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LIVING MATTER
September 2 — October 10, 2021
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Polytechnic Museum, and Triumph Gallery
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Polytechnic Museum, and Triumph Gallery
A large-scale show will explore the evolution of the planet’s ecosystem, new principles of ecological thought, and modes of coexistence between animals and humans, the organic and inorganic world.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Polytechnic Museum, and Triumph Gallery present Living Matter, a group exhibition featuring Russian and international artists. A large-scale show will explore the evolution of the planet’s ecosystem, new principles of ecological thought, and modes of coexistence between animals and humans, the organic and inorganic world.
The title of the project is an homage to the philosophical legacy of the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, whose ideas are relevant within the context of contemporary understanding of the relationship between the humanity and nature. Vernadsky was among the first to see the human as a "geological force" capable of transforming Earth’s landscape. He defined the biosphere as "living matter"—the totality of all organisms, plants and animals, including humans.
The title of the project is an homage to the philosophical legacy of the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, whose ideas are relevant within the context of contemporary understanding of the relationship between the humanity and nature. Vernadsky was among the first to see the human as a "geological force" capable of transforming Earth’s landscape. He defined the biosphere as "living matter"—the totality of all organisms, plants and animals, including humans.
Still from the video "Becoming"
2020
Provided by the authors
2020
Provided by the authors
Still from the video "Becoming"
2020
Provided by the authors
2020
Provided by the authors
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Polytechnic Museum, and Triumph Gallery present Living Matter, a group exhibition featuring Russian and international artists. A large-scale show will explore the evolution of the planet’s ecosystem, new principles of ecological thought, and modes of coexistence between animals and humans, the organic and inorganic world.
The title of the project is an homage to the philosophical legacy of the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, whose ideas are relevant within the context of contemporary understanding of the relationship between the humanity and nature. Vernadsky was among the first to see the human as a "geological force" capable of transforming Earth’s landscape. He defined the biosphere as "living matter"—the totality of all organisms, plants and animals, including humans.
The title of the project is an homage to the philosophical legacy of the Russian scientist Vladimir Vernadsky, whose ideas are relevant within the context of contemporary understanding of the relationship between the humanity and nature. Vernadsky was among the first to see the human as a "geological force" capable of transforming Earth’s landscape. He defined the biosphere as "living matter"—the totality of all organisms, plants and animals, including humans.
Based on these ideas, Vernadsky proposed a series of possible solutions to global issues, many of which remain pertinent today. We are currently witnessing the disappearance of various life forms, a qualitative change in interspecies relationships, and the replacement of entire natural ecosystems with artificial ones due to increasing anthropogenic load. The ever-growing magnitude of human impact on the planet calls for measures of its limitation. At the same time, sustainable co-evolution requires new ethical approaches to the relationship with living matter. Key issues in contemporary philosophy and art practices are aligned with these ideas. Artistic approaches of participating artists are imbued with denial of anthropocentrism and antagonism between man and nature, living and inanimate entities, active force and passive matter. Placing the human onto the same ontological plane as other entities and ascribing equal degree of beingness to all, exhibition participants analyze the hidden connections between different forms of life; model non-hierarchical networks of interaction between human and non-human communities; create a picture in which Homo sapiens is a part of a large, constantly evolving ecosystem.
Based on these ideas, Vernadsky proposed a series of possible solutions to global issues, many of which remain pertinent today. We are currently witnessing the disappearance of various life forms, a qualitative change in interspecies relationships, and the replacement of entire natural ecosystems with artificial ones due to increasing anthropogenic load. The ever-growing magnitude of human impact on the planet calls for measures of its limitation. At the same time, sustainable co-evolution requires new ethical approaches to the relationship with living matter. Key issues in contemporary philosophy and art practices are aligned with these ideas. Artistic approaches of participating artists are imbued with denial of anthropocentrism and antagonism between man and nature, living and inanimate entities, active force and passive matter. Placing the human onto the same ontological plane as other entities and ascribing equal degree of beingness to all, exhibition participants analyze the hidden connections between different forms of life; model non-hierarchical networks of interaction between human and non-human communities; create a picture in which Homo sapiens is a part of a large, constantly evolving ecosystem.
In their works, the artists combine scientific research and marginal forms of knowledge, traditional practices and latest technologies, rationality and intuition. Bridging the gap between man and nature and penetration into the forms of life that are usually hidden from us create a unique opportunity to establish close contact with them, to experience a sense of empathy for all the diversity of planet Earth.
Drawing on the creativity of plants and animals, artificial and organic substances, artists model hybrid worlds and entire ecosystems that may one day emerge. By focusing the viewer’s attention on the ability of inanimate materials to interact with organic matter, their art seeks to awaken a sense of emotional sensitivity to non-human reality, bringing a new anthropological view of ourselves as a species.
Drawing on the creativity of plants and animals, artificial and organic substances, artists model hybrid worlds and entire ecosystems that may one day emerge. By focusing the viewer’s attention on the ability of inanimate materials to interact with organic matter, their art seeks to awaken a sense of emotional sensitivity to non-human reality, bringing a new anthropological view of ourselves as a species.
In their works, the artists combine scientific research and marginal forms of knowledge, traditional practices and latest technologies, rationality and intuition. Bridging the gap between man and nature and penetration into the forms of life that are usually hidden from us create a unique opportunity to establish close contact with them, to experience a sense of empathy for all the diversity of planet Earth.
Drawing on the creativity of plants and animals, artificial and organic substances, artists model hybrid worlds and entire ecosystems that may one day emerge. By focusing the viewer’s attention on the ability of inanimate materials to interact with organic matter, their art seeks to awaken a sense of emotional sensitivity to non-human reality, bringing a new anthropological view of ourselves as a species.
Drawing on the creativity of plants and animals, artificial and organic substances, artists model hybrid worlds and entire ecosystems that may one day emerge. By focusing the viewer’s attention on the ability of inanimate materials to interact with organic matter, their art seeks to awaken a sense of emotional sensitivity to non-human reality, bringing a new anthropological view of ourselves as a species.
Through the artworks exhibited, we embrace the perspective of underground inhabitants, descend into the deep layers of the hydrosphere, penetrate into the microcosm of creatures inaccessible to human vision, and see the surrounding landscape from a bird’s eye view. Instead of observers, this art invites us to become inhabitants of unfamiliar environments and explore them with new senses. This optics and the inclusion of previously excluded objects into it seems to be a radical step that has planetary significance today.
The exhibition features over fifty artists from 16 countries, including Denmark, France, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, USA, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and Russia. The show presents more than three hundred works of various mediums and genres: immersive installations and sculptures, objects and photographs, painting and video. Eleven new large-scale projects were created especially for the exhibition by Irina Korina, Anastasia Potemkina, Alexey Martins, Vitaly Barabanov and others.
The exhibition features over fifty artists from 16 countries, including Denmark, France, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, USA, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and Russia. The show presents more than three hundred works of various mediums and genres: immersive installations and sculptures, objects and photographs, painting and video. Eleven new large-scale projects were created especially for the exhibition by Irina Korina, Anastasia Potemkina, Alexey Martins, Vitaly Barabanov and others.
Through the artworks exhibited, we embrace the perspective of underground inhabitants, descend into the deep layers of the hydrosphere, penetrate into the microcosm of creatures inaccessible to human vision, and see the surrounding landscape from a bird’s eye view. Instead of observers, this art invites us to become inhabitants of unfamiliar environments and explore them with new senses. This optics and the inclusion of previously excluded objects into it seems to be a radical step that has planetary significance today.
The exhibition features over fifty artists from 16 countries, including Denmark, France, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, USA, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and Russia. The show presents more than three hundred works of various mediums and genres: immersive installations and sculptures, objects and photographs, painting and video. Eleven new large-scale projects were created especially for the exhibition by Irina Korina, Anastasia Potemkina, Alexey Martins, Vitaly Barabanov and others.
The exhibition features over fifty artists from 16 countries, including Denmark, France, Sweden, Finland, the Netherlands, USA, Italy, Japan, Turkey, and Russia. The show presents more than three hundred works of various mediums and genres: immersive installations and sculptures, objects and photographs, painting and video. Eleven new large-scale projects were created especially for the exhibition by Irina Korina, Anastasia Potemkina, Alexey Martins, Vitaly Barabanov and others.
List of artists:
Ville Andersson, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Daniil Antropov, Agency of Singular Investigations (Stanislav Shuripa, Anna Titova), Vitaly Barabanov, Hicham Berrada, Aleksey Buldakov, Ilya Dolgov, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Sergey Filatov, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Roman Golovko, Jon Gomez, Selma Gürbuz, Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja, Alma Heikkilä, Kati Immonen, IC-98 (Pätrick Söderlund, Visa Suonpää), Yun Kyung Jeong, Anastasia Keineahnung, Anastasia Kizilova, Irina Korina, Anna Komarova, Taisia Korotkova, Vlad Kulkov, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Dana Levy, Giuseppe Licari, Aleksey Martins, Astrid Mintekær, Zhenya Mironov, Mari-Jeanne Musiol, Slava Nesterov, Evgeniya Nozhkina, Pavel Otdelnov, Jonathan Pêpe, Roland Persson, Dmitry Plavinsky, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, Anastasia Potemkina, Denis Prasolov, Quarantine, Sommer Roman, Recycle Group (Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov), Dina Salqin, Khvay Samnang, Nikolay Smirnov, Andrey Shkarin and Maria Efimova, Alexander Shchurenkov, Jacob Kudsk Steensen, Sissel Marie Tonn (with Heather Leslie and Juan Garcia Vallejo), Margo Trushina, Hanae Utamura, Ustina Yakovleva.
Curator: Yulia Aksenova
Ville Andersson, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Daniil Antropov, Agency of Singular Investigations (Stanislav Shuripa, Anna Titova), Vitaly Barabanov, Hicham Berrada, Aleksey Buldakov, Ilya Dolgov, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Sergey Filatov, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Roman Golovko, Jon Gomez, Selma Gürbuz, Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja, Alma Heikkilä, Kati Immonen, IC-98 (Pätrick Söderlund, Visa Suonpää), Yun Kyung Jeong, Anastasia Keineahnung, Anastasia Kizilova, Irina Korina, Anna Komarova, Taisia Korotkova, Vlad Kulkov, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Dana Levy, Giuseppe Licari, Aleksey Martins, Astrid Mintekær, Zhenya Mironov, Mari-Jeanne Musiol, Slava Nesterov, Evgeniya Nozhkina, Pavel Otdelnov, Jonathan Pêpe, Roland Persson, Dmitry Plavinsky, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, Anastasia Potemkina, Denis Prasolov, Quarantine, Sommer Roman, Recycle Group (Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov), Dina Salqin, Khvay Samnang, Nikolay Smirnov, Andrey Shkarin and Maria Efimova, Alexander Shchurenkov, Jacob Kudsk Steensen, Sissel Marie Tonn (with Heather Leslie and Juan Garcia Vallejo), Margo Trushina, Hanae Utamura, Ustina Yakovleva.
Curator: Yulia Aksenova
List of artists:
Ville Andersson, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Daniil Antropov, Agency of Singular Investigations (Stanislav Shuripa, Anna Titova), Vitaly Barabanov, Hicham Berrada, Aleksey Buldakov, Ilya Dolgov, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Sergey Filatov, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Roman Golovko, Jon Gomez, Selma Gürbuz, Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja, Alma Heikkilä, Kati Immonen, IC-98 (Pätrick Söderlund, Visa Suonpää), Yun Kyung Jeong, Anastasia Keineahnung, Anastasia Kizilova, Irina Korina, Anna Komarova, Taisia Korotkova, Vlad Kulkov, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Dana Levy, Giuseppe Licari, Aleksey Martins, Astrid Mintekær, Zhenya Mironov, Mari-Jeanne Musiol, Slava Nesterov, Evgeniya Nozhkina, Pavel Otdelnov, Jonathan Pêpe, Roland Persson, Dmitry Plavinsky, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, Anastasia Potemkina, Denis Prasolov, Quarantine, Sommer Roman, Recycle Group (Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov), Dina Salqin, Khvay Samnang, Nikolay Smirnov, Andrey Shkarin and Maria Efimova, Alexander Shchurenkov, Jacob Kudsk Steensen, Sissel Marie Tonn (with Heather Leslie and Juan Garcia Vallejo), Margo Trushina, Hanae Utamura, Ustina Yakovleva.
Curator: Yulia Aksenova
Ville Andersson, Anna Andrzhievskaya, Daniil Antropov, Agency of Singular Investigations (Stanislav Shuripa, Anna Titova), Vitaly Barabanov, Hicham Berrada, Aleksey Buldakov, Ilya Dolgov, Ilya Fedotov-Fedorov, Sergey Filatov, Anne-Charlotte Finel, Roman Golovko, Jon Gomez, Selma Gürbuz, Laura Gustafsson and Terike Haapoja, Alma Heikkilä, Kati Immonen, IC-98 (Pätrick Söderlund, Visa Suonpää), Yun Kyung Jeong, Anastasia Keineahnung, Anastasia Kizilova, Irina Korina, Anna Komarova, Taisia Korotkova, Vlad Kulkov, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Dana Levy, Giuseppe Licari, Aleksey Martins, Astrid Mintekær, Zhenya Mironov, Mari-Jeanne Musiol, Slava Nesterov, Evgeniya Nozhkina, Pavel Otdelnov, Jonathan Pêpe, Roland Persson, Dmitry Plavinsky, Alexander Pogorzhelsky, Anastasia Potemkina, Denis Prasolov, Quarantine, Sommer Roman, Recycle Group (Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov), Dina Salqin, Khvay Samnang, Nikolay Smirnov, Andrey Shkarin and Maria Efimova, Alexander Shchurenkov, Jacob Kudsk Steensen, Sissel Marie Tonn (with Heather Leslie and Juan Garcia Vallejo), Margo Trushina, Hanae Utamura, Ustina Yakovleva.
Curator: Yulia Aksenova
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