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Works Biography

Works

Natalia Smolianskaia
Photo series to "Reliefs" photo-objects, 2011-2015
plastic, oracal,
70 x 100
Natalia Smolianskaia
Frame Break project. №16, 2010
oil, mixed media, plastic,
50 x 200
Natalia Smolianskaia
Frame Break project. Motion series. №1, 2007
canvas, oil, PVC,
130 x 130

Solo exhibitions

2023

DIARY OF A MOSCOW SCHOOLGIRL. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow

2019

Curator, Scores for a meeting, Anna Kravchenko, Garage workshops, Moscow

2018

Со-мгновенники. Promgrafika Gallery, Moscow

The color of the air is red. CCI FABRIKA, Moscow (curator Dmitry Filippov)

2011

Frame Break, Ruarts Gallery, Moscow

2003

Signs of Space. Manege Gallery, Moscow

1998

Library Center Pangloss, Moscow

1993

А3 Gallery, Moscow

Polygon-3. East Gallery, Moscow, with E. Gor

1990

Show with I.Entina, Arbat Gallery, Moscow

Performances:

2018

Performance within the framework of the exhibition project "This is a very strange place", 7th Moscow International Youth Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project (head of educational project)

2009

La pou/pée. Dancer Barbara Eliask, Brazil-France

2003

Crossroads. Dancer Anna Kuznetsova, together with The Blind group

1997 - 2003

Sister. Together with The Blind group (A. Kuznetsova, A. Margorin)

Group exhibitions

2019

Smoke and Chocolate CCI FABRIKA, Moscow

2018

Sculptor's book, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2015

LOOK AND SEE. Anne-Sarah Le Meur (France), Alexandra Mitlyanskaya (Russia), Guillaume Guerin (France), Christian Lebrat (France), Natalya Smolyanskaya (Russia). Curator: Natalya Smolyanskaya. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow

2014

Projection, Paris, 3e édition de la Semaine des Arts - Université Paris 8 (with A. Pankin, A. Komelin, A. Buldakov, T. Badanina, A. Sukhareva)

2012

INSIDE_FABRIKA_OUTSIDE, CCI FABRIKA, Moscow

2009

Not Toys. III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the Tretyakov Gallery

2007

The Adventures of the Square. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2005

Collage in Russia. State Russian Museum, St. Petesburg

2003

Moscow Abstraction. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2001

Abstraction in Russia. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

1995-96

"Polygon” in Belgium. Transformers project. Tilt; Strombeek-Bewer, Bergheim, Kurtrijk

1994

Polygon-4. Monuments project. Central House of Artists, Moscow

1993

Exhibition at the Theatre on Taganka in connection with the reconstruction of the opera “Victory over the Sun” (Matyushin, Malevich, Kruchenykh, 1913)

Polygon-3. East Gallery, Moscow

1991

Polygon-2. Youth Palace, Moscow

1990

Polygon. Kashirka Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Exhibitions

The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

Vologda State Picture Gallery

Private collections in Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA, Austria, Finland, Russia

Biography

Natalia Smolyanskaya was born in 1958 in Moscow. Artist, theorist, curator, Ph.D. in Philosophy, member of the Union of Artists (1989), laureate of the Innovation Prize (curator of the year, 2020), fellow at the House of Human Sciences in Paris (2018). Regular exhibitor since 1982. Received an art education at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. Her works involve installations, painting and interactive graphics, video, author's book. From 2007-2013, she led the research program on avant-garde theories and practices and the languages of art at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. N. Smolyanskaya's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, Vologda Art Gallery, private collections in Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, USA, Austria, Finland, Russia.