In their new project New Nature, created especially for Manege, Recycle analyses the transformation of human personality under the influence of modern technology. They focus on the interaction between man and machine, studying the possibility of telepathy between them. True to the central theme of their work, Andrey and Georgy reflect on the possibility of eternal life inside a network, and stage startling and ironic experiments on our human mind.

Kandinsky Prize winners and participants of the exhibition in the Russian Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, artists Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov continue to explore the cultural and visual codes of Homo Virtualis and his world, in which citation indexes, engagement rates, and the number of people who viewed and “liked” your material are cherished values, and where virtual reality has supplanted religion, wooing away its followers.

This is the virtual dimension of the exhibition, as well as your main portal into the futuristic world of Recycle Group. It doesn’t matter whether you are at Manege right now, are planning to see the exhibition in the future, or have already visited it. Use this web-site to fully immerse yourself in the world of Recycle Group.

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We encounter the great Nothing, an ideally empty space that contains within itself everything that can exist and that is necessary for eternal virtual life. We learn about the ideas of digital cleanliness and environmentalism. We get answers to our questions about the digital prophet, who knows everything about us. We have an even deeper experience of being bodiless, and the promises of virtual eternity become even clearer. We also uncover the system’s biggest fear – being unplugged and without any lines of communication.

This project invites us to simultaneously experience both the terrifying and attractive aspects of experiencing yourself in a cybernetic dream, where technology is not seen in the context of development and progress. It is only a means of connecting to the global mental space, which, thanks to the huge number of times it has been accessed, has become sacred. The Recycle Group’s exhibition is a futuristic contemplation of the new, enormously powerful technological systems and of the place of living things within them.

Here there is no conflict between the natural and the technological: the elements of nature are revealed by an algorithm that manifests itself while remaining invisible – as a thought, a spirit, knowledge. What occurs here is the transformation of matter: the organic world and humans are given the ability to live a full, virtual life. Here, the person, analysing the neural network of the environment, becomes aware of the new spirituality and ethics of the relationship between human and machine.
In this project we journey from one cybernised landscape to the next.

The exhibition New Nature opens up a new portal into a world permeated with code.

2) Download the Recycle Group application.
Interact with the art objects through the app and discover their secret meaning, with access to labels, descriptions, and augmented reality.

App Store
Google Play

3) Download the audio guide.
4) Scan the QR code at the exhibition with your mobile device’s camera.

* Please note that augmented reality will only be available to those who have downloaded the Recycle Group application.

PLEASE NOTE THAT IT MAY TAKE YOU ABOUT AN HOUR TO WAIT IN THE QUEUE FOR THE "PROBABILITY" OBJECT.

If you encounter any problems, please find one of our volunteers for help.

We offer you a new way to interact with the exhibition and the art space.

1) Use the project’s website.
What inspires the artists? What is encoded in their art? What is happening at Manege in conjunction with the exhibition? The project site is frequently updated with new audio-visual content.

Recycle Universe

Topic: "Followership vs. Spectatorship: Two Regimes of the Contemporary Image"
Speaker: Boris Groys is Professor of the Faculty of Art and Sciences, New York University, and Professor of Philosophy and Art History, EGS, Saas Fee, Switzerland. He is the author of the books: Art Power. MIT Press, 2008; History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism. MIT Press, Cambridge Ma. 2010; An Introduction to Antiphilosophy, Verso, 2012; Under Suspicion. A Phenomenology of Media. Columbia University Press 2012; On the New, Verso, 2014; In the Flow. Verso, 2016; Logic of the Collection, Sternberg Press, 2021.

7 OCTOBER

19:00 - 20:30

ONLINE

Art mediation and tour for senior visitors.
Art mediations for seniors are an opportunity to get acquainted with contemporary art in a comfortable and pleasant setting, and, we hope, to see for oneselfthat contemporary art addresses the same eternal questions that interested the great masters of the past.

Every week on

Tuesdays and

Thursdays

The New Nature exhibition is accompanied by a supplemental educational programme, whose main themes included post-internet art, the influence of digital technology on the work of contemporary artists, the transformation of personality and of the material environment in the era of virtual reality, the expansion of the capabilities of our brains, global changes in the environment and climate, and innovation in the spheres of science and medicine.

More than twenty scientists involved in IT technology, genomic medicine, robotics, neurobiology, psychology, physics, chemistry, and other sciences share their knowledge about the main scientific ideas of our time and about their own studies.

Members of the creative professions discuss schools in contemporary art in which the artwork is created with the help of modern technologies, materials, and new means of expressions based on scientific methods.


Stay tuned for updates!

Educational program

Past lectures

Public talk by the artists of Recycle Group devoted to the opening of their solo exhibition "New Nature"

Speakers:
Andrey Blokhin and Georgy Kuznetsov

Recycle Group. Intellectual Ecology

Speaker:
Alexandra Danilova

Manege on the topic Neurogadgets of Today and Tomorrow

Speaker:
Timofey Glinin

lecture at Manege on the possibility of being In Space in School

Speaker:
Aleksandr Khokhlov

The Imminence of Immortality by Mikhail Batin

Speakers:
Svetlana Bozrova, Victoria Chernikovich and Mikhail Batin

Sustainable development and contemporary art

Speakers:
Adel Kim, Albina Motor, Andrey Anisimov

The future – people, robots, or forces of nature: are we worried about the right things?

Speaker:
Yanina Ledovaya

"Mobilis in mobile": mobile communications of a modern nomad

Speaker:
Olga Brednikova

Art & Science: the boundaries of modeling

Speaker:
Dmitry Bulatov

Genomic medicine: new vectors of development

Speaker:
Andrey Glotov

How to write a popular science book?

Speaker:
Asya Kazantseva

Opus ex machina

Speaker:
Ivan Yamshchikov

Myths about separate waste collection

Speakers:
Ekaterina Alekseeva, Anastasia Kuvshinova, Karina Sidun

Man is machine? Metaphor struggle in the history of science

Speaker:
Vyacheslav Gerovich

Overcoming Immortality: Challenges of the Ural
Industrial Biennale

Speaker:
Alisa Prudnikova

What is happening with
the climate and what we can expect in the 21st century

Speaker:
Aleksey Yekaykin

The 21st century as a test
for human civilization

Speakers:
Tatyana Chernigovskaya

The golden age and the digital concentration camp

Speakers:
Yekaterina Shulman

From the future to the past:
homo invisibilis
to Australopithecus afarensis

Speaker:
Anatoly Zaytsev

Medicine and evolution

Speakers:
Mikhail Gelfand

We can live with that.
Square meters of the future

Speakers:
Yekaterina Maleyevа,
Karl Samuel'sson,
Lyubov' Chernysheva

Exhibition organisers
Manege Central Exhibition Hall
Recycle Group

Manege would like to express its deepest gratitude for participating in the project to:
Triumph Gallery, Suzanne Tarasieve Paris, Gazelli Art House, and Richard Taittinger Gallery, in particular Denis Himilyayne, Vera and Aleksey Priyma, Igor Sukhanov, Dmitry Khankin, Yemelyan Zakharov, Vladimir Amelin, and Natalya Korchagina.

And also thanks the Private Patrons for their sincere and active support for the cultural and educational initiatives of the exhibition hall, the intention to keep the Manege's aspiration for the future as an intermediary in the process of introducing the audience to contemporary art and the global artistic context
Mikhail Bazhenov, Vadim Korsakov, Dimtriy Ozersky, Elena Plakhty, Petr Rodionov, Vasily Tolstikov, Vladimir Khrabrikh.

Exhibition team
Recycle Group
Andrey Blokhin, Georgy Kuznetsov

Manege Central Exhibition Hall
Director: Pavel Prigara
Deputy Director for Exhibitions: Svetlana Zenina
Deputy Director for Development: Anna Yalova
Deputy Director for Safety: Yury Samoylov
Director’s Advisor on International Cooperation: Anna Kirikova

Curatorial
Olga Romanova
Angelina Ruban
Aleksandra Shcherbina
Aleksandra Larchenko
With assistance from Aleksandra Florenskaya and Yelizaveta Zakurayeva

Architectural
Recycle Group
Andrey Voronov

Graphic design
Denis Kalyadin

PR and communications
Aleksandra Kovaleva
Sofya Akimova
Maria Vasyutinskaya
Aleksandra Kolabinova
With assistance from Arina Korobeynikova and Anna Chusova

Educational programme
Vera Reichet
Irina Levashova
Alyona Ageyeva
Yaroslav Manakhov
Ksenia Zakharko

Exhibition department
Elizaveta Pavlycheva
Renata Urusova
Ksenia Bendina
Sofya Antipycheva

Technical support
Manege Central Exhibition Hall
Gennady Kuzmichyov
Vadim Syomik
Denis Kalyadin

OOO VIDEO FABRIKA
Mikhail Antykov

Administrative support
Denis Kalyadin
Zhanna Botka
Irina Levashova
Tatyana Krylova
Yelena Malafeyeva

Photography
Irina Kolpachnikova
Vitaly Getman

Video
Nikita Donchenko

Partners in Manege’s publishing programme
Yury Saulidi
Dmitry Saulidi
Valeria Demkovich
Autonomous Non-Commercial Organisation for the Development of Art and Culture “Independent Artists” (ANO “IA”)
Admiral Logistics Group

Project website development
Easy team
Aleksandr Kazadoev — web designer
Igor Kudryashov — motion designer
Nikita Levtsov — graphic designer
Katya Kardakova — project manager
Lina Gavrilova — head of design department
Misha Sidorov — creative director

Build
ANO RKII Festum PRO Arte

Logistics
OOO Fineart ESI Severo-Zapad

Exhibit installation
OOO Peredvizhnik

The New Nature team

Partners

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St. Petersburg, Russia

+7 812 611 11 00

info@manege.spb.ru

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