In “Fear and Hope“, an exhibition at the Pinchuk Art Center in Kiev, three Ukrainian artists, Nikita Kadan, Zhanna Kadyrova and Artem Volokytin, present new works with older ones, revealing the presence of the recent conditions of their countries through their thinking.

The new paintings of Artem Volokytin presented in the show, represent a drastic change in the artistic practice of Volokytin, which is a direct response to the violence that became a part of daily life in Ukraine. His work focuses on the act of violence, more specifically an explosion, but also on the emptiness and the personal loss.

Photographs provided by the PinchukArtCentre © 2014. Photographed by Sergey Illin

“Quelles sont nos ruines?” (“What are our ruines ?”), is a on-going collective and multidisciplinary project organized by Alain Hélou from Les Ateliers du Vent in Rennes, France. This project brings together a group of artists from France, Russia and Moldova around the concept of ‘ruins’, whether there are physical in the landscape or immaterial from our history. Our everyday life is always looking for new, bright and valuable things. The aim of the the current project is to look to the ruins which are also part of our world and are often left behind or ignored.

“Applause”, Diana Machulina, 2009, oil on canvas, 163x400cm

Four photographs from the series “Mothers and Daughters” by Ivan Mikhailov are presented in the exhibition “Allégories d’oubli” as part of the Nouveau Festival at the Pompidou Center in Paris.

The exhibition gathers fifty proposals by contemporary artists who introduced the idea of the forgotten and the reminiscence in their work.

Vladimir Logutov, Irina Korina and Elikuka take part with a couple of other contemporary Russian artists to the group show “On top”, an epoch reflected in the sky of Moscow, curated by Evguenia Kikodze at the Museum of Moscow.

The exhibition gather in one room the most famous contemporary artists in Russia.

With even artwork displayed on the exhibition hall ceiling of the museum of the Moscow history, the artists make us raise our head, look above, and discover a range of information that our contemporary urban way of living doesn’t give us the time to see or cuts off of our thoughts.

Must see if you are in Moscow from Feb 7 to April 1st

website of the Moscow Museum (only in Russian)

Images courtesy the artists and the Moscow Museum

In the exhibition  ”Russia beyond mythologies“, curated by Olga Sviblova and the Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, as part of Russenko festival  in Kremlin-Bicêtre, the young Russian photographer Ivan Mikhailov presents his new photographic project “Mothers and Daughters“.

With a scientific and objective approach inherited from the Dusseldorf school of photography, Ivan Mikhailov presents the women of forty families he has selected in different regions in Russia and from various social origins, using the same position and neutral light, giving a documentary and almost cataloging dimension to this artwork.

Ivan Mikhailov wants to investigate the passing of time through generations as well as the relations inside a familly, with a personal touch as, with 3 sisters, he has always been surrounded by women in his childhood.

Images : view from the exhibition, Ivan Mikhailov

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich, performance artist, writer, theater director and filmmaker, living between Moscow, London and São Paulo will present 3 events in Miami during the art week there.

* “Jesus Cristo de Jelo”, a false stereoscopic performative photography piece presented at Luciana Brito Galeria’s booth, Art Basel Miami Beach, Dec 5-8

* “Chewing for the lion”, a performance as a part of Whitechapel Gallery’s special Miami night, Hotel Delanoe, on Dec 3rd, 8-11pm

Vladimir Logutov is one of the most radical of the young Russian artists. Artist, organiser and curator of several exhibitions such as the recent show “Nothing of the kind”, Vladimir Logutov is playing with the specificities of each art form, would it be video, sculpture or painting.

The core of his work is a game with the reality and with the viewer, to create a new reality. His practice is very involved with the environment where he is living, in Samara, on the Volga river in Russia.

Between a ready-made and an artistic object, this “golden trap” sculpture is one of his latest artwork.  What doest this tell us about Russia:  its vast landscape and forests, populated by bears, also symbol of the country; its specific conditions for backwardness, rooted in his geography and history that some economists call “bear traps”, despite the gold and money flowing out of the country;  the heavy losses that could occur in the stock market from false signal ; or would it refer to Russia’s diplomatic trick? The gold made this trap lose its power, and more intended to be hung as a crest in a museum exhibition.

The Solyanka State Gallery in Moscow presents “Artist’s Zoo”, as part of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.

The Solyanka gallery is the unique institution to present for the second time a panorama of Russian artists evolving in the genre of the performance. The project consists of  seven Russian artists performing each in their own cage for 7 days (the actual performance’s documentation will then remain on view). The Zoo is dedicated to the outstanding Taiwaneseperformance artist Tehching Hsieh, whose first work in New York in the early 1980s saw him sitting behind bars for a year and doing nothing for 365 days.

Fyodor Pavlov-Andreevich is showing a new work at The Zoo, entitled “My Face Is On Vacation”, as a continuation of “My Mouth is a Temple”, part of  ”Marina Abramovic presents” at the Manchester International Festival in 2009.