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2019    Saw U, Foundation of Smirnov and Sorokin, Moscow  

             Sightless Sack , pop/off/art gallery, Moscow 

2018    Feather, ART4, Moscow

            Splendor and sensibility, Nathalia Tsala gallery. Brussels. Belgium 

2017    Love for money,   book, (Teresa creative union) 

             INBOX: Aphrodite's Girdle,  (Teresa creative union), Mu HA. Antwerp, Belgium

             His silence is like lightning,  residency, Vyksa

             Molensteenkraag,  Light Cube Art Gallery, Ronse, Belgium

2016    Rafflesionism,  Marina Gisich Gallery, Spb
             Those who have a stomach,  pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow

             Am I not a human being like you?,  book, (Teresa creative union), Oslo


2015     Army Boots Crave Tenderness,  puppet show (Teresa creative union), Luda Gallery, SPb
             Exhibition of the nominees for INNOVATION  2014,  NCCA, Moscow
             Gertrude,  pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow


2014     Aphrodite’s Girdle,  puppet show (Teresa creative union) , Luda Gallery, SPb
 

Vika Begalska

 

Was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine.

Graduated State Academy for Design and Art in Kharkov

Lives and works in Moscow

 

Projects

2014 Founded Teresa Creative Union of sex-workers and artists, in partnership with Alexandr Vilkin and Diana Portlend, St. Petersburg

2013 Founded the FEMINIST KITCHEN an art platform integrating artistic and social projects aimed against social injustice and the subordinate role of the woman in the society, in partnership with Oksana Sarkisyan, Moscow

 

 

Solo exhibitions

2013 Podes and Antipodes, Janet Clayton Gallery, Sydney

Be Deadly, Alaska Project, Sydney

From Valia with Love, Vanishing Point, Contemporary Visual Art Space, Sydney

2012 Zigy. pop/off/art, Moscow

2011 Shame.Gridchinhal. Dmitrovskoe village, Moscow

2009 Luquid Sky. Parallel project in frames of the 3 Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art ПROEKT FAБRИKA, Moscow

Every Girl Has Her Own Paranoia. Arsenal Gallery, Kiev

2008 The Only Ones. Era Art Foundation, Moscow

2004 I would like to dig you. Guelman Gallery, Kiev

 

 

Group Exhibitions

2016 Mir, Trud, Maj. Ostend, Belgium

Trans- people. The state of insecurity. Eyrmilov Centre. Kharkov, Ukraine

2014 PAINTING EXPANSION, Moscow Museum, Moscow

2013 PUSSY RIOT AND THE RUSSIAN TRADITION OF ART REBELLION,Meet Factory, Internotional Center of Contemporary Art, Prague

2012 IN AN ABSOLUTE DISORDER. Russian Сontemporary Art. Kandinsky Prize (2007-2012), Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain

2011 Kandinsky Prize 2010, The Central House of Artist, Moscow

Free Spaces. Special Project in Frame of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2010 Parallel Films - Remakes, Sequels and Prequels of Cinema and TV Products. Кnoll Gallerie, Wien

2008 A(rt) R(ussia) T(oday) – Index. The Latvian National Art Museum, Riga

2007 Photoquai. World Visual Arts Biennale, Paris,

From Russia With Love. Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy

2006 Postorang. Kunsthalle Karlplatz, Vein, Austria.

Revolution. Transit Art Space, Stavanger, Norway

2005 Vooruit. Gent, Belgium

Brussia. Europalia 2005, Brussels, Belgium

And She Was. Transit Gallery, Mechelen, Belgium

2004 The Seven Sins. The Museum of Moderm Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Aleksander Vilkin

 

Was born in Snezhinsk, Russia.

Education

2003 Chelyabinsk Art College

2010 Northwestern Institute of Printing Arts, Saint-Petersburg

Since 2014 Student of “Base” Institute, Moscow

Projects

2014 Founding a creative art group of artists and sex-workers Teresa

in cooperation with Vika Begalska and Diana Portland, Saint-Petersburg

 

2006 Founding an art-group Prosthesis in cooperation with Mezheritskiy and Ushenko, Saint-Petersburg

Participation in the creative alliance “Parasite”, Saint-Petersburg

 

Solo exhibitions

2015 — "Pilgrim". Red Centre, Moscow.

2014 — "Fridge". Book Graphics Library, St. Petersburg.

2013 — "Extended-day group for a deer". Graphic Art Hall, Manege, St. Petersburg.

"Zoochurch". Be in Art, Moscow.

"ZooWar". Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary art (KICA)

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2012 — "Double surprise". Ruskomplekt, St. Petersburg.

Group Exhibitions

2016 — "Mir, Trud, Maj ". Ostend, Belgium.

"Trans- people. The state of insecurity ". Eyrmilov Centre. Kharkov.

2015 — "Ura, Sculpture! ". Winzavod, Moscow.

"Artist for city. City for artist ". Moscow City Museum.

"To do medium ". Moscow City Museum.

COSMOSCOW. Stand of the Foundation of Smirnov and Sorokin, Moscow.

2014 — "Naivizm ". Wolfsen Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark.

Final Exhibition. The Foundations of Smirnov and Sorokin, Moscow.

"Russian Summer ". Street-Art Project in cooperation with Denis Serenko, Berlin.

Some actions and exhibitions during the time in the art-group Prosthetics:

2009 — "Russian as Fuck ". Painting on Street Posters, St. Petersburg.

"Echo From a Toilet ", Perm.

"Pornholocaust ". Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

2008 — "Nine names of Russia ". Zverev's Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

2007 — "Presents for Suckers and Impotents ". Action. Borey Art Gallery, St. Petersburg.

"Life is Shit ". Workshops of Maly Drama Theathre, St. Petersburg.

"Petrov's SEX-orders ". ASA-art Gallery, St. Petersburg.

2006 – 2004 — "We Came to Stuff our Faces ". Series of Actions, St. Petersburg.

2006 — "The Customs Confiscated Goods Sale ". Action. Palace Aquare, St. Petersburg.

"I Don't Know Kung Fu, Motherfucker ". Borey Art Gallery, St. Petersburg.

"Snout Ungrade ". Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg.

 

Fairs:

2017  Art Vienna (pop/off/art gallery)

2017  Art Miami (Marina Gisich Gallery)

2018  Art Vienna (pop/off/art gallery)

2019  Cosmoscow (pop/off/art gallery)

Residences:

ROST AIR, Lofoten, Norway.

The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin

Zarya, Vladivostok

Olympic Park, Sydney

Collections: MUKHA, Antwerp, Belgium;  NCCA, Moscow;  MMOMA, Moscow; Tretyakov gallery, Moscow; Foundation of Smirnov and Sorokin; Zarya, Vladivostok

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