EliKuka

EliKuka collective, whose title is made up of two halves of the last names of its participants — Oleg Eliseev and Evgeny Kukoverov, —  was founded in September 2007 in Moscow. The name EliKuka consists of two pieces taken from the names of the artists. In Russian it sounds like “they ate Cook” – the famous captain James Cook. According to the well-known belief his flesh was eaten by the Hawaiian aboriginals. The artists evolve between the contemporary art tradition in an era of extreme commercialization, and relatively non-commercial and countercultural languages of youthclubbing and street origin. Born in 1985 and 1984, the artists belong to the young, energetic and progressive generation of Russian contemporary artists.