Natalia Smolianskaia / Smolyanskaya

Member of the International Association of Art Criticism (AICA), Candidate of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, Member of the Union of Artists, Painting Section (1989), Winner of the Innovation Award (Curator of the Year, 2020), Fellow of the House of Human Sciences in Paris (2018), in 2007-2013 she directed the research program and held two seminars at the International Philosophical College in Paris.

Organizer of the group of the same name and participant in the complex collaborative project “Enter and Permit”. Co-curator of the museum exhibition and the program “Enter and Permit” at the CCI Fabrika/Moscow.
https://fabrikacci.com/spaces/public/muzej-vojti-i-razreshit1.html

Co-organizer of the project and head of the research seminar of the project “Place of Art. Together with the participants of the project she publishes the magazine “Place of Art”/ https://placeofart.ru/.

She is interested in the problems of contemporary dance performance. Together with the group “Blind” she created the performances “Sister” and “Crossroads” in 1996-1998 and 2002 (conceptual development and scenography), together with the French-Brazilian dancer Barbara Eliask – the performance “Doll”, 2009. As part of the cooperation between the International College of Philosophy and the National Center for Contemporary Dance in Paris, she gave a lecture “Dance and Philosophy” (2006). She works in installation, video, photography and photo objects, author’s book, painting and drawing.

Regular exhibitor since 1982. Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in 1981, Department of Art and Graphics.

In 1990-1996 – one of the organizers and participants in all the exhibitions of the Polygon Group. Co-curator of the exhibition project of the Polygon Group “Transformers” in four cultural centers of Belgium (1995-1996). Participant in international, museum and Russian exhibitions.

Her works are in the collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Vologda Picture Gallery, the Ruarts Foundation, the House of Abstract Painting Kollerarthouse, as well as in private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Denmark, France, Belgium, Holland, USA, Austria.

Main Art Exhibitions

Polygon Group’s Exhibitions

Curatorial Projects

Enter and Permit Project

2014 – start of work of the project, creation of the curatorial group of the project, joint work on the project

2015 – the first presentation of the project

2016 – opening of the museum “Enter and Permit”, CCI Fabrika

Performances

2019 – Curator, Scores for a meeting, with Anna Kravchenko, GARAGE studios, Moscow;

2018 – Author’s performance within the frame of the project This is a very weird place, 7^th International Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art, Special project (head of an educational project), Moscow;

2009 – Concept and scenography, La poupée (dancer Barabara Eliask), Brazil – France;

2003 – Concept and scenography, Crossroads, with the group Blinds, video Cyril Cheluchkin, composer Kuzma Markovnikov, Sam Brook Gallery, Moscow;

1997 – 2003– Concept and scenography, Sister, with the group The Blind – Anna Kouznetsova, Alexander Margorin. Boris Markovnikov’s Studio, Phoenix Gallery, Cultural Center “Home”, Sam Brook Gallery, Moscow.

Main publications

2024 Наталья Смолянская Комментарий в кадре и за кадром: когда отношения становятся формой / Художественный журнал № 125, с.55-67;

2022 Natalia Smolianskaia, Russian Avant-Garde in the Optics of the Horizontal History of Art / Horizontal Art History and Beyond. Revisiting Peripheral Critical Practices, edited by A.Jakubowska and M. Radomska, Routledge, London, P. 73-85;

2022 Natalia Smolianskaia, Race against time: searching for a meeting or getting away from art in a museum? Place of Art Journal № 3, P. 8-30 https://placeofart.ru/issue-3-article-3;

2022 Наталья Смолянская, Горизонты музея: inside и outside, SPECTATE, https://spectate.ru/institutional-critique/

2021 Grigori Smolianski, Natalia Smolianskaia, Les Condamnés. Destin d’un révolutionnaire, Paris, Syllepse (296 P.) ;

2021 Наталья Смолянская, Искусство и революция / Прямухинские чтения,

Москва, P. 32-55

2020 Natalia Smolianskaia, Look and show: such different histories of art viewed through the lens of critical geography, Place of Art Journal № 2, P. 10-19;

2019 Natalia Smolianskaia, Avant-Garde and Modernity: Kazimir Malevich Between the Scylla and Charybdis of Geopolitis / To Whom Does the Avant-Garde Belong? Malevich Project, edited by Co-operative for creative research Krasnaya shpana., P. 58-65;

2019 Наталья Смолянская, Нулевой уровень тела / Художественный журнал № 108, P. 94-103;

2019 Natalia Smolianskaia, Jetez-vous en l’air. Exposer GUTAI, Hypothèses. La relation critique en France. 1944 – 1964, https://relarts.hypotheses.org/files/2021/07/Jetez-vous-en-lair.-Exposer-Gutai-1.pdf

2018 Natalia Smolianskaia, La réception de 1917 et 1968 chez les jeunes Russes aujourd’hui / Mobilisations étudiantes dans le monde : les années 68. Matériaux pour l’histoire de notre temps 2018/1-2 (127-128), P.72-79 ;

2017 Наталья Смолянская, Эстетика после искусства: куратор как оператор / Художественный журнал № 101, P. 75-83;

2017 Natalia Smolianskaia, La Sdvigologiia de Kazimir Malevitch en tant que projet épistémologique et artistique / Kandinsky, Malévitch, Filonov et la philosophie. Les systèmes de l’abstraction dans l’avant-garde russe, éd. Cécile Defaut, P.155-169 ;

2017 Natalia Smolianskaia, Quête d’espace et investigations graphiques dans les avant-gardes russes (Solomon Nikritin, Kazimir Malévitch) / Avant-gardes russes : suprématisme, art nonobjectif, constructivisme, conceptualisme, LIGEIA, dossiers sur l’art, № 157-160, P. 40-55 ;

2016 Exhibition Catalogue of Eduard Steinberg, editor (108 P.), ММОМА, Moscow;

2016 Наталья Смолянская, Если в колодце живет вода…/ каталог выставки Э. Штейнберга (статья), ММОМА, P. 10 – 168;

2016 Наталья Смолянская, Воссоздание памяти: тема времени в современном искусстве / журнал «Лехаим», 20 мая 2016;

2016 Наталья Смолянская, Зачем снова говорить об авангарде? / Вестник РГГУ 1(3), P.63-72;

2015 Natalia Smolyanskaya, Polygon / Sustainable art – facing the need for regeneration, responsibility and relations, Institute of Art History, University of Wroclaw; Conferences and Studies
of the Polish Institute of World Art Studies; Vol. XIV, Polish Institute of World Art Studies & Tako Publishing House Warsaw–Toruń 2015, P. 121-134

2015 Наталья Смолянская, Черный квадрат Малевича как эпистемологический проект искусства / Проекции авангарда, P. 142-145;

2015 Наталья Смолянская, Проекты и проекции/ Проекции авангарда, P. 238-241;

2015 Наталья Смолянская, Конструирование ситуаций: 1968 / Диалог искусств № 5, P. 98-99;

2014 Natalia Smolianskaia, editor, Rue Descartes № 80 : (re)penser les langages de l’art http://www.ruedescartes.org/numero_revue/2014-1-re-penser-les-langages-de-l-art/ (129 P.;

2014 Natalia Smolianskaia, L’art en fabrication / Rue Descartes № 80 : (re)penser les langages de l’art, P. 20-37 ;

2014 Natalia Smolianskaia, Penser l’art : pour changer de sujet / Rue Descartes № 80 : (re)penser les langages de l’art, P.1 – 3 ;

2014 Natalia Smolianskaia, interview with Christian Lebrat: Apprendre patiemment à subvertir le matériau / Rue Descartes № 80 : (re)penser les langages de l’art, P. 81 – 88;

2014 Natalia Smolianskaia, interview with Anne-Sarah Le Meur: Temporalité abstraite / Rue Descartes № 80 : (re)penser les langages de l’art, P. 89;

2014 Natalia Smolyanskaya, Le Temps des avant-gardes : l’histoire de l’art à l’âge de sa mondialisation / Critique d’Art № 41, Actualité internationale de la littérature critique sur l’art contemporain / The International Review of Contemporary Art Criticism ;

2013 Н. Смолянская, Авангард. Проблема именования / Философский журнал ИФРАН, № 1 (10), P.97-111;

2012 Н. Смолянская, Между эротическим и жутким: куклы Синди Шерман / Артикульт № 6, 2012 (4);

2010 Natalia Smolianskaia, Teorie della « Sdvig» (dello « spostamento») / Kasimir Maletvitch, nei formalisti e nei cubo-futuristi russi / Avanguardia , a.15, n.44, autunno 2010,  P. 75-90;

2010 Natalia Smolianskaia,Jean-Pierre Cometti, editors : Avant-gardes. Retours et détours, № 69 Rue Descartes (128 P.); 

2010 Natalia Smolianskaia, J.-P. Cometti, Horizons / Avant-gardes. Retours et détours, № 69 de Rue Descartes, P .2;

2010 Natalia Smolianskaia, La crise du cadre et la (re)constitution des cadres de la vie dans le champ artistique. (Projets et projections) / Avant-gardes. Retours et détours , № 69 de Rue Descartes, P.24 – 31 ;

2010 Natalia Smolianskaia, interview with Daniel Buren : Inventer un autre terme ? /  Avant-gardes. Retours et détours, № 69 de Rue Descartes,  P. 68 – 75;

2010 Natalia Smolianskaia, interview with Arséniy Zhilyaév : La machine de l’échec / Avant-gardes. Retours et détours, № 69 de Rue Descartes, P. 76 – 84;

2009 Н. Смолянская, Распыление « Черного квадрата» как феномен «возвращения» в культуре ХХ века /сборник трудов Русской Антропологической школы, РГГУ, Москва, 2009, P.93-118;

2009 Н. Смолянская, Возвышенное в интерпретациях искусства постмодерна: концепция Ж.-Ф. Лиотара для выставки «Нематериальное» / «Философский журнал» ИФРАН, 1(2), 2009, с. 127-141.