Yesol Kim (1999) is a sculptor, DJ and Influencer and the creator of Yesol-bot ceramic robots. 

In her works, Yesol seeks to give form and materialize memories and feelings from her childhood, because the image of the robot is directly related to the artist's early life.

Yeosol's childhood was spent in Seoul, which had a significant impact on her creative development. Hence the title of her first series of works -SEOULSI, which was first presented at the Blazar 2024 fair.

“Two years ago, when my son came into my life, his birth became the starting point of my creativity. Life changed, previous busyness faded into the background. The forced, but at the same time pleasant pause in the usual routine led to a reflection of the whole experience. The more I spend time with my children (two of them today), the more vividly I remember my childhood.

This is how SEOULSI's first series of ceramic robots was born, consisting of seven sculptures. Each robot represents a neighborhood in Seoul with which I have special, fond memories from my childhood.

Contrary to popular perceptions of robots as cold, soulless machines designed to perform purely utilitarian functions, SEOULSI's robots are, on the contrary, a form that has no practical meaning but carries a deep meaning and emotional experience. Each robot is handmade. The period from conception to full realization of one robot varies from one month to six months.”

Yesol Kim

SELECTED PROJECTS:

2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 — Fair blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia

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 in 1997 in St. Petersburg, where he currently lives and works.
Graduated from St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts, Faculty of Theory and History of Art (2022).

The author interacts with the artistic heritage of the past, occasionally borrowing some artistic techniques, and then transforming them into something closer to him. Egor is often inspired by the thinking of neural networks, sometimes completely unpredictable. Each work of the artist is multi-layered. It begins with a tonal substrate created using various pigments, solvents and inks, after which traditional materials such as watercolor, pastels and others are added.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

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

GROUP PROJECTS:

• 2024 — blazar, , a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”,, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — KONTUR Graphics Fair, , a—s—t—r—a gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 4, , a—s—t—r—a  gallery, Winzavod, Moscow

“I call my work interdisciplinary research. Being both an artist and an art historian, I play several roles at once. This allows me to occupy a kind of middle ground between a philosopher and a creator of the material. Since childhood I have been attracted and mesmerized by the art of the past, including Christian art. It is in biblical motifs that I have always felt some special aesthetics, energy that is very close to me. 
I have always been drawn to research. And my own art for me is always research, discovery, it is always global reflections on culture, philosophy, life as such. 
Inspired by the art of the past, I have created a special visual language. It is multifaceted, it is unique. There are many rules within it, there are certain constructions, schemes. However, I am the only one who knows about their existence. The viewer, perceiving, “listening” to my language, always finds his own meanings, translations, “transcriptions”.
Creating a full-fledged universe within my own work has always been and remains a very special task for me. The most important goal for me is to mystify and mythologize the content of my pictorial universe. 
For me, every work, every graphic sheet is always a portal to another world, it is always a genuine artifact. If a work can be perceived as an artifact, then it is a good work. And I strive for my work to be good.”

Egor Voskresensky

St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

•  Artguide - Year three: the results of the art fair 1703
•  Forbes - Results of St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”
•  BURO - Social Art, Dreams and Mountains: Where to Go and What to See in Museums in February
•  Art Flash - Group project a-s-t-r-a OPEN vol.4. A Fresh Look at Contemporary Art
•  INTERIOR+DESIGN - New names in the fourth edition of the Open project at a-s-t-r-a gallery.
•  NOW - What to do this weekend: January 27-28
• MOSCOW24 - Project a-s-t-r-a OPEN vol.4 started at Winzavod
• BURO - A-s-t-r-a OPEN vol.4 group project opened at Winzavod
• Playbill - a-s-t-r-a open vol.4

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

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:

• 2024 — Entropie des menages, L galerie Paris, Париж
• 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 — Vdeo art installation "Rain", WIP gallery, Moscow.
• 2021 — Abstract Meanings in Visual Forms, WIP Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Fair blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2024 — Shimmering, Art&Brut, Moscow
• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a open.vol. 4, a—s—t—r—a gallery, CSI Winzavod, Moscow
• 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

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Playbill - Rinat Mustafin. Zenith
• Cube - Rinat Mustafin's solo exhibition “Territory”, 159F Gallerie
• Anvil - “Zenit” - Rinat Mustafin's solo exhibition
• Interior + Design - Rinat Mustafin's exhibition at Anvil Gallery
• ArtTube - Rinat Mustafin “Zenith”
• ARTvoda - Rinat Mustafin
• Raan - Rinat Mustafin
• Design District DAA - Exhibition “How long ago, dear friend?” in Abramova Gallery
• Gallery on Kashirka - Questions of Art
• Modern Megapolis - Neuroel desires and digital kokoshnik for Kristina Asmus