Victor Alimpiev

Russia

Victor Alimpiev is an video artist who has exbited widely in Russia and in the West. In his videoworks Victor Alimpiev combines elements of diverse artistic genres like painting, dance, music and theatre with the moving image.
In his films and videos Alimpijev investigates human expression, habits, and the relationship of the individual to the collective.

Victor Alimpiev

Born in Moscow in 1973
Graduated from the Art School of memory of 1905, Moscow and “New Art Strategies” at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
Lives in Moscow

Solo exhibitions

2008
“Encounters: Victor Alimpiev”, Modern Art Oxford, UK
“Whose Is This Exhalation?”, Cultural Foundation EKATERINA, Moscow, Russia
“Victor Alimpiev”, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy

2007
“Victor Alimpiev”, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
“Two Songs”, Art Laboratory Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Screening within the cycle “Prospectif cinema”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2006
"Helen's Shoulders" (with Anatoly Osmolovsky), Stella Art gallery, Moscow
"Wetterleuchten", Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Victor Alimpiev", O.K Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
“Der Wind weht nicht am Parkett!”, Galerie Anita Beckers Frankfurt

2005
"Shining", Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia
"Sweet Nightingale", Regina gallery, Moscow, Russia

2004
“The far off fight”, Guelman gallery, Moscow, Russia

2003
"To Oleg", Guelman gallery, Moscow, Russia.

2002
“Ode” (in collaboration with Marian Zhunin), ТV Gallery, Moscow.

Selected group exhibitions

2008
“Tarantula”, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi in collaboration with MIA, Piazza del Duomo, Milan, Italy
“God and Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion”, Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy

2008, 2006, 2005 Impakt Festival, Utrecht, The Netherlands

2007
“Paul Klee - Theater here, there and everywhere”, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Swiss
“HER(HIS)TORY”, Museum of Cycladic art, Athens, Greece
"International and National Projects", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
"Silence. Listening to the Show", Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
"Talking Pictures -Theatrical Stagings in Contemporary Film and Video Art ”, K21, Kunst Summlung Nordreihn- Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany
"On Geekdom”, Art Athina at the Helexpo Center, Athens, Greece
“Une histoire à soi”, La Galerie, Noisy-le-Sec, France
2-nd Moscow Biennale, the main project, Moscow, Russia
«Urban formalism», Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
“I believe“, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2001 International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany

2006
4-th Berlin Biennale
"Russia!", Guggenheim museum, Bilbao, Spain
"Fremd bin ich eingezogen", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
“Confined Innocence”, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windzor, Canada
“October Salon 2006”, October Salon, Belgrad / Serbien
“5 Tage bis zum Ende der Kunst”, „Indirect speech“, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel / D Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

2005
"Hardwired", Firstdraft gallery, Sydney, Australia
"We're talking about music" (in collaboration with Marian Zhunin), theatre play, 37-th Theatre Festival, Biennale di Venezia
"Russia!", Guggenheim museum, New York, USA
"Rock Music", Center in Galerija P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia
"The Comedy", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

2004
"Russia 2", Moscow, Russia
“7 sins" Moderna galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Born to be a Star”, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna
Manifesta 5, Donostia - San Sebastian, Spain
"Body display", Secession, Vienna, Austria
"Movimento/Movimenti", MUSEO D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA RENATO GUTTUSO - VILLA CATTOLICA, Bagheria, Italy
"Russian Videoart", Art in General gallery, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA

2003
“Individual systems”, 50 Biennale di Venezia, Venice
“Horizon of realities”, MUKHA Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp, Belgium
“The Urgent reporting”, mobile exhibition on cities of Russia

2001
New York Festival of Russian Films, The Ziegfeld Theater and Clearview Cinemas, New York, USA
Week of Russian Сinema, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
«Up-and-coming » Film Festival Hannover, Germany
«SuperVision », Symposium on videoart and new technologies, Yugnosakhalinsk - Moscow, Russia