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IGOR VAGANOV

is a Russian rock journalist, visual artist, filmmaker, radio presenter, organizer, and participant of a number of media and art projects in Russia and abroad. His works have been shown at major international events including MADATAC, Wrocław Industrial Festival, FIVA, Mediawave International Film and Music Gathering, Artkino, Kansk Video Festival, Moscow, New York, Madrid, Toronto, Geneva, Luxembourg, Los Angeles, Buenos Aires, and San Paolo artplaces.

«You can't show anyone anything he hasn't seen already, on some level - any more than you can tell anyone anything he doesn't already know. It is the function of the artist to evoke the experience of surprised recognition: to show the viewer what he knows but does not know that he knows»

- William S. Burroughs

Last projects and exhibitions:

2022
«Death Day». International Exhibition 1989: The Postcollapse In Art And Culture. Cerritos College Art Gallery / MPAC, Los Angeles, California, USA.
«Death Day». International Exhibition 1989. MinEastry of Postcollapse Art and Culture (MPAC), Portland, USA.

2020
Participation in the release of the new album of the British band Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus «Songs Of Yearning / Nocturnes» (artwork).

2019
Start of a new author's sound art project «Les Chants De Maldoror» on the Radio Karagarga online.

«Death Day». International Film Festival 14 Muestra de Cine Europeo MUCES. Special program: presentation of the best films of the MADATAC X, Madrid. Museo Esteban Vicente, Segovia, Spain.
«Death Day». Official selection. Festival Internacional de Arte Eletrônica TIMELINE: BH#5. Cine Sesc Palladium, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
«Death Day». Official selection. Electronic Language International Festival FILE. San Paolo, Brazil.
«December» (Russian Elegy). Official selection. Competition. All-Russian festival "Artkino". Moscow, Russia.
«Death Day». Official selection. "Special mention" jury prize. 10th International Festival of New Media, Video Art and Audiovisual Technologies MADATAC X. Madrid, Spain.

2018

«Death Day». Official selection. Festival Internacional de Videoarte FIVA 8. Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

«December» (Russian Elegy). IX International Festival of Author's Films "Kinolikbez", program "Kinoesse", Intellectual Cluster of Mind Games, Youth Center of the Union of Cinematographers of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia.
«Hieronymus». Animation, short, based on the painting "Garden of Earthly Delights", to the 500th anniversary of the great Dutch artist Jeroen Anthoniszoon van Aken, better known as Hieronymus Bosch, original images of Hieronymus Bosch, music by Johan Johannsson. dedicated to the memory of the remarkable Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson [1969 — 2018].
«December» (Russian Elegy). Official selection (experimental film category). The 28th Mediawave "Another Connection" International Film and Music Gathering: the International Competition Program. Fort Monostor, Komárom, Hungary.

2016

«Journey to the End of the Night» - a movie about Wrocław Industrial Festival filmed in 2014. Full-length, documentary, video art, musical, road movie, including interviews, fragments of performances, and quotes from Celine.
«December» (Russian Elegy) - a short, an experimental cinema, pictorialism, with the music by American composer Michael Gordon and poetry by Brodsky. When “…ink on the page is more honest than blood”.

2015

Video art presented at NOISEroom International sound-art project, video retrospective, première «Fin. Finito. Infinito», Creative Space, Rostov-on-Don, Russia.

2014

Participation in the XIII Wrocław Industrial Festival: presenting a special project, «Death Day» , an audio and video installation (together with Job Karma and The Magic Carpathians Project (Poland), “the most important project of the year”, which is “not about death as a physical entity at all - though it is very physical in its own way; to us, filming it was like washing our mouths with broken glass (…), it is about spiritual death, the world we are losing, the world which is about to depart. About the things that continue to be important for us in this world. And it is about the culture we carry throughout our lives till we are dead...” The project opened the festival: three video screens, November 6, Eter Club, Wrocław, Poland.

2013

The invitation in jury of the XII International Kansk Video Festival (Chairman of the Jury: Nana Jorjadze), a large video retrospective, airport, Kansk, Siberia, Russia.

Joint project with Yuri Shabelnikov «Scandalous exhibition» (not implemented) for Pechersky Gallery, Moscow. Forte dei Marmi, Italy.

Joint project with Vito Pace (Italy) «Reflections on Landscape's social democracy». VIII Biennale of contemporary Art 2013 Shiryaevo. The main project. «Screen: between Europe and Asia». Samara, Russia
The artwork for the international project «Attich-Ebulum», dedicated to Sidonia von Borce (1548-1620). Santa Sangre Sounds, Poland

2012
Park Art Fair International, Geneva, Switzerland, shortlist, Geneva, Switzerland
International Festival of Independent Films 2morrow/Zavtra, chief editor of the official website of the festival, Moscow, Russia
Toronto Urban Film Festival (TUFF), première «L'etude», Toronto, Canada
Video Poetry | Festival of visual poetry Poeza 347, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
A Solo Exhibition Orlandina | bau Gallery, Becon, NY, USA
Discover the Digital World, СI.Gallery, Luxembourg
Exhibition Mein Atelier - My Studio, Stuttgarter Kunstverein e.V., Stuttgart, Germany

2011
Video art | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the Rostov Academic Youth Theatre, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Video art | Mahnyomsya?!, Drama Theater. Yermolova Theater, Moscow, Russia
Changes International Exhibition, Luxembourg
Video Poetry | Ninth International Literary Maximilian Voloshin competition, Koktebel, Crimea
A Solo Exhibition | Long Night of Museums, Taganrog Museum of Art, Taganrog, Russia
Video Poetry | First Open City Exhibition of Poems, Rostov-on-Don, Russia

2010
EUtopia International Exhibition, Luxembourg
Second International exhibition Park Art Fair International, Geneva, Switzerland
International Exhibition 2010 Surrealism, Coimbra, Portugal
State of Creation International Competition, Luxembourg
City Exhibition A Street Has Its Face, Modern Fine Arts Museum at Dmitrovskaya Street, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Planet Earth, Planet Art International Project, London, Great Britain
Power of Self International Competition, New York, USA

2009
Park Art Fair International, Geneva, Switzerland
Video art | Klatz art project, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
A Solo Exhibition | Grani.net Project, ROMIS, Rostov-on-Don, Russia
International Exhibition in Mount Beacon Fine Art Gallery, New York, USA
Freedom & Art International Project (Amnesty International), New York, USA