Dmitry Kawarga () born in

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is a Russian artist. Kawarga began working in his own style of "

biomorphism Biomorphism models artistic design elements on naturally occurring patterns or shapes reminiscent of nature and living organisms. Taken to its extreme, it attempts to force naturally occurring shapes onto functional devices. In h ...

" striving to create a synthesis of science, art and technology. His art is featured in numerous museums and is part of the permanent collection of

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, Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art located in

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Style

Kawarga began his career as a painter and got his original art form among Moscow non-conformists. The flat surfaces gained more and more pronounced facture, and became ever more monumental; forms started to emerge in the manner of reliefs, and finally turned into sculptures. Currently, he works with a wide range of polymers that serve as the material of large-scale landscape sculptures as miniature detailed compositions. A big cycle of his works called Science Art, because in addition to the monumental sculptures and elaborate reliefs, he also produces kinetic and interactive installations, complete with biofeedback devices and robots. His work synthesizes science, art and technology, and he often involves engineers and programmers in the creative process. His style has been variously described as "biomorphism" or "biogenic art," while his insistence on the end of anthropocentrism has caused others to call him a practitioner of "post-human" art. Member of a large group project in the format of the

artist's book Artists' books (or book arts or book objects) are works of art that engage with and transform the form of a book. Some are mass-produced with multiple editions, some are published in small editions, while others are produced as one-of-a-kind o ...

A City as an Artist's Subjectivity (2019-2020).

Permanent collections

Hermitage Museum The State Hermitage Museum ( rus, Государственный Эрмитаж, r=Gosudarstvennyj Ermitaž, p=ɡəsʊˈdarstvʲɪn(ː)ɨj ɪrmʲɪˈtaʂ, links=no) is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia, and holds the large ...

. Hermitage Academic Library/ Rare Books and Manuscripts Sector. (

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). * KAWARGA-SKETE Gonginichy, Podporozhsky district, Leningrad region * ARCHSTOYANIE, Nikola-Lenivets, Dzerzhinsky District, Kaluga region, Russia * The Museum of Academician I.P. Pavlov in Koltushi * Signet Bank * LA Collection’ Air, Luzern, Suisse * Sergey Kuryokhin Art Center, St Petersburg *

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, Moscow * Erarta museum of contemporary art, St Petersburg * Museum of Ecology and Local History, Muravlenko, Russia * Museum Center of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Gallery

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Press

* Virtual Art Center this TALK with Dmitry kawarga. * Signet Bank - Interview with Artist Dmitry Kawarga * Russian maecenas - His Own Little Piece of the Planet * Project Baltia

Exhibitions

Kawarga has been a participant of international exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art, including Lexus Hybrid Art,

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and

Electronic Language International Festival The Festival Internacional de Linguagem Eletrônica (FILE; English: Electronic Language International Festival) is a new media arts festival that usually takes place in three cities of Brazil: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre. It has a ...

, Cyfest etc.

Solo exhibitions

* 2020 - «Transport substance», The Moscow Transport Museum * 2020 - «The Athletes of Neofuturism», Art-Space KazanMall * 2020 - «The front wall was removed», Gallery of contemporary art «BizOn», Kazan * 2019 - «Norilsk's Substance», BAZIS, CENTRUL DE INTERES, Cluj-Napoca, Romania * 2019 - «Museum's line», Saint Petersburg * 2019 - «Anthropocentrism Toxicosis», Ferenczy Museum Center, Szentendre, Hungary * 2018 - «Skins of Conceptual Constructions», ELECTROMUSEUM, Moscow * 2018 - «Polymeric Offside», MUZEON -

Fallen Monument Park The Muzeon Park of Arts (formerly the Park of the Fallen Heroes or Fallen Monument Park) is a park outside the Krymsky Val building in Moscow shared by the Modern art, modern-art division of the Tretyakov Gallery and the Central House of Artists, ...

, Moscow * 2014 - "Biomorphic dust", Saint Peterburg, RU * 2014 - "...at the deep end black fishes", The ex-cinema-theatre "Udarnik", Moscow, RU * 2012 - "Kawarga. Apocalypse 21.12", Pop/off/art Gallery,

Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod Vinzavod (; ''Vinzavod'', literally winery) is a centre for contemporary arts in Moscow, Russia. Opened in 2007, it is located in a complex of seven industrial buildings from the late 19th century including the former brewery (and later winery) ca ...

, Moscow, RU * 2012 - "Paleo-Geo-Morphologies", Barbarian-art Gallery, Zurich, SW * 2010 - "Topography of creative evolution", GridchinHall, Moscow Area, RU * 2010 - "Ouroboros" Gallery Brissot Art Contemporain, Paris, FR * 2009 - "Biostructures" Barbarian-art gallery, Zurich, SW * 2009 - "Coming into the theme" gallery pop/off/art, Moscow, RU * 2007-2008 - "Trepanation of the Thought-forms" gallery pop/off/art, RU * 2007 - "Photocompressing" Business house "Mohovaja, 7", Moscow, RU * 2005 - "Biomorphic radicalism in the destructive synthesis" gallery "Sam Brook", Moscow, RU * 2003 - "Retrospective Cut" Natural Science University, Moscow, RU * 2002 - "Project 2x10" Callery A-3, RU * 2001 - Science-n-Art Project in cooperation with Honored Inventor of Russia V.Beshekov * 1999 - "Saturated Landscape" Staraja Basmannja St. 21, Moscow, RU * 1998 - "Immersion into the Summer" in Moscow branch of The World Bank, RU * 1997 - "I'm bored with everyone and I'm tired." in Beljaevo Gallery, Moscow, RU * 1994 - Murals in Theatre "Perovskaja St.", Moscow, Ru * 1993 - Kashirka Gallery, Moscow, RU

Group exhibitions

2021 * Zverev Art Prize. Exhibition of the Nominees, CCA Winzavod * Pavlov's substance, The new anthropology and pavlov school, A permanent exhibition in Koltushi, Leningrad region 2020 * CosMoscow International Contemporary Atr Fair, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow * «The city as subjectivity», State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg 2019 * THIS IS NOT A BOOK: Dmitry Volkov Collection. MMOMA * «Plastic mass», The State Russian Museum / The Marble Palace * «THE LOOKOUT», Contemporary Art Fest, Fort Konstantin 2018 * Breakthrough, Cultural Foundation Ekaterina * Innovation as an Artistic Technique, Hermitage * The RUSSIAN ART & ANTIQUE FAIR 2017 * Yearning for the Sky, Special project of

Moscow Biennale The Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art is one of the most important Russian cultural events and was founded in 2003. First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art The First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (January 28 – February 28, 2005) ca ...

* Pieter Bruegel. Inverted world, Design center ARTPLAY, Moscow * Exhibition of works by longlisted artists of The Kuryokhin Award, St. Petersburg * Direct encounter, Solyanka VPA, Moscow 2016 * Martyr, Agency ArtRu, Moscow * Contemporary Russia, The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia * Every evening before sleep, Solyanka VPA, Moscow * Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair, International Contemporary Atr Fair, Gostiny Dvor * «Quantum Entanglement 2.0», Arsenal, Kremlin, Nizhny Novgorod * "Archstoyanie", 11th international festival of landscape objects. Nikola-Lenivets, Dzerzhinsky District, Kaluga region, Russia. 2015 * "Orient Express", the special project of 6th Moscow Biennale, Centre MARS * "Nadezhda – The Hope", the special project of 6th Moscow Biennale * "Urals Transcendental", the special project of 6th Moscow Biennale, ArtPlay * "Waxworks Exhibition", Palace of Culture

Bauman Moscow State Technical University The Bauman Moscow State Technical University (BMSTU; ), sometimes colloquially referred as the ''Bauman School'' or ''Baumanka'' (), is a public technical university (Institute of technology, polytechnic) located in Moscow, Russia. Bauman Univ ...

, Moscow * "Promise of landscape",

Perm Museum of Contemporary Art Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (PERMM) () is an art gallery in Perm, Perm Krai, Russia, that officially opened in spring 2009. It holds changing exhibitions, festivals, artist talks, lectures, workshops, concerts and performances. It is housed ...

2014 * "Quantum Entanglement", Laboratoria Art&Science Space and FutureEverything, Moscow *

, São Paulo, Brazil, (catalog) * "Zoo-Zoo",

State Darwin Museum The State Darwin Museum () is a natural history museum in Moscow. The museum was founded in 1907 by Alexander Kohts (1880–1964) and was the world's first museum of evolution explaining the work of Charles Darwin Charles Robert Darwin ...

, Moscow, (catalog) 2013 *

Kandinsky Prize The Kandinsky Prize, named after Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky is an award sponsored by the Deutsche Bank AG and the Art Chronika Culture Foundation. It was organized in hopes of developing Russian contemporary art, and to reinforce the stat ...

, The Udarnik Cinema, Moscow, (catalog) * Open Innovations (Forum and Technology Show), Crocus Expo IEC, Moscow, (catalog) * "Contemporary art in the Traditional Museum", The Saint Petersburg city museum festival, (catalog) * "Total Recall – The Evolution of memory", Arselectronica, Austria, Linz, (catalog) * "Frontier", Science-Art-Lab, Moscow * "Goszakaz" /A Governmental Order/,

& Pechersky Gallery * The show of the pretenders on Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award in nomination The Best Art Projects, (catalog) 2012 * "Resonant Matter",

Russian Museum The State Russian Museum (), formerly known as the Russian Museum of His Imperial Majesty Alexander III (), on Arts Square in Saint Petersburg, is the world's largest depository of Russian fine art. It is also one of the largest art museums in ...

, Marble Palace * "Way. Road.", Gallery ph_Manometr, ArtPlay, Moscow * "Lexus Hybrid Art", ArtPlay, Moscow 2011 * "Free spaces", the special project of 4

, Agensy ArtRu, Moscow, (catalog) * "Pro-Contra", International Symposium, the special project of 4

, ArtPlay, (catalog) * "Rewriting Worlds: Dada Moscow", the special project of 4

, ArtPlay * "ArtFocus for Technologies: Charm&Challenge", Ural forum of Industry&Innovations "INNOPROM 2011" Ekaterinburg * "The Life. The science version",

, Moscow, (catalog) * "New sculpture, Chaos and Structure", New Museum, Saint Petersburg, (catalog) * "Distortions of the Earth", Agency ArtRu, Moscow, (catalog) 2010 *

, Central House of Artists, Moscow, (catalog) * "Club 21 - Remaking the scene", One Marylebone, the special project of

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London, England, (catalog) * "A New Formalism", Museum of a City sculpture, Saint Petersburg, (catalog) * "Reality metamorphoses, or Games with Time", Zverev's centre of contemporary art, Moscow * "0,5" Jubilee exhibition, gallery pop/off/art, Moscow, (catalog) 2009 * "New sculpture, Chaos and Structure", Coluyanka gallery, Moscow * "Good News" Orel Art Gallery, London, England, (catalog) * "Art Moscow" 13 th International Art Fair, pop/off/art gallery * "Night of museums"

Tretyakov Gallery The State Tretyakov Gallery (; abbreviated ГТГ, ''GTG'') is an art gallery in Moscow, Russia, which is considered the foremost depository of Russian fine art in the world. The gallery's history starts in 1856 when the Muscovite merchant Pavel ...

, Moscow * "Evolution of a dream",

* EUROP'ART'09 Grand-Saconnex Geneva, Switzerland 2008 * "Atlantis" gallery A3, Moscow * "Invasion : Evasion" Baibakov art projects, (catalog) * "Cyberfest" Youth Educational Centre of

, Saint Petersburg * "Power of Water"

, Saint Petersburg, (catalog) * "Tunguska meteorite", 100-years of falling, Krasnoyarsk * "Art About Mortality", in memory N. Konstantinova, Rostov on Don, (catalog) * "Sleeping district", gallery ArtMarin 2007 * Competition on the project a monument to Boris Yeltsin * - 7th Krasnoyarsk Biennial 2007 * Work is exhibited at a show-window of a museum

1988 - 2005 * Art Manezh 2005, Moscow * "World of War" Museum Of Decorative Art, Moscow 2003 * The Size Does Matter" Central House of Artists, Moscow 2003 * "Object and Thing" Museum Of Decorative Art, Moscow 2001 * "Action Initiation" Art Laboratory Dominanta, Moscow, 1997 * "Bleeding of Spring" Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow, 1997 * Art Manezh 1996, Moscow * "Fun-Art" Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1994 * Group "Hummer" Manezh, Moscow, 1992 * "Golden Brush" Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1992 * - Malaja Gruzinskaja in Manezh, Moscow, 1991 * "Space and Spirit", Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1991 (catalog) * Group "Hummer" Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1988 * In Memory of Pjatnitzkogo Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow, 1988 * "Labyrinth" Palace of Youth, Moscow, 1988

References

External links

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CyberArts 2013. Exhibition shows the award-winning works of the Prix Ars Electronica 2013.

Contemporaryeasteurope, by Joel Simpson

Erarta, Saint Petersburg, Russia, by Jeff Greif

Zerfall und Plüschhase, by Sonja Zekri

C-Collection

Kawarga’s Polymer Sculptures and Model of Biomorphic Consciousness, By Joel Simpson

Phillips London Auction

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