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 1987 in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region. 

Graduated from the Chelyabinsk Art College (2007) and the graphic arts department (studio of Andrei Alekseevich Pakhomov) of the Repin St. Petersburg State Art Academy (2014). From 2014 to 2017 he trained in the creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. During his studies he participated in exhibitions and competitions in Russia, Korea and China, cooperated with GOZNAK (Mint). Pavel's works are in the collections of the Fabergé Museum, BREUS Foundation, private collection of the head of the House of Guerlain, as well as in private collections of many countries, including Russia, France, Korea, USA and China.

In his works, Pavel captures the process of internal metamorphosis that takes place within a person while experiencing something that comes from the outside. Having received an academic art education, Paul continues to develop in various contemporary media, experimenting with artistic languages, however a large portion of his visual practice is black and white graphics. In his work, the artist often collides academic drawing with contemporary trends, exploring the boundaries of normality and subjectivity, reality and mysticism. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:

• 2024 — KONTUR Graphics Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2023 — Fair |catalog|, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — KONTUR Graphics Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2023 — Quiet Move. (Un)obvious art scene of St. Petersburg, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — blazar young art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — Cosmoscow art fair, 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 — 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, Vinzavod, Moscow
• 2022 — Art Moscow program within the 48th Russian Atiquarian Salon, a—s—t—r—a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
•  2021 — Group exhibition “12345 I go looking”, St. Petersburg, Russia
•  2021 — Cosmoscow art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
•  2021 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 — Art Moscow program 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 — Cosmoscow art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2019 — Art Event Suspense. Brakgausen Mansion, St. Petersburg, Russia *
• 2019 — ART Event Suspense.
• 2019 — ART Event Suspense 2.0. Port Sevkabel, St. Petersburg
• 2018 — Intervention. Hermitage Museum, Main Staff, St. Petersburg
• 2018 — International Fifth Biennial of Graphic Arts. Romania
• 2012 — International Art Exhibition. Beijing, China
• 2011 — 1st place in the competition for the design of the Olympic banknote
• 2010 — International Art Exhibition. Seoul, Korea

“Creativity must always be sincere in order to find its audience. Creativity is a constant search for its sides. It is the pleasure of discovery. It is the continuous dissatisfaction with what has already been done, as a sign that one must move on. 

Deformation (from Latin Deformatio - “distortion”) is a change in the mutual 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. The deformation is the fixation of these perceptions.”

Pavel Bushuev

FAVORITE PUBLICATIONS:

• Playbill - What to watch at the new contemporary art fair |catalog|
• Moscow Online - The a-s-t-r-a gallery hosted the opening of the group exhibition “Quiet Move. (Not) obvious art scene of St. Petersburg”
• Afisha Daily - Which exhibitions are worth going to in April 2023?
• Zhara Media - Pavel Bushuyev: “Being an artist is not a job, but rather a way of life”
• Buro. - “The Great Emptiness” and “Sunset in a Hundred and Forty Suns”: exhibitions visited in the past year and planned to see in 2024

Oleg Dou is the pseudonym of artist Oleg Douryagin.

Born in 1983 in Moscow. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, specializing in economic programming. Since childhood he was interested in art, became interested in creating computer graphics. In 2005 he took up photography and began to combine it with post-processing. He works in various media from digital images and video to sculptures.
Winner of International Photography Awards (2007), International Color Awards (2008) and Arte Laguna Art Prize (Italy, 2009). Nominee of the Kandinsky Prize in 2007 and 2008.
Oleg created a Photoshop cover commissioned by Adobe, participated in the “Leaders of Public Opinion” program, creating works at the invitation of the Culture Department of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He has collaborated with brands such as Givenchy, Juun J, David Koma. 
His works are in museum collections of Luxemburg Museum of Modern Art, Luxembourg; Ekaterina Foundation, Russia; Jan des bouvrie, Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, France; Samawi Collection, Dubai; Jeju museum of art, Korea; 21 cMuseum, USA; Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Russia; FRAC Reunion, France; Sollo Collection, Spain and others. As well as in private collections in Russia, America and Switzerland. 

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| April, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2019 — “Mutant”, solo exhibition , Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2018 — “Looking Back and Beyond”, group exhibition, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, USA 
• 2018 — “Elèctric i llunyà”, group exhibition, Tecla Sala Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain
• 2017 — “Elegance”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
• 2016 — “On behalf of baboushka”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France 
• 2016 — “All eyes on me”, group exhibition, Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia 
• 2016 — “Lonely Narcissus”, solo exhibition, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2014 — “Faces”, solo exhibition, Galerist, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2014 — “8 years. Retrospective”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
• 2012 — “Another Face”, solo exhibition, Museum of Multimedia Arts, Moscow, Russia
• 2012 — “Tears and Toy Story”, solo exhibition, Museum of Regional Arts of Krasnodar, Russia
• 2012 — “Another Face”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
• 2012 — “Reboot”, group exhibition, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2012 — “I am who I am”, group exhibition, KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
• 2012 — International Photography Festival, Republic of Korea
• 2012 — “Perestroika”, solo exhibition, Fotofest 2012 Biennial of Photography, Houston, USA
• 2012 — “Photography: Russia, China, Czech and Slovak Republic” group exhibition, Allen Center, Houston, USA
• 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Espace Art 22 gallery, Brussels
• 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 2011 — FotoArtFestival, BWA, Bielsko, Twarze, Poland
• 2011 — “Cubs”, solo exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris, France
• 2011 — “Gevaarlijk Jong”, group exhibition, Dr. Ghislain Museum, Ghent, Belgium
• 2011 — “F for Fake”, group exhibition, Belvedere Palace, San Leucio “Smell, Colour, Chemestry, Art and Education”, Santa Monica Museum, Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Flatland Gallery, Utrecht, Netherlands
• 2010 — “Toystory”, solo exhibition, Senda Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — “Russian Tales”, group exhibition, EXPRMNTL gallery, Toulouse, France
• 2010 — “Russains! Photographic portrait 1970-2010”, group exhibition, OREL ART gallery, Paris, France
• 2010 — “Atopia”, group exhibition, Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
• 2010 — “inSPIRACJE”, festival, Poland
• 2010 — “L'exquis et l'obscur”, Galerie D.X, Bordeaux, France
• 2009 — “Tears”, solo exhibition, Art Espace 22, Brussels, Belgium
• 2009 — “Les Visages”, group exhibition, Interalia, Seoul
• 2009 — “Look me in the Eyes”, group exhibition, RTR Gallery, Paris
• 2009 — Pingyao International Photography Festival 2009, China
• 2009 — “Visage. Image. Timps”, group exhibition, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Fair |catalog| April 2023, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Artguide - Year Three: the results of art fair 1703
  
• Photoplay - Talks. Oleg Dou
  
• Moskvich Mag - This is my city: artist Oleg Dou
  
• ArtInvestment - Artist of the Week: Oleg Dou
• U magazine - Artist Oleg Dou - about fashion, design and art collaborations
  
• BURO. - The Carol Christian Poell store will host an exhibition of artist Oleg Dou
• Next Level - Oleg Dou. Sketches

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

Sergey Sonin

Born in Smolensk in 1968. Artist, director, screenwriter, producer. Studied at Semyon Aranovich's workshop for film directing at 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.

For the last decade and a half, the artists have been continuously experimenting, playing with imaginary reconstructions of the world's cultural and historical present, past and future in their works, filling them with new content. In their mystifications they also refer to time, shortening or prolonging its course, establishing “their” author's perceptions and frameworks.

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• 2024 — “Utopia and Uchronia”, personal project, MMOMA Museum, Gogolevsky b-р. 10/2 , Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2024 — KONTUR Graphics Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
• 2024 — 1st GRAUND Biennale “Textile in Contemporary Art”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, GRAUND Solyanka, Moscow
• 2023 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Utopia and Uchronia. The Dream of a Landowner of the Middle Strip”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 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

“The universe of Elena Samorodova and Sergey Sonin is a “Russian invisible Empire”, either a post-apocalyptic world or a parallel reality, fixed in aesthetically perfect video frescoes and artifacts, such as, for example, stove tiles, which make us believe that all this happened in reality. The ordinary viewer risks getting lost in these quantum movements and, waving his hand, giving himself over to emotional and aesthetic experiences, but now we have the opportunity to talk to the authors and untangle this tangle of meanings.”

Quoted from the article “Elena Samorodova, Sergey Sonin: Over the Russian Void, through Russian Zen”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• Artguide - Year Three: the results of the 1703 art fair
• Forbes - Results of St. Petersburg art fair “1703”
• Snob - “Art owes no one anything”. A conversation between gallery owner Alina Kryukova and art historian Ivan Chechot
• BURO - New exhibitions in “HES-2”, MMOMA, “Zotov”: where to go and what to see in museums in May
• ART Knot - “I want to escape from the leveling and simplified monotony of the modern world's offerings”

Dishon Yuldash is an artist and founder of the Moscow gallery ISSMAG. She lives and works in Moscow. Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art Im. Graduated from Iosif Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art: New Art Strategies course, specializing in contemporary art practice, workshop of Stas Shuripa.

Dishon Yuldash works with the sculptural environment. The main focus of the works is to explore the fluid medium of forms, the physical effects of materials, fluid constructions, and new forms of practice as a therapy for recovery.

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

She is the founder of the non-profit project Prolog.Vision, which realized the group exhibition “Planned Obsolescence” by curator Alexander Burenkov, who received the “Innovation - 2017” award in the category “Curator of the Year” for the exhibition.

PROJECTS AND AWARDS:

• 2014 / to this day — Founder of non-profit project ISSMAG gallery
• 2016 — Founder of non-profit project Prolog.Vision
• 2016 - Prolog.Vision. “Planned Obsolescence” international project, guest curator Alexander Burenkov. Parallel program of the V Moscow Biennale, Moscow 
• 2017 - Prolog.Vision, award “innovation - 2017” curator of the year. (curator Alexander Burenkov)

SELECTED FAIRS:

• 2024 — Fair |catalog| December, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Cosmoscow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• gallery, Moscow, Russia
• 2021 — Blazar Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow 
• 2022 — Blazar Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — Art Moscow Art Fair,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Art Moments Jakarta Art Fair, Kendys gallery, Bali
• 2024 — Cosmoscow Art Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Москва

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — “Locus amoenus” group project, Museum of Gulag History, Moscow
• 2024 — “Dark Room No. 1” solo project, 19 DEVYATNADTSAT, Moscow
• 2024 — “Souvenir Trapa Natan”, Skaz Art Festival, Altai   
• 2023 — “Horizon brings time closer” group project Deeplist, Moscow 
• 2023 — Art residence Nuer Sang, Chiang Mai, Thailand 
• 2022 — “Dead kingdom” solo project, NOVAT, Novosibirsk
• 2022 — “Staff &|| Transparent rod” artweekend art festival, Altai  
• 2022 — “Found trophy” solo project ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2021 — “Ceremony 19742” solo project, Daipyat, Voronezh
• 2021 — “Beauty bomb” group project ISSMAG Gallery. Moscow
• 2020 — “Upper layer of the sky” solo project. Hotel Richter, Moscow
• 2020 — Art residency, Hotel Richter Workshops, Moscow 
• 2020 — “The loud sound of the serena” solo project, Villa Papi Mamie, Le Croisic, France  
• 2019 — “Minisystems”, Hotel Richter , Moscow
• 2019 — Travel agency “Noumen” Globalization and the unknown. Part l. Fabrika, Moscow

 CURATORIAL PROJECTS:

• 2024 — “Clouds ”Yulia Goldman. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Numb Brushes” Vika Begalskaya & Alexander Vilkin. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow  
• 2022 — “Life Force. Rhodesian Genius” Dmitry Gilen, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2021 — “Exercise in virtue” group exhibition. 
  ISSMAG gallery. Moscow
• 2021 — “All dogs go to heaven” Stasya Grishina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — “Deformation without tearing and gluing” Vitaly Bezpalov, Jan Ginzburg, Victor Timofeev, Biennale Carbone 20, Saint Etienne, France
• 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow 
• 2020 — “Quintessence” solo exhibition of Vitaly Bespalov. ISSMAG, Moscow 
• 2020 — Exhibition of one work by Bora Akinchuk (London). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020 — “Quintessence multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” Katya Khasina, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2020-2021 — New season curated by TZVETNIK invited Dishon Yuldash. ISSMAG gallery. Moscow 
• 2020 — “∅. no w” sound installation by Yegor Anonko. ISSMAG, gallery, Moscow 
• 2019 — Curator of projects a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2018 — “Protodermis” installation by Abu Blount. ISSMAG gallry, 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 — “Vctn” installation and video work by Alena Shapovalova and musician Ignat Olenev (Johns Kingdom). ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2017 — “Who if you are not” performance by Alexei Tarutz. Rabitsa, Moscow
• 2017 — “Let all your dreams come true” performance-audio installation, Alexei Tarutz. Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow Cosmoscow, Moscow
• 2016 — “Respawn, exactly, if not you then who” solo exhibition by Alexei Tarutz. ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
• 2016 — “Bangs” / “Bangs” solo exhibition by Oleg Ustinov. Fabrika, Moscow
• 2015 — “STILL MOVING” group exhibition, Sinead Breslin, Alexander Selivanov, Oleg Ustinov. Spiridonov House, Moscow 

PUBLICATIONS:

• MOSCOW MAG article “Why You Should Know Me: Issmag Gallery founder Dishon Yuldash”
• Vogue article “Why ceramics has become so trendy and which artists to follow”
• BURO 24/7 article on the launch of a fragrance for the Richter space in bottles by Dishon Yuldash
• Esquire article about the fragrance launch for Richter Space
• The BluePrint article on Dishon Yuldash's creation of sculptural bottles for the Richter fragrance space
• Arterritory.com article “Where the rainbow led”
• Статья tzvetnik.online "All Dogs go to heaven" by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• Article tzvetnik.online “All Dogs go to heaven” by Stasia Grishina at Issmag, Moscow
• Article tzvetnik.online “Deformation without tearing and gluing”, Group Show at Carbone 20, Saint-Etienne
• Dishon Yuldash interview for ArtUzel
• AQNB about the presentation of the video performance “ALEXEY TARUTS / WHO ISN'T YOU” at Issmag Gallery.
• AroundArt article about Katya Hasina's exhibition “Twigless multiplies boredom, with - dead mother-of-pearl, hollow mystery” at Issmag Gallery