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News

10 Nov 2018

largest so far and first in many years solo show Ákkta, now open at @annanova_gallery running till 02.02.2019 in my native St. Petersburg. Two floors are filled with the material and immaterial outcomes of years of work and research. Massive thanks to the brilliant and supportive gallery team @nikolayevdokimov @strygina @annanova_art @sasha_karpova and others (at Anna Nova Art Gallery)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BqAlXBLgOsz/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1bu4behoxkh5f

05 Nov 2018

Back to St. Petersburg after brilliant time at Impakt Festival and Netherlands. Working hard hard hard on the upcoming solo show at @annanova_gallery. More soon. (at Saint Petersburg, Russia)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpxhNXWANY7/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=e21y8hg3bs0z

19 Oct 2018

Next to the one of most beloved pieces of antiquity. Picture for the recent interview with @sobaka_ru and @sasha_karpova (at Академия Штиглица / Stieglitz Academy)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpISObBHJZV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=76ohyun5e223

17 Oct 2018

CAS_06
Hellenistic Ruler
Machine Learning Algorithms, Marble, Polyamide 2018 Shown at my solo booth with Anna Nova Gallery during Vienna Contemporary. Massive thanks for this intense collaboration to Ivan Lopatin, Matthew Lenkiewicz, Artem Konevskih, Anna Demidova, Ira Dolgaya, Kolya Evdokimov, Elena Strygina, Anna Nova and others. Special thanks to Jens Wischnewsky for sharing ai experiences. More soon. (at Vienna Contemporary)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpCDn09HXnh/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=vsgjqu186n5j

16 Oct 2018

Daemons in the Machine show on view at MMOMA, Moscow, featuring a first frieze from Content Aware Studies Series and two films from the project. Special thanks to my collaborator Artem Konevskikh and curator Daria Parkhomenko for setting up a strong show and running one of the pioneering art and science institutions in Russia LABORATORIA Art&Science Space (at Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BpA2T3lnPBd/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=v29wkz4eipth

05 Oct 2018

Just arrived from Paris to Moscow for Daemons in the Machine show at MMOMA, featuring a first frieze from Content Aware Studies Series and two films from the project. The frieze is a speculative Ai’s version of reconstructed block from the North Frieze of Parthenon. Produced in collaboration with Matthew Lenkiewicz. Special thanks to Artem Konevskih (at Moscow Museum of Modern Art)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BojdZokHC48/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=hqct2b4rzb1n

28 Sep 2018

While I’m already in Paris, my solo booth with Anna Nova Art Gallery at Vienna Contemporary is on featuring 4 new marble / polyamide sculptures generated by machine learning along with two videos from Content Aware Studies Series and the URL stone. It only took weeks of enormous work, somewhat 45 sleep free hours, and lots of deep collaboration with Ivan Lopatin, Matthew Lenkiewicz, Artem Konevskih, Anna Demidova, Ira Dolgaya, Kolya Evdokimov, Elena Strygina, Anna Nova and others. Special thanks to Jens Wischnewsky for sharing ai experiences. More soon. (at Vienna Contemporary)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSLf-4n9JP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=8yswi7x5ymif

28 Sep 2018

While I’m already in Paris, my solo booth with Anna Nova Art Gallery at Vienna Contemporary is on featuring 4 new marble / polyamide sculptures generated by machine learning along with two videos from Content Aware Studies Series and the URL stone. It only took weeks of enormous work, somewhat 45 sleep free hours, and lots of deep collaboration with Ivan Lopatin, Matthew Lenkiewicz, Artem Konevskih, Anna Demidova, Ira Dolgaya, Kolya Evdokimov, Elena Strygina, Anna Nova and others. Special thanks to Jens Wischnewsky for sharing ai experiences. More soon. (at Vienna Contemporary)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoSLf-4n9JP/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=6mnwmftuqslp

28 Sep 2018

My solo booth with Anna Nova Art Gallery at Vienna Contemporary has officially opened today featuring 4 new marble / polyamide sculptures generated by machine learning along with two videos from Content Aware Studies Series and the URL stone. It only took weeks of enormous work, somewhat 45 sleep free hours, and lots of deep collaboration with Ivan Lopatin, Matthew Lenkiewicz, Artem Konevskih, Anna Demidova, Ira Dolgaya, Kolya Evdokimov, Elena Strygina, Anna Nova and others. Special thanks to Jens Wischnewsky for sharing ai experiences. More soon. (at Vienna Contemporary)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoNQ6zxnl_2/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=qyt7wxtedzpq

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Bio

Interdisciplinary artist Egor Kraft (b. 1986 in St. Petersburg, Russia) currently lives and works in Moscow, Vienna and Berlin. Having acquired his basic education in Fine Arts in Swedish foundation Art School Gerlesborgsskolan, he continued studies in Arts & Digital Media at the Moscow Rodchenko Art School (BA), The Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna (MA), followed by an Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London (MA scholarshipand) and lastly ‘The New Normal’ Postgraduate research programme at Strelka Institute in Moscow. He participated in The 5th and 2nd Moscow International Biennials for Young Art, 1st Ukranian Biennale ‘Arsenale’, Manifesta 10, Parallel Vienna and international exhibitions, screenings and festivals across Australia, Europe, South America, US and the UK. Egor has held three solo ex­hi­bi­tions in Swe­den, Rus­sia and Es­to­nia, was nom­i­nated for var­i­ous prizes in­clud­ing the State In­no­va­tion Art Prize (New Generation), Kuryokhin Prize (Young Artist of the Year) and Creative Enterprise Award initiated by University of Arts, London. His works are included private European and US collection and Russian museum collections, he worked on commissioned projects for Moscow Tretyakov State Gallery, Vi­enna Art Fair and Her­mitage Mu­seum. Egor was nominated CEC Artslink (NYC, USA) Grant Fellowship in 2018.
In 2017 he was included in the New East 100, a list of people, places and projects shaping our world today by London based Calvert Journal.

 

Description of practice

How does one distinguish between the real and virtual? Is virtual as real as anything else we might consider? Should one ponder this question: given that virtuality is just a surface effect produced by actual causal interactions at the material level, isn’t there’s a chain of bulky physical processes behind every apparently virtual event? Taking place in geopolitical environment ‘the virtual’ plays an enormous role in the organisation of physical matter and space, governing it in accordance to the principles and protocols operating on mathematical logic, semiotics of code, discrete order and quantified variables. Thus at the level of potentialities just about anything becomes augmented with such discrete processes.
The question in focus here is: how we; as beings with tendencies to think and act according to our own, seemingly irrational, internal, hidden and subconscious reasoning; will co-exist with a ubiquitous machinic rationality? Towards which we are headed at the accelerating pace of the Anthropocene.
In my current practice I often explore the emerging territories and possibilities of communication and their correlations to topics such as information, identity, chaos vs. order, time and perception. I aim to juxtapose these perennial questions to the ways in which we organise power and infrastructures, and explore the roles of contemporary technologies in these processes.
As an artistic method I look for ways to produce work which sit on the boundaries between reality and its misrepresentation, exploring reality’s perversion and the consequences. I raise questions about representations of reality and their impossible task, due to the nature of communication as a flawed means. I’m interested in investigating how media advancements affect and influence our fragmented perception of reality and intervene with its seemingly invincible logic, while shaping economies, politics, morals, ethic and aesthetic values.

Contact Details

Studio
Tempelhofer Ufer 10
10963, Berlin–Kreuzberg, Germany

Instagram / Tumblr / Vimeo

 

Education

2008 Gerlesborg Fine Art School, Sweden / Foundation
2011 Moscow Rodchenko Art School / BA Media Art
2017 Academy of Fine Arts Vienna / Art & Media / Mag.
2015 Central St. Martins College London / Fine Art / Grant
2017 Strelka Institute / New Normal / Postgrad Research


Solo Shows

2008 State of Mine / Gerlesborgskolan, SWE
2012 Now is Just Right Now / Taiga, St.Petersburg, RUS
2014 Wanderings 2.0 / Rundum, Tallinn, EST

Selected Group Shows

2008

Errorism / Ptmz, St. Petersburg, RUS
Art Parade / Loft Etazhi, St. Petersburg, RUS

2010

II Young Art Bi­en­nale “Qui vive?” / Moscow, RUS
Media Act / Zhir Gallery, Vinzavod, Moscow, RUS

2011

Infiltration Series 6 / Paradiso, NLD
The Ribbons / Sydney, AUS
INDI_VISUAL / MAMM, Moscow, RUS
No Limitation / Presidential library, St Petersburg, RUS
Insight & Foresight / Garage Museum, Moscow, RUS

2012

Apoc­a­lypse & Re­birth / Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, UKR
Orig­i­nal­copy / Fluc am Prater­stern, Vi­enna, AUT
5th In­ter­na­tional Art Moves Fes­ti­val / Toruń, POL

2013

Art En Face / Manezh, St. Pe­ters­burg, RUS
No Trans­la­tion / Mu­seum for Ap­plied Arts, Moscow, RUS
Pop Up / State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, RUS

2014

Printed Matter / Manifesta 10 Parallel Programme / St. Petersburg, RUS
Born in the USSR / Gallery Elena Schukina / London, UK

2015

What to say when there’s noth­ing to / Udarnik, Moscow
Re­sul­tart / Nizhny Nov­gorod, Eka­ter­in­burg, RUS
On the trail of "Pop Me­chan­ics” / Kuryokhin Cen­ter, St.Pe­ters­burg

2016

Play­room / Union Stu­dios, Lon­don, UK
Deep In­side, V Moscow Bi­en­nale for Young Art
Rod­chenko Art School 10 Years / MAMM / Moscow RUS
It­inéraire Bis / Sa­lon-de-Provence FRA
All Eyes On Me / Pech­er­sky Gallery / Moscow RUS
Then We Would Not Know It / Moscow RUS
How We Became Each Other / Moscow RUS
Art Prospect / Public Art Festival / St.-Petersburg RUS
Corridor I: Onkalo / Insitu, Berlin GER
Kosmos.Love / Artplay, Moscow / St. Petersburg RUS

2017

Citizen 6, Video Programme, Art Athens / Athens GRC
Innovation State Art Prize Show / MUAR, Moscow RUS
The New Normal Showcase / Strelka Institute, Moscow RUS
Par­al­lel Vi­enna / For­mat.strk state­ment / Vi­enna, AUT
Ambient Intelligence / screen­ing at En­clave Gallery / Lon­don, UK
Prototype #4 / Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg RUS

2018

Cyberfest 11, St. Petersburg / Stieglitz Academy, St. Petersburg, RUS
Museum Prototype #3 / Kuryokhin Center, St. Petersburg RUS
Social_Media / Museum of Communications, St. Petersburg, RUS
Future Unhuman / Quartariata, St. Petersburg, RUS
Innovation as Method / Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, RUS
Paradoxical hybrids / Electromuseum, Moscow, RUS
Obsolete Progress / Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, RUS

Upcoming
Open Codes / ZKM, Karlsruhe, DEU
Ars Electronica / Linz, AUT
Science Fest 2018 / St. Petersburg, RUS
Daemons in the Machine, MMOMA, Moscow, RUS
Impakt Festival / Utrecht, NLD
Ákkta / Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, RUS

Sites

www.tosay.it
Public project involving the text in the public space

www.thenewcolor.net
The ongoing new color mystification

i-am-online-therefore-i.am
Physical / digital piece involving realtime video broadcast

www.the-art.work
Readymade

PDF Portfolio

PDF Portfolio (English)
PDF Portfolio (Russian)

Selected Printed Publications

Urban Interventions Book - Berlin, DEU
Aesthetica Magazine - London, UK
Calvert Journal - London, UK
Vision Magazine - New York, USA
Crossover magazine - New York, USA
Odyssey Magazine - Tel Aviv, ISR
ArtBox Magazine - London, UK
Eikon - Vienna, AUT
Esquire - Moscow, RUS
Zing Magazine - Bejing, CHN
Objects book - Moscow, RUS
Dada Mini - Buenos Aires, ARG
Lakanaliya - St. Petersburg, RUS
Афиша magazine - Moscow, RUS

Selected Online Publications

Creative Applications, Its Nice That, Arcademi, OFluxo, Aroundart, Paper Paper, W-O-S, Kievreport, Street Art Utopia, The Art Newspaper, Masters Journal

Awards & Nominations

2014 Creative Enterprise Award Nominee / UAL, London UK
2014 Kuryokhin Art Prize Nominee / St.Petersburg, RUS
2015 Anna Nova Gallery Prize Nominee / St.Petersburg, RUS
2017 Innovation, New Generation Art Prize Nominee / Moscow, RUS
2017 Included in the New East 100, a list of peo­ple, places and pro­jects shap­ing our world to­day by Calvert Jour­nal
2018 Pulsar Art Prize 1st round Nominee  / Paris, FRA

Public Collections

MAMM Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art
Ripley’s, Orlando, FL
Cyland Video Archive

Selected Screenings

2015 CYBERFEST at Salon Leisure and Fantasy / Bogota, St. Petersburg, Berlin, London, Vilnius, Moscow, New York
2016 Felt Book / Human Resources / Los Angeles, CA 2016
2016 Felipe Castelblanco’s Program / Royal Academy America, NYC, US
2016 CYFEST Digital Media Program / Bogota, NYC, St.Petersburg, Mexico
2017 Citizen 6 part of Art Athens / Athens, GRC
2017 The New Normal Showcase / Strelka Institute, Moscow RUS

Public Talks

2017 ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 NCCA, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 HSE, Higher School of economics, Moscow
2017 Geek Picknick Festival, Moscow
2016 V Moscow Young Art Biennale’s Parallel Programme

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