Evgeny Granilshchikov is an interdisciplinary artist, whose practice is based on exploring memory, history and the internal topography of personal experience. Working with such media as video, photography, work on paper, installation and sound, Granilshchikov seeks to find simple gestures and metaphors to express personal and collective experiences of living through history.
The artist is interested in the notion of collective trauma and question of identity. Each of his works refers to specific historical events. Evgeny focuses on fragments of everyday life, fleeting gestures and personal documents. Like an archaeologist, he collects these invisible traces to reconstruct the contours of historical experience.
Thus, Evgeny's works exist at the intersection of documentary and poetics, the private and the political. The artist develops a language that enables to critically revisit the past and its role in the process of subjectification.
The artist's works have been presented at festivals and group exhibitions in Russia, Austria, Great Britain, Germany, and France. Among them are the IV Moscow International Biennale of Young Art (2014), Burning News at the Hayward Gallery in London (2014), Political Populism at the Kunsthalle in Vienna (2015), the Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art at the Garage Museum (2017), and Great Patriotic at the Kunsthalle in Bergen (2022).
Granilshikov is a winner of the Kandinsky Prize in the category "Young Artist. Project of the Year" (2013), a scholarship recipient of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art grant programme (2013-2015), a finalist for the Innovation Award (2014-2015), and winner of the Open Frame Award at the goEast film festival in Wiesbaden (2016). In 2022, the artist received an educational grant from the French Embassy in Moscow.
Evgeny's works are in the collections of such institutions, as the Museum of Contemporary Art M HKA (Antwerp, Belgium), the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow), the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow) and the Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow).