December, 23 2008 – January, 3 2009
BOREY ART CENTER
58 Liteyni Ave, Saint-Petersburg, 191104 Russia
«VISIONARY DREAMS #3245-3351»
Video Installations by Anna Frants in the gallery halls
The exhibition we present to you is a continuation of a well-known project successfully displayed in 2006 and 2007. Four gallery spaces dedicated to four video installations provide an immersive creative environment that leaves no viewer indifferent.
Friday, December 12, 2008
6:00 -10:00 PM
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
81 Wooster St, New York, NY 10012 USA
Exhibition of works by Vitaly Pushnitsky
25-30 November 2008
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
23/29 Rubinshteina St., Saint-Petersburg, Russia
The Youth Center of The State Hermitage Museum
Griaznaya Gallery, LUDA Gallery
The Second International Cyber Art Festival
Robot animals by Zlata Ponirovskaya
Frants Gallery SPb, St. Petersburg Arts Project (NY), Russian National Center for Contemporary Art SPb, CYLAND MediaArtLab (RU)
CYBERFEST is the first international festival of cyber art in Russia. It was established in 2007 and organized on the basis of CYLAND Media Art Lab, a cooperation project of Russian National Center for Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg, Russia) and the non-commercial organization Cyland Foundation Inc. (New York, USA). Continue reading “CYBERFEST-2008”
Tuesday, August, 19 2008
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
23/29 Rubinshteina St., Saint-Petersburg, Russia
Contemporary art exhibition “RUBBERS”
– rubber art objects by
Vladimir Kozin
It seems like galoshes were called product ”number one” by the language of soviet official papers. They were dull and unpleasant, according to those days fashion, but now they became amusing and even stylish. At the same time, it is a bit creepy thing, if you remember the unforgettable “Krasnyj Treugolnik” (“Red Triangle”) – a place of forced labor, called “chemistry”, where galoshes were produced. Rubber product “number two” was a condom ” an amusing, indecent and even secret, but very unpleasant thing, according to soviet way of thinking. Now it is banal, like a sugar candy. There are also enemas, pipettes, pacifiers, gas masks, police batons ” tools of salvation and suffering.
In short – rubber is not an ordinary material. Continue reading “VLADIMIR KOZIN“RUBBERS””
July 15, 2008 – August 30, 2008
CHELSEA ART MUSEUM
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY 10011
212.255.0719
The Sonic Self Sound Art Related Exhibition & Music Performances
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 17th, 2008, 6-9 pm
Events: Live Performances July 18 & 19, 2008, 6-9 pm
Friday, May 16th, 2008
6:30 -10:00 pm
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
81 Wooster St, New York, NY 10012 USA
Tel: 212 343 0104
April 25 – June 29, 2008
DAM, STUHLTRAGER GALLERY
38 Marcy Ave Brooklyn, NY 11211 USA
Ryan Wolfe & Anna Frants new installations
Friday, March 28 2008
6:30 -10:00 pm
FRANTS GALLERY SPACE
81 Wooster St, New York, NY 10012 USA
Marina Koldobskaya is contemporary Russian artist, based in St. Petersburg, Russia. Born in 1961 in Leningrad, USSRIn 1985, graduated from High School of Art and Design, n.a. V. Mukhina in Leningrad (now Academy of design n.a. A.Stiglitz), specializing in design.In mid-80es, in Perestroika time, started to participate in exhibitions as a freelance artist.
February – May, 2008
CHELSEA ART MUSEUM
556 West 22nd Street
New York, NY, USA
National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA)
Chelsea Art Museum
Kolodzei Art Foundation (USA)
present an exhibition “Moscow-New York = Parallel Play”
Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art
The exhibition considers an artistic axis of two cities of eastern and western continents representing Russian artists living or working in these largest art capitals, and creating with their art an international context and distinctive intellectual plastic Russian “rhyme” in the international art community. It draws from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, one of world’s largest private collections, with over 7,000 pieces by more than 300 artists from Russia and the former Soviet Union, chronicling four decades of nonconformist art from the post-Stalinist era to the present. Continue reading “MOSCOW-NEW YORK = PARALLEL PLAY”
February 15-18, 2008
KRONSHTADT CYLAND RESIDENCE
2 Yakornaya St. Kronstadt
Saint-Petersburg, 197760 Russia
“Movement Perception” – an online interactive installation by media artist Sergej Kotsun
Project concept: displaying realtionship between the space and the viewer, changes of space in the process of perception viewer’s movements (motion, hand moving, etc…); development of system to perceive audio-visual art, where viewer becames the author himself, the main character of an interactive audio-visual performance. Continue reading “Movement Perception”