Born in 2002 in Moscow.

Graduated from the Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art. A nominee for the Art Theater Prize in the contemporary art section for her solo exhibition “Dry Nettles” at MMOMA.

Jolie combines her art studies with a career in the fashion industry, participating in shows for such brands as Valentino, Off-White, Jil Sander, Paco Rabanne, Prada, Vivienne Westwood, Simone Rocha and others. She has starred in international advertising campaigns for Mango, Fendi and Adidas. The rights to use the image of her work “Whirpool” were acquired by Mango for a collection of T-shirts worldwide. She has been featured in Document Journal, Vogue.com, InStyle, Elle and Badlone.

The artist works with eye-catching imagery, simple subjects, framed compositions and expressive drawing. Jolie's visual language weaves together surreal imagery, geometric patterns and brightly colored lettering to create a collage effect reminiscent of graffiti.  Jolie outlines a youth to which she has direct access and which is closed to the adult world. As an artist, she values and prioritizes perception over reflection, the intuitiveness and automaticity of her paintings kin them to the art brut and works of Jean Dubuffet.

Her works are in the museum collections of the Siyaniye Center, Apatity, MMOMA (Russia), as well as in private collections in Russia, China, Japan, Belgium and America.

She lives and works between Moscow, London and Tokyo. 

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• 2024 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Support - Surface, Frédérick Mauraux gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Private Chaos” solo exhibition, Salahin gallery, Paris, France
• 2023 — Nomination for the Art Theater Prize in the field of art in the section of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
• 2023 — Opening exhibition at Serene gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
• 2022 — Amici / Friends, Serene Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
• 2022 — “Girls! Girls! Girls! Girls!” Exhibition of contemporary art by Russian female artists, Vladey, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — Cosmoscow art fair, stand “Made in Moscow”, a—s—t—r—a gallery Moscow
• 2022 — Dry Nettles, MMOMA (Petrovka, 25), Moscow
• 2022 — a—s—t—r—a Open.Vol 1, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — Collective self-fulfilling prophecy about our beautiful tomorrow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — Art Moscow program within the 48th Russian Atiquarian Salon, a—s—t—r—a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
• 2021 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 — Program Art Moscow within the framework of the 46th Russian Antique Salon, a—s—t—r—a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
• 2021 — Solo show “Symbiosis”, Peak Moscow by a—s—t—r—a gallery
• 2020 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia, a—s—t—r—a gallery
• 2020 — ENTER Art Fair, Copenhagen, Denmark, a—s—t—r—a gallery
• 2020 — “I Lost Track of the World”, curated by Irina Shulzhenko, Richter Space
• 2019 — Group show “One, Two, Three”, curated by a—s—t—r—a, space Cube.Moscow
• 2019 — Solo show “20.11”, curated by Irina Shulzhenko and Dmitry Yanchoglo, Richter Space 2019
• 2019 — Solo show “1367 number of my tick - what to do?”, curated by a—s—t—r—a, space Cube.Moscow
  live performance at the opening of a—s—t—r—a LAB, “Tsvetnoy” (creating a five-meter wall painting)
• 2018 — “I Wanted”, Kino Gallery

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• The Blueprint - A brand with a big future: Jolie Objects
• The Blueprint - Artist Jolie Alien on art and modeling career
• The Blueprint - Art Gifts in the online gallery THE BLUEPRINT
• The Blueprint - Art + Fashion in Russia
• InStyle - Ours in business: what you need to know about model Zhenya Makarova
• Kommersant - Models from the new Loewe collection travel around Moscow with artist Jolie Alien
• Sportchic - Model and artist Jolie Alien opens her second exhibition in Moscow 
• Typical Moscow - Jolie Alien exhibition at the Ritz-Carlton.
• Document - Model Jolie Alien discusses her first solo art exhibition

Born on June 29, 1988 in St. Petersburg. 

Studied art, philosophy, poetry and literature, as a free-lance student attended courses at the Repin Academy. Repin. Studied at the Yalta Art School. Participant of Russian and international exhibitions and residencies. Doeshvili's works are in private collections in Russia, Ukraine, USA, Australia, England, Germany, Czech Republic. Since 2022 he has been living and working in Moscow.

Kirill sees his art through the eye, which does not obey the man-made laws of perspective, striving to cognize each object through the adventure of perception. Drawing itself turns for him into an interlocutor or a stranger, with whom he begins to juggle images. Each work is a new situation in which events unfold dynamically, but all of them are simultaneously connected by a common logic and characters: Treschak the Unpunished, the Friendly Pirate, the Strolling Apollo, the Unscientific Chatterbox.  There is no bad or good among them. They are all embraced by the flame of love, but don't know how to express it properly. Just like us.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2023 — Fair |catalog|, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — Juice from stone and earth, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 2, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2020 — Art Residence “Yuzhny Bereg” theme: “Mystery”.
• 2020 — Participant of the project NEW REALITY. FOR THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF UNOVIS
• 2020 — Art Forum Berlin Art
• 2020 — Exhibition of Expressionism, Gostiny Dvor
• 2020 — Creating psychedelic objects at the Sunburn art festival Goa, India
• 2019 — South Coast Art Residence
• 2018 — Art festival “Colors of the World” Koktebel
• 2017 — Creation and art design, “Extreme festival”
• 2016 — “Tavrida”

"An instinctive Faith in the art form, a symbiosis of inner and outer journeys, signs on the way to advancement in art. Without thinking that death is near, I am constantly trying to comprehend the emptiness of all forms that distort and reshape, have their own magnitude and even a formal notion of time. When one painstakingly draws or writes, one has two types of signs of progress along the path - definite and indefinite - which show that the result will soon be achieved. The indefinite signs, called basic signs, appear due to previous connections, even if the person has never practiced art at all . Since they cannot be relied upon, I will not describe them here. Definite marks appear as a result of drawing and are of two kinds: transitory and immutable. Transient signs may appear either in reality or in mood. As for the first kind, when you are making preliminary sketches, you may feel as if your body is about to collapse like the walls of a cracking house. Your voice may weaken, as in a state of extreme exhaustion. You may begin to convulse like you are possessed by spirits. These are indicators that you have separated reality and the world of images. Frustration with your own body, speech, and mind may appear in the mood. This demonstrates that you have purified yourself . If these states do not appear, it means that you have not gained enough experience, so you must continue to immerse yourself in the form."

Kirill Doeshvili

Kirill Doeshvili, cover of RBC Style, March 2024

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• RBC Style - “I'm Telling You About Love”: the new issue of RBC Style has been released
• BURO. - Mythology, ceramics and SEALs: what to see at a-s-t-r-a gallery
• Cabinet de l'Art - Art review 19.01-26.01.23
• mydecor - “Juice from Stone and Earth” exhibition at a-s-t-r-a gallery
• Playbill Daily - “I create my works at night”: artist Kirill Doeshvili about his fictional world
• Snob - 5 works by artist Kirill Doeshvili in the “Art.Act” project
• Playbill - What to see at the new contemporary art fair |catalog|

Born in 1994 in Ufa.

Graduate of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (2012-2018) and the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” at MMOMA (2021-2022). He lives and works in Moscow and Paris. 

Arthur's works are in private collections. 

In Arthur's works, abstraction is a way of cognizing and fixing the processes of changeability of the world around us and making decisions that affect our lives. The artist's paintings begin with a single point on the canvas and culminate in a multi-layered mass of elements, like our thoughts, which overlap and intertwine with each other for further action. The final outcome of a particular work is never initially known to the artist, but working on a canvas is not pure improvisation, but rather a thought process, a decision-making and a choice that one is doomed to make endlessly. 

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• 2024 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Tangled Holidays, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — “Razdvatrikchetrychetpyat”, ZAMAN museum, Ufa
• 2024 - St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Forêt imaginaire”, Faux gallery, Paris, France
• 2023 — Seller of colored shells, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Les primevères”, Microcredit, Paris
• 2023 — “Sorting Center”, ZAMAN Museum, Ufa
• 2022 — Blazar young art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — “The Future Already”, MMoMA (10 Gogolevsky Street, Gogolevsky), Moscow
• 2022 — a—s—t—r—a Open.Vol 1, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2022 — Collective self-fulfilling prophecy about our beautiful tomorrow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2021 — Solo exhibition “Google page 7”, 2021, Moscow
• 2021 — “Watching the Earthlings”, HERE Gallery on Taganka
• 2021 — “Fields” exhibition; BLAZAR ART
• 2020 — Solo exhibition, IMPULSE, 2020, Moscow
• 2020 — Opening/Collection/Plans, New sincerity gallery, 2020, Moscow

TEXT FOR THE EXHIBITION “SELLER OF COLORED SHELLS”:

“In his solo exhibition “seller of colored shells” Artur Krivoshein turns to the visualization of the period of childhood. What surrounds us every day in our childhood? What books, movies, games? Endless explorations of space, walks, conversations and little discoveries and performances. How do you figure out amongst all this diversity what truly impacted you? Going through our memories, just like sorting through seashells on the beach, we find funny ones, beautiful ones, colorful ones, ugly ones, all shapes and sizes. Which one will you take as a memento?

Krivoshein connects the emergence of paintings with the experience of his family, for example, conversations about art with his grandfather, who was also an artist, permeate his childhood memories. As a child, a reproduction of Van Gogh hung in the house, which the artist mistook for his grandfather's work. This incident can clarify much about the artist's attitude to painting. Van Gogh in the 20th century occupies the place of the myth of the painter who, working with color and reflecting on its effects, was a marginal artist and the beginning of the modernist canon. Krivoshein, in turn, confronts modernist techniques that intertwine art history and the “family tree.” These instances indicate that the artist collages not just elements (strokes, stains, and shards of images), but the connections of these elements to family subjective experience. According to the artist, only abstract art is capable of doing this - it can delineate and map this experience in a different way. Abstraction, understood in this way, can be traced in the titles of many of the works - “At the Desk with Spring”, “Blues of Fictitious Animals”, “Tiger Taste”: they are poetic and they themselves seem to cut and glue different parts of the language, which is like playing with a child's language: he learns the language by playing with the phrases themselves, tasting them. 

In the case of Van Gogh, the artist is credited with using dissonant colors, according to Goethe's theory. Artur Krivoshein, on the contrary, works with color harmoniously. A painting should be ready when it finds “unity” with the artist himself. 

The experience of childhood cannot be described, according to the artist, in any other way - it can only be grasped through abstract means. Exploring memories, which are so often abstract in nature, and especially vivid in color precisely in connection with childhood, Krivoshein creates and as if invites the viewer to share this experience, to “take apart” his collection of shells, to find his color and his moments”.

Boris Klyushnikov, philosopher and art theorist

Exhibition Seller of colored shells, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, 2023

TEXT FOR THE EXHIBITION “MIXED UP HOLIDAYS”:

“Artur Krivoshein's solo exhibition “Tangled Holidays” addresses the modern world where history repeats itself, ways of life and values change, new words come and old holidays are replaced by new ones. A society where digital space is the second reality in which a person spends most of his time. A world where artificial intelligence can connect the unconnected, and where logic and the usual course of things are sometimes lost. Arthur's series of works is dedicated to depicting this reality. The artist's technique is spontaneous and dynamic, as he works without a sketch. Arthur associates this method with the surrealist concept of “automatism”, when a work is created without special preparation, without control, based on an unconscious feeling. The outcome of the work is initially unknown to the author, finding old books, newspapers, unusual quality paper, rare variety of paints and pastels, he makes collages and paints pictures. The avant-garde aspiration to connect art with life, to make it an everyday practice, unintentionally becomes the main line in the artist's work. The works “The Revealed Division of the Underside”, “Sky Population Project”, “Juggling the Multipoint” and others are a response to irrational reality and seek to show a “sur” that mixes news agenda, personal and common subjects, dreams, digital reality and natural motifs. Fabrics, old photographs, scraps of books from different times and countries, acrylic and oil in Arthur's paintings create multifaceted surreal images. They capture the moment, call to stop in the moment, being “points of preservation” in the endless surrealistic game of our life. The exhibition also presents a separate room with joint paintings by Krivoshein and artist Vlad Maltsev, or rather the art group “2KM”. Guided by the principle of “art-life”, this series was painted this summer at the dacha in real time. The artists filmed their daily creative process, in which they combined two directions - abstractionism and figurative art. The authors write about what they see around them - it could be “Striped Fog”, “Fruit Colonnade” or “Appetizing Rise”. The proximity to nature, animal life, summertime pushes the digital world away, allowing us to explore the real and be in the present.”

Alina Muratova

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• The Blueprint - The Blueprint 100. Contemporary Art
• Poster Daily - 10 emerging artists to keep an eye on
• Artguide - Seller of Colored Shells
• Artocratia - Artur Krivoshein. SELLER OF COLORED SHELLS
• Simple group - Artur Krivoshein
• ARTuzel - Artur Krivoshein: “Abstract painting is an exact science”
• BURO. - “Collection as a self-portrait”: Anastasia Postrigay - about how much the choice of a painting says about its buyer
• Big City - 18 exhibitions of the fall in Moscow
• Cabinet de l'art - Arthur Krivoshein, Show me how to be mysterious, 2023
• Cultobzor - Artur Krivoshein. Seller of colored shells

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

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

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

SELECTED SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — Two turns around the rainbow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — a—s—t—r—a Open.Vol 1, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — Blazar young art fair, Museum of Moscow, Moscow
• 2021 — Syndrome of Tropical States, Moscow / Khlebzavod
• 2021 — MOST contemporary art auction, Krasnodar
• 2014 — Prosmotr, St. Petersburg
• 2014 — Time for art, Moscow

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

"Initially, my fascination with art started with music. Music for me is a big field for experimentation. I've participated in different genre projects, recorded solo albums and I'm a big music lover. I call my style at the moment - "Tropical Primitivism". The theme of tropics appeared in my work thanks to my numerous travels to the islands of Asia and Indonesia - the heat and raging vegetation of those places have deeply sprouted inside me. In my works I like to mix painting and graphics, scraps of phrases and words, superimpose ghostly or more concrete images on each other, which remind me of dreams with a non-linear plot. Often the heroes of my works are animals and plants, peculiar ladies and creatures who find themselves on the same plane of the ever-changing carnival of life. I think it is great when art does not carry strict dogmas, but expands the boundaries of our imagination. I try not to forget that I'm just stardust."

 Ilya Kutoboy

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

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