Art Experiment. The Miracle of Light

Kirill Asse (b. 1974, Moscow) is an artist, architect and architectural critic, associate of the Bureau Alexander Brodsky, and teacher at the Moscow Architectural School MARCH. Graduate of the Moscow Institute of Architecture (MArchI, 1998). Author and curator of exhibitions, including Irradiations, Arsenal, Nizhniy Novgorod (2016); Palladio Today, Museum of Architecture, Moscow (2008); and Arch Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow (2003–2004). In collaboration with Nadya Korbut he was also the architect of the exhibitions: If our soup can could speak. Mikhail Lifshitz and the Soviet Sixties, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (2018); Thessaloniki. The Costakis Collection. Restart, State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (2018); Giorgio Morandi. 1890–1964, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2017); Upon Request. Russian Avant-garde Collections from Regional Museums, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow (2016–2017); Contemporaries of the Future, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow (2015); Look into the Eyes of the War, Novy Manezh (2014); and Jan Švankmajer’s Kunstkammer, Garage Center of Contemporary Culture, Moscow (2013) . He lives and works in Moscow.

Daniil Zinchenko (b. 1984, Tyumen) is an artist and film director. He debuted in cinematography as an actor in Evgeny Yufit’s films The Wooden Room (1995) and Silver Heads (1999). Zinchenko is director of several feature films, including: 50 (together with Tikhon Pendyurin; 2018); Russia as A Dream (together with Andrey Silverstov; 2016); and Elixir (2015). Participant of 16th Venice Architectural Biennale (Russian Pavilion; 2018); goEast Festival, Wiesbaden (2017); 66th Berlin International Film Festival (2016); and the Moscow International Film Festival (2012, 2014). He lives and works in Moscow.

Lyudmila Zinchenko (b. 1964, Peno, Tver Region) is an artist and photographer, curator of the Hand Printing Studio at Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. She has worked for many years with silver gelatin prints and alternative photo processes. In her shootings, Lyudmila uses cutting edge technologies as much as historical techniques, from camera obscura (which she used in the book Russian Wood (2015) among other projects) to a computer program developed especially for her series Temporal Photography (2016). Under the alias Lyusya Matveeva, Zinchenko makes video works and writes literary texts in the short story genre. She is a two-time winner of the Silver Camera competition in the Everyday Life category (2002, 2006). Participant of dozens of exhibitions in Russia and abroad, including the Berlin International Film Festival (2015, 2016). She lives and works in Moscow.

Polina Shpak (b. 1992, Moscow) is an animation director. She graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK; Director of Animation Film course under chief curator Alexey Demin). Shpak has created animation for the film Summer (director Kirill Serebrennikov, 2018), promos for the 2x2 TV Channel, as well as animation for the TV show Chem Vse Zakonchilos? (“How Did It All End Up?”), the online project Postnauka, the cartoon series Fixiki, BodoBoroda, and others. She lives and works in Moscow.