Artist and author of the project. Participated in the main programs of the Wrocław Media Art Biennale WRO, The Wrong Biennale nº5 and the 1st Karelian Biennale.
His works were exhibited at exhibitions at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Vadim Sidur Museum, CCA Winzavod, CTI Fabrika, Wro Art Center, the Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, as well as during various festivals such as Ars Electronica Festival, CHEAP festival, Intervals, NUR.
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The project was prepared in collaboration with curators and galleries: Mikhail Sapunov, ZIL Gallery (Moscow, Russia), Pengpeng Wang, A60 Contemporary Art Space Gallery (Florence, Italy), Alfredo Arevalo, independent curator (San Jose, Costa Rica) and Sucesiva Gallery (Mexico City, Mexico).
The Hand Luggage project is a homage to two important works for the artist at the same time - Duchamp's "Box in a suitcase" and Fluxus group's "fluxus box". The project is a homage precisely in its form since it is not just a repetition of the idea of a personal museum. The idea is to create a retrospective of the artist's creative journey by unpacking its components.
The artist has filled the suitcases with identical collections of works from different years of his life. The suitcases are handed over to curators in five countries, but a suitcase contains no plan of the exhibition and no indication of the placement of the objects.
The curators are invited to unpack the suitcases and their choice of arrangement becomes an artistic act, creating a new unique exposition in each individual case.
The items in the suitcase are like words, and the curator creates new sentences by putting them in a new order. And the idea is that the curators, without communicating with each other, collect independent exhibitions from their “hand luggage”, which will be held simultaneously in 5 different countries. But each of them will be linked to the others through a webcam and projected live-streams that will show the curators' exhibitions in the other cities.
Ideally, all exhibitions should start and end on the same day, but we understand how difficult it is to synchronize exhibitions in five different cities and the minimum program for us is the consecutive opening of exhibitions.
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ZIL Cultural Center, Moscow
A film and television director by education and worked in the film industry for over 10 years. But the love for photography and contemporary art did their job and since 2019 Mikhail has become the curator of exhibition projects and the keeper of the history of the ZIL Cultural Center.
A60 Contemporary Art Space, Florence
Editor-in-Chief of China-Italia 2021 Contemporary Art Yearbook, Ambassador of the 17th Arte Laguna International Art Prize in Venice, Project Director of A60 International Art. Since 2011, he has planned, organized and participated in more than a hundred art events, exhibitions and competitions in different countries and cities.
Costa Rica
Has a bachelor's degree in philosophy (University of Costa Rica) and is currently pursuing a master's degree in cultural studies from Lomonosov Moscow State University. Growing up in the context of the post-digital age, I felt that video games and the Internet would become the art of the future, which subsequently influenced my research interests and curatorial approach.
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