AES+F

🔳🗿🎬📷AES+F is an artist collective of four Russian artists: Tatiana Arzamasova (1955), Lev Evzovich (1958), Evgeny Svyatsky (1957), and Vladimir Fridkes (1956).

It was first formed as AES Group in 1987 by Arzamasova, Evzovich, and Svyatsky, becoming AES+F when Fridkes joined in 1995. The collective works in photography, video, installation, and animation, as well as more traditional media, such as painting, drawing, and sculpture.

AES+F's early work included performance, installation, painting, and illustration. Well known for their monumental video-art installations that Gareth Harris describes as "monumental painting set in motion", AES+F create grand visual narratives that explore contemporary global values, vices and conflicts.

For more than a decade, works by AES+F have been showcased in signature festivals and biennial exhibitions of contemporary art around the world, including — in addition to Moscow and Venice — those of Adelaide, Gwangju, Havana, Helsinki, Istanbul, Kiev, Lille, Lyon, Melbourne, St Moritz, Sydney, Taipei, Tirana and Toronto. Their work has also been featured in influential events devoted to new media — such as ARS Electronica (Linz), Mediacity Seoul and Video Zone (Tel Aviv) — and photography — such as FotoFest (Houston), Les Rencontres d’Arles and Moscow’s Photo Biennial.

Current exhibitions:

2017

•Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism 

November 16 - December 31, Saatchi Gallery, London 

• Please come back. The world as a prison?

November 28 - April 8, 2018, IVAM, Valencia

•unREAL. The Algorithmic Present

November 11 - January 21, 2018, Chronus Art Centre, Shanghai

•Bright Childhood | Dark Childhood

November 5 - February 2, 2018, Museum Villa Rot, Burgrieden - Rot, Germany

•MIG 21

October 27 - November 19, Museum of Contemporary Art Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia

•Hyper Real

October 20 - February 18, 2018, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

•Digitalife2017

October 6 - January 7, 2018, Palazzo, delle Expozione, Rome, Italy

•Lichsticht Projection Biennale 2017

September 29 - January 28, 2018, Lichtsicht Biennale, Bad Rothenfelde, Germany