The artist Ellen Sheidlin will give a lecture in Moscow for the first time at the G8 2021 festival, which will be held in Moscow on September 9-10 at the ZIL cultural center. Also at the G8, more than 100 representatives from various creative industries will perform with the releases of new projects: music, cinema, design, advertising, media art, contemporary art, etc.

Ellen Sheidlin is a concept artist from St. Petersburg who creates surreal, grotesque videos and photos based on her own ideas. Today, Ellen has 4.6 million followers on Instagram, and more than two million on YouTube, she collaborates and creates works for brands such as Nike, Estee Lauder, Moncler, Bacardi, BMW, Instagram, Swatch, Schwarzkopf, L'Oreal, Coca-Cola, Pepsico.

She experiments with dreams, reality, virtuality and she is the ideologist of a new direction in art — survirtualism. Ellen has participated in various creative projects and exhibitions around the world. Right now, the artist is holding an exhibition in Palermo from May 28 to July 1, where she will show a part of her universe and new works created in Palermo which were inspired by its culture.

At G8, Ellen will deliver a manifesto lecture. For five years, the festival has received the support of the largest Russian media and recognition in the international creative community, and among the speakers there are always bright representatives of the creative industry in Russia and abroad.

This year, for the first time, the festival will complement the music line-up from the artists of the new Russian stage.

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