In 2009, Vladislav Efimov won the very prestigious “Innovatsia prize” for the best Russian artist, with a project on radio and free speech. He has had exhibitions in Russia, France, Belgium, Sweden, and Germany. He is official photographer for the NCCA Moscow Modern Art Centre.

Both as a conceptualist artist and a photographer, Vladislav Efimov has always been concerned with objects. This has been the case ever since his first solo exhibition of a set of images of objects, in the “Shkola” gallery in 1991. Later he turned to real objects, rather than their images. He then evolved from a “chamber” photographer into a video and media artist, working with the computer adept Aristakh Chernyshevsky (Moscow) and Sergei Denisov (St. Petersburg). He also established himself as a noteworthy professional photographer of architecture for various journals. Meanwhile, his beloved objects underwent extraordinary transformations in various interactive installations: they grew feathers, appeared in a fiery halo, made table formations or lined up in ranks, formed absurd organisms and mechanisms. They did “genetic gymnastics”, or self-destructed after being photographed and lay down in small box-coffins.