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Danila Polyakov (born 1983) is a Russian artist and performer. He became famous as the first male supermodel from Russia to take part in the world's leading fashion shows. As a supermodel, he worked with David Bradshaw, Stephen Meisel and Sam Taylor-Johnson. Manifesting fashion in his art experience, Danila turned to the graphic genre, and later to work with textile and embroidery. In his objects and performances, which convey complex experiences of reality, the artist explores themes of self-identification, physicality, sexual and gender identity. His practice is a key tool for studying oneself and his connections with the outer world. He has been working with the ART4 Museum since 2009.

“Danila creates projects in an instant and literally out of nothing. When I saw Danila’s work made from empty sheets of paper on the wall, I realized he could transform any space. And, while until 2018 there were mainly small drawings, from that moment on he could own any size. Every artist works in his own size, and Danila owns whichever size your mind dares think of. He, actually, had worked with fabric all the time, since his very first public exhibition “Beware Your Desire”, when he made some nasty clothes for the exhibition opening. He combines his ownership of space with the sewing skills he mastered back in the days of his modeling career to create objects of art”. Igor Markin

Artist

Polyakov Danila

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Selected Works

Past Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions

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2024 Madonna in Paradise

ART4 Gallery, London

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2023 Babets

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2022 Sport

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2020 Dermis

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2019 Patchwork-David-SpongeBob

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2018 Light, fragile, tender

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2016-2017 Background

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2015 Teatro

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2013 Natura. 8

th International Photobiennale "Fashion and Style in Photography". RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

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2009 The Naughty Noughties

Riflemaker, London

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2009 Beware of your desire

ART4 Museum, Moscow

Selected group shows

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2018 Circus! The circus! The circus!

ART4 Museum, Moscow, Russia

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2017 performance by Narine Arakelyan “Wedding in Venice"

Parallel program of the 57th Venice Biennale. Venice, Italy

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2017 HAHAHAMOSCOW

ART4 Museum, Moscow

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2014 VOLLIPSIS

JM art management agency, Los Angeles

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2013 Andrei Bartenev’s opera ballet “Three Sisters”.

Open Stage Project, Moscow

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2010 New Old New

Triumph Gallery, Moscow

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2010 Kamasutra spoon

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

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2009 New Old New

Paris, France

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