Alexander Morozov (artist)

Alexander Morozov
Alexander Morozov
	Portrait of Alexander Morozov
Born	Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov; 22 March 1974 (age 51); Voroshylovhrad, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Education	St. Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture
Known for	Painting and installation art
Movement	Contemporary art
Website	www.sashamorozov.ru

Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov (Russian: Александр Александрович Морозов; born on 22 Mars 1974 in Voroshylovhrad (Luhansk), Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union) is a contemporary artist. Painter, author of objects, installations and research projects. Alexander Morozov's artistic practice revolves around the theme of the disappearance of cultural memory, with a focus on recreating lost masterpieces through the reconstruction of artifacts lost during military operations. The main medium used in their work is through the restoration of artworks and artifacts, aiming to establish continuity in memory disrupted by war or catastrophes.

Life

Education

Luhansk Art College (Artistic practice in Lviv), Ukraine (1989-1994). Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, Russia (1996-2002). Educational program in ProArte Institute ‘Practicum. New Technology in Contemporary Art’ (Prof. Alexey Shulgin) St Petersburg, Russia (1999-2000).

The artist became famous for the conceptual project Birds’ Flight Records, shown in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, France, Germany. The project documented the timing and trajectories of birds flying in the surrounding landscape. Among his prominent projects are The Black Book and Icons series. The first explored the disappearance of cultural memory, recreating the artefacts lost during the war. The second focused on paintings with everyday subjects made in the egg tempera technique, characteristic of European art in the 15th–17th centuries.

He participated in the 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale (2015), the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), and the parallel and public programmes for Manifesta 10, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art (2014, St Petersburg). Nominee of the Artaward International Strabag Prize (Austria, 2013), and the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (St Petersburg, 2013), Nominee of the 12th Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" (2019). Winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2018) in the Best Visual Project category. Finalist of the 13th Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" for the project Dystopia Station (2021).

Selected Projects

Particularly Slow Air. 2020

The work by Alexander Morozov is an exhibition within an exhibition: an installation of the glass floats used by Estonian fishermen to keep their nets afloat. These floats come from the village of Nõmmküla, whose fishermen are famous for catching the biggest fish in Estonia’s recent history. The village is located on the island of Muhu, formerly used for Soviet missile bases. During their presence on the island the military forbade the fishermen to go to sea, as this was border territory.^[1]

Dystopia Station. 2020

With this piece the artist addresses the reconstruction of memory. A zeppelin assembled from office drawers hovers in the space of the Manege exhibition hall, a former garage of the NKVD forces. The aircraft not only “elevates” the context of the location but also draws our attention to the biography of Nikolay Lanceray. The project for the reconstruction of the horse guards' riding hall and turning it into the OGPU garage Lanceray created in a “sharashka”, a special design bureau where he was from July 1931 to 28 June 1935. The filing drawer also serves as a cultural memory unit — the storage of documents in filing systems references the policy of establishing an archive and memory. And still stored in similar drawers are personal records of NKVD garage drivers who were a part of the repression machine, turning in time into its victims.

Solo exhibitions

2025 — Lost Memories. In-gate Gallery, Brussels
2024 — No sand in the sky. Gallery DiX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris^[2]
2023 — Diary. Cité Internationale des arts. Paris, France
2021 — The rest. КultProject Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2019 — Birds Flight Records. Petersburg art space, Berlin
2019 — Railway Opera. Russian Railways Museum. St Petersburg
2018 — Akchim. coordinates, Perm State Art Gallery, Perm
2017 — Simple things, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2015 — Cosa Mentale, Marina Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg
2014 — ‘What Do You See?’. Artre.Flex Gallery, St Petersburg
2014 — ‘Garden’. Book Graphics Library, St Petersburg
2014 — ‘Garden’. Book Graphics Library, St Petersburg^[3]
2012 — ‘Factum’. Luda Express gallery in ‘New Holland’ open air art space, St Petersburg
2012 — ‘The Human Factor’. with Alexander Artemov, Algallery, St Petersburg
2012 — ‘Cinderella Effect’. Navicula Artis Gallery, St Petersburg
2010 — ‘Radiation’. Navicula Artis gallery, St Petersburg
2009 — ‘The Classical Garden of German Romanticism’. Botanical Museum, St Petersburg,

Selected group exhibitions

2024 — Yes, Fountain. Albatross space, Paris
2023 — Colonial Endurance. Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
2023 — Là où nos mondes se touchent. Cité internationale des arts, Paris
2022 — Communication. Studio 44. Stockholm. SE^[4]^[5]
2022 — Futu Muhu 2022 / Flora & fauna. Kadriorg Gallery. Tallinn, Estonia
2022 —The Thinking Landscape, Museum of Moscow, Moscow. RU
2021 — Exhibition of nominees for the 13th Kandinsky Prize. MM0MA. Moscow
2021 — Intensive Places. Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, Estonia
2020 — 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2020 — NEMOSKVA is Just Around the Corner. Exhibition Hall Manege, St Petersburg, Russia
2015 — The 3rd Ural Industrial biennial of contemporary art. Artist-in-Residence Program. Ekaterinburg, Russia
2015 — Russia. Realism. XXI Century, The Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘The Other Capital’, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2014 — ‘Black Envy’ in a Parallel Events of the Manifesta 10, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia^[6]
2014 — ‘Kommunal Ghetto’ as a part of ‘Apartment Art as Domestic Resistance’ exhibition Public programs Manifesta 10, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘Signal’, ‘KB Signal’, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘Saving Venice’, Marina Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
2014 — ‘Perceiving Art’, St Petersburg State Library for the Blind, St Petersburg, Russiassia,^[7]
2013 — The 11th Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art ‘Kaliningrad– Konigsberg 2013’. The Kaliningrad State Art Gallery. Kaliningrad, Russia
2013 — 2nd international public art festival Art Prospect Festival. St Petersburg, Russia
2013 — V Biennale ‘New ideas for the city.’ The Garden City. Green urbanism, The Museum of Urban Sculpture. St Petersburg, Russia
2013 — Season of St Petersburg Art. Navicula Artis. ‘Found in St Petersburg’. KultProekt gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 — Baltic Biennale 2012, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St Petersburg, Russia
2012 — Nel Modo Russico, Ten 43 gallery, New York
2012 — ‘10⁻⁹’, 3H+K gallery, Pori, Finland
2001 — ‘Microfest 01 Pro’, Pro Arte Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
1999 — ‘Divietodisosta’. Artezero gallery, Milan, Italy

Gallery

Alexander Morozov. Lamp. 2014. Tempera on gessoed panel. 42 × 32 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Work Trousers. 2014. Tempera on gessoed panel. 42 × 32 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Cosa Mentale №2. 2015. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 54 × 54 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Cosa Mentale №8. 2018. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 55 × 57 × 3 cm
Alexander Morozov. Cape Tobizina. 2016. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 44 × 66 cm
Alexander Morozov. Ozerki. 2016. Egg tempera on gessoed panel. 53,5×42,8×3 cm

Collections

The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, RU
Anatoly Zverev Museum, Moscow, RU
Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, RU
Library of book graphics, St. Petersburg, RU
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, RU
Sergey Kuryokhin Centre for Contemporary Art, St.Petersburg, RU
Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, GR
Street Art Museum St.Petersburg, RU
The Perm State Art Gallery, Perm, RU

References

^ https://triennial.garagemca.org/en/participants/alexander_morozov
^ Announcement of cultural events in Paris for April 2024 from RFI (Russian language [1]
^ Nariman Skakov. Garden of Romanticism [2]
^ https://studio44-stockholm.com/en/exhibitions/exhibitions-2022/communication/
^ https://studio44-stockholm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Morozov-vs-Jannike.pdf
^ "Parazit. Black Envy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2015-02-18.
^ Perceiving Art

External links

[1] ttps://triennial.garagemca.org/en/participants/alexander_morozov

[2] Announcement of cultural events in Paris for April 2024 from RFI (Russian language [1]

[3] Nariman Skakov. Garden of Romanticism [2]

[4] ttps://studio44-stockholm.com/en/exhibitions/exhibitions-2022/communication/

[5] ttps://studio44-stockholm.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Morozov-vs-Jannike.pdf

[6] "Parazit. Black Envy". Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2015-02-18.

[7] Perceiving Art

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