Denis Semionov

Denis Semionov was born in 1985 in Moscow. His great grandfather, a Russian-Finnish artist and sculptor Leonid Kuzmin, immigrated from USSR to Finland in 1920 in the time of Red Terror. In 1953 the family repatriated to the USSR. Denis Semionov graduated from the courses of Stroganov Moscow State Academy of Arts and Industry and the art and graphic faculty of Moscow State Pedagogical University. In 2017 his first cinematic VR art project "Between Petrov and Vodkin" about Russian avant-garde was demonstrated at Cannes Marché du Film and bought by several studios for distribution. In 2018 he won grand-prix at Open Frame Award of international film festival goEast for his VR cinematographic project "The Nominal Empire", where he combined virtual reality and biomechanics of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The project "Lessons of Auschwitz" (2020), where Denis Semionov became an artist and a director, was made with Volumetric video, Tilt Brush and the music of the theremin. In 2021 Denis Semionov collaborated as one of directors with a musician Jean-Michel Jarre for his VR show "Welcome to the other side".