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		KALLIMA Alexey

Biographical information: Born in 1969 in Grozny, Chechnya
Graduated from the Krasnodar college of Fine Arts (painting), 1984-1988
Since 2001 curates the "France" Gallery
2006 – Prize for the Best Visual Art Work in the State Competition in Contemporary Arts INNOVATION (Moscow)
Lives and works in Moscow
Collections where works are held
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2006 Dead calmness, "Lightbox", New York
"Rebels". Together with Erbol Meldibekov, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
"Private emotions". Guelman Gallery, Moscow
2005 "Malika, Shut the Door", S`Art, Moscow
Chronicles, "Reflex" Gallery, ArtStrelka, Moscow
2004 "Houris and Reci-divas", Guelman Gallery, Moscow
2003"Distance", Tretyakov Gallery
"Case on the roadside, or examination on roads", Guelman Gallery, Moscow
ART-MOSCOW, "Malika, shut the door", installation, Moscow
"Tomorrow", wall graphic, gallery France, Moscow
2002 "You are there where are absent", gallery France, Moscow
"Zefirs", performance, gallery France, Moscow
"Monument to victims", action, gallery France, Moscow
2001 "Chechens", action, Art Moscow, Moscow
2000 "SES", action in Moscow Kremlin on Presidential election day, Moscow

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Artist`s Diary. Special project of Marat Guelman
Foundation within the 1st Moscow Biennale. Central House of Artist, Moscow
Thaw. 15 years of M. Guelman Gallery. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2005-2006 Russia 2. WHITE BOX, New York
2005 Artist and Arms, M`ARS Gallery, Moscow
Portrait of a Face, Guelman Gallery, M`ARS Gallery, Moscow
Russian Pop-Art, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Europalia, festival of contemporary art (Brussels, Belgium)
Moscow Breakthrough, London
I Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Curator`s project "Dialectic of Hopefulness"
I Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, special project "Russia 2"
2003 ART-MOSCOW, "We and they", graphic series "Charcoals"
"Fashion control", Guelman Gellery, Moscow
ARTKLYAZMA, Festival of Contemporary Art, Moscow
"Stop! Who goes?", NSCA, Moscow
"Same old sun everywhere", gallery France, Moscow
"Inspection platform", Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
"New countdown", Central House of Artists, Moscow
2002"DAVAJ!", Posthfuramt, Berlin; museum MAC, Vienna
"Snowgirl", Warszawa
"Instead of art", Zverev Center, Moscow
"Actual report", Samara, Tolyatty, Novosibirsk, Nizhny Novgorod
"Melioration", Festival of Contemporary Art, Moscow
"Stop! Who goes?", NSCA, Moscow
"100% vision", gallery Regina, Moscow
"Pop/Art", Zverev Center, Moscow
"Georgia from/to", Zverev Center, Moscow
2001"Personal / Impersonal", Baumanskaya, 13, Moscow
1997"The world of sensual things in pictures", SMFA of A.Pushkin, Moscow
1995 Venice Biennale, pavilion L`art Vizione, curator Ernst Foux, Venice
Autobiographical notes
What the critics say: Aleksey Kallima is the most notable artist from the pleiad of talents, given to Moscow by the southern provinces in the 90s. A refugee from his native Groznyy and witness of its storming, the Russian Aleksey Kallima acts as a patriot of Chechnya in Moscow and in his works refers to the theme of the Chechen war. The artists develops the theme of the province in a harsh way, in opposition to generally accepted democratic norms, without national exotica, natural beauty, the adornment of historical and regional traditions. The Chechens for Kallima are the inhabitants of roads and roadsides; they wear Adidas, drink Coca-Cola and smoke Turkish Marlborough. The global brands receive an unexpected boost of energy, becoming the marks of saboteurs and terrorists. Returning to figurative expressive language, the artist has freed the picture from its responsibilities to realism, having placed it in the dimension of will and imagination. Will is personified by the Chechens, the wild power of the new millennium, bringing death to the old epoch.
Alexander Evangely
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