ALEXEI SHULGIN
Artist, curator, musician
born 1963 in Moscow
lives and works in Moscow
- 1987 - 1988 Member of Hermitage Art Association
- 1988 Founded "Immediate Photography" group
- 1994-95 Teached photography/contemporary art at United Art Workshops, Moscow
- 1994 Created electronic photogallery "Hot Pictures" on the Internet
- 1995 Founded Moscow WWWArt Centre
- 1995-96 Seminars on WWW/Internet at Moscow WWWArt Centre
- 1997 Invented Form Art
- 1997 Started Easylife site
Since 1987 Lectures and presentations at Art schools and Universities.
Participant of a number of conferences on photography/contemporary art/new media/communications.
Curated Projects on the Internet
Curated Exhibitions in Real Life
1993
- "What Am I?/ The Art of Making a Choice", Shkola Gallery, Union Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
1994
- "Reproduction, Mon Amour", Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow (catalogue)
- Internet Electronic Photogallery "Hot Pictures"
1995
- "Reproduction, Mon Amour", Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
1995
- "Aspects of Alternative Photography", Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
Personal Exhibitions
1984
- Elena Selina apartment, Moscow
1988
- "Others' Photographs", Ukhta, Komi Republic, USSR
1989
- "The life of a Photographer" (with Sergei Leontiev), Exhibition Hall on Kashirskaya, Moscow
- "Alexei Shulgin", "Finnfoto Gallery", Helsinki
1992
- "Latent Energy", L-Gallery, Moscow, booklet
- "10 Years on the Art Scene", Triokhprudniy Gallery, Moscow (booklet)
1993
- "What Am I?/ The Art of Making a Choice", Shkola Gallery, Union Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
- Untitled Installation (with Sergei Leontiev), Russian-Dutch project "Exchange", Moscow (catalogue)
1994
- "Televisions. 1989 - 1993", XL-Gallery, Moscow (catalogue)
- "Others' Photographs", Central House Of Artist, Moscow
1997
- "Art'n'Presentation", Secret Experiment club, Riga, Latvia
- "A New Art Form", C3, Budapest
Selected Group Exhibitions
1987
- Photofestival. Krasnogorsk, USSR
- "Representation", Exhibition Hall of the Association "Ermitazh" in Beliajevo, Moscow
- "Photoexposition", Exhibition Hall of the Association "Ermitazh" in Beliajevo, Moscow
- XVII All Union Exhibition of the Young Artists, The Central Exhibition Hall in "Manege", Moscow
1988
- "Die Zeitgenossische Photographie in der Sowjetunion", Museum of Photography, Lausanne, Switzerland (book-catalogue)
- "Contemporary Soviet Photography", Museum of Photography, Odense, Denmark
1989
- "Contemporary Soviet Photography", Kunsthuset, Stockholm, traveled to other Swedish cities
- "Photomost/Photobridge", Exhibition Hall of Avtozavodskaja, Moscow
- "The exhibition of the Unfinished Works", Furmannij Studios, Moscow
- "Moskau-Wien-New York/ Kunst zur Zeit", Wiener Festwochen, Messepalast, Vienna (catalogue)
- "150 Years of Photography", The Central Exhibition Hall in "Manege", Moscow
1990
- "The Logic of Paradox", The Central Exhibition Hall in "Manege", Moscow
- "Mosca-Moscow-Mockba '90", Sala Umberto Boccioni, Milan
- "Da Mosca", Unione Culturale/Mostre, Turin
- "Art Summer '90", Diokletian Palace, Split, Yugoslavia
- "Contemporary Photography from the USSR", Walker, Ursitty & McGinniss Gallery, New York
- "Artedomani, 1990 punto di vista", Galleria Communale d'Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy (catalogue)
- "Oppositions / Fotografie Biennale Rotterdam - II", Holland America Lijn, Rotterdam (catalogue)
- "Mosca-Moscow-Mockba '90/II", Provincial Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
- "Eroosio / Erosion. Soviet Conceptual Art & Photography of the 1980's", Amos Anderson Art Museum, Helsinki (catalogue)
- "The Missing Picture. Alternative Contemporary Photography from the Soviet Union", MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge. Massachusetts. In 1991 traveled to the "Forum" in St.Louis & to the Lehman College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue)
1991
- "Photo/ Manifesto", Fine Arts Gallery & Avram Family Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Long Island University, New York & Museum for Contemporary Arts, Balltimore, USA (book-catalogue)
1992
- Albrecht Gallery, Muenchen. Germany
- "Herbarium / Die photographische Reflexion in der zeitgenossischen russischen Kunst", Kunsthalle Exnergasse & Fotogalerie Wien, WUK, Wien (catalogue)
- "Die Andere Malerei / Moskauer Avantgarde der 50er bis 80er Jahre. Sammlung Talotschkin", Kunststation, Kleinsassen, Fulda, Germany
- "Waist", The State Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow
- II Internationale Foto-Triennale '92, Erfundene Wirklichkeiten, Esslingen, Germany (catalogue)
1993
- "Magazine / Shop", Furniture Store "Konstantin", Moscow
- "New Territories of Art", State Museum of Arts, Krasnojarsk, Russia (catalogue)
1994
- "Art of Contemporary Photography. Russia, Ukraine, Belarus", The Central House of Artists, Moscow (catalogue)
- "Hamburg Project", Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
- "Depository", Exhibition Hall on Solyanka, Moscow
- Spring Exhibition of the Moscow Union of Artists, The House of Artists, Moscow
- "Escape", Contemporary Art Centre, Moscow
- "The Night of the Art", "Pilot" Night Club, Moscow
- "PHOTO-reclamation, New Art from Moscow & Saint Petersburg", John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Street Level Gallery, Glasgow (catalogue)
- "Surface of Sence. Laying Coverings." The Central House of Artist", Moscow
- Contemporary Art Festival, Sotchi, Russia
- "Minima Media", II MedienBiennale Leipzig, Germany
- "Exchange-2", Amsterdam
- "Neue Fotokunst aus Russland", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
1995
- "PHOTO-reclamation, New Art from Moscow & Saint Petersburg", The Photographers' Gallery, London (catalogue)
- "Neue Fotokunst aus Russland", Kulturhaus Osterfeld, Pforzheim, Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Museum Volk und Wirtshaft, Dusseldorf, Germany
- "No Man's Land / Art from Near Abroad", Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen (catalogue)
- "Kunst im Verborgenen. Nonkonformisten 1957 - 1995", Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Documenta Halle, Kassel, Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany (catalogue)
- "Fabrique d'Histoire", Saaremaa Biennale-2, Kuressaare Castle, Estonia (catalogue)
- "Hiroshima", Arts Reserve, Moscow
- "Contemporary Photography from Russia", ifa-Galerie, Berlin (catalogue)
- "Obsessions" - VI Photo Biennale Enschede, the Netherlands (catalogue)
- "Multiplication", Kashirka, Moscow
- "Copyright", Aidan-gallery, Moscow
- "Art Belongs to People", public space exhibition at Miasnitskaya street, Moscow (catalogue)
1996
- "3 Jeunes Moscovites", Artiscope Gallery, Bruxelles
- "Moscow Photobiennale/Month of Photography", House of Artist, (catalogue)
- "Lumiere et Mouvement", Internationaal Cultureel Centrum, Antwerpen, Belgium (catalogue)
- "Art on the Net / Challenge of the Internet", Museum on the Web, Japan
- VI St. Petersburg Biennale, St. Petersburg (catalogue)
- "Kunst als Position im Zeitalter globaler Technologien", Bunker, Albrechtstr 24, Berlin
1997
- "Lab 6. International Exhibition of (Multi)MEDIA Art", Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw (catalogue)
- "Select All", C3, Budapest
- Skopje Electronic Arts Fair '97, Skopje Museum of Contemporary Art, Macedonia
- Ars Electronica Festival, Linz, Austria (catalogue)
- 3 Cetinje Biennale, Montenegro, Yugoslavia (catalogue)
- Sterische Herbst, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
- Film+Arc, Graz, Austria (catalogue)
1998
- !R UZ!, Uzbekistan
- "Works in progress/Works in process", [techne], Rutgers University, the USA
Prizes
Performance
1997
- "Cyberknowledge to Real People", Streets of Vienna
Residencies
1997
- C3, Budapest
- Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
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