Background
He was born in Potsdam, then East Germany.
- Photos
- Works
- Photos
- Works
Sergei Shutov
Edit ProfileCareer
He lives and works in Moscow. Since 1993 he has served as president of the Institute of Technology of Art, and since 1994 he has been the Practical Work Supervisor at Moscow Arts Laboratory New Media. He has worked in the Pushkin Museum, the Museum of the East, and the Moscow Zoo, and read lectures at the Moscow Planetarium.
He has worked as a radio DJ (for Stantsiya 1068) and was the first VJ in Russia, an artist for the magazine "Ptyuch," and an actor and artist for the film Assa.
He is also a musician, and composed a soundtrack to the film "The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari" (with Timur Novikov), and the album "1988." Brian Eno"s album The Shutov Assembly is named for him. In 2001 he represented Russia at the 49th Venice Biennale, with the project "Abacus", which consists of forty automated figures, all dressed in black robes.
Membership
He is a member of numerous arts organizations in Russia, including the Hermitage Association and the Mayakovsky Friends" club
