Sanya Kantarovsky: Basic Failure

Sanya Kantarovsky’s exhibition at Palazzo Loredan extends the artist’s interdisciplinary practice with site-specific interventions engaging with the architecture of this historical site.

The exhibition will encompass a group of paintings, ceramic works, and a sculpture made in collaboration with a Murano glass studio. This new body of work deepens an ongoing throughline of Kantarovsky’s inquiry into humanist, art historical themes of spirituality, alienation, and vulnerability within the tradition of the painted figure.

Sanya Kantarovsky was born in Moscow in 1982 and emigrated to New York City when he was ten years old, where he continues to live and work. His work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at Modern Art, Paris (2024); Aspen Art Museum (2022); Modern Art, London (2021); Kunsthalle Basel (2018); and Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2017). He has participated in recent group exhibitions at Museum de Fundatie, Zwolle (2022); the FLAG Art Foundation, New York (2021); the Drawing Center, New York (2020); the Whitechapel Gallery, London (2020); Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe (2019); and ICA Boston (2018). His works are held in collections including the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; the Courtauld Gallery, London; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Hirshhorn, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.