MY FIRST INTERVIEW IN ENGLISH

Check out my interview at the Dazed online project SatelliteVoices.com!!! :)

ANDY WARHOL'S INTERVIEW IN RUSSIA

Mass media news - Andy Warhol's Interview magazine has been launched in Russia! Here is the cover of the 1st issue December 2011 - Janyary 2012. Editor-in-chief is Aliona Doletskaya, who had made Russian Vogue for 12 years. NB: editor in large - Naomi Campbell!

PHOTOS FROM MARTINI PARTY

Here is the link to the photo report from our Martini Art Club party made by the best Russian society column Mainpeople.ru! It was hot :)) Just skip the Russian text and go to the gallery.

JUST DREAM IT

And here is the second artwork that I made for Martini Art Club and that was also awarded!

Concept: The Old Testament sais: "Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways" (The Book Of Job, 22:28). Today the theories of the future visualization have become so popular that books on this topic are published with the millions of copies. "Just dream it" project is an experiment that is aimed to check that law on practice. The project is based on a double substitution - the artist has invented a script of his future and represents it as something that had already happened in reality. Thus the artwork consists of the documents proving the events as if they have already happened.

In the process of work on the project I decided to make it a bit more complicated and have added some proofs of the events that were not made up by me but actually happened in reality. All those event used to be my dreams before, and one day just came true one by one. I wanted to emphasize that the border between a dream and reality is very unstable and you never know what dream of yours will become true tomorrow.

Unfortunately the artwork is made in Russian, that's why I won't publish here all proofs, just shortly list them:

1. Page from ArtReview with my Singapore shooting (fake)

2. Article about my brilliant participation at Armory Show (fake)

3. My face on the cover of Artchronika magazine (fake)

4. E-mail from Martini that I was shortlisted for the final exhibition of Martini Art Club project (true)

5. Invitation to my personal exhibition at Hauser&Wirth Gallery (fake)

6. Article about my photos in Esquire Russia (fake)

7. Article about me in one of the most popular Moscow magazines Bolshoy Gorod (true)

8. E-mail that I've passes the exam and was accepted as a student to the Moscow Institute for contemporary art (true)

9. Photo of Sofia Coppola in her bedroom with my artwork on the wall (who knows :)

10. E-mail from the editor-in-chief of Andy Warhol's Interview Russia asking me for the interview (was ment to be a fake, but after the exhibition they wrote about me in their blog :)

11. My interviw at Hooligan magazine (Russian version of Dazed, true)

12. Photo of my phone with 15 missed calles from Olga Sviblova, Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow director (fake)

13. Photo with me and Spencer Tunick working together for his Moscow Individuals project (true)

14. Post-it from the director of Moscow Museum of Modern Art Vasiliy Tseretelli, who offers to make my personal exhibition and asks me to call him back (fake)

15. Printscreen of a facebook page of one of the most influentional Russian art-critic Ekaterina Degot who sais she is very fond of my art (fake)

16. Comics with Charles Saatchi who's bubble sais "I want Nika's new artwork for my collection' (fake)

17. A diploma that i was awarded the main prize of Martini Art Club (was ment to be a fake but suddenly came true on the first day of exhibition :)

18. My name in the list of finalists of the Future Generation Art Prize (fake)

19. Photo with me holding the Kandinsky prize 2012 as the best young artist (fake)

20. Photo of me standing near my artwork that is exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (true)

And also some other photos from my real exhibitions and pictures with my artworks.

UPD: the work has won the main prize of Martini Art Club project and was also longlisted for the Kuryokhin Prize 2011.

MARTINI ART CLUB WINNER

I've won Martini Art Club project and my prize is an educational course at St.Martins Collage of Art and Design in London!!!!! Will be there next april))

I AM ARTIST

In psychiatry dual personality is a particular case of dissociative identity disorder – diagnosis that describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment. The artwork “I am artist” is an attempt to reveal the symptoms of dual personality of the artist who is in the process of his creative self-identification. Contemporary society, which is aimed only for consumption, doesnt leave any space for activities, that doesnt lead to material wealth. Often they are being removed beyond the standards. While the majority of people run for prestigious positions, expensive cars and brand clothes, the irresistable desire of the artist to do art and his deliberate renunciation of exchanging private time for salary seem to be not normal and leads to hesitations about the correctness of the chosen path. In case the artists doesn’t have strong will power under the pressure of society he often shows conformism, rejecting his natural passion for art in favour of more “normal” types of activities. As a result the diagnosis that firstly was only metaphoric threatens to become reality.

The artwork consists of 3 diptychs, each of 70 x 100 cm size (acryl on canvas).

Left: I phisically can't sit in the office and obey orders

Right: I am artists and I am my own master

Left: Noone believes in me and it means I will fail

Right: I am artists and I do believe in myself, that's enough

Left: What is they all are right and I really don't have any talent?

Right: I am artist and fuck them all

Project 'I am artist' was exhibited at Martini Art Weekend exhibition (November 2011) and has been awarded the 1st prize - educational trip to London St.Martin's Collage of Art and Design.

LATEST ARTWORKS

Acryl on canvas

100x70 cm

Acryl on canvas, sticky tape, marker

20x30 cm

It's written: "It is no a binomial theorem, it's a doppler effect"

@STUDIO

Little party at my art studio :)

On the photo my friend Kate

LAS DIPLOMAS

Today I got my diploma at Moscow Institute for Contemporary Art - I finally graduated it! Nice surprise - bonus credit for Valand School of Fine Arts! Hopefully I will use then soon in some European art school)

EASTERN EUROPE

Just came back from the trip through the Eastern Europe. I've been at Hungary, Poland and Czech Republic. Here are several highlights, the rest of the photos you can find here.