Selected solo exhibitions and screenings
2021
“Tomorrow will not come”, PureEgoism gallery, Lodz;
2017
Unutarnje veze /Inner Connections, GMK gallery, Zagreb, Croatia;
“Tomorrow will be the same”, screening, IFF “Spirit of fire”, Khanty-Mansiysk and Moscow, Russia;
2016
Çiçek, Triumph gallery, Moscow;
Arctichnost-1 (screening), MSSES, Moscow;
Farewell to fireplace (screening), International Film Festival 2morrow, Documentary Film Center, Moscow, Russia;
Myth and Reality: Questions on Narrative in the video films of Petr Zhukov (screening, artist talk), Neu West Berlin Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2015
Arctichnost-1 (screening), The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia;
The return of a curonian Pilot (screening), The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow;
Arctichnost-1 (screening), Vadim Sidur museum, Moscow, Russia;
The return of Curonian Pilot (screening), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Moscow,
The return of Curonian Pilot (screening), Moscow School of New Cinema, Moscow
2014
The return of Curonian Pilot (screening), Malonioji 6, Art gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania.
The return of Curonian Pilot (screening), National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow;
2013
Telepathic session with a phantom (with Luisa Nobrega), Nida art colony, Nida, Lithuania;
Battleship (with D. Zinchenko), D-2 submarine museum, Saint-Petersbug, Russia;
Moving upward! (with D. Zinchenko), Galeriju sv. Trojica, Kastav, Croatia;
Hawking dreams. How do survival is going to get out of this situation. Screeining (with D. Zinchenko), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Moscow, Russia;
Wandering of st. Denis, Brown stripe gallery, Moscow, Russia;
Year 7521 after Creation in the Star temple, Govno gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia;
U, ProArte, Saint-Petersbug, Russia;
The Workshop vs The Film Process (Zhukov, Zinchenko, Venkov), National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia;
U165, screening (with D. Zinchenko), Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Moscow, Russia;
2011
κόσμος, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France.
In deep, IX Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
2010
Russia Online Tube, Musrara Mix #10 festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
2007
Art After Compression, Electrobutique gallery, Moscow, Russia;
Performances as part of Great Circus Of Failure collective
Performensk Festival, Atelier 210, Brussels, Belgium (December 2022)
Art Go East Festival, krudebude, Leipzig, Germany (May 2021)
Alfred ve dvoře Mime Theatre, Prague, Czech Republic (March 2021)
Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia (September 2020)
Work Hard! Play Hard! festival, Minsk, Belarus (June 2020)
Arada Festival, Istanbul, Turkey (February 2020)
Performensk Festival, Minsk, Belarus (September 2019)
Xarkis Festival, Polystipos, Cyprus (August 2019)
Roja Art Lab, Roja, Latvia (August 2019)
9th Inter-format Symposium on Fluidity of Humour & Absurdity, Nida Art Colony, Lithuania (June 2019)
Spieltrieb exhibition, krudebude, Leipzig, Germany (June 2019)
Riga Performance Festival: Starptelpa, Riga, Latvia (June 2019)
ARé performing arts festival, Yerevan, Armenia (April 2019)
Kolkata International Performance Art Festival (kipaf'19), Kolkata, India (January 2019)
Wärmflasche, Vernéřovice, Czech Republic (December 2018)
The Wall Series, Paul Studios, Berlin, Germany (November 2018)
outsideininsideoutinsideoutoutsidein, Stadt Wehlen, Germany (October 2018)
Carbonarium Festival, Kiev, Ukraine (July 2018)
Performensk Festival, Minsk, Belarus (July 2018)
Suoja Festival, Helsinki, Finland (June 2018)
Selected group exhibitions
2018
'Om Jag Bara Kunde', Upsala, Sweden;
2017
Everything finished. Can you feel my love buzz?, Moscow Rodchenko Art School;
House of impressions. Wandering with a troubadour, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow;
2016
International Kansk Video Festival , October cinema, Moscow; UNTITLEology, October cinema, Moscow;
Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award exhibition (short list), Saint-Petrsburg;
2015
Poetronica 2015, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia;
Open Systems. Self-Organized Art Initiatives in Russia: 2000–2015, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art , Moscow, Russia;
Metageography. Space - Image - Action. (Special Project Of The 6th Moscow Biennale Of The Contemporary Art), Moscow, Russia;
Cheese Art Award exhibition, Spider&Mouse art space, Moscow;
Diaries for future, Dostoevsky library, Moscow;
Possibility of flight, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia;
2014
Lost in Transformation, Klaipeda Culture Communication Center, Klaipeda, Lithuania;
Metageography, Kramskoy museum, Voronezh, Russia;
Angelic conversation, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia;
Kurykhin prize short list exhibition, Kurykhin center, Saint-Petersbug, Russia;
Innovation prize exhibition, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia;
2013
Moscow international film festival (Shorts special program), October cinema theatre, Moscow, Russia;
How are you?, Eastern gallery, Moscow, Russia;
Kino-photo-ludogusj, National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia;
2012
Happiness is a warm gun, Rizzordi Art Foundation, Saint-Petersbug, Russia;
Lost in tranformation, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel, Germany;
Barbarians, Project_Fabrica, Moscow, Russia;
2011
Dust, Laboratoria Art&Science, Moscow, Russia;
From the realm of the practical knowledge, GMG gallery, special project 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia;
Cosmos 2, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
Field of silence, video exhibition on an ice field, Khlebnikovo, Russia;
2010
History of russian videoart. Vol.3, Moscow museum of modern art, Moscwo, Russia;
Zones of visible, PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow, Russia;
Sens and Sensebility, ArtPlay at Yauza, Moscow, Russia;
2009
Russia — Siberia — Aldan, Aldan natural history museum, Aldan, Russia;
Filmography
Director:
‘Study of Suma river’, 2021-present
“Çiçek”, 153 min., 2017
"Tomorrow will be the same", 66 min., 2017;
"Arctic-1", duration varies, 2014-2015;
"The return of a curonian Pilot", duration varies, 2013-2015; “Farewell to fireplace”, 19 min, 2013;
'U', short, dir. P. Laden, premiered at Kansk International Video Festival (2012)
“Hawking dreams” (with D. Zinchenko), 24 min, 2013; “Young man`s diary”, 27 min, 2012; “U”, 15 min, 2011/2012;
'Diary of a young man', 22 min, 2012;
'U', 15 min, 2012;
“Russia upward!” (with D. Zinchenko), 13 min, 2010; “The Way of Samodelkin”, 104 min, 2009/2011;
“Maranatha”, 23 min., 2008 — 2009;
“Kotlin 2050” (with E. Gavrilova), 24 min, 2006 — 2007; “54 characters” (with E. Gavrilova), 49 min, 2005
Editor:
'Komitas', documentary, dir. Y. Osetrov (2022)
'This is just a dream', short, dir. M. Vorobjeva (2020)
'Iljenkov', documentary, dir. A. Rozhkov, premiered at ArtDocFest (2017)
'Tomorrow will be the same', experimental, dir. P. Laden, premiered at IFF Spirit of Fire and The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (2017)
'Çiçek', experimental, dir. P. Laden, premiered at Triumph gallery, Moscow (2016)
'Farewell to fireplace', short, dir. P. Laden, premiered at National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2013)
'Hawkings' dreams', short, dir. P. Laden & D. Zinchenko, premiered at Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (2013)
'Diary of a young man', short, dir. P. Laden (2012)
'U', short, dir. P. Laden, premiered at Kansk International Video Festival (2012)
'When New Year Comes on Shabbat', documentary, dir. N. Pavlov, participant of ArtDocFest and Ji.hlava IDFF (2012)
'The Way of Samodelkin', experimental, dir. P. Laden as part of Vidiot collective, premiered at Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (2009)
Petr Laden
Halle (Saale), Germany / Sumskiy Posad, Karelia
contact: petredits@gmail.com
Artist, curator, film editor
Main media: video film, performance, site-specific installation
Education
Moscow Lomonosov State University department of Physics (2005)
Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia (2009)
I work on the edge of video-art and cinematography exploring mythology in modern culture. My main approach is performative interaction with cultural scapes and further transformation of collected material into audio-visual performative experience.