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Pyotr Kiryusha
Read more...At the Fruits Falling into Different Orchards project at the Winzavod Contemporary Art Center in Moscow (4-31 July 2008), curator Anna Zaitseva invited several famous Russian artists, including Victor Alimpiev, to create their own exhibitions of young artists. Selecting works for Halt! Who Goes There? Alimpiev’s choice fell on Pyotr Kiryusha, whose watercolours, he believed, deserved an exhibitio...
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Alyona Tereshko
Read more...Alyona Tereshko was born in 1986 in the town of Ishim in Tyumen Region. Girl from the Urals (2012) is the video documentation of a performance in which the artist tries to get back to her roots by re...
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Irina Korina
Read more...Irina Korina works with cheap, recognisable household materials and everyday objects. Very often these are the clothes worn by typical representatives of their classes. In the Scarecrow object (2012)...
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Pavel Braila
Read more...Pavel Braila belongs to the post-Soviet generation of artists, which was formed in the 1990s. He can also be regarded as a “fledgling” of the Soros “nest,” as the Soros Center for Contemporary Art in...
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Elena Nemkova
Read more...Graphic artist, sculptress, video artist, performance artist. Born in Dushanbe in Tajikistan (1971). Graduated from the St Petersburg Academy of Art and Industry (1996) and the Accademia di belle Art...
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Misha Most
Read more...Misha Most was born in Moscow in 1981 and took up graffiti art in 1997. In many ways, the paradigm of the worldview expressed by the artist in the phrases “consume, work, kick the bucket” (to quote o...
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Zhanna Kadyrova
Read more...Zhanna Kadyrova was born in the Ukrainian town of Brovary (1981) and graduated from the department of sculpture at the Taras Shevchenko School of Art in Kyiv (1999). Since 2002, she has contributed t...
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Taisia Krugovykh
Read more...Video artist. Born in Moscow (1982). Specialises in people coming out of a coma or prison, her parents, her own body and linguistic projects linked to the theme of migration. Actively helps her frien...
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