Inertia
Artists’ biographies
Fokke & Sukke (NL)
John Reid (1968), Bastiaan Geleijnse (1967) & Jean-Marc van Tol (1967).
The cartoon figures of a duck and a canary comment in the daily national newspaper NRC (www.nrc.nl) on politics and culture of the Netherlands. Fokke & Sukke is one of the most known cartoons of the Netherlands. The makers were awarded with the Dutch Cartoon Prize. Dutch specialist in Russian literature Hans Boland together with Alexei Purin chief editor of the St. Petersburg Literary magazine ‘Zvezda’ translated cartoon texts of ‘Fokke & Sukke’ into Russian.
Voebe de Gruyter (NL)
Voebe de Gruyter (1960) attended the Rijksacademy in Amsterdam, and she now lives and works in Brussels, and is a senior teacher in drawing at the Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam.
De Gruyter has had major exhibitions at gallery Van Gelder in Amsterdam, the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1995), the Drawing Center in New York (2004), Museum of Modern Art Arnhem (2005).
www.galerievangelder.com/artists/degruyter2.html
Irene Janze (NL)
Irene Janze (1956) studied Geology (1974-1982) and Philosophy of Social Politics (1986-1992) at the University of Amsterdam. From 1993-1998 she studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Art Academy in Amsterdam. In 1995 she studied performance and installation at the Chigago School of the Arts Institute.
On her ideas on scale, time and movement in public space she gave lectures for the Dutch Association for Aesthetics, which are published in the scholarly Journal of Aesthetics of the Netherlands 2004.
http://home.tiscali.nl/burojanze
Sands Murray-Wassink (NL)
Murray-Wassink (1974) grew up in Topeka, Kansas, USA, he emigrated to the Netherlands in 1994 to study at hte Rietveld Art Academy. Before he studied at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A (1992-1994). He was an artist at the renowned Ateliers of Amsterdam (1995-1996). As a performer he participated in many shows on identity, feminism, masculinity and queer art, such as:
‘Double Trouble: Carolee Schneemann and Sands Murray-Wassink’ at Cokkie Snoei Gallery, "BOYS: Zur Konstruktion von Maennlichkeiten’ in the Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (2002) and ‘Same-Different: On Identity, Integrity, and Sexual Politics’, curated by Frederikke Hansen, hosted by Aurora Dediu, Galeria Noua, Bucharest, Romania (2003).
Pavel Pepperstein (RU)
Pavel Pepperstein (1966 Moscow) co-founded in 1987 the group of ‘Inspection Medical Hermeneutics’ for developing a critical approach to the influence of the West in Russia. These artists intentionally cut themselves off from the outside world in order to preserve a subcultural form of art.
Pepperstein studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague (1985-1987. He participated in numerous international exhibitions such as Berlin-Moskau 1950-2000 at the Martin Gropius Bau in Berlin, 2003 - 26th Sao Paulo Biennial 2004 - Angels of History; Moscow Conceptualism and its Influence at the MuHKA in Antwerp, 2005.
In 2006 Pepperstein published 2 novels of short stories:
‘Swastika & Pentagon’ and ‘War Stories’, both with illustrations by himself and by Ivan Razumov (Ad Marginem publishers, Moscow). For ‘War Stories’ Pepperstein was on the shortlist for the Andrei Beli price 2006 for Russian Literature.
Kerim Ragimov (RU)
Kerim Ragimov (1970) graduated at the Roerich School of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg in 1989. Since 1994 he works on series of paintings, based on photos, among these the Human Project series, which was exhibited at the Tirana Biennial of 2001, at the MuHKA in Antwerp as part of the show ‘Horizons of Reality’, 2003, and at the recent Moscow Biennale of 2005. He will show his Metro series, paintings of the public space surrounding the underground buildings of St. Petersburg, which haven’t been exhibited yet.
Ivan Razumov (RU)
Ivan Razumov works and lives in Moscow. His drawings have been exhibited at the Academy of Russian Arts, Moscow, the New Academy of Fine Arts St. Petersburg, and in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, during Kabinet in 1997.
Razumov is renowned for his illustrations accompanying publications of Pushkin, Mayakovsky, Basho and Sei-Shenagon. Razumov made illustrations for Pepperstein’s novels ‘Swastika & Pentagon’ and ‘War Stories’ (Ad Marginem publishers, Moscow 2006).
Joulia Strauss (RU)
Joulia Strauss was born in Leningrad in 1974 and studied at the so-called ‘New Academy of Fine Arts’, St. Petersburg with Timur Novikov. Since 1995 she lives and works in Berlin, where she graduated in 2000 at the Hochschule der Künste under Georg Baselitz. Since 2000 she is lecturer at The German Film School, Berlin
Straussova first became known for her 12 Caesars of the Techno-Empire project (1998): sculptural portraits of Berlin DJ's as ancient Greek gods, Roman emperors and Prussian royalty. Her exhibitions, amongst others, have been at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Ostend Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Berlin and Martin Gropius Bau ("Berlin-Moskau, Moskau-Berlin" (2003).
Currently she is working with sonologist Martin Carlé on the project: ENIAC NOMOI, which is a ‘history of Being through the poetic output of the first computer guided by sound, dance and sculpture, using the Pergamon Altar as its stage design.
http://video.google.de/videosearch?q=ENIAC+NOMOI
Albert van Westing (NL)
Albert van Westing (1960) studied at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastricht, the Netherlands. He lives and works in Amsterdam and has had major solo- and group exhibitions, amongst others at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1995, 1996, 1998, 1999, 2003), Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam (2002), Canal de Isabel II -Madrid (2000), European Central Bank, Frankfurt (2002) -Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea (2003) - Villa Massimo, Rome (2004) - Atelier Josefa Sudka, Prague (2006).
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Literary Translators
Hans Boland (RU)
Hans Boland, born in Jakarta in 1951; cum laude Slavic languages in 1974; PhD on Anna Akhmatova in 1983. Boland translated 12 oeuvres of poets from Russian into Dutch, amongst others of Pushkin and Akhmatova. He published a monography on Pushkin ('Russische zon', Bas Lubberhuizen, 1999), a history of St. Petersburg ('Sint-Petersburg onderhuids', Atheneum - Polak & Van Gennep, 2003). Boland has lived for 7 years in Russia, for 5 years he was professor at the University of St. Petersburg. Boland will translate the cartoons of Fokke & Sukke together with Alexei Purin, and he will be present at th symposium as simultaneous translator.
Alexei Purin (RU)
Alexei Purin is a poet, essayist and literary critic. Since 1989 he is the chief editor of the renowned Petersburg literary magazin Zvezda (‘The Star’). He publishes in the main national Russian literary magazines. Poems of Purin have been translated into English, Italian, Polish and Dutch. Purin was in 1997 a special guest of Poetry International in Rotterdam.
Critics & Philosophers’ biographies
Ilse Bulhof (NL)
Ilse Bulhof was, until her retirement in 1997, a professor of philosophy at the University of Leiden. She published books on Nietzsche, Dilthey, and Freud and on the philosophy of science. An important book with a wide-spread influence in the Netherlands has been ‘From content to attitude: a new view on philosophy in pluralistic culture’. At present her interest is the relation between philosophy and spirituality.
Together with Laurens ten Kate Bulhof published ‘Flight of the Gods. Philosophical Perspectives on Negative Theology’ (2000).
Martin Carlé (DE)
Born 1971 in Waiblingen, Carlé studied from 1993-2002 Studies of German Language and Literature, Musicology and Philosophy at the University of Hamburg; next to this he went through Studies of Musicology and Cultural Studies at the Humboldt University Berlin.
In 2002 he became Master in Musicology and Cultural Studies with Peter Wicke and Friedrich Kittler. Since 2003 he is Scientific Assistant to Prof. Wolfgang Ernst at the Chair for Media Theories, Seminar for Media Sciences, HU-Berlin.
Carlé created numerous studio productions, live concerts and recordings. His emphasis of Research is ENIAC NOMOI; Psychoacoustics and Simulation; Epistemology of time-critical processes; Acoustic archaeology.
http://video.google.de/videosearch?q=ENIAC+NOMOI
Maarten Doorman (NL)
Maarten Doorman is a poet and Professor of Art and Culture Criticism at the University of Amsterdam and Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Maastricht. He also published six books of poetry and he was editor of the literary journals De Tweede Ronde and Hollands Maandblad and the philosophical journal Krisis. He has been contributor to many journals and newspapers with articles about philosphy, art and literature. Hist last books are Art in Progress. A Philosophical Response to the End of the Avant-Garde (2003) and De romantische orde (2004).
http://www.epibreren.com/rs/rs_frame.html?doorman.html
Andrei Fomenko (RU)
Andrei Fomenko (1971) lives and works in St. Petersburg as art critic. He graduated from an art college at Frunze (1991) and from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, department of theory and history of arts (his thesis was entitled: “Pop Art and the Art of the USA in the 1960’s”). Since 1997 he has published articles on the contemporary art. From 1998 till 2002 he was editor of the “Realm of Design” magazine in St Petersburg.
Currently Fomenko teaches Art History & History of Photography at the St. Petersburg University of Technology & Design.
Rob van Gerwen (NL)
Rob van Gerwen is professor Philosophy of the Arts at the University of Utrecht and the Royal Conservatory at The Hague. His publication ‘Knowledge in Beauty’ is a clear introduction into modern aesthetics. He was the ‘Museumphilosopher’ of the Centraal Museum in Utrecht (2000-2001). As a freelance philosopher he gives advice on philosophical matters through his own Consilium Philosophicum.
http://www.phil.uu.nl/staff/rob
Erik Hagoort (NL)
Erik Hagoort is a freelance art critic, curator and philosopher of ethics. He studied Theology at the University of Amsterdam. As an art critic he published widely on contemporary art in art books, art magazines, catalogues and the Netherlands National Daily Newspaper ‘De Volkskrant’ (1997-2001). Hagoort’s main interest is in the philosophical-ethical implications of contemporary art, focusing on the ways artists are renewing and inventing ‘moral ways of life’.
In commission of the Dutch Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture Hagoort has written a book on the moral implications of Dutch contemporary social sculpture: ‘Good intentions. Judging the Art of Encounter’
Geurt Imanse (NL)
Geurt Imanse was head of the Stedelijk Museum’s library from 1981 to 1990, head of the Documentation and Research Department from 1990 to 1995, head of the Museale Zaken department from 1996 to 1998 and Senior Curator of painting and sculpture from 1998 to 2003. From 2003 to 2005 Imanse has been interim head of the Museale Zaken department. Imanse is an expert on 20th century Russian art, and he curated several exhibitions at the Stedelijk Museum including Commitment, Bjarne Melgaard, Kabinet: a Contemporary Journal from St. Petersburg (1997), and an exhibition of the collection of the Khardzhiyev-Chaga Foundation.
Viktor Mazin
Viktor Mazin is head of the department of Theoretical Psychoanalysis at the East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis in St. Petersburg. He is editor-in-chief of the arts and science journal Kabinet; editor of Acta Psychiatrica (Crimea); member of the editorial board of the journal Psychoanalysis (Kiev); Associate Editor of the Journal for Lacanian Studies (London) and correspondent of European Journal of Psychoanalysis (Rome). In 1999 he founded the Freud's Dreams Museum in St. Petersburg. He is honorary member of The Museumof Jurassic Technology in Los Angeles. Viktor Mazin is the author of numerous articles and books on the theory of psychoanalysis, deconstruction and visual arts. He has also curated numerous exhibitions of contemporary art, amongst others at the Freud’s Dreams Museum.
Olesya Turkina (RU)
Olesya Turkina is an art critic, curator and a Senior Research Fellow of the Department of Contemporary Art at the State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. She curated numerous exhibitions including the Russian Pavillion at the 48th Venice Biennale (1999) and co-curated Kabinet at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam in 1997. She has written articles for various arts magazines and for catalogues, among them: After the Wall (Stockholm, 1999), Manifesta 3 (2000), Berlin-Moskau/ Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau (2003). Dr. Turkina is also a contributor to Flash Art International.
Since 2003 she has been editing an on-line journal on Contemporary Russian Art. She teaches contemporary art at Smolny College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, St. Petersburg State University, at the Pro Arte Institute, and at the Nordic Art School in Kokkola, Finland. She is a member of the Russian Space Federation since 1999.
Aiten Yuran (RU)
Aiten Yuran is a philosopher and psychoanalyst. She graduated from Moscow University. She is interested in the interdisciplinary relation between psychoanalysis, science, art and philosophy. Yuran teaches at East-European Institute of Psychoanalysis, at the department of theory of psychoanalysis.
Inertia St. Petersburg 2006
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