creates at times small-scale, at times monumental street art works. These urban interventions, which started in his native Ekaterinburg, range from “improvements in the hood” to highly critical works. His motto is “anyone who makes street art is a friend of mine”. Born, lives and works on the streets of Ekaterinburg, Russia.
Timofey Radya
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Viktor Misiano
Viktor Misiano was born in Moscow in 1957. From 1980 till 1990 he was a curator of contemporary art at the Pushkin National Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow. From 1992 to 1997 he was the director of the Center for Contemporary Art (CAC) in Moscow. He curated the Russian participation in the Istanbul Biennale (1992), the Venice Biennale (1995, 2003), the São Paulo Biennale (2002, 2004), and the Valencia Biennale (2001). He was on the curatorial team for the Manifesta I in Rotterdam in 1996. In 1993 he was a founder of the Moscow Art Magazine (Moscow) and has been its editor-in-chief ever since; in 2003 he was a founder of the Manifesta Journal: Journal of Contemporary Curatorship (Amsterdam) and has been an editor there since 2011. In 2005 he curated the first Central Asia Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. In 2007 he realized large scale exhibition project “Progressive Nostalgia: Art from the Former USSR” in the Centro per l’arte contemporanea, Prato (Italy), the Benaki Museum, Athens, KUMU, Tallinn, and KIASMA, Helsinki. His latest exhibition project is “Impossible Community” realized 2011 in Moscow Museum for Modern Art and awarded with National “Innovation” prize as the “Best exhibition of the year”. From October 2010 he is a Chairman of the International Foundation Manifesta. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Helsinki University for Art and Design. He lives in Moscow (Russia) and Ceglie Messapica (Italy).
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Nikolay Oleynikov
Works:
For TO THE SQUARE 2 (Checkpoint Helsinki, 2014): Radio Pravda
For RE-ALIGNED ART from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Tromso Kunstforening, Norway): VillmarksLiv (a brief comment on 22 July, media-memory, visual neoconservatism and the oil-welfare-state)
For RE-PUBLIC: A Comment on Co-Dependence, image used in e-flux (Helsinki, 2013)
Concerts with the band Arkady Kots, on several occasions.
Nikolay Oleynikov is a Moscow based artist and activist. He has developed a unique practice of collective “learning murals” and graphic works in the tradition of the Soviet monumental school, comics and surrealist imaginary with roots in punk culture. He is a member of Chto Delat?/What is To Be Done?, editor of the Chto Delat? newspaper, on the editorial board of Moscow Art Magazine (2011), co-founder of the Learning Film Group and the May Congress of Creative Workers, as well as a member of the Arkady Kots band.
Oleynikov is represented worldwide through his solo projects as well as with number of collectives. He has had numerous international shows.
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Pyotr Pavlensky
Works in the Re-Aligned Project: Carcass
See also the brief excerpt from an extensive interview (the first video, below) with Ivor Stodolsky, Curator of the Re-Aligned Project, on the streets of St. Petersburg in 2013.
Pyotr Pavlensky’s public art actions “involve the actual power mechanisms”. His work has involved the use of his own body using harsh yet highly poignant metaphor. His performances of sewing his mouth closed in protest against the arrest of Pussy Riot, lying naked in barbed wire to protest harsh laws, and nailing his testicles to the Red Square in front of the Kremlin have gained wide international resonance.
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Petr Pavlensky was born in Leningrad in 1984. He received his education from the Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy, named after Alexander von Stieglitz, and the program of the Pro Arte Foundation which promotes contemporary culture. Pavlensky was also a core member in establishing the magazine Politicheskaya Propaganda.
“The human body is something that the power mechanisms, the state and the society try to discipline through prisons and causing injuries. Working with my body I show what the state does with the society. These processes reflect and are a metaphor for what is happening with the social body. Working in public space I manage to involve the actual power mechanisms into my actions.”
Selected Projects and Works
Carcass, in front of the City Parliament of St. Petersburg, 2013
Politpropaganda.com, Political Propaganda, internet journal launched in 2012
Seam 2012 In fron of the Kazansky Cathedral in St. Petersburg
Invincible Victory, installation 2012.
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Marita Muukkonen
Co-Founding Director of Perpetuum Mobile.
Co-Curator of the Re-Aligned Project
Marita Muukkonen is an internationally active curator based in Helsinki and Berlin, and a co-founding co-director of Perpetuum Mobile. She has been Chairperson of HIAP – The Helsinki International Artists-in-Residence Programme; Curator at HIAP; Curator at FRAME – The Finnish Fund for Art Exchange; Editor at FRAMEWORK – The Finnish Art Review (the international art magazine); and held key functions at NIFCA – The Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art over several years.
Marita has curated exhibitions and projects internationally, including at museums such as in MoMA in New York, Moderna Museet in Sweden, Kiasma – Museum of Contemporary Art in Finland and galleries such as Momentum Gallery in Berlin, Bo Bjerggegaard Gallery in Copenhagen. She has curates and co-ordinates exhibitions and events in biennial-contexts, including the Perpetual Pavilion (Venice 2009), The Finnish Pavilion in Venice (2009), The Nordic Pavilion (2009), The Arts Assembly (Manifesta 8, 2011), The Nordic Pavillion in the Dak’art Biennale (2012), and the School of Displaced Persons (Kiev Biennial, 2015).
In relation to China, Marita established and curated a residency programme for Chinese artists and curators in Helsinki at HIAP. This included residencies and talks by Li Zhenhua, aaajiao, Feng Boyi, Yang Fudong, and Dong Bingfeng among others. In China, she curated a screening programme of works by key Finnish experimental film and video artists from the mid-1990s to the present, in conjunction with the T.B.F.M. 2013 exhibition curated by Li Zhenhua at K11 Art Mall in Shanghai.
Currently, among several ongoing projects, Marita is currently co-curating the large-scale 5-year international thematic Re-Aligned Project. This Perpetuum Mobile project has travelled across continents, with exhibitions, conferences, research and events in Helsinki, Berlin, Moscow, Tromso, Arkhangelsk, Murmansk, Yekaterinburg, Edinburgh, Cairo, Ramallah and London. She continues to curate residency-based projects in collaboration with HIAP and, with Perpetuum Mobile, is co-curating a 2-year project with Moderna Museet in Sweden. Marita is a contributor to art journals, catalogues and publications.
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Ivor Stodolsky
Co-Founding Director of Perpetuum Mobile.
Co-Curator of the RE-ALIGNED Project.
Ivor A Stodolsky is a curator, writer and theoretician based in Finland, Germany and France. His engaged curatorial practice is informed by his theoretical work at the intersections of art, politics, history and philosophy, resulting in thematic projects with exhibitions, conferences, residencies and events internationally. He is also the the editor of related publications and films. Recent projects include The School of the Displaced (Kyiv Biennial 2015), Pluriculturalism (Moderna Museet, Malmö), The Square (a pre-mondial newspaper), Back To Square 1 and To The Square 2 (Checkpoint Helsinki), the 4th Roma-Gypsy Pavilion (Cineromani, Berlin), Re-Public (Urb Festival, Kiasma, Helsinki), Re-Aligned Art from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus (Tromsø Kunstforening), Re-Aligned/Media Impact (Moscow Biennale) as well as many other Perpetuum Mobile projects.
Perpetuum Mobile is a curatorial vehicle he founded together with Marita Muukkonen in 2007. Ongoing larger-scale umbrella-projects include the Re-Aligned Project (with over 9 iterations in several countries), the Perpetual Pavilion (including the 2nd and 4th Romani-Gypsy Venice Pavilions), Residencies for Artists at Risk (Fresh Air/HIAP), Perpetuum Labs (BAC Visby, Helsinki), The Arts Assembly (Manifesta 8, Beaux Arts Paris, CAFA Beijing, Ekaterinburg, etc), SINO-FI (Finland/China) and the Outside Insiders Project (Moderna Museet, Malmö). Most recently PM launched The School of the Displaced at the Kyiv Biennial 2015.
Ivor Stodolsky holds a BA in Philosophy and Mathematics from Bristol University, an MRes from the London Consortium (Birkbeck, Tate, ICA, BFI and AA), and was a researcher at the Aleksanteri Institute, Helsinki University, a base for his field research in St. Petersburg, Russia. He continues to develop his theoretical work in cooperation with academics and independent thinkers.
From early in life, Ivor Stodolsky has been close to movements in poetry, music, film and art. He has been active in artistic movements in Munich, London, St. Petersburg, Vienna, Prague, Helsinki and Berlin. Associate Editor of the op-ed syndication service Project Syndicate (www.project-syndicate.org) for some years, he returned to academic research in 2003. He has been an active curator since 2007.
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RE-ALIGNED ART, Tromsø, Norway
RE-ALIGNED ART
from Russia, Ukraine and Belarus
at Tromsø Kunstforening
and throughout the city of Tromsø
Curated by
Ivor Stodolsky and Marita Muukkonen
of Perpetuum Mobilε
Culminating Exhibition on Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian Art:
RE-ALIGNED ART at Tromsø Kunstforening (13.9.-10.11.2013).
In Tromsø, the RE-ALIGNED project will spread out over several sites, routes and ports including Tromsø Kunstforening, the artist-run spaces Kurant and Small Projects, the Verdensteatret Cinema, the University of Tromsø, as well as the streets, walls, rooves and air-fields of this arctic city. Re-Aligned Art is a festival of political art in diverse genres hosting art, cinema, poetry and music, as well three symposia: artistic, discursive and academic.
PROGRAMME of the Opening Days, September 13-16, 2013
New commissions and works seen for the first time outside of Russia, as well as by now classic pieces, will be contextualised through a dedicated audio-visual Action-Documentation Stairwell and a Re-Reading Room.
RE-ALIGNED ART in Tromsø, whose focus is Russian, Ukrainian and Belarusian art, includes the following artists and collectives:
Sveta Baskova, Babi Badalov, Ivan Brazhkin, Chto Delat?, Mikhail Dolyanovsky, Sofia Gavrilova, Gogol’s Wives, Alexey Iorsh, Matvei Krylov, Leonid «Arch Genius», Denis Limonov, Victoria Lomasko, Media Impact, Kirill Medvedev, Roman Minin, Monobrow, Monstrations (Artyom Loskutov and Maria Kiselyova), Marina Naprushkina, Nikolay Oleynikov, Anatoly Osmolovsky, Pyotr Pavlensky, Pedagogical Poem (Arseny Zhilyaev and Ilya Budraitskis), Pussy Riot, Timofey Radya, Mykola Ridnyi, SOSka Group, Translit & Petersburg Street University, Voina Group and the ZIP Group.
The RE-ALIGNED project looks into conditions, subjectivities and agencies provoking a new alignment of art, thought and politics in the 21st century. It assumes that the horizon lies not behind, but before us. The “post-modern moment” has passed. We are in a state of “pre-”. Overcoming identity-particularisms and old geopolitical fault lines, contemporary currents in art and politics exhibit common alignments based on ideals and ideas.
Speakers in the programme of the artistic and discursive symposia at the Kunstforening (September 14) and a third academic symposium co-organised with Tromsø University, include:
Sveta Baskova (film maker, BAZA institute), Katya Samutsevich (Pussy Riot) over video link, Mischa Gabowitsch (Einstein Forum), Rogatschevski (University of Tromsø), Ivor Stodolsky (Perpetuum Mobilε), Kirill Medvedev (poet and Arkady Kots bandleader), Viktor Misiano (international curator), Elena Trubina (Ural Federal University), Pyotr Verzilov (Voina, Pussy Riot associate), Dmitry Vilensky (Chto Delat?), Grey Violet/Seroe Fioletovoe (Voina), Hilary Pilkington (Warwick University).
As in previous times of great public discontent, such as in 1848 across Europe, in 1968 across continents, or in 1989 across the Soviet bloc, artistic advocates of freedom have taken their ideas into full public view. Using a multiplicity artistic techniques and strategies, the current re-alignment of art with politics tactically combines art and subversion, art and micropolitics, art and education, art and provocation and art and propaganda. The selection of artists, thinkers and activists of the RE-ALIGNED overrides factional divides, including all of these approaches.
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Arkady Kots
Photo by Sabine Pichler
Who the hell this Arkadiy is? Good question! If you ask about the person, we may answer: well, he was a Russian revolutionary poet and translator, for instance this was Arkadiy Kots himself who translated L’Internacionale into Russian, this first version lately became national anthem for early Soviet state. And recently, just a couple of years ago another revolutionary Russian poet, translator and hard-core socialist named Kirill Medvedev took Arkadiy’s name for the his new riot-punk-folk band. By the time they gave their first gig as a band, in year 2009, there were just two of them on stage Kirill Medvedev – singing and playing acoustic guitar, and Oleg Jouravlev – young Russian sociologist on keyboards made all the arrangements. First bunch of tunes was based on poems of another famous Russian poet, artist-anarchist of previous generation Alexander Brener (since late 90’s based in Vienna). Nikolay Oleynikov – Moscow based international artist, and antifascist activist soon joined the band with his set of percussions and mouth harmonicas, and became a frontman. Now there are 9 people on stage – a whole little orchestra.
Besides Brener’s poetry, another solid part of Arkadiy’s repertoire now contains international riot classics translated for new Russian political context by Kots band members. From early anarchist ballades, to Woody Guthry’s evergreens and Mikis Theodorakis’s pieces. And for Kots band members as dedicated leftist activists it is always important to underline that they follow certain cultural lineage, the tradition of culture, struggling for equality, antiauthoritarianism and liberation. That is how Arkady Kots once became a big name for recent Russian protest audience. Once Medvedev and Oleynikov went to support Pussy Piot infront of the court bulding. As they started a little concert, police came immediately and threw them to the police van, and they naturally continued their gig in there. “Happily” their fellow jornalist Vlad Chizhenkov was there already with his camera to document a fragment, which became a hype right away. They were singing a’capella: these walls will fall down, fall down, fall down, and then we’ll breathe freely. The song was originally Catalonian antifrankist anthem; written back in 1968 – L’Estaca – translated by Medvedev.
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Monobrow
is from Ekaterinburg, now based in Moscow, has developed a technique of portraiture and writing with growing grass.
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Sergey Kleschev, Monobrow, Just Monobrow was born on March 1, 1987 in the city of Sverdlovsk. He grew up in the city of Yekaterinburg. Lives in Moscow. He studied to be an architect, then to the multiplier in USAAA, then graduated from the British Higher School of Design at the rate Illustration. Tutor — Victor Melamed. He worked in the Kommersant Publishing House, the design studio “State” and Art Lebedev Studio.
Exhibitions:
– A series of self-portraits, Loft 2010, Yekaterinburg
– Stop it! Who’s Going? Vinzavod 2010, Moscow
– The fourth dimension, Tele Club 2010, Yekaterinburg
– Christmas trees, capital of the Urals in 2009, Yekaterinburg
– Museum of Writers 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, Yekaterinburg
– Long Stories of Yekaterinburg 2009, 2010, Yekaterinburg
– House Metenkov, modular exhibition 2005-2008, Yekaterinburg
– Space: Open, Yekaterinburg 2010
– BRURAL, NY, Brooklin, 2012
– The first Kyiv Biennale of Contemporary Art, 2012
– Helsinki, Kiasma, street art, 2012
– March 1, Moscow, 2013
Street projects in Yekaterinburg, Perm, Samara, Helsinki, Kiev and Moscow.
Wants to do something great.
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