crocodilePOWER — art duo

Artist statement

We perceive contemporary reality as a moveable, flexible space in which the past, present and future simultaneously exist and mix. We are interested in a process, which excites us with its unpredictability, in which a person simultaneously takes the role of the creator and the laboratory mouse. Creativity becomes a game in which each next step brings us closer to the limits of conventional everyday life.

We lived in one of the residential districts of Moscow, among the lifeless scenery of paneled high-rise buildings, where you can quite acutely feel as if you're located in a vacuum. The surrounding emptiness was the catalyst for creating our own mythology of the place that filled its dead shell and turned that gray everyday life into an incredible, mysterious and exciting adventure. This discovery was the starting point that influenced not only our perception of a particular place, but also the whole feeling of the world, which turned into a huge artificial forest, a new home for the "digital native".

We are interested in the extent to which the technological world invades the inner world of man. What changes are happening, what we are sacrificing, and what we get in exchange. By plunging into our half-real, half-fictional space, we help its inhabitants materialise and find their place here. At some point we ourselves become them and are given a clue for the next step.

Bio

CrocodilePOWER is a group founded in 2011 by Peter Goloshchapov and Oxana Simatova. They turned to the theme of studying today’s world and the place of man in it. CrocodilePOWER create mythologies somewhere between fantasy and reality, between technology and nature. They realize them in projects that unite different art objects: painting, sculpture, and installations. CrocodilePOWER painting depict landscapes of dystopia, and in sculpture, their characters are created from fiberglass, porcelain, wood, moss, bark, iron, and other materials. In their projects, the artists try to achieve the sense of “augmented reality”, where fictional is so organically built into a reality we know, that its existence seems possible (either in the past, present and future).

Peter Goloshchapov was born in 1982 in Moscow. In 2005, he graduated from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts. A grant winner of the Ministry of Culture of the RF in 2005, 2008 and 2012. In 2012 completed an internship at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

Since 2019 PeterGoloshchapov is a member of international Academy of Ceramics, Genève, Switzerland

Since 2011 working with Oxana Simatova(1979, 2008 graduated from the Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts, diploma with honors) a grant winner of the Ministry of Culture of the RF in 2002

In 2012 completed an internship at the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London.

In 2019 she taught the course “Self promotion in Contemporary art” at the “Free Workshops” school at Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

From 2020 till 2022 she taught the course “Contemporary painting” at HSE Art and Design School

CrocodilePOWER is a participant of the International Biennale of Vallauris (2014) and the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014, 2016, 2018).

In 2015, the solo show of an art duo was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

In 2020 took part in a group show “From form to surface” Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa, Finland

Their works are exhibited in galleries and museums in Finland, Romania, Russia, US, UK, France.

Was featured in art magazines Hi Fructose, Museeum, Kult, InStyle, Scena9 and Vogue.

Represented by:

Marina Gisich gallery/ Saint Petersburg,

Triumph gallery/ Moscow,

Steinhauser gallery/ Bratislava

Selected exhibitions:

Solo shows

2020 - To catch the attention of a Selfie-taking Sphinx. Marina Gisich gallery, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2017 - TGHNN CrocodilePOWER/Sandor Szasz Triumph gallery, Moscow

- Life in the lonely wood. Mobius gallery, Bucharest, Romania

- Insomnia. VLADEY Space. Moscow, Russia

2016 - The borders of memory. Budapest Art Factory. Budapest, Hungary

2015 - Out of range. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia

2014 - Russian space. Triumph gallery. Moscow, Russia

2013 - Inner taiga. Triumph gallery. Moscow, Russia

Group shows

2021

-Osmos. Fluent aesthetics. Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia

-Hidden Places. MaxArt Foundation, Bunker 703, Moscow, Russia

- COS20MOS21 mediacenter Zaryadye. Moscow, Russia

2020

- The 2020 New Members' Exhibition. International Academy of Ceramics

in collaboration with the Guozhong Ceramic Art Museum, Guazhong, China

- From form to surface. Vantaa Art Museum, Vantaa, Finland

- Zero Edge. International online show

- State of Emergency. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia

- A wave of dreams. Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia

2019

- Plastic. The State Russian Museum / The Marble Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia

- Quid est veritas?, Annka Kultys gallery, London, UK

2018

- Through the Looking Glass, Ural Vision gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia

-Paradoxical hybrids, Hlebozavod Center for Contemporary Culture, Vladivostok, Russia

- Homo Deus, Vacation gallery, New York, USA

- CAPITAL@ART.INTERNATIONAL, O S T > S T E R N, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

-The 6th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Parallel program. Paradoxical hybrids, Electromuseum, Moscow, Russia

-ATTRACTION: Manege — Triumph gallery. Other shores, ManegeCentral Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia

2017

-Finite resource. 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Parallel program. Special project. Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts, Tonnel gallery, Moscow

-WANT / The Cost of Desire. Mobius Art Week, The Hub, Bucharest

-Hooray! Sculpture! Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg

2016

-The 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Parallel program. Only unofficial language. Winzavod contemporary art centre. Moscow, Russia

-The 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Parallel program. Special project. Nominibus trivialibus, synonimis selectis. The Apothecaries Garden, the Botanic Gardens of Moscow State University. Moscow, Russia

-The 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Special project. 19/92 At first. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia

-The 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Parallel program. Symbol. Moscow metallurgical plant A sickle and a hammer. Moscow, Russia

-Always contemporary. The art of XX–XXI. Rosizo gallery. Moscow, Russia

2015

-Hooray! Sculpture! Winzavod contemporary art centre, Moscow

2014

-The 4th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Parallel program. Moscow. Barocco.Triumph gallery. Moscow, Russia

-The 4th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art. Special project. Before & After. Tunnel gallery. Moscow, Russia
- XXIIIÈME BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE DE VALLAURIS. Vallauris, France

2013

-The other side of things. Elektrozavod gallery. Moscow, Russia

-The Study of Researches. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia

2011

-Luck is an attitude. Martini Art Club. Pobeda gallery. Moscow, Russia
Martini Art Weekend. Red October. Moscow, Russia

2010-2011

-Operation Smile. Charity Auction of Russian Art by Christie’s. Moscow, Russia

2008

-Moscow International Biennale for Young Art Qui vive? Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia

Award:

-2012 Henkel Art Award , winner of a national round

-2021 ArtUMagazine

Art fairs:

2021

-Cosmoscow art fair, Moscow

2020

-Cosmoscow art fair, Moscow

2019
-SCOPE Art Show, New York,USA
-Da!Moscow Art Show, Moscow, Russia
-Budapest Art Market, Budapest, Hungary

2018
-Russian Art & Antique Fair, Moscow, Russia
2017
-CONTEXT Art Miami, Miami,USA
-Cosmoscow art fair, Moscow, Russia
2014
-Vienna art fair Vienna, Austria
2013
- Art Moscow Moscow, Russia

Publications:

-Two Sides of The Same Coin? — New Year Reflections Inspired by Tapping into the World of Visionary Artists. TransAtlantic Panorama, By Kati Szeker, 2018

-Kult magazine. Issue #21 Dreams 2017

-Esti sigur cä esti treaz? Scena 9. Andra Matzal. 2017

-Meet the Russian art duo creating superheroes themed ceramics for local museums. Museeum.com. By Alexandra Filippenko, 2016\

-Homo Deus la New York. Scena9. Mara Dănilă. 2018

-The Dystopic Visions of CrocodilePOWER by Andy SmithPosted on December 5, 2019

-Ceramic Now “From form to surface” 2020

Catalogs:

-Inner Taiga 2013

-Moscow.Barocco. 2014 ISBN 978-5-906550-27-9

-XXIIIe Biennale internationale creation contemporaine et ceramique Vallauris 2014 ISBN 978-2-35906-119-2

-Russian space 2014

-Out of range 2015 ISBN 978-5-906550-54-5