Anton Khlabov
Born in 1986 in Saint-Petersburg (Russia).
Graduated from Institute Pro Arte in “New Technologies in Modern Art” program (2008).
Photographer and multimedia artist.
Now live and work in Yerevan (Armenia).
Video art works was presented at
Avanto Festival/Kiasma Theater (Helsinki, Finland), Örebro International Videoart Festival (Örebro,
Sweden), Video Guerrilha festival (São Paulo, Brazil), Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
(Moscow, Russia), festival “Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, “Qui Vive?” Moscow
International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow, Russia), Extra Short Film festival (Moscow, Russia),
Festival “Videoforma” (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Festival “OutVideo” (Yekaterinburg, Russia), No
Festival of Video art and Animation (Ufa, Russia), The One Minutes online video festival.
Works in collections:
• The State Museum of the Political History of Russia (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
• Haegeumgang Theme Museum, Yukyung Art Museum in Geoje (Republic of Korea)
• CYLAND Online Video Archive (USA-Lithuania-Armenia)
Competitions, awards, publications:
• 9TH EDITION OF THE MONOVISIONS PHOTOGRATHY AWARDS, Honorable Mention in
Architecture Category, July 2025
• Fragments Mag(magazine), publication, May 2025
• Creating the Worlds, Long list of international competition, Architecture Photography
Category, May 2025
• URBANVOID Vol. 02, Best Photographer (award and publication), March 2025
• Festival “OutVideo”, 1st Place Award in Short Film Animation, 2012
Selected personal exhibitions:
2007 – “Political Views”, photography, “NAVICULA ARTIS” gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2008 – “36/24/12”, photography, installation, Metrological museum, (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2009 – “Electricity”, photography, “Belka&Strelka” gallery (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2010 – “Memory”, photography, video, Freud`s Dreams Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2019 – “Proportional values”, video installation, Arctic and Antarctic Museum (Saint-Petersburg,
Russia)
Selected group projects
2007 – Festival “CONTEMPORARY ART IN TRADITIONAL MUSEUM”-2007, project “Accidental
policy”, installation “Political gum” (The State Museum of the Political History of Russia, Saint
Petersburg, Russia)
2007 – Twelve exhibition of the Little Things Series: “COSMIC”, video-installation “Zero-gravity
Aquarium” (PRO ARTE Institute Exhibition Hall, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2008 – Exhibition “Memory of Fields”, installation “The scale of what is happening” (loft-project
“Etaji”, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2008 – “Qui Vive?” I Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, participation in projects “Product
Placement”, “Residual Radiation”, “Accidental policy”, “Migration” (Moscow, Russia)
2009 – Exhibition “Russian Beauty”, installation “Prospect Bolshevikov” (National Center of
Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia)
2010 – “Qui Vive?” II Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, participation in project
“Glob(E)Scape” (Moscow, Russia)
2011 – Exhibition “Private”, video installation “Private Ears” (“ART re.FLEX” Gallery, Saint
Petersburg, Russia)
2012 – Exhibition “3×2 Project”, video installation “Resonance” (KultProekt Gallery, Moscow,
Russia)
2013 – Exhibition “Navicula Artis 1992–2012. Found in St. Petersburg”, photography from series
“Isolated Observations” (KultProekt Gallery, Moscow)
2014 – Exhibition “Other Capital. Contemporary Art St. Petersburg today”, video installation
“Ciliated Epithelium” (Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia)
2015 – Exhibition “Birds and Digits”, video “Proportional Values” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
Moscow, Russia; Erarta Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia)
2016 – Exhibition “Just don’t tell anyone” (Creative space 0+, St. Petersburg, Russia)
2017 – Exhibition “Prospect Nepokoryonnykh” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia)
2019 – Exhibition “Abstraction in Avant-Garde!” (St. Petersburg’s Kuryokhin Centre for
contemporary art, St. Petersburg, Russia)
2020 – Digital arts festival “Videoformes”, video “Full shift working” (La Diode, Clermont-Ferrand,
France)
2022 – Exhibition “Home”, site specific photo installation “Line of life” (TUF club, Yerevan, Armenia)
2023 – 2nd International GYUMRI ART WEEK festival, video art work “Statistical population”(Gyumri
Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia)
2023 – 9th Geoje International Art Festival, “Curvilinear coordinates”(photography) (Haegeumgang
Theme Museum, Yukyung Art Museum in Geoje, Republic of Korea)
2024 – 3rd International GYUMRI ART WEEK festival, video art work “Imaginary Center of
Circle”(Gyumri Technology Center, Gyumri, Armenia), photo series “Imaginary Center of
Circle”(Cinema House, Yerevan, Armenia)
2024 – Exhibition “Pariahs: Performing Europe’s Historical Memory”, photo-based textile print
series “Fabric of memory” (Charents House-Museum, Yerevan, Armenia)
2025 – Exhibition “3”, photo series “Dance with Hiding Sun” (Dalan Art Gallery, Yerevan, Armenia)
2025 – Video screening “Sleepless Video Art Night 2025: Where Deeds Echo”, video art work
“Imaginary Center of Circle” (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Venice, Italy)