Nina Vitanova

Works

  1. Towards the stars

    circles…starward
    If we look at the history of mankind
    it is characterized by iteration
    a rotation around its own axis
    an almost ridiculous repetition in different variations
    as if there was no way to draw conclusions
    or, beware, learn from the past

    but this circling only seems to spin
    from a bird’s eye view
    if one dares to take a side view
    these circles mutate into a spiral
    the seemingly purposeless circles of repetition
    align themselves, rotate, then spiral
    slowly but steadily: starward? (toward the stars)

    Our perspective has shifted slightly to the left, into the feminine spectrum.

    birth and miscarriage
    to sustain and to bear
    carrying, sometimes dragging
    this human history on one’s shoulders…

    white dressed
    mud sprinkled

    wading trough centuries
    the long hair
    dragged through swamps
    dragged through the galaxy

    rituals rooted in times
    where the rat-catcher
    played the flute
    through wicked lanes
    where too beautiful women
    where burned as witches

    Kreisen Sternwärts
    Betrachten wir die Geschichte der Menschheit
    ist sie von Repetitionen geprägt
    eine Rotation um die eigene Achse
    eine fast lächerliche Wiederholung in verschiedenen Varianten
    sprich Thema und Varianten
    als könne, wolle man auf keine Art
    aus der Vergangenheit Schlüsse ziehen
    oder gar was lernen

    doch dieses Kreisen
    scheint nur aus der Vogelperspektive
    ein Kreisen
    wagt man eine Seitenansicht
    werden diese Kreise zu Spirale
    die scheinbar sinn-und ziellosen Varianten
    richten sich
    rotieren langsam aber stetig… sternwärts?

    Unser Blickwinkel ist leicht nach links verschoben, ins feminine Spektrum.
    Geburt und Todgeburt
    tragen und ertragen
    die Geschichte auf den Schultern tragen
    zuweilen gar schleppen

    weissgekleidet
    schlammbespritzt
    waten graugrün

    durch so viele
    Jahrhunderte getrieben
    die langen Haare
    sumpfgebadet
    sternbeschnuppt

    Rituale die tiefverwurzelt
    in Zeiten
    wo noch Rattenfänger
    durch die Gassen flöten
    und zu schöne Frauen
    hexenverbrannt

  2. Paint Dance perfrmance Nina Vitanova

  3. Trance Yoga pilot


    crossover of yoga and contemporary dance to trance music

  4. Meander

  5. Spacetrip
  6. Тouching the sky
  7. Space Dance
    en rotation autour d’un centre vide
    corps contre corps se projettent
    corps à corps se révoltent
    contre la loi de gravitécontre les lois en général
    éjecté loin de la planète
    tout en calculant le chemin
    de son vaisseau spacial
    calculant une trajectoire verticale
    en direction d’un point dans le vide

    je pensais toujours
    qu’un jour on formerait de nouveau
    un couple en quelque sorte
    qu’en fait, on était toujours
    juste une sorte de couple

    un pas de deux plus ou moins réussi
    mais décidément détaché de cette planète
    décidément calculé comme fuite

    kreisend um ein leeres zentrum

    körperankörper geschraubt
    körpervonkörper gezerrt
    körperauskörper gestülpt
    in aufruhr
    gegen das gesetz der schwerekraft
    gegen gesetze tout court

    planetenabgenabelt treiben sie
    weggeschleudert: allgelandet
    treiben schwerelos
    in richtung punkt im nichts

  8. Face it, the universe is ours!
  9. Cambodia

Bio

Nina Vitanova Wlachowa
visual art
dance-performance
curator
www.ninavita.art
Web page at Art Club D137: http://www.d137.org/?page_id=1745&lang=en
awarded the stipendia of fine art of the canton of Zürich
awarded the stipendia of fine art of the city of Zürich

Main exhibitions, video works and performances, curated works:
– collective exhibition in the Helmhaus Zürich (the main contemporary art -museum of Zurich)
– personal exhibition and dance-performance in the steglitzer bahnhof gallery, Berlin
– personal exhibition in the Thea Fischer Rheinhard gallery, Berlin
– personal exhibition and dance-performance in the exhibition hall, ’optika’ of the ’VDNH’, Moscow
– joint creation with the director Konstantin Mitniev (parrallel kino) of the video-art film screendream (on betacam) combining acting, dancing and video-effects
– multiple video-installations and multimedia-performances in collaboration with kirill preobrazenskji (concept-artist + video-artist) and lev rubinstein (conceptual poet), shown in Moscou (center of contemporary art) and in St.Petersbourg.
– curator (+ danceperformer) of the Multimedia- danceperformance project mental landscapes, shown in:
Helmhaus, Zurich (contemporary-art museum)
Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (contemporary-art museum)
Can (centre d’ art contemporain), Neuchâtel (contemporary-art museum)
– dance-performance in the framework of the exhibition Nouveau Novosibirsk by Andrei Molodkin and Alexei Beliayev Guintovt in the Chapelle St. Louis de la Pitié Salpétrière, Paris
– personal exhibitions/performance with the project brain extension (multimedial immages) :
in the gallery d137 and in the Freuds Dream Museum , St.Petersbourg

– personal exhibition in the gallery Fotonauta , Barcelona
– dance-video aliens elaborated in St. Petersbourg
with the dancer Artiom Ignatiev and Mikel Tumbler
+ video artist Masha Shaa
– personal exhibitions/performance to the theme aliens in the gallery d137 , St. Petersbourg
– dance-visual art-performance with choreaographer and dancer Konstantin Grouss in the dance – theatre Tsech, Moscou

  • Exhibition and performance to the theme spaced out in the Gallerie Ephémère, Paris
    – 3 exhibitions with the russian visual-art group AES+F showing the photo-images spaced out, AES+F showing images and their video-work of the series: le Roi des Aulnes,
    – multiple dance-performances where also part of the exhibition/performance project spaced out. Nina Vitanova danced with Konstantin Grouss, Denis Boroditsky, Natalja Palshina and others.
    This exhibition/dance project took place in the context of the organization Art Residence, Moscow.
    life-music by : Fiodor Amirov in Moscow), Anna Michailova (in Zurich), Domenico Ferrari (in Basel)
    in the:
    Open Stage Theatre , Moscow,
    gallery Rhuethmüller, Halle 33, Basel
    gallery COR, Zürich
  • dance and action painting in the dance-performance Phases of the Moon (choereographie Konstantin Grouss) in the dance-theater Tsech, Moscow.
    – elaborating the ideas of the theme Zeitgeist during several years with the choreographer, dancer and curator Konstantin Grouss ( vdirector of Art Residence). Exhibition with the titel of Zeitgeist in the all-russian museum of applied and folk art, Moscow

– exhibition and 3 dance performances to the theme sternwärts ( starward) in the gallery BOX , Zurich.
– Created with Konstantin Grouss the multimedia dance performance project Zeitgeist, which took place at the Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, and participated as an artist in the same project.
– continuation of the project Zeitgeist with Konstantin Grouss in the framework of the cutlrual project Art Residence, Moscow.
– presently working on the Corssover Performance ( danc/ visual art) circles…starward (kreisen…sternwärts) with Yui Kawaguchi as a choreographer.

Main exhibitions, video works and performances, curated works:

– collective exhibition in the Helmhaus Zürich (the main contemporary art -museum of Zurich)
– personal exhibition and dance-performance in the steglitzer bahnhof gallery, Berlin
– personal exhibition in the Thea Fischer Rheinhard gallery, Berlin
– personal exhibition and dance-performance in the exhibition hall, ’optika’ of the ’VDNH’, Moscow
– joint creation with the director Konstantin Mitniev (parrallel kino) of the video-art film screendream (on betacam) combining acting, dancing and video-effects
– multiple video-installations and multimedia-performances in collaboration with kirill preobrazenskji (concept-artist + video-artist) and lev rubinstein (conceptual poet), shown in Moscou (center of contemporary art) and in St.Petersbourg.
– curator (+ danceperformer) of the Multimedia- danceperformance project mental landscapes, shown in:
Helmhaus, Zurich (contemporary-art museum)
Shed im Eisenwerk, Frauenfeld (contemporary-art museum)
Can (centre d’ art contemporain), Neuchâtel (contemporary-art museum)
– dance-performance in the framework of the exhibition Nouveau Novosibirsk by Andrei Molodkin and Alexei Beliayev Guintovt in the Chapelle St. Louis de la Pitié Salpétrière, Paris
– personal exhibitions/performance with the project brain extension (multimedial immages) :
in the gallery d137 and in the Freuds Dream Museum , St.Petersbourg

– personal exhibition in the gallery Fotonauta , Barcelona
– dance-video aliens elaborated in St. Petersbourg
with the dancer Artiom Ignatiev and Mikel Tumbler
+ video artist Masha Shaa
– personal exhibitions/performance to the theme aliens in the gallery d137 , St. Petersbourg
– dance-visual art-performance with choreaographer and dancer Konstantin Grouss in the dance – theatre Tsech, Moscou

  • Exhibition and performance to the theme spaced out in the Gallerie Ephémère, Paris
    – 3 exhibitions with the russian visual-art group AES+F showing the photo-images spaced out, AES+F showing images and their video-work of the series: le Roi des Aulnes,
    – multiple dance-performances where also part of the exhibition/performance project spaced out. Nina Vitanova danced with Konstantin Grouss, Denis Boroditsky, Natalja Palshina and others.
    This exhibition/dance project took place in the context of the organization Art Residence, Moscow.
    life-music by : Fiodor Amirov in Moscow), Anna Michailova (in Zurich), Domenico Ferrari (in Basel)
    in the:
    Open Stage Theatre , Moscow,
    gallery Rhuethmüller, Halle 33, Basel
    gallery COR, Zürich
  • dance and action painting in the dance-performance Phases of the Moon (choereographie Konstantin Grouss) in the dance-theater Tsech, Moscow.
    – elaborating the ideas of the theme Zeitgeist during several years with the choreographer, dancer and curator Konstantin Grouss ( vdirector of Art Residence). Exhibition with the titel of Zeitgeist in the all-russian museum of applied and folk art, Moscow

– exhibition and 3 dance performances to the theme sternwärts ( starward) in the gallery BOX , Zurich.
– Created with Konstantin Grouss the multimedia dance performance project Zeitgeist, which took place at the Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow, and participated as an artist in the same project.
– continuation of the project Zeitgeist with Konstantin Grouss in the framework of the cutlrual project Art Residence, Moscow.
– presently working on the Corssover Performance ( danc/ visual art) circles…starward (kreisen…sternwärts) with Yui Kawaguchi as a choreographer.