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SDG arts
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We focus on contemporary art and analytic
philosophy. Our main
values are innovation,
creativity and critical thinking.

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sources of inspiration

Performance by the art group "Provmyza" Oratorium SARXSOMA

SDG Arts & Science Foundation and Mikhail Prokhorov Charitable Foundation supported a new project of the art group...

This Is Not a Book: Dmitry Volkov's collection

SDG Arts & Science Foundation presented works of contemporary artists and rare editions of philosophical treatises...

FACED2FACED project presentation at the 58th Venice Biennale

Dmitry Volkov acted as a promoter of the FACED2FACED project and became a guide for followers of the new digital twins...

The Book on Trial performance

Pavel Pepperstein and Dmitry Volkov held a performance called People against the book under the title “Freedom of Will...

Dmitry Volkov and Artists performance

Dmitry Volkov and Artists performance was a part of the Small Button, a project by Fedor Pavlov-Andreevich. It...

OracleTang's journey to the desert

In 2015, along with the SDGroup team, Dmitry Volkov became a participant of the Burning Man Festival, an international...

Grant to the young artist Appolinaria Brochet

Grant to the young artist Appolinaria Brochet In 2018, the Foundation supported the artist Appolinary Brosche and will...

SUPERCONDUCTION

The SUPERCONDUCTION pop-up exhibition, an exhibition of modern technological art, was organized in the SDGroup office...

Aliens? Yes! Procession at the Burning Man Festival 2017

Late August, 2017, Dmitry Volkov invited his companions from venture business and partners to take part in an art camp...

"Revelations" by Aidan Salakhova

Aidan's works are part of the Foundations' collection. To support the artist the foundation became a partner of her...

Transcendental Piano Festival

The second street festival organized by SDG Arts & Science Foundation together with LABORATORIA Art & Science brought...

Development of the
professional
philosophical community

Development of the
professional
philosophical community

Philosophical lectures at MMOMA

Philosophical lectures as part of the educational program for the exhibition “This Is Not a Book: Collection of Dmitry...

Summer Philosophy School

The Summer School of Philosophy is an international program offering intensive lectures and seminars with the...

The Greenland Conference

In June 2014, Dmitry Volkov initiated a scientific conference, which took form of a regatta. For a week the...

Lectures by the world's leading philosophers

The Center for Consciousness Research (CCS) organizes regular lectures by leading experts in the field of analytical...

Collection of books on philosophy in rare editions

First edition. Published anonymously, this title is better known as “An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding” and is...

Fundamental Knowledge: Dialogues between Russian and Buddhist Scholars.

The first meeting of scientists and Dalai Lama on the topic of studying consciousness took place in August 2017 in New...

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Metaphysics of Uploading. CCS Summer School in Palermo

World-known philosophers and thinkers gathered in Palermo to debate the possibility of uploading the human mind to a computer system.

Metaphysics of Possible Worlds. Results of Consciousness Research Center Summer School

Metaphysics of Possible Worlds. Results of Consciousness Research Center Summer School.

CCS held a summer school of philosophy online

For the first time, the Moscow Center for Consciousness Studies at Moscow State University held an international summer philosophical school in an online format.

This is Not a Book

The first exhibition of the private collection of businessman and philosopher Dmitry Volkov became available for viewing online.

Why is there no museum of philosophy?

Collector and philosopher Dmitry Volkov, together with the artist and theorist of contemporary art Pavel Pepperstein, discussed why the Museum of Philosophy does not exist, the prospects of its creation, as well as exhibits that they would place in it.

From philosophy to art. Collection of Dmitry Volkov and CCS

Exhibition “This Is Not a Book: Collection of Dmitry Volkov.

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Art Collection

Art Collection

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Young, Wild, and Free

Tinder

Erlking-3

Heads

Portraits of Composers

The Girl with an Ore

Tatlin and Bandura

A Photo From The “Shift” Series

Without Words #4

Philosophical dog

Core #4

Philosopher and artist

What Where When

Eidos with a drop of blood

Winter From The Series ‘Seasons of The Year’

Armed and Dangerous

The girl with watermelon from series "Fears of a white man"

Book. Work from the Persian Miniatures series

Bit-Coin Silk

Rare Philosophycal
Books Collection

Rare Philosophycal
Books Collection

Francis Bacon, "Instauratio Magna" (Novum Organum)
1621

John Locke, "Essay on Human Understanding"
1694

George Berkeley, "A Treatise Concerning the Principle of Human Knowledge"
1711

David Hume, "Philosophical essays concerning human understanding"
1749

Ludwig Wittgenstein, "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
1922

Immanuel Kant, "Critik der Reinen Vernunft"
1787

Francis Bacon, "Sylva Sylvarum"
1652

Rene Descartes, "Discours de la méthode"
1638

John Locke, "Some Familiar Letters Between Mr. Locke, And Several Of His Friends"
1709

Jonathan Edwards, "A Careful and Strict Enquiry into the Modern Prevailing Notions of That Freedom of Will"
1755

Ephraim Chambers, "Cyclopaedia"
1728

William James, "The Principles of Psychology"
1891

Georg Hegel, "Enzyklopädie der Philosophischen Wissenschaften"
1817

Edmund Husserl, "Logische Untersuchungen"
1900-1901

Art Collection

X0-NX0-N

Young, Wild, and Free

Tinder

Erlking-3

Heads

Portraits of Composers

The Girl with an Ore

Tatlin and Bandura

A Photo From The “Shift” Series

Without Words #4

Philosophical dog

Core #4

Philosopher and artist

What Where When

Eidos with a drop of blood

Winter From The Series ‘Seasons of The Year’

Armed and Dangerous

The girl with watermelon from series "Fears of a white man"

Book. Work from the Persian Miniatures series

Bit-Coin Silk