ARTISTIC PROJECTS
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
I focus on the boundary zones between different media, searching for different types of information in both artistic and curatorial practice, which I devote equal time and attention.
Extended Moment, new visual art series
New site for "Extended Moment" visual art series by Konstantin Grouss works at
https://www.grouss.art.
"After many years of artistic practice in choreography, sculpture, video, traces of which could be found on this site, my current artistic practice moved to the new site and will remain there.
This site will stay as an archive of my artistic works for more then 20 years."
https://www.grouss.art.
"After many years of artistic practice in choreography, sculpture, video, traces of which could be found on this site, my current artistic practice moved to the new site and will remain there.
This site will stay as an archive of my artistic works for more then 20 years."
UV print on aluminium Dibond with crystal.
54 × 75 cm. Unique. 2025
54 × 75 cm. Unique. 2025
Sculpture
Dance in dynamic statics
Sculpture is a logical continuation of the dance, the opportunity to give it existence in another time and dimension. In my concept of working with a static form, the kinetic component is important, giving a feeling of variability and relation to the current moment
Sculpture is a logical continuation of the dance, the opportunity to give it existence in another time and dimension. In my concept of working with a static form, the kinetic component is important, giving a feeling of variability and relation to the current moment
Sculpture, performance, video
The Botanic Gardens of Moscow State University "THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN"
The Botanic Gardens of Moscow State University "THE APOTHECARIES' GARDEN"
Sculpture, performance, video
"Horizontal" project, Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Guslitsa creative castle, 2015
"Horizontal" project, Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Guslitsa creative castle, 2015
Video
Dance on the plane: video, movie, documentation
The video reveals the possibilities of dance that are not available in live performance or sculpture. Projection onto a plane or several planes, focus on details, compositional moves and features of drama fundamentally distinguish video from action on stage. Although very often it complements perfectly.
The video reveals the possibilities of dance that are not available in live performance or sculpture. Projection onto a plane or several planes, focus on details, compositional moves and features of drama fundamentally distinguish video from action on stage. Although very often it complements perfectly.
Video, music, poetry, dance
duration 4'33"
May 2020
duration 4'33"
May 2020
Almost empty space
Video
Series of video, in which space is of secondary importance to time
Series of video, in which space is of secondary importance to time
Round panorama 13/11
Video, dance
Series of video, base on common idea, filmed in different places
Series of video, base on common idea, filmed in different places
Multimedia performance
Comtemporary dance, poetry, video
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
30 min.
2015
Comtemporary dance, poetry, video
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
30 min.
2015
video, 2007
Filmed during The 2-nd Biennale of contemporary art in Moscow
Filmed during The 2-nd Biennale of contemporary art in Moscow
<at>BODY<dot>MOVE
series of multimedia dance performances
One of formulas that I work with today is the formula, which serve as the base of a series of works <at> BODY <dot> MOVE.
Briefly it can be described as follows:
< Unit of information → impulse → movement → unit of information >
In an era when the digital environment had begun to shift from a tool into an immersive habitat, the project reconsidered the conventions of choreography. The body appeared as an autonomous author and processor—a biological node within a distributed network of information flows.
One of formulas that I work with today is the formula, which serve as the base of a series of works <at> BODY <dot> MOVE.
Briefly it can be described as follows:
< Unit of information → impulse → movement → unit of information >
In an era when the digital environment had begun to shift from a tool into an immersive habitat, the project reconsidered the conventions of choreography. The body appeared as an autonomous author and processor—a biological node within a distributed network of information flows.
Contemporary dance, video. "Room Room Room" dance festival, 5-th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, "Zeitgiest" festival
multimedia dance performance, lecture, video. Museum of contemporary art "GARAGE", New space of Theatre of Nations
Theatre performances and actions
A theatre performance is an action on many levels, a whole complex of ideas united by one main line. This is its fundamental difference from a performance (action) - a conceptual staging, where a single line is viewed from different angles and does not need to be intertwined with others.
Contemporary dance /
contemporary music performance
Scriabin Memorial Museum
2019
contemporary music performance
Scriabin Memorial Museum
2019
Dance performance, video
Dance performance, consisting of 7 Russian dance companies works united into one piece
contemporary dance performance
at extension.art - 3 festival at Art-Residence /Moscow/
www.art-residence.ru
2012
at extension.art - 3 festival at Art-Residence /Moscow/
www.art-residence.ru
2012
Video film / Multimedia performance
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
2015
Marina Tsvetaeva museum
2015
Contemporary dance. "No translations" festival. 2011
Contemporary dance. "No translations - 1" festival. 2010. Action
Contemporary dance performance. "Open stage" project, 2009
Performances, actions, video 2004-2008
This video is compiled from excerpts from several choreographic and video works, actions from 2004 to 2008. "Philosophy of Walls", "Phases of the Moon", "Mask for body", "Cage for air", "Bacchanalia in the Garden of Stones", "21st Floor". The video is mirrored in such a way that the excerpts united as a single whole, combining a period of work of several years. Concept, choreography, video - Konstantin Grouss
Contemporary dance drama for 3 dancers, piano solo and voice (John Cage music). Krasnoyarsk musical theatre. 2008
Contemporary dance piece for 4 dancers and painter. "Action hall", Moscow. 2008
Contemporary dance piece for 5 dancers.
State Theatre of Nations. 2005
State Theatre of Nations. 2005
Contemporary dance performance.
Meyerhold Theatre Centre Moscow. 2003-2004
Meyerhold Theatre Centre Moscow. 2003-2004
Contemporary dance and music theatre. Theatre "School of dramatic art by Anatoly Vasiliev", St Gallen music festival, Austria. 2004-2006
performance-action. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Festival "December nights – XXVI, Masks - From Myth to Carnival", Moscow, December, 2006
Curiosity about life in all its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
Konstantin Grouss
Artist / Curator / Сhoreographer
Artistic director of International culture project "Art-Residence" www.art-residence.ru
Artistic director of ZERO Dance Gallery
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Artistic director of International culture project "Art-Residence" www.art-residence.ru
Artistic director of ZERO Dance Gallery
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Sphere of interest is in choreography, contemporary theatre, and integration of choreography, sculpture and video. Curatorial practice over the past years is also devoted to the study of transition from one medium into another, searching for common codes of different artistic positions.
Graduated from Dance and Art school and the Technical University.
Studied at the "Class of expressive dance" by Gennady Abramov, Moscow.
Fellow of danceWeb program in dance and choreography, 2004, Vienna.
Participant of ICR (International Choreographers In Residence) program of American Dance Festival ADF, USA, 2007.
Participant of SPACE Programme in contemporary art provided by Performance Corporation (Dublin, Ireland), 2008.
Resident OMI International Dance Collective, NY, USA, 2011.
Worked with different choreographers and theatre directors: Shusaku Takeuchi (Netherlands), Yury Urnov, Valery Fokin, Tatyana Grindenko, Kirill Serebryannikov (Russia), Theodor Tezhik (Russia-Czech), Efva Lilja (Sweden), Maida Withers (USA).
Since 2009, the creator and the head of the International culture project "Art-Residence", within the framework of which he has created more than 15 major projects based on the integration of different media and sphears of art.
In 2012, he created the Art-Residence International Culture Project space on Povarskaya, 20, Moscow, Within the framework of the Random gallery project, more than 30 art exhibitions and parallel events were created.
Curator of the Skolkovo and Varshavka galleries of the"Exhibition Halls of Moscow" association (2014-2015).
The main area of interest as a curator is the creation of a common platform for the equal presentation of various disciplines of art within the framework of a single concept. Specialisation - Visual arts, dance / performance, music, media art. Projects also include discussions and educational programs, public and street art, architecture.