PROVMYZA
1968
Galina Myznikova was born in Gorky, Russia
1970
Sergey Provorov was born in Gorky, Russia
2000
Foundation of Group PROVMYZA
Members live in Nizhny Novgorod
Exhibitions and Screening
2000
FC?M, Montreal, Canada
Transmediale, Berlin, Germany
2002
Debates&Credits, De Balie-Centre for Politics and Culture, Amsterdam
Russia art now, gallery MAK, Vienna, Austria
2003
2nd KunstFilmBiennale, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2004
New Russian Video, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Medi@terra, Byzantine and Christian Museum, Athens
2005
51st Venice Biennial, Russian pavilion, Venice, Italy
Phatspace's International Ate Exhibition, Sydney, Australia
Humane Project, 1st Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Opere nuove. No words, European Academy, Bolzano, Italy
2006
Istanbul Museum for Modern Art, Istanbul, Turkey;
Milano International Film Festival, Milan, Italy
Viper, Kunsthalle Basel and Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel , Basel, Switzerland
KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Innovacia, NCCA Moscow
VideoFormes, International festival for art video and new media,
Clermont-Ferrand, France
Stuttgarter Filmwinter , Stuttgart, Germany
2007
12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
WRO International Media Art Biennale, Wroclaw, Poland
EMAF, European Media Art Festival, Osnabrück, Germany
History of Russian video art, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
2008
A(rt)R(ussia)T(oday)-index, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga, Latvia
2009
Hors Pistes, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Novas Vanguardas Russas, Palacio das Artas, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
Awards and Nominations
2003
Best Experimental Film, Chilean International Short Film Festival, Santiago, Chile
2006
Prix Neuroestetica for Best Video Art, Imaginaria International Film Festival, Conversano, Italy
Gran Premio for the Best Competing Film, Assolo International Art Film Festival, Assolo (Trevisto), Italy
Special Prize of Student Jury, Brno Sixteen, 47th International competitive festival of short fiction films /Brno, Czech Republic
Nominee for, Innovacia, Moscow
2007
Nominee of Kandinsky Award, Moscow
Best Video Art, Imaginaria, International Film Festival, Conversano, Italy
Prize of Croatian Film Critics, 25 FPS, International Short Experimental Film and Video Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2008
Second Prize, Moscow International Film Festival, Media Forum, Moscow
Prize of Jury, Alternative Film/Video, International Film and Video Festival, Belgrade, Serbia
2009
Tiger Award for Short Film, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Rotterdam
Public Collections
Basis Wien, Vienna
CaixaForum, Fundaci?n la Caixa, Barcelona
Wand 5, Stuttgart
VideArtFoundation, Madrid
MediaArtLab, Moscow
PROVMYZA, Despair
PROVMYZA, Despair