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Natalia Smolianskaia
Works Exhibitions Biography
Works
Solo exhibitions
2023

DIARY OF A MOSCOW SCHOOLGIRL. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow

2019

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

2018

Co-instantaries. Promgrafika Gallery, Moscow

The color of the air is red (Le fond de l’air est rouge). 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, The State Russian Museum, Saint 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 State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow

2007

The Adventures of “The Black Square” by К. Malevich. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

2005

Collage in Russia. The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

2003

Moscow Abstraction. The Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2001

Abstraction Art in Russia. The State Russian Museum, Saint 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

Logic of Paradox. Youth Palace, Moscow

1989

Czerwone i biale / Red & White. Group show from Russia and Poland, Dijkstra Gallery, Stichting Open Haven Museum, Stichting Circ, Amsterdam

Collection 89. House of Soviet Culture and Science, Helsinki, Finland

1988

Soviet Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Osaka, Japan

Soviet Contemporary art. Balderskilde Gallery, Denmark

New Soviet Art. Milan, Italy

Labyrinth. Youth Palace, Moscow

Neuvostoliiton nuorta taidetta. Turku, Finaland

1987

Artiste and Contemporaneity. The First exhibition of The First creative association, Kashirka Gallery, Moscow

Exhibitions
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
Natalya Smolyanskaya was born in 1958 in Moscow. Artist, theorist of contemporary art and the avant-garde, curator, Ph.D. in Philosophy, member of the Union of Artists (painting section (1989)), laureate of the Innovation Prize (Curator of the Year, 2020), fellow of the House of Human Sciences in Paris (2018). Her works involve installations, painting and interactive graphics, video, author's book, dance performance (conceptual solution and scenography). Regular exhibitor since 1982. Graduated in 1981 from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (art and graphics department). From 2007 to 2013, she led a research programme on avant-garde theories and practices and the languages of art at the International College of Philosophy in Paris. She’s a curator and participant of the project "Enter and Allow", participant and leader of the seminar of the project "Place of Art". In 1990–1996 she was one of the organizers and participant of all exhibitions of the Polygon group. She has co-curated the exhibition project "Transformers" (1995-1996) of the Polygon group in four cultural centres of Belgium. Smolyanskaya's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Vologda Art Gallery, the collection of the Ruarts Foundation, the collection of the House of Abstract Painting Kollerarthouse, as well as private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Denmark, France, Belgium, Holland, USA, Austria.

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