Stas Bags

Born in 1984 in Leningrad.

Education

• 2013 (February-March) — educational program “Cabinet of Сuriosities” Proarte and KUVA Academy of Arts, Helsinki
• 2001—2007 — Faculty of Science, Department of Human Anatomy and Physiology GRPU named Herzen, St. Petersburg
• 2004—2007 — Proarte Institute, St. Petersburg

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje (Macedonia), the State Russian Museum. Private collections in Russia, Finland, Germany and France.

Personal exhibitions

2013

• “Joseph Beuys Had no Choice”, Kadieff Gallery (Helsinki)

2012

• “Gudermes Ichkeria”, collaboration with Kostya Fedorov, Mira Miru (Saint Petersburg)
• “Collapse”, Anna Nova Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)

2011

• “Severstal”, Anna Nova Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “Milk and Vodka Design For Its Own Exhibitions”, Vihod Media Center (Petrozavodsk)

2010

• “Name”, A trans Pavilion (Berlin)
• “Katusha”, Krasnoe Znamja Center of Culture (Saint Petersburg)

2009

• “Milk and Vodka”, G18 Gallery (Helsinki)
• “3-4-5”, Protvor Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “My Moscow”, Start Gallery, Winzavod (Moscow)

2008

• “Memory N1 Old Age”, LUDA Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “Memory N2 Room”, C.A.G. Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “I Hate Labels”, ZOOM Art Café (Saint Petersburg)

2007

• “Milk and Vodka”, Stirka Art Café (Saint Petersburg)

2006

• “Moloko i Vodka”, Griboedov Fashion Club (Saint Petersburg)

Selected group exhibitions

2014

• “From Words to Action”, Nepokorennie Studio, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
• “Casus Pacis. Motive to Peace”, Street Art Museum, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
• “Generation Start”, First Military School, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
• “Magnetic Field”, Rizzordi Art Foundation Loft, Manifesta 10 Parallel Events (Saint Petersburg)
• “Signal Art of the Present”, Kontur Loft (Saint Petersburg)
• “Storage Conditions” Anna Nova Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• Drunk Exhibition (in memory of 100-aniversairy of Russian Avant-garde), Borey Art Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “After Comics”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)

2013

• “Mayakovsky. Manifest”, Proun Gallery (Moscow)
• Art Prospect Public Art Festival (Saint Petersburg)
• “Mythology of Moscow”, Museum of Moscow, special program of V Moscow Biennale (Moscow)
• “View West, View East”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
• “Mechanisms of Paradox”, Kuryokhin Center of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
• “New Reasons: From Conception to Minimalism”, Cultproject Gallery (Moscow)
• “New Aesthetics”, Nevsky Prospekt, 20 Information Library and Cultural Center of Art and Music (Saint Petersburg)
• “Kresty. Prison. №2”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
• “From Saint Petersburg with Love”, Noordelijk Scheepvaartmuseum (Groningen)

2012

• “The Hot Cold”, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)
• “Resonant Matter”, State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)
• “Conversion”, 1/4 Art Space (Saint Petersburg)
• “ARTiculation Exercise”, Special project of III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, White Hall (Moscow)
• “Oculus Dva”, Special project of III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Agency Art Ru (Moscow)
• “Elastic Art”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
• Exhibition of the Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominees, Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Center (Saint Petersburg)

2011

• “Shit”, All Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “Gates and Doors”, State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)
• “The Force Field”, Krasnoe Znamja Center of Culture (Saint Petersburg)

2010

• “Font”, The Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art (Saint Petersburg)
• “Fence”, Perm Alive Festival (Perm)
• “The Heroes of Our Time”, Open Gallery, II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow)
• “Vis-à-vis”, National Center for Contemporary Arts, II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow)
• “New Formalism”, Museum of the City Sculpture (Saint Petersburg)
• “Severstal” (installation with mechanics), “Odyssey of the Balaclava” Military (Sevastopol)
• “Vis-à-vis”, Ecole nationale des beaux-art de Lyon (Lyon)

2009

• Exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize nominees, Central House of Artists (Moscow)
• “The Door”, LUDA Gallery, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)
• “Barrel”, XIV Macedonian Biennial of Young Artists (Skopje)
• “Art About Art”, State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg)
• “Fury”, Globe Gallery, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)

2008

• “Antistrot vs MilkandVodka”, Dutch Punch, Winzavod (Moscow)
• “What are We Going to Play Tomorrow”, С.A.G Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “Acclimatization”, C.A.G. Gallery (Saint Petersburg)
• “Memory of Fields”, Etagi Loft Project (Saint Petersburg)

2007

• “Notes From the Overpass”, G18 Gallery (Helsinki)
• “ …izmy”, Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum Festival, State Museum of Political History of Russia (Saint Petersburg)
• Modern Techno Music & New Art 1-night Festival “Video Capture”, total installation, Nepokorennie Studio (Saint Petersburg)
• “Standartnoye Primitivirovanie”, Nepokorennie Studio (Saint Petersburg)
• “Samiy Samiy Noviy”, Atelier №2 Gallery, Winzavod (Moscow)

2006

• “Street Art / Closed Air”, MART Gallery (Saint Petersburg)

Art Fairs

2013

• Volta9 (Basel) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery

2012

• Spoon Art Fair (Hong Kong) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
• AHAF Hong Kong (China) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery
• ARCO Madrid (Spane) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery

2011

• ART EDITION, Seoul (South Korea) presented by Anna Nova Art Gallery

Workshops

2013

• Urban Art Festival, Kiasma (Helsinki)
• “Cabinet of Curiosities”, ProArte/Kuvataideakatemia (Saint Petersburg – Helsinki)

2008

• “Youth for Europe” (Copenhagen)
• Art Kazantip Art Festival (Ukraine)

Awards and nominations

2011

• Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award nominee

2009

• Kandinsky Prize nominee