Arseny Zhilyaev

Arseny Zhilyaev (b. 1984, Voronezh, Russia) lives in Moscow and Voronezh, Russia. Using artistic, political, scientific, and museological histories to uncover and propose potential futures, Zhilyaev explores a productive space between fiction and non-fiction. Within his recent projects, the artist casts a revisionist lens on the heritage of soviet museology. Since 2011, Zhilyaev has also been a member of the editorial board of the Moscow art magazine, Khudozhestvennyi Zhurnal. He is a contributor of e-flux journal and others. 

For Liverpool Biennial 2016 Zhilyaev has created ‘Last Planet Parade’, a work that includes a small museological exhibition and stained glass windows in a terraced house in Granby Four Streets. The work is based on the Russian term ‘Planet Parade’, used to describe the appearance of a very intense concentration of stars and planets in the night sky – re-imagined as the pattern occurs on the last days of Earth: the ‘Last Planet Parade’.

Recent exhibitions include venues such as Casa dei Tre Oci, V-A-C Foundation, Venice, Italy (2015); Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France and San Francisco, USA (2014); V-A-C Foundation, Moscow, Russia (2012); and Tretyakov State Gallery, Moscow, Russia (2012).

Arseny Zhilyaev at Liverpool Biennial 2016

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Last Planet Parade, 2016
Stained glass window, books, images, printed photographs, newspaper articles
Commissioned by Liverpool Biennial  
Exhibited at Granby Four Streets