Pyotr Andreevich Pavlensky

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Pyotr Pavlensky (2013)
Cyrillic ( Russian )
Пётр Андреевич Павленский
Transl. : Pëtr Andreevič Pavlenskij
Transcr. : Pyotr Andreevich Pavlensky

Pyotr Andreevich Pawlensky (born March 8, 1984 in Leningrad, now Saint Petersburg ) is a Russian conceptual artist and political activist . He lives in Paris .

Life

Pavlensky studied wall painting in his hometown. Oksana Viktorovna Shalygina was his partner, with her he has two daughters and in 2017 he received political asylum with her in France. He has been in a relationship with Alexandra de Taddeo since 2019.

Actions and prosecutions

Russia

Pawlenski's performances repeatedly made global headlines. Pawlensky sewed his mouth shut to protest against the detention of members of the band Pussy Riot , and later protested naked in barbed wire in front of a government building in St. Petersburg. In late 2013, Pavlensky nailed his scrotum to Moscow's Red Square to protest indifference and corrupt police officers in Russia. A hooliganism investigation was then launched against him.

With burning car tires, metal poles and Ukrainian flags, he portrayed the revolution on the Maidan in St. Petersburg in 2014. The authorities threatened him with forcible admission to a psychiatric hospital, whereupon he sat naked on the roof of the Moscow Serbsky Institute in October 2014 Earlobe section. Pawlenski's companion and colleague Oksana Schalygina justified the action as follows: “The knife separates the earlobe from the body. The concrete wall of psychiatry separates the society of the sensible from the unreasonably ill. "

In November 2015, Pavlensky set fire to a door at the headquarters of the Russian domestic intelligence service FSB to protest against state terror. He was then arrested by officers from the Russian secret service FSB. In January 2016, he was transferred from prison to a psychiatric ward for examination by the Russian authorities. Human Rights Watch criticized Pawlenski's lawyer for being unable to contact her client and placed the forced admission into the historical context of the political abuse of psychiatry in the Soviet Union . On June 8, a court sentenced him to a fine of around 13,500 euros. The provoked terrorism trial that he himself had called for several times in the courtroom did not materialize. The court should not allow "hypocritical humanism" to prevail, he said, alluding to the terrorism convictions of Oleh Sentsov and Oleksandr Kolchenko . The authorities and their reactions are part of his art actions to expose the state-directed judiciary.

France

Pavlensky fled in December 2016, first to the Ukraine and later to Paris, as he was accused of sexual assault on an actress, which he is said to have committed together with his partner. In January 2017, he asked for asylum in France. In an interview with Deutsche Welle , he said that he lived in an occupied house in Paris and that he was shoplifting for a living.

In October 2017, Pawlenski was arrested by French police after setting fire to a branch of Banque de France on Place de la Bastille . According to him, he wanted to kindle “a new fire of the revolution”, since the bankers would have taken the place of the previous monarchs today. The French authorities took him to a psychiatric hospital. On October 18, 2017, the forced detention was lifted by a Paris court and Pawlensky was subsequently taken into custody. On the same day he and his partner were charged with property damage in connection with endangering other people. As of June 2018, Pawlenski was still in isolated custody. The findings of delusions and a borderline personality disorder should have contributed to their prolongation. In January 2019, he was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for the fire in front of the bank branch, two of which are suspended.

In February 2020, Pawlenski triggered the resignation of Benjamin Griveaux , the " En Marche " candidate for the Paris mayor's office, by publishing photos and videos of an intimate nature that Griveaux sent in May 2018 to Alexandra de Taddeo, a casual acquaintance of Griveaux (and later partner of Pawlenski), is said to have sent. Pawlenski justified the distribution of the material with the fact that Griveaux alleged an intact family life and this "hypocrisy" had to be published. Griveaux then announced his withdrawal and said there was a campaign against him. He received various threats. Police arrested Pavlensky and his girlfriend shortly after the video was released. The two are said to have lured Benjamin Griveaux into a trap; Griveaux had filed a complaint for violation of privacy.

Prices

In May 2016, the Human Rights Foundation awarded Pawlenski the Václav Havel Prize for Creative Dissent . Since Pavlensky supported the Far Eastern Partisans protest movement in Vladivostok , whose members were convicted of particularly cruel police murders, the Human Rights Foundation withdrew the award in July 2016.

literature

  • Ilja Danischewski, Wladimir Welminski (Hrsg.): Pawlenski actions . Merve, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-945867-04-4 .
  • Pyotr Pavlensky: The bureaucratic cramp and the new economy of political art . Merve, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-88396-381-5 .
  • Pyotr Pavlensky, Vladimir Welminsky: Prison for everyday life . Conversations. Ed .: Ilja Danischewski, Wladimir Welminski. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-377-3 .

Web links

Commons : Pjotr ​​Andrejewitsch Pawlensky  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Fiona Marin: Piotr Pavlenski: artiste performer à l'ère du digital. In: UN1K. ART MAGAZINE. February 24, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  2. ↑ Viktor Martinovich: “Акция Pussy Riot куда легче и безобидней поступков Христа” . In: BelGaseta. August 13, 2012
  3. ↑ Fiona Marin: Piotr Pavlenski: artiste performer à l'ère du digital. In: UN1K. ART MAGAZINE. February 24, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  4. ^ Protest in Moscow: artist nailed testicles to Red Square . In: Spiegel Online . November 10, 2013
  5. ↑ Shaun Walker: Artist nails his scrotum to the ground in Red Square . In: The Guardian . 11th. November.2013
  6. ^ Leonid Ragozin: Artist who nailed scrotum to Red Square is charged with hooliganism . In: The Guardian . 15th November 2013
  7. ↑ Oxana Shalygina : Акция Петра Павленского "Отделение" институт им. Сербского Москва 19 октября . Entry on Facebook . 19th October 2014
  8. ↑ Alec Luhn: Russian artist cuts off earlobe in protest at use of forced psychiatry on dissidents . In: The Guardian . 20th October 2014
  9. ↑ Bloody performance: Russian action artist cuts off his earlobe . In: Spiegel Online . 20th October 2014
  10. ^ Protest in Moscow: artist sets fire to the Russian domestic secret service . In: Spiegel Online . November 9, 2015
  11. ↑ Moscow-Menetekel in FAZ of November 10, 2015, page 9
  12. ↑ Russian critic of the regime: performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky instructed in psychiatry . In: Spiegel Online . January 28, 2016
  13. ↑ https://www.hrw.org/news/2016/02/12/russia-end-artists-forced-psychiatric-confinement
  14. ^ The Kremlin exercises calculated mildness , NZZ, June 9, 2016
  15. ↑ Pyotr Pavlensky asks for asylum in France. In: Zeit Online . January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Kerstin Holm: Action artist applies for asylum: Pawlenski fled to Paris. In: FAZ . January 16, 2017. Retrieved January 20, 2017 .
  17. ↑ Павленский в "Немцова.Интервью": Россия - царство-бутафория , Deutsche Welle, September 13, 2017
  18. ↑ L'artiste russe Pavlenski arrêté à Paris pour avoir mis le feu à la Banque de France , Le Monde, October 16, 2017
  19. ↑ Après la Banque de France, la psychiatrie pour l'artiste russe Pavlenski , October 18, 2017
  20. ↑ Russian Artist Is Charged Over Fire at Central Bank Building in Paris , By ANNA CODREA-RADOOCT, October 19, 2017
  21. ↑ Ольга Кузьменкова: Арест Павленского во Франции мотивировали психиатрической экспертизой . In: BBC News Русская служба . June 15, 2018 ( bbc.co.uk [accessed July 16, 2018]).
  22. ^ Russian artist Pavlensky sentenced after arson in Paris. In: www.faz.net. January 11, 2019, accessed January 12, 2019 .
  23. ^ Joseph Hanimann: Election campaign scandal in Paris: platitudes in the limelight. Retrieved February 19, 2020 .
  24. ↑ RND: Attacks and threats: Macron's candidate in Paris withdraws , February 14, 2020, accessed on February 24, 2020
  25. ↑ Griveaux reports action artists - Macron's affair gets into trouble. February 17, 2020, accessed February 19, 2020 .
  26. ↑ Not worthy of a prize , report, in: FAZ , July 9, 2016, p. 11
personal data
SURNAME Pavlensky, Pyotr Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Павленский, Пётр Андреевич
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian conceptual artist and political activist
DATE OF BIRTH March 8, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad