Alexey Shcherbakov
Co-founder · chief executive
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
Who we are · §I
A project that
tells the story differently.
For five years we have made stories about art, free and without restrictions. Not because it is fashionable, but because we are certain: art should be vast and available, not rare and guarded.
Chronicle · §II
Five years, one purpose
MMXXI
The first film
July. The team launches an original project about artists and styles. In a month the first video gathers more views than a whole season was expected to.
MMXXII
The first tournament
December. An open annual tournament in the history of art: three rounds, dozens of participants, four partners. The model works.
MMXXIII
The VAW group
March. The project is restructured under the VAW group: feature-length films, series, and a second tournament season with seven partners.
MMXXIV — MMXXV
70+ films
The library passes seventy original works. The third and fourth tournament seasons: the Kremlin Palace, Tsaritsyno, the Museum of Oriental Art, the Voznesensky Centre.
MMXXVI
ARSOVENTUS
ARTEFACT becomes ARSOVENTUS. A new name, a new home, an Academy in preparation and the fifth tournament season. The work continues where it began — from a love of great art.
Team · §III
Irreplaceable people.
Five people who turn archive records into living stories. Each with their own view and their own part of art.
Vladislav Valiev
Co-founder · executive director,
head of architectural studies
head of architectural studies
“To understand art you have to live it, discovering something new and previously unknown every day.”
Ekaterina Kruglova
Head of Marketing
“Art consists in finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and the ordinary in the extraordinary.”
Elena Shablitskaya
Chief consultant
“Do not send the colour-blind after the bluebird. They may come back with nothing.”
Julia Sycheva
Freelance consultant
“Love the art in yourself, not yourself in the art.”
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Become an author
Open position
If you write about art and would like to do it with us — send us a short letter.
Mission · §IV
We show art with love and open doors to new discoveries.