ANDREY USTINOV
1975, Luga, Russia. Lives and works in St. Petersburg

We need harmony! Harmony between publicity images and everyday life! Both should become one reality! The common paradise and ecstasy!
The world of possibilities! Remember our ancestors Adam and Eva and the way they solved the conflict in the declared Paradise of the Very Origin. They were engaged in a similar situation. The one who supposedly created Paradise declared the World full of Possibilities but remained denied the Freedom of the Possibilities. But the world — the water, the earth, the air, all the natural riches — belongs to us by the same right as our bodies, our minds, and our lives. We were all created together and as a matter of fact we are all the single organism. Why did somebody permit himself to expropriate all the world, to pile up the forest of the rights and duties, and to sell us the world for money? The expropriators must be expropriated backwards.
— Andrey Ustinov


Selected solo exhibitions and performances: 2002: National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow; September, Festival of Street Performance, Moscow; 2001: Films Festival, Novosibirsk, Russia.
Selected group exhibitions and performances: 2002: Davaj! New Russia, Art, Postfuramt, Berlin/Vienna; Pop/Art, Zverev Contemporary Art Center, Moscow; McDonald’s Restaurant, St. Petersburg; 2001: Media Art and Mass Media, Art Media Forum, Culture Center Pushkinskaya-10, St. Petersburg; The Golden Key Shop, St-Petersburg; Art-Polygon, Culture Center Pushkinskaya-10, St; Petersburg.




The Banishment from the Paradise, 2003 Comics, video installation.

The Banishment from the Paradise, 2003 Comics, video installation.