KPD  CULTURE SPACE/ TECHNO CLUB
 


The KPD space was created on the two floors of the former boiler house of the Siemens & Halske cable factory in St Petersburg. The factory was founded by the German industrialist Carl Siemens in 1879. After the revolution, in 1918, the company was nationalised and renamed Northern Cable Works, later Sevkabel. The plant is still in operation today.

"KPD" is a project from the Tekstil Music team, which was based on the idea of "effective culture" in its modern form and format. The site was a kind of filter for cultural phenomena before they finally came out. A place for relaxation, a museum, a gallery and a concert hall at the same time: a universal space filled with real, live multi-format contemporary culture in the form of concerts, exhibitions and educational events.

We are the creative association OTKYDACMEX, members of the promotional group Tekstil Music. For us, decorating the club was more than a design decision; it was a holistic artistic project. The purpose of this project was to rethink the club space as an alternative venue for art exhibitions and cultural events.

The project started by painting the walls with rhythmic abstract patterns, which were added to over the years as the club expanded, flowing through the space: our art gradually covered a larger and larger area, transforming the concrete walls of the factory into a single large-scale art object. Doodling style drawings have covered the walls of the third floor, the bar, the dressing room, the floor of one of the dance floors and other urban surfaces.

The largest and most significant work within this project was a 200m2 mural on the dance floor. It was done in RGB colours, with a rhythmic pattern that varies depending on the lighting and gives the illusion of movement. Participants and visitors were moving around the dance floor, seeing fragments of one large and unified work. At the same time, the entire mural could be seen from the third-floor balcony. In many areas the artwork was rubbed by the constant movement of the audience and this gave a feeling of a fresco which people themselves became the authors of.

 

 

 

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KPD GALLERY

 




The main project of our creative community was a gallery in the space of the KPD techno-club in St Petersburg, located in Sevkabel port. The gallery was created on the initiative of art director Sergey Sokolov.

The permanent exhibition consisted of studies by young artists, students of the Repin Academy of Arts, with whom the gallery has collaborated extensively throughout its existence. Contemporary artists from various schools and movements in St Petersburg were invited to participate in temporary exhibitions. As the exhibitions were held in the club's space, each event was accompanied by a performance of modern musicians playing electronic music.

The gallery hosted exhibitions by Evgeny Butenko and Victor Gorokhov, Maria Lyubicheva, Kolya Sadovnik, and Maxim Kokin.


Numerous cultural events were held in the gallery. The first was a major two-day art fair of works by students of the Academy of Arts. Our gallery also hosted lectures by artists such as Kir Shamanov and Stas Bugs.



 
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Party installation Deprave V 24.11.188

 SCHWEFELGELB



The installation, created by Siarhei OTKYDACMEX/ TEKSTIL LAB, was a huge spider monster made of metal. The monster moved on a special suspension system, with its limbs locking and unlocking. The base of the spider's body had metal arms to mount light equipment, which consisted of a beam and a strobe light. The equipment was controlled remotely by a light-engineer, creating a real light-perfomance. For example, a bright beam of the beam would plunge into the crowd like the monster from War of the Worlds. At the same time a strobe light cast shadows from the spider's legs, intensifying the effect and making the artwork visually larger and more expansive.


The performance began with the emergence of the spider from its cocoon, which was torn from the monster at the beginning of the performance by the duo SCHWEFELGELB to harsh industrial techno. A giant moving monster spider, controlled lighting and a colourful show of electronic musicians created a unique atmosphere for the event.

 
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