Natalia Egorova was born in 1985 in Petrozavodsk. Participated in the Barents Spektakel 2015 (Kirkenes, Norway); the «Kalevala through the eyes of Russian artists» (2014-15, Museum of City Sculpture, St Petersburg; Center of Culture, Helsinki; Yanka Kupala State Literary Museum, Minsk, Belarusthe); the «Frontier» , the «Dust» (2012-13,Laboratoria Art&Science Space, Moscow); the «The Shadow of Time» (2012, State Museum«Tsaritsino», Moscow)he Athens Video Art Festival 2012, (Athens, Greece); International Experimental Film Festival “Vallecas Puerta Del Cine 2011 (Madrid, Spain); History of Russian Video Art. Volume 3» (2011, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow), etc.

Anna Frants is an international new media artist and curator.

Education

Baron Stieglitz St.Petersburg Academy of Art & Industry (St. Petersburg , Russia)

Pratt Institute School of Advanced Studies (New York, NY)

Anna Frants’ interactive art installations have been exhibited at top venues across the world. Recent highlights from 2009-present include exhibiting in the St Petersburg Biennial, Moscow Biennial and Polish Biennial, KuoseinoSato Museum of Contemporary Art (Fukuoka, Japan), The Museum of Art and Design (New York, USA), The State Hermitage Museum (St Petersburg, Russia), Chelsea Art Museum (New York, USA), RSProjects (Berlin, Germany), VAP / Gogolfest (Kiev, Ukraine) and Transmediale (Berlin, Germany) as well as participating in a 17 day expedition to The Arctic Circle with The Farm Foundation of Arts and Sciences. Frants is represented by Borey Gallery (St. Petersburg, Russia), Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery (Brooklyn, USA & Berlin, Germany) and Barbarian Gallery (Zurich, Switzerland). Her works can be found in collections of Museum of Art and Design (NY), Kolodzei Art Foundation (NY), Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art (RU) and private collections.

Sandrine Deumier has exhibited internationally including in the Miami New Media Festival, at Espacio Enter, BilbaoArte Art Production Center, Maison Folie, and Festival Voix de Femmes#12 in Belguim. Deumier’s work has been included in festivals and screened at many venues including FILE Anima in Brazil, Agence Topo in Canada, the Athens Digital Arts Festival, Contemporary Art Center Sala Rekalde in Spain, Visualcontainer in Italy, Alchemy film and Moving Image Festival in Scotland, and Streaming Festival in Netherland among others.

Zach Duer (b. 1986) is an educator, artist, musician, and performer.  His work focuses on experimentation in digital technology, multi-media instrument creation, and all forms of collage.

Duer holds the position of Immersive Environment Specialist at the Institute for Creativity, Art, and Technology and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State College in Blacksburg, VA.  He previously taught new media art as an instructor in the Kinetic Imaging department at Virginia Commonwealth University.  He holds an MFA in Kinetic Imaging from Virginia Commonwealth University (2014), an MA in Music Composition from Mills College (2009) and a BM in Music Composition from Minnesota State University Moorhead (2007).

He currently resides in Christiansburg, VA with his wife, son, and two dogs.

Born and lives in Moscow, Russia. Ilyukhin as an artist working at the intersection of various media and of institutions. Educated as engineer of robotics (MSTU) and as artist (ICA Moscow), his interest lies in creative interaction of technique and thoughts. In 2000 he co-founded the Art Business Consulting group which focuses on visual and mental processes of office habitat in their projects. In 2004-2009 he was a manager of ABC gallery and laboratory which organised monthly shows of associated artists. In 2009 Ilyukhin was a project manager of an artist-run art fair Universam. He is also developing his personal art pieces and currently inspirited by dance.

Maya Popova

Dancer, choreographer, teacher, lives and works St.-Petersburg, Russia

Education

1994-1999 – St.-Petersburg State Conservatory named by Rimskiy-Korsakov / Choreography Department
1991-1994 – Leningrad Regional College of Culture / Choreography Department

Teaching experience

2001 – 2014 – Vaganova Ballet Academy / Performing Department Contemporary Dance Technique, St.-Petersburg.
2007-2011 – Baltic Institute of Foreing Languages and Intercultural Cooperations/Theatre Arts Faculty, drama acting course by diretor Lev Ehrenburg , NeBDT Theatre, St.-Petersburg

Awards Contemporary Dance Technique and Improvisation

1994-1999 – winner of prises at the several competitions of young choreographers in St.-Petersburg and Petrozavodsk , Russia

Choreographer/dance piece

2010 ” Without a title” and ” My sorrow is light”, Rossiyanochka Dance Ensemble
2007 “Allegro “, Vaganova Ballet Academy , St-Petersburg
2006 – movement and dance – drama performance ” Na dne “, International Theatre Festival ” Meetings in Russia” and the Baltic House Theatre , St.-Petersburg

Video exhibitions

2015 “Lost Fragments”- exhibition, Taiga Space, St-Petersburg, Russia
2014 “ Not inTrendy”-exhibition, Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden
2013 “Apple of my eye”-exhibition Art reflex Galery, St.Petersburg
2010 “Flash memories”- exhibition, Gallery Pfeister, Denmark
2009 “Inside i am dansing” – exhibition, Iragi gallery, Moscow

Maneken 2015 “Urbi et Orbi”, the 6th Moscow Biennale Special Project, Museum Center of RGGU, Moscow

Acrobatic Sketch
2015 “Ludwig Collection” State Russian Museum, Marable Palace,St-Petersburg
2015 “On My Way” Parallel to the 56th International Art Exhibition, Ca’ Foscari Zattere,Venice,Italy
2014 “Another capital”- NCCA St-Peterburg brunch, Moscow
2014 festivals “Now and After”, Madrid; Media festival Krasnoyarsk

Nest
2014 Manifesta10 Parallel Program “The Other Home” , St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 “Russia contemporary exhibition”, Galerie Gmurzynska, Sweetzeland

Snowdrift
2013 videoprogram screening in frame exhibition Capital of Nowhere, A side event of the 55th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Università Ca’ Foscari,Venice, Italy
2012 Doppelganger -installation, Kiev, Shockolate House Museum
2011 Teetor – exhibition “Power of field”, St-Petersburg, Red Banner Factory
2011 Kitchen – exhibition “Dance”, Russian State Museum, St-Petersburg

Victoria Ilyushkina

Media-artist, curator, lives and works in St-Petersburg

Education

2001 Art History and Art Theory department of the Russian Academy of Art, St. Petersburg
2005 Pro Arte Institute, Foundation for Art and Culture, St. Petersburg, New Media Program

CYLAND Media ArtLab, St. Petersburg, curator of video programs
“S.Kuryokhin Award” ,St. Petersburg, exhibition curator and commete member
“Videoforma”, The International video program festival S. Kuryokhin’s Center, curator

Solo exhibitions

2015 “Lost Fragments”- exhibition, Taiga Space, St-Petersburg, Russia
2014 “ Not inTrendy”-exhibition, Gislaveds Konsthall, Sweden
2013 “Apple of my eye”-exhibition Art reflex Galery, St.Petersburg
2010 “Flash memories”- exhibition, Gallery Pfeister, Denmark
2009 “Inside i am dansing” – exhibition, Iragi gallery, Moscow
2009 “The third level”- media-installation, AL Gallery, St.Petersburg

Group exhibitions

Maneken 2015 “Urbi et Orbi”, the 6th Moscow Biennale Special Project, Museum Center of RGGU, Moscow

Acrobatic Sketch
2015 “Ludwig Collection” State Russian Museum, Marable Palace,St-Petersburg
2015 “On My Way” Parallel to the 56th International Art Exhibition, Ca’ Foscari Zattere,Venice,Italy
2014 “Another capital”- NCCA St-Peterburg brunch, Moscow
2014 festivals “Now and After”, Madrid; Media festival Krasnoyarsk

Nest
2014 Manifesta10 Parallel Program “The Other Home” , St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 “Russia contemporary exhibition”, Galerie Gmurzynska, Sweetzeland

Snowdrift
2013 videoprogram screening in frame exhibition Capital of Nowhere, A side event of the 55th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Università Ca’ Foscari,Venice, Italy
2012 Doppelganger -installation, Kiev, Shockolate House Museum
2011 Teetor – exhibition “Power of field”, St-Petersburg, Red Banner Factory
2011 Kitchen – exhibition “Dance”, Russian State Museum, St-Petersburg

TANYA AKHMETGALIEVA

BORN ON 9 JULY 1983 IN KEMEROVO, RUSSIA.LIVES AND WORKS IN ST. PETERSBURG AND MOSCOW

Born in Kemerovo. Studied at The Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy by Stieglitz and «Institute PRO ARTE». Lives and works in Moscow and St. Petersburg. Works in the genres of painting, installation, makes objects, video, likes to combine media. Her works were exhibited at the Russian Museum, at the «Winzavod» (Moscow, Russia), Moscow Museum of modern art, in London Calvert 22 Foundation, Galerie Forsblom (Helsinki), at Marina Gisich Gallery (St.Petersburg), Triumph gallery (Moscow). In 2010, her project “Pupal stage” reached the final of the Kandinsky Prize 2010 in the category “Young Artist. Project of the Year”.
In 2015 project «Allergy to dust» won the first prize of Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in the category “The best project of visual art”. Works are presented in collections of such museums as the Moscow museum of modern art (Moscow), Kiasma (Helsinki), EMMA (Finland), Pori Art Museum (Finland), as well as in private collections in Russia and Europe. Works with Galerie Forsblom.

www.tanya-akhmetgalieva.com

Alena Tereshko born in 1986 in Ishim (Russia), lives and works in St. Petersburg.

She graduated from Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Stieglitz (2013) and from school for young artists at PROARTE Foundation (2013).A member of art group “Parazit” (since 2012).

Exhibitions

Parazit+,WINZAVOD CCA and PERMM, Moscow and Perm, 2012

Saturnalia, Tbilisi, Batumi in Georgia, 2012

Cabinet of Curiosities, Kaiku Galleria in Helsinki and PRO ARTE Foundation in St. Petersburg, 2013

Lost in translation, special project of the 55th Venice Biennial, Venice, 2013

Why do we go to see exhibitions, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2013

Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum, festival; Museum of Urban Electrical Transport, St. Petersburg, 2013

Upstairs, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, 2014

The Other Home(s), CYBERFEST 2014

Luda, Saint Petersburg, 2014

NY Media Center, New York, 2015

61-th Internationale Kurzfilmtage, Oberhausen, 2015

Supermarket, (with group Parazite), Stoсkholm, 2015

Soft#Norm, Artplay, Moscow, 2015

Alexander Antipin (born 1956) is a contemporary St. Petersburg artist. He works in the field of computer graphics, media art and video art. Alexander was born near Saratov, and lived in Siberia. He graduated from the Leningrad State University (Journalism Department) in 1986. Antipin began his career as a photographer. From 1994 to 2003 he worked as an art director in Moscow and St. Petersburg magazines (“The World of Internet”, “Aktivist”, “OM”). In early 2000 he became interested in video and digital graphics. From 2006 to 2011 he worked as senior lecturer at the Department of Media Design and Information Technology at St. Petersburg State University. Currently he teaches Media Art in St. Petersburg State University of Film and Television.

Exhibitions

2007 “Insomnia Communication”, DO-gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2008 “4x4x4x4”, “KvadraT” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2012 “Hidden City” (nominated in the best Media Object of Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award), Tkachi Creative Space, St. Petersburg, Russia

2012 II Krasnoyarsk International Festival of Media Art (the first prize for “Media Art” nomination), Krasnoyarsk, Russia

2013 “Changing Landscapes”, collateral event of 55th Venice biennale, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italia

2014 “The Other Capital. Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg Today”, The Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia2015 “Spamm of Virtualism”, New York, USA

2015 “The Noise of the City”, lampa studio/The Wrong, St. Petersburg/London

Olga Jitlina, born 1982 in Leningrad/St. Petersburg. She graduated from The University of Jewish Studies, from the Russian Academy of Art 2007. Finalist of the Henkel Prize 2012. Winner of CEE Young Artist’s Prize 2012.

October-December 2013 – Kulturkontact residency, Vienna, Austria

May 2013 – Platform Shtab in art-residency, Bihkek, Kyrgyzstan

05.10.12-05.11.12 – HIAP residency, Helsinki,Finland

Participant: Biennale of Young Art, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow; Amsterdam Biennale, St. Petersburg pavilion, screening at Kunsthalle, Tallin, exhibition hall, Narva, Estonia, Fabrika, Moscow Videoart Archive CYLAND, The Space of Quite, Krasnoye Znamya factory, St. Petersburg,Video Zahvat, Nepokorennie Open Studios, St. Petersburg.

The group was founded in 2007 by Semen Motolyanets and Dmitry Petuhov.

S. Motolyanets graduated from Saint-Petersburg State Art Academy A.L. Shtiglic, specialization «Monumental painting». D.Petuhov graduated from Saint-Petersburg Theatre Academy, specialization «Production designer».

Awards

2009 Nominee, All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition INNOVATION, «New Generation»

2011 Grant. The PRO ARTE Foundation. Installation in Museum of Hygiene

2012 Grant. Residence ART-Kommunalka, Kolomna, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Selected Exhibitions

2012 “Rejection”. Anna Nova Art Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2012 “State of things”. Residence ART-Kommunalka, Kolomna, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011 “Nordic Art Today”. Loft Project Etagi, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011 “Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum”. The PRO ARTE Foundation, Museum of Hygiene, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011 “Russian Povera”. Milan, Italy

2011 Media Night “Parents and Children”. The Anna Akhmatova Museum at The Fountain House, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011 “Housing Question”. Modernariat Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2010 The 1st Ural Indastrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. Performance “Workweek”. Special programm. Factory URALMASH. Yekaterinburg, Russia

2010 Installation “Amber room”. Museum “PERMM”. Perm, Russia

2010 “Gold fro People”. Samara Art-Center. Performance “Figure skating”. Samara, Russia

2010 Festival “Zhivaya PERM”. “Hydroponics” exhibition of Young Artists from Saint-Petersburg. Installation “Amder room”. Perm, Russia

2010 Installation “Happiness is the way between work and home”. The Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art “Erarta”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2010 Exhibition of Nominees for the  All-Russian Contemporary Visual Art Competition INNOVATION. Performance “Figure skating on the soap”. Moscow Exhibition Hall NCCA, Moscow, Russia

2010 “Penetration” V GALLERY. Object “Ablution”. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2010 “Chinese Pavillion”. Borey Gallery. Object “Olympic Gold”. Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2009 “HOME, SWEET HOME”. Exhibition Hall. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2009 “Gold for people”. Russian Pavillion in International Biennale “Dialogues”. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2009 “Museum Project”. LUDA Gallery. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2008 Performance “Sopa Monument”. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2008 “Eluding Russian Literature. Soap Pieces”. Gallery”10 x 15″, Saint-Petersburg, Russia