Evgeny Granilshchikov

Evgeny Granilshchikov (born June 23, 1985, in Moscow) is a Russian artist and independent film director.

He currently lives and works in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Granilshchikov's works include video and sound art, photography, installation, and independent cinema.

His projects explore questions of his own generation as well as themes of personal and political frustrations.

Granilshchikov graduated from the Lyceum of Animation Cinematography (2004), the Moscow Institute of Journalism and Literature, Department of Journalism and Photography (2009), and the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia where he studied at Igor Mukhin's studio in 2010–2013.

Bohemia (2009–2011) and Insomnia (2011) photo series are the first two projects completed by Granilshchikov.

His thesis became a three-channel film Positions. It depicts personal and political search of three Muscovites.

In 2013–2015 Granilshchikov received a scholarship from the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

"A direct point of view, medium-shot, but more often a long shot, the interspersing of long and short episodes, an uneven rhythm," describes Granilshchikov himself.

"In this film, there is no classical narrative, as if it has been assembled from chance scenes which have no unambiguous links between them. We never find out where the characters are going, what their aims are, but we see how an implicit feeling of alarm is hidden behind all their simple actions and movements."

For this work, Granilshchikov won the Kandinsky Prize for "New Artist. Project of the Year" in 2013.

In 2013–2014 artist's works were on display at the cycle of shows High Hopes, organized by the Museum of Screen Culture Manege | MediaArtLab.

In 2014, Granilshchikov's film Courbet's Funeral was screened at the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, The film also appeared at the Kino Der Kunst festival in Munich It was named as one of the best artworks of year 2014 by aroundart.org.

The film was shot using a smartphone and comprised found videos, both documentary and production footage.

The film was also shortlisted in the New Generation" cateogrof the Innovation Prize-2014, the 10th all-Russian competition in contemporary art.

Together with the short video Untitled (reenactment), works Courbet's Funeral and Unfinished Film form a trilogy that, according toGranilshchikov, can be interpreted as "a reenactment of the everyday life of the noughties."

In 2015, Unfinished Film (2015) was screened during the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and goEast Festival of Central and Eastern European Film, where it won the OPEN FRAME AWARD.

In 2015, Granilshchikov filmed To Follow Her Advice in Thailand It appeared at the 6th Moscow Biennale.

Art of New and Old Media in the Age of High-speed Internet'' in the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, It was shortlisted in nomination "New Generation" of the Innovation Prize 2015.

Granilshchikov was represented on the inaugural Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, organized by Garage Museum of Contemporary Art.

His work appeared in the Common Language section, which featured "artists who work with the internationally spoken language of contemporary art in no need for translation."

In 2016, the Multimedia Art Museum (Moscow) organized a solo show for Granilshchikov, Untitled (after defeats)/ It presented his polaroid series Untitled (accidental shots), videos Munich (2015), Empire (2016), and Ghost movie (2016).

This exhibition entered the finals of the Kandinsky Prize in the category "Project of the Year."

In 2016, War (untitled), first screened as part of the show ''One Within The Other.