Biografia & CV

BIOGRAFIA

Arseny Zhilyaev (nato nel 1984, Voronezh, URSS) è un artista con sede a Venezia. Indaga le possibili storie future dell’arte, utilizzando il museo come mezzo. I progetti dell’artista sono stati esposti alla Manifesta 13 di Marsiglia, alle Biennali di Shanghai, Gwangju, Liverpool, Lione, Riga, Salonicco e Triennale di Lubiana, nonché alle mostre al Centre Pompidou, Palais de Tokyo (Parigi); de Appel (Amsterdam); HKW (Berlino); Fondazione Kadist Art (Parigi e San Francisco); GAM (Torino), MAMbo (Bologna). Zhilyaev si è laureato all’Università statale di Voronezh (2006); Istituto d’Arte Contemporanea di Mosca (2008); e MA International Program, Valand School of Fine Arts, Göteborg, Svezia (2010). L’artista è professore ospite alla NABA (Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti) di Milano. Ha tenuto conferenze e masterclass al MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Bard Graduate Center, CUNY (New York); Tate Modern, Whitechapel (Londra); Università di Princeton (New Jersey). Zhilyaev è cofondatore dell’Istituto del Cosmo (insieme ad Anton Vidokle), dell’Istituto per la Padronanza del Tempo (insieme ad Asya Volodina) e del Museo dei Musei, Venezia. È editore di un’antologia Avant-Garde Museology (e-flux, University of Minnesota Press, V-a-c Press, 2015) e pubblica articoli su e-flux e su Mosca Art Magazine. Le opere di Zhilyaev sono nelle collezioni della Tate Modern (Londra); M HKA, Museo (Anversa); Fondazione Kadist Art (Parigi, San Francisco); MSU (Zagabria).

data di nascita: 26.06.1984 (Voronezh, USSR)

Vive a  Venezia


 

FORMAZIONE

 

2008-2010 Valand School of Fine Arts MA International Programs, Gothenburg, SW

2006-2007 The Institute of Problems of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU

2001-2006 Voronezh State University, RU


 

PREMI

 

Arseny Zhilyaev is the winner of the "Innovation VI" Russian state award in the sphere of contemporary art, the special prize of Stella Art Foundation in 2010, the Russian award "Soratnik 2010" and "Soratnik 2012" ("Companion-in-Arms"). The artist was nominated for the international Visible Award 2013. In 2013-2014 he got a scholarship within the program of Contemporary Art Museum “Garage” (Moscow) to support young Russian artists. Zhilyaev was a resident at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris and San Francisco, 2013-2014) and Headlands Center for the Arts (San Francisco, 2016).


 

MOSTRE PERSONALI

 

2023

In the Days of War, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, CR

 

2022

654395 Is Not Enough, Cripta747, Turin, IT

 

2021

The Monotony of the Pattern Recognition, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, RU

P.A.T.H. 2 (as a part of the Institute for Mastering of Time),  Foco, Lisbon, PT

P.A.T.H. 1 (as a part of the Institute for Mastering of Time),  Goyki 3 Art Inkubator, Sopot, PL

 

2020

An Experiment Is Not About Creating Novelty, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan, IT

 

2017

The Return, CCA Winzavod, Moscow, RU

Moscow Diaries (as a part of CEM), Moscow Museum of Modern Art, V-a-c Foundation, Moscow, RU

 

2016

Italian Strike, Imaginary Future, San Francisco, USA

Tsiolkovsky. Second Advents, New Holland, Saint Petersburg, RU

 

2015

M.I.R.: Una Matta, Matta, Matta Corsa, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan, IT

Cradle of Humankind-3, Kunstverein, Leipzig, DE

Future Histories (with Mark Dion), Casa dei Tre Oci, V-a-c Foundation, Venice, IT

 

2014

R.C.C. Y.H.V. Memorial Exhibition, VCCA, Voronezh, RU

Yerevan Museum of Future History (in collaboration with collective of the project), Art-Laboratory, Yerevan, AM

M.I.R.: Polite Guests from the Future, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, USA

M.I.R.: New Paths to the Objects, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, FR

 

2013

Save the Light, RND gallery, Moscow, RU

 

2012

Museum of Proletarian Culture. The Industrialization of Bohemia, Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow, RU

Pedagogical Poem. Archive of the Future Museum of History, Presnya museum, V-a-c Foundation, Moscow, RU

 

2011

Radio October, CCA Fabrika, Moscow, RU

 

2010

Rational Egoism, Regina gallery, Moscow, RU

Words, Art-Propaganda, Samara, RU

 

2009

New Museum of Revolution, HLAM, Voronezh, RU



 

MOSTRE COLLETTIVE

 

2021 

Habitat, CCA Winzavod, Moscow, RU

GAKhN Displaced, CCA Fabrika, Moscow, RU

GTFO, Always Fresh, New York, USA

 

2020 

Manifesta 13, European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Marseille, FR

START - Mirror Identity, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Genova, IT

Unplugged: Frenetic Standstill, GAM Galleria di Arte Moderna, Turin, IT

The Things, Anna Nova, Saint Petersburg, RU

Futurum. The Event’s Horizon, Zarya Center for contemporary art, Vladivostok, RU

Viral Self-Portraits, MG+MSUM, Ljubljana, SL

Generation XXI. Gift of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, RU

MMOMA 99/19, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, RU

The 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, LT

 

2019

Geometry in the culture of the XX-XXI centuries. The centenary of the Bauhaus, NCCA, Moscow, RU

The Missing Planet, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, IT

Rycle, GRL Gallery, Moscow, RU

Cosmological Arrows, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm SW

Bureau des transmissions, Garage Museum, Moscow, RU

5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art  Immortality, Yekaterinburg, RU

Rewind, C+N Gallery CANEPANERI, Milan, IT

 

2018

Cosmism, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, SW

The Art of the 2000s Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, RU

General Rehearsal, V-a-c Foundation, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, RU

It’s Ok to Change Your Mind, MAMbo, Bologna, IT

 

2017

Towards Lighthouse: Form and Policy of Light", PERM Museum, Perm, RU

History Weight, E-Werk, Freiburg, DE

Social Contract, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, UR

Imagined Homes, 6th Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, EL

Art Without Death, HKW, Berlin, DE

 

2016

Local Resource: Community Exhibition, California College of Arts, San Francisco, USA

The Eighth Climate (What does art do?), 11th edition of Gwangju Biennale, SK

VII Permanent Collection Display: Interaction, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, RU

In Glory City Voronezh, Winzavod, Moscow, RU

Social Contract, Izolyatsia, Kyiv, UR

 9th edition of Liverpool Biennial, UK

Beyond the Globe, 8th Triennial of Contemporary Art – U3, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, SL

Unmotivated rejection, Pro Arte Institute, Saint Petersburg, RU

Untitled (two takes on crisis), de Appel, Amsterdam, NT

Museum On/Off, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR

 

2015

La vie Moderne, 13th edition of the Biennale de Lyon, FR

The Worker and Kolkhoz Woman. Personal Case, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum, Moscow, RU

...YAY! Sculpture!, CCA Winzavod, Moscow, RU

Modern Art Museum: The Department of Labour and Employment, Fine Art Museum of Ekaterinburg, in framework of 3d Ural Industrial Biennale, Ekaterinburg, RU

Expanding Space. Artistic Practice in the Urban Environment, V-a-c Foundation, Moscow, RU

Russland vs. Russland. Kulturkonflikte, Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, DE

Rare Earth, TBA 21, Vienna, AU

Specters of Communism, e-flux and James Gallery, New York, USA

 

2014

Truth Searcher, Victoria Gallery, Samara, RU

Last Weekend on The Voronezh Sea, Don Foundation, Rostov-on-Don, RU

IK 00: The Spaces of Confinement, Casa dei Tre Oci, V-a-c Foundation, Venice, IT

Short History of Voronezh Art, Parallel Program of Vienna Art Fair, Vienna, AU

Detective, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, RU

 

2013

Dreaming Russia, Albertina Museum, Vienna, AU

Museum of Modern Art. Department of Work and Employment, Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow, RU

Re-Aligned, Tromsø Kunstforening, Tromso, NO

From Here to Afternoon, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, USA

Under the Sign «PI», VCCA, Voronezh, RU

Disobedience Archive (The Republic), Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, IT

Living as Form. Nomadic Version, CCA Fabrika, Moscow, RU

 

2012

Kandinsky Prize, Udarnik, Moscow, RU

The Way of Enthusiasts, Casa dei Tre Oci, V-a-c Foundation, Venice, IT

Under a Tinsel Sun, main project of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, RU

Génération, Festival RussenKo, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, FR

 

2011

Once Upon a Present, Gallery SC, Zagreb, CR

Nuts, Regina gallery, London, UK

In search of an alternative, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, AU

Practice everyday life, Calvert 22, London, UK

Phantom monuments, CCA Garage, Moscow, RU

 

2010

History Lesson, Palais de Tokio, Paris, FR

Interpolare, KJDT, Vienna, AU

Prigov: point of construction, NCCA, Moscow, RU

Vis a vis, Ecole nationale des beaux-arts de Lyon, FR

Modernikon. Contemporary Art from Russia, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo with V-a-c Foundation, Turin, IT

Archstoyanie, Nikola-Lenivetc, RU

FQ-Test, GMG, Moscow, RU

Russian Utopias, Art Centre Garage, Moscow, RU

Open doors day, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, RU

 

2009

New sculpture: structure and chaos, Solyanka gallery, Moscow, RU

Labors movement, Special Project of 3d Moscow Biennale, CCA Fabrika, RU

40 Lives of One Space, Special Project of 3d Moscow Biennale, Red October, Moscow, RU

Really?, Parallel program of 3d Moscow Biennale, Art Play, Moscow, RU

Sopromat, NCCA, Yekaterinburg, RU

Care, Divnogorie, Voronezh, RU

Machine and Natasha, CCA Fabrika, Moscow, RU

We’ll Take Action from Now On, Voronezh Centre of Contemporary Arts, Voronezh, RU

 

2008

Russian Art: paradoxes of history, National Academy of Art, Sofia, BL

Intervention. Cognitive capitalism and space of mobility, University of Gothenburg, SW

Me, Nature" in the framework of "Moscow Young Art Biennale, Modern City Foundation, Moscow, RU

Politic on the streets. 68.08, CCA Fabrika, Moscow, RU

Digital Media 1.0, La Nau, Valencia, ES

Documenting Possibilities, Valand School of Fine Arts, Gothenburg, SW


 

Zhilyaev gave lectures and master classes at MoMA, Brooklyn Museum, Bard Graduate Center, CUNY (New York), Tate Modern, Whitechapel (London), Princeton University (New Jersey), Moscow State University, Russian State Humanitarian University, Higher School of Economics (Moscow), Moderna Galerija (Ljubljana). His works are in the collections of Tate Modern (London), M HKA Museum (Antwerp), Tretyakov Gallery, Multimedia Art Museum, NCCA, MMOMA (all Moscow), Kadist Art Foundation (San Francisco, Paris), V-a-c Foundation (Moscow, Venice).


 

PUBBLICAZIONI

 

Art Without Death: Conversations on Russian Cosmism, e-flux, Sternberg Press, 2017

Future Histories: Mark Dion and Arseny Zhilyaev, Mousse Publishing, V-a-c Press, 2016

Avant-Garde Museology, E-flux, V-a-c Press, Minnesota Press, 2015

Pedagogical Poem. Archive of the Future Museum of History with Iliya Budraitskis, Marsilio Publishers, V-a-c Press, 2014 

Museum of Proletarian Culture. The Industrialization of Bohemia, Marsilio Publishers, V-a-c Press, 2013


 

BIBLIOGRAFIA

 

V. Diaconov  “Arseny Zhilyaev’s “The Monotony of the Pattern Recognizer”, e-flux Criticism, 2021

C. Balbi "Arseny Zhilyaev “An Experiment is not About Creating Novelty” C+N Canepaneri / Milano", Flash Art, 3.03.2020

A. Novozhenova, A. Shental, B. Klyushnikov "Lonely Warriors Against an Authoritarian Regime", Flash Art, 23.01.2018

M. Nesbit "Cosmist Rays: the Rise of Cosmism", Artforum, 2018

A. Komarova "The Antihero", Seminários dos Estudos das Artes em Contextos Sociais II, 2018

"Art Without Death: Russian Cosmism", Conversation between Anselm Franke,Boris Groys, Anton Vidokle, Arseny Zhilyaev, and Francesco Tenaglia, Mousse Magazine, 2017

M. Simakova "No Man’s Space: On Russian Cosmism", e-flux Journal #74 06.2016

"A Fresh Start in Space: Ben Vickers in Conversation with Julia Tcharfas and Arseny Zhilyaev", Flash Art, #305, 11-12.2015

B. Groys "Becoming a Meteorite" in the catalog for M.I.R.: New Pathes to the Objects, Kadist Foundation, Paris, 2014 

V. Morisset "Red Room: The Future’s Pop Religiosity According to Arseniy Zhilyaev", Esse magazine #83 12.2014

R. Khazam "Arseniy Zhilyaev – M.I.R.: New paths to the objects", Springerin, 3/2014

N. Musteata "M.I.R.: New paths to the object", Artforum, 2014

A. Shental "Discursive Interventions into Russian Art", Frieze blog, 01.31.2013

S. Franceschini "Artists at Work: Arseniy Zhilyaev", Afterall, 21.11.2012

V. Diaconov "III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art", Frieze, 10.2012

"My beatiful venetian launderette", The Art newspaper, 31.07.2012

"Klassenkämpfer: Arseni Schiljajew", art Das Kunstmagazin, 12.2012

G. Napreenko, A. Novozhenova "Stop-article", Colta.ru, 2013
J. Neumeyer "Russian Twist", ARTnews, 10.2013

L. McLean-Ferris "A practice of everyday life: Young Artists from Russia", The Independent, 30.03.2011

E. Degot "A new order", Artforum, November 2010

"La machine de l’eches", Rue Descartes, ?69

I. Calderoni "Quando la forma sovversiva L’arte russa un carrarmato", l’Unita, 23.09.2010

S. Arvidsson "3 avgngsutst llningar frn Valand", Konsten.net

"Labors movement at operating factory", Television channel "Culture", from 08.10.09

M. Chehonadskih "To Practise speech in uncompromising perihelia", "Moscow Art magazine" #71/72, 05.09

E. Antufev "The Monologue of the practising anarchist?", magazine "Hooligan" #01 (91)