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Artist / Set designer / Painter
Personal Background:
Born: Moscow, Russia in 1996
Lives and works in Berlin

Educational Background
2015-2020
Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) - Krymov Lab, department of Directing, specialization in Set Design

Areas of Specialization:
  • Theater and film production designer
  • Social and documentary projects
  • Exhibition projects
  • Installation
  • Painting
  • Video art
Artistic biography:

2024
Performance "Denk ich an Freiheit in der Nacht"
production designer
stage designer
Brotfabrick Berlin Weißensee

  • The performance based on the stories of people with experience of imprisonment and with their participation in the cast.

Musik clip NAND "SOS"
production designer
stage designer
Berlin


2023
Exhibition for the international organization "Memorial"
designer, art supervision of the event
Berlin

  • Dedicated to the anniversary of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to the international human rights organization «Memorial», the Center for Civil Liberties and Ales Bialiatski.


2022
Performance "Cherry Orchard"
set designer
director Mikita Ilyinchik
Malaya Bronnaya Theatre

"Tsumikh - Avar for 'At The Eagle’s’" by Super Taus
set designer
author Taus Makhacheva
Dagestan


2021
Performance "Blagovolitelnizy" (Les Bienveillantes)
set designer
director Mikita Ilyinchik
Malaya Bronnaya Theatre

  • "Blagovolitelnitzy" — the first performance in Russia based on the same name novel by Jonathan  Littell, one of the most discussed novels about World War II and the Holocaust.

Performance "Соседи/ Суседзi" (Neighbours)
set designer
director Sergey Gindilis
Teatr.DOC

  • Documentary verbatim performance dedicated to the events in Belarus in August 2020. The performance tells the stories of those who suffered from the actions of the security forces after the elections in Belarus. In the performance, created using the headphone verbatim technique, we look at Belarusian events through the eyes of their direct participants. The actor hears the voice of the hero in the headphones and reproduces it in real time, which ensures the maximum degree of reliability of speech and intonation. The form of such a performance implies openness and constant addition of new materials. The premiere of the performance was twice disrupted by security forces.

Exhibition "Flee No Stay"
artist, author of the exhibition
With the support of UNHSR (The UN Refugee Agency), Publishing House "Samokat".
Cultural Center "Tverskaya 15"

  • A documentary exhibition about people who were forced to leave their homeland. The seven heroes tell about when and why they and their families left their home country, about the difficulties of their journey as refugees or stateless persons, about their memories of home and their present day lives today.

Performance "1971: Sibirskaya yazva"
set designer
director Sergey Gindilis
Teatr. DOC
Project "Theatre Without a Mask"

  • A documentary performance from the series "Stories of Epidemics", telling about the anthrax epidemic in 1971. In the spring of 1979, patients with unusual symptoms began to appear in Sverdlovsk hospitals; many of them died. The catastrophe, which is called the "Biological Chernobyl", is still surrounded by secrets. An important role in this story was played by pathologists who established the cause of many deaths — a combat strain of anthrax. A conversation with one of them, Alexei Veniaminovich Klein, served as the basis for the performance.

Exhibition "8 1/2 rooms"
installation "Backstage", series of documentary performances about the circus in the verbatim format.
author
Ground Solyanka Gallery

  • The installation "Backstage" represents the space behind the scenes of the circus of the early twentieth century. It is based on the play by Leonid Andreev "He Who Gets Slapped" and documentary stories from interviews of circus performers taken in the process of working on the project.


2020
Exhibition "Theatre begins from a stick"
artist, project coordinator
Russian House in Barcelona

  • The exhibition tells about the modern approach to the theater. The exposition consists of art objects in mixed media and includes installation, video art, sculpture and models.


2019
"Here and now. Atlas of creative studios in Moscow"
installation
Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow

Exhibition "10, 9, 8, 7"
curator, artist
Together with the association "WORDS OF FREEDOM"

  • A project for the creative rehabilitation for people with prison experience

Theatre performance "LEAR'S daughters"
set designer
Boyarsike Palati (venue of Union of the Russian Theatre Workers)

  • Elaine Feinstein's text "Lear's Daughters", written in collaboration with the "Woman's theater group", is one of the main dramatic feminist statements of the second half of the 20th century. The play is based on Shakespeare's plot, where Goneril, Regan and Cordelia became hostages of Lear's patriarchal system.


2018
Exhibition "Factory of Happy People"
artist
Modern Art Museum at Gogolevsky,10, Moscow

  • The exhibition was commissioned by Gorky Park in Moscow and tells the history of the park

Exhibition "ART- Caucasus. With Dagestan in the Head"
installation, video installation
Ground Peschanaya Gallery

  • Project “Art-Caucasus. With Dagestan in the Head" was born as a result of staying in a kind of art residence, or rather, art immersion in the traditional, religious, patriarchal-oriented environment of the North Caucasian society, where a group of students, set designers and directors was brought as part of the training course. The exhibition presents works made in artistic collaboration while in Dagestan.


2017
Performative practice in the city of Makhachkala, Dagestan
Сurator - Taus Makhacheva
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