Damir Muratov (b. 1967, Tobolsk) is an artist who works in drawing, creating installations and objects. His motives include mass and Soviet culture, but he also turns to the modern Siberia. Muratov’s activity falls into the Siberian artistic renaissance of the mid-1990s, where artists actively and often with a dose of humour speak about the social, cultural and political situation in their environment.

While Muratov lives in Omsk, the Coronavirus pandemic found him at Montenegro’s city of Risan, where he decided to stay. From there, he sends for the project a series of works that he made in the past days, while in quarantine.

Risan, 02/05/2020

Artists Respond project was started by the Institute for the Research of the Avant-Garde and the Marinko Sudac Collection. Addressing the current global pandemic, the project aims to virtually present the thoughts and attitudes of neo-avant-garde artists, their energy and the message they have for the present moment. This is the moment in which the world as we know it is on hold and the moment in which we need optimism and solidarity more than ever. We wish for the public to welcome the creative energy of these artists - artists who are ready to point out the state of things, to respond with art and creativity, as they have done in all difficult times in the past.