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The interest in history, archeology, ethnography and mythology of the Far East of Russia united Ksenia Frolova and Roman Ivanishchev in Hero4Hero group to maintain the values of the cultural and spiritual heritage of the territory.

The main task of the group is to actualize the connection of the population with the cultural landscape through interdisciplinary projects that represent the territory's heritage by contemporary art language.

Since 2015, Hero4Hero group works on a graphic novel about Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy, explores the theme of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite in the MANNA project, the Primorye Territory as a living, filled with local meanings and at the same time substantive, tangible environment of human life in the Strata: Sanctuary project.

The favorite phrase: "Without those who remember, the landscape becomes silent." (Sc.D. Milana Ragulina).

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Solo Exhibition
[May 16 – June 9, 2019], "By the River of Time – 2", Primorsky Regional Drama Theater of Youth, Vladivostok.

[December 22 – February 24, 2019], STRATUM: SANCTUARY, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.

[February 23 – March 25, 2018], MANNA in MMOMA, ММОМА, Moscow.

[February 22 – March 22, 2017], "Admiral Nevelskoy. History in pictures". Video. The Admiral Nevelskoy Maritime State University, Vladivostok.
Curatorship
[May 18, 2019], The Night of Museums, devoted to the theme "Territory", revealing Primorsky region through art, literature, cinema, history, nature and features of cultural landscape. ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.
Group Exhibition list
[October 10 – January 13, 2019], Interdisciplinary Exhibition Project METAGEOGRAPHY: ORIENTALISM AND DREAMS OF ROBINSONS – the third interpretation of the curator project of Nikolai Smirnov, Kirill Svetlyakov and Dmitry Zamyatin "Metageography. Space-Image-Action", created specifically for the Far East and implemented byZARYA Center for Contemporary Art together with the State Tretyakov Gallery. Vladivostok.

[October 7 – December 16, 2018], International Exhibition ONE NORTHEAST, dedicated to the transcultural position of Vladivostok in Northeast Asia, curated by Mi Yu and Binna Choi.ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.

[December 24, 2017], "Put on your mittens ..." as part of MANNA research project (video). The Festival "The Day of Frozen Black Soil", Voronezh.

[September 22 – October 20, 2017], Ten-meter manga "Figments of imagination. Nevelskoy." Manga-style graphic novel. Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts (VIBVA).

[September 22 – October 20, 2017], "Not like you". Installation, photography. Vladivostok International Biennale of Visual Arts (VIBVA).

[November 5, 2016 – January 22], 2017, ABSENT MONUMENTS curated by Maria Kramar. Hero4Hero research project: a monument to Admiral Nevelskoy, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.

[November 2016], Ten-meter manga "Figments of imagination. Nevelskoy." Visual Arts Festival "Through the Looking Glass", FEFU, Vladivostok.
Initiatives
[May 16 - 18, 2019], Artist and researcher as a mediator / H4H section in the Festival "Literature of Pacific Russia - 2019". Lecture "How artists make the connection between the territory and the population". House of Scientists of the Far East Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Vladivostok.

[December 23, 2018], presentation of the graphic novel in the manga style "Figments of Imagination. Nevelskoy", The first manga in Russia with augmented reality technology in it. ANO Japan Center in Vladivostok.

[October 26 - 27, 2018], MANNA in FEFU. Cultural and educational festival Feel It | Fill It, FEFU, Russky island, Vladivostok.

[June 7-8, 2018], presentation H4H section in the Festival "Literature of Pacific Russia - 2018".

[May 17-20, 2018], MANNA in PITE. Representation of Primorsky Region at the XXII Pacific International Tourism Expo (PITE), FEFU, Russky island, Vladivostok.

[March 24, 2018], MANNA IN ZARYA / Hero4Hero lecture about their projects and mythological reality or the Primorsky region in ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.
Program
[February 8-9, 2019], the cultural design workshop "City & Culture" (STRELKA Institute for media, architecture and design), ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.

[December 14-16, 2018], Bella Rune's Faculty in Garage Weekend Faculty Program, Garage Museum Educational Center, Moscow.

[November 10-12, 2017], Arseny Zhilyaev's Faculty in Garage Weekend Faculty Program, Garage Museum Educational Center, Moscow.

[October – November 2015], Maria Kramar Course on Contemporary Art REVISION OF BORDERS, ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok.
Publications
REVIEW OF INFORMATION AND LEGAL SPACE FOR INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY OF ADDITIONAL REALITY IN THE SPHERE OF CULTURE // Culturology, philology, art criticism: actual problems of modern science: Sat. Art. on mater. XX-XXI Intern. scientific-practical conf. No. 3-4 (16). - Novosibirsk: SibAK, 2019. - p. 18-23.

THE VISITATION. Russian Life magazine 2019, January - February (pdf, site).

Collections
MMOMA, Moscow
ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok
Museum of The Admiral Nevelskoy Maritime State University, Vladivostok
The Geology-Mineralogical Museum of the Far Eastern Geological Institute FEB RAS, Vladivostok
ARTETAGE Modern Art Museum, Vladivostok
Страта: заповедник памяти
Перcональная выставка, проходившая с 22 декабря 2018 по 24 февраля 2019 в ЦСИ «Заря» при поддержке Института истории, археологии и этнографии народов Дальнего Востока Дальневосточного отделения Российской академии наук, национального парка «Бикин».
Ritual
В период с 7 октября по 16 декабря 2018 в Центре современного искусства «Заря» прошла международная выставка ОДИН СЕВЕРО-ВОСТОК, посвященная транскультурному положению Владивостока в Северо-Восточной Азии. Кураторы: Ми Ю и Бинна Чой. H4H был представлен фильм о ритуале-взаимодействии с сакральным местом в Партизанском районе Приморского края.
Down the river of time – 2
Hero4Hero Group investigates the equilibrium conditions of a system in which an omorochka (dougout single-wood boat) is placed under the pressure of forces applied to it as a metaphor of the image of the survival of small indigenous peoples of the Far East (Nanai and Udege), natural pebble stones as a metaphor for the processes of globalization, urbanization and unification of national cultures and the river of time down which this boat floats.
Map collage "The products of the imagination. Nevelskoy" Print on canvas, augmented reality.
On June 29, 1850 Gennady Ivanovich Nevelskoy, a researcher of the Far East, raised the Russian flag in the lower reaches of the Amur and founded the Nikolaev post (Nikolaevsk-on-Amur) on Cape Kuegda, without a single shot having attached to Russia the territories of the Amur region and Primorye 36% of the current territory of the Russian Federation. Nevelskoy proved that the river mouth of the Amur is available for entry of ships and that Sakhalin is an island. These events changed the map of Russia and the balance of power, not only in the Asia-Pacific region, but also in the world as a whole. Russia has become the largest country in the world and the only European power with continental access to all the oceans of the world.
Shaman Selfie
The artists offer the viewer to de-colonize the perception of the region, to get out of the role of the colonizer and feel like an aborigine, who do not conquer the territory, but who develops it. He should feel rooted in the place of residence, not in the temporary and forced stay here.
MANNA
Research project MANNA is the artistic reaction to the fall of Sikhote-Alin meteorite, one of the ten biggest meteorites of the world, which was called after the name of mountains, where it fell down as iron rain in 1947 in Primorsky krai. Using the real meteorite in the installations and addressing to its image as the messenger of the Cosmos, authors remind us about the fragility of the human world and the planet as whole, they regard "heaven's stone" as tangible evidence of cosmogeological process.
VIBVA
The first project about anthropo-cosmic communications was shown by H4H at the IX VLADIVOSTOK INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE OF VISUAL ARTS (VIBVA) in 2017, where Xiang Liping (项丽萍) was the curator of the main program.
Проект-исследование: памятник Г.И. Невельскому
Смена акцентов исторической памяти, реактуализация «старорежимных» героев и создание новой революционной истории и новых советских героев, потребовали и деконструкции основного (первого) памятника Владивостока, как символа «старорежимной» героики и посвящения неактуальному для новой власти герою. Куратор Мария Крамар, 2017, ЦСИ «Заря», Владивосток.