Künstler der art activities Kunstagentur

Juri Gik ist einer der wichtigsten Künstler und Kuratoren der Mailart in Russland. 
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Gik Juri – active Moscow artist, specializing in mail art, visual poetry, performance art and artists books. Organizer of more than 20 exhibitions related mainly to mail art in Russia: Moscow, St.Petersburg. Collaborative exhibitions with Peter Netmail (Germany), John Held Jr. (USA), Giovanni & Renata Stradada (Italy), Ruud Janssen (Netherlands), Henning Mittendorf (Germany), Michael Lumb (UK). Participant and special guest of international mail art and performance festivals in Serbia and Germany.

Participation in and organization of mail art related projects and events (main, more than 300 total):

1.     «Kant Perfo Ratio», September 1994, Kaliningrad, RUSSIA (technical support)

2.     «100 years anniversary of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy», 1995, Kecskemet, HUNGARY

3.     «Word theatre. Hommage to Velimir Chlebnikov», October 1995, Kaliningrad, RUSSIA

4.     «1a Bienal Internacional de Arte Postal», 16 October-17 November 1995, Santos, BRASIL

5.     «Mail artists tarot», 1996, DENMARK

6.     «Mail art prehistory», June 1996, Forli, ITALY

7.     «Johannes Kepler», 1-15 September 1996, WEIL d.Stadt, GERMANY

8.     «Art's myths», 14-25 April 1997, Pisa, ITALY

9.     «Electrographic art», 23-30 May 1997, Pisa, ITALY

10.  «Mail ElbArt», June 1997, Hamburg, GERMANY

11.  «Thread=Networking», August 1997, Osaka, JAPAN

12.  «Let's go shopping», 11 August-19 September 1997, Kassel, GERMANY

13.  «MAIL ART 3», 30 august-18 September 1997, ITALY

14.  «Mail art show in Moscow'97», 5 September-26 October 1997, Moscow, RUSSIA (organizer)

15.  2^nd Bienal Internacional de Arte Postal do Colegio Universitas, 13 October-10 November 1997, Santos, Brasil

16.  «Monument square», November 1997, Budapest, HUNGARY

17.  «Middle-East-European Postcard 3», 6-30 November 1997, Kaposvar, Hungary

18.  «110th birthday of Marcel Duchamp (box(ed)-art-works)», December 1997, Hungary

19.  «I used to think that...», December 1997, Atlanta, USA

20.  «TOTEM», 3-28 February 1998, USA

21.  «The year of installation at Artpool», 17-31 March 1998, Budapest, Hungary

22.  «The notebook project», March 1998, Brussels, Belgium

23.  «GROWING OLD», March 1998, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

24.  «2-eme exposition internationale art postal. Pezenas», April 1998, Pezenas, France.

25.  «ONEHUNDRED PLAQUES IN EUROPE AT EASTER 1998 SPRING FULLMOON», spring 1998, Blankenhain, Germany

26.  «PORT», June 1998, Hamburg, Germany

27.  «CHIAPAS: La Primer Revolucion Social del III Milenio», July 1998, Mexico, Mexico

28.  «Mail Art show 1^st Congress International Writers and Artists Association», 15-18 August 1998, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

29.  «Mail Art 4. Libri d’Artista e poesia visiva», 29 August - 16 September 1998, Castel S.Pietro Terme(BO), Italy

30.  «INCONGROUS MEETINGS 98. First International cyclistes divers», 3-4 October 1998, S.Felice s/P., Modena, Italy

31.  «Mail art exhibition in Art Manege», 4-10 December 1998, Moscow, Russia – organizer and participant

32.  «First Mail Art exhibition in Ural», 27 February-14 April 1999, Lesnoj, Russia(participant and main consultant)

33.  «Global peace», June 1999, FRANKFURT/MAIN, Germany

34.  «РУСКА НЕОАВАНГАРДА», 22 July - 22 August 1999, Belgrad, Yugoslaviya

35.  «Sugar-International mail art exhibition», 10-31 October 1999, Laatzen, Germany

36.  “III Bienal Internacional de Arte Postal do Colegio Universitas”, 18 October – 12 November 1999, Santos, Brasil

37.  «MAIL ART 6. 2000: World-wide year of the mathematics», 26 August – 5 November 2000, Castel S.Pietro Terme (Bo), Italy

38.  “Middle-East European postcard exhibition”,8-30 December, Kaposvar, Hungary

39.  “EXIT” (in memory of Roberto Vitali), 13-27 January 2001, Bologna, Italy

40.  “MAIL ART ORANGE”, 28 January-23 February 2001, El Puig, Spain

41.  “Lemon”, 8-27 February 2001, Menton, France

42.  “Peace Island”, October 2001, Jeju, South Korea

43.  “DNC with Peter Netmail (Germany)”, November 2001, Moscow, Russia

44.  “Motherland-Fatherland”, June 2002, the Small Manege, Moscow, Russia - participant

45.  “Art from the Postal box” based on the archive from Gik Juri, July 2002, the Chekhov letters museum, Chekhov, Moscow area, Russia – organizer

46.  “One-man show by Peter Netmail (Germany)”, October 2002 – November 2002, the Chekhov letters museum, Chekhov, Moscow area, Russia – organizer

47.  “One-man show by John Held Jr (USA)”, April 2003 – May 2003, the Chekhov letters museum, Chekhov, Moscow area, Russia – organizer

48.  “Lecture on mail art by John Held Jr (USA)”, April 2003, the National Center of contemporary art - organizer

49.  “Lecture on mail art by John Held Jr (USA)”, April 2003, the Russian state university of humanities - organizer

50.  “Back to the Russian Futurists”, April-May 2003, the Mayakovski museum, Moscow, Russia – co-organizer

51.  “Lecture about artist’s books by Michael Lumb (UK)”, the Russian Language Institute, Moscow, Russia - organizer

52.  “Lecture and workshop by Henning Mittendorf (Germany)”, April 2004, the Central museum of communication, St.Petersburg, Russia – organizer

53.  “Alternative philately by Gik Juri”, June 2004 – July 2004, the museum of Decorative Art, Moscow, Russia – one-man show

54.  “Decentralised Networker Congress”, June 2004, Belgrade, Serbia – participant

55.  “Artist’s stamps and stamp images”, October 2004, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia – organizer

56.  “Mailartissimo I”, December 2004, the Central museum of communication, St.Petersburg, Russia – co-organizer (plus 3 articles on mail art in the catalogue)

57.  “Heroes of Mail Art”, Zverevski center, Moscow, Russia – organizer

58.  “Visual poetry”, September 2006, Chekhov Library, Moscow, Russia - organizer

59.  “Radicals and marginals. Visual poetry”, November 2005, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia – organizer (catalogue published in Chernovik magazine, 2006)

60.  “O Sole Mio. Performance by Giovanni and Renata Stradada (Italy)”, November 2005, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia – organizer

61.  “Post-portrait”, October 2006, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia – one-man show

62.  “DNC with Ryosuke Cohen (Japan)”, December 2007

63.  “Interpostcard 2008. Collage and mixed media in mail art”, January 2008, the Central house of artists, Moscow, Russia - organizer

64.  “Accumulation. Artist’s books”, April 2008, the Gallery of the XXI century, Moscow, Russia, co-organizer

65.  “EAT-ART-performance”, April 2008, the Gallery of the XXI century, Moscow, Russia, together with Peter Netmail (Germany)

66.  “Post-concept”, October 2008, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia – organizer, participant

67.  “Festival of performance and mail art”, August 2009, Minden, Germany – participant (special guest, performance)

68.  “Mail art”, Kuryokhin center of contemporary art during “Ventilator” festival, December 2009, Saint-Petersburg, Russia – organizer

69.  “Festival of performance and mail art”, November 2011, Minden, Germany – participant (special guest, exhibition «DADAHOMEYA»)

Lectures on mail art

1.     “Visual poetry. Theory and practice”, October 2001, the Institute of Russian language of the Russian Science Academy  (published in the “Chernovik” magazine in 2002)

2.     “Mail art”, December 2003, the Central museum of communication, St.Petersburg, Russia

3.      “The heritage of DADA in the contemporary visual poetry”, April 2003, the Institute of Russian language of the Russian Science Academy during philological conference (published in according book)

4.     “Semiotics of mail art”, December 2004, Academy of Slavic Art

5.     “Ideology and thematic of mail art”, April 2005, the Institute of Russian language of the Russian Science Academy during philological conference (published in according book)

6.     Comment to the art-initiative “Boards of Fate - artistamps”, August 2006, the Library of Foreign literature during philological conference (published in “Deti Ra” magazine)

7.     “Visual poetry in Russia”, September 2006, the Chekhov library during poetry festival

8.     “History of mail art and visual poetry in Russia”, April 2007, the Institute of Russian language of the Russian Science Academy during philological conference

9.     “Introduction to the visual poetry”, December 2009, Kuryokhin center of contemporary art, Saint Petersburg – during “Ventilator” festival

Published articles in printed magazines

1.     ”Cinderella of contemporary art”, 1999, New literature browser

2.     “Mail Art”. 2004, Zhuk

3.     “Collective Art”, 2004, Art & Times

4.     “If mail art =”, 2004, Chernovik

5.     Translation of Ray Johnson interview by Henri Martin into Russian, 2005, Futurum Art

6.     “Visual poetry. World experience”, 2006, Drugiye

7.     “About concepts, and not only”, 2008, Chernovik

8.     “From the history of mail art”, 2010, Postal service. Technique and technology