EliKuka is Oleg Eliseev (b. 1985), Evgeniy Kukoverov (b. 1984).
The group was founded in September 2007 in Moscow.
The name EliKuka consists of two pieces taken from artists’ surnames and in Russian it sounds as they ‘were eating Cook’ — the famous captain James Cook.
The artists manoeuvre between great contemporary art tradition of extremely commercialization ra and relatively uncommercial countercultural and subcultural languages of youthclubbing and street origin. The thing that seems important for the artists of Elikuka is the perception of outward things by Russian teenager of 1990s era, where socio-political, economic and cultural changes collide with personality formation processes.
Teenage despair conceptualization force punky tricks in EliKuka’s works to gain delicate sensitive cover.
2013
Propaganda of Photography, installation, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center
Mooving Ropes, installation, Festival White Nights, PERMM Museum
2012
Revolt of World Order Training Simulators. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
Training Simulator of World Order. Regina Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2011
XYEBO-ZAEBIS, paintings, objects, Regina Berloga Gallery, Moscow, 28 June — 22 July
Human friendship, installation, Cheburechnaya ‘Druzhba’, Moscow, 8 June — 25 June
Monument Humiliators, object, paintings, graphics, Komnata gallery, Moscow, 16 May — 3 June
Team-work with Valeriy Chtak 1th February opening, paintings, objects, Regina Berloga Gallery, Moscow, 1 February — 12 March
2009
Bacteria mon amour!, graphics, video, objects, Galerie Stanislas Bourgain, Paris, France, 10 December 2009 — 30 January 2010
2008
Fat Exhibition (‘Fish in Oil’ object series, ‘Fat Stones’ installation, ‘Moustaches’ object series), Ravenscourt gallery, Moscow, 16 — 31 October
Boring Exhibition, video installation, Reflex gallery, Moscow, 27 September
Dots, paintings, SuzyWongBar, Moscow, 28 April
2007
Rotten Mushroom Crew, paintings, objects / performance, ABC gallery, Moscow, 27 January — 27 February (as the members of I.H.N.A.B.T.B. and Nalivka-Zapekanka)
2006
Pussy Cats, paintings, S.Art gallery, Moscow, 1-14 April (as Nalivka-Zapekanka)
Tight Concert, multifigured sound installation, ABC gallery, Moscow, 28 January (as I.H.N.A.B.T.B.)
Group exhibitions (selected):
2013
The Team I Can’t Live Without, REGINA Gallery, Moscow, 8 November — 6 December
2012
Silence is Death, ARTPLAY, Moscow,19 June — 1 July
Happiness is a warm gun, Rizzordi Loft, Saint Petersburg, 26 April — 7 June
VGLAZ, Pecherskiy Gallery, Moscow,12 April — 18 April
2011
9 DAYS, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, 24 September — 2 October
Races, Arthouse Squat Forum, Moscow, 24 September — 22 October
NUTS, REGINA LONDON, London, 9 September — 6 October
Russian Cosmism, Art Ru. Agency, Moscow, 11 June — 10 July
Russian Landscape, Guelman gallery, Moscow, 18 January — 6 February
2010
XIV International Artistic Fair Art Moscow 2009, Central House of Artist, Moscow, 22-26 September
VGLAZ, Gallery on Lenivka, Moscow 15 July — 29 July
Crash Test, XL gallery, Winzavod, Moscow, 7 July — 30 August
Moscou dans la valise, Les Salaisons, Romainville, France, 4 May — 29 May
Kommissiya, M’ARS, Moscow, 30 April — 16 May
Bespredel, Zhir gallery, Winzavod, Moscow, 19 April — 7 May
Origin of Darwin, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, 9 March — 18 April
2009
Relative connections, Etazhi loft-project, St. Petersburg, 19 December 2009 — 7 February 2010
Alterexhibit, PROJECT_FABRIKA, Moscow, 8 October
Dormitory district (street installation, III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts special project), Krasnodonskaya st., Moscow, 28 September — 1 November
XIII International Artistic Fair Art Moscow 2009, Central House of Artist, Moscow, 23-27 September
Banality and infinity, Triumph gallery, Moscow, 4-15 September
Aida Safari 2 performance, TSUM, Moscow, 21 August (Zianida)
Space of silence, Red Banner Factory, St. Petersburg, 29 June −15 July
Russian Lettrism in the context of 4th Moscow International Open Book Festival, Central House of Artist, Moscow, 11-28 June
2008
LAUGHTERLIFE, DIEHL + GALLERY ONE, Moscow, 6- 27 November
Cactus like cucumber performance, galerie Iragui, Moscow, 9 November (Zianida)
VII Street Festival of Videoarts PUSTO, Moscow, 30 August
Supernova Corporeality: Depressurization, cultural centre Art_Strelka (in the context of «Qui Vive?» I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art), Moscow, 4 July
LAUGHTERLIFE, Paradise Row Gallery, London, 19 June — 27 July
XII International Artistic Fair Art Moscow 2008, Central House of Artist, Moscow, 14-18 May
FastArt24, Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, 16-17 February
2007
Aida Safari performance within exhibition ‘I Believe’ (in the context of II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts), Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow, 2 March (Zianida)
Allies, Embassy of European Union in Moscow (the arrangement dedicated to the opening of II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts), 1 March (as N-Z)
Workshops of Art Moscow 2007 in the context of II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts, Central House of Artist, Moscow, 1 March (as N-Z)
Artist’s Diary (the project of Marat Guelman’s Gallery in the context of II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Arts), Central House of Artist, Moscow, 16 February — 10 March (as N-Z)
2006
IV International Festival of Young Art ‘Stoy! Kto idet?’, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, 6 September — 1 October (as N-Z)
Film Marathon, Marat Guelman’s Gallery, Moscow, 3 August — 15 September (as N-Z)
Vagrant, Art Moscow X International Artistic Fair, the special project, Central House of Artist, Moscow, 17-21 May (as N-Z)
2005
Madam Korobochka, cultural center Dom, Moscow, 27 May — 10 June
