Anton Vidokle

Anton Vidokle studied at European Ceramics Work Center. The recorded working language is Russian and English. The field of work recorded is art, performance artwork and art magazine. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City and Berlin. Work by Anton Vidokle is recorded in the collections of Tate.

• Name — Anton Vidokle • Birth Name — Антон Видокле • Born — 1965 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russia • Website — http: www.e-flux.com/

In 2004 Vidokle co-organized e-flux video rental with Julieta Aranda, which traveled to Berlin, Frankfurt; Extra City, Antwerp; Carpenter Center, Harvard University and others. As founder of e-flux, he has produced projects such as Next Documenta Should Be Curated by an Artist (curated by Jens Hoffmann), Do it (curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist), Utopia Station poster project, and organized An Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life (based on the image archive of David Alfaro Siqueiros) and Martha Rosler Library. • Illustration — e-flux Video Rental in Berlin, 2008. In 2005, Vidokle initiated research into education as site for artistic practice as co-curator for Manifesta 6, which was canceled. In response to the cancellation, Vidokle set up an independent project in Berlin called Unitednationsplaza (2006–2007) a twelve-month project involving more than a hundred artists, writers, philosophers, and diverse audiences. Located behind a supermarket in East Berlin, Unitednationsplaza's program featured public seminars, lectures, screenings, performances and various projects. In 2008 Unitednationsplaza traveled to Mexico City and was hosted by PAC, and opened in New York's New Museum for Contemporary Art under the name Nightschool (2008–2009). In 2008, with Brian Kuan Wood and Julieta Aranda, Vidokle founded the e-flux journal, a monthly online publication on art and critical theory with contributions from writers such as Hito Steyerl, Martha Rosler, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Franco Berardi (Bifo), Jalal Toufic, Slavoj Žižek, Raqs Media Collective and others. The journal's international readership has led to the translation and republishing of many of the journal's essays. Jointly with the Sternberg Press, Berlin, e-flux journal started a new imprint which has put out a series of paperback readers consisting of monographic publications and thematic compilations of essays, including: What is Contemporary Art? (2010); Boris Groys: Going Public (2010), Are You Working Too Much? Post Fordism, Precarity, and the Labor of Art (2011), Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited (2012), Hito Steyerl: The Wretched of the Screen (2012), Martha Rosler: Culture Class (2013), Jalal Toufic: Forthcoming (2014), The Internet Does Not Exist (2015), Benjamin H. Bratton: Dispute Plan to Prevent Future Luxury Constitution (2015), What’s Love (or Care, Intimacy, Warmth, Affection) Got to Do with It? (2017), and Art Without Death: Conversations on Russian Cosmism (2017). In 2015, e-flux journal initiated a new book series entitled e-flux Classics, distributed by University of Minnesota Press. The first book in the series is Avant Garde Museology (2015), edited by Arseny Zhilyaev. In 2008, Vidokle and Aranda created a time bank for artistic community. The Time/Bank is a platform where artists, curators, writers and others in the arts can help each other get things done without use of money, but exchanging their time and skills. Time/Bank has nearly 4,000 members from many cities around the world and operates several branches in Den Haag, Moscow, Berlin, Frankfurt and other cities. At e-flux space in New York, Vidokle directs a program of exhibitions that has included solo shows by Martha Rosler, Gustav Metzger, Adam Curtis, Raqs Media Collective, Mladen Stilinovic, Alan Sekula, Andrei Monastirsky & Collective Actions, Walter Benjamin and Laure Prouvost; as well as group exhibitions such as the Agency of Unrealized Projects, curated jointly with Hans Ulrich Obrist; Animism, curated by Anselm Franke; Out Now, with Paul Chan, Trevor Paglen, Martha Rosler, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Jalal Toufic; We, The Outsiders, curated by Chus Martinez; Spectres of Communism: Contemporary Russian Art, curated by Boris Groys; So You Want To See, curated by What, How & for Whom; and Corruption: Everybody Knows…, curated by Natasha Ginwala. From 2013-2014, Vidokle was a Resident Professor with Jalal Toufic at Ashkal Alwan’s Home Workspace Program in Beirut, Lebanon, under the title "Creating and Dispersing Universes that Work without Working," during which Vidokle organized the exhibition, A Museum of Immortality, curated by Boris Groys. For the 56th Venice Biennale in 2015, e-flux journal was commissioned to produce SUPERCOMMUNITY, an editorial project that addresses e-flux journal and its readership as the supercommunity and presented a daily piece of writing that often adopted the form of poetry, short fiction or screenplay. It has featured contributions from nearly one hundred authors, anthropologists, artists, philosophers, poets, theorists and writers. Vidokle frequently lectures and participates in international conferences and symposia and has contributed essays and texts to various publications including October, Frieze and A Prior, as well as numerous books and catalogues. He has also published a number of key texts as part of e-flux journal, including Art Without Artists (2010), Art Without Work (2011), and Breaking the Contract (2012). In 2023, Vidokle served as chief curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale titled Cosmos Cinema, collaborating with Hallie Ayres, Lukas Brasiskis, Ben Eastham, and Zairong Xiang to present the nine-part exhibition at Power Station of Art. Inspired by Russian and Chinese philosophy as well as ancient and Indigenous tales of the cosmos, immortality, and space travel in relation to conditions of life on earth, Cosmos Cinema featured a wide range of installation and moving-image work by artists Trevor Paglen, Sung Tieu, Rosalind Nashashibi, Saodat Ismailova, He Zike, Carsten Nicolai with Dorit Chrysler and Ken Niibori, among nearly 80 others. A catalogue of the exhibition was produced in both English and Chinese editions, co-published by Sternberg Press and Power Station of Art. Citizens of the Cosmos, a monograph on Vidokle’s films in relation to Cosmist philosophy, was co-published by Sternberg Press and Sirius Arts Centre in 2024 featuring contributions by Franco “Bifo” Berardi, Keti Chukhrov, Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Daniel Muzyczuk, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective.