DVIZH
Dvizh is an international collective of Russian-speaking jewelry artists who unite to bring their vision out to the world
Our big project - the exhibition "Heirloom" - has recently been presented in Tbilisi!
The collective exhibition curated by DVIZH featured artworks by 35 artists from 12 countries worldwide. Artists with post-Soviet roots reflected on their families’ past and its connection with their present and future, with their identity, and with the choices that we face now.
The collective exhibition curated by DVIZH featured artworks by 35 artists from 12 countries worldwide. Artists with post-Soviet roots reflected on their families’ past and its connection with their present and future, with their identity, and with the choices that we face now.
Dvizh was founded in Tbilisi in 2024 by Evgenia Elanic, a Russian emigrant jeweller. The word "dvizh" is a slang for something happening, and is a root for many words about movement. It is also a reference to Peredvizhniki, a Russian artsits' cooperative from 1870s, formed in protest to rigid academic arts traditions and traveling from place to place to bring art to the people.
| We aim to support and bring together jewelry artists who speak one language and thus share pieces of the same cultural context. Recent events, like political repressions in Belarus and Russia, and Russian invasion in Ukraine, led to many of us being separated from home and former communities, and finding ourselves in other countries and cultures. We wish to fight this separation and form a new community, that would unite us across the borders, and help keep sharing our art with the world. |
Our statement
We are artists with different citizenships, different nationalities and different histories. We are Jews, Armenians, Russians and Russian citizens of other nationalities, Siberians and Germans… We have one thing in common — we make jewelry. And we also understand each other.
For many of us, it is not safe to speak out at home, in our local community. Even when it is not that risky, the feeling of not being free still remains. We don't want art to be created in constant struggle against things — we want it to be created thanks to them. Thanks to our association and support, maybe.
We want to create a structure where we and our colleagues who exist in a similar cultural context can feel a sense of solidarity across borders.
We want to create a space where artists can feel not just safe, but accepted and in demand. Where contemporary art finds its audience and receives recognition.
In recent years, due to the Russian war on Ukraine, military operations in Armenia, Israel, political repressions in Belarus and Russia, many of us wanted to succumb to helplessness, lie down and freeze. But in order to change something for the better, you can't freeze — you need to move.
So we try to.
For many of us, it is not safe to speak out at home, in our local community. Even when it is not that risky, the feeling of not being free still remains. We don't want art to be created in constant struggle against things — we want it to be created thanks to them. Thanks to our association and support, maybe.
We want to create a structure where we and our colleagues who exist in a similar cultural context can feel a sense of solidarity across borders.
We want to create a space where artists can feel not just safe, but accepted and in demand. Where contemporary art finds its audience and receives recognition.
In recent years, due to the Russian war on Ukraine, military operations in Armenia, Israel, political repressions in Belarus and Russia, many of us wanted to succumb to helplessness, lie down and freeze. But in order to change something for the better, you can't freeze — you need to move.
So we try to.
DVIZH team
- Evgenia Elanic | Elanic GalleryFounder
- Daria Khoreva | Olovo Jewellery
- Masha Starikova
- Vera Popova | Like`A Glass
- Katia Rabey
- Agnia Likratowa
Join DVIZH
As a collective we make group exhibitions and other projects, promote each other's art and plan to take part in major events like Jewelry Weeks in EU and other countries. There is no membership fee.
