Natalia Smolyanskaya

Painter, graphic artist, collagist, video artist, book artist, installation artist, performance artist, curator, writer, philosopher, teacher. Born in Moscow (1958). Graduated from Moscow Institute of Polygraphy (1981). Member of the Union of Artists (1989), founding member of Polygon (1990–96). Candidate for the degree of doctor of philosophical sciences (2005), PhD in philosophy from the Université Paris 8. Member of the European Network for Avant-Garde and Modernism Studies. Head of the research programme Crise du cadre: penser les «langages de l’art». Les avant-gardes et la crise du cadre at the Collège international de philosophie in Paris, taught theories of contemporary art and conceptual exhibitions at Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow (from 2008). Curated Inside_Fabrika_Outside at Proekt_Fabrika in Moscow (2012). Lives and works in Moscow and Paris. Contributed to exhibitions in Russia (from 1982) and abroad (from 1988). Contributed to the XIV–XIX Youth Exhibitions of the Union of Artists in Moscow (1982–90), First Creative Unification of Moscow Artists in Moscow (1987, 1988), Labyrinth at the Palace of Youth in Moscow (1988), Neuvostoliiton Nuorta Taidetta at Turun taidemuseo in Turku (1988), Collection 89 at the Venäjän tiede- ja kulttuurikeskus in Helsinki (1989), Czerwone i bia?e: Wschodnia fala / Red and White: The Eastern Wave at the Hala Gwardii in Warsaw and the Galeria Dijkstra in Amsterdam (1989–90), Scientific-Technical Progress and Art at the House of the Artist on Kuznetsky Most in Moscow (1990), Logic of Paradox at the Palace of Youth in Moscow (1990), Paths of Abstraction at Art Manège ‘97 in the Manège Central Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1997), Harmony of Contrasts: Russian Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century at the Russian Academy of Arts in Moscow (1997), Abstraction in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2001–02), Collage in Russia: XX Century at the Russian Museum in St Petersburg (2005–06), Monochrome: Rods and Cones, or All Cats are Grey at Night at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (2010), exhibitions of Polygon at the Kashirka Exhibition Hall in Moscow (1990), Palace of Youth in Moscow (1991), Eastern Gallery in Moscow (1993), Taganka Theatre in Moscow (1993), Central House of the Artist in Moscow (1994) and the Cultuurcentrum Gildhof in Tielt, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek-Bever in Brussels, Cultuurcentrum Berchem in Antwerp and Cultuurcentrum Kortrijk in Kortrijk (1995–96), performances at the studio of Boris Markovnikov in Moscow (1997) and the Phoenix Gallery in Moscow (1998), joint exhibitions with Inna Entina at the Arbat Gallery in Moscow (1990) and with Igor Ganikovsky, Yury Zlotnikov, Yury Kamelin and Ilya Tabenkin at the Galleria Otso in Espoo (1991) and one-woman shows at the A3 Gallery in Moscow (1993) and RuArts Gallery in Moscow (2011).