Practical history of art - course 49,500 rubles. from the British Higher School of Design, training 2 months, date November 29, 2023.
Miscellaneous / / December 01, 2023
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.
Alexey Mandych was born in Moscow in 1973. In 1999 he graduated from Moscow State University named after M. IN. Lomonosov. In 2008, he began taking photography lessons. In 2011 he graduated from the Institute of Contemporary Art, course “New Artistic Strategies”. In 2010, he began to engage in artistic practices.
Lives and works in Moscow.
Education
2011 New artistic strategies, Institute of Contemporary Art Problems
(IPSI), Moscow, Russia
2008 Fundamentals of Photography, PHOTOPLAY Photo School, Moscow, Russia
1999 Geoinformatics, Faculty of Geography, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
Exhibitions
09.2015 Inside the event, Artwin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
07.2014 Glyphs, NCCA, Kronstadt, Russia
04.2014 Participation, performance, NCCA, Volga branch, Russia
09.2013 Exhibition of nominees for the Kandinsky Prize, ArtChronika Foundation, Moscow, Russia
02.2013 Branch, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia (personal)
11.2011 Without restrictions, International Forum Art and Reality, St. Petersburg, Russia
10.2011 Space. No, SleeveWorkshop, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
09.2011 From the field of practical knowledge, GMG gallery, 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
07.2011 Points of view, Mariestad, Sweden
06.2011 Cartographies of the Possible, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
08.2010 Monastic way of life, Vyazniki, Russia
07.2010 100 sheets (Librarianship), Samara, Russia
Nominations and prizes
12.2013 Kandinsky Prize, ArtChronika Foundation, nomination “Project of the Year”
Residences
2014 Art Residence, NCCA, Kronstadt, Russia
2011 Valand School of Fine Arts, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Artist, graduate of the Contemporary Art course, executive director of Syntax Gallery.
Education:
2016 - 2018 Contemporary art, British Higher School of Design, Moscow
2014 - 2016 Courses “Pre-Foundation” and “Foundation Art and Design”, British Higher School of Design, Moscow
2006 - 2014 Russian Academy of Justice under the Supreme Court and the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation (Russian State University of Justice), Moscow
Group exhibitions:
2019 Art and Technology, Australian Diplomat Residence, Moscow
2018 Ritual, 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, special project, Winzavod. Open, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2018 Design Next, science art project with the support of Moscow State University. Lomonosov, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2017 180°, exhibition of the best projects of further education programs of the British Higher School of Design, Artplay, Moscow
2017 Before: Foyo, Gallery A3, Moscow
2017 Essam, State Gallery on Solyanka, Moscow
2017 Communications, Gallery K35, Moscow
2016 TransArt, an international project to popularize Russian culture abroad
2016 Faced Out, Crystal plant space, Moscow
2016 Exhibition of final projects of the Foundation Art and Design course, British Higher School of Design, Moscow
Performances:
2020 Autobiographical practices, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2019 Searching for a way to overcome uncertainty, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2019 Performance text, Laboratory for artists and playwrights, performance art studio Shift, St. Petersburg
2019 Nomination, Open Studios, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 Possibilities for dialogue, British Higher School of Design, Moscow
2016 Recognition, Space of performative practices, Moscow
Residencies and additional education:
2019-2020 Open studios, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2018 Broadcasting the archive #10, UNIDEE - University of Ideas, Cittadellarte Fondazione Pistoletto, Biella, Italy
2018 Calligraphy and a new vision of the Russian avant-garde, Workshop with the participation of the Dutch group of calligraphers High on Type, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2011 Cross-Photo School of Photography (High Photo School), Moscow
THEORY: Art? Modernity? How and why.
PRACTICE: Description, analysis and understanding of a work
THEORY: What is this? What is it about? When is that? Where and why did it happen?
PRACTICE: Description, analysis and understanding of an exhibition project
THEORY: Dissatisfaction with the past. Changes. Figures.
PRACTICE: Discussion and critical conclusion about a work of art
THEORY: Paradigm change. New words. Theory and practice
PRACTICE: Trying to create styles yourself
THEORY: Titans of abstraction. Origin. Influence. Inheritance
PRACTICE: Tests of description and understanding
THEORY: War. Negation. A light in the end of a tunnel
PRACTICE: Dadaist practices
THEORY: Two nests. Soluble fish. Exquisite Corpse
PRACTICE: Practices of surrealism