SELECTED WORKS
Rostan Tavasiev
Rostan Tavasiev was born in Moscow in 1976 Graduated from the Carl Faberge Professional Lyceum of Decorative and Applied Arts No. 332 as a generalist jeweler (1998). Entered the Stroganov Moscow State University of Art and Industry, the Department ofGraphic Design (2000). Studied "New Art Strategies" at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow (2002). Entered the shortlist in the category “Work of visual art” within state prize incontemporary art “Innovation” (2006, 2013, Moscow). Personal exhibition “It'scomplicated…” was held in Multimedia Art Museum (2013, Moscow) and “Wall” was held in the State Tretyakov Gallery (2006, Moscow). The works are in the collections of the Centre Georges-Pompidou in Paris, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation in Moscow, as well as in private collections in Great Britain, Spain, Italy, France, the USA and others.
About the artist
Rostan Tavasiev rethinks the history of art by launching soft toys, which, innocently and cheerfully playing, create works and interact with them. The method of playful abstract expressionism invented by the artist in the 2000s is best known as “hippopart”, where toys are co-authors, leaving their color and shape on canvases. Since the 2020s Rostan Tavasiev has been developing the concept of creating works of art from astronomical objects in outer space. The artist works with such media as painting, graphics, objects and installation.
Education:
2002 Institute of Contemporary Art, “New Art Strategies”, Moscow
2000 Stroganov Moscow State University of Art and Industry, the Department of Graphic Design
1998 Carl Faberge Professional Lyceum of Decorative and Applied Arts No. 332, generalist jeweler
Collections:
Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, France
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk, Russia
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Private collections in the UK, Spain, Italy, Russia, USA, France, etc.
Solo Museum Exhibitions:
2013 It's complicated... Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2004 Wall. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Art Fairs:
2024 Art Central Hong Kong (SISTEMA GALLERY), Hong Kong
2022 Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair (SISTEMA GALLERY)
2014 Art14 London
2007 Gulf Art Fair. Dubai, UAE
2006 VIENNAFAIR. Vienna, Austria
2006 ARCO'06. Madrid, Spain
2006 FIAC’06. Paris, France
2006 Art Moscow 2006 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2005 Art Moscow 2005 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2004 FIAC’04. Paris, France
2004 Art Moscow 2004 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2003 Art Moscow 2003 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2002 Art Moscow 2002 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Biennales and Festivals:
2021 International Biennale Art of the Future. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2017 International Contemporary Art Biennial of South America Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 V International Symposium Alanika. Vladikavkaz, Russia2011 In depths. IX Krasnoyarsk International Museum Biennale. Krasnoyarsk. Russia. Catalog2010 Stroganovka. Expanding the borders... Within the framework of the Biennale of Young Art "Stop! Who is coming?"
2009 No Toys. State Tretyakov Gallery. Within the framework of the 3rd Moscow Biennale. Moscow, Russia. Catalog2008 Art Moscow 2008 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2007 Aziopa. Within the framework of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project. Bookshop Respublika, Moscow, Russia. Catalog2006 ARTFIELD Technology, Zelenograd, Russia
2005 ARTFIELD. Moscow Region, Gorki-10, Russia
2005 Gender Trouble. Within the framework of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2005 Dialectics of Hope. The main project of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez, Joseph Bakstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Yaroslava Bubnova). State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia Catalog2005 Art Klyazma. Klyazma, Russia. Catalog
2004 Art Klyazma. Russia. Catalog
2003 Art Klyazma. Russia. Catalog2003 Kommission. Festival of comics. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia. Catalog2002 Kommission. Comics Festival. A.Zverev Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 The Hare's Path to the Stars. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Catalog of Artworks in outer space. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Planetary Nebulae. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Asteroids and Comets. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Per tractus ad astra (Through the drawing to the stars). Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2022 Asteroid Eye. Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Planetary Nebulae. Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve, Moscow Region, Russia
2021 Planetary Nebulae. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 Projection of planetary nebulae. Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 Strigino 3 Strigino International Airport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2018 #Abramtsevo. Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Toward Mars. Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 Cosmoport Strigino 3 Arsenal, Privolzhsky branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2017 Tunnel. Museum Apartment of S.M. Kirov. St. Petersburg, Russia2017 Drop of Creacin. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 Fire! Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 Imagination and Paper. Center for Contemporary Art in Grozny, Grozny, Russia
2013 Imagination and Paper. National Museum of RNO-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia
2013 It's complicated... Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2013 it's complicated... Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Questions of Landscape. Museum-apartment of A.I. Kuindzhi
2012 Branch of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Hippopart. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center. Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 Postmoosernism of hippopart . Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 The lower depths 3D. E. Berezkina ERA Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2009 Milky Way. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 New Heroism. Galerie Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France
2006 Poppycock. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 Synthepon (synthetic winterize). Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Wall. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 Svintus. Lisa P. Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 Per aspera ad astra. Gallery C-art, Moscow, Russia
2003 Dream Ageing. Gallery Project OGI, Moscow, Russia
2002 Hypercomics. Gallery Project OGI, Moscow, Russia
Museum Group Exhibitions:
2020 Generation XXI. Gift of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the present day. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Institute of Very Contemporary Art Bakstein Actually. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia
2016 Puzzle by Pierre Brochet. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2013 Dreams for those who are awake. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia
2012 Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitch in Contemporary Art. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2012 Monuments and Documents. Permanent Exposition of the Department of the Newest Currents, State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2003 Illustrated Constitution of the Russian Federation. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2002 Art in Parallel Contexts. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
International Group Exhibitions:
2017 Casa Nacional del Bicentenario. Buenos Aires. Argentina
2016 ... after the glamor. KUNST IM TUNNEL, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 SVOBODA. Spazio Carbonesi. Bologna, Italy. Catalog
2010 Imperfetto. Spazio Carbonesi. Bologna, Italy. Catalog
2009 Russian dreams... Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA. Catalog
2008 Russian Art: Paradoxes of History. National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Laughter and Death. Laughterlife. Paradise Row Gallery, London, England
2007 Soc-art. Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Other Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 Winter, and everything for the first time again. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2017 Laughter in the Hall. Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2017 Human interest. Futuro Gallery. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2017 Fiction in everyday life. Erarta Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 We must cultivate our garden. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Innovation. TSUM. Moscow, Russia
2013 GOSZAKAZ. Central Exhibition Center Winzavod. Moscow, Russia
2010 Exhibition hall of the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts. Moscow, Russia
2009 Invasion: Evasion. BAIBAKOV art projects. Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2009 Surfaces. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 Absolut Creative Future. Central Exhibition Center Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2008 Laughter and Death. Laughterlife. DIEHL + GALLERY ONE. Moscow, Russia
2007 XV. Group exhibition of artists of gallery. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 No glamor. A.Zverev Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2004 Space. One Viewer Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Intimate Photography Festival. Reflex Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Golden Apples. Psychedelics in Russian fairy tale. Larets Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2004 Commission. Festival of comics. 1st place in nomination photo novella, Moscow, Russia
2003 New Countdown. Digital Russia together with SONY. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2003 Art Moscow Workshops. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2003 Background. Moscow Metropolitan, Moscow, Russia
2003 1st exhibition of creative works. Stroganov Moscow State Art College, Moscow, Russia
2003 The Best. Gallery S-art, Moscow, Russia
2003 Art Constitution. Gallery S-art, Moscow, Russia
2003 New Year Palm. Mukha Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 Melioration Festival. Klyazmenskoe Reservoir, Russia. Catalog
2002 Moscow through the Eyes of the Young. Maly Manege, Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2002 Euro. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia
2002 Art Business Consulting. Gallery Project OGI, Moscow, Russia
2002 Afternoon Group. Institute of Contemporary Art Strategy, Moscow, Russia
2013 It's complicated... Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2004 Wall. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Art Fairs:
2024 Art Central Hong Kong (SISTEMA GALLERY), Hong Kong
2022 Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair (SISTEMA GALLERY)
2014 Art14 London
2007 Gulf Art Fair. Dubai, UAE
2006 VIENNAFAIR. Vienna, Austria
2006 ARCO'06. Madrid, Spain
2006 FIAC’06. Paris, France
2006 Art Moscow 2006 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2005 Art Moscow 2005 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2004 FIAC’04. Paris, France
2004 Art Moscow 2004 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2003 Art Moscow 2003 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2002 Art Moscow 2002 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Biennales and Festivals:
2021 International Biennale Art of the Future. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2017 International Contemporary Art Biennial of South America Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 V International Symposium Alanika. Vladikavkaz, Russia2011 In depths. IX Krasnoyarsk International Museum Biennale. Krasnoyarsk. Russia. Catalog2010 Stroganovka. Expanding the borders... Within the framework of the Biennale of Young Art "Stop! Who is coming?"
2009 No Toys. State Tretyakov Gallery. Within the framework of the 3rd Moscow Biennale. Moscow, Russia. Catalog2008 Art Moscow 2008 Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2007 Aziopa. Within the framework of the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project. Bookshop Respublika, Moscow, Russia. Catalog2006 ARTFIELD Technology, Zelenograd, Russia
2005 ARTFIELD. Moscow Region, Gorki-10, Russia
2005 Gender Trouble. Within the framework of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2005 Dialectics of Hope. The main project of the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez, Joseph Bakstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Yaroslava Bubnova). State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia Catalog2005 Art Klyazma. Klyazma, Russia. Catalog
2004 Art Klyazma. Russia. Catalog
2003 Art Klyazma. Russia. Catalog2003 Kommission. Festival of comics. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia. Catalog2002 Kommission. Comics Festival. A.Zverev Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Solo Exhibitions:
2023 The Hare's Path to the Stars. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Catalog of Artworks in outer space. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Planetary Nebulae. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Asteroids and Comets. SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
2023 Per tractus ad astra (Through the drawing to the stars). Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2022 Asteroid Eye. Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 Planetary Nebulae. Abramtsevo Museum-Reserve, Moscow Region, Russia
2021 Planetary Nebulae. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 Projection of planetary nebulae. Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 Strigino 3 Strigino International Airport, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2018 #Abramtsevo. Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Toward Mars. Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2017 Cosmoport Strigino 3 Arsenal, Privolzhsky branch of the State Center for Contemporary Art. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2017 Tunnel. Museum Apartment of S.M. Kirov. St. Petersburg, Russia2017 Drop of Creacin. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 Fire! Pechersky Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 Imagination and Paper. Center for Contemporary Art in Grozny, Grozny, Russia
2013 Imagination and Paper. National Museum of RNO-Alania, Vladikavkaz, Russia
2013 It's complicated... Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2013 it's complicated... Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Questions of Landscape. Museum-apartment of A.I. Kuindzhi
2012 Branch of the Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts. St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 Hippopart. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center. Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011 Postmoosernism of hippopart . Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 The lower depths 3D. E. Berezkina ERA Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2009 Milky Way. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 New Heroism. Galerie Rabouan-Moussion, Paris, France
2006 Poppycock. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 Synthepon (synthetic winterize). Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Wall. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 Svintus. Lisa P. Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 Per aspera ad astra. Gallery C-art, Moscow, Russia
2003 Dream Ageing. Gallery Project OGI, Moscow, Russia
2002 Hypercomics. Gallery Project OGI, Moscow, Russia
Museum Group Exhibitions:
2020 Generation XXI. Gift of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the present day. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Institute of Very Contemporary Art Bakstein Actually. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow, Russia
2016 Puzzle by Pierre Brochet. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2013 Dreams for those who are awake. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia
2012 Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitch in Contemporary Art. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2012 Monuments and Documents. Permanent Exposition of the Department of the Newest Currents, State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2003 Illustrated Constitution of the Russian Federation. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2002 Art in Parallel Contexts. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
International Group Exhibitions:
2017 Casa Nacional del Bicentenario. Buenos Aires. Argentina
2016 ... after the glamor. KUNST IM TUNNEL, Düsseldorf, Germany
2011 SVOBODA. Spazio Carbonesi. Bologna, Italy. Catalog
2010 Imperfetto. Spazio Carbonesi. Bologna, Italy. Catalog
2009 Russian dreams... Bass Museum of Art, Miami, USA. Catalog
2008 Russian Art: Paradoxes of History. National Academy of Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria
2008 Laughter and Death. Laughterlife. Paradise Row Gallery, London, England
2007 Soc-art. Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Other Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 Winter, and everything for the first time again. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow
2017 Laughter in the Hall. Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2017 Human interest. Futuro Gallery. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2017 Fiction in everyday life. Erarta Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 We must cultivate our garden. Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2014 Innovation. TSUM. Moscow, Russia
2013 GOSZAKAZ. Central Exhibition Center Winzavod. Moscow, Russia
2010 Exhibition hall of the Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Fine Arts. Moscow, Russia
2009 Invasion: Evasion. BAIBAKOV art projects. Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2009 Surfaces. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 Absolut Creative Future. Central Exhibition Center Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2008 Laughter and Death. Laughterlife. DIEHL + GALLERY ONE. Moscow, Russia
2007 XV. Group exhibition of artists of gallery. Aidan Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 No glamor. A.Zverev Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2004 Space. One Viewer Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Intimate Photography Festival. Reflex Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Golden Apples. Psychedelics in Russian fairy tale. Larets Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2004 Commission. Festival of comics. 1st place in nomination photo novella, Moscow, Russia
2003 New Countdown. Digital Russia together with SONY. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2003 Art Moscow Workshops. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2003 Background. Moscow Metropolitan, Moscow, Russia
2003 1st exhibition of creative works. Stroganov Moscow State Art College, Moscow, Russia
2003 The Best. Gallery S-art, Moscow, Russia
2003 Art Constitution. Gallery S-art, Moscow, Russia
2003 New Year Palm. Mukha Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002 Melioration Festival. Klyazmenskoe Reservoir, Russia. Catalog
2002 Moscow through the Eyes of the Young. Maly Manege, Moscow, Russia. Catalog
2002 Euro. Sakharov Museum, Moscow, Russia
2002 Art Business Consulting. Gallery Project OGI, Moscow, Russia
2002 Afternoon Group. Institute of Contemporary Art Strategy, Moscow, Russia
