Nikolay Koshelev (b. 1987) graduated from the Stroganov Moscow State Arts Academy in 2010, specializing in the monumental and decorative arts. In 2014 he completed a masters degree at the New York Arts Academy. In 2014, he was nominated by the Daedalus Foundation in the Painting category.
Nikolay Koshelev lives and works in New York and Moscow and his art is held in the collections of Leonid Blavatnik, the New York Arts Academy, Ri a Museum of Contemporary Art, Alfa-Bank, Van Cleef & Arples and others. Selected personal and group exhibitions: Loopback Dynamic Composition (Bahnof Gallery, New York, 2020), Project 9 (Aeste Cambi Auction House, Milan, 2019), New Now (Phillips Auction House, New York, 2018, 2019), Cleaning (Lazy Mike Gallery, New York, 2017), Eis am Stiel (Marie von Papen Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, 2017), Refshaleøen (Copenhagen, 2017), Der gestiefelte Kater (Marie von Papen Gallery, New York, 2016), “26” (Triumph Gallery, Moscow, 2016), the Faber Big Egg Hunt (Sotheby’s, New York, 2015).
Farhad Farzali (b. 1989) was born in Baku and is a sound artist who merges traditional culture, popular aesthetics and contemporary music to comment on the situation in his country which was part of the former Soviet Union. He lives and works in Baku and engages in anthropological research on the Azerbaijan cultural context and is cataloguing the striking forms of neo-folklore.
Farhad completed an MFA at the Azerbaijan State Academy of Fine Arts in Baku in 2012. Participated in a large number of group exhibitions around the world and his works are represented in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Baku, Azerbaijan National Museum of Fine Arts and Yarat Contemporary Art Space.
Uta Bekaia (b. 1974) is a contemporary artist, he lives and works in New York and Tbilisi.
He had studied Industrial Design at Tbilisi Mtsire Academy. He debuted as an artist at AMA (Avant-Guard Fashion Assembly) with a sculptural performance. Uta perceives the world around as a continuous, slowly morphing image. He engages multiple artistic mediums, creating wearable sculptures, performances, and videos, where the borders between the disciplines are blurred.