CV
Pavel Checkulaev
I was born in 1983. In 1996 I got my first PC. Since then, I have been closely watching the evolution of the digital world. My education, work and leisure are tied to internet technologies and MMO projects. I am interested in post digital, post internet and speculative design. And my main focus is on the digital world in video games. Being directly involved, following other users and players allows me to explore this theme and analyze the influence that digital space has. I think video games are the last freedom. In the digital world of gaming, we can be anyone, including ourselves.
Moscow, Russiawebsite: checkulaev.com
email: p.checkulaev@gmail.com
telegram: t.me/checkulaev
facebook: facebook.com/pavel.checkulaev
instagram: @pavel_checkulaev
Education
2020 — 2021 School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops (MMOMA)
2019 — 2021 ICA Moscow
2017 — 2018 New Photo School Elena Sukhoveeva and Victor Hmel
2000 — 2005 Russian University of Transport (MIIT), software engineer
Solo exhibition
2024, “Serialize()”, Art cluster “Akulovo”, Moscow, Russia
Group exhibitions
2025, “Play Digital Art 25”, Sinara Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2025, “Babushka”, Artishok Center, Moscow, Russia
2024, “Co-Creation”, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
2024, “Kaugummi im Motherboard II”, Erratum, Berlin, Germany
2024, “TEMPERATYRA 5°”, Fabrika CCI, Moscow, Russia
2023, “CCC”, Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2023, “Biohacking. Man-machine.”, Kholmy gallery, Moscow, Russia
2023, 20th 404 International Festival of Art & Technology “Hominis Circus”, National Center for the Arts (CENART) and the Digital Culture Center (CCD), Mexico City, Mexico
2023, “Babie Leto” (“Indian Summer”), Art cluster “Akulovo”, Moscow, Russia
2023, “Dream Space” by Nata Drachinskaya, Chimera Platform, online
2023, “Autopoiesis”, ikiti.lab, online
2023, “Tochki Opory” (“Support Points”), Artishok Center, Moscow, Russia
2022, Regional program of the Biennial “Art for the future” Favorites, Gallery Victoria (Samara), Norilsk Museum
2022, “Baseless Love x Thewall.global”, Cube.Moscow, Russia
2022, “Programmable Art”, Kholmy gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022, “Myth”, Izmaylovo Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022, “(Bes)(na)(u)silie”, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022, “Expired film”, Zverevsky Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2022, iDMAa 2022 “Weird Media”, Winona State University, Winona, Minnesota, USA
2022, “TEMPERAT_YRA!”, Bomba gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021, The first International Biennale “Art for the future”, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2021, “Moscow without suburbs. Kapotnya”, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2021, “Can't see the edges or where dragons live”, Gallery “na Peschanoy”, Moscow, Russia
2021, “Adaptation”, Workshop 2021, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
2021, “Multiplicity”, Winzavod.Open, Moscow, Russia
2021, “Time of Things”, Winzavod.Open, Moscow, Russia
2021, Days of Contemporary Art (IX DOCA_2021), Moscow, Russia
2021, “(In)visible cities”, Nagornaya gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020, 17th 404 Festival, MediaDemic, online
2020, “Regard(less) base(less)”, Cube.Moscow, Russia (“The support group” art platform of VII Moscow International Biennale for Young Art)
2020, “Base(less)”, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2020, Electromuseum Open, Moscow, Russia
2019, PhotoVisa “InBetween”, Krasnodar, Russia
Awards
2019, PhotoVisa “InBetween”, Nomination Photoseries, 1st place