Group “Electroboutique” consists of Aristarkh Chernyshev, born in 1969 and Alexei Shulgin, born in 1963. Both Professors at Rodchenko Multimedia Schools they live and work in Moscow.
Electroboutique has the closest affinities with design in this exhibition. Their objects and installations are spectacular and interactive and play with our perceptions. They promise a lot – each looking like a designer objects – yet fail to deliver: they’re really about criticizing our consumerist society.
Electroboutique is a unique creative electronics production company, a media art gallery and an artist collective. Their products are developed in modern technological forms, – user-friendly electronic devices and computer programs, which at the same time are artworks and exist beyond national and cultural borders.
Their works lie at the meeting point of cool aesthetics and information technology, modern design, pop-art and real-time data processing. Their techniques 8 amalgamate open source and proprietary solutions with the key art media of past decades.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2012 | Electroboutique. Norwegian Telecom Museum, Oslo |
| 2011 | Electroboutique pop-up. Science Museum, London 3rd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow Bug with us! XL Gallery, Moscow |
| 2009 | Art That Cares. Trøndelag Centre for Contemporary Art, Norway |
| 2008 | Electroboutique: Media Art 2.0. Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin 9 Criti-Pop. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow |
| 2007 | Urgent! Electroboutique Gallery, Moscow The Way I See. Electroboutique Gallery, Moscow |
| 2006 | Data Leak. XL Project Gallery, Moscow Artificial Intellect. Electroboutique Gallery, Moscow |
| 2005 | The Newest Television: Evolution. Electroboutique Gallery, Moscow Poetic Economy. Electroboutique Gallery, Moscow Presentation of Tele-Installations. RICX Media Center, Riga |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2011 | Medi(t)ation – Asian Art Biennial2011. National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan 4th Moscow Biennale. Moscow GESCHMACK – der gute, der schlechte und der wirklich teure. Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden Twente Biennale Netherlands, Hengelo |
| 2010 | Futurologia / Russia Utopias. Garage CCC, Moscow |
| 2008 | Synthetic Times. Media Art China 2008. National Art Museum of China, Beijing |
| 2007 | Graz – Moscow. Forum Stadtpark, Graz White Night 2007. Andrejsalas infocentr. Riga, Latvia I Believe, special project, 2nd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Winzavod, Moscow Art Digital. Center of Contemporary Art M’ARS, Moscow |
| 2006 | Mirror. Exhibition hall of PRO ARTE Institute, St. Petersburg |
| 2005 | Russia 2, special project, 1st Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. CHA, Moscow Artists of the Beginning of the Century. Video Art. WAM Gallery, Moscow Story Rooms. Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester Arsenale 2005. National Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod SIGGRAPH 2005. Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles |
| 2004 | Human-Machine Interface. Gallery Rum46, Arhus, Denmark |