aristarkh chernyshev. biography.

Aristarkh Chernyshev

Born in Voroshilovgrad, USSR, in 1968.
Graduated from The Moscow State Technical University (1991). Grant holder at The Academy of Arts, Berlin (1995).
Lives and works in Moscow.

	MAIN PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS
2006	Data Drain / Utechka dannykh. XL Gallery, ART Strelka, Moscow
2005	Presentation of teleinstallations. Media Centre RICX, Riga, Latvia CoMutation. With Vl. Efimov. Parallel program of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. XL Gallery, Moscow
2004	Echo of Ether. With Vl. Efimov. (In the framework of the ProArte Institute festival "Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum".) The A.S.Popov Central Museum of Comminications, St.-Petersburg, Russia Bubbles. With Vl. Efimov. XL Gallery, Moscow Screening of videoworks. With Vl. Efimov. ICA, London, UK Presentation of the project "New Age of Television". ICA, London, UK
2002	I'll be back. With Vl. Efimov. XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia Nirvana. With Vl. Efimov. "Ulitsa O.G.I." Gallery, Moscow, Russia Project of a Monument to A. Schwarzenegger as Terminator T-800. With Vl. Efimov. Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
2001	Genetic Gymnastics 2. With Vl. Efimov. (In the framework of the ProArte Institute festival "Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum".) Pavlov's Memorial Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia
2000	Genetic Gymnastics. With Vl. Efimov. "DOM" club, Moscow, Russia
1999	Music of Retorts. A visual musical performance. (In the framework of a musical festival "Ichthyology"). With Vl. Efimov and A. Borisov. The "DOM" Club, Moscow, Russia Music of Retorts. A visual musical performance. (In the framework of an annual digital music programme "Electric Future"). With Vl. Efimov and "F.R.U.I.T.S." duo. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
1998	The Shining Prostheses. With Vl. Efimov. TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1997	Opus Magnum. With Vl. Efimov. The Art Moscow Fair, TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1996	Galvani. With Vl. Efimov, TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1993	Victim of Art. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia The Primeval Interior. A3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia Leonardo da Vinchi. With R. Yegorov. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia
1992	The Primeval Medicine. "Sadovniki" Gallery, Moscow, Russia Memento Mori. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia

	SELECTED JOINT PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
2006	3d Moscow International Fine Arts. XL Gallery. Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", Moscow, Russia ART Moscow 2006. 10th International Art Fair. XL Gallery. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia Let Video Be! Russian Video Art 1996-2006. Within "ART Moscow 2006" Art Fair. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia Fotobiennial '06. Photocenter of the Union of Journalists, Moscow Innovation. The exhibition of the art works nominated for 2005 contemporary art award. NCCA,Moscow
2005	Chudo Sveta / Miracle of Light. Exhibition Hall "Novy Manege", Moscow, Russia Art Basel Miami Beach. XL Gallery. Collins Park at the Beach, Miami Beach Florida, USA Observatori-05. Mitos - Idolos - Hibridos. Video festival. Organized by La Sala Naranja Gallery, Valencia. Museo Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain Moscow Breakthrough. Project by NCCA, Moscow and Academia Rossica, London. Exhibition Centre Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London, UK artists of the beginning of the century. videoart. WAM Gallery, Moscow, Russia Frieze Art Fair 2005. XL Gallery. Regent's Park, London, UK FIAC 2005. XL Gallery. The Parc des Expositions, Porte de Versailles, Paris, France Portrait of Face. Guelman Gallery. M'ARS Center, Moscow, Russia Water Pieces 05. Noass Gallery, Riga, Latvia Arsenale 2005. Arsenal, Nizhnij Novgorod, Russia A second side. International Biennial of Contemporary Art - IBCA 2005. National Gallery in Prague, Prague, Czechia Art Moscow 2005. XL Gallery. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia P.S. Beyond the red horizon. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Graz - Moscow. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Russia 2. Guelman Gallery project. Special project of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
2004	The seven sins. Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia Art is an illusion. RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia Beyond the red horizon. New art from Poland and Russia. Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland Human-Machine Interface. Rum46 Gallery. Aarhus, Denmark Art Moscow 2004. XL Gallery. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia Moscow Time. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Petrozavodsk, Russia Faster than History. Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
2003	New Countdown. Digital Russia. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia XL Style. An exhibition to the 10th anniversary of the XL Gallery. XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia Banks and Cups. Meyerhold Center, Moscow Last Hero. Rottermann Exhibition Hall, Tallinn, Estonia Receipts of happiness. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Volgograd- Yaroslavl -Tula, Russia Projection. (An NCCA, Nizhny Novgorod, project). The Armoury, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia re-cycling und re-design. Cafe "Das Moebel", Vienna, Austria AiR_port takeOFF 1 . Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria The Typewriter. (In the framework of a ProArte Institute project "Things"). ProArte Institute Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia Studio 2003. (In the framework of the "Art-Moscow 2003" Fair). Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia The 3rd Ars Baltica Triennial of Photographic Art. Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany - Kuenstlerhaus Schloss Plueschow, Mecklenburg, Germany - Bergen Kunsthall/Bergens Kunstforening, Bergen, Norway
2002	Structures of a signal. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Transformations. With Vl. Efimov. National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Art Moscow 2002. "Ulitsa OGI" Gallery. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia Grani / The Facets. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Izhevsk, Russia Fotobiennial '02. Central Exhibition Hall "Bolshoi Manezh", Moscow, Russia Snegurochka / Snowgirl. New Art from Russia. National Gallery of Contemporary Art "Zahenta", Warsaw, Poland Moscow Time. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Siuolaikinio meno centraus, Vilnius, Lithuania - Memorial Museum "Radio Laboratory of Nizhny Novgorod", Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2001	The Ecology of Art. The Fine Arts Museum, Nizhny Tagil, Russia Baikal. Cultural Colloboration Project. Irkutsk, the Baikal lake, Russia Kunst aus Russland / Art from Russia. Schloss Graffenegg, Vienna, Austria Milano Europe - 2000. La Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Studio 2001. (In the framework of the "Art Moscow 2001" Fair). Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia 8th Cairo Biennial. NCCA. Cairo, Egypt Grani / The Facets. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Kurgan - Kemerovo - Volgograd - Ulianovsk, Russia Iskusstvo 2000. Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
2000	Grani / The Facets. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Novossibirsk, Russia The Series. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Central Exhibition Hall "Bolshoi Manezh", Moscow, Russia Dynamic Pairs. An art project to the 10th anniversary of the Guelman Gallery. Central Exhibition Hall "Bolshoi Manezh", Moscow - Central House of Architect, Nizhny Novgorod - Russian State Museum. Marble Palace, St.Petersburg, Russia Between-Active Art. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
1999	Projections from Russia. Exhibition of the Contemporary Russian Art. Mongolian Modern Art Gallery, Ulan-Bator, Mongolia Realitaet und Schein. Kunsthalle "Faust", Hannover, Germany Fauna. National Gallery of Contemporary Art "Zahenta", Warsaw, Poland ACT'99. Galerie "Maerz", Linz, Austria - TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia The 2nd International Show of Art in CD-ROM. Media Centre of Art and Design and the School of Design (MECAD/ ESDI), Sabadell - Barcelona, Spain Total Recall. TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1998	Fauna. "Maly Manezh" Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia Art Manezh '98. Central Exhibition Hall "Bolshoi Manezh", Moscow, Russia Berliner Art Messe. TV Gallery, Berlin, Germany The Ship of the Present. (An NCCA, Moscow, project.) Yaroslavl, Tver, Nizhny Novgorod, Kostroma, Russia Fotobiennial '98. Central Exhibition Hall "Bolshoi Manezh", Moscow, Russia
1997	Ostranenie. Dessau, Germany Art Moscow '97. TV Gallery. Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
1995	Art Belongs to People. Part II: works of art in the shop windows. Myasnitskaya Street, Moscow, Russia Ergebnis. Galerie am Marstall, Berlin, Germany
1994	Bronya's Birthday. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia Art Belongs to People. Part I: works of art at the city advertising boards. Moscow, Russia
1993	Local Time. Festival of non-profitable projects. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia Post Modernism and National Traditions. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia The Bospor Forum. Kerch, the island of Tuzla, Crimea, Ukraine A Shop. "Konstantin" store, Moscow, Russia
1992	The Day of Territory. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia
1991	Agaspher. Minsk - Riga - Moscow, the USSR

	FESTIVALS AND PRIZES
2005	Observatori-05. Mitos - Idolos - Hibridos. Video festival. Organized by La Sala Naranja Gallery, Valencia. Museo Principe Felipe, Valencia, Spain
2004	Extra Short Film Festival (ESF - 2004). Grand Prix for Animation. With Vl. Efimov. Novossibirsk, Russia
2003	Electric visions. The 1st festival of Russian and Scandinavian videoart. Russia - Finland - Scandinavia Pusto / Empty. The 2nd street videoart festival. Moscow, Russia
2002	Kansk-2002. The 1st International Kansk Video Festival. With Vl. Efimov. Short-list. Kansk, Russia
2001	Extra Short Film Festival (ESF - 2001). Grand Prix for Video. With Vl. Efimov. Novossibirsk, Russia Kino. Video. Tele. Film Festival. Graz, Austria

	CURATOR PROJECTS
2004	"Voinushka" / "War Game". Collective project by ProArte students. With Vl. Efimov. (In the framework of the ProArte Institute festival "Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum".) The Historical Military Museum of Artillery, Engineer Troops and Signal Troops, St.-Petersburg, Russia
1995	Art Belongs to People. Part II: works of art in the shop windows. With R. Jegorov and A. Panova. Myasnitskaya Street, Moscow, Russia
1994	Art Belongs to People. Part I: works of art at the city advertising boards. With R. Jegorov and A. Panova. Moscow, Russia
1993	Local Time. Festival of non-profitable projects. With R. Jegorov and A. Panova. Petrovsky Boulevard 12, Moscow, Russia

	CONFERENCES
2001	Contemporary Art: Ecology of Art in the Industrial Landscape. Seminar - Simposium. Nizhny Tagil, Russia
2000	Search for the Future. Art Conference. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
1999	EVA'99. Electronic Images & Visual Arts. International Conference. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

	TEACHING
2004	ProArte Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003	Institute for Contemporary Art Problems, Moscow, Russia Moscow Aviation Institute (MAI), Moscow, Russia

	CD-ROMs (design&programming)
2004	5 Hours of the Contemporary Art. 23 actual Moscow artists in a NCCA, Moscow, media project.
2003	Ivan Leonidov. About outstanding Russian architect Ivan Leonidov.
2000	Total Recall. An interactive e-catalogue of the exhibition of the same name.
1997/99	Chernyshev & Efimov. An interactive e-catalogue of Vladislav Efimov & Aristarkh Chernyshev art works.