Jolie Alien was born in 2002 in Moscow.

An autodidact artist, she works with catchy images, simple plots, cropped compositions and expressive drawings.

Each of Jolie's works is introspective, connected with personal memories, which partly explains her visual language, which is intertwined with surreal images, simple geometric patterns, catchy inscriptions made with paint and spray.

Jolie's works resemble a wall that has been covered with graffiti for a long time: the figures float on top of each other, creating a collage effect. Jolie outlines youth, which she has direct access to and which is closed to the adult world.

The artist finishes her studies at the Moscow art INSTITUTE, combining a career in the fashion industry, participating in shows of such brands as Valentino, Off-White, Jil Sander, Paco Rabanne, Prada, Viviene Westwood, Simone Rocha, etc. Starred in international advertising campaigns Mango, Fendi, Adidas.

The rights to use the image of "Whirpool" were acquired by Mango for use in the release of a collection of t-shirts around the world. She was the subject of articles about her work in Document Journal, Vogue, InStyle, Elle and models.com.

Preparing for admission to Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.

Complementary colors, expressive drawing and collage compositions of her paintings may seem confusing to many, but this confusion, ambiguity is a special feature of Jolie's works that distinguishes them from many others. As an artist, she values and puts perception above reflection, intuitiveness and even a certain automaticity of her paintings are related to art Brut and some of the works of Jean Dubuffet.

Jolie's language is highly subjective and even introspective. Perhaps only classical techniques can now allow the artist the luxury of speaking out about himself and capturing the reality around him as an enduring impression.

Her works are in collections in Russia, China, Japan, Belgium and America.

Lives and works between Moscow, London, and Tokyo.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2021 — Symbiosis, solo exhibition, Peak Moscow by a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, Russia;
• 2020 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow, Russia;
• 2020 — ENTER Art Fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark;
• 2020 — I Lost Track of the World", curated by Irina Shulzhenko, Richter space, Moscow, Russia;
• 2019 — One, Two, Three, curated by a-s-t-r-a, group exhibition, Cube.Moscow space, Moscow, Russia;
• 2019 — 20.11, curated by Irina Shulzhenko and Dmitry Yanchoglo, solo exhibition, Richter space, Moscow, Russia;
• 2019 — 1367 Number of My Tick - What to Do?, curated by a-s-t-r-a, solo exhibition, Cube.Moscow space, Moscow, Russia;
• 2019 — Color, live performance (creating a five-meter wall painting) at the opening of a-s-t-r-a LAB, Moscow, Russia;
• 2018 — Wanted, Kino gallery, Moscow, Russia.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• www.vogue.com/article/model-jolie-alien-russias-youngest-rising-artist
• theblueprint.ru/culture/art/art-podarki
• sportchic.ru/fashion/model-i-hudozhnitsa-jolie-alien-otkryvaet-svoyu-vtoruyu-vystavku-v-moskve/
• www.documentjournal.com/2018/11/model-jolie-alien-discusses-her-first-solo-art-exhibition/
• theblueprint.ru/culture/interview/jolie-alien
• www.vogue.ru/fashion/model-business/kto_takaya_zhenya_makarova
• instyle.ru/moda/nashi-v-dele-chto-nuzhno-znat-o-modeli-zhene-makarovoy/
• www.mhpi.edu.ru/all_news/jolie-alien/
• typical-moscow.ru/vystavka-jolie-alien-ritz-carlton/ 
• www.kommersant.ru/doc/4550243
• theblueprint.ru/fashion/industry/art-fashion-russia
• m.vk.com/@storagemag-jolie-alien
• models.com/oftheminute/?p=99486
• models.com/oftheminute/?p=114030

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

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

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

EDUCATION:

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

SOLOO EXHIBITIONS:

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

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

Egor Voskresensky, an artist, art historian and collector

Born in 1994 in Ufa. The main direction in the work is abstractionism. Lives and works in Moscow and Paris. The works are in private collections.

EDUCATION:

• 2021-2022 - Free Workshops School of Contemporary Art, MMOMA
• 2012-2018 - Bauman Moscow State Technical University

"In my works abstraction is a way to know and fix the process of thinking.

Most often, my paintings start from a single starting point on the canvas, and end with a multi-layered mass of elements. Random details that have arisen without thinking, spontaneously, just as our thoughts overlap and intertwine with each other.

In this regard, the picture for me is a field for fixing human experience, life choice, internal conflict or consent. These feelings have no form in the material world of things, but in my works they are able to acquire their own image. No one knows what the human process of decision–making, emotions and events looks like - after all, everyone has their own. Therefore, for the viewer, it is abstraction, or rather distraction from familiar forms, that gives freedom to perception and imagination.

Thus, the final outcome of this or that work is initially never known to me, as well as the names of my paintings, which are as spontaneous as possible. For me, this is not an improvisation, rather for me it is the same thought process, decision-making and choice that a person is doomed to make endlessly."
Artur Krivoshein.

SOLO AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - St. Petersburg Art Fair "1703", a-s-t-r-a gallery, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2021 — Personal exhibition "Google page 7", 2021, Moscow
• 2021 - "Looking after Earthlings", gallery HERE on Taganka; Exhibition "Fields"; BLAZAR ART
• 2020 - solo exhibition, IMPULSE, 2020, Moscow
• 2020 - Opening/Collection/Plans, New sincerity gallery, 2020, Moscow

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

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

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

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

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

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

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

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

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

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

Rinat Mustafin, artist, curator