On his website 'PornoPolitique' he presented the candidate as a politician capable of moving from the Socialist Party to the March in March of the "neoliberal Macron". in the Paris mayoral election, withdrew from the race, denouncing the ‘vile’ attack on his private life. He had obtained political asylum in May of the same year. He has already served his sentence for burning the doors of a branch of the Bank of France. Pavlensky’s actions (he says they are not performances) include sewing his mouth shut to protest against the jailing of the punk protest group Pussy Riot (In Russian opposition circles Pavlensky was once a star. He has two daughters with Oksana Shalygina, whom he refuses to call "his wife" because he does not believe in marriage or "ownership of bodies." The video showed a French politician masturbating. She even looked after their children when the couple had to go to Moscow for Things are not mutually exclusive,’ the artist Mari Bastashevski tells me. He was released on 18 February under judicial supervision.In January 2017, Pavlensky, his former partner Oksana Shalygina, and their young daughters, had fled Russia and sought asylum in France.

Russian, exiled in France, controversial. He was detained for seven months and was fined for "damages." Griveaux announces his retirement at a press conference, this morning in Paris. Many politicians and journalists hinted at a conspiracy against Macron’s close ally prompted by Putin.‘I don’t really see the point of what Pavlensky did artistically, but what’s amazing is that he attacked French politicians, who think they’re above it all. We would like to show you a description here but the site won’t allow us. On Valentine’s Day it emerged that the Russian artist Pyotr Pavlensky, now a political refugee in France, was behind the publication of a private video on a website called Pornopolitique (‘politicalporn’). In October 2017, accompanied by Shalygina, he set fire to the doors of a Banque de France building on the Place de la Bastille (Former government spokesperson and La République en Marche ! And masochist because he self-injures Born in 1984 in Leningrad (today St. Petersburg), the son of a father who died of alcoholism and a mother nurse of a psychiatric, was interviewed by 'Libération' in 2016 on the occasion of the publication of 'The Pavlenski case, politics as art ', interview book. Paris: Macron's candidate for mayor resigns over a sex video Pavlenski: This artist stuck his scrotum on the floor of the Red Square in Moscow Performance: They stop a controversial Russian artist for setting fire to the entrance of the Security Service The man who has spread the sexual video and intimate conversations of Benjamin Griveaux is an artist. So inspired, he joined another artist, Oksana Shalygina, his now-estranged partner, in establishing Political Propaganda publishing house, an online platform dedicated to exploring and promoting the use of contemporary art as a tool of political awakening. Artist Marina Vinnik used to be friends with Pavlensky and Shalygina; they later fell out.

Griveaux's lawyer, Richard Malka, announced lawsuits against "publications that violate the private life" of his client. Pavlensky was subsequently detained and questioned for three days, along with his current partner, Alexandra de Taddeo, and charged with invasion of privacy and dissemination of images of a sexual nature without consent. Russian artist and activist Pyotr Pavlensky during a press interview in Paris on 22 February 2020. The couple had been accused of sexually assaulting an actress from Moscow’s leading opposition theatre, Teatr.doc; they had both been questioned by the police and left the country before any charges were brought. Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of Pussy Riot once said: ‘Pavlensky is the mind, conscience and balls of an epoch.’ He has struck false notes though when, for instance, The artist has repeatedly stressed that when he applied for asylum in France he announced he would keep on making political art. He sprayed gasoline and set fire to the doors of the Loubianka, the historical headquarters of the KGB, the Soviet secret services. He seemed like ‘this lonely hero who fights the system,’ says Vinnik, ‘when in fact his actions were made possible by the support of his partner and of anarchists’. (LREM) candidate for the upcoming Paris 2020 mayoral election Benjamin Griveaux is pictured as he announces his withdrawal from the mayoral campaign at AFP headquarters in Paris on 14 February 2020. The man who has spread the sexual video and intimate conversations of Benjamin Griveaux is an artist. He has remembered the Interior Minister himself, Christophe Castaner, who added: "These facts must be prosecuted." Griveaux has not denied that the comments are his although formally they have not been identified. Griveaux announces his retirement at a press conference, this morning in Paris. He refused to pose naked: "When I get naked in some of my actions it is because it is related to what I mean." This might be due to its sexism, or to its profound distrust of the authorities.’ She says most people believe that the accusations were trumped up by the security services.Younger Russian curators and artists, particularly women, might see things differently.

France granted asylum to the artist and his then-partner, Oksana Shalygina, and their two children in May 2017. Petr (or Pyotr) Andreyevich Pavlensky (Russian: Пётр Андреевич Павленский; born March 8, 1984) is a Russian contemporary artist.Known for his controversial political performance art, which he calls "actions", Pavlensky is a significant figure in political activism, and his work often involves nudity and self-mutilation. I’m thankful that he rid us of this politician close to our government, and I’d like him to continue,’ De Bourbon Parme says.One thing that Pavlensky has certainly done is avoid playing the role of the good political refugee, who is thankful to the country that granted him asylum and would never criticise it.