1997 Art-Manege international fair.


The artist, without meaning it became a political person after his action “Young blasphemer” at Moscow exhibition “Art Manege-98” where he cut to pieces cheap paper icons bought in a church shop. Later he was sued for a fabricated charge of “promotion of international and religious hatred”.<...>
Even the action “The school of young blasphemer” performed by Avdey Ter-Oganyan with his young students in 1998 was but a part of his project of “research” and appropriation of Modernism’s mechanisms. The destruction of values and audacity in this case served as specific technologies, which have to be mastered by young artists.
Andrey Kovalev. Avdey Ter-Oganyan – Artist and Public Enemy. - Flash Art, 2003, Summer issue"

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Авдей Тер-Оганьян и Барбара Виссер сочетались на один день законным браком, соблюдя все общепринятые в России формальности. 

Pavel Aksejonov, Konstantin Reunov, Valerii Koshliakov. Avdey TER-OGANYAN. Tryokhprudny Lane, 26.08.91

23.7.1992.  Tryokhprudny Gallery, Moscow


The words “As Usual” were painted on the wall. Thereby referring to – and turning the vernissage and its public into the actual work of art.

23.08.92, Avdey TER-OGANYAN..Futurists Go Into Kuznetski Most street

16.7.1992. Tryokhprudny Gallery, Moscow


This exhibition was titled after the large exhibition of ‘non-conformist’ art, organized by the Department of Contemporary Art of the Tsaritsyno museum. Avdey Ter-Oganian exhibited himself as an art object, dead drunk and asleep in the middle of the gallery.
Andrey Kovalev:
The name of the action is a parody of the famous exhibition "In the Direction of the Object" set up at one time in the Museum of Modern Art>>>
http://kovalev-org.livejournal.com/2000/03/01/

2.7.1992.  Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow



The artists presented themselves as a living sculpture by combining their bodies and acting a kind of puppet-theater.

27.2.1992. Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow



Two models from the Academy of Fine Arts where hired to pose with two neon lamps during the exhibition. This was another ‘hired performance’, a static spectacle.

Tryokhprudny Lane, 21.02.92. Alexander Sigutin, Avdey TER-OGANYAN, Ilija Kitup, Vladimir Dubosarsky

16.1.1992. Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, Moscow



A tour guide was hired to guide the public with a megaphone on a four hours bus trip around Moscow. The trip included all the typical Moscow sight-seeings as well as some carefully selected liquor stores and it finally ended up where it had started, at the Trekhprudny Lane.

Tryokhprudny Lane Gallery, 5.9.1991



For this very first exhibition at Trekhprudny Lane the artists hired three street pedlars to 'accompany' three reproductions of Rembrandt's etchings - one of them entitled "Charity".