The personal exhibition of SERGEYEV SERGEY. NEW CONSTRUCTIONS CAVING IN / EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN (painting, objects).
Sergeyev Sergey’s new project NEW CONSTRUCTIONS CAVING IN / EINSTURZENDE NEUBAUTEN took him two years of work. A well-known St Petersburg artist, Sergeyev Sergey was also among the founders of D137 gallery, which makes it apt to present the gallery’s new catalogue dedicated to its tenth anniversary during the opening ceremony of Sergeyev’s personal exhibition. Continue reading →

Alexandra Vertinskaya. Visual Archive. (painting, graphics).
The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg. Russia

Art Moscow’2006, the International Art Fair. St. Petersburg. Russia.
Catalogue. Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen (Helsinki, Finland), Sergeyev Sergey, Olga Tobreluts, Marina Fedorova, Alexandra Vertinskaya (Moscow)

Andrey Medvedev. Girls and Dirigibles (painting, gummiarabic print).
Follow me, comrades aviators, float in the abyss, for I have established the semaphores of suprematism! K. Malevich. Suprematism 1919. XXth century is picking up. Petrograd, Leningrad, wars, revolutions. New names, titles and symbols. Poet Velimir Khlebnikov replaces French word ‘aviator’ with the Russian ‘flyer’ (letchik). Flyer Vasily Kamensky becomes a futurist flyer. Continue reading →

Konstantin Zvezdochetov (Moscow).Hello, Dear Boltansky! (painting).
Co-organized with XL gallery (Moscow). AN ATTEMPT TO DECIPHER A FRIENDLY JOKE. In Paris there lives an artist called Boltansky. Long time ago his ancestors came to France from Odessa. He likes to exhibit black and white photo portraits with lamps in dark halls. After his exhibitions one feels sad and terrified. Continue reading →

Olga Tobreluts. Tarquinius and Lucretia (video, media art).
Booklet. Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. The ancient Roman story of Tarquinius and Lucretia, as related by Olga Tobreluts, shows desire and violence rather than love and devotion, thus catching back with classical tradition that took interplay of these two forces for the fundamental principle of cosmos and the law of nature. Continue reading →

ARTE FIERA’2006, the International Art Fair.

L’Esprit Nouveau project. Bologna. Italy.
Catalogue. Marina Fedorova, Timur Novikov, Yegor Ostrov, Sergeyev Sergey, Olga Tobreluts, Anna Brochet

Mikhail Rozanov (Moscow). Architecture (photography).

Curator – Andrey Khlobistin Continue reading →

Virpi Vesanen-Laukkanen (Helsinki, Finland). Candy Princess (objects).
Catalogue. Co-organized with Consulate General of Finland in St. Petersburg, the Finnish Institute in St. Petersburg and Art Council of Finland. ”Art and stories are places where I can reconstruct my own story again and again to test if it holds true: is this story really mine, and do others share it with me?”* In my work the stories I have lived through and heard meet the materials produced by our culture. Continue reading →

Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe. STARZ (photography).
Booklet. Co-organized with XL gallery (Moscow). Timur used to tell me: «Vyacheslav Yurievich, you’re our bacteriological weapon in Moscow. They like you there for your artful imitating of various women while you’re in fact a Fantomas». …With all my absolute trust in the ideals of neoacademism, I moved to Moscow in order to carry out the systematic work of destruction and to finally smash down the so called Moscow Conceptualism school. Continue reading →