Egor Kraft

born in 1986 in St. Petersburg, Russia, lives and works in St. Petersburg, Moscow and Vienna

His artistic research is based on European & American conceptual art, minimalistic art, Russian avant-garde. He is also interested in contemporary video art and media activism as expressive practices, and in French philosophy, media theory as a theoretical basis (of his art). He is also interested in pop-culture, its semiotic analysis and deconstruction as an artistic strategy. He cares for the visual language and aesthetics in the epoch of a total оverproduction of images. He believes that his goal is to search and work out a new aesthetics and new visual language, drawing, in particular from the process of deconstruction and reconsideration of settled forms. And finally the most important issue for him remains the existential questions and the philosophical discourse on the order & chaos. He has exhibited in Gerlesborg / Sweden, St. Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev, Amsterdam, Sydney.

What do contemporary people need art for?
I consider art as one of the forms of communication. Human beings need to communicative by nature. Then why not explore the communication itself as deep as we can.

Why do YOU create art?
Simply because I have a huge impulse and desire to communicate.