The Red Wedge Splintering 19.09. – 24.09.2023 Artist: Natalia Smolianskaia Elektrozavod Gallery http://elektrozavod.org/ 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.
Artist, curator and philosopher of art specializing in the problems of institutional critique, the role of the avant-garde in the era of “surpassing art”, and the issues of the actualization of art in modern life. AICA member, PhD in Philosophy from Paris 8, member of the Union of Artists, painting section (1989), laureate of the …
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 …
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 …