Course on exhibition activities “Curator Practices” - course 395,000 rubles. from the British Higher School of Design, 1 year training, Date: November 28, 2023.
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Director of the Moscow School of Contemporary Art, curator, artist.
Date of birth: 1986 Moscow.
Education:
2010-2011 - Institute of Contemporary Art, course "New artistic strategies".
2007-2009 - The Royal Drawing School, London, postgraduate diploma.
2003-2007 - The Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, BA in Contemporary Art.
2001-2003 - The Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, drawing course.
Experience:
10.2020 - Founded the U Contemporary exhibition space at Winzavod.
01.2020 - Became director of the Moscow School of Contemporary Art.
04.2016 - Became curator of the further education program “Contemporary Art”.
10.2014 - Became head of the “Pre-Foundation Diploma in Art and Design” program.
11.2011 - Started teaching at the British Higher School of Design.
Curatorial projects:
04.2022 - Exhibition-intervention “Save as...”, Museum of the History of the Gulag.
04.2022 - Exhibition “Process. Job. Continuation" U Contemporary, Winzavod.
02.2022 - Group exhibition “Mythologems”, Rostokino gallery, exhibition halls in Moscow.
01.2022 - Exhibition “Accumulated”, U Contemporary, Winzavod.
09.2021 - Group exhibition of graduates of the “Reunion” school, U Contemporary, Winzavod.
07.2021 - Group exhibition “In Search of Light”, U Contemporary, Winzavod.
06.2021 - Graduation project "Axiology of Renewal", Bellogo Workshop, Winzavod.
05.2021 - Exhibition-intervention “We lived so strangely for 2000 years”, All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts.
10.2020 - Group exhibition “The Path to the Beginning”, U Contemporary, Winzavod.
08.2020 - Graduation project "Decentralization", Red Workshop, Winzavod.
10.2019 - Group exhibition “Obsession”, CUBE Moscow.
09.2019 - Group exhibition “In Search of the Beginning”, Media Center, Zaryadye Park.
06.2019 - Graduation project “Coexistence: marking boundaries”, Krasnogo Workshop, Winzavod.
02.2019 - Group exhibition “Labyrinth”, Richter space.
09.2018 - Group exhibition “Roads of Communication”, Fragment gallery.
06.2018 - Special project “britanka_coop” as part of the Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art.
04.2018 - Group exhibition “Tastes and symbols of the times”, Danilovsky market.
09.2017 - Exhibition of the best student projects, Small Hall, Artplay.
08.2017 - Group exhibition “Essam”, gallery on Solyanka.
07.2017 - Exhibition of final student works of 1 year of study in the K35 gallery.
Selected solo exhibitions:
09.2019 - “Amber Room”, Apartment Space, St. Petersburg.
09.2018 - “The Error of the Environment”, Museum of Russian Estate Culture, Moscow.
03.2018 - “Space will be ours”, Film Museum, Frankfurt.
04.2017 - “East-West: Next everywhere?” Art-Constantis gallery, Red October, Moscow.
02.2014 - “Dialects”, residence of the Ambassador of the European Union, Moscow.
12.2013 - “View”, Space K136, Berlin.
10.2013 - “Visions”, Film Museum, Frankfurt.
03.2012 - “Faces”, synagogue on Bronnaya, Moscow.
02.2011 - “The Other Side of the World”, cultural center “House on Patriashrikh”, Moscow.
10.2008 - “Nearby”, Babylon Gallery, Samara.
02.2006 - “Revelation”, Shepherd Market Gallery, London.
09.2002 - “YOU”, Palais des Nations, Geneva.
09.2001 - “Here I am”, Gallery Cork street 27, London.
07.1998 - “Look up” as part of the 10th International Music Festival V. Spivakova, Colmar.
Selected group exhibitions:
04.2022 - “Process. Job. Continuation" U Contemporary, Winzavod.
10.2018 - “Breakout”, Art Pegars gallery, Riga.
09.2017 - “In search of freedom”, City Museum, Liepaja.
12.2015 - “The Pushpin Museum”, Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow.
09.2011 - “There is no space” within the framework of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, parallel program.
07.2011 - “Today-Tomorrow”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art.
04.2009 - “Dialects 2”, Pushkin House, London.
03.2008 - “Dialects 1”, Pushkin House, London.
10.2007 - “SaLon Art Fair 2007 Show”, SaLon Gallery, London.
11.2003 - “Art-Moscow”, Manege, Moscow.
Publications:
07.2020 - “The art community really needs professionals,” Colta.
08.2019 - “Contemporary art material: marking boundaries”, Radio Liberty
01.2019 - “Art on the surface”, Tatlin.
09.2018 - “Trends in contemporary art”, Tatlin.
07.2018 - “Fiction”, No. 30, City magazine.
10.2017 - “Grey or Pink: Why We See Colors Differently,” The Village.
Performances:
07.2021 - “The influence of contemporary art on urban changes”, Moscow Urban Forum.
06.2021 - “Dialogue of traditions and modern art”, All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts.
11.2020 - “New heroes in contemporary art”, VII Moscow International Biennale of Young Art.
09.2018 - “Art industry for youth”, Museum of Moscow.
08.2018 - “Trends in contemporary art: do they exist?”, Festival of the 90th anniversary of Gorky Park.
06.2017 - Discussion “ART & Fashion”, ARKH Moscow, Central House of Artists.
Prizes and awards:
09.2018 - Award for the best exhibition of the year “britanka_coop”, BHSHD.
09.2017 - “Ambassador School” Award, BHSAD.
03.2013 - At the Phillips auction “Under the influence” in New York, the work “Roll of Honor” was sold for more than three times the auction estimate.
10.2010 - Became a member of the Moscow Union of Artists.
01.2009 - Awarded a medal for his contribution to the development of art at the First International Art Salon “The Path of Unity”, dedicated to the 285th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Arts.
04.2007 - Received a special award “Young Artist” at the 1st Moscow International Arts Festival “Traditions and Modernity” in Manege.
Museum collections:
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Taft Museum in Cincinnati, USA.
Museum of Contemporary Russian Art, Jersey City, USA.
Public collections:
Works are in the collection of: Queen Elizabeth 2 of Great Britain, Prince Charles of Wales, Prince Michael of Kent, Princess of Thailand, 1 Russian President Boris Yeltsin.
Private collections:
Leonid Mikhelson, Alexander Smuzikov, Andrey Cheglakov, Mikhail Alshibaya, Vladimir Spivakov, Mark Kurtser.
Philosopher-aesthetician, researcher, curator and conceptualizer of artistic practices.
The program is aimed at developing curatorial thinking and acquiring a wide range of practical knowledge and skills necessary for inventing and implementing curatorial projects, including: conducting research and searching for a topic, formulating a concept, planning and organizing the work process, preparing a budget, interacting with the media, documentary support and many other.
1 semester
History of philosophy of the XX-XXI centuries.
History of art 20-21 centuries.
Fauvism
Dadaism
Cubism
Surrealism
Expressionism
American Abstract Expressionism
European painting of the post-war period
Pop Art
New realism
Minimalism
Conceptualism
Body art
Land art
Post-war architecture
Neofunctionalism
Expressionism and anti-functionalism
Structuralism, neo-brutalism, metabolism
Architectural postmodernism, neo-rationalism, deconstructivism, high-tech style
History of curation
Definition of a curator in contemporary art
Models of curatorial practice in historical perspective
Exhibition genres
Exhibitions that made art history: 20th century
Exhibitions that made art history: 21st century
Professional Communication
Interaction of the curator with participants in the creative and cultural process
Establishing business contacts
Features of business and creative communication
Fundamentals of communicative competence
Ethics: how to behave in a professional environment
Business game
Art criticism and academic writing
Different text formats in the work of a curator
Press release and press kit
Social media
Text in the exhibition
Academic writing (journal article)
Practical writing assignments
Economics of a curator's work. Project budget
Commercial and non-profit organizations
Public and private organizations
Project budget
Project finances
Visiting creative institutions
Trips to the most significant exhibition projects
Visits to artists' studios
Lectures by invited specialists
Meetings with practicing Russian and foreign artists
Discussions with famous representatives of the art community
Meetings with representatives of museums, galleries and foundations
Defense of a semester project
Classification of media in contemporary art, their differences and advantages of different areas of creativity
Work with examples that added an innovative component to the understanding of the medium of artistic expression
Photo
Video
Installation
Multimedia
Digital
Painting
Sculpture
Ceramics
Methodologies of curator's research work
Choosing a research direction
Setting a creative task
Search, accumulation and processing of information
Working with sources and their analysis
Structure and models of action research
Processing the results of the curator’s research work
Discussion of the material covered
The art market and features of its functioning
Features of the functioning of the art market in Russia. What place do curators occupy in it?
Pricing policy. How does the Russian art market differ from the international one?
Working with a museum collection
Working with a private collection
Legal aspects of using the collection
Cataloging
Copyright. Terms of provision of works
The main participants in the art business, their types, status and features of interaction
Copyright Law
Property and non-property rights of authors
Features for fine art works
Collective rights management organizations
Special rights of museums and archives
Drawing up technical specifications and project specifications
Terms of provision of works
Drawing up technical specifications and project specifications
Discussion
Promotion of projects in the field of art
Fundraising
Discussion on the topic “Fundraising in modern conditions”
PR support
Discussion on the topic “PR support in modern conditions”
Practical tasks
Light and sound design of the exhibition space. Multimedia equipment
Basics of lighting technology
Lighting culture
Lighting control
Sound in the exhibition space
The creative component of sound
Architectural and exhibition design (SketchUp)
Working with space
Working with visualization elements
Lighting modeling, interaction of light with various materials
Project work
Project analysis using SketchUp
Book or catalog
Work on the book and catalog by the curator
Relationship between project and publication
Excursions and art mediation (work with visitors)
Excursions and art mediations
Educational programs
Publishing within the framework of the exhibition
Visual style of the project
Publication (catalog)
Completing a creative task
Lectures by invited specialists
Meetings with practicing Russian and foreign artists
Discussions with famous representatives of the art community
Meetings with representatives of museums, galleries and foundations
Graduation project
Independent and group work on the project
Consultations with a curator
Defense of the final project