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ARTISTS
NINTH SEASON
February - August 2023
Mentor of the season: Lera Kononchuk
"Artists strive to touch upon socially important topics in their works, to find ways to translate acute social, theoretical and significant everyday issues into the plane of mediated experience. However, this experience and reflections associated with it are sometimes produced not so much by the development of the theme, but by the very vague nature of artistic works and practices, their opacity. Can we talk about knowledge in this case? If so, what is the nature of this knowledge? And what can work with different artistic methodologies give in this sense?"
Alena Paskhina
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Sayan Baigaliev
He is a graduate of the T. Zhurgenov KazNAA College with a degree in easel painting and the Aidan Salakhova workshop of Contemporary Art at the Surikov MGAKHI.
"I explore compositional, coloristic and plastic ways of constructing space, liberate pattern from painting, coming to multidimensionality."
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"I explore compositional, coloristic and plastic ways of constructing space, liberate pattern from painting, coming to multidimensionality."
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Zheniya Kuzma
Graduate of the ISI, lives and works in Moscow and Kolomna.
"In my practice, I explore connections - Spaces between. Between words, actions, states. I turn to traditions, rules, boundaries and other constructs. I observe how identity breaks down in its everyday life into countless biological, chemical, social stories. I am interested in how even fear turns out to be a connection, connecting and separating at the same time."
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"In my practice, I explore connections - Spaces between. Between words, actions, states. I turn to traditions, rules, boundaries and other constructs. I observe how identity breaks down in its everyday life into countless biological, chemical, social stories. I am interested in how even fear turns out to be a connection, connecting and separating at the same time."
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Vitaly Tyurlik
Graduate of the Historical and Archival Faculty of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Since 2019, he has been heading the archive of one of the Moscow theaters.
"I am a historian-archivist, I work in the archive, I do embroidery and textile collage. I am looking into the past, which, in my opinion, has all the answers to the current issues. I'm trying to display a cozy world for me, in which the surrounding objects have their own face, and animated mushrooms, vampires and strange creatures live their lives, and an understandable and not at all terrible death hangs over all of this."
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"I am a historian-archivist, I work in the archive, I do embroidery and textile collage. I am looking into the past, which, in my opinion, has all the answers to the current issues. I'm trying to display a cozy world for me, in which the surrounding objects have their own face, and animated mushrooms, vampires and strange creatures live their lives, and an understandable and not at all terrible death hangs over all of this."
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Marina Koshlina
Graduate of the British Higher School of Design, lives and works in Moscow.
"I am interested in the relationship between space, perception and the perceived object in the context of modern architecture and everyday interaction with it. Working with three-dimensional mediums such as sculpture and installation, I explore the visual qualities of architectural materials and forms, as well as the relationships they form with real space and its features."
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"I am interested in the relationship between space, perception and the perceived object in the context of modern architecture and everyday interaction with it. Working with three-dimensional mediums such as sculpture and installation, I explore the visual qualities of architectural materials and forms, as well as the relationships they form with real space and its features."
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Mara Pilyasinskaya
Graduate of the British Higher School of Design, lives and works in Moscow.
In his works, he considers artistic forms of conservation and research. The main motive of creativity is the creation of an artifact, an object of urban mythology through lyrical abstraction. The artist explores the meaning of signs, colors and textures, inventing a new lexical system that can reflect the mood of a modern person in an urban environment.
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In his works, he considers artistic forms of conservation and research. The main motive of creativity is the creation of an artifact, an object of urban mythology through lyrical abstraction. The artist explores the meaning of signs, colors and textures, inventing a new lexical system that can reflect the mood of a modern person in an urban environment.
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Danya Pirogov
Artist and architect from Nizhny Novgorod. He works mainly in three mediums: sculpture, land art and performative practices.
"The main topic of interest to me is fictional mythology. I am referring to the concept of an inappropriate artefact - an object that should not exist according to official history. In my practice, I create and document artefact objects, forming episodes of alternative history.
I work in the studio, in the forest and on the street. The basis of my mythology is personal experience and my childhood experiences. I call the collection of studio objects and practices a bestiary. This is a large multi-level system in which every being (or object) is the answer to my long-term and current questions. As an architect, I tend to work with space. It is important for me to have a constant dialogue between the object, the context and the viewer through scale, tactility, alternation of emptiness and fullness. The materials I mainly work with are concrete, wire and tracing paper.
I am interested in the question of time and temporality: the artefacts that I create in the studio are some evidence of a world in which time has stopped, and space has become, on the one hand, an object for observation, and on the other - an objective reality, dynamically changing and surpassing all living things.
At the same time, my practices in natural landscapes, on the contrary, are associated with the ritualization of the processes of changing artwork over time. I create objects that go through a natural cycle: they age, burn, sink underground, disappear."
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"The main topic of interest to me is fictional mythology. I am referring to the concept of an inappropriate artefact - an object that should not exist according to official history. In my practice, I create and document artefact objects, forming episodes of alternative history.
I work in the studio, in the forest and on the street. The basis of my mythology is personal experience and my childhood experiences. I call the collection of studio objects and practices a bestiary. This is a large multi-level system in which every being (or object) is the answer to my long-term and current questions. As an architect, I tend to work with space. It is important for me to have a constant dialogue between the object, the context and the viewer through scale, tactility, alternation of emptiness and fullness. The materials I mainly work with are concrete, wire and tracing paper.
I am interested in the question of time and temporality: the artefacts that I create in the studio are some evidence of a world in which time has stopped, and space has become, on the one hand, an object for observation, and on the other - an objective reality, dynamically changing and surpassing all living things.
At the same time, my practices in natural landscapes, on the contrary, are associated with the ritualization of the processes of changing artwork over time. I create objects that go through a natural cycle: they age, burn, sink underground, disappear."
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Sasha Puchkova
Graduate of the British Higher School of Design and the Rodchenko Art School.
An interdisciplinary artist with a background in graphic design and media art. She works with a combination of traditional and digital media. Key topics are the future of women, fantastic cartography of phenomena (biological, digital, botanical). The narrative is often built in the genre of artistic fiction and auto-fiction.
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An interdisciplinary artist with a background in graphic design and media art. She works with a combination of traditional and digital media. Key topics are the future of women, fantastic cartography of phenomena (biological, digital, botanical). The narrative is often built in the genre of artistic fiction and auto-fiction.
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FARANGIZ Ra
Graduated of the BAZA Institute, lives and works in Moscow.
FARANGIZ Ra is an interdisciplinary artist. She works with performance, video installation, painting. Farangiz addresses the topic of women and the issues of the artist's labour. Through reflection on her origin and life experience, Farangiz erases cultural boundaries, broadcasting ideas of freedom from dominant social stereotypes.
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FARANGIZ Ra is an interdisciplinary artist. She works with performance, video installation, painting. Farangiz addresses the topic of women and the issues of the artist's labour. Through reflection on her origin and life experience, Farangiz erases cultural boundaries, broadcasting ideas of freedom from dominant social stereotypes.
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Vivato Eka
She studied at the higher school "Sreda Obucheniya", attended the workshop of Arseniy Zhilyaev. She studied contemporary art at the courses of the artist and curator Ilmira Bolotyan and art manager Maria Sedoshenko.
"In my works I often turn to the topic of memory. I explore the stereotypes that have developed in society, the boundaries of the beautiful and the ugly. Often I transform into different images, make clothes and jewelry. My visual language is characterized by escapism, hedonism, brightness. Humor and self-irony play an important role. I try to get away from the ready-made style matrix and continue experimenting with mediums and themes, because I appreciate unpredictability and originality. I wouldn't want to fall into the trap of 'past self' and do similar things to each other."View portfolio
"In my works I often turn to the topic of memory. I explore the stereotypes that have developed in society, the boundaries of the beautiful and the ugly. Often I transform into different images, make clothes and jewelry. My visual language is characterized by escapism, hedonism, brightness. Humor and self-irony play an important role. I try to get away from the ready-made style matrix and continue experimenting with mediums and themes, because I appreciate unpredictability and originality. I wouldn't want to fall into the trap of 'past self' and do similar things to each other."View portfolio
Alena Paskhina
A graduate of PromTechDesign University and HSE School of Design, she lives and works in Moscow.
Alyona Paskhina is a multimedia artist who uses different techniques in her work — print graphics, photography, and also creates sculptural objects from non-traditional materials. She is interested in the topic of interaction between human and non-human in the context of environmental and cultural relations.
"By making the ideas of cohabitation and symbiosis part of the artistic agenda, I strive to share with the viewer the experience of transition from submission to coexistence."
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Alyona Paskhina is a multimedia artist who uses different techniques in her work — print graphics, photography, and also creates sculptural objects from non-traditional materials. She is interested in the topic of interaction between human and non-human in the context of environmental and cultural relations.
"By making the ideas of cohabitation and symbiosis part of the artistic agenda, I strive to share with the viewer the experience of transition from submission to coexistence."
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ARTISTS
EIGHTH SEASON
July 2022 - December 2022
Mentor of the season: Alexey Maslyaev
"The main theme of the eighth season formulated as an "according to the situation". It describes not so much the practices of future residents as my general ideas about Studios and the expectations associated with them. Usually, when offering a topic, the tutor outlines the boundaries of the area (interests, working methods, expressive means, etc.) in which future Studio's residents find themselves. This situation is not close to me, and I am more impressed with the approach when the priority is the figure of the artist. I adhere to the principle that not only the topic, but even the ways of my interaction with residents are not predetermined and should take shape after determining the composition of participants and getting to know them."
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Kirill Manchunsky
Born in Alma-Ata, lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
State University of Land Use Planning
2017 - 2018 - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
2020 - 2022 - ISI "Base"
«I manage to combine different visual and cultural codes in my practice, often arguing with each other, so that the works begin to speak their own language, which claims to be understandable to any observer. The main medium is embroidery, presents a large layer of well-established associations (starting at least with the fact that traditionally needlework is considered "women's" work) and appeals to personal spectator memories»
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Education:
State University of Land Use Planning
2017 - 2018 - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
2020 - 2022 - ISI "Base"
«I manage to combine different visual and cultural codes in my practice, often arguing with each other, so that the works begin to speak their own language, which claims to be understandable to any observer. The main medium is embroidery, presents a large layer of well-established associations (starting at least with the fact that traditionally needlework is considered "women's" work) and appeals to personal spectator memories»
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Alexey Ryabov
Lives and works in Moscow
Education:
Graduate of the "Free Workshops" of MMOMA and MARKHI
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Education:
Graduate of the "Free Workshops" of MMOMA and MARKHI
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Vasilisa Lebedeva
Born in Novosibirsk, lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
2020 – 2022 (present) - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
2019 - 2020 - MSCA - British Higher School of Design. "Modern Art". DPO
2019 - 2020 - School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" MOMMA
2014 - 2016 - British Higher School of Design. Fashion design - basic course. DPO
2012 - 2013 - British Higher School of Design. Preparatory courses.
2007 - 2012 - Moscow State Pedagogical University. Postgraduate study.
Candidate of Philological Sciences in the Department of Journalism
«In my practice, I work with a mythological structure, where I can take plots and characters from different myths and fairy tales. By collecting components from different myths, I build my system through which I work with topics such as mindfulness, human interaction with other people and the world around me. I am exploring the design of a fabulous world order in the format»
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Education:
2020 – 2022 (present) - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
2019 - 2020 - MSCA - British Higher School of Design. "Modern Art". DPO
2019 - 2020 - School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" MOMMA
2014 - 2016 - British Higher School of Design. Fashion design - basic course. DPO
2012 - 2013 - British Higher School of Design. Preparatory courses.
2007 - 2012 - Moscow State Pedagogical University. Postgraduate study.
Candidate of Philological Sciences in the Department of Journalism
«In my practice, I work with a mythological structure, where I can take plots and characters from different myths and fairy tales. By collecting components from different myths, I build my system through which I work with topics such as mindfulness, human interaction with other people and the world around me. I am exploring the design of a fabulous world order in the format»
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Tatyana Prystavka
Katika
Born in Hungary, lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts
Textile artist (crochet)
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Education:
Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts
Textile artist (crochet)
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Anastasia Kovaleva
Born on Sakhalin, currently lives and works in Moscow
Education
2019- 2020 - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
2017- 2018 - «Free Workshops». Art School of Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Laboratories, courses, residences:
2021 Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Anna Dauchikova's course.
2021 - Laboratory of Jaan Toomik, "Laboratory of Freedom" Tretyakov Gallery..
2020 "Body as Medium" performance workshop by Olga Kroytor..
2019 "Performance Workshop" summer school by AlexandraArtamonova.
Education
2019- 2020 - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
2017- 2018 - «Free Workshops». Art School of Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
Laboratories, courses, residences:
2021 Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Arts. Anna Dauchikova's course.
2021 - Laboratory of Jaan Toomik, "Laboratory of Freedom" Tretyakov Gallery..
2020 "Body as Medium" performance workshop by Olga Kroytor..
2019 "Performance Workshop" summer school by AlexandraArtamonova.
Polina Abina
Lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
2021 – 2022 (present) - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
«In my works, I draw a parallel between traditional art and digital format, combining them in one space, putting one into another, completing the post-Internet, starting the newest. The concepts of new materialism and the meaning of the subjectivity of objects, the agency of the living and inanimate are topics that are also reflected in my practice»
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Education:
2021 – 2022 (present) - Institue of Contemporary Art. Moscow.
«In my works, I draw a parallel between traditional art and digital format, combining them in one space, putting one into another, completing the post-Internet, starting the newest. The concepts of new materialism and the meaning of the subjectivity of objects, the agency of the living and inanimate are topics that are also reflected in my practice»
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Julia Vlasova
Lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
2021-2022 - DocDocDoc. Experiments of modern photography. Curator Theodora Kaplan. Saint-Petersburg
2020 – 2021 - Photoplay. Modern photography. Curator Ivan Knyazev. Moscow.
2018 – 2019 - Photoplay. Commercial photography. Curators: Nail Sinitsina and Vlad Krasilnikov. Moscow
2018 - Fine Art. Studio light. Master Ekaterina Grigorieva. Moscow
«Sometimes I wonder why I choose to do this? But I can't find the answer. I just need to be in this process all the time, without it I can't imagine my expression in life. This is my way and interest to live»
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Education:
2021-2022 - DocDocDoc. Experiments of modern photography. Curator Theodora Kaplan. Saint-Petersburg
2020 – 2021 - Photoplay. Modern photography. Curator Ivan Knyazev. Moscow.
2018 – 2019 - Photoplay. Commercial photography. Curators: Nail Sinitsina and Vlad Krasilnikov. Moscow
2018 - Fine Art. Studio light. Master Ekaterina Grigorieva. Moscow
«Sometimes I wonder why I choose to do this? But I can't find the answer. I just need to be in this process all the time, without it I can't imagine my expression in life. This is my way and interest to live»
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Ekaterina Afonina
Born in Minsk, lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
2012-2016 - Secondary special, "Foreign language. Documentation and documentation support". MGLU College, Belarus, Minsk.
2017-2021 - Bachelor's degree, "Effective Public Administration". The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
2018-2019 - Painting and drawing courses. RSU im. Kosygina
2019-2020 - Painting and drawing courses. MGAHI im. Surikov
2020-2023 - Additional professional retraining "Painting". MGAHI im. Surikov
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Education:
2012-2016 - Secondary special, "Foreign language. Documentation and documentation support". MGLU College, Belarus, Minsk.
2017-2021 - Bachelor's degree, "Effective Public Administration". The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
2018-2019 - Painting and drawing courses. RSU im. Kosygina
2019-2020 - Painting and drawing courses. MGAHI im. Surikov
2020-2023 - Additional professional retraining "Painting". MGAHI im. Surikov
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Ekaterina Popchenko
Lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
2020-2023 -The Rodchenko Art School. Moscow
2014-2020 - Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts
2019 - MMOMA, The School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops
«I work in various techniques: painting, sculpture, photography, installation.
Today I am working with the theme of icon painting and its possible interpretations, with the help of its transformations through the intuitive graphic style of the image. I create a kind of colour books by filling the graphics with clean and open colors, like in a children's album. I work not only on canvases, but also experiment with de-painted and plaster surfaces»
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Education:
2020-2023 -The Rodchenko Art School. Moscow
2014-2020 - Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts
2019 - MMOMA, The School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops
«I work in various techniques: painting, sculpture, photography, installation.
Today I am working with the theme of icon painting and its possible interpretations, with the help of its transformations through the intuitive graphic style of the image. I create a kind of colour books by filling the graphics with clean and open colors, like in a children's album. I work not only on canvases, but also experiment with de-painted and plaster surfaces»
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Lina Khasanova
Lives and works in Moscow.
Education:
2017 - 2019 – The ICA Moscow, "Contemporary Art". Moscow, Russia
2017 - 18 – British Higher School of Art and Design, "Theatre Stage Design" (Scenography). Moscow, Russia
2014 - 2016 – British Higher School of Art and Design, "Illustration". Moscow, Russia
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Education:
2017 - 2019 – The ICA Moscow, "Contemporary Art". Moscow, Russia
2017 - 18 – British Higher School of Art and Design, "Theatre Stage Design" (Scenography). Moscow, Russia
2014 - 2016 – British Higher School of Art and Design, "Illustration". Moscow, Russia
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Anna Komarova
Born in Yekaterinburg, now based in Moscow.
Education:
2014 - 2018 – The Sverdlovsk Art School named after I.D. Shadr.
2018 - 2023 – Moscow Art Theatre School, Scenography.
«In my practice I try to challenge the borders between people, social structures, nature and technological progress, one man and all the human being. I use different mediums such as installation, graphic, painting, web-technologies and sound. I explore how people communicate and what's leads to the absence of mutual understanding. I try to deep people in a new world imagined by me, to make them feel a new sense, speak a new language of space, of feelings, of volume, of emotions»
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Education:
2014 - 2018 – The Sverdlovsk Art School named after I.D. Shadr.
2018 - 2023 – Moscow Art Theatre School, Scenography.
«In my practice I try to challenge the borders between people, social structures, nature and technological progress, one man and all the human being. I use different mediums such as installation, graphic, painting, web-technologies and sound. I explore how people communicate and what's leads to the absence of mutual understanding. I try to deep people in a new world imagined by me, to make them feel a new sense, speak a new language of space, of feelings, of volume, of emotions»
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ARTISTS
SEVENTH SEASON
December 2021 - May 2022
Mentor of the season: Alexey Maslyaev
«In my opinion, the discussion format in which participants regularly give speeches in front of each other is especially important. On the one hand, artists develop the skill of talking about their projects, on the other hand, they learn to listen to their colleagues. This format also allows to track down the development of the project. It supposes that artists regularly present what they are currently doing. Thus, it is possible to see the directions they are taking, to track the flow of their thoughts, to get the very way of their thinking. And this, in turn, is related to the research methodology. It is interesting to see how much it has in common with the scientific methodology. Can we even talk about scientific nature of artistic method? Or is it just speculation? And if so, should the speculative nature of this supposition be visible to a viewer?»
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Anastasia Antipova
Anastasia Antipova
Education
2015-2019 • Tomsk State University, Faculty of Philosophy
2020-2022 • Institue of Contemporary Art Moscow
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Education
2015-2019 • Tomsk State University, Faculty of Philosophy
2020-2022 • Institue of Contemporary Art Moscow
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Daria Golovkova
Education
MGHPA im. Stroganova 2015 / 2017
HSE School of Design 2018 / 2021 contemporary Art "artist and Curator"
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MGHPA im. Stroganova 2015 / 2017
HSE School of Design 2018 / 2021 contemporary Art "artist and Curator"
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Zhanar Bereketova
Katya Granova
Education
St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Psychology (2010)
Paris College Of Art, Certificate program in fine art Certificate program in fine art (2014-2015)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, program "New Artistic Strategies" (2015-2017)
Royal College of Arts, MA Painting (2017-2021)
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St. Petersburg State University, Faculty of Psychology (2010)
Paris College Of Art, Certificate program in fine art Certificate program in fine art (2014-2015)
Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, program "New Artistic Strategies" (2015-2017)
Royal College of Arts, MA Painting (2017-2021)
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Victor Zhdanov
Education
BGIIK (Belgorod), graphic design specialty (2009-2015)
BASE (Moscow) (2017-2019)
HSE School of Design "Modern Design in Teaching Fine Arts and Technology at School" (2019-2021)
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BGIIK (Belgorod), graphic design specialty (2009-2015)
BASE (Moscow) (2017-2019)
HSE School of Design "Modern Design in Teaching Fine Arts and Technology at School" (2019-2021)
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Sergey Karev
Education
Penza Art College named after K. A. Savitsky (2009)
Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting Sculpture and Architecture (2015)
Institute of Contemporary Art Problems (2017)
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Penza Art College named after K. A. Savitsky (2009)
Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting Sculpture and Architecture (2015)
Institute of Contemporary Art Problems (2017)
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Anastasia Litvinova
Education
2021 - present "Free Workshops", MMOMA
2018-2020 BHSAD (British Higher School of Design) Moscow, DPO program "Contemporary Art"
2017-2018 BHSAD program Pre-Foundation Art & Design
2007-2011 St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology, Department of Romance Languages
2005-2007 St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Management, Department of International Management
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2021 - present "Free Workshops", MMOMA
2018-2020 BHSAD (British Higher School of Design) Moscow, DPO program "Contemporary Art"
2017-2018 BHSAD program Pre-Foundation Art & Design
2007-2011 St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology, Department of Romance Languages
2005-2007 St. Petersburg State University Faculty of Management, Department of International Management
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Mikhail Rubankov
Liza Tokareva
Education
2018 - 2019 "Free Workshops" at MMOMA
2015 - 2018 Internship at the Russian Academy of Arts (monumental painting)
2009 - 2015 Moscow State Academic Institute named after V. I. Surikov (Faculty of Monumental Painting)
2005 - 2009 State University named after A. G. Venetsianov (Faculty of Graphic Design)
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2018 - 2019 "Free Workshops" at MMOMA
2015 - 2018 Internship at the Russian Academy of Arts (monumental painting)
2009 - 2015 Moscow State Academic Institute named after V. I. Surikov (Faculty of Monumental Painting)
2005 - 2009 State University named after A. G. Venetsianov (Faculty of Graphic Design)
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Evgenia Voynar
Education
Moscow State Academic Art School in memory of 1905, specialty "Environment Design" (2005 - 2008)
Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, specialty "Easel Graphic Artist" (2009 - 2016)
School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" at MMOMA, course "Modern Art") (2016 - 2017)
Institute of Contemporary Art named after I. Bakstein, course "New artistic Strategies", direction "Artist" (2017 - 2019)
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Moscow State Academic Art School in memory of 1905, specialty "Environment Design" (2005 - 2008)
Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, specialty "Easel Graphic Artist" (2009 - 2016)
School of Contemporary Art "Free Workshops" at MMOMA, course "Modern Art") (2016 - 2017)
Institute of Contemporary Art named after I. Bakstein, course "New artistic Strategies", direction "Artist" (2017 - 2019)
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Sergey Boyarintsev
Education
Vyatka Art College named after A. A. Vyatka Education
Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (2009-2015)
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Vyatka Art College named after A. A. Vyatka Education
Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (2009-2015)
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Julia Skromnaya
ARTISTS
SIXTH SEASON
June – September 2021
Mentor: Alina Gutkina
"I'm going to tell you a story. It is a lie. But not everything in it is false"
The leitmotif of the 6th season of the Open Studios is the expression "The body is a student, a laboratory and a teacher." The body tells stories, and we don't always know the language to understand its logic. We are only opening up, taking a step towards interaction, towards new disciplines. Season 6 residents will be invited to "stay", "exist" in a new, not yet inhabited house – Open Studios – and conduct self-presentation through game models.
Mentor: Alina Gutkina
"I'm going to tell you a story. It is a lie. But not everything in it is false"
The leitmotif of the 6th season of the Open Studios is the expression "The body is a student, a laboratory and a teacher." The body tells stories, and we don't always know the language to understand its logic. We are only opening up, taking a step towards interaction, towards new disciplines. Season 6 residents will be invited to "stay", "exist" in a new, not yet inhabited house – Open Studios – and conduct self-presentation through game models.
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Alisa Gorelova
Alisa Gorelova lives and works in St. Petersburg. Graduated from the Chelyabinsk Art School and the Faculty of Graphics Repin Institute. Trained at Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (Imatra, Finland).
Participant of numerous group exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The artist's personal exhibitions were held at the Treeland Gallery (Florence, Italy), the open studio "Nepokorennye 17", in the exhibition space "Sevkabel Port" (St. Petersburg) and the Petrikirche catacombs (St. Petersburg).
Laureate of the Youth Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg "For Achievements in the Fine Arts". Nominee for the 2020 Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (the project "City of Birds" in collaboration with Anna Martynenko, Alexandra Kokachevay, Maria Koroleva, Yegor Shchablykin).
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Participant of numerous group exhibitions in Russia and abroad. The artist's personal exhibitions were held at the Treeland Gallery (Florence, Italy), the open studio "Nepokorennye 17", in the exhibition space "Sevkabel Port" (St. Petersburg) and the Petrikirche catacombs (St. Petersburg).
Laureate of the Youth Prize of the Government of St. Petersburg "For Achievements in the Fine Arts". Nominee for the 2020 Sergey Kuryokhin Prize (the project "City of Birds" in collaboration with Anna Martynenko, Alexandra Kokachevay, Maria Koroleva, Yegor Shchablykin).
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Ksenia Poparenko
Born in 1992, lives and works in Moscow.
In 2016, Ksenia completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in psychology at the Higher School of Economics. In 2020 she completed a course in contemporary art at the British Higher School of Art and Design.
Works with video, photography and found objects.
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In 2016, Ksenia completed her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in psychology at the Higher School of Economics. In 2020 she completed a course in contemporary art at the British Higher School of Art and Design.
Works with video, photography and found objects.
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Katya Mordvinkina
Born in 1999 in Stavropol, now lives and works in Moscow. Studied at the HSE School of Design (Design and contemporary art, 2017–2021).
In my artistic practices, I study language and its main attributes – words and gestures - since modernity can use them as a tool of violence and suppression. I am recoding the already existing space of verbal and non-verbal signs, which I am accumulating through plastic language.
I often use a playful form of interaction with the viewer as a unit of social space, I create situations through which I deconstruct the authoritative discourse and the moment of interaction between the authorities and its "spectator". In this context, I explore the concept of "political action", where the factor of the social process is not devoid of the aspect of theatricality. So, I am interested in the gesture accompanying speech and the unnamed states of repetition and transition from one gesture to another, which can be articulated through a choreographic performance.
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In my artistic practices, I study language and its main attributes – words and gestures - since modernity can use them as a tool of violence and suppression. I am recoding the already existing space of verbal and non-verbal signs, which I am accumulating through plastic language.
I often use a playful form of interaction with the viewer as a unit of social space, I create situations through which I deconstruct the authoritative discourse and the moment of interaction between the authorities and its "spectator". In this context, I explore the concept of "political action", where the factor of the social process is not devoid of the aspect of theatricality. So, I am interested in the gesture accompanying speech and the unnamed states of repetition and transition from one gesture to another, which can be articulated through a choreographic performance.
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Liza Veselova
In her artistic practice, Liza explores the concepts of beauty, corporeality and sexuality in modern society. Drawing on her experience in the beauty industry and injectable cosmetology and using feminist optics, she talks about patriarchal stereotypes and superstitions. Liza works in different mediums depending on the project. Often uses materials that refer to the beauty industry (glitter, cosmetic masks, false nails), and pink, referring to gender stereotypes.
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Anzhelika Gomiashvili
Lika was born in 1989. Lives and works in Moscow. She began her professional career with studying as a manager, but she came to art and now has an education at the British Higher School of Art and Design (workshop of Sergei Sonin and Elena Samorodova, workshop of Rauf Mamedov), Joseph Backstein ISI (formerly IPSI) (new artistic strategies). Now she is studying at the BAZA Institute.
She works with the themes of personal freedom and free choice using methods of medieval predictive practices and ancient descriptive systems, placing them in new contexts of multimedia environments. She turns to the poetics of the Middle Ages, religious ideas and magical practices, looking for ways to actualize them in technological time. Includes in its multimedia installations the viewer's ability to interact with the work and influence the form of its existence.
As a general principle of practice - a speculative spell – 'wingardium leviosa' – 'Levitate things': the discovery of universal ideal foundations that determine the structure of the perceived and experienced world, which is considered as created by human consciousness, "floating in the air" (free from empirical content). The method is based on the desire to consider objects in the form in which they directly appear to consciousness - as objects of intentional contemplation and experience.
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She works with the themes of personal freedom and free choice using methods of medieval predictive practices and ancient descriptive systems, placing them in new contexts of multimedia environments. She turns to the poetics of the Middle Ages, religious ideas and magical practices, looking for ways to actualize them in technological time. Includes in its multimedia installations the viewer's ability to interact with the work and influence the form of its existence.
As a general principle of practice - a speculative spell – 'wingardium leviosa' – 'Levitate things': the discovery of universal ideal foundations that determine the structure of the perceived and experienced world, which is considered as created by human consciousness, "floating in the air" (free from empirical content). The method is based on the desire to consider objects in the form in which they directly appear to consciousness - as objects of intentional contemplation and experience.
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Katya Yatsenko
Katya Yatsenko lives and works in Moscow. She is currently studying at the Institute of Contemporary Art of Joseph Backstein.
Katya often works with fabric and embroidery. In the process of creation, meditativeness and contact with the material are important for her. How it feels and interacts tactilely with other parts of the work. In her artistic practice, she explores issues of corporeality, body transformation, as well as gender and cultural stereotypes.
At the moment, Katya is interested in alternative options for co-existence between living beings and objects. For example, such phenomena as objectum sexuality and other interspecies interactions. She is currently exploring the topic of tactile communication between people, plants and objects.
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Katya often works with fabric and embroidery. In the process of creation, meditativeness and contact with the material are important for her. How it feels and interacts tactilely with other parts of the work. In her artistic practice, she explores issues of corporeality, body transformation, as well as gender and cultural stereotypes.
At the moment, Katya is interested in alternative options for co-existence between living beings and objects. For example, such phenomena as objectum sexuality and other interspecies interactions. She is currently exploring the topic of tactile communication between people, plants and objects.
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Julia Arsen
Within the framework of artistic practice, I am interested in a certain way of feeling and creating works, when everything is possible and appropriate, including failure, because I feel "myself in" and feel "in myself" a constant movement - between sincere and ironic, conceptual and popular, trash and tenderness, funny and tragic, between the thirst for freedom and the thirst for love, between the need to be an artist and at the same time cook pasta for her husband. It is interesting for me to observe, although it still causes bouts of mild nausea, how, after another desperate attempt to take root in something, to embody something and fix, I again feel the beginning of a movement in a different direction, and this happens as if it were outside my will. And the chance to find a balance here is doomed to failure.
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Diana Kapizova
She was born in 1993 in the city of Pervouralsk (Sverdlovsk region). In 2019 she graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design, program "Multimedia Art". In the summer of 2020, she studied at the Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts on the Eli Cortinas course "Montage, my beautiful trouble".
Media in which Diana works: video, performance, creating objects, 3D graphics.
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Media in which Diana works: video, performance, creating objects, 3D graphics.
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Nadya Chernova
Nadya's works explore expulsion (from the body, culture, society), identity politics, the illusion of post-Sovietism. Her field of interest lies at the intersection of technology, language, and queerness. Nadya's goal is to create a challenging and non-sensational experience that is at the same time accessible to a wide audience without specialized training. She structures her practice according to two beliefs: the first is the belief in the unifying power of deep memories and associations; the second is the responsibility of the artist to the wider audience and the society in which she lives.
I view media and modern technology as a personal and intimate experience. I explore my own life as a result of the uncontrolled, dark and irrational influence of modern techne. I cannot exist without technological mediation, so I decide to look her in the eye.
Nadya's instinctive artistic strategy is to take her own experience and turn it into a social space, while avoiding hierarchical communication strategies. This is partly why she moved away from linear language and chose to abstract linguistic and technological experience to create situations in which modern audiences can redefine comfort.
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I view media and modern technology as a personal and intimate experience. I explore my own life as a result of the uncontrolled, dark and irrational influence of modern techne. I cannot exist without technological mediation, so I decide to look her in the eye.
Nadya's instinctive artistic strategy is to take her own experience and turn it into a social space, while avoiding hierarchical communication strategies. This is partly why she moved away from linear language and chose to abstract linguistic and technological experience to create situations in which modern audiences can redefine comfort.
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ARTISTS
FIFTH SEASON
June – November 2020
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
In season 5, the concept of the project changes. The "Open Studios +" expansion has been added to the regular programs to support even more talented emerging artists.
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
In season 5, the concept of the project changes. The "Open Studios +" expansion has been added to the regular programs to support even more talented emerging artists.
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Maria Aligozhina
Born in 1990, lives and works in Moscow.
Artist, jewelry designer, animator, illustrator and curator of imaginary projects. Currently studying at ISI. Curator of the educational program of the Big Cartoon Festival, teacher of the Animation and Illustration direction at the HSE School of Design.
The sphere of my interests is the gender issue, where the objects of research are the relationship between men and women in the framework of family and non-family conditions, as well as the processes of self-determination of a young woman and an artist.
As a form of manifestation of a woman in society, I am interested in the phenomenon of contemporary jewelry. Since 2015, I have been running the trash-jewelry Kuljoma project. As a basic practice, I collect various artifacts on the street and make jewelry out of them. Wire, ceramics, wood, plastic, nuts and screws – objects of traditionally male material culture become trash-jewelry decorations for the neckline of any gender, a trap for other people's attention.
While working at the Open Studios, a series of mini-galleries were created under the general name "Gallery Trumpet". Trumpa is a gallery of small forms of artistic expression, housed at various times in a used bedside table, chest of drawers and a small homemade house. An artist for himself, an institution for himself.
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Artist, jewelry designer, animator, illustrator and curator of imaginary projects. Currently studying at ISI. Curator of the educational program of the Big Cartoon Festival, teacher of the Animation and Illustration direction at the HSE School of Design.
The sphere of my interests is the gender issue, where the objects of research are the relationship between men and women in the framework of family and non-family conditions, as well as the processes of self-determination of a young woman and an artist.
As a form of manifestation of a woman in society, I am interested in the phenomenon of contemporary jewelry. Since 2015, I have been running the trash-jewelry Kuljoma project. As a basic practice, I collect various artifacts on the street and make jewelry out of them. Wire, ceramics, wood, plastic, nuts and screws – objects of traditionally male material culture become trash-jewelry decorations for the neckline of any gender, a trap for other people's attention.
While working at the Open Studios, a series of mini-galleries were created under the general name "Gallery Trumpet". Trumpa is a gallery of small forms of artistic expression, housed at various times in a used bedside table, chest of drawers and a small homemade house. An artist for himself, an institution for himself.
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Alina Brovina
Born in 1987, lives and works in Moscow.
She graduated from GITIS in 2012 (experimental course of E. Kamenkovich and D. Krymov), currently studies at the Rodchenko School.
My interest in the theory of the Anthropocene grew out of a personal, condensed feeling of the unnaturalness of motherhood in the city: the inconsistency of biological needs and those habits, routes, norms of coexistence that a large city implies.
In my practice, I distinguish two areas: the study of ways of adaptation and alternative ways of development. The first direction includes the search for ways to adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions: from epigenetic mechanisms to social ones. The second is a view from a non-anthropocentric world: the study of alternative paths of evolution and non-human agency. I believe that all species are independent actors with equal opportunities to communicate and build long-term relationships.
When examining soil, organisms or documents, I combine sensory perception and laboratory data. Freely interpreting the results of the latter.
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She graduated from GITIS in 2012 (experimental course of E. Kamenkovich and D. Krymov), currently studies at the Rodchenko School.
My interest in the theory of the Anthropocene grew out of a personal, condensed feeling of the unnaturalness of motherhood in the city: the inconsistency of biological needs and those habits, routes, norms of coexistence that a large city implies.
In my practice, I distinguish two areas: the study of ways of adaptation and alternative ways of development. The first direction includes the search for ways to adapt to constantly changing environmental conditions: from epigenetic mechanisms to social ones. The second is a view from a non-anthropocentric world: the study of alternative paths of evolution and non-human agency. I believe that all species are independent actors with equal opportunities to communicate and build long-term relationships.
When examining soil, organisms or documents, I combine sensory perception and laboratory data. Freely interpreting the results of the latter.
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Ekaterina Gerasimenko
Born in 1993, lives and works in Moscow.
She graduated from the portrait workshop at Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (2018), currently studies at the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art.
In my practice, I mostly rely on my own photos, often blurry, taken in passing on the phone. Some strange moments or connections catch me, while I rework these photos, bringing some context into them, or vice versa - extracting captured objects from it. But the initial connections that attract me are not created artificially: these are anthropocentric compositions that naturally formed in the process of a person's life. I strive to show the irony of everyday life and the aesthetics of everyday life, the nuances of our interaction with the world around us.
An important part of my research was the analysis of people's behavior and their interests. I try to display this without the figures of the people themselves, and through the environment – to model their gaze. At the academy, I graduated from a portrait workshop, where we conveyed such things through facial expressions and body language. At the moment, I intentionally do not deviate from the academic manner of drawing – this is to some extent depersonalization, refusal of authorship through following a comfortable path. And, on the other hand, this is a kind of personal challenge: I feel a negative perception of the academic school.
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She graduated from the portrait workshop at Ilya Glazunov Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (2018), currently studies at the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art.
In my practice, I mostly rely on my own photos, often blurry, taken in passing on the phone. Some strange moments or connections catch me, while I rework these photos, bringing some context into them, or vice versa - extracting captured objects from it. But the initial connections that attract me are not created artificially: these are anthropocentric compositions that naturally formed in the process of a person's life. I strive to show the irony of everyday life and the aesthetics of everyday life, the nuances of our interaction with the world around us.
An important part of my research was the analysis of people's behavior and their interests. I try to display this without the figures of the people themselves, and through the environment – to model their gaze. At the academy, I graduated from a portrait workshop, where we conveyed such things through facial expressions and body language. At the moment, I intentionally do not deviate from the academic manner of drawing – this is to some extent depersonalization, refusal of authorship through following a comfortable path. And, on the other hand, this is a kind of personal challenge: I feel a negative perception of the academic school.
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Misha Gudwin
Born in 1995, lives and works in Moscow and Voronezh.
He graduated from the educational program of the Center for Contemporary Art (Voronezh), currently studies at the Institute of Contemporary Art BAZA. Co-founder of the self-organized exhibition space and the High Five Cultural Center in Voronezh.
In my practice, I talk about the inextricable connection between material and virtual (digital) objects, which is expressed in the principle of "digital dualism".
I am researching the interaction of the street and the digital environment. I borrow images and shapes from graphic editors: dotted selection, tools from the program interface, alpha channel and gradients. Next, I give them a physical embodiment using spray and acrylic paint on objects found on the street.
I propose to capture this modernity, where digital is no longer something new, and the human environment has long combined the features of both material and digital spaces.
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He graduated from the educational program of the Center for Contemporary Art (Voronezh), currently studies at the Institute of Contemporary Art BAZA. Co-founder of the self-organized exhibition space and the High Five Cultural Center in Voronezh.
In my practice, I talk about the inextricable connection between material and virtual (digital) objects, which is expressed in the principle of "digital dualism".
I am researching the interaction of the street and the digital environment. I borrow images and shapes from graphic editors: dotted selection, tools from the program interface, alpha channel and gradients. Next, I give them a physical embodiment using spray and acrylic paint on objects found on the street.
I propose to capture this modernity, where digital is no longer something new, and the human environment has long combined the features of both material and digital spaces.
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Ivan Simonov
Born in 1991, lives and works in Moscow.
Street artist. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Culture and Arts (MGIK) with a degree in Director of theatrical performances and celebrations.
I work with the space around me, analyzing the information field in which I exist and the problems people face. Through photography and focusing on specific objects and characters, I analyze the distinctive features of different cultures and social groups. The text in my works allows me to change the perception of the depicted. With the help of everyday, established expressions or speech paradoxes, I play with the imagination of the viewer, leaving him the right to interpret. Thus, the works become a kind of beacon or signal designed to draw attention to a particular phenomenon.
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Street artist. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Culture and Arts (MGIK) with a degree in Director of theatrical performances and celebrations.
I work with the space around me, analyzing the information field in which I exist and the problems people face. Through photography and focusing on specific objects and characters, I analyze the distinctive features of different cultures and social groups. The text in my works allows me to change the perception of the depicted. With the help of everyday, established expressions or speech paradoxes, I play with the imagination of the viewer, leaving him the right to interpret. Thus, the works become a kind of beacon or signal designed to draw attention to a particular phenomenon.
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Nika Chernyaeva
Born in 1985, lives and works in Moscow.
She graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, won a grant to study at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London), graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Art and Design, the Department of Painting and the Institute for Contemporary Art, the program "New Artistic Strategies".
In my works, I explore the process of the formation of individuality through lived experience, while remaining true to the sociological approach as the ability to notice the general in the particular. I am close to the position of Max Weber, who argued that social reality should be interpreted by comprehending the inner meaning of human actions. Contemporary culture is undergoing a transition from postmodern irony to an aesthetics of closeness and participation, generating a demand for radical openness, and it is interesting for me to observe how this new sincere statement manifests itself in various areas of life.
The symbolic system by which I speak about the issues of interest to me is painting. Doing it today is an almost utopian gesture, but it is the archaism and vulnerability of this medium that makes him the language most suitable for talking about sincerity. So, in the painting series "Akhmat", using the example of my childhood memories, I explore the phenomenon of the flexibility of the past, the nonlinearity of memory, as well as the process of distortions that experienced experience in human consciousness undergoes over time.
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She graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, won a grant to study at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London), graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State University of Art and Design, the Department of Painting and the Institute for Contemporary Art, the program "New Artistic Strategies".
In my works, I explore the process of the formation of individuality through lived experience, while remaining true to the sociological approach as the ability to notice the general in the particular. I am close to the position of Max Weber, who argued that social reality should be interpreted by comprehending the inner meaning of human actions. Contemporary culture is undergoing a transition from postmodern irony to an aesthetics of closeness and participation, generating a demand for radical openness, and it is interesting for me to observe how this new sincere statement manifests itself in various areas of life.
The symbolic system by which I speak about the issues of interest to me is painting. Doing it today is an almost utopian gesture, but it is the archaism and vulnerability of this medium that makes him the language most suitable for talking about sincerity. So, in the painting series "Akhmat", using the example of my childhood memories, I explore the phenomenon of the flexibility of the past, the nonlinearity of memory, as well as the process of distortions that experienced experience in human consciousness undergoes over time.
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Julia Nemova
Born in 1991, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute (2015). Participant of conferences, and also the author of a number of articles on architecture.
I work at the intersection of traditional mediums like graphics and performance with digital ones like AR / VR augmented virtual reality.
The main theme of the work is the relationship between technology and hand-drawing or physical objects and its expression in a spatial and temporal context. Projects proceed from the specifics of the area in which they are created and are based on such characteristics as scale, materiality, openness / closeness, and functional significance.
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Graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute (2015). Participant of conferences, and also the author of a number of articles on architecture.
I work at the intersection of traditional mediums like graphics and performance with digital ones like AR / VR augmented virtual reality.
The main theme of the work is the relationship between technology and hand-drawing or physical objects and its expression in a spatial and temporal context. Projects proceed from the specifics of the area in which they are created and are based on such characteristics as scale, materiality, openness / closeness, and functional significance.
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Andrey Stadnikov
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Theater and film director, playwright. For the play "Motherland" he was awarded the national theater prize "Golden Mask" in 2019 with the wording "For an experiment that became a discovery."
In my artistic practice, as a rule, I turn to the past, trying to restore the trampled historical justice. I am interested in losers, individuals who have been thrown into the dustbin of history. I'm trying to find a place in the sun for them again. On the other hand, the roadside of life is what interests me in the present tense. Life outside of schedules and schedules, nomadism. Somewhere between the desire to carry out another (this time successful) revolution and the desire to run away from everyone and hide in an eternal journey lies the source of the art that I do.
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Theater and film director, playwright. For the play "Motherland" he was awarded the national theater prize "Golden Mask" in 2019 with the wording "For an experiment that became a discovery."
In my artistic practice, as a rule, I turn to the past, trying to restore the trampled historical justice. I am interested in losers, individuals who have been thrown into the dustbin of history. I'm trying to find a place in the sun for them again. On the other hand, the roadside of life is what interests me in the present tense. Life outside of schedules and schedules, nomadism. Somewhere between the desire to carry out another (this time successful) revolution and the desire to run away from everyone and hide in an eternal journey lies the source of the art that I do.
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Elena Buzueva
Born in 1989, lives and works in Moscow.
She graduated from the Contemporary Art program at the British Higher School of Design (2020) and the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities (2011) as an American historian.
As a historian by training, I was used to acting as a humanities researcher. Over time, to implement new ideas, scientific methods began to merge with the artist's toolkit, introducing elements of play and spontaneous action.
The turning point was the replacement of the broadcast of unambiguous inferences with reflections with an open ending. Acting as a director of situations, giving freedom to the course of an artistic experiment, together with the others, I become part of the overall interaction. The script is taken from episodes of real life, the characters are people who are not directly related to art, whose stories form the basis of my performances and multimedia projects.
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She graduated from the Contemporary Art program at the British Higher School of Design (2020) and the Faculty of History and Philology of the Russian State University for the Humanities (2011) as an American historian.
As a historian by training, I was used to acting as a humanities researcher. Over time, to implement new ideas, scientific methods began to merge with the artist's toolkit, introducing elements of play and spontaneous action.
The turning point was the replacement of the broadcast of unambiguous inferences with reflections with an open ending. Acting as a director of situations, giving freedom to the course of an artistic experiment, together with the others, I become part of the overall interaction. The script is taken from episodes of real life, the characters are people who are not directly related to art, whose stories form the basis of my performances and multimedia projects.
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Ivan Volkov
Born in 1992, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the sculpture department at the Stroganov Moscow State Art and Industry Academy (2017), studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
In my artistic practice, I think about the problems of the precariat. So in a series of graphic works I depict artists, migrants, socially unprotected groups of people in their relations with the authorities and other subjects. In these works there is an antinomy far-close. Observing from afar, the viewer is very close to the situation. People, lampposts, stray dogs resemble figures from a children's game.
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Graduated from the sculpture department at the Stroganov Moscow State Art and Industry Academy (2017), studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art.
In my artistic practice, I think about the problems of the precariat. So in a series of graphic works I depict artists, migrants, socially unprotected groups of people in their relations with the authorities and other subjects. In these works there is an antinomy far-close. Observing from afar, the viewer is very close to the situation. People, lampposts, stray dogs resemble figures from a children's game.
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Anna Kondratyeva
Born in 1994, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University (2015), the Institute of Contemporary Art (2019).
Temporality is the main theme of my art.
I talk about the place of a person on the scale of the universe and, understanding the limited time of his life, I try to realize through my practice the concept of eternity as something tangible. I work with long time periods, which, in comparison with human life, could seem infinite, show traces and imprison them in material objects.
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Graduated from the Philological Faculty of Moscow State University (2015), the Institute of Contemporary Art (2019).
Temporality is the main theme of my art.
I talk about the place of a person on the scale of the universe and, understanding the limited time of his life, I try to realize through my practice the concept of eternity as something tangible. I work with long time periods, which, in comparison with human life, could seem infinite, show traces and imprison them in material objects.
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Bella Pokrova
Born in 1997, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the University of Hertfordshire, Faculty of Contemporary Art (2019). She studied pottery at the "ho-ca" workshop (Tajimi, Japan).
My artistic practice and academic research is based on the methods of reflective nostalgia. I concentrate my attention on the cultural turn that took place during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet. The intermediate space (limb) formed by these events is characterized by the inability of new generations to relate themselves to any of the conflicting ideologies. Nostalgia for the Soviet becomes a conditioned reflex acquired in the family, in childhood. Hence the duality: the destruction of the obsolete and the restoration of the lost. Exploring my childhood memories and methods of forming female subjectivity, I transform coping strategies into an artistic mechanism.
The fascination with the lost led me to a pseudo-archaeological study of the natural habitat of homo soveticus - apartments and summer cottages. With the help of porcelain, I transform the trappings of their daily life into idealized totems. The medium is presented not only as a combination of perfection and fragility, but also as a marker of class, an imperial mockery of socialism.
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Graduated from the University of Hertfordshire, Faculty of Contemporary Art (2019). She studied pottery at the "ho-ca" workshop (Tajimi, Japan).
My artistic practice and academic research is based on the methods of reflective nostalgia. I concentrate my attention on the cultural turn that took place during the transition from Soviet to post-Soviet. The intermediate space (limb) formed by these events is characterized by the inability of new generations to relate themselves to any of the conflicting ideologies. Nostalgia for the Soviet becomes a conditioned reflex acquired in the family, in childhood. Hence the duality: the destruction of the obsolete and the restoration of the lost. Exploring my childhood memories and methods of forming female subjectivity, I transform coping strategies into an artistic mechanism.
The fascination with the lost led me to a pseudo-archaeological study of the natural habitat of homo soveticus - apartments and summer cottages. With the help of porcelain, I transform the trappings of their daily life into idealized totems. The medium is presented not only as a combination of perfection and fragility, but also as a marker of class, an imperial mockery of socialism.
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Maria Philimonova
Born in 1995, lives and works in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
She graduated from the painting department at the Repin Academy of Arts named in St. Petersburg (2020).
I grew up in an Orthodox family with many children, which greatly influenced my formation. In my works, I try to experiment with the traditions of Russian folklore, referring to "Russian national identity". I study the topic of corporeality through identification with Russian iconography. As in Byzantine icon painting, in which there is an asceticization of images, I try to cut off the emotional and erotic perception of the body, but I try to balance on its picturesque depiction from nature.
Another theme that I develop is "Godforsakenness", a term meaning the extreme state of loneliness as a human nature.
These ideas are closely intertwined with my interest in man from the point of view of Christianity as a religion.
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She graduated from the painting department at the Repin Academy of Arts named in St. Petersburg (2020).
I grew up in an Orthodox family with many children, which greatly influenced my formation. In my works, I try to experiment with the traditions of Russian folklore, referring to "Russian national identity". I study the topic of corporeality through identification with Russian iconography. As in Byzantine icon painting, in which there is an asceticization of images, I try to cut off the emotional and erotic perception of the body, but I try to balance on its picturesque depiction from nature.
Another theme that I develop is "Godforsakenness", a term meaning the extreme state of loneliness as a human nature.
These ideas are closely intertwined with my interest in man from the point of view of Christianity as a religion.
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ARTISTS
FOURTH SEASON
October 2019 – February 2020
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
Season 4 of the Open Studios has become, on the one hand, one of the most socially engaged due to the feminist festival organized by residents, on the other hand, saturated with time-oriented art. The fact is that this time, in addition to the residents of the Open Studios, pop-up artists who were involved in the production of performances and dance performances took part in the project.
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
Season 4 of the Open Studios has become, on the one hand, one of the most socially engaged due to the feminist festival organized by residents, on the other hand, saturated with time-oriented art. The fact is that this time, in addition to the residents of the Open Studios, pop-up artists who were involved in the production of performances and dance performances took part in the project.
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Aleksey Zhuravlev
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Samara Art School and the Samara School of the Avant-garde. Currently studying at the Rodchenko School.
The main theme of the work is showing other forms of life. Since man is anthropocentric, he will endow life only with what is similar to him. The concepts of animate and inanimate nature are very conditional, philosopher Timothy Morton, in his works on Dark Ecology, calls for the abandonment of any division of the world. Life is present in animals and plants as well as in spoons and computer programs.
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Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Samara Art School and the Samara School of the Avant-garde. Currently studying at the Rodchenko School.
The main theme of the work is showing other forms of life. Since man is anthropocentric, he will endow life only with what is similar to him. The concepts of animate and inanimate nature are very conditional, philosopher Timothy Morton, in his works on Dark Ecology, calls for the abandonment of any division of the world. Life is present in animals and plants as well as in spoons and computer programs.
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Vera Evstigneeva
Born in 1999, lives and works in Ulyanovsk.
I have been doing photography and painting since 2014. Since 2018 I have been studying jewelry and sculpture. The main ideas that interest me as an artist are self-identification through reflection and living of social problems through creativity. The plots of my work are based on real events, feelings and my own reactions to the external environment.
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I have been doing photography and painting since 2014. Since 2018 I have been studying jewelry and sculpture. The main ideas that interest me as an artist are self-identification through reflection and living of social problems through creativity. The plots of my work are based on real events, feelings and my own reactions to the external environment.
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Karina Saifullina
Born in 1997, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design (2018), Wimbledon College of Art (London) (2015) and Cambridge College of Art (2014) (London).
Modern lifestyles have become superficial in how people perceive life: reckless urbanization has become our new aesthetics and reality. In the endless stream of information and daily worries that carries us, we forget what it is like to contemplate and appreciate simple things.
My works carry the simplest desire – to preserve our inner child, his sincere hopes, dreams and aspirations, which are personified through pure and untouched by man, almost utopian scenarios. In other words, back to the roots.
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Graduated from the British Higher School of Art and Design (2018), Wimbledon College of Art (London) (2015) and Cambridge College of Art (2014) (London).
Modern lifestyles have become superficial in how people perceive life: reckless urbanization has become our new aesthetics and reality. In the endless stream of information and daily worries that carries us, we forget what it is like to contemplate and appreciate simple things.
My works carry the simplest desire – to preserve our inner child, his sincere hopes, dreams and aspirations, which are personified through pure and untouched by man, almost utopian scenarios. In other words, back to the roots.
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Liza Neklessa
Born in 1989, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute (2013).
I am an artist and poet. I am interested in feminist art, and I also explore the relationship between the image and the poetic text, trying to present them as equivalent structures of one whole. I am concerned with the topics of objectification, gender-based violence, gender stereotypes, and related cultural clichés. I am also interested in working at the intersection of the visual and the poetic - I try to expand the sphere of existence of modern poetry. In my works I combine poetry and contemporary art, the search is carried out in different formats: zines, books, graphics, performative poetry reading, audio components in installations.
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Graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute (2013).
I am an artist and poet. I am interested in feminist art, and I also explore the relationship between the image and the poetic text, trying to present them as equivalent structures of one whole. I am concerned with the topics of objectification, gender-based violence, gender stereotypes, and related cultural clichés. I am also interested in working at the intersection of the visual and the poetic - I try to expand the sphere of existence of modern poetry. In my works I combine poetry and contemporary art, the search is carried out in different formats: zines, books, graphics, performative poetry reading, audio components in installations.
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Rina Volnykh
Born in 1997, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the University of the Arts, Hertfordsh (2019), British Higher School of Art and Design (2016). Took part in the Festival des Cinemas différents et expérimentaux de Paris Cinema le Grand Action (Paris).
My artistic practice and the academic research that underlies it are determined by my belonging to the first Russian generation. I am studying the post-Soviet space, where, according to Maya Turovskaya, "they thought that after the Soviet period the Russian would return, but the dead came back". (De)(re)constructing a dialogue with my own grandfather, who, as a Komsomol organizer, was responsible for ideological control, I adapt the methods of working with ideology traditionally associated with opposition consciousness to video creation: meta-ideologization, deconstruction and subversion.
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Graduated from the University of the Arts, Hertfordsh (2019), British Higher School of Art and Design (2016). Took part in the Festival des Cinemas différents et expérimentaux de Paris Cinema le Grand Action (Paris).
My artistic practice and the academic research that underlies it are determined by my belonging to the first Russian generation. I am studying the post-Soviet space, where, according to Maya Turovskaya, "they thought that after the Soviet period the Russian would return, but the dead came back". (De)(re)constructing a dialogue with my own grandfather, who, as a Komsomol organizer, was responsible for ideological control, I adapt the methods of working with ideology traditionally associated with opposition consciousness to video creation: meta-ideologization, deconstruction and subversion.
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Slava Nesterov
Born in 1989, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (2019).
In my projects, I use media such as installation, sculpture and graphics. The works cover the relationship between materiality, economics and technology: how economics and technology shape physical and non-physical reality. One of the key principles of work is mythologization, mysticism and work with post-history, on the ruins of which "a new world of life is born.
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Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (2019).
In my projects, I use media such as installation, sculpture and graphics. The works cover the relationship between materiality, economics and technology: how economics and technology shape physical and non-physical reality. One of the key principles of work is mythologization, mysticism and work with post-history, on the ruins of which "a new world of life is born.
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Sergey Nikitin
Born in 1993, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from Bachelor's degree in Marketing, RANEPA (2015). Participated in Antibiennale 2 of the Central House of Artists.
I am an artist who explores the inner structure of a person, often working in the field of intuitive self-expression, studying the relationship of natural, animal and conscious principles of man, I adhere to an honest, direct "childishness" in my works, I try to abstract from past experiences I have seen, finding myself at the point of an infinite present, where everyone Once I open up new opportunities for self-expression.
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Graduated from Bachelor's degree in Marketing, RANEPA (2015). Participated in Antibiennale 2 of the Central House of Artists.
I am an artist who explores the inner structure of a person, often working in the field of intuitive self-expression, studying the relationship of natural, animal and conscious principles of man, I adhere to an honest, direct "childishness" in my works, I try to abstract from past experiences I have seen, finding myself at the point of an infinite present, where everyone Once I open up new opportunities for self-expression.
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Lyuba Sautina
Born in 1985, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016).
In my projects, I turn to the themes of material culture, the experience of everyday life, as well as to the themes of childhood and motherhood. I use media such as video, photography, embroidery and mixed media.
I am interested in how various things and phenomena become subjective values for a person. In the study of everyday life, I draw attention to experiences and practices that we are used to considering insignificant and unimportant. Of particular interest to me are routine repetitive actions, as well as the transfer of these actions to someone else's environment. I am also a member of the Roy performative art group.
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Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016).
In my projects, I turn to the themes of material culture, the experience of everyday life, as well as to the themes of childhood and motherhood. I use media such as video, photography, embroidery and mixed media.
I am interested in how various things and phenomena become subjective values for a person. In the study of everyday life, I draw attention to experiences and practices that we are used to considering insignificant and unimportant. Of particular interest to me are routine repetitive actions, as well as the transfer of these actions to someone else's environment. I am also a member of the Roy performative art group.
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Lidia Zhudro
Born in 1991, lives and works in Moscow.
She graduated from the course "Contemporary Art" of the British Higher School of Design (2018), now teaches there on the course "Practice and Theory of Contemporary Art".
The author's projects investigate communication, its imperfections and gaps arising from various types of such interaction, cases of failures and losses of information blocks. The main attention is focused on various kinds of interference, distorting the transmitted signal through information channels. The topic of communication is studied through non-verbal data transmission processes using the body, senses, gestures, and voice. The author's current practice is to work with the study of the possibilities of transmitting information flows using various motor practices and dance.
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She graduated from the course "Contemporary Art" of the British Higher School of Design (2018), now teaches there on the course "Practice and Theory of Contemporary Art".
The author's projects investigate communication, its imperfections and gaps arising from various types of such interaction, cases of failures and losses of information blocks. The main attention is focused on various kinds of interference, distorting the transmitted signal through information channels. The topic of communication is studied through non-verbal data transmission processes using the body, senses, gestures, and voice. The author's current practice is to work with the study of the possibilities of transmitting information flows using various motor practices and dance.
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ARTISTS
THIRD SEASON
April – August 2019
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
Season 3, which turned out to be the most eventful, proved the ability of artists to self-organize and the possibility of dialogue. At the same time, the demand for performativity was evident at the final exhibition. All artists expressed themselves in a medium that was not the most typical for them, thereby raising the question of the impossibility of self-restraint by traditional means of expression.
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
Season 3, which turned out to be the most eventful, proved the ability of artists to self-organize and the possibility of dialogue. At the same time, the demand for performativity was evident at the final exhibition. All artists expressed themselves in a medium that was not the most typical for them, thereby raising the question of the impossibility of self-restraint by traditional means of expression.
Workshop program
Olesya Lavrinenko
Назад
Mika Plutizskaya
Born in 1983, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University. Lomonosov (2006) and the Department of Contemporary Art, University of Hertfordshire (2019).
I work with the theme of memory, exploring the traces of Soviet culture through the prism of gender and its deconstruction in feminist discourse. I chose painting, since this medium is historically associated with mythologization, but I enrich it with cinematic methods of editing and seriality.
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Graduated from the Faculty of Psychology, Moscow State University. Lomonosov (2006) and the Department of Contemporary Art, University of Hertfordshire (2019).
I work with the theme of memory, exploring the traces of Soviet culture through the prism of gender and its deconstruction in feminist discourse. I chose painting, since this medium is historically associated with mythologization, but I enrich it with cinematic methods of editing and seriality.
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Elena Minaeva
Born in 1986, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Art Education of the Voronezh State Pedagogical University, the Media Performance Laboratory, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the MMOMA Free Workshops.
I am a visual artist. I am engaged in painting and video. Now the focus of my interests is the reflection of new symptoms of time with the help of painting. I also collaborate with contemporary dancers, choreographers and create multichannel videos.
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Graduated from the Institute of Art Education of the Voronezh State Pedagogical University, the Media Performance Laboratory, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the MMOMA Free Workshops.
I am a visual artist. I am engaged in painting and video. Now the focus of my interests is the reflection of new symptoms of time with the help of painting. I also collaborate with contemporary dancers, choreographers and create multichannel videos.
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Varvara Grankova
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the National Institute of Design, Department of Art Design (2015), Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016). Currently studying at the BAZA Institute.
I am engaged in installation, performance, graphics, instar, illustration, contemporary dance, music. I am currently working on a new project dedicated to the topic of memory.
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Graduated from the National Institute of Design, Department of Art Design (2015), Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016). Currently studying at the BAZA Institute.
I am engaged in installation, performance, graphics, instar, illustration, contemporary dance, music. I am currently working on a new project dedicated to the topic of memory.
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Anna Brandush
Born in 1986, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from Boris Yukhananov's Individual Directing Workshop (MIR-2) and the Rodchenko School in Sergey Bratkov's workshop "Photography, Sculpture, Video". He is currently organizing the online school of contemporary art Concept.
I do video art, installation and performance. In art and film, I explore my own personal experience, reflecting on topics such as feminism, objectification, violence, corporeality and the image of God.
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Graduated from Boris Yukhananov's Individual Directing Workshop (MIR-2) and the Rodchenko School in Sergey Bratkov's workshop "Photography, Sculpture, Video". He is currently organizing the online school of contemporary art Concept.
I do video art, installation and performance. In art and film, I explore my own personal experience, reflecting on topics such as feminism, objectification, violence, corporeality and the image of God.
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Alyona Fedotkina
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Moscow Art Academy of Arts, Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2012, she became the owner of the grant "Vincenzo Bianchi and the Students of the World", within the framework of which she underwent creative practice in Italy.
I work in a feminist discourse, the field of research is reflections on a woman, her self-awareness and place in the modern world. At Open Studios, I am working on a series of series dedicated to the woman of the future.
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Graduated from the Moscow Art Academy of Arts, Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2012, she became the owner of the grant "Vincenzo Bianchi and the Students of the World", within the framework of which she underwent creative practice in Italy.
I work in a feminist discourse, the field of research is reflections on a woman, her self-awareness and place in the modern world. At Open Studios, I am working on a series of series dedicated to the woman of the future.
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Misha Bury
Born in 1987, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from VGIK with a degree in Animation and Computer Graphics (2014), Naberezhnye Chelny School of Arts with a degree in Design (2008).
I am working with the topic of overproduction. Through working with objects made from the husks of the consumer world, I explore the design of the social, political and economic relationships in which I exist.
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Graduated from VGIK with a degree in Animation and Computer Graphics (2014), Naberezhnye Chelny School of Arts with a degree in Design (2008).
I am working with the topic of overproduction. Through working with objects made from the husks of the consumer world, I explore the design of the social, political and economic relationships in which I exist.
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Roman Bogdanov
Born in 1987, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (2020), the Moscow State University (MSTU) with a degree in Graphic Art and the SFGA, where he studied at the Department of Environmental Design.
I am interested in the topic of psychoanalysis in the post-digital era. I work with various mediums - installation, video, objects, graphics. My current project is based on covert surveillance of other Open Studios artists.
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Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (2020), the Moscow State University (MSTU) with a degree in Graphic Art and the SFGA, where he studied at the Department of Environmental Design.
I am interested in the topic of psychoanalysis in the post-digital era. I work with various mediums - installation, video, objects, graphics. My current project is based on covert surveillance of other Open Studios artists.
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Olesya Lavrinenko
Born in 1991, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art with a degree in New Art Strategies (2018), courses at the British Higher School of Design (2015) and the Kuban State University, Faculty of Art and Graphics, where she studied at the Department of Painting (2014). Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia since 2016.
I conduct a dialogue with the viewer using graphics, painting and ceramics, connecting them with phantasmagoric objects made of soft materials. By creating specific, at the same time friendly and threatening objects, I put on a kind of performance in which time seems to have stood still.
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Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art with a degree in New Art Strategies (2018), courses at the British Higher School of Design (2015) and the Kuban State University, Faculty of Art and Graphics, where she studied at the Department of Painting (2014). Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia since 2016.
I conduct a dialogue with the viewer using graphics, painting and ceramics, connecting them with phantasmagoric objects made of soft materials. By creating specific, at the same time friendly and threatening objects, I put on a kind of performance in which time seems to have stood still.
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ARTISTS
SECOND SEASON
October 2018 – February 2019
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
In Season 2, the focus of the project was self-organization. Artists and artists initiated new activities, held master classes and set the rhythm of the Studios' life. The result of the season was the reporting exhibition "Common Table", supplemented by a wide public program of excursions and lectures.
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
In Season 2, the focus of the project was self-organization. Artists and artists initiated new activities, held master classes and set the rhythm of the Studios' life. The result of the season was the reporting exhibition "Common Table", supplemented by a wide public program of excursions and lectures.
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Mikhail Levius
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Andrey Andreev
Born in 1989, lives and works in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Graduated from the BAZA Institute (2020), Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (2013).
I work with a plane, which I transform into volume. Painting becomes the material for future sculpture. First, I create a picture, achieve the final result on a plane, then deform it. Like a sculptor, I sculpt a volume from a picture in a rather hooligan, barbaric (in relation to painting) method, in contrast to the reverent treatment of the surface while painting the picture itself. Thus, I destroy the structure of the picture, subjecting it to volume. The form absorbs the painting, which makes the painting more abstract, and turns into a sign. The plane breaks, distorts, rebirth occurs, paint bursts somewhere, not withstanding all the kinks. Faces, folds, layering, knots into which the plane is twisted, confuse the content.
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Graduated from the BAZA Institute (2020), Repin St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (2013).
I work with a plane, which I transform into volume. Painting becomes the material for future sculpture. First, I create a picture, achieve the final result on a plane, then deform it. Like a sculptor, I sculpt a volume from a picture in a rather hooligan, barbaric (in relation to painting) method, in contrast to the reverent treatment of the surface while painting the picture itself. Thus, I destroy the structure of the picture, subjecting it to volume. The form absorbs the painting, which makes the painting more abstract, and turns into a sign. The plane breaks, distorts, rebirth occurs, paint bursts somewhere, not withstanding all the kinks. Faces, folds, layering, knots into which the plane is twisted, confuse the content.
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Katya Garkushko
Born in 1984, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art, direction New artistic strategies (2012), Vyatka State University (Kirov) in the direction "Artistic processing of materials" (2007).
I work in various media, mainly photography, video, objects, installations, painting, graphics, poetry. My artistic practices are my insights, insights, inner rituals, reflections and fantasies. Art for me is something that can lift a person a little higher and a little higher above everyday life, and in my works I try to achieve this effect so that the viewer gets a new experience, satiated his soul. "I believe in the truth of the inexplicable, in the intelligence of stones, in the folly of flowers" (quote from J. Ballard's poem "What I Believe").
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Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art, direction New artistic strategies (2012), Vyatka State University (Kirov) in the direction "Artistic processing of materials" (2007).
I work in various media, mainly photography, video, objects, installations, painting, graphics, poetry. My artistic practices are my insights, insights, inner rituals, reflections and fantasies. Art for me is something that can lift a person a little higher and a little higher above everyday life, and in my works I try to achieve this effect so that the viewer gets a new experience, satiated his soul. "I believe in the truth of the inexplicable, in the intelligence of stones, in the folly of flowers" (quote from J. Ballard's poem "What I Believe").
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Liza Shtormit
Born in 1988, lives and works in Paris, London and Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (2015), VGIK im. Gerasimova (2011).
Currently studying at the École nationale d'art (Paris), resident of ACME (London). Winner of a grant from the British Charitable Foundation for the exhibition (2014–2015, 2016–2017, 2017–2018) and a grant from the British Charitable Fund for theatrical performance (2018). In the fall of 2020, she launched an international audio art school.
My practices are varied, they include many mediums in the form of paintings, objects, animation, etc., but my main artistic tool is absurd humor and playful form of interaction. Most of my work is about jokes, embodied in the visual or performative realm.
My Creative Thinking course helps me not to lose a child's fresh perspective on the world: to stay on his side, not to take everything too seriously, to joke and be open in order to explore reality as much as possible. I want viewers to interact with art and oppose the classic museum attitude of "don't touch, don't come close". I give the viewer the opportunity to touch, smell, manipulate the works. Humor, text, children's eyes and interactivity are the foundations of my practice, but I do not tie myself to them and am always ready for new experiences, for example, to study and work with aroma installations and performance.
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Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art (2015), VGIK im. Gerasimova (2011).
Currently studying at the École nationale d'art (Paris), resident of ACME (London). Winner of a grant from the British Charitable Foundation for the exhibition (2014–2015, 2016–2017, 2017–2018) and a grant from the British Charitable Fund for theatrical performance (2018). In the fall of 2020, she launched an international audio art school.
My practices are varied, they include many mediums in the form of paintings, objects, animation, etc., but my main artistic tool is absurd humor and playful form of interaction. Most of my work is about jokes, embodied in the visual or performative realm.
My Creative Thinking course helps me not to lose a child's fresh perspective on the world: to stay on his side, not to take everything too seriously, to joke and be open in order to explore reality as much as possible. I want viewers to interact with art and oppose the classic museum attitude of "don't touch, don't come close". I give the viewer the opportunity to touch, smell, manipulate the works. Humor, text, children's eyes and interactivity are the foundations of my practice, but I do not tie myself to them and am always ready for new experiences, for example, to study and work with aroma installations and performance.
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Masha Ivanova
Born in 1984, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2019, she participated in the art residence of CA Le Wonder (Korea) and various exhibitions in Seoul and New York.
At the moment I work as a multimedia artist, I see my place somewhere between painting and video art. I am interested in the topic of cognitive distortions, the search for a new sense of time, as a fickle meaning, the topic of emptiness, as an integral part of the fullness of space, the perception of the body outside the erotic context. I work in different techniques, I prefer natural materials: stones, clay, asphalt, metal, sand and glass.
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Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2019, she participated in the art residence of CA Le Wonder (Korea) and various exhibitions in Seoul and New York.
At the moment I work as a multimedia artist, I see my place somewhere between painting and video art. I am interested in the topic of cognitive distortions, the search for a new sense of time, as a fickle meaning, the topic of emptiness, as an integral part of the fullness of space, the perception of the body outside the erotic context. I work in different techniques, I prefer natural materials: stones, clay, asphalt, metal, sand and glass.
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Natalya Gudovich
Born in 1994, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, workshop of Aidan Salakhova and Sergey Ossovsky (2018), graduate of the MMOMA Free Workshops (2019).
I work with painting, video, objects, sculpture, graphics. The latest project "System. Anabiosis "investigated the place of man in anthropomorphic systems, the new RED LINE project is aimed at studying temporal-spatial and mental boundaries.
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Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, workshop of Aidan Salakhova and Sergey Ossovsky (2018), graduate of the MMOMA Free Workshops (2019).
I work with painting, video, objects, sculpture, graphics. The latest project "System. Anabiosis "investigated the place of man in anthropomorphic systems, the new RED LINE project is aimed at studying temporal-spatial and mental boundaries.
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Slava PTRK
Born in 1990, lives and works in Moscow and Yekaterinburg.
Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2017). Currently studying at the Rodchenko School. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
Street artist. The main space for my work is the city. I work with the context that the city gives me, as well as the place in which I work. Most of my works in one way or another criticize the current state of affairs and the situation in our country (and I work, most often, with the local, Russian context). I try not only to research and criticize sensitive topics, but also to comprehend them ironically, focusing the viewer's attention on a particular issue with the help of an understandable and ironic presentation. Most of my works are drawings. But I am also interested in video works, photographs.
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Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2017). Currently studying at the Rodchenko School. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia.
Street artist. The main space for my work is the city. I work with the context that the city gives me, as well as the place in which I work. Most of my works in one way or another criticize the current state of affairs and the situation in our country (and I work, most often, with the local, Russian context). I try not only to research and criticize sensitive topics, but also to comprehend them ironically, focusing the viewer's attention on a particular issue with the help of an understandable and ironic presentation. Most of my works are drawings. But I am also interested in video works, photographs.
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Tanya Klyat
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Schultz Center for the Arts (2018) and British Higher School of Art and Design (2015). Participant of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.
Works with sculpture and painting.
Explores the themes of non-standard beauty, characteristic personality, scenarios of female life, motherhood and aging. Creates laconic forms, striving for maximum expressiveness through a minimum of artistic means.
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Graduated from the Schultz Center for the Arts (2018) and British Higher School of Art and Design (2015). Participant of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.
Works with sculpture and painting.
Explores the themes of non-standard beauty, characteristic personality, scenarios of female life, motherhood and aging. Creates laconic forms, striving for maximum expressiveness through a minimum of artistic means.
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Mikhail Levius
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the graphic arts workshop of the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (2012).
Throughout his studies, he participated in various group exhibitions of various scales. The most significant: exhibitions of young artists on Krymsky Val and in the Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery in 2007.
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Graduated from the graphic arts workshop of the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute (2012).
Throughout his studies, he participated in various group exhibitions of various scales. The most significant: exhibitions of young artists on Krymsky Val and in the Engineering Building of the Tretyakov Gallery in 2007.
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ARTISTS
FIRST SEASON
October 2017 – July 2018
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
For 1 season of the project, 8 Russian artists and 2 foreign residents have completed more than 100 works in the Studios. The results of the development of their projects were personal exhibitions in famous galleries and a group exhibition "Victory over White" in the special program of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. The season also resulted in a collaboration with the designers of the Be In Open fashion forum, in which three authors participated in the creation of a collection with elements of their paintings.
Mentor: Andrey Parshikov
For 1 season of the project, 8 Russian artists and 2 foreign residents have completed more than 100 works in the Studios. The results of the development of their projects were personal exhibitions in famous galleries and a group exhibition "Victory over White" in the special program of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art. The season also resulted in a collaboration with the designers of the Be In Open fashion forum, in which three authors participated in the creation of a collection with elements of their paintings.
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MAXIM MIXAM
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Alexey Zhuchkov
Born in 1982, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Surikov Moscow Academic Art Institute, workshop of monumental painting, prof. Maksimov E.N. (2007) and creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts (2013).
I work in techniques: painting, fresco, mosaic, installation. In my works I use stone, concrete, metal. My research is related to the process of creating fictional spaces. Often this process takes place through collaboration with architecture, art and the environment. One of the main themes in my work is "pause". "Pause-emptiness" is an artistic term that denotes the amount of empty space in a work. It is interesting for me to consider "emptiness" as the main habitat of modern man, despite the apparent filling of voids with the help of mass media and new communications.
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Graduated from the Surikov Moscow Academic Art Institute, workshop of monumental painting, prof. Maksimov E.N. (2007) and creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts (2013).
I work in techniques: painting, fresco, mosaic, installation. In my works I use stone, concrete, metal. My research is related to the process of creating fictional spaces. Often this process takes place through collaboration with architecture, art and the environment. One of the main themes in my work is "pause". "Pause-emptiness" is an artistic term that denotes the amount of empty space in a work. It is interesting for me to consider "emptiness" as the main habitat of modern man, despite the apparent filling of voids with the help of mass media and new communications.
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Anton Kushaev
Born in 1983, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art BAZA (2017), the Icon Painting School at the Moscow Theological Academy (2004).
In my artistic practice, I use various means to convey a message. The main topics of my practice are architectural construction as an existential refuge and the idea of death and its manifestation in material culture. One of the main means for me is painting, which itself carries the idea of the decrepitude and illusory nature of fine art. In this, in my opinion, the idea of the death of material culture appears as the self-referencing of contemporary art.
In my practice, I strive to comprehend the heritage of art history as material evidence and to discover new ways of reassembling the space of the exhibition to raise questions of art and its transformation in modern times.
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Graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art BAZA (2017), the Icon Painting School at the Moscow Theological Academy (2004).
In my artistic practice, I use various means to convey a message. The main topics of my practice are architectural construction as an existential refuge and the idea of death and its manifestation in material culture. One of the main means for me is painting, which itself carries the idea of the decrepitude and illusory nature of fine art. In this, in my opinion, the idea of the death of material culture appears as the self-referencing of contemporary art.
In my practice, I strive to comprehend the heritage of art history as material evidence and to discover new ways of reassembling the space of the exhibition to raise questions of art and its transformation in modern times.
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Asmik Melkonyan
Born in 1986, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, workshops of T.G. Nazarenko and A.T.Salakhova (2017), graduated from the Moscow Academic Art School.
Basically I work in the technique of canvas, acrylic or oil, rarely installations. I try to use such artistic means as simplification of the form, its idealization, I use some techniques of minimalism, such as uncluttered space, monochrome. I am wondering what will happen if a person or an object (it can be an architectural structure, an object or a fragment of an ornament) is taken out of the context of time and the cultural situation in which he was originally located? The same element or figure can acquire a new meaning or lose itself altogether, disappear in a kind of cosmic vacuum. And they can acquire a certain archaic meaning, understandable to us despite the gap in space, in time and cultural distance.
Any object that I undertake to depict, I want to zero, forget about its meaning, history, lead to certain general forms that are understandable to everyone. This is due to the desire to see the whole picture, but the impossibility of this "general view" often leads my work to a certain fragmentariness. Seeing only a part, I try to guess the rest through it, to finish the gaps, which I sometimes fill with ornament, like a set of simple symbols, to which any image ideally tends.
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Graduated from the Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute, workshops of T.G. Nazarenko and A.T.Salakhova (2017), graduated from the Moscow Academic Art School.
Basically I work in the technique of canvas, acrylic or oil, rarely installations. I try to use such artistic means as simplification of the form, its idealization, I use some techniques of minimalism, such as uncluttered space, monochrome. I am wondering what will happen if a person or an object (it can be an architectural structure, an object or a fragment of an ornament) is taken out of the context of time and the cultural situation in which he was originally located? The same element or figure can acquire a new meaning or lose itself altogether, disappear in a kind of cosmic vacuum. And they can acquire a certain archaic meaning, understandable to us despite the gap in space, in time and cultural distance.
Any object that I undertake to depict, I want to zero, forget about its meaning, history, lead to certain general forms that are understandable to everyone. This is due to the desire to see the whole picture, but the impossibility of this "general view" often leads my work to a certain fragmentariness. Seeing only a part, I try to guess the rest through it, to finish the gaps, which I sometimes fill with ornament, like a set of simple symbols, to which any image ideally tends.
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Vladimir Kartashov
Born in 1997, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Novosibirsk State Art School (2017).
The main research I am doing is the study of the culture of the metamodern. The term "new romanticism", as a definition of the mood of the post-postmodern culture, is explained by the fact that society is tired of deconstruction, irony, relativism and postmodern nihilism and returns to bewildered sincerity and universal truths.
Now there is an opportunity to look at mythology and religious narrative from a different angle – which will again fill the words "timeless" and "all-embracing" with semantic content. In my own way, I create and play with actual and topical mythology. From postmodern kitsch, I want to come to (proto) modernist images that refer to the transcendental through the prism of cyberspace. Unlike the artists of the era of romanticism, I do not try to take the viewer away from the dull realities, but on the contrary I inscribe my digital heroes into the gray, gloomy everyday life of the country in which I live.
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Graduated from the Novosibirsk State Art School (2017).
The main research I am doing is the study of the culture of the metamodern. The term "new romanticism", as a definition of the mood of the post-postmodern culture, is explained by the fact that society is tired of deconstruction, irony, relativism and postmodern nihilism and returns to bewildered sincerity and universal truths.
Now there is an opportunity to look at mythology and religious narrative from a different angle – which will again fill the words "timeless" and "all-embracing" with semantic content. In my own way, I create and play with actual and topical mythology. From postmodern kitsch, I want to come to (proto) modernist images that refer to the transcendental through the prism of cyberspace. Unlike the artists of the era of romanticism, I do not try to take the viewer away from the dull realities, but on the contrary I inscribe my digital heroes into the gray, gloomy everyday life of the country in which I live.
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Daria Neretina
Born in 1988, lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016), the course New Artistic Strategies (2014) at the IPSI and the StroganovvMoscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, having received a specialization at the Department of Artistic Ceramics (2012).
I resort to a kind of dichotomy, make a detachment from corporeality, using the most recognizable, physiological forms, I process them into the shine and gloss of a glazed surface, into a reflection on a polished wall, into a perfect, artificial object. When creating a work, I am like an alchemist in his laboratory, where I deal with surface transmutation, in accordance with the laws laid down by nature. Achieving perfect: shiny and matte surfaces, I repeat all the stages of the classical porcelain processing technology, but work with them as with a tool of "modern art". This glamor of presentation allows the viewer to glide over the surface of the work, immersed in the inner narratives. Endlessly multiplying elements, recreating the world of baroque trickery, I let the "beholder" into the labyrinth of my own associations, where my time spent on creating an object in a second can become just fragments.
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Graduated from the Free Workshops of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016), the course New Artistic Strategies (2014) at the IPSI and the StroganovvMoscow State Academy of Arts and Industry, having received a specialization at the Department of Artistic Ceramics (2012).
I resort to a kind of dichotomy, make a detachment from corporeality, using the most recognizable, physiological forms, I process them into the shine and gloss of a glazed surface, into a reflection on a polished wall, into a perfect, artificial object. When creating a work, I am like an alchemist in his laboratory, where I deal with surface transmutation, in accordance with the laws laid down by nature. Achieving perfect: shiny and matte surfaces, I repeat all the stages of the classical porcelain processing technology, but work with them as with a tool of "modern art". This glamor of presentation allows the viewer to glide over the surface of the work, immersed in the inner narratives. Endlessly multiplying elements, recreating the world of baroque trickery, I let the "beholder" into the labyrinth of my own associations, where my time spent on creating an object in a second can become just fragments.
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Denis Uranov
Born in 1994, lives and works in Moscow.
He graduated from the Faculty of Printing and Journalism in the direction of publishing in the Kuban Socio-Economic Institute, took the course of Andrey Velikanov "Philosophy of Art".
With the help of painting, I work on the author's mythology and the study of art as a form of unconscious entertainment, relying on communication and visual algorithms established in the Internet and video games – the virtual environment turns out to be attractive to me as a method of rethinking psychoanalytic philosophy of the 20th century. It is important for me to exhibit painting in an installation form, using everyday objects and the specificity of space, to involve the viewer, presenting him with hidden details and signs that orientate to individual reading.
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He graduated from the Faculty of Printing and Journalism in the direction of publishing in the Kuban Socio-Economic Institute, took the course of Andrey Velikanov "Philosophy of Art".
With the help of painting, I work on the author's mythology and the study of art as a form of unconscious entertainment, relying on communication and visual algorithms established in the Internet and video games – the virtual environment turns out to be attractive to me as a method of rethinking psychoanalytic philosophy of the 20th century. It is important for me to exhibit painting in an installation form, using everyday objects and the specificity of space, to involve the viewer, presenting him with hidden details and signs that orientate to individual reading.
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Kristina Strunkova
Born in 1989 in Tartu (Estonian SSR), lives and works in Moscow.
Graduated from the New York Academy of Art (MFA 2020), Moscow State Academic Art Institute. Surikov with honors (honors), a workshop under the direction of A.T. Salakhova and S.P. Ossovsky (2016).
My works are reflections on time, I wonder how important it is for me to preserve the identity of the bearer of that time and culture, the era to which I belong, how to strike a balance between sensuality and gross irony, a sense of nostalgia and a pragmatically planned setting for the future?
Visual memory for me is one of the most powerful postulates of my being. In my works, I turn more and more to the topic of memory. Childhood memories and personal experiences are fundamental markers of my visual discourse. Observations are the foundation of what is recreated on canvas and embodied in a narrative.
I often refer to the materials that I used as a child-based on water (children in Russia traditionally begin to paint with watercolors) Consciousness constantly gives impetus to reflection on the topic of the beautiful and disgusting, human complexes, relationships and experiences.
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Graduated from the New York Academy of Art (MFA 2020), Moscow State Academic Art Institute. Surikov with honors (honors), a workshop under the direction of A.T. Salakhova and S.P. Ossovsky (2016).
My works are reflections on time, I wonder how important it is for me to preserve the identity of the bearer of that time and culture, the era to which I belong, how to strike a balance between sensuality and gross irony, a sense of nostalgia and a pragmatically planned setting for the future?
Visual memory for me is one of the most powerful postulates of my being. In my works, I turn more and more to the topic of memory. Childhood memories and personal experiences are fundamental markers of my visual discourse. Observations are the foundation of what is recreated on canvas and embodied in a narrative.
I often refer to the materials that I used as a child-based on water (children in Russia traditionally begin to paint with watercolors) Consciousness constantly gives impetus to reflection on the topic of the beautiful and disgusting, human complexes, relationships and experiences.
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MAXIM MIXAM
MAXIMMIXAM is an abstractionist and, as he calls himself, a street wave artist, recently working in his own technique of optical dualism, which is based on the constant struggle of two opposites.
He is best known for his author's installations OD ORGAN (musical phantasmagoria of optical dualism) and Bean Stalk in the Metropolis (when Jack sowed magic beans, he could not even imagine how the metropolis would change his rhythm of life).
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He is best known for his author's installations OD ORGAN (musical phantasmagoria of optical dualism) and Bean Stalk in the Metropolis (when Jack sowed magic beans, he could not even imagine how the metropolis would change his rhythm of life).
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