Anton Viktorovich Litvin

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1994 "The First Signature". Phoenix Cultural Center, Moscow
"Pressing". Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
1997 "You Are My Temptation". Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1990 19th Youth Exhibition. House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Individual Mythologies - New Images". Youth Palace, Moscow
1991 "Monochrome". Kashirka, Moscow
"Club 1/1". M.I. Kalinin Museum, Moscow
1992 Youth Exhibition. House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
1993 "Shop". "Konstantin" Store. Olympic Complex, Moscow
"Monuments: Transformation for the Future". ICA, New York, ISI, Moscow. Central House of Artists, Moscow;
"Conversion". M. Gelman Gallery. Central House of Artists, Moscow
1994 "Mazepa". Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Kiev
1995 "Hiroshima". Petrovsky Boulevard, Moscow
"Reality - The New Drug" (author's project). "Art Journal" No.7
ACTIONS
1993 "The Shadow of Victory". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Pushkin Changes Address". Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow
"100 years of Mao (Yellow Devil in GUM)" (as part of 'Group with No Name'). GUM, Moscow
1994 "End of Temptation". Tverskoy Boulevard, Moscow
"Moscow My, My Love!". Tverskaya Street, Moscow
"Snowman". Tverskaya Square, Moscow
"God Save the Queen". Red Square, Moscow
"Tongues" (as part of 'Group with No Name'). McDonalds, Moscow
"Plagiarism" (as part of 'Group with No Name'). Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
"Tower" (as part of 'Group with No Name'). Moscow Pool, Moscow
"Shooting Range". "Rose-Azora" Gallery, Moscow
"Freedom of Choice". Patriarch's Ponds, Moscow
"The Lacquered Smell of Our Brain". Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
"Kulik! What's Under the Skin?". "Pilot" Nightclub, Moscow
1995 "Fashion". Underpass near "Khudozhestvenny" cinema, Moscow
"Crucify Him". Nikitskaya Street, Moscow
"War". M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow
Action at M. Ryklin's Seminar in Memory of M. Mamardashvili (as part of 'Group with No Name'). Institute of Philosophy, Moscow
"Russia in the Gloom" (as part of 'Group with No Name'). House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Forgiveness Sunday (Maslenitsa by A. Maslaev)". Repin Square, Moscow
1996 "Fuck you, mutants!" (Forgiveness Sunday – 2). Repin Square, Moscow

On March 8, 1994, Anton Litvin hung 36 bras on the tree trunks along a section of Tverskoy Boulevard adjoining Pushkin Square. That’s it. This simple gesture requires no comment, except perhaps that it was touching and mesmerizing.
Art Journal, 1994, No. 4
There are more children than adults in Anton’s paintings. The deliberate breach in proportions invokes more Kharm's "love" for children from the artist than any affinity for Modigliani. When the artist tried his hand at mosaics, he realized the main things in iconography are the face, eyes, and hands. Thus, he tries to tell his life’s story in this style, hoping to canonize it over time.
I. Timofeeva. "Painting from the Head", Moscow News, 11.09.94
In the middle of Indian Summer in Moscow, snow suddenly fell. The amount equaled one snowman.... The organizer of this performance, Anton Litvin, wanted to show the conflict between nature and civilization (and, as people became part of civilization, the conflict between nature and humankind) and succeeded. Everyone who saw it enjoyed it.
New Daily Newspaper, 27.09.94
On Red Square, artist Anton Litvin approached the center of the universe.... The action was titled "God Save the Queen" and timed to coincide with Her Majesty’s visit to Moscow.... Like an archaeologist, Litvin removes the annoying layers of civilization from the human soul...
Kuranty, 19.10.94
Recently, in the Center for Contemporary Art laboratory, Anton Litvin pressed the public and atmosphere by burying himself up to his neck in the ground. This demonstrated the art of resisting pressure and of exerting it...
I. Korneeva. "A Talking Head Spotted on Yakimanka". - Evening Club, 6.12.94