Dimitri Venkov is a filmmaker. He gained initial recognition with his debut film, "Mad Mimes," in 2012. His subsequent work, "Krisis," was selected for the Oberhausen Film Festival and featured in Documenta 14. In 2018, Dimitri's film, "The Hymns of Muscovy," received accolades at international film festivals, was broadcast on TV and streaming platforms, and found its place in prominent institutional and private art collections.
Dimitri has participated in biennials in Moscow, Bergen, Goteborg, Wroclaw, Documenta in Athents, and others. His works have been showcased at esteemed galleries such as Whitechapel and Hayward, and he has held personal exhibitions at MHKA, Nassauischer Kunstverein, CCA Winzavod, and Manezh Moscow. Dimitri’s work has been reviewed in Flash Art, Artforum, Senses of Cinema, Kinoart, Séance, and other specialized film and art magazines.
Selected group shows and film festivals
2026
Iliggocene – The Age of Dizziness, KINDL, Berlin
Videoart at Midnight, Babylon Cinema, Berlin
2024
Critical Shifts, Barın Han, Istanbul
Şişli Girls, Avrora Studio, Istanbul
2023
Artmosphera biennale of street art, Winzavod art center, Moscow
Based On Real Events, Winzavod art center, Moscow
Show On The Go, Avrora Studio, Istanbul
2022
Exit Through the Red Door, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2020
Monoculture, M KHA, Antwerp
2019
FICMA, Mexico City - Best Experimental Short Film. New Digital Narratives
Kandinsky Prize, MMOMA, Moscow - Shortlist
FILE Electronic Language International Festival, Sao Paolo, Brazil - Highlight
Asolo Art Film Festival, Italy - Best Art Film
WRO Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
Dresden Film Festival, Germany
cellu l'art Film Festival, Jena, Germany
Revolutions Per Minute Festival, Boston, USA
London Short Film Festival, UK
Expanding Bauhaus #01: Creating Worlds, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
2018
Leuven Kortfilm Festival, Belgium
Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Sweden
Message To Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg - Special jury mention
Vancouver International Film Festival, Canada
Open City Documentary Festival, London, United Kingdom
Kansk International Video Festival, Russia - Grand Prix
Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia - Anna Schwartz Gallery Award for Best Experimental Short Film
Monumental, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Beat film festival, Moscow, Russia - Special jury mention
Arquiteturas film festival, Lisbon, Portugal - Best fiction film
Other Shores, Manezh, St.Petersburg, Russia
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival - International Critics' FIPRESCI prize, e-flux prize
2017
GIBCA, Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art
Rencontres Internationales, Berlin
Documenta 14, Keimena, ERT2 Greece
10th Anniversary Screening Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Kino der Kunst, Munich
First Russian Triennale of Contemporary Art, Garage museum, Moscow
2016
Artists’ Film International, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Kasseler Dokumentarfest, Kassel
VII Permanent Collection Display Interaction: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection, MMOMA, Moscow
Zerkalo Tarkovsky Film Festival, Ivanovo
Oberhausen International Short Film Festival
Trans-people. State of insecurity, Yermilov Center, Kharkiv, Ukraine
2015
Metageography, Tretyakov Gallery Moscow
Rodchenko School. Generation Next, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow
Forum Alanica, Vladikavkaz
Cannibal Manifesto: Mimesis as Resistance, Karst Foundation, Plymouth
Close and Far, Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre
2014
Great Expectations, Manezh, Moscow
Burning News, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London
Moscow. Barocco. 2014, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Close and Far, Calvert 22 Gallery, London
Goeast Film Festival, Open Frame Award, Wiesbaden, Germany
Video#Russia!, PERMM, Perm, Russia
2013
Vth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art «More Light», Moscow
Bergen Assembly «Monday begins on Saturday», Bergen, Norway
«Reality is not Enough», Media Forum of Moscow International Film Festival
'Constructed Sceneries' - the film program of 'Scenographies' exhibition, SMBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Voice and the Chorus,Russian video art in Museum De Hallen. Haarlem, The Netherlands
Kino der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Now and After, International festival of video art, Moscow - Third prize
Start Making Sense!, H.E.A.D. Geneva, Switzerland
2012
Kandinsky prize exhibition, Moscow - Young artist of the year
31st Jean Rouch Film Festival, Paris
XI International Kansk Video Festival, Kansk
Days of Ethnographic Cinema, Moscow
The workshop vs. The Film Process, NCCA Moscow
No Exception, Moscow Art and Multimedia Museum
34th International Moscow Film Festival
Scinema Festival of Science Film, Australia
II and III Moscow Biennales of Young Art
2011
Upward! Community shows Field of Silence and Nemi, Moscow
Auditorium Moscow
History of Russian Video Art, Vol.3
2010
Sense and sensibility, Moscow Photography Biennale
Solo shows
2025
Are we done yet?, Motto books, Paris
2021
The Hymns of Muscovy, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
2019
Gravity Control, M HKA, Antwerp
2017
October Overturn, Winzavod Art Centre, Moscow
2014
Time Shall Be No More, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow
2013
Getting There Together, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
Exhibitions curated
2024
Şişli Girls, Avrora Studio, Istanbul
2023
Show On The Go, Avrora Studio, Istanbul
2018
Albert Soldatov "Breaking distance", Peresvetov pereulok gallery, Moscow
2014
Albert Soldatov «Festival», Central Exhibition Hall “Manege”, Moscow
Teaching, lecturing, conferences
2023 - present
Universal University, Moscow, video art and experimental film professor
2015 - 2021
Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, video art professor
2017
What's Left? A Century in Revolution, Newcastle Upon Tyne
PARSE Exclusion conference, Valand Academy University of Gothenburg
2014 – 2015
Moscow University of Design and Technology, film professor
Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, video and media art professor
National Center for Contemporary Art, lecturer, Moscow
Svobodnye Masterskie, lecturer, Moscow
2013
Yale University School of Art, lectures, seminars, studio visits, New Haven, USA
2012
Yearly Field Conference, Moscow State University Ethnography Department, Moscow, Russia
Education
Moscow Rodchenko School of Photography and Multimedia, New Media, 2009-2012
University of Oregon, Russian and East European Studies Center, MA in Film Studies, Thesis title «From spontaneous to official carnival : the role of humor in the Soviet film 1924-1941”, 2004-2006
International University, Moscow, BA in linguistics, 1998-2003
Awards
Moscow Art Prize - First prize in cinema category
Best Experimental Short Film - New Digital Narratives, FICMA, Mexico City, 2019
Kandinsky Prize shortlist, 2019
Best Art Film, Asolo Art Film Festival, Asolo, Italy, 2019
Anna Schwartz Gallery Award for Best Experimental Short Film, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2018
Grand Prix, Kansk International Video Festival, Kansk, Russia, 2018
Best Fiction Film, International Arquiteturas Film Festival, Lisbon, 2018
Special Jury Mention, Message to Man Film Festival, St. Petersburg, Russia, 2018
Special Jury Mention, Beat Film Festival, Moscow, 2018
FIPRESCI prize, 64th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, 2018
E-flux prize, 64th Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, 2018
Now & After, International Video Art Festival, third prize, 2013
Kandinsky Prize Young Artist of the Year, 2012
Fellowships and residencies
Graduate Teaching Fellow, Russian and East European Studies Center, University of Oregon, 2004-2006
University of Arizona Biosphere 2, residency, May 2013
National Center for Contemporary Arts Nizhny Novgorod, residency, 2012
«What if…» artist residency, Divnogor'e, Voronezh region, Russia, 2014
Oleg Vasiliev stipend, 2013
Forum Alanica, residency, Vladizavkaz, 2015
Works in the collections of
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
Sofya and Roman Trotsenko collection, Moscow
Gazprombank Collection, Moscow
M HKA Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp
Ruarts Foundation, Moscow
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