Vadim Fishkin

In photographs, drawings, light projections with sound and interactive installations, the Russian artist Vadim Fishkin (1965) explores the relationship between science and art. His artistic beginnings were in Moscow of the early 1980s, where he was as member of the group World Champions. Fishkin’s interest in the spiritual roots of the Russian avant-garde links him both to the Moscow art world as well as the art world in Slovenia, which engaged with the terms utopia, cosmogony, and aeronautics. Many of Vadim Fishkin’s artistic interventions simulate phenomena from the natural sciences and try to explore processes of nature that we cannot influence individually and in part are beyond our customary, everyday perception to make them measurable, representable, and finally controllable. Cosmic occurrences are linked back in the straightforward, institutionalized framework of the exhibition space and thus made a humanly graspable category.
His installation Choose Your Day, for example, placed the beholder in charge of meteorological phenomena, allowing them to control weather conditions imitated using sound, light, and video projections comfortably from the sofa. In 1997, Fishkin realized a light installation on the ceiling of Vienna’s Secession that was connected to his heart beat and reacted directly to all changes of his pulse.

Vadim Fishkin has shown his work at Biennale Ljubljana (2007), Moderna Galerija Ljubljana (2006), the Venice Biennale  (2003 und 2005), at Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (2004), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2001) and Vienna’s Secession (1997).