ВАРЕНЪЙЕ Игровая (VARENЪYE Playground)
Interactive exhibition transforming the exhibition space into a playground for adults through participatory installations, social experiments, and playable environments.
2019
— CV / selected works —
Ottone Radavi
Paris-based artist working in participatory art, social sculpture, interactive installations, and public space interventions.
Biography
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Ottone Radavi is a Paris-based artist whose practice focuses on participation, collective authorship, play, and social interaction.
From 2010 to 2022, he founded and led VARENЪYE Organizm, an interdisciplinary collective bringing together up to twenty-two artists, engineers, architects, musicians, programmers, and researchers. The collective developed participatory installations, public artworks, inflatable architectures, playable environments, and experimental social situations presented in museums, festivals, and public spaces across Russia, Europe, the United States, and the Middle East.
His current practice is centered on participatory art and collective reconstruction through sculptural systems, shared assembly processes, and socially engaged environments.
Solo Exhibitions
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Город ВАРЕНЪЙЕ Организм (VARENЪYE Ville)
Exhibition of speculative urban concepts, future public spaces, kinetic environments, and large-scale participatory installations developed by VARENЪYE Organizm.
2018
ВЗБУЧКА ПО ВЯЛОМУ (A Thrashing for the Listless)
Retrospective exhibition and anthology presenting key projects and artistic experiments developed by VARENЪYE Organizm between 2010 and 2018.
2018
Selected Works
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Participatory Systems
Curiosity Score
Interactive installation
2013
POKE-N-CLICK
Interactive light and sound installation
2014
Human Kit
Participatory installation series
2010-2017
Slap Dash Slot
Participatory sculptural system
2014-2019
Ici on danse
Participatory installation
2018
Public Sculpture and Spatial Projects
340 Tentacles
Public sculpture
2016
Christmas Tree Under Construction
Public sculpture
2017
RazDva
Inflatable sculpture
2019
1=0
Interactive installation
2020
Selected Institutions and Festivals
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State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Museum of Street Art, Saint Petersburg
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg
Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
Artplay, Moscow
Archstoyanie Festival, Nikola-Lenivets
Berlin Asia-Pacific Week
Russian Contemporary Art Week, Berlin
Public Art Program, Downtown Los Angeles
Current Project
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Rebone Organism'os
ongoing
An ongoing participatory sculptural project based on modular bone-like structures produced through large-scale 3D printing.
The project explores collective reconstruction as both a physical and symbolic process. Visitors assemble fragmented skeletal elements into temporary organisms, becoming active participants in the restoration of a damaged body.
Originating from experiences of rupture, displacement, and rebuilding, the project expands toward broader questions of restoration in societies shaped by conflict, migration, fragmentation, and loss.
Through shared acts of assembly, Rebone Organism'os investigates how participation can transform restoration into a social, emotional, and collective practice.
Latest Publications
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