AES + F

AES + F is a group of four Russian artists: Tatiana Arzamasova (* 1955), Lev Evzovich (* 1958), Evgeny Svyatsky (* 1957) and Vladimir Fridkes (* 1956).

The group

The group formed in 1987 under the name AES with the artists Tatiana Arzamasova, Lev Evzovich and Evgeny Svyatsky. The photographer Vladimir Fridkes joined the group in 1995. Then the name of the group was AES + F changed. The group lives and works in Moscow. She works in photography , photo and computer-based art, and video art. She also works with other traditional techniques such as drawing, painting and sculpture .

Exhibitions

Neon installation "Leda & Swan" (AES + F 1996) in front of the Berlin Hotel Estrel

Works of the AES / AES + F have been shown at a number of biennials: Venice, Lyon, Sydney, Gwangju, Moscow, Gothenburg, Havana, Tirana, Istanbul, Bratislava, Seoul etc., ARS-06 (KIASMA, Helsinki) and one large number of important group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Her work is shown in collections of the major Russian national museums, as well as in museums in Europe such as the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Multimedia Art Center (Moscow), the Moderna Museet (Stockholm) , the MEP (Paris), Les Abattoirs (Toulouse), FNAC (Paris), Center Pompidou (Paris), Museum of Contemporary Art (Belgrade), Sammlung Goetz (Munich) etc.

Large-scale video projects

The group's video entitled "Last Riot" was shown at the 2007 Venice Biennale: an imaginary future in digital rework, in which snow-covered mountains are next to desolate beaches, neo-colored kites sit on oil rigs, planes collide without an explosion and a group of attractive teenagers , violently violating each other. Her work "The Feast of Trimalchio" from 2009 was shown in Venice in the same year and in 2010 at the 17th Sydney Biennale . In 2011 AES + F presented a new project “Allegoria Sacra” (the third part of a trilogy that began with “Last Riot”) in the Multimedia Art Museum Moscow as a special project of the fourth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art .

Prizes and awards

• 2012: Kandinsky Prize for Modern Art for Allegoria Sacra , together with Grisha Bruskin .

Galleries

AES + F is shown by:

• the Triumph Gallery in Moscow;
• the Volker Diehl Gallery in Berlin;
• the Noire Contemporary Art in Turin;
• the Anna Schwartz Gallery in Melbourne and Sydney;
• the Art Gallery of South Australia in Adelaide;
• the Hans Knoll Gallery in Venice and Budapest;
• the Ruzicska Gallery in Salzburg;
• the SEM Art Gallery in Monaco;
• the Charlotte Moser Gallery in Geneva;
• the Arario Beijing Gallery in China;
• the Loop Gallery in South Korea;
• the Art Statements Gallery in Hong Kong and Tokyo;
• the Juan Ruiz Gallery in Venezuela.

Web links

• AES + F Official Website
• AES + F at Knoll Galerie Vienna, short biographies of the artists and projects
• AES + F at Art Statements Gallery, Tokyo & Hong Kong
• AES + F at the 52nd Venice Biennale, Russian Pavilion
• AES + F at the 55th Venice Biennale, Venetian Pavilion

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kelly Klaasmeyer: Danse Macabre: AES + F , Houston Press . January 2008. Retrieved June 3, 2008. 
2. ^ Biennale of Sydney: AES + F. Archived from the original on July 8, 2011 ; accessed on March 16, 2017 (English).