Dmitry Kawarga

Dmitry Kawarga (Russian: Дмитрий Викторович Каварга) born in Moscow, Russia is a Russian artist. Kawarga began working in his own style of "biomorphism" striving to create a synthesis of science, art and technology. His art is featured in numerous museums and is part of the permanent collection of Erarta, Russia's largest private museum of contemporary art located in Saint Petersburg.

Style

Kawarga works are often described as part of the Science Art movement (or SciArt), although the artist rejects this description. The kinetic objects in his installations are created in cooperation with scientists, programmers and engineers and often allow for viewer interaction. His style has been variously described as "biomorphism" or "biogenic art".

Permanent collections

• ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
• Erarta museum of contemporary art, St Petersburg
• Museum of Ecology and Local History, Muravlenko, Russia
• Museum Center of Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

• ART.RU artists: Dmitry Kawarga
• Erarta artists: Dmitry Kawarga
• Флуктуация пространственных массивов. Дмитрий Каварга

Exhibitions

Kawarga has been a participant of international exhibitions and festivals of contemporary art, including Lexus Hybrid Art, Ars Electronica and Electronic Language International Festival.

Solo exhibitions

• 2014 - "Biomorphic dust", Saint Peterburg, RU
• 2014 - "...at the deep end black fishes", The ex-cinema-theatre "Udarnik", Moscow, RU
• 2012 - "Kawarga. Apocalypse 21.12", Pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, RU
• 2012 - "Paleo-Geo-Morphologies", Barbarian-art Gallery, Zurich, SW
• 2010 - "Topography of creative evolution", GridchinHall, Moscow Area, RU
• 2010 - "Ouroboros" Gallery Brissot art contemporain, Paris, FR
• 2009 - "Biostructures" Barbarian-art gallery, Zurich, SW
• 2009 - "Coming into the theme" gallery pop/off/art, Moscow, RU
• 2007-2008 - "Trepanation of the Thought-forms" gallery pop/off/art, RU
• 2007 - "Photocompressing" Business hous "Mohovaja, 7", Moscow, RU
• 2005 - "Biomorphic radicalism in the destructive synthesis" gallery "Sam Brook", Moscow, RU
• 2003 - "Retrospective Cut" Natural Science University, Moscow, RU
• 2002 - "Project 2x10" Callery A-3, RU
• 2001 - Science-n-Art Project in cooperation with Honored Inventor of Russia V.Beshekov
• 1999 - "Saturated Landscape" Staraja Basmannja St. 21, Moscow, RU
• 1998 - "Immersion into the Summer" in Moscow branch of The World Bank, RU
• 1997 - "I'm bored with everyone and I'm tired." in Beljaevo Gallery, Moscow, RU
• 1994 - Murals in Theatre "Perovskaja St.", Moscow, Ru
• 1993 - Kashirka Gallery, Moscow, RU

Group exhibitions

2016

• "ARCHSTOYANIE", 11th international festival of landscape objects. Nikola-Lenivets, Dzerzhinsky District, Kaluga region, Russia.

2015

• "Orient Express", the special project of 6th Moscow Biennale, Centre MARS
• "Nadezhda – The Hope", the special project of 6th Moscow Biennale
• "Urals Transcendental", the special project of 6th Moscow Biennale, ArtPlay
• "Waxworks Exhibition", Palace of Culture Bauman Moscow State Technical University, Moscow
• "Promise of landscape", Perm Museum of Contemporary Art

2014

• "Quantum Entanglement", Laboratoria Art&Science Space and FutureEverything, Moscow
• Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil, (catalog)
• "ZOO-ZOO", State Darwin Museum, Moscow, (catalog)

2013

• Kandinsky Prize, The Udarnik Cinema, Moscow, (catalog)
• Open Innovations (Forum and Technology Show), Crocus Expo IEC, Moscow, (catalog)
• "Contemporary art in the Traditional Museum", The Saint Petersburg city museum festival, (catalog)
• "TOTAL RECALL The Evolution of memory", ARSELECTRONICA, Austria, Linz, (catalog)
• "Frontier", Science-Art-Lab, Moscow
• "GOSZAKAZ" /A Governmental Order/, Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod & Pechersky Gallery
• The show of the pretenders on Sergey Kuryokhin Modern Art Award in nomination The Best Art Projects, (catalog)

2012

• "Resonant Matter", Russian Museum, Marble Palace
• "Way. Road.", Gallery ph_Manometr, ArtPlay, Moscow
• "Lexus Hybrid Art", ArtPlay, Moscow

2011

• "Free spaces", the special project of 4 Moscow Biennale, Agensy ArtRu, Moscow, (catalog)
• "Pro-Contra", International Symposium, the special project of 4 Moscow Biennale, ArtPlay, (catalog)
• "Rewriting Worlds: Dada Moscow", the special project of 4 Moscow Biennale, ArtPlay
• "ArtFocus for Technologies: Charm&Challenge", Ural forum of Industry&Innovations "INNOPROM 2011" Ekaterinburg
• "The Life. The science version", Moscow Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, (catalog)
• "New sculpture, Chaos and Structure", New Museum, Saint Petersburg, (catalog)
• "Distortions of the Earth", Agency ArtRu, Moscow, (catalog)

2010

• Kandinsky Prize, Central House of Artists, Moscow, (catalog)
• "CLUB 21 - Remaking the scene", One Marylebone, the special project of Frieze Art Fair London, England, (catalog)
• "A New Formalism", Museum of a City sculpture, Saint Petersburg, (catalog)
• "Reality metamorphoses,or Games with Time", Zverev's centre of contemporary art, Moscow
• "0,5" Jubilee exhibition, gallery pop/off/art, Moscow, (catalog)

2009

• "New sculpture, Chaos and Structure", Coluyanka gallery, Moscow
• "Good News" OREL ART gallery, London, England, (catalog)
• "Art Moscow" 13 th International Art Fair, pop/off/art gallery
• "Night of museums" Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• "Evolution of a dream", State Darwin Museum
• EUROP'ART'09 Grand-Saconnex Geneva, Switzerland

2008

• "Atlantis" gallery A3, Moscow
• "Invasion : Evasion" BAIBAKOV art projects, (catalog)
• "Cyberfest" Youth Educational Centre of Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
• "Power of Water" Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, (catalog)
• "Tunguska meteorite", 100-years of falling, Krasnoyarsk
• "Art About Mortality", in memory N. Konstantinova, Rostov on Don, (catalog)
• "Sleeping district", gallery ArtMarin

2007

• Competition on the project a monument to Boris Yeltsin
• - 7th Krasnoyarsk Biennial 2007
• Work is exhibited at a show-window of a museum ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum

1988 - 2005

• Art Manezh 2005, Moscow
• "World of War" Museum Of Decorative Art, Moscow 2003
• The Size Does Matter" Central House of Artists, Moscow 2003
• "Object and Thing" Museum Of Decorative Art, Moscow 2001
• "Action Initiation" Art Laboratory Dominanta, Moscow, 1997
• "Bleeding of Spring" Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow, 1997
• Art Manezh 1996, Moscow
• "Fun-Art" Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1994
• Group "Hummer" Manezh, Moscow, 1992
• "Golden Brush" Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1992
• - Malaja Gruzinskaja in Manezh, Moscow, 1991
• "Space and Spirit", Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1991 (catalog)
• Group "Hummer" Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1988
• In Memory of Pjatnitzkogo Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow, 1988
• "Labyrinth" Palace of Youth, Moscow, 1988

• File
• KAWARGA. APOKALYPSE 21.12_DMITRY KAWARGA
• "Moscow Art Diary", Dialog of Arts (2013), publication of Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• Kawarga’s Polymer Sculptures and Model of Biomorphic Consciousness, By Joel Simpson
• ARCHSTOYANIE
• Hewitt, Simon (12 November 2015). "Going everywhere and nowhere". Russian Art + Culture. Retrieved 9 September 2016. 
• "Art in Search of Connection to Science", Russia's Science and Technology magazine, 2013
• CyberArts 2013
• GOSZAKAZ: Group Exhibition of Artists.
• "Between Sound and Silence", Dialogue of Arts (2013), publication of Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• "Means of Survival", Dialogue of Arts (2011), publication of Moscow Museum of Modern Art
• LEXUS Hybryd Art 2012: 14 Major International Artists Representing the "Science Art" Movement
• ArtFocus for Technologies: Charm and Challenge, PDF catalogue
• Cyberfest ath the Youth Education Center of the State Hermitage, Hermitage News (2008)
• FitzGerald, Nora (10 October 2007). "In Moscow, a Little Museum Thumbs Its Nose at Tradition". Washington Post  – via HighBeam (subscription required). Retrieved 9 September 2016.