APXIV
About the Artist
APXIV is a self-organized art group founded in 2016 by alumni of the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow), Baza Institute (Moscow) and Rodchenko Art School (Moscow). The group has included different members at different times. In 2021, APXIV residents are Katya Granova, Lika Gomiashvili, Nikita Kaem, Olga Klimovitskaya, Sofya Ovchinnikova, Danya Orlovsky, Vladimir Savostin, Anastasia Soboleva and Ya Nzi.
The research interests of the group are structured around participatory artistic practices, the art of interaction, and form prosessual and spatio-temporal foam existing in constant fluctuation. Chaotic trembling is generated by the high degree of its bubbles freedom and deforms the field of the enveloping polyphonic utterance.
Solo exhibitions include: APXIV 24 (online, 2018), Distributed Bar System (Copenhagen Contemporary, 2019), Post-industrial APXINALLE (Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in the Urals, Yekaterinburg, 2020).
Group exhibitions include: Assuming Distance: Speculations, Fakes, and Predictions in the Age of the Coronacene (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 2021), Musyem Land (PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, 2019), Presence International Festival of Contemporary Photography (Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg, 2019, 2020), Communities and Spaces (Winzavod CCA, Moscow, 2019), Support Group (Cube.Moscow, Moscow, 2020), The First Altai Biennale of Contemporary Art (Ust-Koks region, Altai, 2020), and Art Prospekt 7th International Festival of Public Art (DK Gaza, St, Petersburg, 2020). Participants live in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.
