Key figures of Russian and Ukrainian artistic milieus get together to pay tribute to their friend and fellow artist Vladimir Fyodorov (1963–2018), one of the founding members of the Odessa branch of conceptualism and senior inspector of the group “Inspection Medical Hermeneutics”.
Vladimir Fyodorov — artist, author of installations, objects, and theoretical texts, who instigated the development of discursive and artistic practices within the younger conceptualist circle passed away in Kharkov on February 24 earlier this year. Since 1989, he was junior and later, senior inspector of the art group Inspection Medical Hermeneutics established in 1987 in the Furmanny squat, attaining the status of the group’s “Fetish” in the process. Fyodorov made an important contribution to the Moscow art scene accumulating around him the younger generation of the Moscow conceptualist circle. The commemoration meeting will bring together some of his closest friends and colleagues who worked together with Fyodorov at different stages of his life. The discussion will be accompanied by the screening of documentary video records and a slide show featuring photographs, drawings, and archival materials, that will be displayed for the first time.