Reading Pyotr Pavlensky’s Subject–Object Art Theory, you realise he isn’t interested in pandering to the reader, nor the State, nor even himself. The book seems less like a manifesto and more like a controlled detonation, the kind that rattles cupboards two streets...
Update: The Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky has been sentenced to six months in a French prison for his role in exposing a sex scandal involving Benjamin Griveaux, a former Paris mayoral candidate supported by President Macron. A new documentary film...
Art Riot: Post-Soviet Actionism, is a new exhibition dedicated to Post-Soviet Union protest art over the past 25 years. This is a world premiere for protest artists Pussy Riot and Pyotr Pavlensky. Alongside this exhibition, award-winning theatre group Les Enfant...
Update Thursday 19 October: Pyotr Pavlensky and his partner Oksana Shalygina have been detained, and placed in pre-trial detention, in Paris, following Monday’s Performance Art/arson attack on a branch of the Bank of France. Pavlensky had been initially admitted to a...