Exhibitions

Past

COSMOSCOW 2020
10 - 13 Sep 2020 Gostiny Dvor / Cosmoscow The idea for the exhibition at the main stand, C9, began with contemplation of dotted lines. We thought that the graphic pencil lines in Rozhkova’s works would combine well with the bars of wood in Pchelin’s sculptures. That was our concept, in any case. We were only able to witness... Read more

ROUND AROUND
4 Feb - 5 Apr 2020 Gridchinhall Moscow / Cube space Painting, like any other art, is a creative tool for the artist. The plastic, spatial form is the same type of tool, but requires from the viewer movement around the exhibit in addition to contemplation. In a language not always understandable to the observer, the artist tells us abouthis or... Read more

DETOMON. Stories in pictures
13 Nov 2019 - 1 Feb 2020 Gridchinhall Moscow / Cube space «If I need to draw with a stick in the water during a project, then I will have to change my style and draw with the stick in the water», Vladimir Grig says. The artist made being culturally omnivorous his fundamental practice. He talks about issues that are relevant and... Read more

TOO HUMAN
31 Jul - 10 Oct 2019 Gridchinhall Moscow / Cube space In the era of the digital revolution, the theme of corporeality has acquired particular relevance. The more time people spend online, the more preoccupied they are with their body: they go on diets, have plastic surgery, and fight aging. We are looking for new answers to an eternal question: how... Read more

Melting
Katya Rozhkova, Katerina Kovaleva 23 Mar - 16 Apr 2019 Gridchinhall Moscow / Cube space The skeleton of a yurt overgrown with bushes, a concrete mausoleum crowned with a crescent moon, tin buckets filled with snow and stone snowmen… Gridchinhall brings the Kirghiz steppe and Moscow countryside fields to the urban Cube Space, juxtaposing landscapes showered in silver graphite dust with cold monuments meant to... Read more

IRINA DROZD. I DON’T WANT TO GET OLD
17 Sep - 12 Oct 2016 Gridchinhall Gallery Irina Drozd’s exhibition at the Gridchinhall Gallery is dedicated to the perception of old age. In her project “I don’t want to get old”, the artist investigates how the enjoyment of youth is replaced by fear of the inexorable flow of time. She attempts to make sense of society’s worship... Read more

Katya Tzareva. A STORY OF ONE WHITE HOUSE
Curated by Ksenia Lukina 30 Jul - 31 Aug 2016 Gridchinhall Gallery Gridchinhall continues its series of exhibitions of young artists and presents Katya Tzareva's first solo show in Moscow. Her debut project for Gridchinhall encompasses painting, video and a site-specific installation, created specially for the gallery space. One of the key themes developed by the artist is defining human identity, often... Read more

Anastasia Russa. PER-VERSION OF THE MYTH
9 - 28 Jul 2016 Gridchinhall Gallery What became of the ancient gods? Possibly one of their manifestations today can be found in contemporary toys, the ones that represent figures with supernatural powers, or distorted features, as Anastasia’s artist-statement has suggested? Toys are the new incarnation of the heathen idols from the pantheons of various nations. We... Read more

Oleg Maslov. CONEFLOWERS AND ZINNIAS
26 May - 26 Jun 2016 Gridchinhall Gallery In the halls of the New Academy in 1993, Oleg Maslov and Viktor Kuznetsov, working in creative tandem, created the first major Neo-Academistic cycle of large “Blue Lagoon” canvasses, eight of which – having travelled to the Netherlands, Denmark, Poland, Germany, Belgium, Italy, and Hungary – are currently being exhibited... Read more

Anya Zholud. WORSE THAN NOTHING
26 Mar - 15 May 2016 Gridchinhall Gallery Three years after “The Last Exhibition” at Gridchinhall, Anya Zholud is putting on an equally large-scale exhibition with the intriguing title of “Worse Than Nothing.” Zholud's new project comprises a significant and, at first glance, very diverse collection of objects and pictures created between 2006 and 2016. Anya Zholud: From... Read more

Cosmos Cows
An exhibition-reflection, a witty, large-scale canvas on how the artist spent 2015 12 Dec 2015 - 24 Jan 2016 Oleg Khvostov is an artist who depicts everyday life in much the same way as a Central Asian akyn poet-improviser who “sings what he sees.” For his painting, Khvostov uses an artistic language that was formed long ago, that is unique to him and that is immediately recognizable. Read more

Vladimir Grig. Who am I? Where am I?
Moscow biennale of contemporary art parallel program 26 Sep - 31 Oct 2015 Gridchinhall Gallery Starting with the very personal 'I', the author makes a dizzying leap to the maximum possible 'we'. Central diptych talks about Pangea Ultima or last Pangaea - hypothetical supercontinent, which, according to some forecasts, will merge all the current continents in 200-300 million years. What fate awaits its inhabitants? Will... Read more

Stass Shpanin. Predicting the Past
Curator Vitaly Patsyukov 27 Jun - 20 Jul 2015 Gridchinhall Gallery American artist Stass Shpanin, born in the USSR, presents art exhibit “Predicting the Past”. It juxtaposes historical images of tsarist Russia and colonial America. The artist allows viewers to play with the time and analyze roots of cultural identifications of these superpowers. Curator of the exhibit - Vitaly Patsyukov, head... Read more

Natasha Yudina. My Kremlin
29 Nov 2014 - 25 Jan 2015 Gridchinhall Gallery My Kremlin is an installation assembled in a separate space. The miniature Kremlin was made on a 3D printer. It is surrounded by knitted rug walls from two to four meters high, called Sweater and Sweater 2. The exhibition also includes “snow” that falls around the Kremlin, a soundtrack that... Read more

Natasha Yudina. Prophetic Clothes
29 Nov 2014 - 25 Jan 2015 Gridchinhall Gallery The Painting Filters of Natasha Yudina The sensual feelings and impressions that we perceive from our surrounding environment don't remain in the consciousness in their original form for long, they are quickly become “worn down.” The sensory memory is short-lived, it's like a memory card for a camera, where the... Read more

Ivan Plusch, Irina Drozd. The Illusion is More Horrifying Than the Reality
Part of the parallel program of the 4th Moscow International Biennial of Youth Art 21 Jun - 3 Aug 2014 Gridchinhall Gallery Fantasies and images often help to develop our internal and external work. A dreamland can shield or even save us from the threat of reality. But this apparently charming escapism has a reverse side. When illusions begin to stand in for life, and fantasy becomes aggressive. When the dream breaks... Read more

Nikita Alexeev. Boris Matrosov. A Modest Russian Landscape
5 Apr - 1 Jun 2014 Gridchinhall Gallery Russian nature (here we are referring to the central belt of the European part of Russia, where Russian cultured formed) is modest, and not distinguished by any great dramatic qualities. There are no mountains, no seas, no grandiose waterfalls, no endless wastes. What do we see around us? Forests, fields,... Read more

ZAUM TRACTOR. Multimedia Performance by Sonia Leber and David Chesworth (Australia)
Parallel Event of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Curator: Maria Sigutina 22 Sep 2013 Zaum Tractor, 2013 presents notions of freedom and collectivity; contradictory forces that reside within the Russian socio-political environment. In a series of encounters with contemporary Russia, the artists re-imagine artistic ideas and actual events that have attempted to transcend the lived experience of the Russian participant. Zaum Tractor opens with... Read more

Natasha Yudina. 18+
9 Dec 2012 - 13 Jan 2013 Gridchinhall Gallery The name of this exhibition by Natalia Yudina, an artist from Tomsk, upholds the traditions of the Soviet and post-Soviet moral system. 18+ is a series of genre scenes – bedroom scenes in the literal meaning of the word. Canvases 180 х 140 cm in size borrow the names of... Read more

Maria Agureeva. Citius, Altius, Fortius! Commodification
Exhibition would be shown at FABRIKA. Curator Alexander Evangely 20 Sep - 30 Oct 2012 The project «Citius, Altius, Fortius! Commodification» had started for Maria Agureeva from the conversation occasionally overheard in a women’s changing room of fitness club. Girls talked about why they are engaged in fitness and how men take their exercises. This episode pushed an artist to research of how athletic body... Read more

Никита Алексеев. Птицы Подмосковья
Выставка в поддержку инициативы орнитологов России об отмене Дня смеха в Государственном Дарвиновском музее 1 - 15 Apr 2012 В Международный день птиц в Государственном Дарвиновском музее открывается выставка художника Никиты Алексеева «Птицы Подмосковья», проходящая в знак поддержки инициативы сообщества орнитологов России об отмене Дня смеха. Вам не надоели однообразные шутки 1 апреля? Оказывается, 1 апреля можно отметить всерьез, без пресловутого «у вас вся спина белая». Орнитологи напоминают: 1... Read more

The carpet is the message
Curator Maria Kravtsova 1 Apr - 3 Jun 2012 Gridchinhall Gallery In the Soviet era a carpet was a sign of wealth and affluence, a “must have” thing, a sought after luxury item that was in scarce supply, just as Yugoslavian wall cabinet or East German porcelain dinner service. For many our contemporaries this object of interior design still remains a... Read more

Liliya Lifanova. I am a modern nomad
22 Jan - 4 Mar 2012 Gridchinhall Gallery We are pleased to present Liliya Lifanova: PHASE I, II, III, the first solo exhibition in a collobarative project at the Gridchinhall in Russia. The exhibition will feature new works in an ongoing site specific installation, which were created at the Gridchinhall. Lifanova arrived in Moscow through the Fulbright Program... Read more

Nikita Alexeev. PAPER CHAPELS… БУМАЖНЫЕ ЧАСОВНИ… CHAPELLES EN PAPIER…
18 Dec - 4 Mar 2011 Gridchinhall Gallery Nikita Alexeev's new project develops and condenses that special atmosphere effect inherent in artwork on paper: texts, graphic series, and installations are divided here into twenty separate sections - chapels. The artist says that these slight and unobtrusive aesthetics were inspired by the architectural style of Gridchinhall, with its constructivist... Read more

Vika Begalskaya. Shame
Curator Anatoly Osmolovsky 3 Jul - 2 Oct 2011 Gridchinhall Gallery The new painting project of Vika Begalskaya, Shame, will display more than 30 artworks from the earliest to the most recent ones, arousing confusion and interest at the same time. Naked women – the first part of the project – are uninhabited and free. They shamelessly look down on visitors... Read more

Julia Kosulnikova. Barbara's Tortment
17 Apr - 19 Jun 2011 Gridchinhall Gallery Julia Kosulnikova was born in 1988 in Leningrad (St. Petersburg). She paints with acrylic colours and tempera on canvases of 165x210 cm size. Read more

Maria Agureeva. Form & Colour
Gridchinhall Gallery with AlGallery (St.Petersburg) 13 Feb - 20 Mar 2011 Gridchinhall Gallery . Read more

Oleg Khvostov. Absolute Painting
19 Dec 2010 - 21 Mar 2011 Gridchinhall Gallery 'Absolute Painting' is about forty oil and acrylic works on canvas. The smallest painting’s size is 10x12 cm, the largest - 1.5 x 2 meters. The exhibition also includes several composite images made with acrylic paints on cardboard boxes. Directly opposite the striking rural landscapes stands a three-dimensional cardboard Moscow... Read more

Dmitry Kawarga. Kulik's Hair
24 Apr - 4 Jul 2010 Gridchinhall Gallery Creative consciousness of the artist is a very complicated process developing both in time and in space. Its material projection – installation “Kulik’s Hair” has the similar behaviour. For the first twenty meters the object keeps its plastic structure and clarity, a kind of energetic convolution. But with further development... Read more

Pprofessors: Red People. Art-Constructor
30 Jan - 28 Mar 2010 Gridchinhall Gallery “Red People' is a modular system; by the use of the construction set you can assemble an anthropomorphous unit-person. Such set allows both to manipulate composition elements and to overstep the bounds of art styles and genres. “Red People” is the universal unit, a kind of “virus object”, and due... Read more

Dmitry Gutov. Rembrandt’s Drawings
19 Sep 2009 - 13 Dec 2010 Gridchinhall Gallery Dmitry Gutov: 'My work with Rembrandt's drawings in metal has the following prehistory: Not far from where I live in Moscow lies the Kuzminsky forest. In the Soviet era, the inhabitants of nearby five-story apartment houses took hold of small plots in this forest to illegally grow vegetables. To protect... Read more