Denis Uranov — contemporary Russian artist. He is a postgraduate student of cultural studies, a graduate of the Institute of Contemporary Art named after Joseph Backstein, Faculty of Art History of the Russian State University for the Humanities, and also studied at the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia named after Rodchenko.
From 2017 to 2018 he took part in the Open Studios of the Centre of contemporary art "WINZAVOD". In 2020 he studied at the Center for Contemporary Art in Kronstadt. He is a participant of about forty exhibitions and festivals since 2011 in Austria, Brazil, Germany, Uzbekistan and the Russian Federation.
Due to help of static media Denis Uranov works with the author's mythology, developing cycles of projects that are different from the point of view of form, but intersect in their content. The artist tries to avoid repetition in expressive means, adapting and distorting the artistic language. Among the artist's current interests are discovering reactionary forms in contemporary art and left-wing rhetoric, as well as rethinking art brut and individualism as artistic strategies. The main method that Denis uses in the visual arts is the deconstruction of the visual series familiar to a modern person: from an attempt to create an abstraction from modern aesthetic regimes to an ironic proposal of anti-modernist methodology in the 21st century.
Selected exhibitions:
- 2011-2013 Personal project "Documentation of street art". Krasnodar, St. Petersburg, Moscow
- 2013 "Voice of the Streets". Kaliningrad, Moscow
- 2013 The 5th festival of contemporary art "Living Perm". Perm, Russia
- 2013 "Area 70". Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Russia
- 2013 "Unity". Tomsk, Russia
- 2014 "F.A.N." Center of contemporary art named after S. Kuryokhin, St. Petersburg
- 2014 "Drawings in a notebook". Center "Etazh", Novosibirsk, Russia
- 2014 "Mirrors and Windows". Center "Etazh", Novosibirsk, Russia
- 2014 "Night of Museums". Library "Ligovsky", St. Petersburg
- 2014 "Street Vision". Tomsk, Russia
- 2015 Personal exhibition "Collection of stories". Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasnodar, Russia
- 2015 "CanFest". Krasnodar, Russia
- 2015 "Friends". Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasnodar, Russia
- 2015 "Suburb". Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasnodar, Russia
- 2015 "Remember and Forget". Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasndoa, Russia
- 2015 "Cross Art". Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg
- 2016 Personal exhibition "Softcore". Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasnodar, Russia
- 2017 "Form". Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod", Moscow
- 2017 Personal exhibition "Inner Museum". Gallery Larina, Krasnodar, Russia
- 2017 Personal exhibition "Instructions". Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasnodar, Russia
- 2017 Participation in the international fair of contemporary art "Cosmoscow", Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
- 2017 Participation in contemporary art fair SAM FAIR, Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2017 "The Art of an Imaginary Future", Vladikavkaz, Samara, Kazan, Russia
- 2018 "Victory over White". Special project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod"
- 2018 "Art Lobster Tart". Parallel program of the 6th Moscow International Biennale of Youth Art, A3 Gallery
- 2018 "Die Wahrheit". Art space "Petersburg", Berlin
- 2018 "Not for sale". Special project of the 6th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Gallery "Osnova"
- 2018 8th Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Tashkent
- 2019 "Open Museum", Electromuseum, Moscow
- 2019 "Communities and Spaces". Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod", Moscow
- 2019 "Dysmorphophobia, or the war within you." Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- 2019 "Escape the Room". Pavilion of the 4th Biennale of New Digital Art "The Wrong", online exhibition
- 2019 "New sensations". Pavilion of the 4th Biennale of New Digital Art "Wrong", online exhibition, screening at the Universities of Santa Catarina, Brazil
- 2019 "Umbrella.corp". Art Center "Makaronka", Rostov-on-Don, Russia
- 2020 "Stop!" Center for Contemporary Art "Typography", Krasnodar, Russia
- 2020 "In the gardens of Kepler". Online show and viewing "ART Global Gallery and Ars Electronica", Linz, Austria
- 2020 "Map of human nature". Special project of the 7th Moscow International Biennale Young art, ROSIZO, Moscow
- 2020 "Elemental". Curve Gallery in collaboration with the Maryland Federation of Arts, Annapolis, USA
- 2020 Personal exhibition "Ribs, dough and clay". FFTN Gallery, St. Petersburg
- 2021 Personal exhibition "Sq. 25O". In General Gallery, Tomsk, Russia
