Born in 1987 in the city of Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region.

Graduated from I.I. Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute in 2014 (graphic arts department, workshop of Andrei Alexeevich Pakhomov).

From 2014 to 2017 he studied at the creative studios of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg.  His works are in the collections of the Fabergé Museum, BREUS Foudation, the private collection of the head of the Guerlain House and in other collections in Russia and abroad. 

The work presented in the "Deformation" series captures the process of profound changes during the experience of something that comes from the outside, the metamorphosis that occurs inside a person in the process of reflection, the scarring of events and the experience of them and the very thought of them, which distort our cognitive shell.

"Having received an art academic education, I continue to develop in various modern media, being in search of new forms and images, I am constantly experimenting with artistic languages. But the lion's share of my fine practice is still black and white graphics.

In my work, I often come across academic drawing with modern trends, at the moment on the verge of between them is the most interesting space for research for me. It is there that you can find out the limits of normality and subjectivity, reality and mysticism, releasing the images of the subconscious in a more accessible visual manner.

Creativity must always be sincere to find its viewer. Creativity is a constant search for our sides. This is a pleasure from the find. This is a continuous resentment from what has already been done, as a sign that it is necessary to move on.

While working on illustrations for Bram Stoker's Dracula, I needed to find a solution for the performance of this piece. Having tried several techniques, the choice fell on the monotype. The miraculous magic of printing, its randomness bribed me, forced me to look for new images and meanings. In parallel with the work on illustrations for the dark novel, the Warp series was born.

Deformation (from Lat. Deformatio - "distortion") - a change in the relative position of body particles associated with their movement relative to each other. This series presents the deep deformations occurring inside a person. Perceptions of events, experiences and thoughts, as well as external factors pass through us, distorting the cognitive shell. Deformation is the fixation of these sensations." (Pavel Bushuev)

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS

• 2022 - St. Petersburg Art Fair "1703", a-s-t-r-a gallery, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2022 — Program Art Moscow within the framework of the 48th Russian Antique Salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
• 2021 — Program Art Moscow within the framework of the 46th Russian Antique Salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
• 2021 — "Russian Shield", St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2020 — Group exhibition "Kholotel", Moscow, Russia
• 2020 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
• 2019 — ART Event Suspense. Brackhausen Mansion, St. Petersburg
• 2019 — ART Event Suspense 2.0. Sevcable Port, St. Petersburg
• 2018 — Intervention. Hermitage, General Staff Building, St. Petersburg
• 2018 — International Fifth Biennale of Graphics. Romania
• 2012 — International Art Exhibition. Beijing, China
• 2011 — 1st place in the competition for the design of the Olympic bill
• 2010 — International Art Exhibition. Seoul, Korea

Dou Oleg is a pseudonym of the artist Oleg Duryagin. 

Born in 1983 in Moscow.

Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specialising in economic programming. Since childhood, he has been interested in art, and got interested in creating computer graphics.

In 2005 he started taking up photography and combining it with post-processing. He works in a variety of media from digital images and video to sculptures. 

AWARDS:

• 2007 — winner of the International Photography Awards
• 2007, 2008 — nominee of the Kandinsky Prize 
• 2008 — winner of the International Color Awards
• 2009 — Arte Laguna Art Prize (Italy) in the Best Young Photographer category

SPECIAL PROJECTS AND И COLLABORATIONS WITH BRANDS:

• Creating a Photoshop Cover by order of the Adobe company
• Participation in the Opinion Leaders Programme and creation of works by invitation of the Cultural Division of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Collaboration with Givenchy, Juun J, David Koma

EXHIBITIONS:

• 2019 — «Mutant» solo show, Osnova gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2018 — «Looking Back and Beyond», group show, Deborah Colton gallery, Houston, USA 
• 2018 — «Elèctric i llunyà», group show, Centre Cultural Tecla Sala, Barcelona, Spain
• 2017 — «Elegance» group show, RTR gallery, Paris, France 
• 2016 — «On behalf of baboushka» group show, RTR gallery, Paris, France 
• 2016 — «All eyes on me» group show, Pechersky gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2016 — «Lonely Narcissus» solo show, Osnova gallery, Moscow 
• 2014 — «Faces» solo show, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey 
• 2014 — «8 years. Retrospective» solo show, RTR gallery, Paris, France 
• 2012 — «Another Face» solo show, Museum of Multimedia Arts, Moscow, Russia 
• 2012 — «Tears and Toy Story» solo show, Museum of Regional Arts of Krasnodar, Russia
• 2012 — «Another Face» solo exhibition, RTR gallery, Paris, 
• 2012 — «Restart» group show, Red October Gallery. Moscow, Russia 
• 2012 — «I am who I am» group show, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany 
• 2012 — Ulsan International Photo Festival, Republic of Korea 
• 2012 — «Perestroika» group show, Fotofest 2012 Biennal, Houston, USA 
• 2012 — «Photography: Russia, China, Czech and Slovak republic» group show, Allen Center, Houston, USA 
• 2011 — «Cubs» solo show Espace Art 22 gallery, Brussels 
• 2011 — «Cubs» solo show Senda Gallery, Barcelona,Spain 
• 2011 — FotoArtFestival, BWA, Bielska, Twarze, Poland 
• 2011 — «Cubs» solo show, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
• 2011 — «Gevaarlijk Jong» group show, Musée Dr. Guislain, Gent, Belgium 
• 2011 — «F for Fake» group show , Belvedere Palace, San Leucio "Smell, Colour, Chemestry, Art and Education", Santa Monica Museum, Barcelona, Spain 
• 2010 — «Toystory», solo show, Flatland gallery, Urtrecht, Netherlands 
• 2010 — «Toystory», solo show, Senda gallery, Barcelona, Spain 
• 2010 — «Russian Tales» group show, galerie EXPRMNTL, Toulouse, France 
• 2010 — «Russains! Photografic portrait 1970-2010» group show, OREL ART Gallery, Paris 
• 2010 — «Atopia» group show, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — «inSPIRACJE», festival, Poland
• 2010 — «L'exquis et l'obscur», Galerie D.X, Bordeaux, France
• 2009 — «Tears» solo show, Art Espace 22, Brussels, Belgium 
• 2009 — «Les Visages» group show, Interalia, Seoul 
• 2009 — «Look me in the Eyes» group show, RTR gallery, Paris 
• 2009 — Pingyao International Photography Festival 2009, China 
• 2009 — «Visage. Image. Timps» group show, Ekaterina fondation, Biennal of Contemporary Art of Moscow, Moscow 

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

Sergey Sonin
Born in Smolensk in 1968. 

- Artist, director, screenwriter, producer

Studied at Semyon Aranovich's workshop for film directing.
St. Petersburg State University of Cinema and Television 

Elena Samorodova
Born in Moscow in 1973.

- Architect, production designer and photographer.

Studied at Moscow Art School №1. Graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute, Experimental Design Group in 1998.

Sergey Sonin and Elena Samorodova (Partnership "Lead and Cobalt") are multimedia artists, working in two capitals: Moscow and St. Petersburg, founders of several art associations. Their works are in the collection of the Museum of Moscow, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center "Peace Square", Multimedia Art Museum and in private collections.

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• 2022 - "Northern Arcadia", solo exhibition, City Sculpture Museum, St. Petersburg.
• 2022 - "Utopia and Uchronia", solo exhibition, Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg.
• 2019 - "Procession" video premiere, Karo-art, Oktyabr cinema, Moscow
• 2018 - "Razvilka. Personal exhibition, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
• 2016 - "Trapper's Fragment. Russian Stereo". Solo exhibition, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
• 2015 - "Russian Realism XXI century", Museum of Modern History of Russia, Moscow.
• 2015 - "Now&After" video festival.  Film "Egyptian flock".
• 2015 - "Kvadratura", - "Strategic Heritage", Tenishev ECC, Smolensk
• 2015 - auction PIASA. Russian & soviet photographs. "Gogol. Rome. From the Third to the First", Paris
• 2015 - "Enrichment of Reality", - "Strategic Heritage", A3 Gallery, Moscow
• 2015 - "Victory as a new epic", - "Strategic Heritage", Zurab Tsereteli Art Gallery, Moscow
• 2014 - "Gogol. Rome. From the Third to the First", Museum of Moscow. Personal exhibition.
• 2013 - "Egyptian flock", Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, personal exhibition, Krasnoyarsk.
• 2013 - "Shelter for Sniper", Transatlantic Gallery, Moscow, Parallel program of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Solo exhibition.
• 2013 - "Strategic Heritage", Polytechnic Museum, Moscow. Solo exhibition.
• 2012 - "Hot Cold. Loft Floors, St. Petersburg. 
• 2012 - "Egyptian Pack. Part 1", gallery POBEDA, Moscow. Solo exhibition.
• 2010 - "Divine Wind", Marble Palace, St. Petersburg.
• 2009 - Exhibition "Divine Wind", Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.
• 2007 - "Generals of the 70s", Yakut Gallery, Moscow.
• 2005 - "Generals of the 70s", Festival "Fashion and Style in Photography", Moscow.

Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. Lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art named after Joseph Backstein: course "New artistic strategies" in the specialty "modern artistic practice" workshop of Stas Shuripa.

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main task of the work is the study of the fluid medium of forms, the physical influence of materials, fluid structures, new forms of practice as therapy restoration.

As a resident of the Richter Workshops, the artist Dishon Yuldash created the design of a bottle for the Richter perfume with incense and black currant scent from Matvey Yudov.

Founder of the non-commercial project Prolog.Vision, within which was held the group exhibition "Planned Obsolescence" of curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the Innovation - 2017 prize in the "Curator of the Year" nomination.

ELECTED CURATOR PROJECTS:

• 2021 — "All dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — "Deformation without tearing and gluing" Vitaly Bezpalov, Yan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
• 2020 — "The unwavering one multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, a hollow mystery" Katia Khassine, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2019 — Curator of projects a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 — Concert-practice "m e r t s a n i e" by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2017 — "Respawn, if a prisoner, who if not you" Alexey Taruts, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - Art Moscow Program at the 48th Russian Antique Salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny dvor, Moscow.
• 2021 - Cosmoscow art fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - Blazar, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow

CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 2021 - Victor Timofeev solo exhibition. ISSMAG, Moscow (pending).
• 2021 - "All Dogs Go to Paradise" by Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2020 - "Deformation without Tearing and Gluing" by Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Viktor Timofeev, Carbone 20 Biennale, Saint-Etienne, France
• 2020 - "Quintessence" solo exhibition by Vitaly Bezpalov. ISSMAG, Moscow. 
• 2020 - Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG, Moscow
• 2020 - "Boredomless multiplies boredom, with - dead pearl, hollow mystery" by Katya Khasina, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2020-2021 - New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG. Moscow 
• 2020 - "∅. no w" sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2019 - Curator of projects a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 - "Protodermis" installation by Abu Blunt. ISSMAG, Moscow
• 2018 - "m e r t s a n i e" concert-practice by Anastasia Tolchneva (aka Lovozero) and Anna Kravchenko, ISSMAG Gallery, Moscow
• 2017 - "vctn" installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2017 - "Who if you are not" performance by Alexei Taruts. Rabitsa, Moscow 
• 2017 - "Let all your dreams come true" performance-audio-installation, Alexei Taruts. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow 
• 2016 - "Respawn, exactly, if not you then who" solo exhibition of Alexei Taruts. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2016 - "Bangs" solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. CTI Fabrika, Moscow
• 2015 - "STILL MOVING" group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

• МОСКВИЧ MAG "Почему Вы должны меня знать: основательница галереи Issmag Дишон Юлдаш"
• Vogue "Почему керамика стала такой модной и за какими художницами следить"
• BURO 24/7 о выпуске аромата для пространства Рихтер во флаконах работы Дишон Юлдаш
• Esquire о презентации аромата для пространства Рихтер
• The BluePrint о создании Дишон Юлдаш скульптурных флаконов для аромата "Рихтер"
• Arterritory.com "Куда привела радуга"
• tzvetnik.online "All Dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• tzvetnik.online "Deformation without tearing and gluing", Group Show at Carbone 20, Saint-Etienne
• tzvetnik.online "Quintessence" by Vitaly Bezpalov at ISSMAG, Moscow
• Интервью Дишон Юлдаш для АртУзел
• AQNB о презентации видео-перформанса "АЛЕКСЕЙ ТАРУЦ / КТО ЕСЛИ НЕ ТЫ" в галерее Issmag
• AroundArt о выставке Кати Хасиной «Безвихрастый умножает скуку, с — отмерший перламутр, полая загадка» в галерее Issmag