BIO

Born in Nizhny Novgorod in 1990. 
Studied at the Faculty of History at the N.I. Lobachevsky National Research University and at the photo school of the Russian Museum of Photography (Nizhny Novgorod); at the courses of the art group PROVMYZA (diploma film - "Grandpa Goes to India"). Participated in the festival "2morrow" and the online festival «Shorter!»
In 2013, he made an experimental short film, «Close circle», which was screened at the Kinoshock and Artdokfest festivals.
In 2014, together with Evgenia Suslova, he founded the art group Dimension Theatre, whose work resulted in the films «Membrane» and «Periphery». The film «Periphery» became a participant of the project "Nizhny Novgorod: attempts of modern description". From that time Dmitri became interested in psychogeography.
From 2014 to 2016 he worked in Volgo-Vyatsky branch of NCCA "Arsenal" as photographer and videographer. Participated in group exhibitions.
Also in 2014 began teaching the basics of video editing to students of the course "Film Directors" at the Volga Media School (Nizhny Novgorod): taught in 2014, 2015, 2019, 2021.
Since 2014 as a video artist and director he has collaborated with Kama Records. Participates in projects: "Contemporary Udmurtia", "SEP-community", "Vremya vodit horovody" and others.
In 2015, together with Karina Ginoyan and Polina Zyryanova, he shot a video essay "We have the same as yours" especially for the «Fem Frontier» open festival of feminist initiatives. He also provided technical and other assistance in the preparation of the festival. 
From 2015 to 2017 he lived in Barcelona, Spain, where he worked in video art and made a living from commercial and reportage photography. He participated in the social-architecture project Cities Connection Project.
In 2017, together with Lucia Boni and Valentin Wyss, who studied Slavistics at the University of Basel, he organised and participated in the exhibition "Stadtrandsichten" (an exhibition dedicated to the psychogeography of the peripheries of Nizhny Novgorod), which took place at the cultural centre Philosophicum in Basel, Switzerland.
In 2017, while in Barcelona, together with Alexander Minchenko (Moscow), he founded «Derivetv», an online streaming service dedicated to various forms of movement. «Derivetv» broadcasted experimental films, video art, talks with artists, exhibition openings and performances, as well as video documentation of drifts, walks and journeys.
In 2017 he returned to Nizhny Novgorod.
In 2018 he continued his work at Arsenal. Dmitry is a participant of author and collective projects: the film «Gorky. The points of no return» (2018, together with writer Kirill Kobrin and curator Alexander Kuritsyn), online promenade «The night is bright» (2020, a collective project of Arsenal, curators Dmitry Stepanov, Alexander Kuritsyn).
Alongside his work in film, video and photography, he wrote poetry which resulted in several anthologies. In 2014. - His first publication, the poetry cycle «How to Eliminate the Irreparable», is the «Polutona», where he has so far published the cycles: «Indirect Action» (2015), «Synonyms» (2016), «A Poem of Light» (2017), «Milk and Bread» (2018).
Since 2018 regularly published on the literary website post(non)fiction.org 
Art texts: «Estratigrafia I» (2019), «Estratigrafia II» (2020), «Estratigrafia III» (2020). Presentations of art projects: «Psychogeography for the Poor» (2019), «Idling» (2019), etc. 
In 2020 he participated in the preparation of a report on the problem of femicide in Russia - a project of the Moscow Women's Museum. 
In the spring of 2020 together with Natasha Sharimova he created the project «BRODSKY.50», a short sketch based on a video recording made by the journalist and the artist at Joseph Brodsky's birthday party at 44 Morton Street on 24 May 1990. Produced an interactive version of the project with other members of the New York Plus Brodsky project team. 
Author of the project (together with Alexander Kuritsyn) «The Night is Bright» (2020), an online multimedia tour of Nizhny Novgorod as part of the pandemic Night of Museums 2020. The project was implemented on the basis of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (ARSENAL). The project was short-listed for the interdisciplinary programme of the second Forum-Festival of Social Theatre «Osoby vzglyad» (2021). 
Creator of documentaries and video essays exploring the phenomenon of Nizhny Novgorod's artistic environment: «Provmyza: A Commentary at the Beginning of the Archive» (2020) and «Evgeny Strelkov: Quantum Observations» (2021).
From 2019 to 2021 I actively collaborated with SEFER centre (centre for scholars and teachers of Jewish studies in universities) as a videographer and artist, videodocumenting lectures, creating promotional (video) summer schools and illustrating texts. 
In 2021 acted as art critic and wrote reviews for the exhibition «Low Start» (curator Sergey Khachaturov) at the gallery Futuro (Nizhny Novgorod) and the exhibition «Myths of the Anthropocene» (artists Lilia Limiyan and Ekaterina Sadovskaya, curator Mila Bredikhina) at the same gallery Futuro.
He left the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts to pursue freelance work, combining commissions from a videographer with his own art projects. During 2021 he was actively engaged in painting.
Published prose text «B,C, drifts and a bit of the unimaginable» (2021) on the website «Articulation».
Since 24 February 2022 he has refused to participate in institutional cultural and art projects in the Russian Federation, thus expressing his disagreement with the war that Russia has unleashed in Ukraine.
Since August 2022 he has been a member of the volunteer movement «Proezdom», which helps Ukrainian refugees and displaced persons from Russia to Ukraine during the war to leave the territory of Russia.
In October 2022, he left Russia for political reasons: due to the impossibility and insecurity of remaining on the territory of the Russian Federation in the context of mobilisation and martial law declared on part of the territory of Russia. 
In November 2022 he applied for political asylum in France. 
In 2022 he became a member of the «Atelier des artistes en exil» - a French association of artists forced to leave their homeland for political and humanitarian reasons.
In November 2022, he participated in the exhibition Potemkin Villages (organised by FAR - Feminist Anti-War Resistance) as part of the Echoes of Lubimovka festival in Paris with the work «We have the sames of yours» (2015).
In December 2022, he published his anti-war poems - written in 2022 and reflecting on the war that Russia has unleashed in Ukraine - in the fifth issue of the Russian opposition culture bulletin ROAR.