Dima Filippov is a contemporary Russian artist and curator. He was born in Gornyak, Altai region, in 1989.
From 2012 Dima is a co-organizer and curator of the Elektrozavod gallery in Moscow. The goal of the gallery is to provide a space and opportunity for young artists to show their works to general audience. From 2017 Dmitriy is a co-creator of the project Expedition which is a long-term research platform that aims to explore different Russian regions with difficult past like border areas.
Now Dima is focused on field works and artistic research of the border areas of Russia making exhibitions in places that are not considered as spaces of art like fields, abandoned territories or former factories. At the same time, Dima works as a curator in Elektrozavod gallery as well as in other spaces.
On the one hand, Dima Filippov’s works reproduces the new trend of «sustainable» art. In the mode of constant involvement, the artist reflects on the current situation, turns to the «small» memory of a particular person and to a collective artistic experience. Thus, it presents the essence of the credo of the artist, who explores alternative exhibition spaces and organizes individual and collective curatorial projects. On the other hand, this works belongs to the international trend of reinterpretation of the history of modern art. Dima «rereads» anew the story of deterritorialization of art, incorporates personal memory in the digested space by initiating dialogues across time and space. He plastically modifies the conceptual practices, shifts the emphasis to the «tactility» and «sonority» of the landscape, compares the personal and universal in the coordinates of place and time, and enters a complex of new relationships and artistic practices into the field of contemporary Russian art.
(с) Natalia Smolianskaya
