Alex Buldakov was born in Kostroma in 1980. He graduated in social anthropology from the Russian State University for Humanities in Moscow. He has been studying at Vienna Academy of Arts since 2011.
Buldakov is one of the most interesting artists in this new generation of contemporary Russian artists. He works in video art and installation. “One way or another, a considerable part of our lives takes place in virtual reality, and it has an effect on our minds”, he says about his project “Correction of Design”. Real things, for example, office furniture, come to be regarded as virtual. He subverts normality through radical action.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2011 | Attentionwhores (with Anastasia Ryabova). XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2009 | Excess. XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2008 | Mute, XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2007 | Crash Test, XL gallery, Moscow |
| 2007 | The Cars, gallery “Original”, Moscow |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2012 | False Calculations Presidium. Museum of Commerce. Moscow |
| 2011 | Urban Fauna Zoo. ArtHouse. Moscow |
| 2010 | 1st Ural Industrial Biennial – Shockworkers of the Mobile Image, Ekaterinburg |
| 2010 | Futurologia. Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow |
| 2010 | Crash test (curator: Alex Buldakov). XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2009 | Sketches of installations. XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2009 | Pacific Meridian. 7th Vladivostok INternational film festival. Vladivostok |
| 2009 | European Atelier: Sharing a Cultural Space. Central House of Artists, Moscow |
| 2009 | Invasion:evasion. Baibakov art projects, Moscow |
| 2007 | On Geekdom, Benaki Museum, Athens (cat.) |
| 2007 | Progressive Nostalgia, Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato |
| 2007 | The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow |
| 2007 | The True Goth, ABC-gallery, Moscow |
| 2007 | Whitness of Impossible, Center of arts on Soljanka |
| 2006 | 8×8, L-gallery, Moscow |
| 2005 | Party, Center of arts on Soljanka |
| 2005 | No Comment, Art Factory, Moscow |
| 2004 | Nach Kurort!, Kunsthalle BadenBaden |
| 2003 | Digital Russia, Guelman Gallery, Moscow |
| 2003 | 1st Prague Biennial of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague |
| 2002 | MANIFESTA 4, Frankfurt/M. Davaj! Russian Art Now, Postfuhramt, Berlin, MAK, Vienna |
| 2002 | Pop/Art, Zverev’s center of contemporary art, Moscow |