Crocodile Power

Russia

CrocodilePOWER is a group founded in 2011 by two Russian artists: PeterGoloshchapov (born in 1982) and OksanaSimatova (born in 1979). Both are graduates of Stroganov Moscow State University of Arts and Industry (graduated in 2005 and 2008 respectively). In 2012, they completed an internship at the Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London. Working in a group has become a new creative experience for both. 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). Participants of the International Biennale of Vallauris (2014) and the Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (2014, 2016). In 2015, a solo exhibition of the group was held at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Their works are part of numerous private collections in Russia and abroad.

Selected solo exhibitions:

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

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