Moscow, Russia

www.kawarga.ru
'The attempts to understand the way I think led me to the idea of a possibility to visualize the thinking process. Then I began to materialize my thoughts themselves.' (Dmitry Kawarga)

Russian artist Dmitry Kawarga likes to see himself as an experimental research scientist. In his work, he deals with the main tool of all the arts and humanities: the thinking process itself. What is normally a means to an end, he turns into the end itself.

Kawarga, a profoundly conceptual artist, calls himself a radical of biological morphs. By creating three-dimensional projections of fragments of abstract thought forms, streams of consciousness, thinking processes, fragments of perception and reflexes, he materializes the non-haptic phenomena and makes the unseen visible. However abstract, the biomorphic forms appear natural and real.

For his sculptures Kawarga uses polymer plastic, a highly malleable medium that allows extremely detailed nuances of shape, edge and texture. His work 'Diffusion of Form - Creation' confirms Kawarga’s mastery of the visual language of his materials. In the process of metamorphosis, his 'thought form' – unconstrained by the limits of the artist’s imagined topography of thought – seems to be crystallized for the moment into a static state.

His working process - the research and experiments – has a scientific touch and his installations remind one of a laboratory set-up. When it comes to the meaning of it, however, Kawarga’s sculptures are pure artifacts completely free of rationality. They do not require the viewer to analyze the created visual image, but develop new thinking processes and invisible psycho-physiological mechanisms.

'Thought, after all, may be physically formless, but it has its own emotional coherence generated by a virtual human subject.' (Joel Simpson)

place & year of birth
Moscow Russia

featured galleries
www.barbarian-art.com

education
artistic education

solo exhibitions
2010 - 'Topography of creative evolution' (Kulik’s Hair), GridchinHall, Moscow Area

2010 - 'Ouroboros' Gallery Brissot art contemporain, Paris


2009
'Biostructures' Barbarian-art gallery, Zurich

2009
'Coming into the theme' gallery pop/off/art, Moscow

2008
'Photocompressing' Business hous 'Mohovaja, 7', Moscow

2008
'Trepanation of the Thought-forms' gallery pop/off/art, Moscow

2005
'Biomorphic radicalism in the destructive synthesis' gallery 'Sam Brook', Moscow

2003
'Retrospective Cut' Natural Science University, Moscow Curator I.E.Svetlov

2002
'Project 2x10' Callery А-3

2001
Science-n-Art Project in cooperation with Honored Inventor of Russia V.Beshekov

1999
'Saturated Landscape' Staraja Basmannja St.21, Moscow

1998
Expo in Moscow World Bank Curator T.Karpova

1997
Expo in Beljaevo, Moscow

1993
Kashirka Gallery, Moscow

group exhibitions
2011 - 'The Life. The science version', Winzavod, Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

2011 - 'New sculpture, Chaos and Structure', New Museum, St. Petersburg

2011 - 'Distortions of the Earth', Agency ArtRu, Moscow

2010 - 'Club 21' One Marylebone, St. Martin‘s Church, London

2010 - 'The Kandinsky Prize 2010', Central House of Artists, Moscow

2010 - 'Art Moscow' 14th International Art Fair, Barbarian-Art Gallery

2010 - 'A New Formalism', Museum of a City sculpture, St. Petersburg

2010 - 'VOLTA-6', Basel, Switzerland

2010 - VIENNAFAIR, The International Contemporary Art Fair focused on CEE

2010 - 'Reality metamorphoses,or Games with Time', Zverev's centre of contemporary art, Moscow

2010 - '0,5' Jubilee exhibition, gallery pop/off/art, Moscow

2009 - 'New sculpture, Chaos and Structure', Coluyanka gallery, Moscow

2009
'Good News' OREL ART gallery, London, England

2009
Art Moscow 13 th International Art Fair, pop/off/art gallery

2009
Preview Berlin, Deutschland

2009
Basel Selection Artfair, gallery 'OBOIMA Project Bureau', Basel, Switzerland

2009
VOLTA5, gellery 'Barbarian-art', Basel, Switzerland

2009
'Night of museums' State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2009
'Evolution of a dream', State Darwin museum

2009
EUROP'ART'09 Grand-Saconnex Geneva, Switzerland

2009
BridgeArtFair, New York

2009
'Atlantis' gallery A3, Moscow

2008
'Intrusion; rejection', Baibakov art project, Fabrika 'Krasny Oktyabr', Moscow, Russia,

2008
Bridge Art Miami, Wynwood, 'Barbarian Art Gallery', Zurich

2008
'Aqua', State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2008
'Tunguska meteorite', 100-years of falling, Krasnoyarsk

2008
'On Mortality in Art', in memory of N. Konstantinova, Rostov on the Don

2008
'Sleeping District', gallery ArtMarin, Moscow

2007
7th Krasnoyarsk Biennale

2007
Competition on the project to a monument to Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin

2007
Work is exhibited at a show-window of a museum ART4.RU

2007
'Art Moscow', (pop/off/art)

2006
Art Manezh, Moscow

2004
'World of War'Museum Of Decorative Art Curator S. Naumov Moscow

2003
The Size Does Matter' Central House of Artists, Curator S.Popov, Moscow
'Object and Thing', Museum Of Decorative Art, Curator N.Mahov, Moscow

1997
'Action Initiation', Art Laboratory Dominanta, Moscow

1997
'Bleeding of Spring' Malaya Gruzinskaya, Curator G. Vinigradov, Moscow

1996
Art Manezh, Moscow

1996
'Art Moscow', (Dominanta)

1994
'Fun-Art', Central House of Artists, Moscow

1992
Group 'Hummer', Manezh, Moscow

1992
'Golden Brush', Central House of Artists, Moscow

1991
Malaya Gruzinskaya in Manezh , Moscow

1991
'Space and Spirit', Central House of Artists, Moscow

1991
Group 'Hummer', Central House of Artists, Moscow

1988
In Memory of Pyatnitsky, Malaya Gruzinskaya , Moscow

1988
'Labyrinth', Palace of Youth, Moscow

awards
Museum Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art, Art4.RU, Moscow
Museum of Ecology and Local History, Muravlenko, Russia
Museum Center of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia