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Pussy Riot and Pyotr Pavlensky Join Forces For Saatchi Gallery Exhibition

Pussy Riot and Pyotr Pavlensky Join Forces For Saatchi Gallery Exhibition

by News Desk | Nov 15, 2017 | Previews

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...

Moscow Scrotum Artist Receives Suspended Sentence For Burning Ex-KGB Doors

by News Desk | Jun 9, 2016 | News

A Moscow court, yesterday released the performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky who has spent seven months in jail for burning the front entrance to the Moscow headquarters of the FSB security services, the dreaded successor to the feared Soviet-era KGB.  The court instead...

Pyotr Pavlensky Banned From Competition For Russia’s Top Art Prize

by News Desk | Feb 21, 2016 | News

The Russian performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square and sewing up his lips, in protest to government censorship, has been banned from the competition for Russia’s top art prize, the ‘Innovatsiya’ (Innovation). This has...

Artist Pyotr Pavlensky Detention Upheld After Rejecting Bail In Moscow

by News Desk | Dec 4, 2015 | News

The detention of the conceptual artist Pyotr Pavlensky, best known for nailing his scrotum to Red Square has been upheld. 31 year old Pavlensky has been charged with vandalism after he set alight  the entrance to Russia’s security service headquarters,(the...

Russia Upholds Performance Artist’s Incarceration After Burning FSB HQ Doors

by News Desk | Dec 4, 2015 | News

A Russian court has ruled against releasing the radical artist Pyotr Pavlensky from prison, while the artist awaits trial over the torching of the doors of FSB security service headquarters. Moscow City Court upheld the decision by a district court to jail Pavlensky...
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