ANDREJ VELIKANOV
| When I carefully gather ideological garbage, aesthetic waste and other psychological excrements of modern civilisation, put them together to a beautiful bouquet and then present it to some festival's jury to receive approving smiles in return, I realise that something must be wrong. The severe judges dressed in black gowns and white wigs are either spellbound with mesmerising passes of a wandering magician or they consciously neglect really talented artists that merge miraculous youthfully acid images of psychedelic diapason into streaming pictures. "Something is rotten in the state of Denmark!" - used to say the nervous prince Hamlet who tried to fit the surrounding reality by mimicry and pretending insane. However I am grateful to everybody who shared my point of view (or took the opposite one, which is after all the same) by awarding me with the Grand Prix. And I certainly wish to thank Julia Shipilova for helping me to accomplish this project and Nikolai Klimeniouk, whose nice English made him not merely a translator of my texts but rather my co-author. |
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- 1954 born in Moscow
- graduated from Moscow Physics Engineering Institute (1977)
- and Moscow Polygraphic Academy (art faculty, 1989)
- as of 1991 member of artist’s union Berlin (BBK Berlin)
- 1996 - EMARE stipendium at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, Germany
- 1998 - first prize at DADANET festival, Moscow
works currently in Moscow and Berlin (literature, poetry, graphic, design, performance,
videoart, netart)
Personal exibitions:
Gallery Dead Chickens Warehouse, 1991, Berlin
Gallery Invalidenstr. 31, 1992, Berlin
"30 plots from the russian history", gallery Doelberg, 1994, Berlin
"On the day of victory", art-cafe Aufsturz, 1995, Berlin
Performances:
"Basin Moskva", 27.05.94, Moscow
"Budeny’s three day war", 31.03-2.04.95, Moscow
"The red flag above Reichstag", 8.05.95, Berlin
"Ritual murder of Adolf Hitler", 11.05.95, Berlin
"Happy birthday, death!", 4.08.95, Moscow
Publications:
"30 plots from the russian history", 1994, publisher of Humboldt university,
Berlin (Russian, German)
"Mental isotherm of January", 1995 in: Basin Moskva, 1995, ibid (Russian)
"On the day of victory", 1995, ibid (personal exibition catalogue, German)
"On the day of victory", 1995, in: festival publication
OSTranenie’95, Dessau (German, English)
"The talk with an angel", in: culture magazine "Sleipnir" Nr.6,
1995, Berlin (German)
"Harry, Marquis de Sade and Peter the Great", 1996, in: art magazine
"Chudoshestvennaya volya", Sankt Petersburg (Russian)
"It’s time to compose an anti-utopia", 1996, in: "Nesavisimaya
gaseta" (Russian)
"Maked up stories", in: "Via Regia" (Erfurt, Germany) Nr.4, 1997
(German)
"Ausgedachte Geschichten", in: "Sklaven" (Berlin), Nr.32/33, 1997
(German)
Video:
"God with us", 1994, VHS, b/w, 10 min. ( special recognition at OSTRANENIE'95,
Bauhaus Dessau, Germany)
"Budeny’s three day war ", 1995, VHS PAL, 11min.
"The 8th May of 1995", VHS PAL, 7 min
"Cockroach races", 1996, S-VHS PAL, 34 min.
"Terminator III", 1996, VHS PAL, 4 min
"Superhuman musik", S-VHS PAL, 1 min
"Nervous ballet", S-VHS PAL, 1 min
"Everything is going to be alright", S-VHS PAL, 6 min
"Message", 1996, S-VHS PAL, 1 min
"Oh, Mama!", 1997, VHS PAL, 6 min
"Some like it without sugar", 1998, CD-ROM, 4 min.
Net projects:
Andrej Velikanov home page
Herbarium for Goethe (first
prize for art project at DADANET'98, Moscow)
Superhuman
music
Virtual body of
God (Grand Prix at Art on the
Net 1998, Japan)