The pop/off/art Gallery took part in the SCAN contemporary art fair for the first time!

From October 1 to 4, the third edition of the SCAN contemporary art fair was held at the International Exhibition and Business Center “Siberia” (Krasnoyarsk). At booth B4, works were presented by the art duo Vika Begalskaya and Alexander Vilkin, who in their practice explore the image of the contemporary person and their relationship with nature and art.

Alexander Vilkin was born in 1982 in Chelyabinsk. The artist graduated from the Chelyabinsk Art College, the North-Western Institute of Printing and Book Graphics in St. Petersburg, and the Baza School of Contemporary Art in Moscow. In 2006, Vilkin, together with Igor Mezheritsky and Grigory Yushchenko, founded the art group “Protez.”

Vika Begalskaya was born in 1975. Since 2000, the artist has lived and worked in Moscow; since 2007, she has collaborated with the pop/off/art gallery. In 2012, Begalskaya founded the art platform “Feminist Kitchen,” bringing together practices of art and activism, sociocultural research and theory, together with Oksana Sarkisyan and Vlad Chizhenkov. In 2014, the artist founded the creative union of sex workers and artists “Teresa,” together with Alexander Vilkin and Diana Portland in St. Petersburg.