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 →

Marina Fedorova. One Fine Day (graphics, objects).
Curator – Ekaterina Andreeva. It is known for a long time, that artist’s masterpieces are selfportraing. Speed of glance, body movements, strength of touch are reflected in dinamic shape and graphic hand-writing. Marina Fedorova uses brush softly and confidently.This sharp professional skill is mixed with swinging, interrupting rhythm of movements and shape arrangement. Continue reading →

Art Moscow’2005, the International Art Fair. Moscow. Russia. Catalogue. D137 Gallery presented: Georgy GURIANOV (draw on canvas), Yegor OSTROV (painting), Olga TOBRELUTS (print), SERGEYEV Sergey (painting, photo), Alexander STRELETS (interactive videoinstallation), Marina FEDOROVA (graphic). During the exhibition: at the 25th of May was presentetion of book “Timur Petrovich Novikov. Lecture” (D137 Gallery and New Academy of Fine Arts, 2003); at the 26th of May – presentetion of interactive videoinstallation “P.V.S.” by “New Bazis Group”. Continue reading →

Vitaliy Pushnitsky. Reaction (painting, graphics, objects).
Booklet. Co-organized with National Center of Contemporary Art (NCCA) St. Petersburg branch. Curator – Maria Korosteleva Continue reading →

Vladimir Kolesnikov (Krasnodar). BANG BANG (painting).
Co-organized with Aidan gallery (Moscow). Vladimir Kolesnikov was born at the 1969 in Krasnodar. He graduated the Art school in Krasnodar and the Kubanskiy State University. From 1993 he is taking part at the different exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Vladimir Kolesnikov began from abstract art and now he is conceptual artist. Continue reading →

in frame of personal exhibition of Alexander Strelets «Alakrez» is showed «New Bazis» group’s slide-film / P.V.S./ PEREMESHENIJA VO SNE SHIFTS IN SLEEP / S.I.S./ WINDOWPAIN, dedicated to John Balance (16.02.1962-13.11.2004). Continue reading →

Alexander Strelets. Alakrez (photography, installation).
Photographer Alexander Strelets was born in 1974 in Leningrad. In 1991 graduated the Physic-Technique School and joined the Plasma Physics Faculty of St. Petersburg Technical University. In 1994 he gave up the university and started to work as an art photographer, shooting the city landscapes, portraits and still life and using the black and white hand-made print. Continue reading →

Roundtable discussion V: Artist’s Responsibility in terms of Yegor Ostrov’s exhibition The Depth of Starkness.
Participants: I. Chechot, P. Gerasimenko, G. Gurianov, A. Klukanov, O. Kudriavtseva, A. Kuryokhina, V. Kuznetsov, S. Makarov, O. Maslov, T. Milyukova, D. Novik, Y. Ostrov, Sergeyev S., O. Tobreluts, G. Yershov and others

Yegor Ostrov. The Depth of Starkness. Yegor Ostrov and Arno Breker (painting).
Curator – Ivan Chechot. A well-known artist from St Petersburg, Yegor Ostrov (born 1972) presents a series of twelve large paintings at the Gallery D-137. The works are based on photographs of monumental sculptures by Arno Breker, reworked with the help of rhythmic, undulating rastering. In this project, the artist varies ways of employing and agreeing the colour raster with the forms and rhythms of a photo-reproductive motif taken from the history of art — one that is, above all, figurative and classical. Continue reading →