CrocodilePOWER
CrocodilePOWER is a group founded in 2011 by two Russian artists: Peter Goloshchapov (born in 1982) and Oksana Simatova (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. Since 2019 Peter Goloshchapov is a member of international Academy of Ceramics, Genève, Switzerland.
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, 2018). 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.
personal exhibitions:
2017
This Game Has No Name (in collaboration with Sandor Szasz), Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
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 ММОМА, Moscow, Russia
2014
Russian space Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013
Inner taiga Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
group exhibitions:
2019
QUID EST VERITAS? Annka Kultys gallery, London, United Kingdom
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
Paradoxical hybrids Parallel program, The VI Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Electromuseum, Moscow City Galleries Network, Moscow, Russia
ATTRACTION: Manege Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Other shores, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017
Finite resource Special project, The VII Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Stroganov Academy of Industrial and Applied Arts, Tonnel gallery, Moscow, Russia
WANT / The Cost of Desire Mobius Art Week, The Hub, Bucharest, Romania
Hooray! Sculpture! Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg, Russia
2016
Only unofficial language Parallel program, The V Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
Nominibus trivialibus, synonyms selectis Special project, The V Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Botanic Gardens of Moscow State University "The Apothecaries Garden", Moscow, Russia
19/92 At first Special project, The V Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
Symbol Parallel program, The V Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Moscow metallurgical plant "Sickle and Hammer", Moscow, Russia
Always contemporary The art of XX–XXI. ROSIZO gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
Hooray! Sculpture! WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2014
MOSCOW. BAROCCO. 2014 Parallel program, The IV Moscow International Biennale of Young Art, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
XXIIIÈME BIENNALE INTERNATIONALE DE VALLAURIS XXIII Biennale international of Vallauris, Vallauris, France
2013
The other side of things Elektrozavod gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Study of Researches ММОМА, Moscow, Russia
2011
Luck is an attitude Martini Art Club. Pobeda gallery, Moscow, Russia
Martini Art Weekend Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010–2011
Operation Smile Charity Auction of Russian Art by Christie’s, Moscow, Russia
2008
Qui vive? Moscow International Biennale for Young Art ММОМА, Moscow, Russia
fairs:
2019
Da!Moscow Art Show Moscow, Russia
SCOPE Art Show New York, USA
2018
Russian Art & Antique Fair Moscow, Russia
2017
CONTEXT Art Miami Miami, USA
Cosmoscow art fair Moscow, Russia
2014
Vienna art fair Vienna, Austria
2013
Art Moscow Moscow, Russia
awards:
2012
Henkel Art Award, winner of a national round
