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Kirill Savchenkov

Kirill Savchenkov (b. 1987, Moscow, Russia) – artist, works in photography, video,
objects, texts, installation, and performance. He explores the notion of memory, how
environment influences experience and human psychology, the relationship between
social space and construction of identity and knowledge in marginal communities and
subcultures. In 2012 graduated from the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography
and Multimedia. Lives and works in Moscow. Selected group exhibitions: Toward the
Source (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017), Expanding Space.
Artistic Practices in the Urban Environment (V-A- C Foundation, GES-2, Moscow, 2015),
Metageography (State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow, 2015), Manifesta 10 parallel program
(Russia, 2014), Uninvented-Photo (Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, 2011). Selected
solo exhibitions: Museum of Skateboarding (Calvert 22, London, UK, 2016), Avalanche
(FotoDepartamnet, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2014), The Frenzied Urge to Struggle (with
Sasha Kurmaz) (Paperworks gallery, Moscow, 2012). In 2011 was awarded the Silver
camera Grand Prize in the nomination Architecture (Moscow, Russia).

Curator of the Main Project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. Deputy Director and Senior Curator of the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto.

Alisa Prudnikova

Director of regional development of ROSIZO-NCCA (National Centre of Contemporary Arts), Commissioner and Artistic director, the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art.

Head of educational program of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Head of Research and Education at the Ural branch of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO

Curator of performance platform of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Curator of interdisciplinary projects of the Ural branch of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO.

Curator of educational projects of the Ural branch of the State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSIZO and of the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art

Curator of the artist-in-residence program and Manager of international partnerships of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Curator of the permanent biennial residence in the city of Satka.

Dmitrii Bezouglov

Curator of Intellectual platform of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art

Vladimir Seleznev

Curator of the special project Worldbuilding in Nizhny Tagil, Curator of artistic projects of the Ural branch of ROSIZO-NCCA.

Art group 18 Apples

They rethink the latest scientific achievements from the point of science art.

Evgeny Granilshchikov

Evgeny Granilshchikov – artist and filmmaker, works in different media including video-art, photography, installation, sound; makes independent experimental movies.

Art-group ZhKP was founded in 2012 by young artists: Anna Cherepanova, Angelina Kotova, Alexey bubb Tokmakov, Alexander Batalov, Arina Voronina, Vitaly Cherepanov, Ksenia Koshurnikova, Maria Belova, Vladimir Dobrov, Yulia Klimovskikh.

ZIP Group was created in 2009 in Krasnodar, Russia, by artists: Eldar Ganeev, Evgeny Rimkevich, Stepan Subbotin and Vasily Subbotin – founders of the Krasnodar Institute of Contemporary Art (KICA).

Yonamine — artist, works with painting, drawing, graffiti, photography, video, and other media, such as tattooing. Lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal, and Luanda, Angola.

Lyudmila Kalinichenko

Lyudmila Kalinichenko – artist, works in photography. Lives and works in Ekaterinburg.

Alexey Kallima — artist. In 1988 graduated from the University of Krasnodar. Lives and works in Moscow.

Hugo Canoilas — artist. Lives and works in Vienna, Austria.

Taisia Korotkova

Taisia Korotkova – artist. Lives and works in Moscow.

Petra Cortright

Petra Cortright – artist, works in video, painting and digital media. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

Olya Kroytor — artist. Lives and works in Moscow.

Art group Where Dogs Run

Art group Where Dogs Run was formed in 2000 in Ekaterinburg. Group members include Alexey Korzukhin, Vladislav Bulatov, Natalia Grekhova, Olga Inozemtseva.

Christina Kubisch

Christina Kubisch — composer and sound artist. Composes electronic and acoustic music. Works with sound installations, and sound sculptures, with ultraviolet light and performance. Lives and works in Hoppegarten, Germany.

Urban Fauna Laboratory

Urban Fauna Laboratory was formed by artists Alexey Buldakov and Anastasia Potemkina in 2011 in Moscow, Russia, as a multidisciplinary platform for exploration of symbiotic relationships and their associated adaptations in the urban environment.

Salomé Lamas – filmmaker. Selected filmography: Coup de Grâce (2017), Eldorado XXI (2016), The Tower (2015), No Man’s Land (2012).

Taus Makhacheva

Taus Makhacheva — artist. Lives and works in Moscow.

Aleksandr Medvedkin

Aleksandr Medvedkin — a Soviet Russian film director and screenwriter. He developed his unique cinematic style blending avant-garde technique, political satire, and Stalinist propaganda drawing inspiration from Russian folklore and the American silent comedies.

The Medvedkin Group

The Medvedkin Group was formed in 1967 in Besançon (France) by a group of workers the Rhodiaceta textile factory and French filmmakers, Chris Marker and Jean-Luc Godard, among others. The group was named in the honor of the Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin.

Melvin Moti — artist. Lives and works in Rotterdam.

Alexander Obrazumov

Alexander Obrazumov — artist, works with installations, sculpture, objects. Lives and works in Moscow.

Pavel Otdelnov — artist, works in painting. Lives and works in Moscow.

Alexandra Paperno

Alexandra Paperno — artist, works in painting, screen- printing, graphics, installation. Lives and works in Moscow.

Sasha Pirogova — artist, works with performance and video. Lives and works in Moscow.

Sergey Poteryaev

Sergey Poteryaev – photographer, curator. Lives and works in Ekaterinburg.

Julien Prévieux

Julien Prévieux — artist. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Kirill Preobrazhensky

Kirill Preobrazhensky — artist, curator. Professor at The Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (Department of Video Art). Lives and works in Moscow.

Babi Badalov – artist, works with visual poetry, art objects, installations and live performances. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Mika Rottenberg

Mika Rottenberg – artist, works with video and installation. Lives and works in New York, USA.

Moises Saman — documentary photographer, member of Magnum Photos. Lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. Saman is best known for his photographs from the wars in Iraq: the Gulf War (1990-1991), the Iraq War (2003-2011), and the Iraqi Civil War (2014-2016).

Slavs and Tatars

Slavs and Tatars – an international collective of artists, designers, and writers, founded in 2005 and devoted to an area east of the former Berlin Wall and west of the Great Wall of China known as Eurasia.

Pilvi Takala — artist. Lives and works in Berlin (Germany) and Helsinki.

Fyodor Telkov – photographer. Lives and works in Ekaterinburg.

Tipatzeha project

Tipatzeha project was founded in 2014 in Moscow, Russia, by four students of the British Higher School of Art & Design (BA Illustration): Kristina Kolesnikova, Sveta Mullari, Nina Stadnik and Lena Chetvernik.

Tromarama – artist collective, formed in 2006 in Bandung, Indonesia. Participants: Febie Babyrose, Herbert Hans Maruli A., Ruddy Hatumena . The collective experiments with digital imaging technology and is best known for their animations.

Antonina Baever

Antonina Baever — artist, works with video and photography. Works and lives in Moscow.

Harun Farocki (1944, Novy Jičín, Czech Republic – 2014, Berlin, Germany) – film director, screenwriter and media artist. He made over 90 films, the vast majority of them short experimental documentaries.

Carla Filipe – artist. Although Filipe works directly with space, her most familiar terrain is drawing which she mixes together with writing. Lives and works in Porto, Portugal.

Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn — artist, works with installation. Lives and works in Paris, France.

Shirota i Dolgota project

Shirota i Dolgota project was formed in 2015 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Participants: Yulia Kurmangalina, Natalia Petukhova, Emil Khafizov, Sasha Kulak. The project aims at search and support of unprofessional artists: outcasts, people with psychiatric and mental disorders.

Alexey Shchigalev

Alexey Shchigalev – street artist, lives and works in Perm, Russia.

Susan Schuppli — artist-researcher and writer. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies & Research Architecture (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2009) and is Senior Lecturer and Deputy Director of the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her projects she uses media artifacts – photographs, film, video, and audio transmissions – for examining material evidence from war and conflict to environmental disasters. Lives and works in London, UK.

Cécile B. Evans

Cécile B. Evans – artist. Lives and works in London (UK) and Berlin (Germany).

Alexander Bazhenov

Alexander Bazhenov – artist, works in painting and graphics.

Doug Ashford — teacher, artist and writer. He is Associate Professor at The Cooper Union (New York). Lives and works in New York, US.

Anna-Sophie Berger

Anna-Sophie Berger — artist. Studied fashion design and transmedia art at the University of Applied Arts (Vienna). Lives and works in Vienna and New York, US.

Éric Baudelaire

Éric Baudelaire — artist, filmmaker. In 1994 graduated from Brown University (USA). Lives and works in Paris, France.

Alexander Veryovkin

Alexander Veryovkin — photographer. Lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme — artists, live and work between Ramallah, Palestine, and New York, USA. Work together across a range of media like sound, image, text, multimedia installations and performance practices.

Lumière Brothers

Lumière Brothers: Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean were among the first filmmakers. They patented an improved cinematograph, which allowed simultaneous viewing by multiple parties.

Jenny Holzer – conceptualist artist, works with text and light installations. Lives and works in New York, USA.

Yvonne Rainer — dancer, choreographer, and filmmaker. Lives and works in New York, USA. Her work has been foundational across multiple disciplines and movements: dance, cinema, feminism, minimalism, conceptual art, and postmodernism.

Kurt Schwitters

Kurt Schwitters — German artist. Schwitters worked in several genres and media, including Dadaism, Constructivism, Surrealism, poetry, sound, painting, sculpture, graphic design, typography, and installation art.

Oraib Toukan and Ala Younis

Oraib Toukan and Ala Younis. Oraib Toukan works in photography, video, and installation, often bringing public interventions into her practice. Ala Younis is a research-based artist and curator. Lives and works in Amman (Jordan). Produces installations, video and publishing projects.

Otto Neurath — philosopher, sociologist, political economist, one of the founders and leading figures of the Vienna Circle.

Pedro Neves Marques

Pedro Neves Marques – visual artist and writer. In 2010 received MA in Art and Politics at Goldsmiths, University of London (UK), in 2007 graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon.

Aperto project was founded in 2015 in St. Petersburg, Russia, by a young Russian curator Elena Yushina. The Project consists of research platform, institutional library, reading rooms in St. Petersburg and Berlin, video journal and an international cultural newspaper in Russian and in English.

Robert Morris — sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. Lives and works in New York, US.

Forensic Oceanography

Working together since 2011, Charles Heller and Lorenzo Pezzani co-founded the WatchTheMed Platform and have been working on Forensic Oceanography, a project that critically investigates the militarized border regime and the politics of migration in the Mediterranean Sea. Their collaborative work has been exhibited internationally and has been published in several edited volumes as well as in the journals Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies, and in the Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales.

Rudy Decelière

Rudy Decelière – sound artist. Rudy Decelière explores the capabilities of sound through installations, working both indoors and in open space.

Florian Graf studies the relationship between man and architecture and psychological and emotional influence that architecture has on us.

Hannaleena Heiska

Hannaleena Heiska is striving to achieve brushwork that looks effortless and easy, which in turn gives the feeling of fleeting moment to the spectator. In her latest works, Hannaleena is using charcoal as the main material.

Hector Zamora works mostly with objects and spaces of public use and gives new definitions to their usual physical characteristics.

Tanya Akhmetgaliyeva

Tanya Akhmetgaliyeva works with textile in an original technique, particularly by combining different media (graphics, video, installation). Her central theme is variety of everydayness.

Zhenya Machneva

Zhenya Machneva documents industrial images in her works by exploring the meeting points of traditional art and technological progress.

Artist and animator Nina Bisyarina works in classic drawing style. As part of the Artist-in- Residence program of the Ural Biennial, Nina Bisyarina works in an unusual genre for her, complementing an animated film with a total installation built on her childhood memories (as is all her work).

Sergey Kasich – Sound artist, musician, performer.

Viktor Murzikov

From 2004 started filming his own, micro-budget films with friends, family, and classmates.

The Demolition Project

The Demolition Project is a collaboration between Russian artist Alisa Oleva and English writer/performer Debbie Kent, using the city as both material and studio.

Katya Sivers – artist, designer, researcher.

GRAD is a cultural platform that brings new insights and international perspectives into Russian and Eastern European art, design and culture. Our purpose is to share specialist knowledge in ways that capture the imagination, inspire creativity and spark new ideas.

Curator of projects related to experimental music, sound art, cinema and fashion.

Evgeny Gavrilov

Evgeny Gavrilov, one of the founders of the music community and the label Ekhotourist, created in Novosibirsk in 2010.

From 1990 to 2015 has organized and curated more than 200 exhibitions of fine art in museums and galleries in Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Leningrad region, Poland, Germany.

He graduated from Obninsk Polytechnic School and from Moscow State University of Design and Technology. Lives and works in Kaluga.

He graduated from Samara Art College and studied at Samara Pedagogical University. Participated in numerous video art festivals in Russia, Ukraine, and Italy.

Graduated from the Department of Monumental Painting of the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. A graduate of the Young Artist School of the Pro-Arte fund for culture and art, 2013. Since 2012 she is a member of Parasite group.

In 2010, she graduated from Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering with a degree in environmental design. Participant of numerous group exhibitions.

Lera Lerner — artist. Graduated from the School of the Young Artist of the Pro Arte Foundation for Culture and Arts.

Elizaveta Yuzhakova

Assistant to Commissioner and Head of Publications of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art