pop/off/art gallery presents an exhibition of a key Moscow artist of the young generation Ivan Novikov «No».Twenty new paintings made in the original author's technique will be integrated with the totally modified space of the gallery. The artist refuses to be represented in the classical «white cube» and sets the exact trajectory for a viewer, who is now faced with limitations and a new visual experience of the painting.
In this project Novikov notes the unstable position of art, the uncertainty of working capacity and the severity of statements. The author raises the question of the dialogue between an artist and a viewer which cannot take place today: is banned or excluded from the contemporary agenda. The exposition is made to show the state of banned art and the absence of the possibility for a word or artistic image to be revealed.
Ivan Novikov (b. 1990) is an artist, curator and lecturer. He graduated from the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art, MHSES and the University of Manchester. Since 2014 he has taught at the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art as a head of a painting department. Co-founder of the independent platform «Red Center» in Moscow. Member of the editorial board of the «Moscow Art Magazine». Novikov's personal exhibitions have been held since 2011. Since 2008, his works have regularly appeared at leading Russian and European venues as part of group exhibition projects and international biennials. In 2015-2016 twice received a grant from the Garage Young Artist Support Program, and in 2017, a grant from the patron program of the Cosmoscow Foundation. In 2015 and 2018 became a finalist in the competition between the V-A-C Foundation and the Antwerp Museum of Modern Art for the acquisition of works by young Russian authors for the collection of the Antwerp Museum of Modern Art. Nominee for the Kandinsky Prize in the Young Artist category (2015). Nominee for the Innovation Award in the category «Curatorial Project» (2016) and in the category «Book of the Year» (2021). Nominee for the Zverev Prize (2021). The works are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), the National Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow), the Zarya Center for Contemporary Art (Vladivostok), in a number of private and corporate collections. Lives and works in Moscow.
