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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

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 <...>

News

SEP '2016

Modern musicians shift conception of a classical music instrument

Afisha Daily: "This Festival is clearly the case when it's better not to read a lot of feedback trying to understand beforehand what is going to happen, but to just come and see everything yourself".

SEP '2016

Dmitry Volkov became a grantor of the "Collection. Modern Art in the USSR and Russia, 1950-2000" exhibition

The SDG Arts & Science Foundation supported the initiative by Olga Sviblova and the Potanin's foundation and joined leading collectors and art patrons in order to create a unique collection of works of the Russian nonconformity, social art, conceptual art, avantgarde and other art trends in the "Collection. Modern Art in the USSR and Russia, 1950-2000" project. Dmitry Volkov gifted a work by Sergey Bugayev-Africa to the Pompidou Center.

SEP '2016

Participating in the roundtable titled "A museum experiment or an experiment in a musem. To what extent has science art changed the cultural institutions?"

During the discussion the roundtable participants together with the experts from the Polytechnical Museum and LABORATORIA Art & Science brought up an issue regarding the role the science art can play in the classical model of the art history in the short and longer term.

Collection

FROM THE SVETLANA ZAKHAROVA. STILL FRAME PROJECT. #0026

Having accepted the offer from the Multimedia Art Museum to be photographed for the project “Still Frame”, the star of world ballet and prima ballerina of the Bolshoi, Svetlana Zakharova was the one to choose the photographer. She chose Vladimir Fridkes. To him Zakharova is a queen gifted with a perfect body and mind. Every still frame lives on the edge of real and imaginary. From the air, the photographer captures specific movements that give birth to the ballerina’s dance. She is aware of her talent and phenomenal ability to express nature’s splendor with her own body.

Painter: VLADIMIR FRIDKES

EROTIC DREAM OF DONKEY BIEWE

The erotic dream of donkey Biewe was created from his words over a glass of sparkly, he was extremely surprised not by the bosoms with wings, bush-like- lips and the frenzy around him, but over the fact that the ladies’ man already had chickenpox.

Painter: Vova Perkin