As an artist, curator, and art philosopher, Natalia Smolianskaia explores issues related to collaborative practices and the pedagogical turn in contemporary art, institutional critique, the role of the avant-garde in the era of “overcoming of art,” and how to actualize art in contemporary life. Member of the International Association of Art Criticism (AICA), Candidate of
The work with space began with the construction on the canvas, continued with the intention of painting to go into the volume, beyond the canvas, and through the saturated objects of artistic “trash” arrived at the reduction of the objects to the “frame”. It continues in exhibition projects that combine different media and elements.
1.02.2025 16.00 – 21.00 GES- 2, room Э11 Let’s Draw –Let’s Live Presentation of the results of the Event Laboratory in Belyaevo and Konkovo Photo after the final performance 21/09 2024 ©Georgy Kiesewalter The title of the research project “Let’s Draw – Let’s Live” refers to the popular Soviet-era idea of creating a common home
The Red Wedge Splintering 19.09. – 24.09.2023 Artist: Natalia Smolianskaia Elektrozavod Gallery Malaya Gruzinskaya, 54 This exhibition is a reflection of the transformation of the symbol at present. The 2023 installation refers to the artist’s search during her collaboration with the Polygon Group and is a manifesto of her creative and civic position.
Diary of a Moscow Schoolgirl Fri 10 Feb to Sun 19 Mar Artist: Natalia Smolianskaia Curator: Dima Filippov Ruarts Gallery 1st Zachatievskiy per., 10, Moscow Tue-Sun 12am-8pm Ruarts presents a solo exhibition by Natalia Smolyanskaia – a memory card based on the diaries of a Moscow schoolgirl, the artist’s mother. Although the starting point for
Kronstadt, a military city and port that remained closed to visitors for a long time, keeps revolutionary history in its memory. In July 1917, the first Soviet Republic was born here. In 1921, there was also an uprising that was crushed by the Soviet government. The project was born out of the desire to walk
The exhibition “Frame Break” at Ruarts Gallery in Moscow (05.25 – 07.02.2011) is a complex project that was first developed as a scenography for a performance. The project includes both the theme of movement and change of theme, since the works presented at the exhibition are capable of transformation and play with the viewer. The
Avant-garde is both a conceptual term indicating what criteria a person chooses for his positioning in society, and an artistic reference point. In both cases, we are talking about a radical rethinking of one’s place in society and in art in the context of criticizing conformism and overcoming the rigidity of social and artistic frameworks
Usually, ideas and projects appear first on paper. Paper is the lightest, simultaneously plastic material; it is both a basis for the text and a structure that allows you to design and create new projects right on the table, without waiting for a distant embodiment in a more solid form. Object from the Adventures of the
The Polygon group was formed in 1990 by artists Boris Markovnikov and Natalia Smolianskaia. All projects of the group were implemented with the “playing” curator Igor Chirikov. In the conceptual program of the group, one can observe both a rejection of technocratic society inherent in the counterculture, as well as a critical approach to the