The Blue Noses Group
Founded in 1999.
Participants: Viacheslav Mizin, Alexander Shaburov
(also Konstantin Skotnikov, Dmitry Bulnygin, Maxim Zonov)
The Group’s projects:
| 2005 | The Little Men The Revolution Goes On Nailed-Up Video. Issue 8 |
| 2004 | Hit-Or-Miss Art (How to Build Up Works of Art Just in the Kitchen) Kids From Our Block (Unsolemn Portraits of the Russian President for Government Offices) Terrorists-Equilibrists Heifers Sex-Still-Life Consumerists of the Future The Fall of Washington Nailed-Up Video. Issue 5–7 |
| 2003 | Two Against the Russian Mafia Airport Art Sex-Art-1, -2, -3 Death in Venice Requisite for Revolutions Resistance Wholesale and Retail If I Were Harry Potter Venetian Sketches 25 Short Performances about Globalization Nailed-Up Video. Issue 2–4 |
| 2002 | Absolut Blue Noses Two Against the Russian Mafia (trailer for non-existing TV series) The Contemporary Siber Artists Nailed-Up Video. Issue 1 |
| 2001 | New Barbizon Painters, or Out-of-Twn Excursions-2 Siber Sex The Blue Noses-2 At the Bottom (The Fear of Being Thrown to Rubbish Heap) |
| 2000 | Secret Life of Siberian Cosmism (Pigs in Space) From Siberia With Love |
| 1999 | The New God’s Fools, or the Pathology of Performance The Blue Noses |
The participation of group members in exhibitions:
Viacheslav Mizin
Born May 22, 1962 in Novosibirsk, Russia.
| 1984 | Graduated from Novosibirsk Architectural Institute |
| 2003 | the Prize-Winner (in the sphere of animation) at the Festival of Very Short Films |
| 2004 | the Second Prize-Winner of Media-Forum at Moscow International Film Festival |
Member of The Blue Noses Group.
Lives and works in Novosibirsk and Ekaterinburg.
Solo Exhibitions:
| 2008 | "Blue Noses uncensorized" (Blue Noses cenzúrázatlanul), MODEM, Debrecen |
| 2004 | Hit-Or-Miss Art (How to Build Up Works of Art Just in the Kitchen). Guelman Gallery, Moscow. The Blue Noses Group. Display Gallery, Prague. |
| 2003 | Do I Look Like a Loser? (with A. Shaburov). The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow. Two Against the Russian Mafia (with A. Shaburov). Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Kiev; the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg; Nizhny Novgorod. From Siberia with Love (with D. Bulnygin, K. Skotnikov, A. Shaburov). Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod. Absolut Blue Noses (with A. Shaburov). The Zoological Museum, Moscow. 25 Short Performances About Globalization (with A. Shaburov). Toynbee Studio (London; within the conference “Redefining Identities: Russian Contemporary Art in the Age of Globalisation”), The State Russian Museum, Tate Modern, Pro Arte (catalogue). |
| 2002 | Two Against the Russian Mafia (with A. Shaburov). Kirov Museum (St. Petersburg). |
| 2001 | Out-of-Town Excursions-2 (with K. Skotnikov, A. Shaburov). L-Gallery, Moscow |
| 1999 | The Fate. Guelman Gallery, Moscow. |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 2008 | "I LOVE YOU VIENNA", General Aviation Center, Vienna-Schwechat |
| 2005 | Always a Little Further. The Arsenale. The 1st Venice Biennale (catalogue). Expanded Painting. The 2nd Prague Biennale (catalogue). The Dialectics of Hope. The Former Lenin Museum. 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). Russia-2. Guelman Gallery, The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). Gender Troubles. Moscow Museum of Moderm Art. Within the 1st Moscow Biennale. Accomplices. Collective and Interactive Works in the Russian Art of the 1960-2000s. The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow. Within the 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). Art-Digital-2004. I Click, Therfore I Am. M’ARS Gallery, Moscow. Within the 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). Art-Kliazma-2005. International Contemporary Art Open-Air Festival. The Winter Factor, or Snow Maidens do not Die. Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir». Within the 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). |
| 2004 | FIAC. Paris (catalogue). Bubble. Comics in Contemporary Art. Guelman Gallery, Moscow. Art-Kliazma-2004. International Contemporary Art Open-Air Festival. New Russian Reality. Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir» (catalogue). Watch out! The National Museum, Oslo (catalogue). Beyond the Red Horizon. Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (catalogue). To the Resort. The National Museum, Baden-Baden (catalogue). Art-Moscow Workshop. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. Thoughts on the Motherland. A.Akhmatova’s Museum, St Petersburg. «… and others». The National Museum of Kyrgystan,Bishkek. 6 Times Video. Within the 5th Moscow Photo-Biennale. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. The Festival of Intimate Photography. Reflex Gallery, Moscow. The Murmanck Connection. International Festival of Performance. Club Detox, Kirkenes. Carbon Club. Reithalle, Munich. Ahead of History. Perspectives of Art in the Baltic countries, Finland and Russia. KIASMA, Helsinki (catalogue). |
| 2003 | FIAC. Paris (catalogue). Art-Cologne, Cologne (catalogue). Electric Visions. Contemporary Video-Art Festival of Russia and Northern Europeи. the Film House, St Petersburg (catalogue). Paradise Project Alexanderplatz, Berlin (catalogue). The New Count. Digital Russia Together with Sony. Contemporary Art and New Technologies. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). The Observation Platform. Programs of the Actual Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. Art-Constitution. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (catalogue). Art-Klyazma. International Festival of Contemporary Art. Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir» (catalogue). Projection. Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod (catalogue). Absolut Generation. Within the 50th Venice Biennale. Palazzo Zenobio, Venice (2 catalogues). Art-Moscow Workshop. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). We-They. Art-Moscow. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). Davai! The Free Russian Art Now. Izhevsk, Cheboksary. Redefining Identifies. The Russian Contemporary Art and the Age of Globalization. Tate-Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalogue). |
| 2002 | The Center of Attraction. Triennial exhibition of the Baltic Countries, Vilnius (catalogue). Davai! The Free Russian Art Now. Postfuhramt, Berlin; MAK, Vienna(catalogue). The 4th Cetine Biennale, Montenegro (catalogue). The Snow-Maiden. The New Art from Russia, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw (catalogue). Moscow Time. Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius. The Contemporary Siber Artists. Guelman Gallery, Moscow. |
| 2001 | Communication Between the Arts. The 1st Valencia Biennale (catalogue). Art-Moscow Workshop 2001. 25 Contemporary Russian Artists. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). |
| 2000 | Art-Moscow-2000. The 4th International Fair of Contemporary Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. The Dynamic Pairs. Art Against Geography. Guelman Gallery. The Marble Palace, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow (catalogue). |
| 1999 | The Crazy Double. Strategy of Imbecility in the Contemporary Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow; then: Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ekaterinburg, Chateau d’Oaron, France (catalogue). Passion Bearers, or the Pathology of Performance. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow. |
| 1998 | 2 + 1. Artists Spase Gallery, Berlin. |
Alexander Shaburov
Born August 27, 1965 in Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia.
| 1985 | graduated from Sverdlovsk College of Arts |
| 1993- | the member of the RF Artists' Union |
| 1998 | received grant from the Soros Foundation for denture treatment as an artistic action |
| 2003 | the First Prize-Winner of Media-Forum at Moscow International Film Festival |
| 2004 | the Second Prize-Winner of Media-Forum at Moscow International Film Festival |
Member of The Blue Noses Group.
Lives and works in Ekaterinburg and Moscow.
Selected Solo Exhibitions and Projects:
| 2004 | Hit-Or-Miss Art (How to Build Up Works of Art Just in the Kitchen). Guelman Gallery, Moscow. The Blue Noses Group. Display Gallery, Prague |
| 2003 | Do I Look Like a Loser? (with V. Mizin). The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow. Two Against the Russian Mafia (with V. Mizin). Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Kiev; the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg; Nizhny Novgorod. From Siberia with Love (with V. Mizin, K. Skotnikov). Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod. Absolut Blue Noses (with V. Mizin). The Zoological Museum, Moscow. 25 Short Performances About Globalization (with V. Mizin). Toynbee Studio (London; within the conference “Redefining Identities: Russian Contemporary Art in the Age of Globalisation”), The State Russian Museum, Tate Modern, Pro Arte (catalogue). |
| 2002 | Two Against the Russian Mafia (with V. Mizin). Kirov Museum (St. Petersburg). |
| 2001 | Out-of-Town Excursions-2 (with V. Mizin, K. Skotnikov). L-Gallery, Moscow |
| 2000 | Russian Buddha. Guelman Gallery, Moscow |
| 1997 | Berezovsky Conceptualist. The Ways Some Will Die. Young People’s Museum (Ekaterinburg). Dentistry and Denture Treatment. Ekaterinburg |
Selected Group Exhibitions:
| 2005 | Always a Little Further. The Arsenale. The 1st Venice Biennale (catalogue). Expanded Painting. The 2nd Prague Biennale (catalogue). The Dialectics of Hope. The Former Lenin Museum. 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). Russia-2. Guelman Gallery, The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). Gender Troubles. Moscow Museum of Moderm Art. Within the 1st Moscow Biennale. Accomplices. Collective and Interactive Works in the Russian Art of the 1960-2000s. The State Tretjakov Gallery, Moscow. Within the 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). Art-Digital-2004. I Click, Therfore I Am. M’ARS Gallery, Moscow. Within the 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). Art-Kliazma-2005. International Contemporary Art Open-Air Festival. The Winter Factor, or Snow Maidens do not Die. Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir». Within the 1st Moscow Biennale (catalogue). |
| 2004 | FIAC. Paris (catalogue). Bubble. Comics in Contemporary Art. Guelman Gallery, Moscow. Art-Kliazma-2004. International Contemporary Art Open-Air Festival. New Russian Reality. Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir» (catalogue). Watch out! The National Museum, Oslo (catalogue). Beyond the Red Horizon. Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (catalogue). To the Resort. The National Museum, Baden-Baden (catalogue). Art-Moscow Workshop. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. Thoughts on the Motherland. A.Akhmatova’s Museum, St Petersburg. «… and others». The National Museum of Kyrgystan,Bishkek. 6 Times Video. Within the 5th Moscow Photo-Biennale. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. The Festival of Intimate Photography. Reflex Gallery, Moscow. The Murmanck Connection. International Festival of Performance. Club Detox, Kirkenes. Carbon Club. Reithalle, Munich. Ahead of History. Perspectives of Art in the Baltic countries, Finland and Russia. KIASMA, Helsinki (catalogue) |
| 2003 | FIAC. Paris (catalogue). Art-Cologne, Cologne (catalogue). Electric Visions. Contemporary Video-Art Festival of Russia and Northern Europeи. the Film House, St Petersburg (catalogue). Paradise Project Alexanderplatz, Berlin (catalogue). The New Count. Digital Russia Together with Sony. Contemporary Art and New Technologies. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). The Observation Platform. Programs of the Actual Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow. Art-Constitution. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (catalogue). Art-Klyazma. International Festival of Contemporary Art. Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir» (catalogue). Projection. Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod (catalogue). Absolut Generation. Within the 50th Venice Biennale. Palazzo Zenobio, Venice (2 catalogues). Art-Moscow Workshop. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). We-They. Art-Moscow. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). Davai! The Free Russian Art Now. Izhevsk, Cheboksary. Horizons of Reality. Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, (catalogue). Redefining Identifies. The Russian Contemporary Art and the Age of Globalization. Tate-Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (catalogue) |
| 2002 | The Center of Attraction. Triennial exhibition of the Baltic Countries, Vilnius (catalogue). Art-Klyazma. International Festival of Contemporary Art. Boarding-House “Klyazma Water-Reservoir” (catalogue). Davai! The Free Russian Art Now. Postfuhramt, Berlin; MAK, Vienna(catalogue). The 4th Cetine Biennale, Montenegro (catalogue). The Snow-Maiden. The New Art from Russia, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw (catalogue). Moscow Time. Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius. |
| 2001 | Art-Moscow Workshop 2001. 25 Contemporary Russian Artists. The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue). |
| 2000 | The Dynamic Pairs. Art Against Geography. Guelman Gallery. The Marble Palace, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow (catalogue). The 8th Cairo Biennale, Egypt (catalogue). |
| 1999 | The Crazy Double. Strategy of Imbecility in the Contemporary Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow; then: Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ekaterinburg, Chateau d’Oaron, France (catalogue). Passion Bearers, or the Pathology of Performance. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow. |
