DIMA PTITSYN
Artist, professional photographer and musician. Born and lives in Samara. Started as a documentary photographer, working mostly with subcultures and closed communities, he later made the transition into contemporary art territories combining his documentary background with speculative methods and performance practices.
He works with themes of consumer culture, identity and collective memory. In his projects he uses various combinations of mediums, including photography, video, artist books and installation.
EDUCATION
2023-2024 Baza Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2020-2023 DocDocDoc School of Contemporary Photography, Saint Petersburg, Russia
PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS
2023 / Limbo / OCCI “MI”, Samara, Russia
2023 / Biased Reality / Victoria Gallery / Skuratov, Samara, Russia
2019 / White Album / Museum of Modern, Samara, Russia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 / They Were Irresistibly Sleepy/ Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2024 / I Would Prefer Not To / OCCI “MI”, Samara, Russia
2023 / Blazar / Young Art Fair / Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2023 / Process / The Club of Analog Photography / Third Samara Apartment Triennale, Samara, Russia
2023 / Archstoyanie / Group performance-quest “I go looking” / Victoria Gallery / Nikola Lenivets, Russia
2022 / Make It Till You Fake It / How to become a victim / Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2022 / Bricolage. Aesthetics of the marginal / Museum of Applied Art, Moscow, Russia,
2022 / At the moment / Victoria Underground, Samara, Russia
2021 / 1m2 / Group exhibition-action / Victoria Underground, Samara, Russia
2021 / Pocket Avant-Garde / Biased Reality / Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
2020 / The Logic of Gap. 50 years of photography in Samara / Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia
COLLECTIONS
Private collection of Zoya Galeyeva
Library of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
MUSIC PROJECTS
2019-2024 Atal
2019-2022 Unknown United Orchestra
2015-2022 Bamma Gamma
2012-2016 Mystic Brew