Aleksandr Morozov (artist)

Alexander Alexandrovich Morozov (Александр Александрович Морозов; born 1974) is a Russian artist based in St. Petersburg.

Life
Russian artist. Author of interdisciplinary research projects and sound installations.

1996–2002 St.Petersburg Academy of Arts 1999–2000 — Educational program in Pro Arte Institute ‘Practicum.

The artist became famous for the conceptual project Birds’ Flight Records, shown in Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Ukraine, France, Germany. The project documented the timing and trajectories of  birds flying in the surrounding landscape. Among his prominent projects are The Black Book and Icons series. The first explored the disappearance of cultural  memory, recreating the artefacts lost during the war. The second focused on paintings with everyday subjects made in the egg tempera technique, characteristic of European art in the 15th–17th centuries.

He participated in the 11th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale (2015), the 3rd Ural  Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015), the 6th Moscow Biennale of  Contemporary Art (2015), and the parallel and public programmes for Manifesta  10, the European Biennale of Contemporary Art (2014, St Petersburg). Nominee of the Artaward International Strabag Prize (Austria, 2013), and the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (St Petersburg, 2013), Nominee of the 12th Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" (2019). Winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (2018) in the Best Visual Project category. Finalist of the 13th Kandinsky Prize in the nomination "Project of the Year" for the project Dystopia Station (2021).

Solo exhibitions

 * 2024 — ‘No sand in the sky’, Gallery DiX9 Hélène Lacharmoise, Paris
 * 2023 — Diary. Cité Internationale des arts. Paris, France
 * 2021 — The rest. КultProject Gallery. Moscow, Russia
 * 2019 — Birds Flight Records. Petersburg art space, Berlin
 * 2019 — Railway Opera. Russian Railways Museum. St. Petersburg
 * 2018 — Akchim. coordinates, Perm State Art Gallery, Perm
 * 2017 — Simple things, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
 * 2015 — Cosa Mentale, Marina Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg
 * 2014 — ‘What Do You See?’, Artre.Flex Gallery, St Petersburg
 * 2014 — ‘Garden’, Book Graphics Library, St Petersburg
 * 2014 — ‘Garden’, Book Graphics Library, St Petersburg
 * 2012 — ‘Factum’, Luda Express gallery in ‘New Holland’ open air art space, St Petersburg
 * 2012 — ‘The Human Factor’, with Alexander Artemov, Algallery, St Petersburg
 * 2012 — ‘Cinderella Effect’, Navicula Artis Gallery, St Petersburg
 * 2010 — ‘Radiation’, Navicula Artis gallery, St Petersburg
 * 2009 — ‘The Classical Garden of German Romanticism’, Botanical Museum, St Petersburg,

Selected group exhibitions

 * 2023 — Colonial Endurance. Detecting the Algorithm of Violence in Infrastructures, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
 * 2022 — Communication. Studio 44. Stockholm. SE
 * 2022 — Futu Muhu 2022 / Flora & fauna. Kadriorg Gallery. Tallinn, ES
 * 2022 —The Thinking Landscape, Museum of Moscow, Moscow. RU
 * 2021 — Exhibition of nominees for the 13th Kandinsky Prize. MM0MA. Moscow
 * 2021 — Intensive Places. Estonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Tallinn, ES
 * 2020 — 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
 * 2020 — NEMOSKVA is Just Around the Corner. Exhibition Hall Manege, St  Petersburg, Russia
 * 2015 — The 3rd Ural Industrial biennial of contemporary art. Artist-in-Residence Program.  Ekaterinburg, Russia
 * 2015 — Russia. Realism. XXI Century, The Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2014 — ‘The Other Capital’, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
 * 2014 — ‘Black Envy’ in a Parallel Events of the Manifesta 10, Borey Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2014 — ‘Kommunal Ghetto’ as a part of ‘Apartment Art as Domestic Resistance’ exhibition Public programs Manifesta 10, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2014 — ‘Signal’, ‘KB Signal’, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2014 — ‘Saving Venice’, Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2014 — ‘Perceiving Art’, St Petersburg State Library for the Blind, St Petersburg, Russiassia,
 * 2013 — The 11th Baltic States Biennale of Graphic Art ‘Kaliningrad– Konigsberg 2013’. The Kaliningrad State Art Gallery. Kaliningrad, Russia
 * 2013 — 2nd international public art festival Art Prospect Festival. St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2013 — V Biennale ‘New ideas for the city.’ The Garden City. Green urbanism, The Museum of Urban Sculpture. St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2013 — Season of St Petersburg Art. Navicula Artis. ‘Found in St Petersburg’. KultProekt gallery, Moscow, Russia
 * 2012 — Baltic Biennale 2012, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 2012 — Nel Modo Russico, Ten 43 gallery, New York
 * 2012 — ‘10−9’, 3H+K gallery, Pori, Finland
 * 2001 — ‘Microfest 01 Pro’, Pro Arte Institute, St Petersburg, Russia
 * 1999 — ‘Divietodisosta’. Artezero gallery, Milan, Italy

Collections

 * The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, RU
 * Anatoly Zverev Museum, Moscow, RU
 * Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, RU
 * Library of book graphics, St. Petersburg, RU
 * Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, RU
 * Sergey Kuryokhin Centre for Contemporary Art, St.Petersburg, RU
 * Copelouzos Family Art Museum, Athens, GR
 * Street Art Museum St.Petersburg, RU
 * The Perm State Art Gallery, Perm, RU