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(born: 1960)
graduated from the Mukhina College of Art and Design (Leningrad) in 1982.
One of the founders of MITKI artist group (1985).
The member of the Russian Artist´s Union (1998).
In 1990 was trained at the INSTITUT DES HAUTES ETUDES EN ARTS PLASTIQUES (director: Pontus Hulten).
Works in different fields of art: painting, graphics, book illustration, sculpture, ceramics and animation. The author of animated films "MITKIMAYER" (1992),"RUSSIAN ALBUM" (2001) and "TROPHY FILMS" (2004).
Have taken part in a large number of film festivals, both in Russia and abroad (1993-2002).
The founder of MITKILIBRIS publishing house and one of the founders and curators of "MITKI - VHUTEMAS " art center in St. Petersburg.
Since 1995 A. Florensky have been working on joint projects together with his wife, artist Olga Florensky ("MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE", "MOVEABLE BESTIARY", "LOCAL TIME", "RUSSIAN TROPHY", etc.).
Artist lives and works in St Petersburg. |
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2005
CULT CONSTRUCTIONS, St. Petersburg, Museum of the history of religion.
VIEWS OF PETERSBURG, St Petersburg, Nabokov's museum.
ACADEMY OF PORCELAIN, St. Petersburg, State Hermitage.
1st MOSCOW BIENNALE FOR CONTEMPORARY ART.
ART-MOSCOW, Central exhibition hall, Moscow.
ART PLAY, Moscow.
ART FORUM, Moscow.
GHOST OF A CHANCE, Bath, Ipswich - UK.
CHANCE ENCOUNTERS, Ipswich, UK.
2004
TAMED AND WILD, State Russian museum, St. Petersburg.
TAKSIDERMIA, Art center ANNANTALO, Helsinki.
NA KURORT!, Kunsthalle, BADEN-BADEN, Germany.
2003
THE RETURN OF MIR ISKUSSTVA , St. Petersburg History Museum.
STUDIO OF ART-MOSCOW, Moscow art Fair, Moscow.
GRAPHIC ART OF XX CENTURY, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
NIGHT TRAIN Surrealist Routes to Kiasmas's Collections. Kiasma Museum, Helsinki.
2002
MOVEABLE BESTIARY AND OTHER OBJECTS, Architectural Association, London.
SNEGUROCHKA, Zacheta National Gallery , Warsaw.
RUSSIAN TROPHY, Hand Print Workshop International,
Washington, DC.
2001
MISCELLANEOUS, show and lectures in Grand Valley State University, Michigan.
ISKUSSTVO 2000 Kunstverein Rosenheim, Germany.
NORDIC POSTMODERNISM, Kiasma Museum, Helsinki.
CONTEMPORARY ART FROM ST. PETERSBURG, Tallinn Art Museum.
ART - MOSCOW FAIR, Moscow.
MOVEABLE BESTIARY, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujyazdowsky Castle, Warsaw.
2000
GUELMAN GALLERY IN THE STATE RUSSIAN MUSEUM, State Russian museum, St. Petersburg.
ANATOMICAL PERSON, Kunstkamera Museum, St Petersburg.
MOVEMENT TOWARDS YIE, Anhava Gallery, Helsinki.
TAXIDERMY, MODEST ARCHITECTURE, A MOVEABLE BESTIARY, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
TAXIDERMY, MODEST ARCHITECTURE, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
DYNAMIC COUPLES, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
ART - MOSCOW FAIR, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
1999
FAUNA, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow; National Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod; Zacheta National Gallery , Warsaw.
LOCAL TIME (THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHRONOMETRY IN RUSSIA), State Museum of the History of St Petersburg (in collaboration with Outi Heiskanen).
1998
EXHIBITION OF NEW ACQUISITIONS, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
A MOVEABLE BESTIARY IN THE SUMMER GARDEN, Summer Garden, St Petersburg.
SELECTED MATERIAL FOR THE PROJECT "A MOVEABLE BESTIARY", Iosef Bakshteyn Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
RUSSIAN PATENT, Guelman Gallery, Moscow (in collaboration with G. Pellegrini).
1997
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujyazdowsky Castle, Warsaw.
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE, Szczecin Biennale, Poland.
RED IN RUSSIAN ART, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
5 YEARS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF CONTEMPORARY ART, the State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.
VODKA, Guelman Gallery, Moscow.
1996
RUSSIAN PATENT, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg.
IYE, EXMA Art Centre, Cagliari, Italy (in collaboration with G. Pellegrini).
WEIMAR - KNIGA, Soros Centre for Contemporary Art, St Petersburg.
IYE, Rauma Biennale, Finland.
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE, L-Gallery, Moscow.
METAPHERN DES ENTRUCKSTEINS (contemporary art from St Petersburg), Karlsruhe.
1995
MOVEMENT TOWARDS IYE (the archive of I.P. Barinov), Borey Gallery, St Petersburg.
SELF-IDENTIFICATION, Kiel, Berlin, Oslo, Sopot, St Petersburg.
1994
RUSSIAN ALBUM, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg.
MISCELLANY, Gallery 10/10, St Petersburg.
ON THE 10TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF THE MITKI GROUP, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg. |
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