Education
2013-2016 The Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia named Alexander Rodchenko, documentary photography, Moscow
2012 Izvestia School of Photojournalism, Moscow
2002-2007 Astrakhan State Conservatory (Clarinet class)
1997-2001 Gnessin Music College
album https://superspacerecords.bandcamp.com/album/seishi
album https://mixcult.bandcamp.com/album/landscapes-ep
One of the duo "CHORDA" project (with Dima Anikin):
album https://music.apple.com/ru/album/afferent/1485169987
Founder of self-organized community “Experimental Field” (with Ira Tsykhanskaya)
https://www.facebook.com/opytnoepole
Resident of the gallery "Sandero", Norway
Selected exibitions
2024 “May the journey make us happy”, Gallery “Empire Zero One”, Köln
2024 "In search of Lang", Gallery "Ostavinska", Serbia, Belgrade
2024 “The Katun”, Art residency Alex Starsky&Alina Kotova, Montenegro
2023 “Paths”, Art residency Alex Starsky&Alina Kotova, Montenegro
2022 “Exit to Jerusalem”, gallery “Shellter”, Moscow, Russia;
2021 “Vertep”, White Cube, Moscow, Russia;
2021 “Uroboros”, Jart gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2020 “CRAFT”, Altai Biennale of Contemporary Art, Altai, Russia;
2019 BursaFotoFest, Biennale, Bursa, Turkey;
2019 “Melting point”, “Point of experience”, Balashikha, Russia;
2018 International Festival of Contemporary Art "ARS HORTUS", Moscow, Russia
2018 “Migration”, “Point of experience”, Balashikha, Russia;
2018 “Memories”, LoosenArt Gallery, Rome, Italy;
2017 “Under the Fence”, “Point of experience”, Balashikha, Russia;
2017 “Borders of Feelings. Love”, Not Yet Opened Space, Moscow, Russia;
2017 “Year of Depression”, Kunsthalle Vysotka, Moscow, Russia;
2016 “Borders of Feelings. Uneasiness”, Not Yet Opened Space, Moscow, Russia;
2016 “Field of Vision”, 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia;
2016 “Be a Guest in My Possible Future”, 1st WAS Biennale, Kunsthalle Vysotka, Moscow, Russia;
2016 “Postfactum”, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman' Museum and Exhibition Centre, Moscow, Russia;
2015 “Paths”, Hilger Next Gallery, Vienna, Austria;
2015 “Map of Inconsistence”, Rodchenko Art School Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2014 “There's Nothing Better Than Hand”, Rodchenko Art School Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2013 “Choice”, Rodchenko Art School Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
2011 “India of Spirit”, Record Cinema Center, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Selected Audio/Visual works & performances
2024 “May the journey make us happy”, performance with Dmitry Remezov, Gallery “Empire Zero One, Köln
2024 “Vibes against violence”, performance, Church of the Most Sacred Heart, Podgorica, Montenegro
2024 “Ex tempore”, performance, cave in Cetine, Montenegro
2024 “RadioSum”, performance, Podgorica, Montenegro
2024 “Zivele”, Audio visual performance, Festival “In search of lang”, Ostavinska gallery, Belgrade
2024 “When numbness comes, the kight it what remains”, Art residency Alex Starsky&Alina Kotova, Montenegro
2024 “Listening to the walls”, Audio visual performance, Fort “Gorazda”, Montenegro
2024 “MusicHub”, Audio visual performance, Festival “Oktriche”, Montenegro
2024 “MusicHub”, performance, Art residency Alex Starsky&Alina Kotova, Montenegro
2024 “Dialogue”, Audio visual performance, Art residency Alex Starsky&Alina Kotova, Montenegro
2019 “Electrostatic” performance with Andrey Guryanov, Electrotheatre
“Stanislavsky”, Moscow, Russia;
2019 Audio Visiual performance of MoN project, Portal Art space, Vladikavkaz,Russia;
2019 Vocal audio perfomance with Ulyana Podkorytova at the Triumph Gallery
2018 AUX Night, Audio Visiual performance with Joost Rekveld (Netherlands) for Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, New Space Theatre of Nations, Moscow, Russia;
2018 O.Z.O.R.A Festival, original music set as CHORDA with Dmitry Anikin, Hungary;
2018 Signal Festival, Audio performance with Dmitry Anikin as CHORDA project, Russia;
2016 Audio/Visual performances of MoN project, “Field of Vision”, 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow,Russia;
Selected cinematic/animated film projects
(as a composer and as a session musician)
2024 “Lena Lugovskikh” documentary film by Lena Chernysheva (Gulag Museum);
2024 “The Posessed” video by Ira Tsykhanskaya;
2024 “Shell” film by Yulia Mashkova;
2020 “Ichchi” film by Kostas Marsaan;
2015-2023 “The Flame” video by Ira Tsykhanskaya;
2014 “Ants' Songs” animated film by Sasha Svirsky;
Opera composer
2021-2024 “Routs” opera, co-author and composer www.marshrout.life ;
2023 “Purimshpil” reconstruction of opera XVII, musician and composer;
work expirience
2021-2022 author and teacher of photography course at Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Moscow, Russia;
2022 teacher of technical photography course at Rodchenko Art School, Moscow, Russia;
2017-2019 teacher of clarinet class at Brass Children's Music School №2, Balashikha, Russia;
Award
2001 1st Prize at All-Russian Сompetition of Young Brass Performers, Astrakhan, Russia.
About Grigory Mumrikov
Deserted places, dreary and yet graceful. Nature teetering between wasteland and
wilderness.
People who seem lonely, wounded, marked. And yet they are at one with themselves and
full of dignity. Animals roaming through the darkness. Or have already fallen victim to
humans or the laws of nature: Grigory Mumrikov's photographs reflect the whole ambiguity
of civilization and existence. And in their treatment of themes such as loneliness, death and
escapism, they are as beguiling as they are disturbing, as touching as they are unsparing. At
first glance they appear to be documentary, but on closer inspection the compositional
character, the play with allusions, hints and metaphors is evident. Are they captured in the
moment? Or rather a universal simultaneity, where past, present and future merge and act
as a kind of time bridge?
Grigory Mumrikov photographs are not about topicality, but about the claim to eternity
that, according to Henri Cartier-Bresson, arises from “incessant looking”, and where the
moment is freed from any form of time and becomes a constant.
In their sometimes dystopian aura, the images point to the future and pose the philosophical
core question of what remains. The Moscovite artist, who is also active as a musician and
composer, explicitly does not want to dictate anything, but rather initiate thought processes
and raise questions. In doing so, he refers to the origin of art, which throws people back on
themselves and encourages them to search for answers.
The latent subversion can be traced back to his admiration for the Moscow Conceptualists,
while the poetic radicalism of Grigory Mumrikov's visual worlds is linked to the documentary
work of Werner Herzog. His exploration of precarious conditions of existence between
documentary character and subjective aestheticization as well as his latent play with
metaphors are linked to American photo artists such as Alec Soth and Taryn Simon.
Grigory Mumrikov (*1982) lived in Moscow until 2023 and is currently based in Cologne. After a
classical music education as a clarinettist and composer, he graduated from the Izvestija School of
Photography and Journalism and the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia.
His works have been exhibited in Russia, Norway Sändero Gallery, Italy, Austria and Turkey. In
addition to photography, he also works in multimedia at the intersection of music, video art and
performance. In the field of experimental music, he founded the project “MoN” and is part of the
duo “Chorda”. He is also co-founder of the independent artist community “Experimental Field”.
Text by Yorca Schmidt-Junker.