Lev Shusharichev. Photo: Anya Marchenkova.
View from an exhibition at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts-Gaypar Aytiev in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Photo: Lev Shusharichev.
Lev Shusharichev. Photo: Anya Marchenkova.
View from an exhibition at the Kyrgyz National Museum of Fine Arts-Gaypar Aytiev in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. Photo: Lev Shusharichev.
(no)compromise
Lev Shusharichev
Bétonsalon welcomes Russian curator Lev Shusharichev for a research residency between September and November 2023, as part of the Institut Français de Russie’s artistic residency fellowship program.
The project (no)compromise
Over the course of his research residency, Lev Shusharichev aims to study the strategies used by artists and art workers, who have to navigate between personal expression and market demands, independence and institutions, state presence and societal opinion. He is interested in the way sociopolitical factors influence aesthetic choices. The goal of this stage of his research will be to map the main centres between which contemporary art players balance themselves today.
Lev Shusharichev’s approach combines sociological and artistic methods. His research material will be collected through individual interviews and surveys. Bétonsalon accompanies him in the selection of his interviewees and for the restitution of his research, which will take the form of an article and a performative performance, presenting a typology of creative compromises.
Lev Shusharichev
Born in 1995 in Zarechny, Russia, Lev Shusharichev is a curator, researcher and mediator. Trained at the Art History Department of the Ural Federal University in Yekaterinburg (UrFU, 2013-2022) and at the curatorial school of the NEMOSKVA project (2021), he has worked with the teams of the Ural branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (UIBCA), and Sinara Art Gallery.
His curatorial practice is centered around the exploration of local artistic scenes, institutional critique and the support of emerging artists. As part of the UIBCA team, he won the Innovation Award (2018). His curatorial project “Place of Fear” received the Kuryokhin Award in 2021. As an art critic, he has collaborated with the web portal ArtGuide and with the magazine Dialogue of Arts.
He left Russia in 2022. Since 2023, he has been part of the Agency of Artists in Exile.
Lev Shusharichev’s residency at Bétonsalon is supported by the Institut Français de Russie as part of their artistic residency fellowship program.
