Hello!
I am a multidisciplinary artist, curator and researcher currently based in Saint Petersburg, Russia. I work with different mediums, ranging from videos, poems, painting, and installations to social and curatorial projects where non-art analytic methods are combined with traditional art practice.
The main interests of my projects are the states of instability and fluidity with their paradox of staying and moving at the same time. I explore them on the questions of memory, identity, personal and political borders and art definitions themselves.
One of the main topics of my researches is changing space and time of art from the perspective of "exhibition", that I define as a sign and a process. My curatorial projects exist in the form of nomadic practices or online platforms, and aim to take shape of streams and points convenient for multimedia and gray zones in the middle of private and public space where we all live now.
Other topics of my art projects are determined by processes and changing trails of time, history, memory, identity and structures of feelings. I try to define them by examining themes of post-soviet, traumas, militarism, mass media, propaganda, collective memory using personal reflections, affective domains and analytic methods.
Education
2017 – 2019 MA in curatorial studies, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences, joint program of Smolny College and Bard College
2014 Cabinet of curiosity, KUVA (The Finnish Academy of Fine Arts) PRO ARTE, Helsinki-Saint-Petersburg
2013 – 2015 School for Young Artists (a joint program of the St Petersburg PRO ARTE Foundation and the North-Western Branch of NCCA)
2011 – 2015 Roerich Art College, painting department
2003 – 2008 Lobachevski State University of Nizhny Novogorod, radiophisycal department
Selected curatorial projects
Co-curated "Radio hopes and dreams." The Moscow edition. Let's talk about climate, baby!
09 - 10 November, 2019
[N+1]rooms
April, 2019
www.nplusonerooms.info
ArtGar(b)ageCoop
April, 2018 – present
Communication Management Unit
September - November, 2017
Parallel program of Ural Industrial Biennale
Personal exhibitions
November, 2020 Technologies of presence, Kunsthalle Nummer Sieben, Saint Petersburg, Russia
November, 2019 Sometimes behave so strangely, FFTN Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
November, 2018 Babushkas project, Rosa's House of Culture, Saint Petersburg, Russia
February, 2017 No words no war, Carinarnica, Slovenia
December, 2016 Something New, FFTN Gallery, Saint Petersburg
April, 2016 The decay time of metastable states, Intimate place, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Group exhibitions
2020
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December, Sometimes behave so strangely, Exhibition of nominees for the Kurekhin Prize, CSI Kurekhin
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9 - 13 September, Pangardenia, Ars Electronica, Saint Petersburg
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29 August, video program “Slowdown” at "100 ways to live a minutes" video-program, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
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July - present, Paradistopia, online-exhibition
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June, Artist's poetry, Ground Solyanka, Moscow
2019
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8-10 November, co-curated of Radio "Hopes and Dreams", the Moscow Edition, Garage museum, Moscow
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3,4,16,17 October, performance "On line" on Impulse exhibition, CCI Kurehina, Saint Petersburg
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October, You can touch it and Babushkas Zin, Rosa's House of culture, Saint Petersburg Curatorial Forum
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July, Heaven, Gamma Festival, Saint Petersburg
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April, Academy, Levels, Stepan Razin Factory, Saint Petersburg
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February - March, Peripheral visions, Trieste, Italy
2018
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7th of October, Informing, Failed, Agile Gallery, Saint Petersburg
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October - November, Million, Verbatim, Silent voices, ... , The Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk
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22 September, Babushkas, public art festival "Art Prospect", Saint Petersburg
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6-10 September, CMU. presentation, Lofoten Sound Art Symposium, Norway
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June, Rooms, Spacing, Quartariata Residency, Saint Petersburg
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31st of May - 3th of June, Technologies of presence, Shelter, participation in Shelter Festival, Helsinki, Finland
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May - June, You can touch it, The cases, Museum of Imperial Academy of Arts, Saint Petersburg
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May - June, Above the eternal piece, Private life of radio waves, Saint Petersburg Museum of Telecommunications
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April, Dialog, Social media - the habit of consistency, Saint Petersburg Museum of Telecommunications
2017
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December, Text based poetry, "Track 2 Track", Quartariata Residency, Peterhof, exhibition based on the Laboratory of Experimental Poetry
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November, Text based poetry, "Track Track", Smonly college, Saint Petersburg, exhibition based on the Laboratory of Experimental Poetry
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September, You can touch it, Letters to the future, Rosa's House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
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September, The blue series, True Fiction, The 14th Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum Festival, Saint Petersburg
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September, Million, Verbatim, Silent voices, Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg
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February, The blue series, 900 and another 25,000 days,... , New museum, Saint Petersburg
2016
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July, No words no war, 5th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art: «Deep Inside». Main Project, Moscow, Russia
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April, No words no war, What we left behind in Russia?, the part of “Beside war" project, Redipuglia Fogliano, Italy
2015
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November, Lugansk Diary, Multimedia Art Festival, Krasnoyark, Russia
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October, Daily News, Leaving Tomorrow, the final exhibition of the project Start, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
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October, Million, 900 and another 25,000 days, ... , Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
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October, Daily News, “Warning!” multimedia art festival, Lvov, Ukraine
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May, Planets, The star city, New Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
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April, No words no war, "War Museum", MMSI, Moscow, Russia
2014
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September, interactive sculpture Cube not cube, public art festival "Art Prospect", Saint Petersburg, Russia
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August, Underground, "Summer Fling: A Festival of 1-minute Films", Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
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July, Track track, “Last discoveries”, Moscow, CSCI Sokol, special program of Moscow Biennale of Young Art
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June, Lugansk Diary, Video show of works by participants of the "School of the young artist", ProArte, Saint Petersburg
2013
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December "Where is the content?", Pro Arte, Saint Petersburg
Collections
No words no war project is in the official collection of IoDeposito
Awards
2015 - winner of the Multimedia Art Festival, Krasnoyark, Russia
2016 - Communication Management Unit, short list of Brewhouse Art Prize, experimental approach
2019 - August, special prise for curatorial project "Ghostpitality" for contest "Challenge!" in curatorial group ArtFog
2020 - long-list of Kurekhin Art Prize for multimedia object
Lectures
11.04.2020 Lecture "Online platforms as hybrid forms of art" for Tzelinnii Centre, Almaty, Kazakhstan
03.2020 - 04.2020 course of lectures "Online platforms as hybrid forms of art" for Paideiia school of interpretation of contemporary art
06.12.2019 participant of the conference "Gift and Labor in art and culture", Rosa's House of culture, Saint Petersburg
23.11.2019 Artist Talk in studio 4413 for students of “Paideia” art school
23.11.2019 participant of the conference “Digital and human” for the topic Political budy in digital human space”
04 - 06.10.2019 artist talk for Open Studios during Curatorial Forum, Saint Petersburg
25.11.2018 "Pedagogical projects as the form of art", Rosa's House of Culture, Saint Petersburg
3-5.08.2018 "Grow and rot!", Eco-festival in Narva-Joesuu, presentation of ArtGarg(b)age project
06.05.2018 "Art in digital space", lecture in parallel program of "Human/unhuman" exhibition, Quartariata Residency, Peterhof
17.02.2018 "Art in digital space", lecture in parallel program of "Spacing" program, Quartariata Residency, Saint Petersburg
10.11.2017 "Art in digital space", presentation of Communication Managment Unit, Ural Industrial Biennale