Bags Stas
Born in 1984 in Leningrad.
Education
- 2013 (February-March) — educational program “Cabinet of Сuriosities” Proarte and KUVA Academy of Arts, Helsinki
- 2001—2007 — Faculty of Science, Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology GRPU named Herzen, St. Petersburg
- 2004—2007 — Proarte Institute, St. Petersburg
Collections
Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (Macedonia), the State Russian Museum. Private collections in Russia, Finland, Germany and France.
Personal exhibitions
2013
- “Joseph Beuys Had no Choice”, Kadieff Gallery (Helsinki)
2012
- “Gudermes Ichkeria”, collaboration with Kostya Fedorov, Mira Miru (Saint Petersburg)
- “Collapse”, Anna Nova Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
2011
- “Severstal”, Anna Nova Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “Milk and Vodka Design For Its Own Exhibitions”, Vihod Media Center (Petrozavodsk)
2010
- “Name”, A trans Pavilion (Berlin)
- “Katusha”, Krasnoe Znamja Center of Culture (Saint Petersburg)
2009
- “Milk and Vodka”, G18 Gallery (Helsinki)
- “3-4-5”, Protvor Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “My Moscow”, Start Gallery, Winzavod (Moscow)
2008
- “Memory N1 Old Age”, LUDA Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “Memory N2 Room”, C.A.G. Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “I Hate Labels”, ZOOM Art Café (Saint Petersburg)
2007
- “Milk and Vodka”, Stirka Art Café (Saint Petersburg)
2006
- “Moloko i Vodka”, Griboedov Fashion Club (Saint Petersburg)
Selected group exhibitions
2014
- “From Words to Action”, Nepokorennie Studio, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
- “Casus Pacis. Motive to Peace”, Street Art Museum, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
- “Generation Start”, First Military School, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
- “Magnetic Field”, Rizzordi Art Foundation Loft, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
- “Signal Art of the Present”, Kontur Loft (Saint Petersburg)
- “Storage Conditions” Anna Nova Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- Drunk Exhibition (in memory of 100-aniversairy of Russian Avant-garde), Borey Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “After Comics”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
2013
- “Mayakovsky. Manifest”, Proun Gallery (Moscow)
- Art Prospect Public Art Festival (Saint Petersburg)
- “Mythology of Moscow”, Museum of Moscow, special program of V Moscow Biennale (Moscow)
- “View West, View East”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
- “Mechanisms of Paradox”, Kuryokhin Center of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
- “New Reasons: From Conception to Minimalism”, Cultproject Gallery (Moscow)
- “New Aesthetics”, Nevsky Prospekt, 20 Information Library and Cultural Center of Art and Music (Saint Petersburg)
- “Kresty. Prison. №2”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
- “From Saint Petersburg with Love”, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum (Groningen)
2012
- “The Hot Cold”, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)
- “Resonant Matter”, State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)
- “Conversion”, 1/4 Art Space (Saint Petersburg)
- “ARTiculation Exercise”, Special project of III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, White Hall (Moscow)
- “Oculus Dva”, Special project of III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Agency Art Ru (Moscow)
- “Elastic Art”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
- Exhibition of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees, Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center (Saint Petersburg)
2011
- “Shit”, All Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “Gates and Doors”, State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)
- “The Force Field”, Krasnoe Znamja Center of Culture (Saint Petersburg)
2010
- “Font”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
- “Fence”, Perm Alive Festival (Perm)
- “The Heroes of Our Time”, Open Gallery, II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow)
- “Vis-à-vis”, National Center for Contemporary Arts, II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow)
- “New Formalism”, Museum of the City Sculpture (Saint Petersburg)
- “Severstal” (installation with mechanics), “Odyssey of the Balaclava” Military (Sevastopol)
- “Vis-à-vis”, Ecole nationale des beaux-art de Lyon (Lyon)
2009
- Exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees, Central House of Artists (Moscow)
- “The Door”, LUDA Gallery, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)
- “Barrel”, XIV Macedonian Biennial of Young Artists (Skopje)
- “Art About Art”, State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)
- “Fury”, Globe Gallery, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)
2008
- “Antistrot vs MilkandVodka”, Dutch Punch, Winzavod (Moscow)
- “What are We Going to Play Tomorrow”, С.A.G Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “Acclimatization”, C.A.G. Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
- “Memory of Fields”, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)
2007
- “Notes From the Overpass”, G18 Gallery (Helsinki)
- “ …izmy”, Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum Festival, State Museum of Political History of Russia (Saint Petersburg)
- Modern Techno Music & New Art 1-night Festival “Video Capture”, total installation, Nepokorennie Studio (Saint Petersburg)
- “Standartnoye Primitivirovanie”, Nepokorennie Studio (Saint Petersburg)
- “Samiy Samiy Noviy”, Atelier №2 Gallery, Winzavod (Moscow)
2006
- “Street Art / Closed Air”, MART Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
Art Fairs
2013
- Volta9 (Basel) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
2012
- Spoon Art Fair (Hong Kong) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
- AHAF Hong Kong (China) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
- ARCO Madrid (Spane) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
2011
- ART EDITION, Seoul (South Korea) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
Workshops
2013
- Urban Art Festival, Kiasma (Helsinki)
- “Cabinet of Curiosities”, ProArte/Kuvataideakatemia (Saint Petersburg – Helsinki)
2008
- “Youth for Europe” (Copenhagen)
- Art Kazantip Art Festival (Ukraine)
Awards and nominations
2011
- Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominee
2009
- Kandinsky Prize nominee
