The Blue Noses Group
Founded in 1999
Viacheslav Mizin
Born May 22, 1962 in Novosibirsk, Russia
1984 — Graduated from Novosibirsk Architectural Institute
Lives and works in Novosibirsk and Ekaterinburg
Alexander Shaburov
Born August 27, 1965 in Berezovsky, Sverdlovsk Region, Russia
1985 — graduated from Sverdlovsk College of Arts
Since 1993 — the member of the RF Artists’ Union
1998 — received grant from the Soros Foundation for denture treatment as an artistic action
Lives and works in Ekaterinburg and Moscow
Solo show
2010
Proletarian Conceptualism, M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia2009
The Blue Noses, Tallin City Gallery, Tallin, Estonia
The Blue Noses, Art Issue project, Beijing
2008
The framework of the book festival, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
Blue Noses, Mind Games, Han Ji Yun contemporary space, Beijing, Japan
2007
Mind games, Galerie In SITU Fabienne Leclerc, Paris, France
Guelman gallery, Moscow, Russia
Shame on Russia…, Dhiehl Projects, Berlin, Germany
Naked Truth, M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Fucking Fascism, M.Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006
Video and photoworks 2002-2006, Matthew Brown Gallery, London, UK
Two against the Russian mafia, Marat Guelman Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
Three color : Blue, Grob Leuthen Castel, Rohkunstbau, Germany
St Petersburg Biennal, Russia
Knoll Galerie, Budapest, Hungaria
Casual concurrences, M Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Blue Noses, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Munich, Germany
The Blue Noses, Gallery Brito Cimino, San Paulo
2005
The Blue Noses, Etan Cohen Fine Art, New-York, USA
The Blue Noses, Gallery Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
The Blue Noses, KnollGalerieWien, Vienn, Austria
Kitchen Suprematism, In SITU Fabienne Leclerc gallery, Paris, France
The Blue Noses, B&D Studio Contemporanea, Milano, Italia
The Vogue of Labour, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Blue Noses, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Germany
2004
Hit-Or-Miss Art (How to Build Up Works of Art Just in the Kitchen), Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Blue Noses Group, Display Gallery, Prague, Tchek Respublica
2003
Do I Look Like a Loser?, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Two Against the Russian Mafia. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Kiev, Ukraine
The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg*, Russia
From Siberia with Love, Arsenal, Nizhnyi Novgorod, Russia
Absolut Blue Noses, The Zoological Museum, Moscow, Russia
2002
Two Against the Russian Mafia, Kirov Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Contemporary Siber Artists, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2001
Out-of-Town Excursions-2, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1999
The New God’ s Fools or the Pathology of Performance, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Group show
2009
Lap-horse video, Kuryokhin Centre, St-Petersburgr
Russian Povera, Special project of Moscow biennale of Contempory Art, Red October, Moscow
Art Moscow 2009, International fair of Contempory Art, Central House of artistes, Moscow, Russia
Russian Project, exhibition of Russian contemporary art, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine,
B.U Kashkin Museum, main project of 3 Moscow biennale of Contempory Art, garage , Moscow, Russia
Theatre confrontations, theatre festival, Centre of culture in Lublin, Poland
2008
The Izhevsk city festival, Izhevsk, Russia
The Tunguss Meteorite at the Krasnoyarsk museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Russia Povera, Perm’ Museum, Perm’, Russia
Demoludi festival, Olshtyn, Poland
Des coiffes décoiffent, Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris, France
Mobil Art – Chanel, Tokyo, Japan
Thaw : Russian art from Glasnot to the Present, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
Naked Truth, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York, USA
2007
Sots Art, Art politique en Russie de 1972 à aujourd’hui, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Revolutionary Icons, B’n’D, Milan, Italy
Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Asia Europe Mediations, Poznan, Poland
Learning from Moscow, Dresden city Art gallery, Dresden, Germany
Beautiful Mind, Ilia Chichkan and Blue Noses, Marat Guelamn gallery, Kiev, Ukraine
I believe, Art center Winzavod, Contemporary art biennal of Moscow, Russia
The diary of an artist, Central house of artists, Moscow, Russia
Movement, evolution and art, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Something about power, L-Gallery, Greendale, Norway
Soc-Art. Political Art in Russia and China, state Tretyakov gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia
I believe, DOM Art center, Kiev, Ukraine
Shadows of avant-guardism, State Tretiakov gallery, Moscow, Russia
Contemporary art biennal of Moscow, Russia
Singulier / Pluriel, video projection, ODDC, St Brieuc, France
2006
Musée de la Mer, 2nd festival of the photo and video, Biarritz, France
Forever lost ?, Knoll gallery, Wien, Austria
Moscow biennal of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
Arco 2006, Madrid, Spain
2005
Always a Little Further, The Arsenale, The 51st Venice Biennale*, Italia
Expanded Painting, The 2nd Prague Biennale*, Tchek Respublica
The Dialectics of Hope, The Former Lenin Museum. 1st Moscow Biennale*, Russia
Russia-2, Guelman Gallery, The Central House of Artists, Moscow*, Russia
Gender Troubles, Moscow Museum of Moderm Art, Within the 1st Moscow Biennale, Russia
Accomplices, Collective and Interactive Works in the Russian Art of the 1960-2000s, The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow,
Within the 1st Moscow Biennale*, Russia
Art-Digital-2004. I Click, Therfore I Am, M’ARS Gallery, Moscow, Within the 1st Moscow Biennale*, Russia
Art-Kliazma-2005, International Contemporary Art Open-Air Festival, The Winter Factor, or Snow
Maidens do not Die, Boarding-House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir», Within the 1st Moscow Biennale *,Russia
2004
Bubble. Comics in Contemporary Art, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Art-Kliazma-2004, International Contemporary Art Open-Air Festival. New Russian Reality. Boarding-
House «Klyazma Water-Reservoir»*, Russia
Watch out! The National Museum, Oslo*, Norway
Beyond the Red Horizon, Center for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw*, Poland
To the Resort, The National Museum, Baden-Baden*, Germany
Art-Moscow Workshop, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Thoughts on the Motherland, A.Akhmatova’s Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
«… and others», The National Museum of Kyrgystan, Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
6 Times Video, Within the 5th Moscow Photo-Biennale, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
The Festival of Intimate Photography, Reflex Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Murmanck Connection, International Festival of Performance, Club Detox, Kirkenes, Norway
Carbon Club, Reithalle, Munich, Germany
Ahead of History. Perspectives of Art in the Baltic countries, Finland and Russia, KIASMA, Helsinki *, Finland
2003
Art-Cologne, Köln*, Germany
Electric Visions, Contemporary Video-Art Festival of Russia and Northern Europeи, The Film House, St Petersburg*, Russia
Paradise Project, Alexanderplatz, Berlin*, Germany
The New Count, Digital Russia Together with Sony, Contemporary Art and New Technologies, The Central House of Artists, Moscow*, Russia
The Observation Platform. Programs of the Actual Art, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Art-Constitution, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art*, Moscow, Russia
Art-Klyazma, International Festival of Contemporary Art.Boarding-House, Klyazma Water-Reservoir *,Russia
Projection, Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod*, Russia
Absolut Generation, Within the 50th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Zenobio, Venice*, Italia
Art-Moscow Workshop, The Central House of Artists, Moscow *, Russia
We-They, Art-Moscow, The Central House of Artists, Moscow *, Russia
Davai! The Free Russian Art Now, Izhevsk, Cheboksary, Russia
Redefining Identifies. The Russian Contemporary Art and the Age of Globalization, Tate-Modern, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London*, UK
2002
The Center of Attraction, Triennial exhibition of the Baltic Countries, Vilnius*, Lituania
Davai! The Free Russian Art Now, Postfuhramt, Berlin, MAK, Vienna*, Austria
The 4th Cetine Biennale, Montenegro*
The Snow-Maiden, The New Art from Russia, Zacheta Gallery, Warsaw*, Poland
Moscow Time, Center for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lituania
2001
Communication Between the Arts, The 1st Valencia Biennale*, Spain
Art-Moscow Workshop 2001, 25 Contemporary Russian Artists, The Central House of Artists, Moscow*,Russia
2000
Art-Moscow-2000, The 4th International Fair of Contemporary Art, The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
The Dynamic Pairs. Art Against Geography, Guelman Gallery, The Marble Palace, the State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg; the Central Exhibition Hall «Manege», Moscow*, Russia
1999
The Crazy Double. Strategy of Imbecility in the Contemporary Art, The Central House of Artists, Moscow; then:
Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Ekaterinburg, Chateau d’Oiron, France*
