About Sergey Filatov

Sergey Filatov is an interdisciplinary artist and musician

Filatov's works have been exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide, including Central Arcenale (Venice, Italy), COMEL contemporary art gallery (Latina, Italy), Inter Arts Center (Malmo, Sweden), Triumph Gallery (Moscow), Garage Museum (Moscow), State Hermitage (St. Petersburg), National Center for contemporary art (Moscow), etc; and in international contemporary art festivals: Ars Electronica (Linz), Yorkshire Sculpture International 2019 (Great Britain), På Den Anden Side (Denmark), Waterfront (Saint-Petersburg — Helsinki — Copenhagen), Russian Sound Art Showcase 2019 (New York and Berlin) etc.

Sergey Filatov is a participant of 58th Venice Biennale of contemporary art 2019, II Triennial of russian contemporary art, V international Biennale of contemporary art 2017, V Baltic Biennale of contemporary art 2016, International cultural forum 2017, Forum of contemporary art APosition 2016, Russian exhibition of contemporary art 2001 etc.

Awards and nominations:

2021 — The winner of the Innovation contemporary art Award: category "The Artist of the Year"

2020 — The finalist of the international sound art award Pow Solo Madrid

2020, 2021 — Nominee for the Moscow Art Award

2019 — The finalist of Kuryokhin international contemporary art Award: category "The best media object" for 2018

2018 — The winner of the VII international contemporary art Prize "Premio COMEL" (Italy)

2017 — The winner of Kuryokhin international contemporary art Award: category "The best media object" for 2016

2016 — The finalist of Kuryokhin international contemporary art Award: category "The best work of visual art" for 2015

Works are in the collections:

COMEL contemporary art gallery (Italy),
Novosibirsk State Art Museum,
North Caucasus Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Arts (Vladikavkaz),
PERMM Museum of contemporary art (Perm),
Embassy of Foreign Artists (Switzerland),
LEINE contemporary art gallery (Germany),
The Museum of nonconformist art (St. Petersburg),
Kuryokhin Center of contemporary art (St. Petersburg),
The Sound Museum (St. Petersburg),
and private collections in Russia, Canada, USA, India, China,
Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Switzerland.

Group exhibitions, performances and festivals

(selected)

— 2021

Living Matter — State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Matière++ — Soul2Soul Espace Culturel, Geneva, Switzerland
Exhibition of the Innovation Award nominees — NCCA "Arsenal", Nizhny Novgorod
Moscow art prize — Media Center, Zaryadye, Moscow
Alanika, the XIV International Festival of Contemporary Art — North Caucasian Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Vladikavkaz
Number as an Image — A3 Gallery, Moscow
Crossing the Space — Tsarskaya Tower Gallery, Moscow
Shimmering — Festival of Experimental Sound and Contemporary Music, the Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland
Laboratory of the Future. Kinetic Art in Russia — State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
15 minute break — NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod
Archive of Sensory Culture — Nisha, GROUND Solyanka, Moscow

— 2020

A Beautiful Night for All the People: the 2nd Triennial of contemporary art — Garage Museum, Moscow
Museum of Self-isolation — Museum of Moscow
15 minute break. Part II — Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow
Cycles in 11 — within Tarek Atui's exhibition project, Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE
Epicentrum — Navicula Artis gallery, St. Perterburg
Waters' Witness — within Tarek Atoui exhibition project, Friedericianum Museum, Kassel, Germany
Pangardenia — ARS Electronica festival, St. Perterburg – Linz, Austria
Exhibition of nominees for the First Moscow Art Award — Zaryadye, Moscow
Russian creativity week — Gorky Park, Moscow
Wave of dreams — Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Prepared surroundings, experimental sound festival — Garage Museum, Moscow
Formica Rufa — The Aesthetics of Biodiversity in the framework of GYA International Conference
Russian Sound Art Showcase — the Sound Art gallery, Electromuseum, Moscow
Laboratory of the Future. Russian Kinetic Art — Manege central exhibition hall, St. Petersburg
When I am the Wind — the New Stage of the Alexandrinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg
Russian Sound Art Showcase in frames of Vorspiel / CTM & transmediale — Berlin

— 2019

"Metamorphoses" music laboratory — Taganka Theatre, Moscow
"Shimmering" experimental music festival — Electromuseum, Moscow
"If The Snake" — as part of the Tarek Atoui's project, Okayama Art Summit, Japan
"Alphabet of the Petersburg experiment" — Manege, St. Petersburg
"Russian Sound Art Showcase" — SA))_gallery, Moscow
"Sound Performance" – Motif Wein, Berlin, Germany
"Yorkshire Sculpture International" — The Hepworth Wakefield Museum, Great Britain
"SonoContour Performance" — COMEL contemporary art gallery, Latina, Italy
"Presence/ Touch" — Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg
"Russian Sound Art Showcase" — within the New York Electronic Arts Festival, New York
"Periodic table" — world premiere within Diaghilev festival, Triumph, Perm
"Parallel front" — within the framework of the 11th festival of experimental sound "Prepared environments", cultural center Come-In, Moscow
"Night of multichannel sound" — Sound Museum, St. Petersburg
"Little Tsakhes" — premiere, Theatre Ermolova, Moscow
"Between Heaven and Earth" — East Meets West Gallery, Moscow
"The Ground", performance in the framework of the main program of the 58th Venice Biennale, Central pavilion Arsenale, Italy
The 58th Venice Biennale "May you live in interesting time", within Tarek Atoui's "The Ground" project, Arsenale Central pavilion, Italy
Exhibition of nominees for the X Kuryokhin's Prize for contemporary arts (nominated for "Best media object"), St. Petersburg
"Dialogues" — The sound art gallery, Electromuseum, Moscow
"When I am Wind" – State gallery Solyanka VPA, Moscow
"The art of being" — National center for contemporary art, Moscow
"SA]]m0st'_27" — GROUND gallery, Moscow
"Sonus Nodorum" — Vadim Sidur Museum and National center for contemporary art, Moscow
"Pass / Epic file" – Gromov house of culture, St. Petersburg
"Field. Wave oscillation" and "Field. Rustle" – Solyanka State gallery, Moscow
"The experience of pure hearing" – Art Сenter: Moscow
"Nebula. Octophonie" – Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow
"Art & Science Fest" by PERMM Museum of contemporary art — Shpagin factory, Perm
"The optimal state of the system" — GROUND, Moscow
"The feeling of Space" — National center for contemporary art, Moscow

— 2018

"Know!Cosmos", exhibition project of PERMM Museum of contemporary art in Yekaterinburg
"Constellation Cage (Var. I)" with Kymatic ensemble – Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Interference: the phantom forms – Concert hall gallery "Belyaevo", Moscow
"Homo Mechanicus" within the program "The context of visual" , State center for contemporary art, Moscow
Premio C.O.M.E.L — international prize of contemporary art, Latina, Italy
"Selector" - international festival of contemporary art, Arkhangelsk
"ART Prospect" — international public art festival, St. Petersburg
"Performative Sound Sculptures" — Inter Arts Center, Malmö, Sweden
"På Den Anden Side" — the Møn island — Corbella, Denmark
"Performative sound sculptures" — Mayhem, Kopenhagen
"The name of the river" — Museum of contemporary art PERMM, Perm
"Cape Agulhas" — GROUND, Moscow
"Fructus Temporum / Fruit of time" — Hortus gallery, Apothecary garden of the Botanical garden of Moscow state University, Moscow
"RandomTala" and "Quiet string evening" — Central Manege, Moscow
"Here and now" — Central exhibition hall Manege, Moscow
"8-channels sound installation", sound art zone of the festival "Gamma 2018" — QuartaRiata Residency of Arts & Technology, Peterhof
"ProToArt" — The Central exhibition hall "Manege", Saint-Petersburg
"Homo mechanicus" — The Ground Gallery, Moscow
"Petersburg 2103" — The Central exhibition hall "Manege", Saint-Petersburg
"Infinite Ear" concert at the exhibition of musical instruments of the project WITHIN, at the invitation of Tarek Atoui (France) — The Garage Museum of contemporary art, Moscow
Experimental stage of the international music festival "Usadba Jazz", exhibition of sound sculptures in the soundart dome — Palace and park ensemble Arkhangelskoye, Moscow
"Private life of radio frequencies" — Popov Central Museum of Communications, Saint-Petersburg
SSI: NOISEROOM — Center of Contemporary Art named S. Kuryokhin, Saint-Petersburg
"Ground Zine Fest-2", The Ground Gallery, Moscow
SA))m0st'_26 festival of experimental sound — The Ground Gallery, Moscow
"PSS", in collaborate with Jacob Remin (Denmark) — The Ground Gallery, Moscow
"Performative sound sculptures", in collaborate with Jacob Remin (Denmark) — The SA_gallery in Elektromuseum, Moscow
"Spatium Sonorum" — sound sculptures in Annenkirche, Saint-Petersburg
"Arrival of a train" — multichannel sound installation at the Ekaterina Cultural Foundation with the support of the State centre of contemporary art, Moscow.
"Without declared value" — The Centre of design and architecture АrtPlay, Moscow
"Jung's map of the soul" — sound sculptures and spatial installations, The Ground Gallery,
Moscow

— 2017

Exhibition in the framework of the international prize presentation of WorldSkills, Moscow
International festival of audiovisual and digital art "PLUMS Fest-7", Moscow
Demonstration of sound sculptures in the framework of the International cultural forum. The
State Hermitage, Saint-Petersburg
International urban project "Waterfront" with the support of Danish Сultural Institute, Saint-Petersburg — Helsinki — Copenhagen
"SOUNDART: the Space of sound" — The Central exhibition hall "Manege", Saint-Petersburg
V international Biennale of contemporary art — The Сontemporary art-center "Hangar""
Novorossiysk
"ProToArt" — The Central exhibition hall "Manege", Saint-Petersburg
"GEEK PICNIC"— The international scientific and popular festival, Saint-Petersburg and Kolomenskoye Museum-reserve, Moscow
SpinaFest — Festival of improvisational and experimental music
Museum night 2017 — The multimedia space TessArt, Saint-Petersburg
Sonic Contour — Spatial Electroacoustic Laboratory, the Sound Museum
NewQold A/V — The residence of arts and technology Kvartarita, Peterghof
Exhibition of the nominees of the international Award of Kuryokhin center of contemporary art 2016, Saint-Petersburg
Winner in the category "Best media object 2016" — the international Award of Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg
"EkoArt" — The New exhibition hall of the City Sculpture Museum, Saint-Petersburg
"Prototype #2" — Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg

— 2016 —

"TechnoArt. The art of open source" — The Elektromuseum, Moscow
"V Baltic Biennale of contemporary art" — The Novyi Museum, Saint-Petersburg
"Prepared Environments", the eighth annual international festival of experimental sound — The MARS Center, Moscow
"Landscapes inside" — at the invitation of Pascal Pellan (France), the gallery "LUDA", Saint-Petersburg
Contemporary art forum "APosition-12" — The Rumyantsev Palace, Saint-Petersburg
SpinaFest — Festival of improvisational and experimental music
Nomination "The Best work of visual art" of international Award of Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg
Exhibition of the nominees of the international Award of Kuryokhin center of contemporary art 2015, Saint-Petersburg

— 2015—

"Russian soundart showcase" — ARS Electronica, Linz, Austria
"Atonal Architectonics: building" — The Sound Art Gallery, Electromuseum, Moscow
"Zvukochto" — Exhibition of audiovisual arts, The Ground gallery, Moscow
"Cross-Art" — The Erarta museum and gallery of modern art, Saint-Petersburg
"New names" — Pushkinskaya-10 art-center, Saint-Petersburg
"Audio architecture 3" — Laboratory of the Sound Museum, Saint-Petersburg
"Starting winding of a synchronous cloud" — Laboratory of the Sound Museum, Saint-Petersburg
"Irreality" — The Central house of artists, Moscow
"Sound map of St. Petersburg" — The Sound Museum, Saint-Petersburg

—Before —

2014 "Cyclic convolution" — The Gallery of experimental sound, St. Petersburg
2014 "20 years later" — The Central house of artists, Moscow
2014 Opening of the Ground project — Ground exhibition hall, Moscow
2014 "The road to the Kavkaz" — at the 6th annual festival of experimental sound "Prepared Environment", the State center of modern art, Moscow
2013 "Poetronika" — The cultural center "Dom", Moscow
2013 "Mission impossible" — The Centre of design and architecture АrtPlay, Moscow
2013 "The Core of life" — The cultural center "Dom", Moscow
2012 "Tibet — infinity of silence" — The Centre of design and architecture АrtPlay, Moscow
2012 "Behind the plane" — The Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow
2012 "Abstract art" — The Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow
2011 Art Biennale-2011 — Krasnodar regional exhibition hall of fine arts
2010 "Walk of the lonely dreamer" — The Central house of artists, Moscow
2007 Biennale of contemporary art — The Central exhibition gallery of fine arts, Krasnodar
2003 Biennale of contemporary art — The Central exhibition gallery of fine arts, Krasnodar
2001 Russian exhibition of contemporary art — The Central house of artists, Moscow

Solo exhibitions and performances:

(selected)

2022 "I Hear You" — Moscow Museum of Modern Art
2021-2022 "SonoContour. Trajectory of Resonances" — Artservatory Contemporary Art Center, Khabarovsk
2021 "Sixieme Sens" — at the invitation of Cartier jewelry and watch house – Zyferhauz, St. Petersburg and IRRI Loft, Moscow
2021 "Sculptures in the Garden" — the Embassy of Foreign Artists, Geneva, Switzerland
2021 "Unhindered Movement" — Dreiviertel gallery, Bern, Switzerland
2021 "Amidst Resonances" — Àduplex gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 "The Garden of the Elusive Sonors" — State Art Museum, Novosibirsk
2020 "Two Dots On A Smooth Black Surface" — Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2020 "Looking for a floating point" - as part of the "Now&After" festival, MMOMA, Moscow
2020 Sound performance "The garden of the elusive sonors" — Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2019 "360 + 10. Electrostatics" — Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow
2019 "SonoContour" — Leine contemporary art gallery, Hannover, Germany
2019 "Oscillating Superstructures" — Electromuseum, Moscow
2019 "SonoContour: sound architecture" — Erarta contemporary art museum, Saint-Petersburg
2019 "SonoContour" — COMEL contemporary art gallery, Latina, Italy
2019 "Clouds of overtones" — Now&After festival, CСI Fabrica, Moscow
2019 "Sound architecture" — Practika Theatre, Moscow
2019 "SeedShaker: waiting for a favorable environment and the right time" — Solyanka VPA State Gallery, Moscow
2019 "Clouds of overtones" — Mars Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2019 "Duofluctus" — National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2018 "Inosphere" — Unprepared Surroundings, Science and Art space, Moscow
2018 "Pravda Severa" — the current printing factory, Arkhangelsk
2018 "EM mixer" — ProtoArt, the Central Manege, Saint-Petersburg
2018 "Machine sketch" — Oktava, Tula
2018 "ElectroLire" — Solyanka VPA State Gallery, Moscow
2018 "EMV Shaker" — Popov Central Museum of Communications, Saint-Petersburg
2018 "Four interesting points" — within the 10th festival of experimental music "Prepared Surroundings", ZIL Cultural center, Moscow
2018 "Research of a floating point. Electrostatics" — Stanislavsky Electrotheatre, Moscow
2017 "8 overdrive channels" — Sevcable Port, Saint-Petersburg
2017 "Horizon of eternity" — The Lamp Gallery, Saint–Petersburg
2017 "Omniauris" — TessArt spase, Saint–Petersburg
2017 "Suspended particles" — IN-Art Gallery, Novorossiysk
2017 "Secundo Vita Project" — CYLAND MediaArtLab, Saint–Petersburg
2017 "Secundo Vita" - Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg
2017 "Research of a floating point" — within the 9th festival of experimental music "Prepared Surroundings", ZIL Cultural center, Moscow
2017 "Signs on the way" — The Lamp Gallery, Saint–Petersburg
2016 "Experimental laboratory of audiovisual improvisation", Taiga, Saint–Petersburg
2016 "Inoshpere" — the international forum of contemporary art "Aposition XII", Rumyantsev Palace, Saint–Petersburg
2015 "Cracles on the grey" — The New stage of Alexandrinsky theatre, Saint–Petersburg
2015 "Spherical rotation" — CROSS ART festival, Erarta Museum of contemporary art, Saint–Petersburg
2015 "The Chime" — The Electromuseum, Moscow
2015 "Shape of the moment" — The Museum of nonconformist art, Saint–Petersburg
2015 "Dissolution-2" — Mayakovsky art center and the research center of Microelectronics of the RAS, Saint-Petersburg
2015 "Feedback" at the festival of experimental sound "Fourth ear", the Gallery of Russian Union of artists, Novorossiysk
2015 "Music of the present" — international forum at the Sound Museum, Saint-Petersburg
2015 "Dissolution" — The Gallery of Union of Artists of Russia, Novorossiysk
2014 "Illusion of reflection" — The Anfilada Gallery, Saint–Petersburg
2014 "Distant source" — The IN Gallery, Novorossiysk
2014 "Endless labyrinth" — Abrau–Dyurso Gallery, Abrau–Dyurso
2012 "Where dreams are born" — The Central exhibition hall, Novorossiysk
2012 "Cold processing" — X5 Gallery, Myskhako
2012 "Door and the world" — The Gallery of the Union of Artists of Russia, Novorossiysk
2010 "Sacred circle" — within the III Moscow Biennale of young art, Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow
2008 "Trajectory of boomerang" — Vrublevskaya Gallery, Moscow

Lectures, workshops, artist-talks:

(selected)

2021 Artist talk at the Center for the Contemporary Art Artservatory, Khabarovsk
2021 Artist-talk within the framework of Alanika, the XIV International Festival of Contemporary Art — North Caucasian Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Arts, Vladikavkaz
2021 Masterclass "Original Musical Instruments" and performance at La Lire Music School, Geneva, Switzerland
2020 "Art Footprint Conference-6" – artist-talk and performance in the framework of an online conference dedicated to the problems of art and ecology
2020 Artist-talk in the framework of the "New Media Lab" – New stage of the Alexandrinsky theater, St. Petersburg
2019 Tutor of "Sound-art laboratory" – Taganka Theatre, Moscow
2019 "Author's musical instruments" – artist-talk within the inclusive exhibition project "Art of being", the National center for contemporary art, Moscow
2018 Lecture "Sound art: history and practice", Gaidarovets cultural center, Moscow
2018 Speaker of the annual international conference "The Museum in the Сity – The Сity in the Museum", the Moscow Museum
2018 Tutor and lecturer of "Sound-art laboratory" at the international festival Selector, Arkhangelsk
2018 "The practice of creating", lecture at the course "Holistic combinatorics" at the school of young artist of the PRO ARTE Foundation, St. Petersburg
2018 "Omniauris: field recording project", artist-talk and "DIY sound devices", performance at the invitation of the creative industrial cluster "Oktava", Tula
2018 "Sound sculptures", lecture and workshop at the course "Holistic combinatorics" at the School of young artist of PRO ARTE Cultural Foundation, Saint-Petersburg
2018 "Field recordings: history and practice" lecture and workshop at the course "Holistic combinatorics" at the School of young artist of PRO ARTE Cultural Foundation, Saint-Petersburg
2017 "Author's electro-acoustic musical instruments", Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint-Petersburg
2017 "Author's electro-acoustic musical instruments" at the international popular science festival GEEK PICNIC, Saint-Petersburg
2017 "Author's electro-acoustic musical instruments" at the international popular science festival GEEK PICNIC, Moscow
2017 "DIY electro-acoustic musical instruments" at the invitation of media art laboratory CYLAND, the White hall of the cultural center Taiga, Saint-Petersburg
2017 "Author's electro-acoustic musical instruments" - lecture in the framework of the educational program "School of improvisational music", St. Petersburg Sound Museum
2016 "Field recordings: research and practice" at the festival of contemporary art "APosition - XII", Rumyantsev Palace, Saint-Petersburg
2016 Series of lectures "Field recordings. Author's course", Saint-Petersburg
2015 "Field recordings: research and practice", within the program "Practical course of experimental music (PCEM)", St. Petersburg Sound Museum
2015 Lecture "Author's musical instruments" within the course "New Media Laboratory", The New Stage of the Alexandrinsky theatre, Saint-Petersburg
2015 "Music of the present" Forum, section "Sound art and sound technologies": report "Contemplative approach to sound", St. Petersburg Sound Museum