Denis Patrakeev

Liquid

00:02:00, video installation, looped video

The artist performs a mystical ritual. He puts his head in a bowl filled with milk. That act echoes with the famous plot component of Russian folk tales, in which, in order to rejuvenate his body and soul, the hero has to bathe in different liquids. What’s important for the artist here is the idea of breaking the boundaries of the impossible, “the space beyond the limits of time”, the idea of dissolving in the act of creation and acquiring a new state.

Denis Patrakeev

Born in 1987, Leningrad, Russia.
Educated in Gertcen University, the Faculty of Arts
The member of Artists Union from 2008

Personal Exhibitions

2015 “DAY ONE”, Nepokorennie 17, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2014- « Mustard seed», Anna Nova Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 “Sheba”, Bobby Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2014- «361 degrees /2», Erarta Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2012 “Reconstructor”, Anna Nova Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2012 «361 degrees», Erarta Gallery, London
2011 «Proections», Nepokorennie studio, Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2011- «The Earth of plays», State Centre of Contemporary Arts, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2011 «Gastra OZ», The Door Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

Group exhibitions

2015 “We must cultivate our garden” , Anna Nova Gallery

2015 “Intertext”, Erarta museum, Saint-Petersburg

2015 6 Moscow Biennal of Contemporary Art, Panopticym, Moscow, Russia

2015 OSTRALE, Drezden, Germany

2015 “Daha 409”, Komarovo, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2015 independently/separately, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2014- Yougorgskiy period, Erarta museum, Saint-Petersburg

2014- Vienna Fair, Vienna, Austria

2014 “Interspace”, Erarta Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2014- “RuArts”, IV Moscow International Biennial for Young Art, Moscow, Russia

2014- “Signal”, Signal factory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2014- “Refugee Camp”, Salon art-project, parallel program of Manifesta 10, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2013- Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey

2013- ArtSpace Event, ArtPlay, Moscow, Russia

2013- Volta9, Basel, Switzerland

2012- «Crosses», Erarta museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2012- «Social networks», Erarta museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2012- «New Ampire», Anglettere Hotel (Anna Nova Gallery project), Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2012- «Elastic arts», Erarta museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2012- «Present, Past and Future», Erarta Gallery, London

2011- «Peter and Wolf», Erarta gallery, London

2011- «Autumn aggravation», Manege exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2011- «Stability», Erarta museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2010- «21 gramm»- Art hall Poligraf. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2010- «Manipulations», Kitchen studio, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2010- «Black gold ». Kitchen studio, Saint-Petesburg, Russia

2009- «Childhood of our eyes.» , Markov Gallery. Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2008- «Men and women legs in 21century » The Gallery of Chateuo the Rious Castle, France

2006- «New names » , Museum of nonkonformism arts, Pushkinskaya 10, Saint- Petersburg, Russia

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