| Dimitry
Pilikin (born, 1960, Leningrad) is an artist, curator,
and art critic based in St. Petersburg, Russia. As an artist he
has exhibited
widely and he works in a wide range of media, from sculpture, objects
and installation to photography and new electronic media. In 1994
he was the author of the first Petersburg art
project on the Internet.
As a curator Pilikin has organized a large number of exhibitions,
including Photography As a Small
Death (2000). Since 2000 he has been the art director of the
annual festival Autumn Photo Marathon and since 1995 as been the
curator
of Gallery 21. As an art critic he was published in Moscow
Art Magazine, Imago: Another European Photography (Bratislava), Maksimka (St.
Petersburg), Interior
+ Design (Moscow), Visibility Of the
Invisible (St. Petersburg, 1996), and others. Since 1997,
he has been the author of a permanent column focused on problems
of contemporary
art in the social newspaper Na Dne (The Depths). Currently
Pilikin is working on the next festival of Autumn Photo Marathon,
a DVD-rom
on the history of Russian video-art and is taking part in the international
workshop Point Zero in France.
Dimitry Pilikin was recommended to apexart's fellowship program
by Anna Matveyeva, Curator, National Center for Contemporary Art,
St. Petersburg
Performance at the frame of installation The End of a Belle Epoque, Gallery 21, St. Petersburg, 1995.
Video installation REAL - IRREAL Bourge,
France, 1994.
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