Ivan Novikov

Was born in 1990.
Lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Member of Moscow Art Magazine editorial board.
Co-founder of artist-run-space Krasny (Red) Center.

Ivan Novikov combines non-figurative painting and installation practices in his work. His attention is focused on the borders, tension and reciprocal dynamics between nature and culture — between organic systems and the civilizing influence exerted on them by man. For Novikov, this universal opposition attains a personal reading. He is interested in the social and political cataclysms that mark the history of the countries of Indochina in the latter half of the 20th century. The artist reflects on these subjects in the light of modern-day postcolonial and ecological research and correlates them, paradoxically, with the affective scope and theoretical challenges of abstract painting. It is precisely painting that becomes for him the medium that, in its very structure and material composition — canvas, ground, binding agents, textures and colors, — equally reveals the natural and the anthropogenic.

Portfolio

Education:

2020

MA in History (with distinction), The University of Manchester, UK

2015

PGDip in Art and Criticism, Contemporary Art Institute Baza, Moscow

2014

MFA in Painting, Surikov State Academic Art Institute, Moscow

Solo shows:

2023
Blue / Leiderstam studio / Stockholm, Sweden

2022
No / pop/off/art gallery / Moscow

2020
Ivan Novikov. Against the Grain / Moscow museum of modern art / Mosocw

Double-edged / pop/off/art gallery / Moscow
Special communication: story about Mr. N / CCA ZARYA / Vladivostok
Good morning, Indochina! / HLAM / Voronezh

2017
Luggage without the action / Electrozavod / Moscow

2016
Lien Xo / pop/off/art gallery / Moscow
Shining mycelium / VCSI / Voronezh

2015
Shining mycelium / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow
Perverted basket / pop/off/art gallery / Moscow

2013
Umwelt / Komnata gallery / Moscow

2011
Why? / Start project / Winzavod Art Centre / Moscow

Curatorial projects:

2021
Fifth Wave / Special Project of the 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art / Garage MCA + Schusev State Museum of Architecture

2020
Remembering Red / The support group / Special project of Moscow Young Art Biennale 

2019
.ІІІ.|||.||.|||.І|||І|||ІІ.. / Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation / Moscow

2019
sans (t)rêve et sans merci / Сube / Moscow

2018
timetobeanartist / Red Center / Moscow

2017
Dry food for the paper tigers / Red Center / Moscow

2016
Near Far / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow

2015
Quarantined / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow

2012
Sorry, could I try next time? / Agensy Art.ru / Moscow

Selected group shows:

2024

The Observatory: Art and Life in Critical Zones / Kin Museum of Contemporary Art / Kiruna, Sweden

2023

The Observatory: Art and Life in Critical Zones / Södertälje Konsthall / Stockholm, Sweden
Öland i världen - världen på Öland / Himmelsberga Museum / Kalmar, Sweden
Kitchen pop/off/art gallery / Moscow 
Open studios / Garage MCA Studios / Moscow

2022

X-Nowness / Basel Art Center / Basel, Switzerland
52 Proposals for the 20s / invited by Maria Lind / online project
Simple forms / MMoMA / Moscow
Open studios / Garage MCA Studios / Moscow
Process. Work. Continuation / U-contemporary / Moscow

2021

Zverev art prize. Exhibitions of the nominees / Winzavod Art Center / Moscow
Yūgen App / Porto Design Biennial 2021 / Porto / Portugal
Habitat / Winzavod Open / Moscow
Explicit Movements / CC Gromov / Saint-Petersburg
The Skies by Shishkov / Exhibition hall Kuznetsky Most, 20 / Moscow
GAKhN displaced / CCI Fabrika / Moscow

2020

Single copy / Garage MCA - Library / Moscow 
Under Pressure / pop/off/art gallery / Moscow
Painting minus / CCI Fabrika / Moscow

2019

Infography / Сube / Moscow
Yoko Ono. Sky Is Always Clear / MMoMA / Moscow
Poorest Class: Animals / Winzavod Art Center / Moscow
Heroes of Our Time / MMoMA / Moscow

2018

Fragile Things / Osnova / Moscow
How are you? NM / Parallel / Vienna, Austria
Simple digits / The 8 Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art / Tashkent, Uzbekistan
IAM / Garage MCA / Moscow
Strange, lost, unseen, useless / Winzavod Art Center / Moscow
General Rehearsal / Public program / MMoMA  / Moscow 
Together / VSCA / Vladivostok
10+7 - History of the shows / MMoMA / Moscow

2017
Back to home / Intelligentsia Museum / Nizhny Novgorod
1st Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art / Garage MCA / Moscow
Transparent borders / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow 
Kartateka / Argunov Library / Moscow

2016
In the network of form / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow
Souvenirs from Nowhere / Matadero CCC / Madrid, Spain
Experiences of the Imaginary / New Holland / Saint-Petersburg
INTERACTION / MMoMA Pu/ Moscow
The Raw /The Cooked / MMoMA / Moscow
City - artists, artists - city / Museum of Moscow

2015
Voices / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow
Futuristic mimicry / Chekhov’s house / Moscow
Bomb / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow
Forma-fest / Kristall factory / Moscow
Dirty linen / Krasny (Red) Center / Moscow
Hooray! Sculpture! / Winzavod Art Centre / Moscow

2014
The Other Side / Garage CCC / Moscow
Painting expansion / Museum of Moscow
Taint / Grad gallery / London
Generation START / First Cadet School / Manifesta 10 Parallel Events / Saint-Petersburg
Klukva / Ugor CCI / Syktyvkar
Supposing / Museum of Divnogory /Voronezh
Surgery / Ekaterina Cultural Foundation / Moscow
Forever living corpse / Winzavod Art Centre / Moscow

2013
Baza / State Tretyakov Gallery / Moscow
Why do we go to see exhibitions / Multimedia Art Museum / Moscow
Before the paradise / CCA Sokol / Moscow
Nothing of the Kind / Museum of Moscow
Stability. Ghosts / Random gallery / Moscow
MediaUdar / Artplay / Moscow
Our cause / Project Fabrika / Moscow

2012
PEMOHT / Project POT / Kassel, Germany
P.S.How it makes / Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art / Ekaterinburg
Art for Fake / Gallery K35 / Moscow

2011
Reactualization of a sign / Vspolny gallery / Moscow
Parallel process / The Moscow House of the Artist
Choose as heart / Krasnoyarsk museum Biennial
The Chinese wall / 11 rooms gallery / Samara
Auditorium Moscow. A Sketch for a Public Space / White Chambers / Moscow

2010
Freedom. Liberty / MMoMA / Moscow Young Art Biennale
Media Act / Zhir project / Moscow

2008
Neither jury, nor prize / NCCA / Moscow Young Art Biennale

Awards:

2022
MCA Garage Studios and Artist Residencie / Moscow

2021
Nominee of the Competition in "Book of the Year" nomination of the "Innovation- 2021" russian state award in the sphere of contemporary art.
Finalist of the Zverev Art Prize.

2020
Participant of the third edition of the project Single Copy by Library of Garage MCA.

2018
Finalist of the annual V-A-C Foundation and MHKA Antwerpen Russian art purchasing program.
Winner of the Competition in "Regional Project" nomination of the "Innovation 2018" russian state award in the sphere of contemporary art.

2017
Winner of Cosmoscow Foundation granting program.

2016
Winner of “Garage” museum of contemporary art granting program.
Nominee of the Competition in "Curatorial Project" nomination of the "Innovation 2015" russian state award in the sphere of contemporary art.

2015
Winner of “Garage” museum of contemporary art granting program.
Finalist of the annual V-A-C Foundation and MHKA Antwerpen Russian art purchasing program. 
Nominee for Kandinsky Award, Moscow, Russia.

2014
Winner of AroundArt Contemporary Art Journal, Russia the main art-works in 2014.
Recipient of the Ministry of Culture of Russia Grant, Russia.
Member of Moscow Union of Artists.

Residences:

2022
Northern Travelogue / Mint (Stockholm) and after_red (Moscow), in collaboration with the Cultural Department of the Embassy of Sweden in Russia / Stockholm, Sweden
Kultivator / Öland, Sweden 

2018
ZARYA CCA / Vladivostok, Russia

2016
El Ranchito - Matadero / Madrid, Spain

2014
Ugor CCI / Syktyvkar, Komi Republic, Russia

2012
Project POT / Kassel, Germany