Gosha Ostretsov

2010

Founder and chief editor of VGLAZ Society and art magazine

1999

Founder and chief editor of Russian Jungle art magazine

1993-96

Artist and designer by Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, Paris, France

1988-98

Lived and worked in Paris

1984

Graduated from Theatre Art School at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2010

Love for Electricity, TMproject Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

Heavy Patients, Rabouan-Moussion Gallery, Paris, France

2009

Apocalypse, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow

The Adventures of Robbing Good, Paradise Row Gallery, London, Great Britain

Coolville, Claire Oliver Gallery, New York, USA

2008

Dead Souls, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

Moloko-SOS, Ravenscourt Galleries, Moscow.

2007

Salon Beaute, Rabouan-Moussion Gallery, Paris, France.

Rich-Bitch, One Work Gallery, Moscow.

Under Repair, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

2006

Physicians and poets or sex and the city with G.Litichevskij, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

Forth Ceremony of Awarding the New Government’s Order of the Silver Badge of Honor,

in five categories, to the best people of Russia, Practika Gallery, Moscow.

2005

Lawlessness, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

2004

War, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

The 2nd Ceremony of Granting the New Government’s Order “Silver Badge of Honour”

to the Best People of the Russia Federation, performance,Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

2003

Rebels, Marat Guelman Gallery, Kiev.

The 1st Ceremony of Granting the New Government’s Order, “Silver Badge of Honour”

to the Best People of the Russian Federation. S.Art Gallery, Moscow.

2002

Vandals and Generals of the New Government, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

2001

The Phantoms, American Cultural Centre, Moscow.

Military Reform, Velta Gallery, Moscow.

Antarctic Eden , Contemporary Art in a Traditional Museum Festival organised by the Ford Foundation, Arctic and Antarctic Museum, St. Petersburg.

2000

The Beauty and the Beast, TV Gallery, Moscow.

Visitor, Marble Palace (branch of the State Russian Museum), St. Petersburg.

New Government, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

Diventa la Vittima, Nadia Baldeschi Arte Contemporanea, Venice.

Group exhibitions (selection)

2015

Liberation continued, Graz, Austria

2014

Die Tusovka Runde, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia

Are you ready to fly, MMOMA Museum, Moscow

Contemporary drawing, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2013

VGLAZ Society, Sunny Side of Lenin Street, TMproject Gallery, Geneva

2010

The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Foundation Zabludowicz, London, Great Britain.

2009

Banality and Eternity, Triumph Gallery, Moscow.

53rd Venice Biennial, Victory over the Future, Russian Pavilion, Venice, Italy.

Gosha for Kids, Triumph Gallery, Moscow.

Another Mithology, Diehl + Gallery One at the National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow.

2008

Laughterlife, Diehl + Gallery One, Moscow.

Russian Roulette, Museum, Wiesbaden.

Domestic Appliance, Flowers East Gallery, London.

Laughterlife, Paradise Row Gallery, London.

Moscow Photo Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

Fast Art 24, Winzavod Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

2007

Austrian story with G.Litichevskij, Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

Austrian story with G.Litichevskij, Resanita Center of Contemporary Art, Graz, Austria.

2nd Moscow Biennial, Artist`s diary, Central House of Artists, Moscow.

2nd Moscow Biennial, “Sots-Art,” Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

2006

Morg (Moscow Organisation), Independent project,The Central House of Artists, Moscow.

Spear-Hand with Benjamin Barthel and Julie Sainton, National Center of Photography of

Russian Federation, St-Petersburg, Russia.

Amateurs, Marres Art-Center, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Swinging paintings, DomArt Gallery, Moscow.

Cinemarathon curator project, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

Art-Moscow-2006, The Central House of Artists, Moscow.

Tramp, The Central House of Artists, Moscow.

2005

Birche révolution, Practika Gallery, Moscow.

Tramps, Perfomance, Stop: Who Is It? NCCA, Moscow.

Barbie-Zone, Ru-Arts Gallery, Moscow.

Art and Arms, Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

8th Biennale of Graphics of the Baltic Countries, Kaliningrad, Russia.

Portrait of a face, Marat Guelman Gallery at Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

Subjective time, Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow.

Pusto-Empty, Video-Art Fesival, ArtStrelka, Moscow.

WE: Forum of Art Initiatives group exhibition, New Manege, Moscow.

In procès, with George&Georgegroup (Georgy Ostretsov & Georgy Litichevsky),

State Center of Modern Art, Moscow.

Moscow-Warsaw, State Center of Modern Art, Moscow.

1st Moscow Biennial, Soobshchniki, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Front: Wechsel, Stift Vorau, Austria.

1st Moscow Biennial, Gender Passions, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.

Third Ceremony of Awarding the New Government’s Order of the Silver Badge of Honor,

in five categories, to the best people of Russia,” Performance, Central House of Artists, Moscow.

Russia-2, Central House of Artists, Moscow.

Bubble, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

2004

Moscow-Warsaw, Modern Art Center, Ujazd Castle, Warsaw.

Act of Mercy, ArtStrelka, Moscow.

Art Klyazma, project Piss in the Loo, Klyazma Reservoir Holiday Hotel, Moscow.

Art-Klyazma, project The Unbeatable New Government. Klyazma Reservoir, Moscow.

Controlled Democracy, White Space Gallery, London.

Art-Moscow, The Central House of Artists, Moscow.

2003

New Countdown: Digital Russia with Sony, project The New Government Against Global Net,

The Central House of Artists at Krymsky Val, Moscow.

Art Constitution, Modern Arts Museum, Moscow.

Panoramic View, project Autobiography, The Central House of Artists at Krymsky Val, Moscow.

Frontiers of Childhood, project Phantoms, Artek Gallery, London.

Surrogate, Stop: Who Is It?, RuArts Gallery, Moscow.

Art-Klyazma, project The Unbeatable New Government, Klyazma Reservoir, Moscow.

The Long Stories of Yekaterinburg:, International Festival of Modern Art in the Urban Medium.

Exhibition of drawings, project State Painting, Yekaterinburg, Russia.

Reconnaissance in Art, Forum of Artistic Initiatives, New Manege, Moscow.

Annual Report of the New Government, Master Salons of Art-Moscow,

The Central House of Artists, Moscow.

2002

A_REAL001, International Festival of Modern Art in the Urban Medium, project Impossible Clothes for Every Day. Yekaterinburg.

Amelioration, or Art for a Better Life, project Propaganda Staff of the New Government:

Heavenly and Earthly Power, Klyazma Reservoir, Moscow.

Euro, Andrei Sakharov Centre, Moscow.

Cetinje Biennial, Reconstruction, project Rubber Tower, Lastomer (Pinniped), Shooting Gallery,

Cetinje, Montenegro.

Motherland Fatherland, Forum of Art Initiatives, New Manege, Moscow.

Freebies 2: Postcards, The Cult Club, Moscow.

Moscow Photo Biennial, Bulimia, Photo Centre at Gogolevsky Boulevard, Moscow.

2001

The Ecology of Art in Industrial Space, Nizhny Tagil, Russia.

Agitating for Art, Marat Guelman Gallery, Moscow.

Art as Tourism, project Smoking Room, New Manege, Moscow.

Art for a Time project of Group 77. Super-Soldier video installation, Graz, Austria.

Amidst Things, Museum of Applied Arts, Moscow.

Art Moscow, Marat Guelman Gallery.

Chechnya, National Art Collections Foundation.

Adaptation, Andrei Sakharov Centre, Moscow.

2000

Fotofo Photography Month, Bratislava, Slovak Republic.

3rd Millennium Photo Biennial, Youth Welcomes the, Central House of Artists, Moscow.

Public collections

The Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow.

The Russian State Museum, St. Petersburg.

The Moscow Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow.

The Saatchi Gallery, London.

Zabludowitcz Foundation, London.

Simon de Pury.

The Arctic and Antarctic Museum, St. Petersburg.

The Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg.