Anna Cherepanova and Vitaly Cherepanov are a multidisciplinary artist duo currently based in Zürich, Switzerland. They have been working together for more than a decade under different aliases such as CickinDunt, Shaboffice, Infinite Private Sector, and others. Through collaborative work, the artists investigate the dynamic processes and fluctuations that emerge at the crossroads of art, science, and philosophy.
They develop their projects as test models for critical interaction with the environment, examining what creative acts can achieve. The artists look at the world as a source of equal collaborations among different intentions and materials, a concept they refer to as "Park Vol’ny“ (Park of the Wills). Their multidisciplinary practice includes collective performances, street art, digital art, installations, video art, music production, playset creation, sculpture, and painting.
Starting out in Nizhny Tagil, Russia, in 2014, they have since established a presence in the international art scene, with exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin, and Zurich. They participated twice in the Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, and in 2019, their projects “Theatre Under Cameras” and “Aktion Dice” were both nominated for the "Innovation" Prize in Contemporary Art in the “New Generation” category. In Switzerland, they have taken part in in:dépendance ETH in 2023 and 2024 — a research-based residency focused on exploring autonomy and collaboration within artistic and academic practices.
The artists’ works are in many private collections around Europe, as well as in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, State Museums of Fine Arts in Yekaterinburg and Nizhny Tagil.
Read more about their artistic practice:
Mz*Baltazar’s Lab - Exhibition Vienna, Austria
https://2024.independentspaceindex.at/de/exhibitions/an-artificial-plant-in-real-soil
“CCTV movie with CID art group” - Exhibition Zurich, Switzerland
https://edcat.net/events/cctv-movie-with-cid-art-group/
"Flow in" in Galerie ONspace K34 - Kiel, Germany
https://k34.org/events/flow-in/
Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art
https://uralbiennial.ru/en/we/artists/person53-anna-and-vitaly-cherepanov