Where Dogs Run
The group “Where Dogs Run” was created in 2000 in Yekaterinburg (Russia), now based in Slovenia.
Their artistic practice lies primarily in a field of technological art and uses a wide range of multimedia: video, robotics, hybrid installations, performance and D.I.Y. packages. The group combines innovative visual techniques with scientific research instruments and low tech aesthetics. Most projects by Where Dogs Run deal with serious scientific problems: the problem of the three-body system, Mandelbrot set, machine learning, natural language processing, virtual modelling, chemical communication between bio- and cyber-organisms. In their projects, they create complex hybrid systems or situations, which are designed to expose the psychological and social mechanisms that, unnoticed, determine daily reality. This makes it possible for them to create an artificial world that wants to be futuristic and free, but which nevertheless remains inseparably connected to the demonic background of historic reality.
The group actively cooperated with many international institutions such as: ZKM (Germany), Goethe-Institut (Germany, Russia), KIBLA Multimedia Center (Slovenia), KGLU (Slovenia), Laznia CCA Poland), M HKA (Belgium), Ars Electronica (Austria), Kersnikova Institute (Slovenia) and others.
Works are in collectons: MHKA (Antwerpen), ZKM (Karlsruhe), NCCA (Moscow), private collections in Austria, France, Russia.
Selected exhibitions:
«Ars Electronica Features», Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria), 2024
«Creative Collisions», Kersnikova , Kapelica Gallery , ECSITE 2024 Conference , Ljubljana, 2024
«THE ETERNAL BODY. The sense of smell as a Laboratory of power, between environmental
crisis and transhumanism» , DASTE Bergamo (Italy), 2023
«Kerosene Chronicles. Fungus & Collector» BMEIA , MQ AiR; Vienna, 2023
«Festival of Regions», project «Die Zukunft beginnt Heute» Linz (Austria), 2023
CYFEST-14: Ferment, Yerevan, 2022
«HYDRA. New Media Art in the Context of Eco-Anxiety», Sevkabel port, St. Petersburg, (Russia), 2021
«COSMOS and CHAOS» International Media Art Festival CYFEST-13, St. Petersburg, 2021
«Laboratory of the Future. Kinetic Art in Russia» State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2021
«The 10th Art Experiment. You’re on Air» Moscow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2020
«New Anthropology», Museum of Science, Pavlov Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Koltushi, (Russia), 2019
«Time, Forward!» V—A—C Zattere, Venice, (Italy), 2019
«The 12th TIME ZONE. A CONTEMPORARY ART REPORT FROM RUSSIA», BOZAR, Brussels, 2019
«DAEMONS IN THE MACHINE» LABORATORIA Art & Science Space, MMOMA Moscow, 2018
«NEW STATE OF THE LIVING» PERMM Perm (Russia), 2018
«Middle Gate II – The History of Dimpna», M HKA, Geel (Belgium), 2018
«Open Codes. Digital Culture Techniques», Goethe Institute/ Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai (MMB),
Mumbai, (India), 2018
«Innovation as an Artistic Technique», The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, (Russia), 2018
4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ural Instrument-Making Plant, Yekaterinburg (Russia), 2017
«Open Codes. Leben in digitalen Welten», ZKM Karlsruhe (Germany), 2017
7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2017
1st Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art ,Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017
“Die and Become! Art and Science as the Conjectured Possible» Laznia CCA Gdańsk, (Poland), 2017
«Art Experiment: Laboratories of Earthly Survival», Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2017
«GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution» ZKM, Karlsruhe, (Germany), 2015
«GLOBALE: Infosphere» ZKM, Karlsruhe, (Germany), 2015
«SUPERCONDUCTION: challenge of art & technology» Cathedral Square, 2 Riga (Latvia), 2015
«Quantum Entanglement» LABORATORIA Art & Science Space Moscow, 2015
«Museum of Contemporary Art: The Department of Labor and Employment»,(special project) within
5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, 2013
«Dreams are for those who are awake» , MMOMA, Moscow, 2013
«Soft Control: Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious» Slovenj Gradec, Marybor (Slovenia), 2012
The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ekaterinburg, ( Russia), 2012
«Lost in transformation», Stadtgalerie Kiel, (Germany), 2012
«The russian art show», Calvert gallery 22, London, 2012
Ars Electronica, Linz (Austria), 2012
«Dust», LABORATORIA Art&Science space, Moscow, 2012
«Aesthetics vs Information» Klaipėda, (Lithuania), 2010
«Russian Utopia», Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2010
«Sleep hour», Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga, 2010
“The Young Aggressive” Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo, 2008
The Triennial of Contemporary Sculpture, Fellbach, (Germany), 2007
“Witnesses of the impossible” 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, 2007
«The First Post-Soviet Media Art Camp», SERDE, Aizpute (Latvia), 2006
The 8th International Festival of Independent Artists “Break 2.3” Ljubljana, (Slovenia), 2005
“On the Resort” Baden-Baden, (Germany), 2004
8th Art-Forum of Artistic initiatives, Moscow, 2003
Festival “Stop! Who’s coming?”, Moscow, 2002
Group exhibitions:
2024
“Ars Electronica Features” / Ars Electronica / Linz
“Creative Collisions”, Kersnikova / Kapelica Gallery / ECSITE 2024 Conference / Ljubljana
2023
“THE ETERNAL BODY. The sense of smell as a Laboratory of power, between environmental crisis and transhumanism“ / DASTE /Bergamo
«Kerosene Chronicles. Fungus & Collector» / BMEIA / MQ AiR / Vienna
“Festival of Regions” / project “Die Zukunft beginnt Heute” / Linz
2022
CYFEST-14 / Ferment / Yerevan
2021
“HYDRA. New Media Art in the Context of Eco-Anxiety” / Sevkabel port / St. Petersburg
“COSMOS and CHAOS” / International Media Art Festival CYFEST-13 / St. Petersburg
“Laboratory of the Future. Kinetic Art in Russia” / State Tretyakov Gallery / Moscow
Moscow / State Tretyakov Gallery / “Laboratory of the Future. Kinetic Art in Russia”
2020
Moscow / Cosmoscow 2020 / Shaltai Editions / NATI III – NEW ARCHIVE OF LIMITED EDITION ART / “Real story”
Moscow / Garage Museum of Contemporary Art /
“The 10th Art Experiment. You’re on Air” / installation “The Faces of Smell”
2019
Pavlovo Koltushi / Pavlov Institute of Physiology /
Russian Academy of Sciences / “THE NEW ANTHROPOLOGY” / installation “Inside a Black Box”
Brussels / BOZAR / “The 12th TIME ZONE. A CONTEMPORARY ART REPORT FROM RUSSIA” / installation “Pause”
Venice / V—A—C Zattere / “Time, Forward!” / installation “Zero City”
Tyumen / The Ivan Slovtsov Museum Complex, Special project of the 5th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition “Everything Is Not What It Seems”, «Sunrise» video
2018
Perm / PERMM, exhibition “NEW STATE OF THE LIVING” installation “Zero City”
Moscow / MMOMA, LABORATORIA Art & Science space “DAEMONS IN THE MACHINE” installation “After Tomorrow”
St. Petersburg / the State Hermitage Museum, exhibition “Innovation as an Artistic Technique”, installation “THE PHOBIA OF TOMORROW”
Vladivostok / Center for Contemporary Culture ‘Hlebozavod’, exhibition “Paradoxical Hybrids”, installation “Antivirtual Helmet”
Moscow / Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, exhibition “THE MPOSSIBLE IS INEVITABLE. IDEAS THAT CHANGE” installation “Zero City”
Vladivostok / Center for Contemporary Culture ‘Hlebozavod’, exhibition “Opening, opening”, installation ” The Faces of smell “
Geel, (Belgium) / M HKA exhibition “Middle Gate II – The History of Dimpna” installation “Evaporation of the Constitution”
Mumbai / Goethe Institute / Max Mueller Bhavan Mumbai (MMB), “Open Codes. Digital Culture Techniques” / installation “Symbolism in the wiring diagrams. Modern poetry in hindi”
Moscow / Gallery “Electromuseum in Rostokino” / exhibition “Paradoxical hybrids” / installation “Antivirtual Helmet”
St. Petersburg / Annenkirche / 11th CYFEST – Annenkirche Exhibition Project / installation “Media Сemetery”
2017
Moscow / Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / “Art Experiment: Laboratories of Earthly Survival” / installation “After Tomorrow”
Karlsruhe / ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe / exhibition “Open Codes. Leben in digitalen Welten” / “Symbolism in the wiring diagrams. Pushkin, Rilke, Khlebnikov, Lorca” / video and objects
St. Petersburg / Scientific-research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts / media art festival CYBERFEST 10 / exhibition “Interpretations”
Yekaterinburg / Ural Instrument-Making Plant / 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art / installation “Evaporation of the Constitution of Russian Federation”
Moscow / New Tretyakov Gallery / 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art / installation “THE PHOBIA OF TOMORROW”
Moscow / VDNH / Pavilion No. 16, “Hydrometeorology” / “Take-off. Exhibition-forecast” / installation “Media Cemetery”
Moscow / Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art / Garage Museum of Contemporary Art / installation “Robocenser”
Krasnoyarsk / Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale / “The Village and the Revolution” / installation “Transcendence Index”
Tyumen / Special project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art / exhibition “The work never ends” / performance “Knitting and crocheting the Mandelbrot set”
2016
Gdansk (Poland) / Laznia 1 / exhibition: “Die and Become! Art and Science as the Conjectured Possible” / installation “1,4…19”
Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, Kiev, Tbilisi, Minsk, Dortmund, Ekaterinburg, Almaty, Tashkent / exhibition: “The Border” / «Phobia of the Other» / electro-mechanical theatre
Nizhny Novgorod / Arsenal / Kremlin / exhibition “Quantum Entanglement 2.0” installation «1,4…19»
2015
Karlsruhe / ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe / exhibition “GLOBALE: Exo-Evolution” / installation “Faces of smell”
Moscow / Trekhgornaya Manufaktura / special project of 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art / exhibition “НАДЕЖДА/HOPE” / project “Collector”
Karlsruhe / ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe / exhibition “GLOBALE: Infosphere” / installation “Fields 2.1”
Riga / LABORATORIA Art & Science space, exhibition: “SUPERCONDUCTION: challenge of art & technology” / installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”
Moscow / LABORATORIA Art & Science space / exhibition: “Quantum entanglement” / installation “1,4…19”
2014
Moscow / “Manezh” / COSMOSCOW / Russia’s only international fair for contemporary art / installation “1,4…19”
Moscow / Udarnyk / The exhibition of the Kandinsky Prize 2014 nominees / video “Trialogue”, video “1,4…19”, “Symbolism in the wiring diagrams” video and objects
Nizhniy Novgorod / Volga branch of the NCCA / Arsenal / exhibition “Science Museum of XXI Century” / installation ” Fields 2.1″
Kazan / “Manezh” Kazan Kremlin / a traveling exhibition project “Nizhe-Nizhnego” / “Symbolism in the wiring diagrams. Velimir Khlebnikov” / video and objects
2013
Moscow / LABORATORIA Art & Science space / special project within 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art / “Laboratory Ice” video “Trialogue”
Moscow / The State Tretyakov Gallery, special project within 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art “Museum of Contemporary Art: The Department of Labor and Employment”, “Symbolism in the wiring diagrams. Pushkin. Lorca. Harms.” video and objects.
Kolomna / residence “Artkommunalka. Erofeev and other” / installation “Pause”
Moscow / Exhibition Center “Worker and Collective Farm Girl”, 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (special project), “Weightlessness” video “Trialogue”
Moscow / LABORATORIA Art&Science space, exhibition “ Frontier ”, installation “Faces of smell”, installation “Beklenischevo”
Gdansk (Poland) / 5th edition of NARRACJE 2013, video “Way”
Perm / “PERMM”, exhibition “Art Against Geography” installation “Sleep №3”
Samara / Museum “Samara Space”, exhibition “Science Museum of XXI Century” installation “Trialogue”
Moscow / ARTPLAY, exhibition “Sopromat” installation ”Fields 2.1”
Anadyr / festival of contemporary culture, exhibition “Enchanted Wanderer”, installation “Beklenischevo”
Moscow / MMOMA, “Dreams are for those who are awake”, installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”
Rome / Tempio di Adriano, TERNA 04, Connectivity . “Way” video.
2012
Slovenj Gradec, Marybor (Slovenia) / “The Soft Control. Art, Science and the Technological Unconscious”, installation “Fields 2.1”
Ekaterinburg / The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art,
performance “(.) or Landscape watching itself”
Kiel, (Germany) / Stadtgalerie Kiel, “Lost in transformation”, installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”
London / Calvert gallery 22 “The russian art show”, performance “Knitting and crocheting the Mandelbrot set”
Linz (Austria) / Ars Electronica 2012. installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”, honorary mention
Moscow / Artplay, Lexus hybrid art exhibition “Synergy”, installation “Faces of smell”
Moscow / LABORATORIA Art&Science space, exhibition “Dust”, installation “Dust weighing”
Moscow / NCCA, “Innovation 2011”, nominations
2011
Sankt-Peterburg / The Youth Education Center of the State Hermitage, 5th International Festival of Cybernetic Art, installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”
Moscow / symposium Pro & Contra, installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”
Krasnoyarsk / 9th Krasnoyarskaya Biennale, kinetic installation “Sleep №3”
Nizhniy Novgorod / Arsenal, Special project of the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition “Illusion”, installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”
Moscow / Multimedia Art Museum, installation “Fields 2”
Nizhniy Novgorod / Arsenal, exhibition “Blizzard”, video “Way”
Ekaterinburg, Special project of the Ural International Exhibition and Forum of Industry and Innovations “INNOPROM-2011 “ART FOCUS FOR TECHNOLOGIES: CHARM AND CHALLENGE”, installation “Osadok/Aftertaste”.
2010
Moscow / NCCA, “Innovation 2010”, nominations
Klaipeda (Lietuvos Respublika) / exhibition “Esthetics VS information”, installation “Pornopedal dreams №2”
Ekaterinburg / The 2nd Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, video “Sunrise”
Moscow / Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, “Russian Utopia”, “Antichanson”
2009
Moscow / NCCA, 3 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition “Art on Site” installation “Mirror”
Moscow / LABORATORIA Art&Science space, exhibition “Jelly and Lightning”, installation “Jelly and Lightning”, installation “Digitizing Water”, installation “Fields 2”
Krasnoyarsk / 8 Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, installation “Mirror”, installation “Antivirtual Helmets”
2008
Tokyo / Musashino Art University Museum & Library, exhibition “The young aggressive”, “Pornopedal dreams №2”, “Antichanson”, “(.)”
Moscow / NCCA, “IN TRANSITION RUSSIA 2008”, installation “Jelly and Lightning”
2007
Fellbach (Germany) / 10th Contemporary Sculpture Triennale, installation “Mobile mini-customs”
Aizpute (Latvia) / The Second Summer Art Camp “Myths and Technologies”, “Knitting with needles and crocheting, Mandelbrot sets and sets generated by other mathematical functions” workshop, “Obvious and Unbelievable” video
Moscow / 2 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition “Witnesses of the impossible”, “Way” video
Moscow / 11th Art-Forum of Artistic initiatives “Choice”, “Michurin” kinetic object
2006
Perm / “Cultural Capital 2006”, “Earth Will Give Birth” sculpture, Midovskiy park, Monument to Maxim Veryovkin (within the “Talking monuments” project)
Aizpute (Latvia) / The First Post-Soviet Media Art Camp, workshop: “Symbolism of electrical circuitry”, “Antichanson”
Moscow / Mars Gallery, exhibition “Mars Field”, installation “Beklenischevo”
2005
Ljubljana (Slovenia) / 8th International Festival of Independent Artists “Break 2.3”, installation “Digitizing Water”
Ulyanovsk / “Cultural Capital 2005”, exhibition “Volgotronika”, “Antivirtual helmet”
Moscow / 10th Art-Forum of Artistic initiatives “МЫ/WE”, “Mobile mini-customs” object
Moscow / State Tretyakov Gallery, kinetic installation “Itch”
Moscow / 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, exhibition “Human project”, installation “Antivirtual helmet”
2004
Ekaterinburg / “Long Ekaterinburg Stories 2”, “River” project
Izhevsk / “Cultural Capital 2004”, kinetic object “Wings”
Moscow / 9th Art-Forum of Artistic initiatives “PARADISE”, “Digitizing Water” kinetic installation
Novosibirsk / exhibition “Toys” , “Antivirtual helmet”
Baden-Baden (Germany) / Kunstchale Baden-Baden, exhibition “On the resort”, “The way” video
Ekaterinburg / “Long Ekaterinburg Stories”, “OilIndustryworker” project
2003
Kansk (Russia) / Kann Video Festival, “The Way”, “Parasites”, “You don’t owe anybody”, “Go somewhere” videos;
Novosibirsk / video festival ESF, “The Way”
Ekaterinburg-Perm-Izhevsk, Gallery “Gas 2402”, a mobile exhibition-action “Funeral of Evil”
Moscow / Festival “Stop! Who’s coming? 2” “Pornopedal dreams-2” installation
Moscow / 8th Art-Forum of Artistic initiatives, “The Way” video;
Ekaterinburg / Festival “а_real 001”. “Art in Public Space “, “Eyes of the ghosts of the Marshes”
2002
Moscow / Festival “Stop! Who’s coming?”,
“Pornopedal dreams-1” installation
Perm / Festival “The New Iron Dimension”,
sculptural object “Gagarin”
Solo exhibition:
2015 / Samara / Victoria gallery, solo-exhibition “Under the Supervision “
2014 / Perm / PERMM, solo-exhibition “Registry”
2014 / Tomsk / Siberian Branch of NCCA, solo-exhibition “I FEEL U”.
2014 / Yekaterinburg / UF NCCA , solo-exhibition “1,4…19”
2013 / Yekaterinburg / UF NCCA , solo-exhibition “Trialogue”
2009 / Riga / Kim? Contemporary Art Center, solo-exhibition “Sleep hour”
2007 / Chelyabinsk / Gallery “Window”, “Where dogs run”
2006 / Moscow / “Spidermouse” gallery, video performance “(.) or Landscape watching itself”
2006 / Perm / Central Exhibition Hall (within the “Video Point” project), solo-exhibition «Digitization of water»
2005 / Moscow / State Tretyakov Gallery, “Itch”
2001 / Ekaterinburg / Ekaterinburg Theater of Young Spectators, solo exhibition “Fish Exhibition 2”
2001 / Ekaterinburg / Ural State University, solo-exhibition “Fish Exhibition”
2000 / Ekaterinburg / solo-exhibition “Labyrinth”
Publications:
/ 2021 / Elena Giulia Abbiatici
Незавершенность как неизбежность: многоликое время современного искусства / ХЖ № 98
/ 2016 / Дмитрий Галкин
“Молодые Агрессивные”
каталог выставки , Musashino Art University Museum & Library, Tokyo
/ 2007 / Роди Он