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Kirill
Alexandrovich Zhilkin
Russia • Moscow and Moscow Oblast • born in 1989 • artist
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Biography and information
Kirill Zhilkin was born on February 16, 1989. In 2012 he graduated from the Moscow State Academic
v.I. Surikov Moscow State Academic Art Institute with a degree in Painting, IPSI (Institute of Contemporary Art Problems) in 2013 and the school of contemporary art "Free Workshops" in 2014.
Since 2013 a participant and curator of contemporary art exhibitions, since 2016 a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, author of projects for the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. From 2014 to 2024 he worked at the Moscow Technical College of Creative Industries named after L.B. Krasin as a teacher of the special dispenser. L.B. Krasin" as a teacher of special disciplines (first qualification category).
Since 2016, he has been the curator of the Center for Contemporary Art "Polygraphic Shop".
Since 2016 she has been the head of the Art Saturdays for Moscow schoolchildren as part of the city educational project "Saturdays of Moscow Schoolchildren".
The author of Francis Bacon: The Genius of Distorted Worlds, BOMBORA Publishing, 2019.
Author and executor of the artistic and aesthetic concept of the Museum of Vocational Education of Moscow and the Museum of JSC Krasnaya Zvezda, 2020 - 2021. Awards and honors: winner of the Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation competition "Riot of Colors" in 2013, finalist of the National Open Championship of creative competences ArtMasters 2020 in the competence "Artist-Designer", finalist of the All-Russian competition "My Country - My Russia" in the nomination "My Pedagogical Initiative" with the project Art Center Polygraphic Shop in 2022.
Creative method The main media I work with is oil painting and drawing, there are works that combine painting and video art, sound art. I am interested in contemplative practices, Christianity, quantum mechanics. Painting is like constructing the world, comprehending its essence through creative transcendence, dialog with Heaven. If I call the first main line in my art "contemplative", the second "existential", which includes series devoted to the search for self, doubt, reflection on the language of communication and formats of thinking. The first line includes the projects "Mutation", "Perfect vision", and the Biblical cycle I am currently working on; the second line includes the solo exhibitions "Dark series", "Who am I?", video art works, and curatorial projects such as "I dreamed so simply and joyfully" or "Group therapy session". The third category of works are programmatic ideological statements, in which I formulate my view on topical problems of contemporary society and the human being as such. These are the diptych "Double Consent", the triptych "In Memory of Great-Grandfather", some paintings on religious themes, as well as the curatorial projects "Threats", "Exhibition under the code name Luna", and the solo exhibition "Bird of Justice". Solo exhibitions: 2023 "Recollection of Paradise", Pushkin State Museum. A.S. Pushkin State Museum, Moscow 2018 "Dark Series", solo exhibition, Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2017 "Bird of Justice" solo exhibition, Ptichnik Gallery, Moscow 2017 "Who am I?" solo exhibition, Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2016 "Mutation Part 2" solo exhibition, Solntsevo Gallery, Moscow 2016 "Perfect vision" solo project together with Anton Kostetsky and Eva Arakcheeva within the framework of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art "Deep Inside", Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow 2016 "Module" personal project together with Eva Arakcheeva, within the framework of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art "Deep Inside", Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2015 "Mutation", Smirnov-Sorokin Foundation, Moscow Selected group exhibitions: 2022 "White Ticket" Zverevsky Center, Moscow 2020 "Map of Human Nature", Rosizo Gallery, special program of the VII Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow 2019 "Neighbors", Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow 2017 "June 22. On the Side of Man", Aircraft Gallery. Bratislava, Slovakia 2017 "June 22. On the Side of Man", VZM gallery "Here on Taganka", Moscow 2017 "CHYAO (What I'll Leave Behind)", Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2016 "Crime Scene", Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2016 "City to artists, artists to the city" Museum of Moscow. 2015 "Sub observationem" MMSI, Moscow 2015 "Mastering Freedom" CTI Fabrika, Moscow 2014 "Lost and Found" ARTPLAY, Moscow 2014 "Boundaries of Action" IMCI, Moscow 2014 "Balance" Random Gallery, Moscow 2013 "Manifesting the Image" Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow 2013 "Exploring Explorations" Moscow, Moscow 2013 "Playing the Classics" ICCI, Moscow 2013 "30 Days of Waiting" ARTPLAY, Moscow 2012 "Doubt", "Slavery", "Sopromat" IPSI. Moscow 2012 "Heirs of Great Masters" Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, Moscow
Curatorial Projects: 2016 "Crime Scene" Print Shop. 2016 "The Temptation of St. Anthony" Print Shop. 2016 "Threats" in collaboration with Eva Arakcheeva, Print Shop. 2016 "What's Up There?" Print Shop. 2017 "Burger Mythology" in collaboration with Konstantin Pavlyuts, Polygraphic Shop. 2017 "Requires No Explanation" in collaboration with Michael Levius, Print Shop. 2018 "Theory of Defense", Print Shop. 2019 "Sambo Day", The Print Shop. 2019 "Group therapy session", in collaboration with Eva Arakcheeva and Michpil Levius, Print Shop. 2020 "I dreamed so simply and joyfully", Print Shop. 2021 "Optimal Art", Print Shop. 2021 "Exhibition under the code name Luna", in collaboration with Eva Arakcheeva, Print Shop. 2022 "Hand in Hand: Kandinsky and Luka", exhibition of students and teachers of Krasin Technical School, Print Shop. 2023 "Birds and magical places where they fly", exhibition of students and teachers of Krasina Technical School, Polygraphic Shop.
Since 2013 a participant and curator of contemporary art exhibitions, since 2016 a member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, author of projects for the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. From 2014 to 2024 he worked at the Moscow Technical College of Creative Industries named after L.B. Krasin as a teacher of the special dispenser. L.B. Krasin" as a teacher of special disciplines (first qualification category).
Since 2016, he has been the curator of the Center for Contemporary Art "Polygraphic Shop".
Since 2016 she has been the head of the Art Saturdays for Moscow schoolchildren as part of the city educational project "Saturdays of Moscow Schoolchildren".
The author of Francis Bacon: The Genius of Distorted Worlds, BOMBORA Publishing, 2019.
Author and executor of the artistic and aesthetic concept of the Museum of Vocational Education of Moscow and the Museum of JSC Krasnaya Zvezda, 2020 - 2021. Awards and honors: winner of the Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation competition "Riot of Colors" in 2013, finalist of the National Open Championship of creative competences ArtMasters 2020 in the competence "Artist-Designer", finalist of the All-Russian competition "My Country - My Russia" in the nomination "My Pedagogical Initiative" with the project Art Center Polygraphic Shop in 2022.
Creative method The main media I work with is oil painting and drawing, there are works that combine painting and video art, sound art. I am interested in contemplative practices, Christianity, quantum mechanics. Painting is like constructing the world, comprehending its essence through creative transcendence, dialog with Heaven. If I call the first main line in my art "contemplative", the second "existential", which includes series devoted to the search for self, doubt, reflection on the language of communication and formats of thinking. The first line includes the projects "Mutation", "Perfect vision", and the Biblical cycle I am currently working on; the second line includes the solo exhibitions "Dark series", "Who am I?", video art works, and curatorial projects such as "I dreamed so simply and joyfully" or "Group therapy session". The third category of works are programmatic ideological statements, in which I formulate my view on topical problems of contemporary society and the human being as such. These are the diptych "Double Consent", the triptych "In Memory of Great-Grandfather", some paintings on religious themes, as well as the curatorial projects "Threats", "Exhibition under the code name Luna", and the solo exhibition "Bird of Justice". Solo exhibitions: 2023 "Recollection of Paradise", Pushkin State Museum. A.S. Pushkin State Museum, Moscow 2018 "Dark Series", solo exhibition, Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2017 "Bird of Justice" solo exhibition, Ptichnik Gallery, Moscow 2017 "Who am I?" solo exhibition, Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2016 "Mutation Part 2" solo exhibition, Solntsevo Gallery, Moscow 2016 "Perfect vision" solo project together with Anton Kostetsky and Eva Arakcheeva within the framework of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art "Deep Inside", Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow 2016 "Module" personal project together with Eva Arakcheeva, within the framework of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art "Deep Inside", Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2015 "Mutation", Smirnov-Sorokin Foundation, Moscow Selected group exhibitions: 2022 "White Ticket" Zverevsky Center, Moscow 2020 "Map of Human Nature", Rosizo Gallery, special program of the VII Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow 2019 "Neighbors", Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow 2017 "June 22. On the Side of Man", Aircraft Gallery. Bratislava, Slovakia 2017 "June 22. On the Side of Man", VZM gallery "Here on Taganka", Moscow 2017 "CHYAO (What I'll Leave Behind)", Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2016 "Crime Scene", Polygraphic Shop, Moscow 2016 "City to artists, artists to the city" Museum of Moscow. 2015 "Sub observationem" MMSI, Moscow 2015 "Mastering Freedom" CTI Fabrika, Moscow 2014 "Lost and Found" ARTPLAY, Moscow 2014 "Boundaries of Action" IMCI, Moscow 2014 "Balance" Random Gallery, Moscow 2013 "Manifesting the Image" Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow 2013 "Exploring Explorations" Moscow, Moscow 2013 "Playing the Classics" ICCI, Moscow 2013 "30 Days of Waiting" ARTPLAY, Moscow 2012 "Doubt", "Slavery", "Sopromat" IPSI. Moscow 2012 "Heirs of Great Masters" Zurab Tsereteli Gallery, Moscow
Curatorial Projects: 2016 "Crime Scene" Print Shop. 2016 "The Temptation of St. Anthony" Print Shop. 2016 "Threats" in collaboration with Eva Arakcheeva, Print Shop. 2016 "What's Up There?" Print Shop. 2017 "Burger Mythology" in collaboration with Konstantin Pavlyuts, Polygraphic Shop. 2017 "Requires No Explanation" in collaboration with Michael Levius, Print Shop. 2018 "Theory of Defense", Print Shop. 2019 "Sambo Day", The Print Shop. 2019 "Group therapy session", in collaboration with Eva Arakcheeva and Michpil Levius, Print Shop. 2020 "I dreamed so simply and joyfully", Print Shop. 2021 "Optimal Art", Print Shop. 2021 "Exhibition under the code name Luna", in collaboration with Eva Arakcheeva, Print Shop. 2022 "Hand in Hand: Kandinsky and Luka", exhibition of students and teachers of Krasin Technical School, Print Shop. 2023 "Birds and magical places where they fly", exhibition of students and teachers of Krasina Technical School, Polygraphic Shop.
