 - 2017 — Exhibition of watercolors of Belgorod masters, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod
• 2020 - 2017 — “Lyrics of Valuysky Krai”, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod
• 2020 - 2017 — Exhibition of Litvinova I.N. and her students, VGKhM, Valuiki.
• 2020 - 2017 — VI Regional Youth Exhibition, VZ “Rodina”, Belgorod.

“I have been going to plein airs for many years, painting productions from life, studying art history, but I could not fully understand what I wanted to talk about. And only this year I underwent a kind of initiation after deep work with the acceptance of my “I”, working through the theme of shame, phantasms and the inner radical. 

In my works I started to address the natural world, the world of simplicity and sincerity. So that the viewer could empathize, feel, find in them what is consonant with himself. I try to convey that elusive feeling when you pour sugar on black bread and butter, when you see fireflies for the first time in your life and can't believe your eyes, or when you come to the river where your father came to swim as a boy, and a few decades later - you. I looked at life through the eyes of an impressionable child, and now I dream of embodying this honesty in my work. I want to immerse the viewer in the comprehension of the most significant images, to connect cultural regional contexts, to demonstrate identity, a common point of support in such a difficult time and to remember the touching and vulnerable that is in each of us.

At this stage I am working with painting, ceramics, connecting science and art through the use of photoluminescent pigment, thanks to the research of which I received my PhD.”

Alina Koryakina, artist

Anastasia was born and raised in Moscow. 

EDUCATION:

• 2015 — V.I.Surikov Moscow State Art Institute. Department of Painting and Academic Drawing.
• 2015 — Abstract Painting Workshop of Sergey Garkushko
• 2014 — Moscow Academic Art School in memory of 1905. Department of painting and academic drawing

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:  

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2019 — exhibition “Girl & Girls”, Lisitsa space, Moscow
• 2016 — exhibition - reflection “Alchemy of Process/Alchemy of Painting”. Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow. Curator - Katya Garkushko

Endowing her own memory with corporeality, each time the artist turns to different mediums that make the perception of the past more multidimensional: fabrics, wallpaper, napkins and lace embroidered by the artist's grandmother, Soviet porcelain - objects from her personal archive are reflected in the collective memory of several generations. 

“My artistic practice aims to reveal the connections between past and present in the infinite cycle of life. The emotional paradox of living ambivalent feelings, questions of self-identity through the past, and the exploration of personal narrative through collective memory give birth to man-made objects that evoke the emotional turmoil and peace of encountering the past in a new form. By endowing my own memory with corporeality, each time I turn to different mediums that make the perception of the past more multidimensional: fabrics, wallpaper, napkins and lace embroidered by my grandmother's hands, Soviet porcelain - objects from my personal archive are reflected in the collective memory of several generations. By consciously working without a preconceived sketch, I allow the objects to form and change in the process of interaction of individual elements, like a living organism. The possibility of emotionally reliving past experiences in the present and appropriating the memory of physical manifestation is my way of overcoming the discreteness of memory through the creative act.”

Geraskina Anastasia, artist

Artist, illustrator and teacher with an architectural background.

Trained in illustration at Britannica, teaches at IIC “Garage”, creates graphics and sculptures, works with memories and the theme of childhood.

EDUCATION:

• 2023 - 2025 — British Graduate School of Design, DVO Illustration 
  2019 - 2023 — NSUADI, Architecture (Novosibirsk)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “Until New Year. While Adults” interdisciplinary exhibition project of contemporary art, 11.12 gallery, CCI Vinzavod. curator Olya Makhno
• 2024 — “How am I? / How are you?” collective exhibition, U Contemporary gallery, CAC Winzavod. curator Olya Makhno.

“In my art practice, I reflect personal experiences through images of childhood. My works are adult statements molded from children's toys.”

Alyosha Geld, artist

In her youth, in search of applying her skills and looking for a future specialty, the artist took various courses (MARKHI, Glazunov Academy, School of Design), but for a long time stopped in the field of cinematographic art as a production designer.

Graduated from VGIK with a degree in Film and TV Production Designer (2017-2023), took courses at MSK (Artistic Production) and Scream School (Concept Artist). 

“I am moved by the presence of a living being in this big to infinite, complex world. It is interesting to feel it fully, to see it with my own eyes and to reveal the theme in the language of images. The project reflects my personal perception of the world around me. The feeling of smallness inherent in a person at the beginning of his or her journey and, at the same time, the ease and freedom of moving freely through the big world. Can we really make a difference when the world around us is so colossal? In my work I apply such media as: painting, art object, graphics.”

Timasheva Alexandra, artist

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — All-Russian Decade of Graduates, New Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Muse, Molbert Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2024 — World of Illusions, ArtHub, Ivanovo, Russia
• 2024 — Murashki, City Festival “Non-artificial”, Novosibirsk, Russia

Born in Saransk.

EDUCATION:

• 2021-2024 — Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
• 2020-2021 — Docdoc “The Experience of Contemporary Photography”
• 2019-2020 — Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia “Photography in Media”
• 2016-2018 — Polezreniya “Contemporary Photography. Practice of visual research”
• 2008-2014 — Pushkin State University, Environmental Design

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Honey, it's me / group exhibition / Moscow
• 2024 — I am you / solo exhibition / Moscow
• 2023 — I will avenge the world with love / Moscow
• 2023 — I Don't Know How To Respond To That/ collective show, PhMuseum / “Fill Line” / Bologna
• 2023 — Palaty. Kuban / group exhibition / Lacuna / Moscow
• 2022 — What To Do / group exhibition / “What Do You Want To Find Here” / Moscow
• 2022 — NeyUya/ group exhibition/ “III. Three-Headed Whale"/ Tashkent
• 2022 — Excess / group exhibition / Lacuna / Moscow
• 2022 — Order of Observation/ group exhibition/ “Line of Filling” / Moscow
• 2022 — Videoskin/ group exhibition/ “What do you want to find here”/ Moscow
• 2022 — We are forgotten at night/ group exhibition/ Stary Oskol
• 2022 — I (don't) want to grow up/ group exhibition/ Moscow
• 2022 — Layering on/ group exhibition/ Moscow
• 2021 — Charta Festival/ Rome
• 2021 — Pep photography/ group exhibition OBSESSIONS / Tête Gallery - Berlin
• 2021 — UDAR/ group exhibition/ “III. Three-Headed Whale” / Borovsk
• 2021 — Solo exhibition / “Micro-movements”/ Moscow
• 2019 — Young Photographers of Russia / “Grey Lights”/ Kaluga

“Key themes in my art practice are related to issues of agency, problems of communication and the impact of traumatic events on the individual. I work with long-term photographic projects, combining installation form, sculpture, performative video and sound. I am interested in the image of the contemporary person who experiences emotional instability, transitional states between stages of personal and social development. By reinterpreting my experience, exploring elements of my personal archive, it is as if I am an indicator, emphasizing the problems and crises of my generation”

 Katya Yanova, artist

Timur This is the pseudonym of the artist Timur Nurgaliev.

He was born in Nevelsk, on. Sakhalin. 

Since 2007 he lives and works in St. Petersburg.

In his works, the artist explores the influence of language on every aspect of what is happening, using the human body as a clue and horror as a vibe. This research has turned in recent years into a full-fledged phantasmagoria about a man and a woman at the same time, influenced by all contemporary events, cultural symbols and probably something deeply personal.

“Women are the protagonists of almost all of my work, and I hope this can be explained by something more original than the usual story of another estranged father.

I have been working with tattooing for the last 13 years. The experience of working with other people's bodies has infiltrated my work unnoticed by myself. Touching, crumpling, pulling, twisting. To smell, to wipe, to shave. To bring pain.

Accepted as a vessel, at times the body feels like a trapped horror movie character. The body, possessed by the consciousness of its owner, is unable to bring about the evolution of its own being through will. It looks tragically in the mirror and tries to remember when everything went wrong. To remember who it really is. A poor, majestic creature. A naked spirit hiding in plain sight.

A body an obsession. A friend who is always with you. An entity more dear than a mother, because one day it is from her that we will be born definitively.”

Timur Etot, artist

Visual interdisciplinary artist, lives and works in Serpukhov (Moscow region).

She started her career as a photographer in 2009, but over time, in the pursuit of greater autonomy and self-expression, she mastered other techniques: painting and objects.

EDUCATION:

• 2022 - 2023 — Class workshops, Academy of Arts at the S. G. Stroganov Russian State Academy of Fine Arts
  2016 - 2019 — studied academic drawing and painting in the art studio of Serpukhov “Watercolor”

“The lack of trust in the real is a major fulcrum for my work. In my practice, I actively explore the theme of anti-reality and create works composed of natural and figurative fantasies. When working with canvas or objects, I exorcise the literal manifestation of the human being, favoring fragments or emptiness, but at the same time such emptiness still suggests a human presence figuratively.”

Katya Yanova, artist

SOLO EXHIBITIONS, PROJECTS AND RESIDENCIES:

• 2023 — Solo exhibition “Fairy Tale”, Triptych Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Residence “SFERA” with the support of MaxArt Contemporary Art Foundation, Perm
• 2023 — “How the Beast Tamed Me” project, Perm Museum of Local Lore, Perm, Russia

ИЗБРАННЫЕ ГРУППОВЫЕ ВЫСТАВКИ:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Group exhibition “Link of Times”, Philharmonic Hall, Veliky Novgorod, Russia
• 2024 — Group exhibition “Oasis”, Soulmate & Milliart Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Group exhibition “Reboot”, Triptych Gallery, Moscow.
• 2023 — Curatorial project “And I am like Frida”, Creador Center, Moscow
• 2023 — Curatorial project “Choosing a Man”, Moscow
• 2022 — Group exhibition “Cultural diversity” Switzerland, Zug
• 2022 — Group exhibition “Ein blick aus der ferne” Switzerland, Lucerne
• 2021 — “Christmas Exhibition” Switzerland, Zug
• 2021 — Group exhibition “Women's exhibition”, St. Petersburg, Russia

COLLECTIONS:

• Perm Museum of Local Lore. Branch — Meshkov House

CONTEMPORARY ART FAIRS AND AUCTIONS:

• 2024 — Fair of classical and contemporary art “ART MOSCOW”, Gostiny Dvor.
• 2023 — Win-Win Market, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — Auction of contemporary art, gallery “On Elokhovsky”, Moscow.
• 2022 — Contemporary Art Fair “Art International Zürich” Switzerland, Zurich.

"The Absence" Project

This series is a large part of a new body of work that explores the theme of “absence” in our physical world. I am inspired by the theory of anti-reality, where I find myself searching for an alternative way of existing outside of three-dimensional space. The walls, furniture, windows and rooms into which I immerse shadows serve as a world of understandable things that seem solid and reliable. Some objects such as pillows serve as a “portal” to the dream world in which we spend a third of our lives. The shadowy images on the canvases have a life of their own. I have endowed them with the ability to exist as silent informational copies of our reality. But without the dressiness of a world in which we try to conform to something.

Born in Angarsk in 1991, lives and works in St. Petersburg. 

In her practice she explores the subject's self-definition in the modern world. Examines how the modern subject reflects on his emotions, dreams and memories in a world of global overproduction of goods and images, in which everything is turned into a product of buying and selling. Attempts to understand how identity is constructed in the age of mass culture and how archetypal images influence it. Often addresses the theme of personal and collective memory and the feelings that the subject has towards his own past.

In his projects the artist works with images taken from everyday life and personal memories. Using the collage method, she combines these images with cultural symbols, timeless signs, which help to reveal the subject's inner feelings, as well as the presence of the unreal in the everyday.

Blends different mediums, combines painting and photography with metal casting, and creates images that transcend the boundaries of the two-dimensional plane. This method allows the artist to reveal how present and past events, feelings, and childhood narratives are intertwined in the subject's inner world and how they influence the perception of the present.

EDUCATION: 

• 2016 - 2022 — Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
  2008 - 2014 — St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, St. Petersburg, Russia

“In her practice explores the theme of the subject's self-definition in the contemporary world. Examines how the modern subject reflects on his emotions, dreams, and memories in a world of global overproduction of goods and images, in which everything is turned into a product of buying and selling. Attempts to understand how identity is constructed in the age of mass culture and how archetypal images influence it. Often addresses the theme of personal and collective memory and the feelings that the subject has about his own past. In his projects the artist works with images taken from everyday life and personal memories. Using the collage method, he combines these images with cultural symbols, timeless signs that help to reveal the subject's inner feelings, as well as the presence of the unreal in the ordinary. Mixes different mediums, combines painting and photography with metal casting, creates images that go beyond the boundaries of the two-dimensional plane. This method allows the artist to reveal how present and past events, feelings and childhood narratives are intertwined in the subject's inner world and how they influence the perception of the present.”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Default Settings, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2023 — The last off-site show on the Earth at Plague Space and everywhere, Plague Space, Krasnodar, Krasnodar.
• 2023 — Topology of the Margins, Central Gogol Library, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2023 — Illusion of Reality, Abramova gallery, St.Petersburg
• 2022 — exhibition of diploma works, Ilya Repin Academy of Arts, St.-Petersburg.
• 2021 — Neobyatnaya.zip, Ilya Repin Academy of Arts, St.Petersburg
• 2019 — Kasaniya.zip, Ilya Repin Academy of Arts, St.Petersburg

FAIRS AND AUCTIONS:

• 2024 — Realism, VLADEY, Moscow
• 2024 — All for 100, VLADEY, Moscow
• 2023 — Third Place Art Fair, Third Place, St.-Petersburg
• 2022 — ARTPROM, VLADEY, Moscow
• 2022 — All for 100, VLADEY, Moscow
• 2019 — Summer art market, Sevkabel Port, St.-Petersburg

"The Sleeping Beauty" project

“In this project I work with an ironic reflection on my own self-reflection. Starting from the plot of the fairy tale “Sleeping Beauty”, I turn to the theme of romanticizing the suffering hero. The hundred-year dream in which the heroine immerses herself becomes the starting point for reflection on the permanent state of waiting for happiness. I am interested in exploring the contemporary cultural context in which the suffering hero becomes an attractive role model, replicated and commercialized. We encounter this image in literature, music, movies, and fairy tale narratives. In my project, I propose to reinterpret the archetypal image of the suffering princess and reflect on how it influences the behavioral patterns we unconsciously reproduce in our lives. The mirror included in the exhibition asks the viewer the humorous question “will I ever be happy”?”

Katyanova Maria, artist

 

Lives and works in Saint Peterburg.

EDUCATION: 

• 2019 - 2025 — St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts, faculty of sculpture, specialization

“I work with different materials. For the last year I have been working and experimenting a lot with ceramics. This material gives me more freedom and helps me to express my thoughts more clearly. Being able to add color to a sculpture, I think, completes its concept in a more coherent way. It is important for me to be able to put aside excessive academicism, to keep in my head all the experience I have gained, to make sincere and lively works. In sculpture I am interested in creating a separate space. For me it is a kind of scenography. Just as children play with soldiers and dolls, learning about the world, so I explore it through objects and my characters. I am not only interested in the individual, but also in society as a whole. In my works, society is experienced through art, becomes the source of destruction or oppression of a particular character, does not notice a looming threat, and is the bearer of a cultural code. Man and society. The artist and the viewer. Man and culture, traditions. Man and man. Society and the world. These are the themes I discuss in my art.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “BRICS National Brands” in the framework of SPIEF
• 2024 — “Cinema” for the XVII Igor Minakov Award
• 2023 -—“Please take it off” for the Museum of Urban Sculpture, “Nevsky, 19”
• 2023 — Participation in the competitive exhibition “Ark” of the XVI Igor Minakov Prize
• 2022 - 2024 — Participation in group spring exhibitions of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists

AWARDS:

• Winner of the I degree of the Public Recognition Award of the XVII Igor Minakov Competition-Exhibition “Kino” Prize
• Public Recognition Award of the XVII Igor Minakov Award at the Kino Exhibition and Competition.

Elena Taganova (b. 1990) – artist, working with photography. Lives in Moscow. Graduated from Contemporary School of Photography Polezreniya.

EDUCATION:

• 2022 - present — Contemporary School of Photography Polezreniya
• 2007 - 2011 — “Moscow Finance and Law Academy”, financial management

“As an artist working with photography, I am interested in visualizing personal stories and experiences that can be understood and relatable to a wide range of people, working with the theme of memory, through observation of space and constructing objects and subjects with my own hands.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “Architecture -1” A-House space, section ‘Architectural Photography’ Photoshoot, Zotov Center

CONTESTS:

• 2024 — 2nd place in the “Fingerprint” contest (National Research University Higher School of Economics)

AEVGENIK — псевдомним художницы Евгении Матвеевой.

Родилась в Нижнем Новгороде, 18 декабря 2001 года.

ОБРАЗОВАНИЕ:

• 2008 - 2017 — «Первая художественная школа»
• 2017 - 2021 — Нижегородское художественное училище, специальность живопись.
• 2021 - 2028 — в МГАХИ им. Сурикова, факультет графики, в мастерской графики и плаката профессора А.А. Любавина

"Время - необратимое течение, протекающее лишь в одном направлении. Иногда его мало, иногда мы ищем его. Это абстрактное понятие мы пытаемся визуализировать или приписать ему физическое лицо разными средствами. Для меня время проявляется в памяти; оно отражается в предметах, людях, местах, которые я знаю сейчас и помню их раньше, а самое интересное - какими они будут через время. Это позволяет находить детали и материал к моей художественной практике, в которой я отдаю предпочтение сюжетам-наблюдениям повседневной жизни. Источником вдохновения для меня являются путешествия по городам России, так как с детства я ощутила как многообразен быт людей, даже если они из разных городов. Это также отражается в визуальном языке каждого города, дома или комнаты. Тогда как дом играет важную роль в нашем внутреннем мире и гармонии. Это очень личное пространство хранит «сжатое время». А первозданный дом, где сформировались наши грезы и фантазии сидит в нас и хранит те особенные воспоминания, которые выражаются в наших настоящих действиях. Так, обращаясь к своему внутреннему ребенку, я вспоминаю первые яркие пейзажи, ностальгию, рассказы бабушки и вкус каждого кусочка места. Я работаю с традиционными техниками - живописью, уникальной и печатной графикой, а также фотографией. С помощью таких средств, как аппликация, коллаж, руинирование я пытаюсь передать эффект многослойности, в которой заключаю само время. Мне хочется вызвать у зрителя абсолютно разные чувства - это может быть как теплая ностальгия, так и острая тревожность, гордыня и страх, эмпатия или расстройство."

ИЗБРАННЫЕ ВЫСТАВКИ:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, галерея a—s—t—r—a, ЦСИ Винзавод, Москва
• 2024 — «Кубачинская башня» IV Международное биеннале печатной графики, Махачкала, Россия
• 2024 — «Молодежка» при МСХ секция графики и живописи, Москва, Россия
• 2024 — «Оазис», Milli.Art Gallery совместно с Soulmate Gallery, Москва, Россия
• 2020 — «Осенний вернисаж», ННСХ, Нижний Новгород, Россия

 

Born in Kaliningrad.

Artist and photograph, works with digital and analog photography, hand printing, video, graduate of the Rodchenko School and Moscow Institute of Architecture. 

EDUCATION:

• 2021 - 2024 — Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia
• 2023 — Photo Basics. Printmaking Practices Lab for artists. Center for Art Production “Vaults”, HPP-2
• 2015 - 2020 —  Moscow Architectural Institute
• 2017 — l'Académie d'art de la ville de Bandol (France)

“I was born in Kaliningrad and grew up moving around the country and Europe. The changing reality around me required new forms of adaptation each time. The first such way was childhood collecting - my own archive. The exploration of reality moved into my artistic practice: I conceptualize the world around me in social and existential themes, and capture it through metaphors and symbols. Interacting with the attributes and templates of past culture allows me to find its labels in the present. I am interested in the space in which today's society is formed, how it affects the individual and vice versa. The techniques of topoanalysis help me in understanding the phenomenon of space. As an author I work in the field of visual art, my main medium is hand printing. It is important for me to remain open and sincere, to speak to the viewer in a visually poetic, metaphorical language.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “Honey is me”, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
• 2024 — “Freedom of Absurdity”, CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2024 — “The Adventure of Photography”, PENNLAB Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “We Met the Director of Water”, Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Museum Center “Mira Square”, Krasnoyarsk
• 2023 — “Repetitions and Differences 2.0”, Art.ru Agency, Moscow
• 2023 — “Repetitions and Differences”, CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2023 — “I will avenge the world with love”, Graund Solyanka, Moscow
• 2021 — “BOMBA VIDEO CLUB VOL.9”, Bomba Gallery, Moscow.
• 2020 — “Chancery”, DISK, “25 Kadr” gallery, Moscow

ЯРМАРКИ:

• 2024 — Contemporary Art Fair |catalog|, Sytin Printing House, Moscow
• 2024 — WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Market, Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — BLAZAR Fair of Young Contemporary Art, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
• 2022 — BUY, Contemporary Art Fair, CSI Terminal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

ART FAIRS:

• 2022 — “ARTPROM”, Vladey, Moscow
• 2021 — Auction of Young Contemporary Art, White Room Foundation, Moscow

TEACHING ACTIVITY:

• 2023 — V Siberian Laboratory of Young Art “Fata Morgana”, as part of the XV Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale
• 2023 — Master class on alternative printing at the Museum of Moscow as part of the “Photosecession” laboratory
• 2023 - present — Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia (program of students' adaptation to the educational process) 

Katya na Khata is the pseudonym of artist Katerina Menshikova.

Born in Yekaterinburg, she lives and works in Moscow.

Studying at the Stroganov University in two opposite artistic departments resulted in a single artistic style - laundering, which appears in most of her works.

After completing her basic education, the artist continued to develop in the field of art. But she chose the human body as her canvas. Since 2017, her attention has been absorbed by her work with people, which began the next decade of integrating her artistic vision into her chosen format.
The events that are currently taking place in our country and in the world have encouraged her to return to the classical representation of images in the format of canvases.
The artist returned to revealing the form through the layering of colors in gradation from glare to falling shadow, to the tonal elaboration of the object. Through the monochrome image I try to convey to the viewer exclusively the sensations on which she herself is concentrated.

EDUCATION:

• 2023 — HSE, Alexandra Mitlyanskaya's course “Video Time”
• 2007 - 2012 — “Stationary Graphics”, Stroganov Moscow State University of Fine Arts (workshop of L.V. Shepelev)
• 2004-2007 — “Artistic design of furniture”, Stroganov Moscow State Art and Design University
• 1999 - 2000 — watercolor school named after S.Andriyaki

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Aptekarsky Ogorod. Moscow. Plants of Brix countries

“Over the last four years, the world under our feet has cracked. There was a split into two camps, where half of the people left, changed, adapted to new living conditions. For some people this crack served as a good forced jerk, forced circumstances, when the choice of a place to live became unambiguous.

I stayed in Russia, unwittingly witnessing very similar stories, imbued with longing and loneliness inside the noisy newfound metropolis. I became an observer of our age-old staples, which, it seemed, would not affect us.
Became a participant in them against all odds.

Outside of troubled times, I often romanticized other people's emigration, as broadcasting the beautiful life on social media never showed me the other side. The slogan “bread and spectacle” has become the manifesto of our time. Life in the new microclimate has been stripped of its former utopias, epitomizing only the perishability of existence.

As a result, all the images in the paintings began to reflect a native homesickness, where in the landscapes of another country I still search with my eyes for the attributes of my flawed homeland. I look for places that are associated with simple basic feelings - happiness, security and tranquility.”

Katya na Khate, artist

Born on April 27, 1967 in Grodno region of BSSR in a military family. Now lives in Shchelkovo, Moscow region. 

Studied academic drawing at the TsDH studio in 2002-2003, took an illustration course at CGTarian online school (2018), a course in graphics technology at Format Vacations (2019), by lessons and books (present). I started drawing in my 3rd year of military school.

In 2002 was admitted to the Creative Union of Artists of Russia (graphics section).

EDUCATION:

• 2019 — Graphics technology course at the Onboarding Vacations
• 2018 — took an illustration course at CGTarian online school
• 2004 — Additional education: International Institute of Advertising
• 2002 — 2003 - Studied academic drawing in the studio of the Central House of Artists
• 1989 — Daugavpils Air Force Academy (1989), mechanical engineer in airplanes and engines

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Participation in the exhibition of graphics of the TCAA
• 2023 — Participation in the exhibition of graphics “Ugol”. Novosibirsk
• 2023 — Participation in the exhibition “TERRITORY OF GRAPHICS. TWO STOLITZES”. Moscow
• 2023 — Participation in the exhibition “Ch-humanity”, St. Petersburg.
• 2005 — Participation in the exhibition dedicated to the 350th anniversary of St. Petersburg in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg.
• 2004 — Participation in Art-Manezh, Moscow
• 2003 — Solo exhibition in the gallery 4Che
• 1992 — Exhibition at the Bozhitsky Gallery in the Central House of Artists.
• 1990 — The first personal exhibition in the club in /h / 71293 Efremov, Tula region.
• 1982 — 1997 - Vernissages in Izmailovo

“I love stories, and stories love me, the main thing is to have time to write down the story in a notebook, so that it does not run away and is not forgotten. And then to transfer it to paper. And so that color doesn't distract, my stories are in black and white. Like old photographs, like dreams.

Every story has a conflict, a contradiction, even when there is no hero, no active character. There are stories that are real and stories that are fictional, but each of them is an imprint, a slice of our everyday life.

My mission as an artist is to share these stories with the world.”

Victor Scopets, artist

Dmitry Zakunov is an artist working in the technique of chronophotography, which is based on shooting at a
long shutter speed.

Dmitry Zakunov was born in 1986 in Nizhny Novgorod. In 2012 he studied photography at the University of New Mexico (USA), inspired by the works of photographers Joel-Peter Witkin and Patrick Nagatani, whose names are closely connected with this university.

The process of visual deformation and deconstruction of the figures of the models in the photo, forms photodynamic compositions that address the state of dreams, hallucinations, subconscious images, reconstructing space according to new patterns. His work has been influenced by the photodynamic images of Anton Giulio Bragaglia, the works of Alexey Titarenko, Javi Bou, the paintings of Lucien Freud and Francis Bacon.

Exhibiting works in different cycles - “Familiar Faces”, “Approaching Dusk”, “Psychopathology of Everyday Life”, Dmitry addresses psychology, mysticism and the theme of everyday life through the artistic method of chronophotography, showing the hidden plasticity of human body movements.

EDUCATION:

• 2012 — New Mexico State University, Albuquerque, USA
• 2011 — Translation Specialist, Academy of Education University, Russia
• 2010 — Training Course, Russian Museum of Photography, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
• 2008 — Teacher of Fine Arts, Minin Institute, Russia

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “Antropos Structures” (solo exhibition) ‘AYA’, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — “Default Settings” (group exhibition) Pogudina's Workshop, N. Novgorod.
• 2023 — “Landscapes of the Body” (group exhibition) One's Mind Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Familiar Faces” (solo exhibition) CSI Terminal A, N. Novgorod
• 2023 — “Rafinad” (group exhibition) Gallery “15\10”, Moscow
• 2023 — “Chronophotography. Forms of Time” (solo exhibition) ‘Record’ N. Novgorod
• 2022 — “Human Resources” (group exhibition) NCSI, V. Novgorod
• 2022 — “Strange Art. In the midst of madness” (prize winner)

“Central to my method is the manifestation of the hidden plasticity of human body movements in the process of chronophotographic filming. This method initiates visual experimentation, allowing me to utilize an actual artistic language in the themes and projects I develop. The series of works “Familiar Faces” (2020) explores the phenomenon of prosopagnosia in chronophotographic portraits. The series “Psychopathology of Everyday Life” (2021) visualizes the mental precedents of everyday psychological reality, cautioning and reviving stereotypical images. The project “Synesthesia. Time Tracers” (2023) denotes the inextricable links between auditory and visual perceptual processes through the artistic method of chronophotography. The cycle “Transgression” (2023) uses the transformation of the body as a method of visualizing the changes in a person's personality caused by transitions into new qualities, addressing the phenomenon of transgressive transition. In assembling photodynamic compositions, I use rhythm, form, and color to address the explicit and implicit sensory-logical structures of memory, where enigmatic constructions envelop the depicted object and are filled in by the viewer.”

Dmitriy Zakunov, artist

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. 

Alyona Zhandarova (1988) lives and works in Ivanovo, Russia.

She studied at the European Institute of Design IED, Department of Art Photography in Madirida, Spain. 

The illusory nature of the external world, the exploration of human beliefs and social boundaries, the uniqueness of each person, continuity and the interconnection of inner space with external conditioning are the main areas of Alyona Zhandarova's research. Interacting with the world through photography, she translates her own experience into the language of visual symbols. Alyona was honored with the Zeiss Photography Awards in 2020. Her work has been shown at the International Photography and Art Festival PhEST in Italy in 2021, Aarhus Center for Contemporary Art in Denmark in 2012, Singapore International Photography Festival in Singapore in 2020 and others. Her works are included in the collections of Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts in Japan, Meyrin Cultural Center in Switzerland and many private collections.

Alyona feels the world as a single living organism, subtly feeling the invisible connections between all beings, events, the past and what has not yet happened. The themes of the illusory nature of what is happening, its multilayeredness and cyclicality are the anchor point of her artistic practice. 

Exploring the forms and structure of the interaction between the inner and the outer, Alyona makes an attempt to manifest and organize their relationship visually. Absurdity and play are the main methods she uses to translate from the cosmic (invisible) to the human (manifested), in an attempt to find answers to the question “How to remember the magic of a gray day, being absorbed by routine and everyday life?”.

EDUCATION:

• 2012 — European Institute of Design IED Madrid, Faculty of Fine Arts, Madrid, Spain
  Photography, Madrid, Spain

SOLO SHOWS:

• 2021 — “Hidden Motherhood”, PhEST, International Photography and Art Festival, Monopoli, Italy
• 2020 — “Triangle-flavored mashed potatoes”, Fotografika Gallery,
  St. Petersburg, Russia (online tour)
• 2018 — “Mashed Potatoes with the Flavor of Triangles”, Cortona on the Move Photofestival, Cortona, Italy
• 2012 — “The intimate autumn behind the facade” Aarhus Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS:

• 2023 — “Sympathetic Interactions”, Ivanovo Museum and Exhibition Center as part of the festival ‘The First Factory of Avant-Garde’ in cooperation with AZ Museums
• 2020 — “Hidden Motherhood”, Singapore International Photography Festival SIPF, Singapore
• 2019 — “Young Portfolio Acquisitions,” Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts, Kiyosato, Japan
• 2018 — MOPLA Projections, Month of Photography at Los Angeles Group Show, Los Angeles, USA
• 2017 — “City of Brides” as part of photo bookfest “Novy Razvorot”, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
• 2017 — “Photographing the Female” exhibition, FOCUS PhotoFestival, Mumbai,
  India
• 2017 — “Triangle-flavored Mashed Potatoes”, Hellerau Photography Awards Exhibition, European Center of Arts, Dresden, Germany
• 2016 — “Bride City”, Suwon PASA Festival, Suwon, South Korea
• 2016 — “Special Edition: Photobook in Russia”, Metenkov House Photographic Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia
• 2015 — “Seeing is Believing”, Encontros da Imagem Photo Festival Braga, Portugal ‘She Loves me, She Loves me Not’, Center of Photography, France
• 2014 — Pingyao Photography Festival, Pingyao, China
• 2013 — “Passage”, Meyrin Cultural Center, Geneva, Switzerland
• 2012 — Fotovisa Festival, Krasnodar, Russia “Cornflower tea and melting chocolate”, Krasnodar, Russia.
• 2012 — “Me, Myself and I”, Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna, Austria
• 2012 — Copenhagen Photo Festival, Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2012 — “Migration and Nomadic Living in the 21st Century”, Backlight Photo Festival, Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.

SELECTED CONTESTS AND GRANTS:

• 2020 — Zeiss Photography Awards Shortlist
• 2019 — Shortlisted for the Cortona on the Move Photobook Awards, Cortona, Italy. Prix Pictet Award nominee
• 2018 — Gallery Image shortlist, Aarhus Dummy Awards, Aarhus, Denmark
• 2018 — Photobookfest Shortlist, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia. Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
• 2014 — Lucie Foundation Scholarship Finalist, USA
• 2013 — Finalist of Lens Culture Photography Award
• 2012 — Finalist of the Fotovisa Festival, Krasnodar, Russia
• 2012 — Winner of Encontros da Imagem Photofestival, Braga, Portugal
• 2012 — Winner of Luceo Student Project Award, USA
• 2011 — IED Master of Fine Art Photograph, Madrid, Spain

 

Born in 1986 in Pronsk, Ryazan region, where he currently lives and works.

Started his career as an artist with wood carving in 2011. I was engaged in garden and park sculpture, small architectural forms, land-art, artistic processing of bronze. Now I prefer a more abstract language and making chamber pieces. My main medium is sculpture, but I also do photography with a similar aesthetic.

“I take objects that clearly show signs of the work of time. The flaws and blemishes; the rust of iron and the cracks of wood. It's all so in tune with the human condition. His fragility; his vulnerability; but also his resilience in the face of adversity. My message is the quiet sadness of human existence as opposed to the superficial glamor of trying to glamorize reality.
Perhaps the central theme of any of my work is: “Peace as something unattainable. Balance as something momentary”.

Anton Lytaev, artist

Artist, choreographer, independent publisher. She works with photography, video, objects, dance and book format. The themes that the artist raises to date are non-existent worlds, reinvention of things, escape from the everyday, dreams.

EDUCATION:

• 2013-2015 — IPSI/Iosif Bakstein “New Strategies in Contemporary Art”
  
• 2013-2014 — Photography Department “Photography Postgraduate”
  
• 2000-2005 — MSLU, linguistics

“I'm interested in the artist's book: 
- as a physical object
- “as a tool for living, for immersion.
- “as a way of communication.
- “as a scenario for the future.
- as an opportunity to slow down
- as a bridge to connect people, to see new things or to see in a new way; to immerse oneself in the reality created by the author through the combination of paper, format, binding, cover, paper, font, text, type of printing, and so on.”

Lena Kholkina, artist

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, галерея a—s—t—r—a, Central Exhibition Center Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “Worlds that apparently did not exist” - Graund Solyanka, curated by Anna Zaitseva, Moscow
• 2024 — “We Dreamt of Tomorrow” - Open Studios of Winzavod, curated by Anna Zaitseva, Moscow.
• 2023 — Photobook: History, Document, Object - Pennlab gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Rogue Dancer film festival, USA
• 2022 — Blois Dance film festival, France
• 2021 — Leitrim Dance Festival, Ireland
• 2021-2019 — Open Vision Film Fest Msk, Heart of Europe International Film Festival, Inheritance Film Festival Northern Ireland, High Tatras Film Festival, Slovakia
• 2018 — “Super Cover”, Krasnodar
• 2018 — “Familienarchiv”, Theater am Steg, 25KADR gallery, Baden
• 2018 - MOPLA Photobook Exhibition at 10th Month of Photography, Los Angeles
• 2017 — “Private Relapse”, GTSI Moscow 
• 2017 — “Big events through private stories” Photo Parade, Uglich
  
• 2017 — Voies Off Awards - evening screenings, Arles
  
• 2017 — “New U-Turn”, Lumiere Brothers Gallery Moscow
  
• 2016 — “Intervention” - ArtKorobka, Riviera Shopping Center Moscow
  
• 2016 — “Special Edition: photo books in Russia” - Metenkov House, Yekaterinburg
  
• 2016 — Reminders Photography Stronghold gallery, Tokyo
  
• 2016 — “On the shelf”, Filter Photo Festival, Chicago
  
• 2016 — “Unbound5!” - Candela Gallery, USA
  
• 2015 — “While eating” - CSI Fabrika Moscow
  
• 2015 — 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Main Program/VDNKh.
  
• 2015 — 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special Program/Rabochiy i Kolkhoznitsa, Moscow
  
• 2015 — “Expanding Space: Art Practices in Urban Environment ”V-A-C Foundation, Moscow.
  
• 2015 — The Photobook as an Art Object - Delhi Photofestival, India
  
• 2015 — Military Museum, MMSI

SHORTLISTS AND BOOK CONTEST WINS:

• 2017 — Moscow Photobookfest ("The girl in front of the lake" artist book)
• 2014 —  Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam - photobook Doorways in the shortlist
• 2013 — Unseen Photo Fair Amsterdam - book dummy shortlisted
• 2013 — Paris Photo 2013 - photobook Did we ever meet? won the "Rock your dummy!" contest

CURATING AND TEACHING:

• Dokdokdok School — permanent teacher of the block on creation of project photo books
• Universal University/ MARSH — lecturer on creating a portfolio in book format
• Photoplay — teacher of lectures on contemporary photography and a course on photobook.
• 2023 - 2024 HPP-2 Workshops on book creation in the workshop of Ksenia Plotnikova
• 2023 — Workshop on creating portfolios in book format  MARSH (course at Daria Zaitseva's preparatory department)
• 2023 — Workshop on creating a group zine with teenagers, Lipetsk (Young Photography)
• 2023 — Workshop on creation of author's books, Samara/School of Project Photography
• 2022 — Workshop on creating zines, Norilsk/Creative Industries Agency
• 2017 — “ZIL ZIN” - group workshop, KC ZIL Moscow
• 2017 — “Artists rule the world” - group workshop, Uglich
• 2017 — Portfolio Revier, Photo Parade in Uglich
• 2017 — “Renovation in Moscow” - curator of workshop, Lumiere Brothers Gallery

Multidisciplinary artist and curator, currently working with installation, sculpture and performance. She holds a master's degree in political science, having defended her diploma on the gender aspect of the formation of power relations in Russia. Thus, questions about gender, power and feminism are reflected in her artistic practice.

In 2022 she graduated from ISI IB, in 2023 she became a participant of the 10th season of Winzavod Open Studios.

EDUCATION:

• 2023-2024 — Winzavod Open Studios, Season 10
• 2020-2022 - Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art
• 2007-2014 - Moscow State Institute of International Relations

“I am currently interested in the intersection of the personal and the political, the virtual and the physical, the mythical and the modern, human interaction with technology, as well as the opposition of visibility/invisibility as the basis of an artist's self-representation. I create my projects based on events that I have personally experienced. As a method I often use inverting and rearranging “background and object”: when silence comes to the foreground against the background of noise, emptiness fills the media, and a sense of security is generated by trauma.”

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Worlds that apparently did not exist, GRAUND Solyanka, Moscow
• 2024 — This We Dreamed Tomorrow, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — uru vision, Samoobman, Moscow
• 2023 — Cringe: home, sweet home, Partnership of Ryabovskaya Manufactory, Moscow
• 2023 — July4ever, CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2023 — I will be near, CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2023 — Electro-Barbarella, Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — K-Fitness, fourth season, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
• 2023 — Full freedom of creativity *with some restrictions, CSI Zverevsky, Moscow
• 2022 — Breakdown, CSI Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
• 2022 — Evolutionary Symphony, Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — Return of Kolobok and other attractors, CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2021 — The Space Inside Us?, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow
• 2021 — Time of Things, Vinzavod.OPEN, CSI Vinzavod, Moscow 
• 2021 — Interiors, non-institutional site (abandoned building), Moscow
• 2012 — Russian Salad, performance art, Artodox space, Moscow
• 2011 — New York Minute, performance by Kembra Pfahler, Garage Museum, Moscow

Member of the art group PARAZIT since 2022.

Graduates from the MMOMA Free Workshops, lives and works in Moscow.

EDUCATION:

• 2023— 2024 — Free workshops of MMOMA
• 2014 - 2018 — Ufa College of Arts, Faculty of Design, Ufa

“The topic that interests me is the disorientation of modern man in the social and information space. Most people feel lost and disoriented in the present day. Therefore, I am interested in finding a secret space - a world-alone. It is in solitude and observation of everyday life that an understanding of the relationship between phenomena is born. This is how I find materials and elements that are close to me in different mediums.”

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “wild forest”, nomadic gallery (online)
• 2024 — “Scar”, artist-run space MTW, Verkhnyaya Pyshma
• 2024 — “Strangers Everywhere”, Borey Gallery, SPb
• 2023 — “On the Way Home”, apt-art exhibition, SPb
• 2023 — “COLOUR BLOCK”, Art&Brut gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Krasnenka Biennale”, exhibition along the route of the Krasnenka River, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Blossoming”, Sailors' Palace, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Ventilation”, Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg.
• 2023 — “Exes”, Parazit Gallery, Spb
• 2022 — Cycle of group exhibitions of PARAZIT GROUP, Borey Gallery, Spb

Born in Moscow in 1994.

Works with classical graphic and painting techniques, but is also interested in experiments in her creative practice. Prefers to work with wood as the main material. 

Participated in group exhibitions, contemporary art fairs, auctions, fine arts festivals.

EDUCATION: 

• 2024 — School of Contemporary Art “free workshops” MMOMA
• 2023 — Laboratory “Azy”, educational program for young artists by NII SREDA
• 2015 — 2021 - V.I. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute (Faculty of Painting, Department of Restoration, workshop of A.T. Salakhova and S.P. Ossovsky)

SOLO SHOWS:

• 2024 — “I will wait for the dawn to rise”, Postrigay Gallery, Cube.Moscow space, curated by Anastasia Postrigay, Moscow
• 2023 — “animate inanimate”, cafe-gallery Prosvet, curated by Lyusya Yangirova and Misha Grachev, Moscow.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “In conversation with her”, DEVYATNADTSAT' gallery, London, UK
• 2024 — “Time After Sleep”, L'Appartement 83, curated by Ulyana Agban, elephant in the louvre gallery, Moscow.
• 2024 — 'Gardens', MOH Landscape Bureau, curated by Ira Netbay, Unification Gallery, Moscow.
• 2024 — 'SCAR', MTW Gallery, curated by Matvey Kalmykov and Liza Bebenina, Verkhnyaya Pyshma.
• 2023 — His voice still radiates destroying and fixing (makes everything possible), DEVYATNADTSAT' gallery, curated by Kostya Serp, Moscow
• 2023 — “There are bugs hidden in a small box”, CTI Fabrika, curated by Eldar Ganeev, Moscow
• 2023 — “Adresa(n)y”, art group “Truba Zovyot!” and creative association ÖBVÖ, in the site-specific space, Vorkuta
• 2022 — “Passengers. Dialogues on Landscape”, Tsarskaya Tower gallery space, curated by Alisa Prokhorova, Triumph Gallery, Moscow.
• 2022 — “Mycelium” festival, “Pobogi” association, Moscow.
• 2022 — “Going into Space” (together with Alexander Klimin), in the space of the Thursday Foundation, curated by Alisa Loza, Moscow
• 2019 — “Here and Now. Atlas of Moscow creative studios”, CEH Manezh, curated by Yuri Avvakumov, Moscow
• 2019 — “The Process. New Academy”, Vinzavod, hall ‘Tsekh White’, Moscow
• 2019 — “Look how cool it is!”, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow
• 2018 — “Children Draw Here”, Gallery “Here”, curated by Andrei Bartenev, Moscow

“In my works it is important for me to talk about the fragility and complexity of the world that I feel, to invite the viewer to talk to the artist and ask for a frank conversation with myself. The world is still amazing, it defies comprehension. There is something truly mystical about the fact that in real and simple images there always remains something that cannot be deciphered.”

Anna Demina, artist

Born in 1992 in the city of Astrakhan in Russia.

She received a higher education at Astrakhan State University, specializing in Social Pedagogy in 2014. Graduated from the school of contemporary art “Free Workshops” at MMOMA in the direction of “Contemporary Art” in 2016.

Participated in a number of national and international exhibitions. Solo exhibitions in the gallery “Tunnel” at the Moscow University named after Stroganov. Stroganov and at VDNKh in 2018. Participated in group exhibitions in Russia (MMOMA, Ruarts Gallery, CTI Fabrika in Moscow, international exhibition of GTSI in Samara, at the festival of contemporary art “Forma” at Khlebzavod in Moscow).

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow

He is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia since 2021.

In his works he uses AI, Digital, AR, video and digital photography.

“I work as an Artifical Intelligence artist. Applying AI as a key tool for art making, I explore its role in transforming the creative process and our relationship with technology. My work asks questions about AI's potential to push the boundaries of human creativity and gain a deeper understanding of our individual and collective experiences. I see my role as an artist to be a mediator, addressing the “digital unconscious” guiding a vector to a repository of digital imprints of sensations and feelings, and demonstrating them in visual form. Exploring how the result of this interaction can enrich our understanding of our own sensuality and emotions. Inspired by Jean Baudrillard's ideas on the stages of simulacra, I propose the concept of “Hyperhyperreality” or “Ultrasimulacra” demonstrating how AI-enabled art reveals the fifth stage of image development. At this stage, reality and its artificial replications merge, giving rise to new forms of existence, inclining us to rethink notions of authenticity and identity. Through my work I explore this hyper-hyper-reality, how digital art can stimulate us to think about what really makes us human and offers us the opportunity to take a fresh look at the inner world and the surrounding reality. where AI not only rethinks the shaping of reality, but also invites us to question traditional understandings of feelings, emotions, identity itself and the nature of perception.”

 

«The Sins» Project

The Sins, a series of works by which I explore the seven deadly sins of mankind: Avaritia - avarice, greed, self-interest - is, like lust or gluttony, a sin of desire, Superbia - arrogance, pride, etc. The question of sin and virtue is one of the eternal questions that have tormented mankind throughout the ages. Many have tried to give a final, final solution to this question, how sin and virtue are correlated, what is the boundary after which virtue becomes sin. All works are created in collaboration with AI: it is the base of generalized human experience and history on a given topic and analyzes the “collective unconscious”, creating a kind of social construction. As an artist, I contribute my subjective experiences, thoughts and impressions based on my emotions and life experience. This is a symbiosis of the collective - formal and the personal - sensual. The viewer himself plays an important role here, determining his attitude to the work. Behind the pictures of sin and virtue lies beauty and morality. To divide into black and white, sinful and right, the task of terrifying freedom of human choice.

Born in Moscow in 1996.

Graduated from the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Lomonosov Moscow State University (2020). Student of the Ilya Repin Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, the Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art and the “Free Workshops” of the MMOMA. Participated in the projects of HPP-2, the Baltic branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Creative Industrial Cluster “Octava” and others.

EDUCATION:

• 2023 - н.в.— Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art
• 2021 - present — Ilya Repin St. Petersburg Academy of Arts
• 2020 - present — Postgraduate studies at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of the Lomonosov Moscow State University
• 2023 - 2024 — School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” MMOMA
• 2014-2020 — Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics, Lomonosov Moscow State University

EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS:

• 2023 — “Photobase” (lecture part), HPP-2
• 2023 — “The Art of Incarnations. Available.”, Curated by: Panic Trees, Creative Industrial “Octave” cluster

SOLO SHOWS:

• 2024 — “Cities”, Curator: Elena Smirnova, RSBM, Moscow
• 2023 — “Double Vision”, Curator: Elena Smirnova, Creative Laboratory ‘Sreda’, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — “Limitless”, Curators: Daria Bliznyuk, Dina Kuzmicheva, Anastasia Roslyakova, Baltic Branch of the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
• 2024 — “Two and Two”, Curators: Vladislav Titaev, Stanislava Kozhevnikova, Tula Historical and Architectural Museum, courtyard, Tula
• 2024 — “PAF: All Flowers”, Curators: Alina Petrukhanova, Anna Butusova, Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — “Source unnamed”, NOS Association, Curator: Alina Petrukhanova, Nikitsky Boulevard, 25, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — “VIDEOFORMES 2024”, Galerie Dolet, Clermont-Ferrand, France
• 2024 — “Fotosushka”, Zotov Center, Moscow
• 2023 — “There, I don't know where” (Video), Curator: Natalia Mikhailova, Brusnitsyn, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — 2nd Karelian Biennale of Fine Arts, Curator: Anna Kucherova, Art-Prospect, Petrozavodsk
• 2023 — “White Noise”, Curators: Rita Muradyan, Arina Kurushina, Stieglitz Academy, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Vernissage” (main exhibition), Curator: Anatoly Osmolovsky, Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Guiding Thread. Incarnations. Finissage”, Curator: Panika Derevya, Creative Industrial Cluster ‘Octava’, Tula

GROUP SHOWS:

• 2023 — “restore: everything is possible”, Curator: Yulia Trofimova, Neglinnaya 8/10, Moscow
• 2023 — “Light. Image. Music.”, Curators: Alyona Kukushkina, Andrey Musin, Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum, Moscow region
• 2023 — “Birdwatching”, Bluebird of Happiness, Curators: Galina Luppo, Mina Milk, Leo Heck, HPP-2, Moscow

“Before the Beijing Olympics, I had a bad fall and hit my cheekbone, in which case they always check to see if your eyes are double. The fact of possible doubling, layering, has influenced my artistic practice, which has become dominated by multi-exposure and complex images that shine through each other. This mutual interplay of spaces and exploring the emergence of new ones became my focus.”

Katya Kosova, artist

 

sashonichka is the creative pseudonym of artist Alexander Korobov. 

I don't follow a manifesto when I do projects. But I try to get out of the project as much as possible, so that it creates itself. 

 

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow

Grisha Danunaher — псевдоним художника Станислава Богданова.

«Уважаемые дамы и господа, разрешите представить вашему драгоценному вниманию фешенебельного и практически культового креативного деятеля Grisha Danunaher!

Картины художника демонстрируются по всей Европе, в Китае, Канаде, России. В частности, его работы экспонировались в Доме Союза Художников г. Санкт-Петербурга, в пространстве Севкабельпорт, в Москве в галерее «Здесь на Таганке», в Экспоцентре, в галерее на Сретенском бульваре, галерее Amber plaza в рамках выставки «Саквояж» и Берлинских галереях: Uhr Werk Gallerie, Vinogradov Gallerie, BAS CS Gallery, Нюрнберг art-space "Note in a bottle".

А также работы уходили с молотка на международном аукционе Today.Berlin.Art II, и украшали метрополитен и площади Берлина в рамках проекта „Du bist am Zug“.»

Станислав Богданов, художник

 

GALOLBO — pseudonym of the artist Borisenko Galina.

EDUCATION:

• 2024 — Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
• 2005 — National Academy of Fine Arts and Architecture, Kiev, Ukraine.
• 2003 — Städelschule, workshop of Wolfgang Tillmans (did not graduate), Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
• 1999 — Lugansk State College of Culture and Arts, Lugansk, Ukraine

“The development of artificial intelligence, the creation of virtual universes, and the digitization of all aspects of modern man's life serve as an excuse for me to create works that are real and tangible physically. Found objects are incorporated into my paintings, sculptures, installations and performances. Working with the life quilt as my primary medium, it is as if I am preserving the 'corporeality' of material, human and non-human agents in my works.”

GROUP SHOWS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CAC Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Archstoyanie children's
• 2023 — “TUPIK 20 23”, ART4 Museum, curated by Liza Bobkova, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — “Vernissage of Anatoly Osmolovsky”, Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — “Dog's High” (with Lyubov Remizova), Park Hotel White Alleys, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — “Pulsating Matter”, curated by Stanislav Shuripa, CTI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — International Festival of Contemporary Art DOCA, curated by Elizaveta Zemlyanova, Moscow, Russia
• 2011 — Project “Lavka Mira”, Moscow, Russia
• 2004 — Triennale Fourth Block, Kiev, Ukraine
• 2002 — “New-York, New-York”, Kiev, Ukraine

RESIDENCES:

• 2004 — Silver fly Multipliers Symposium, Florence, Italy
• 2002 — Bukowina, Bukowina Tatrzańska, Poland
• 1998 — Dübeneheide, Hale Saale, Germany

OTHER:

• 2024 — DOCA Creative Workshop, Institute of Humanitarian Education and Information Technologies (IGUMO), Moscow, Russia
• 2020 ‒ 2021 — Own company 厦门国露博文化艺术有限公司, selling art, Xiamen, China

Born in Moscow in 1983.

Lives and works in Moscow and Thailand (Bangkok/Samui). Graduated from Yaroslav the Wise NSU, Faculty of Design. Student at the Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2023 together with Gala GALOLBO founded the art group Agency of Illusory Competence “Lemon Juice”. Works are in private collections in Russia, Asia and the USA. 

EDUCATION:

• 2022 - 2024 — Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art. “New Artistic Strategies.”
• 2023 — TSCA, “Art and Politics: Contexts, Concepts, Assemblages”, Natalia Serkova, Vitaly Bezpalov
• 2023 — 19AAcademy, “Contemporary sculpture/object+relief”, Anna Tagantseva
• 2008 — Yaroslav the Wise Novgorod State University, Faculty of Design

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 — "Dog buzz", paired exhibition with Gala GALOLBO (“Lemon Juice” A K), Art-territory “Beliye Alesi”, Moscow 
• 2023 — "Stranger", Atelier Gallery, Samui, Thailand
• 2022 — "Dreamers",Artzhe Gallery, Samui, Thailand

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Mango Art Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
• 2024 — “The Most Discussed Animal on Earth”, ARBUZZ Gallery, Moscow (curated by Anastasia Sekunda)
• 2023 — “Untitled”, Devyatnadtsat' Gallery, Moscow (curator Anna Tagantseva)
• 2023 — “Citizen of the World”, Art Territory “White Alleys”, Moscow.
• 2023 — “GEN”, Festival of Contemporary Art “The First Factory of Avant-Garde”, Ivanovo (curated by Dasha Rastunina)
• 2023 — “PROUD TO BE ME”, Street Star Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand (curated by Tiew Jit)
• 2023 — “Pulsating Matter”, CTI Fabrika, Moscow (curated by Stanislav Shurina)
• 2022 — “POV: Street of Bangkok”, art space by MOCA Bangkok (Museum of Contemporary of Art Bangkok)
• 2022 — “Wow!”, Gallery Here on Taganka, Moscow (curated by Ksenia Gorbatyuk)
• 2022 — “The World of Art”, New Tretyakovka, Moscow (curator Elena Bolotskikh)
• 2022 — “Together”, All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow (curator Marika Parsadanelli)
• 2022 — “CLOSER> WIP ART MARKET, Moscow (curator Anna Demina)

ART FAIRS:

• 2024 — WIN-WIN Contemporary Art Market VIII, Winzavod, Moscow 
• 2023 - Modern Art Market “WIN-WIN” VII, Winzavod, Moscow.
• 2023 - New Year's Market of graphics and ceramics “Artfetch”, Triptych Gallery, Moscow, Moscow
• 2022 - Auction INSIGHT AUCTION (curator Anna Semyonova)

“The subject of my research is the problematics of the relationship between local and global contexts, the issues of identity as an unalienated and safe space. Through this, I seek to analyze the formation of the image of the Other and identity as such, shaped, among other things, by socio-cultural, economic-political factors and generational traumas. I also explore how social conflicts affect the creation of collective history and the reflection of its narratives in the individual. My identity has been shaped by the Soviet and post-Soviet contexts and then transformed by different cultural environments. As a consequence, I experience the phenomenon of “cultural erasure” and changing identities. 

In my projects I try to understand how, for people exposed to globalization and historical collisions, the experience of the past is reflected, whether it can be replaced by alternative experiences, how personal and social memory works in such a case, and how what binds collectivities can manifest. I work at the intersection of different media such as public art, installation, sculpture, painting and ceramics. Through this integrated approach, I aim to emphasize the complexity and multifaceted nature of both the local social environment and the individual.”

Lubov Remizova, artist

Alexander Platonov was born in 1970. Now he lives and works in Moscow. 

After graduating from Penza Art School in 1991 he focused on calligraphy, graphics, geometric painting and photography. He was included in the top 10 most interesting artists of the Art Russia 2024 fair, won first place in the International Competition Annual art contest Digital Decade II OFFF in 2014.

In his practice Alexander raises the theme of the alphabet as a system of abstract signs in the space of magical realism. The main idea of his work is to reveal the deep meaning and symbolic meanings of minimal units of text.

The artist's focus of attention is centered on the representation of graphemes of letters by elements of pattern, as parts of the ornamentation of the text. His main mediums are silkscreen, photographic film, canvas, oil, giclée.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Contemporary Graphics Fair “Kontur” N. Novgorod
• 2024 — Art Moscow 2024 fair Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — WIN-WIN Market Moscow
• 2024 — Exhibitor of the fair “Art Russia 2024” Moscow
• 2014 - 2017 — participant of art exhibitions of gallery “A3” Moscow and gallery “MH Gallery” Kostroma

Born in 1984 in Rechitsa, Belarus. Lives and works in Minsk.

Since 2004 has been engaged in photography, since 2022 creates graphic works and art-objects.  Participant of more than 15 collective exhibitions (Belarus, Russia, Italy).
The main media in which the artist works are photography, graphics, found objects. The theme of the artist's works is the observation of the inner and outer world of man.

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS: 

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5,  a—s—t—r—a  gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow 
• «MENESK», Museum named after Z. Azgur, Minsk. Z. Azgur Museum, Minsk
•  “Passion for Architecture”, FARBA Gallery, Minsk
•  “The most personal open call” (finalist) Unification Gallery, Moscow
• “Self-Portrait. Revelation”, VERSHY, Minsk
• “Beyond the Boundaries of Space”, NCSI, Minsk
• IV Biennale of street art ARTMOSSFERA, CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• “Depth”, Flame Place, Minsk
• WIN-WIN Market, САС Winzavod, Moscow

“At first glance, all my works seem very simple. In principle, apparent simplicity is what I strive for, but behind each of the works there is quite a lot of inner work.”

Nikolaenko Igor, artist

Niko Marina is the pseudonym of the artist Marina Nikonova. 

She works in the genre of modern realism, mostly in the classical technique of oil painting, but sometimes the choice of medium may depend on the task, and in order to emphasize it, she may choose a more appropriate material.
The artist is a graduate of the K.S. Petrov-Vodkin Samara Art School and a member of the Union of Artists of Russia.

EDUCATION:

• 2015 — Samara Art School named after K.S. Petrov-Vodkin

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 5, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CCA Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — Group exhibition “Flicker” with the work “Olympus”, ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Group exhibition “Am I Home?”, SPACE13 Gallery, Samara
• 2023 — Project “Forever”, solo exhibition, SPACE13 Gallery, Samara
• 2023 — Regional art exhibition dedicated to the 85th anniversary of the Samara branch of the All-Russian creative public organization “Union of Artists of Russia”, Samara Regional History and Local History Museum named after P.V. Alabin, Samara. P.V. Alabin Museum of Local History, Samara
• 2023 — Project “FAKE NEWS”, solo exhibition, SPACE13 Gallery, Samara.
• 2022 — Seventh Interregional Academic Project “Red Gates / Against the Current”, Museum of Actual Realism, Togliatti.
• 2022 — Exhibition “Crossroads” in cooperation with the Union of Journalists of Russia, Exhibition Hall of the Samara Branch of the Russian Union of Journalists of Russia, Samara.
• 2022 — Regional spring exhibition “Blooming Land”, Exhibition hall of Samara branch of the All-Russian Union of Artists of Russia, Samara
• 2021 — Regional exhibition of the Union of Artists of Russia, Exhibition hall of the Samara branch of the All-Russian Artists Union, Samara
• 2019 — Regional Exhibition of the Union of Artists of Russia, Exhibition Hall of the Samara Branch of the Samara Branch of the All-Russian Union of Artists, Samara
• 2018 — Fifth Interregional Academic Exhibition-Competition, “Red Gates / Against the Current” (Togliatti State University, Togliatti, Togliatti)
• 2018 — Regional art exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Samara branch of the All-Russian creative public organization “Union of Artists of Russia”, Exhibition hall of the Samara branch of the All-Russian creative public organization “Union of Artists of Russia”, Samara
• 2018 — “Big Volga XII”, Nizhny Novgorod State Exhibition Center
• 2017 —Regional Spring Art Exhibition, Exhibition Hall of the Samara Branch of the Samara Branch of the All-Russian Society of Artists, Samara
• 2016 — Autumn Dialogue Exhibition, Nizhny Novgorod State Exhibition Complex
• 2016 — Regional Autumn Exhibition “Autumn Dialogue”, Exhibition Hall of the Samara Branch of the Samara Branch of the All-Russian Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, Samara.
• 2016 — Exhibition of works by young artists of Samara, Exhibition hall of Samara branch of the Samara branch of the All-Russian Union of Artists, Samara.
• 2016 — Exhibition project “Labyrinth of Symbols”, New Space Gallery, Samara, Samara
• 2015 —  Retrospective exhibition of book graphics “Word in the Image”, New Space Gallery, Samara
• 2015 — Autumn regional exhibition of Samara artists “Palette of Samara Luka”, Samara Regional Museum of History and Local Lore named after P.V. Alabin, Samara, Russia. P.V. Alabin Museum, Samara

“I believe that an artist is an instrument that responds to any change in the 'collective unconscious'. For me, the source of inspiration is the rapid transformation of the technogenic world and its impact on modern man.
It is important for me to convey the feeling of dissolution of personality in the information flow, and I build my aesthetics under the impression of the era of virtual reality. I am interested in the emotional content of the drama of our time: high technology, the defenselessness of man “on the net”, socio-cultural and internal contradictions. The internal conflict of the individual and the external when we are faced with the need to interact with society.”

Marina Niko, artist