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Photograph by Anton Khlabov
Anton Khlabov Born in 1986 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia). Graduated from Institute Pro Arte in “New Technologies in Modern Art” program (2008). Photographer and multimedia artist. Now live and work in Yerevan (Armenia). Video art works was presented at Avanto Festival/Kiasma Theater (Helsinki, Finland), Örebro International Videoart Festival (Örebro, Sweden), Video Guerrilha festival (São Paulo, Brazil), Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (Moscow, Russia), festival “Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, “Qui Vive?” Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow, Russia), Extra Short Film festival (Moscow, Russia), Festival “Videoforma” (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Festival “OutVideo” (Yekaterinburg, Russia), No-Festival of Video art and Animation (Ufa, Russia), The One Minutes online video festival. Works in collections: Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Yukyung Art Museum in Geoje (Republic of Korea) CYLAND Online Video Archive (USA-Lithuania-Armenia) The State Museum of the Political History of Russia (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) Competitions, awards, publications: 9TH EDITION OF THE MONOVISIONS PHOTOGRATHY AWARDS, Honorable Mention in Architecture Category, July 2025 Fragments Mag(magazine), publication, May 2025 Creating the Worlds, Long list of international competition, Architecture Photography Category, May 2025 URBANVOID Vol. 02, Best Photographer (award and publication), March 2025 Festival “OutVideo”, 1st Place Award in Short Film Animation, 2012 Selected group projects 2025 – International Media Art Festival “CYFEST 16: Archive of Feelings. A Journey”, special version of video art work “Imaginary Center of Circle”(Centro de Cultura Digital, Mexico City, Mexico) 2025 – Video screening “Sleepless Video Art Night 2025: Where Deeds Echo”, video art work “Imaginary Center of Circle” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy) 2025 – Exhibition “3”, photo series “Dance with Hiding Sun”(Dalan Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia) 2024 – Exhibition “Pariahs: Performing Europe’s Historical Memory”, photo-based textile print series “Fabric of memory” (Charents House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia) 2024 – 3rd International GYUMRI ART WEEK festival, video art work “Imaginary Center of Circle”(Gyumri Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia), photo series “Imaginary Center of Circle”(Cinema House, Yerevan, Armenia) 2023 – 9th Geoje International Art Festival, “Curvilinear coordinates”(photography) (Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Yukyung Art Museum in Geoje, Republic of Korea) 2023 – 2nd International GYUMRI ART WEEK festival, video art work “Statistical population”(Gyumri Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia) 2022 – Exhibition “Home”, site specific photo installation “Line of life” (TUF club, Yerevan, Armenia) 2020 – Digital arts festival “Videoformes”, video “Full shift working” (La Diode, Clermont-Ferrand, France) 2019 – Exhibition “Abstraction in Avant-Garde!” (St. Petersburg’s Kuryokhin Centre for contemporary art, St. Petersburg, Russia) 2017 – Exhibition “Prospect Nepokoryonnykh” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia) 2016 – Exhibition “Just don’t tell anyone” (Creative space 0+, St. Petersburg, Russia) 2015 – Exhibition “Birds and Digits”, video “Proportional Values” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; Erarta Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2014 – Exhibition “Other Capital. Contemporary Art St. Petersburg today”, video installation “Ciliated Epithelium” (Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia) 2013 – Exhibition “Navicula Artis 1992–2012. Found in St. Petersburg”, photography from series “Isolated Observations” (KultProekt Gallery, Moscow, Russia) 2012 – Exhibition “3×2 Project”, video installation “Resonance” (KultProekt Gallery, Moscow, Russia) 2011 – Exhibition “Private”, video installation “Private Ears” (“ART re.FLEX” Gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2010 – “Qui Vive?” II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, participation in project “Glob(E)Scape” (Moscow, Russia) 2009 – Exhibition “Russian Beauty”, installation “Prospect Bolshevikov” (National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia) 2008 – “Qui Vive?” I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, participation in projects “Product Placement”, “Residual Radiation”, “Accidental policy”, “Migration” (Moscow, Russia) 2008 – Exhibition “Memory of Fields”, installation “The scale of what is happening” (loft-project “Etaji”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2007 – Twelve exhibition of the Little Things Series: “COSMIC”, video-installation “Zero-gravity Aquarium” (PRO ARTE Institute Exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2007 – Festival “CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM”-2007, project “Accidental policy”, installation “Political gum” (The State Museum of the Political History of Russia, Saint-Petersburg, Russia) Selected personal exhibitions: 2019 – “Proportional values”, video installation, Arctic and Antarctic Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2010 – “Memory”, photography, video, Freud`s Dreams Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2009 – “Electricity”, photography, “Belka&Strelka” gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2008 – “36/24/12”, photography, installation, Metrological museum, (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) 2007 – “Political Views”, photography, “NAVICULA ARTIS” gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
Yerevan, Armenia
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