Biography
Art group PROVMYZA was organized in 1998.
Galina Myznikova, 1968, Gorky, USSR
Sergey Provorov, 1970, Gorky, USSR
They live in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
The artists work in various spheres of contemporary art employing a wide
range of multi-media means. In their creative work they follow the tendency
of obliterating the borders between the kinds and genres of art; their
approach is mostly based on the tradition of the Russian objectless art
of the beginning of the 20th century comprehended in the light of the
modernistic experience of the subsequent times.
Since 1993 Myznikova and Provorov have created a large number of projects which demonstrate a wide range of the artists' interests and their inclination to creative experiments. Among them there are experimental films and installations, which took part in numerous international festivals and exhibitions around the world. Many of films have won several awards such as Tiger Award for Short Film of 38th International Film Festival Rotterdam, Gran Premio for the Best Competing Film of 25th Assolo International Art Film Festival, Best Experimental Film of 15th Chilean International Short Film Festival; and belong to different collections such as Center Pompidou, National Museum for Contemporary art and etc.
In 2005, PROVMYZA represented Russia with innovative project "Idiot Wind" at 51st Venice Biennial and the film called "Inspiration" is taking part at 67th Venice International Film Festival.
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Awards:
Tiger Award for Short Film
38th International Film Festival Rotterdam /Rotterdam, The Netherlands/;
Gran Premio for the Best Competing Film
25th Assolo International Art Film Festival, Assolo,Italy /Assolo(Trevisto),Italy/;
Best Experimental Film
15th Chilean International Short Film Festival /Santiago, Chile/;
Best Video Art Film
5th “Imaginaria” International Film Festival /Conversano, Italy/;
Second Prize
30th Moscow International Film Festival, "Media Forum" /Moscow, Russia/;
Prize of Jury
“Alternative Film/Video 2008” International Film and Video Festival /Belgrade, Serbia/;
Prize of Croatian Film Critics
"25 FPS" International Short Experimental Film and Video Festival /Zagreb, Croatia/;
Bronze bear Ebensee
37th Festival of Nations /Ebensee, Austria/;
Prix "Neuroestetica" for best video art / video
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4th “Imaginaria” International Film Festival /Conversano, Italy/;
Prize of Independent Producer's Centre
International Audiovisual Festival /Baku, Azerbaijan/;
Main Prize of Jury
"Outvideo" /Yekaterinburg, Russia/;
Special Mention - Premio Aprile
11th Milano International Film Festival, Milano, Italy /Milano, Italy/
Exhibitions and screening (selection):
2010
67th Venice Film Festival, La Biennal di Venezia (Venice, Italy);
ViennaFair 2010 (Vienna, Austria);
"Manifestes", Centre d’art Passerelle, NCCA (Brest, France);
"Clueless", Manifattura Tabacchi (Torino, Italy);
"Walking a fine line", Centre d'Art Contemporain "Espace Croise", NCCA, (Roubaix, France);
"Objects in Mirror Are Closer than They Appear", Centre for contemporary art "Futura" (Praha, Czech Republic);
„Grenzenlos“, gallery ”ArtPoint”, “KulturKontakt Austria” foundation, Vienna, Austria
2009
38th Rotterdam International film festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
“Hors Pistes”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and Pera Museum, Istambul, Turkey;
3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Center for contemporary culture "Garage" and Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia;
”Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video Art”, Scope New York, Lincoln Center Damrosch Park, New York, USA;
“Novas Vanguardas Russas” os videos de PROVMYZA, Palacio das Artas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
“Kandinsky Prize”, Frieze Art Fair, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, UK;
"Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid", Theatre du Chatelet, Paris, France;
“Fenetre sur le court metrage contemporain”, Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France;
“History of Russian video art. Volume 2”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia;
“Despair”, retrospective screening Forum of Russian Films “Ecology of Soul”. Riga, Jurmala, Latvia
2008
“21 RUSSIA”, Pinchuk Art Centre, Kiev, Ukraine;
“ART-index”, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia;
“Despair”, personal exhibition, foundation “Contemporary city”, Moscow, Russia;
“Exkursion”, personal exhibition, Forum fur Kunst und Architektur, Essen, Germany
37th Rotterdam International film festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
“Power of Water”, the Benois Wing, National Russian Museum. S.-Petersburg, Russia; “VideoZone-4” 4th International Video Art Biennial, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv,Israel;
“Encontros e Aproximacoes” , Museum of Modern Art of Bahia, Bahia, Brasil;
“Refractory Character of Contemporary Art in Russia”, Musashino Art University Museum. Tokyo, Japan;
”Teenage Wildlife”, Site gallery, Centre for Contemporary Art, Sheffield, Great Britain/
2007
“Istambul Modern Cinema”, KunstFilmBiennale, Istambul Modern Museum, Istambul, Turkey; 12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l'image Contemporaine. Geneva, Switzerland;
“Unimovie”,retrospective screening, Museum Vittoria Colonna-Gramsci, Pescara, Italy
“Innovation 2006” exhibition of nominees of the All-Russia competition in the field of the contemporary art, National Center of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia;
“History of Russian video art. Volume 1”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia; “Invideo” 17th Exhibition of video and cinema beyond, Milan, Italy;
"Interference between Film and Performance", "VideoEx" / Zurich, Switzerland /;
“EMAF” 20th European Media Art Festival. Osnabrueck,Germany;
“Kandinsky Award” exhibition of nominees of the All-Russia competition in the field of the contemporary art, Center of Contemporary Art “Winzavod”. Moscow, Russia;
18th Sao Paulo International Short Film Festival, Sao Paulo,Brazil
2006
“Viper”, Kunsthalle Basel, Museum fuer Gegenwartkunst Basel, Basel, Switzerland; KunstFilmBiennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany;
“Unruhig”, personal exhibition, Gallery ”ArtPoint”, KulturKontakt Austria foundation. Vienna, Austria;
“Fugue”, personal exhibition, “Contemporary Art in traditional museum”, Museum of theatrical and musical arts, S.-Petersburg, Russia;
Video Dia Loghi 2006, Torino, Italy;
“Stuttgarter Filmwinter” International festival film and media, Stuttgart, Germany;
Asiana International short film festival, Seoul, Korea
2005
“Idiot wind”, The 51st Venice Biennial, Russian pavilion. Venice, Italy;
2nd KunstFilmBiennale, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany;
1st Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia;
“Directors Lounge” International event for contemporary art and media, Tower Berlin, Berlin, Germany;
Phatspace's International Ate Exhibition, Sydney, Australia;
”Counting the harvest”, retrospective screening “Cinefantom”, cinema “Fitil”. Moscow, Russia
2004
“New Russian video”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA;
“Surfing and Vertigo”, Arsenal Museum. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
“Medi@terra”, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens, Greece;
40th Pesaro International Film Festival, Pesaro, Italy
2002
“WRO" International media art biennale, Wroslaw, Poland;
"Debates&Credits", De Balie-Centre for Politics and Culture, Amsterdam, Netherlands;
"Russia art now", gallery MAK, Vienna, Austria
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