Andrey Bartenev

Examples are his papier-mâché "eight-legged dog for high-speed transportation;" his performance "Black Caviar Road" – a line of Russians black caviar cans with car tires rolling by; and his sound installation "Say: I love you" which uses a computer to transform those three words into an echo bouncing through two hundred speakers.

At the crest of Russia's wave of radical Sots Art, Bartenev was invited to bring his performances all over Europe: (Germany), Switzerland, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, Norway, Austria, and France.

Bartenev's synthetic performance The Snow Queen (1993), a vivid avant-garde interpretation of Andersen's fairy tale, traveled to London's Victoria & Albert Museum Theater and Royal Festival Hall (SBC).

Bartenev has created costumes for theater plays: The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck in New York, Elizaveta Bam by Daniil Kharms in Moscow, Cinderella by Sir Peter Maxwell Davies in Hamburg.

The latter was exhibited in the Russian Pavilion at the Venice Biennial in 2007 and became a big hit in London at Riflemaker Contemporary Art Gallery.