Matvei Krylov
is an actionist artist and political activist, whose political acts have earned him time at Buturskaya Prison and the Alternative Prize of Activist Art. He is the current organizer of the dissident tradition of “Mayakovsky Readings” in Moscow.
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Matvei Krylov is an actionist artist and political activist. He started working with political issues in 2003, and is a frequent participant of peaceful seizures of administrative buildings and government institutions. Krylov is the author of the performance Head Count at M&J Guelman Gallery; was a co-organizer of exhibition Party Riot Bus in support of Pussy Riot; the winner of the Alternative Prize of Activist Art; participant of Media Impact Festival of Activist Art. He is also the organizer of protest poetry evenings at the statue of Mayakovsky (a long-standing oppositional tradition) on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow, called the “Mayakovsky Readings”.
Arrested in 2011 for insulting a prosecutor, he spent time at Buturskaya Prison in Moscow. Earlier, he was sentenced to a one-year term after having been accused of extremism (his sentence suspended following protests).
At the moment, he works with LGBT-rights and at the struggle against narcophobia. Krylov is a co-author of a number of collective art projects. He describes himself as an anarchist and anti-fascist.
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Tania Volkova
Tatiana Volkova (Moscow) completed a Masters of Arts at the Academy of National Economy, Moscow (1995-2000); residency on the Jubiee Fellowship CEC Artslink, International Studios & Curatorial Program, New York (2004).
Tatiana has held curatorial positions at the Tsaritsino Museum, State Tretyakov Gallery, Reflex Gallery, the Garage and ZHIR project, Moscow. She was curatorial team member of a number of large exhibitions including: IV Biennial of Contemporary Art in Cetinjie, Montenegro (2002); “Viewing Pad” at the Moscow Central House of Artist (2003), “Russian Pop-art” (2005) and “Sots-Art. Political art in Russia” at the Moscow State Tretyakov Gallery (2007), “Russian Utopias” at the Garage, Moscow (2010).
Since 2009 Tatiana has been dedicated to research and promotion of Russian activist art. Tatiana curated a serious of exhibitions of the young Russian activist artists at ZHIR project, Moscow (Winzavod Art Centre, 2009 – 2010); “Silence=Death” exhibition (Artplay Centre, 2012, Moscow) . Since 2011 Tatiana has been initiator and moderator of MediaImpact Festival of Activist Art.
Tatiana has been written for exhibition catalogues, given a course of lectures on Russian activist art and moderated a discussion club.
– Member of AICA (International Association of Art Critics).
– Nominee of Innovation Award (2010), laureate of Kariatida Award (2012)
Grey Violet (Voina)
Grey Violet (b.1986) is libertarian, art and queer activist and publicist. It took part in various activities in particular in actions of Voina group, in radical queer activism, anarchist and libertarian activism of various kinds. It has co- authored(with A.D. Epstein) a book about freedom of speech and anti-extremist campaign in Russia.
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Mikhail Dolyanovsky
is a young Russian-born artist based in Kharkov, Ukraine. His works have been shown in Kharkov, Kiev and Moscow. This new work develops a series shown in a SOSka Group app-art exhibition, originally called “Zombies instead of vegetables”.
Nadezhda Tolokonnikova & Pyotr Verzilov (Voina / associate of Pussy Riot )
Pyotr Verzilov is an artist, widely known for his provocative political actions as part of the Voina group.
Currently, he is most visible as the husband and close collaborator of Nadezhda “Nadya” Tolokonnikova, perhaps most vocal member of the Russian feminist punk rock collective Pussy Riot. Recently she went on hunger-strike to protest the extreme conditions and illegal forced labour at the IK-41 work-camp, where she is held in the Russian Republic of Mordovia. She is enduring a two-year sentence handed down almost directly by Russian President Putin for the “Punk Prayer” Pussy Riot performed in Russia’s central cathedral. Verzilov is in close touch with both Nadya and the other imprisoned member of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina. He visits them regularly, working with their legal counsels to bring news to the public from their respective internment camps.
Verzilov was furthermore a member of the Strategy 31 protests, and helped organize the Anti-Seliger and Last Autumn opposition forums. Most recently, he played a role in the campaign of the anti-Putin candidate in the Moscow mayoral elections.
Federico Geller
Works: Multilectics and Multiphrenia in THE SQUARE newspaper Issue #1, published as part of To The Square 2.
Federico Geller (Argentina/Berlin) studied and taught Biologic Sciences at the University of Buenos Aires. He is a member of “Abriendo Caminos/La comunitaria TV”, a collective which endeavours to create communication tools (video, interventions, graphic material) for grass-roots political work and cojuncture situations. He also works in “Jeta Ka’i”, a team that aims to popularise biological knowledge and to discuss its technological applications and social consequences. Some of his designs and drawings have been shown in ExArgentina/La Normalidad (Berlin-Köln, Buenos Aires 2003-2006), The Future of Reciprocal Readymade (New York 2005), Kollektive Kreativität (Kassel 2005), Pay Attention to Ham (Köln 2008), Que Viva la Diversidad (Santa Fe, 2010),Truth Is Concrete/Steirischer Herbst (Graz 2012). Geller lives in Buenos Aires and Berlin.
Svetlana Baskova
works in art, video and film since the early 1990s, and is currently the director of the BAZA publishing house (Moscow) and the Institute for Contemporary Art and Criticism. This film was showcased to acclaim at the Berlinale in 2013.
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Sveta Baskova graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute (State Academy) in 1989. She became a freelance artist in 1990, and began working with film and video in 1996. In 2010 she became the director of the BAZA publishing house in Moscow, founded by Anatoly Osmolovsky. She has also been the director of the Institute for Contemporary Art and Criticism since 2011. Her latest films include “For Marx” and “One Solution – Resist”.
Alexey Iorsh
is one of Russia’s first BD artists. A socially-oriented artist and cartoonist, and author of graphic novels, he publishes regularly online and in periodicals. An artist in the Helsinki iteration of Re-Aligned, he is also an active member of Media Impact (Moscow).
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Alexey Iorsh works as cartoonist in media, art-director and creative director in the advertising. He is also an author of graphic novels, one of the first Russian BD artists. He is a contemporary artist and an independent curator.
Babi Badalov
In a secular revelation of the rich confusion of cultures Babi Badalov has travelled – including the Azerbaijani, Soviet, Russian, British, French, LGBT, asylum seeker, immigrant and many more – he may be said to paint in the manner the ecstatic mystic “speaks in tongues
He has exhibited Manifesta 8 biennale, “The Journey to the East” MOCAK (The Museum of Contemporary Art Krakow), “Passion bild” Kunstmuseum Bern, “Constitution of the Damned” Landings, Vestfossen, Norway, ”LONELY AT THE TOP” M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp. Selected solo exhibitions: “I Am Orna Mental” Gandy gallery, Bratislawa (2011), “My life Report In Paris” Tranzit Display gallery, Prague (2010), “The Persian Ambassador” Freud’s Dreams Museum, Saint Petersburg (2008).
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Babi Badalov
Born 1959, Lerik, Azerbaijan, live in Paris
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