Anton Khlabov
Squared City
PAL, 4:3, DVD / 02:22
Monochrome video, stereo
(Complex forms are born from a grid of finishing tiles that graduate from abstract planes and lines to easily recognizable objects. A city outwardly acquires varied forms but inherently remains the same, deepening the complexity of inferred meaning.)
Anton Khlabov – born in 1986 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Graduated from Institute Pro Arte in “Contemporary art” program (2008).
Phone: +7-904-605-83-68
E-mail: foto.ant@gmail.com
Exhibitions:
2007 – “Political Views”, photography (“NAVICULA ARTIS” gallery, Saint-Petersburg)
2008 – “36/24/12”, photography, installation (Metrological museum, festival “CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM”-2008, Saint-Petersburg)
2009 – “Electricity”, photography (“Belka&Strelka” gallery, Saint-Petersburg)
2010 – “Memory”, photography, video (Freud`s Dreams Museum, Saint-Petersburg)
Group projects:
2007 – festival “CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM”-2007, project “Accidental policy”, installation “Political gum” (The State Museum of the Political History of Russia, Saint-Petersburg,)
2007 – twelve exhibition of the Little Things Series: “COSMIC”, video-installation “Zero-gravity Chamber” (PRO ARTE Institute Exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg)
2008 – “Memory of Fields”, installation “Masshtab proishodyaschego” (loft-project “Etaji”, Saint-Petersburg)
2008 – “Qui Vive?” I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (participation in projects ” Product Placement”, “Residual Radiation”, “Accidental policy”, “Migration”)
2009 – “Russian Beauty”, installation “Prospect Bolshevikov”(National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow)
2010 – “Qui Vive?” II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (participation in project “Glob(E)Scape”)
2010 – “Rain in St.Petersburg”, video “Rainy Everyday” (Exhibition Hall of The State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Petropavlovskaya Fortress, Saint-Petersburg)
2011 – “Private”, video installation “Private Ears” (“ART re.FLEX” Gallery, Saint-Petersburg)
2011 – “5”, video installation “COPY: Right Story” (“ART re.FLEX” Gallery, Saint-Petersburg)
2012 – The festival of contemporary art, “Napoleon, 12. Art Anfas. Art Practice”, photo installation “Relative measurements” (“ART re.FLEX” Gallery, Saint-Petersburg)
2012 – “3×2 Project”, video installation “Resonance” (KultProekt Gallery , Moscow)
2013 – “Navicula Artis 1992–2012. Found in St. Petersburg”, photography from series “Isolated Observations” (KultProekt Gallery , Moscow)
Festivals(video art) :
2006 – OutVideo`06 festival (day program)
2006 – parallel video program of festival CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM-2006 (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2007 – parallel program of 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, video program in NCCA (Moscow, Russia)
2007 – OutVideo`07 festival (night program)
2007 – parallel video program of festival CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM-2007 (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2007 – video program “Stekliannoe pole” Avanto Festival ’07, Kiasma Theater (Helsinki, Finland)
2008 – video program of “SKIF-12” festival, Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Center (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2008 – parallel video program of festival CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM-2008 (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2008 – video “Loneliness of porcelain” in Russian program of ÖREBRO INTERNATIONAL VIDEOART FESTIVAL (Örebro, Sweden)
2008 – video installation in “Videozahvat” festival, open studio “Nepokorennie” (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2010 – video “Full shift working”, 10th Extra Short Film festival, competition program (Moscow, Russia)
2012 – video “Storage”, parallel program of No-Festival of Video-art and Animation (Ufa, Russia)
2012 – video “Punctuation situations”, OutVideo 2012 festival (Ekaterinburg, Russia)
2012 – video “Hemispheres”, Video Guerrilha festival (São Paulo, Brazil)