Bio
Ivan Harlamov

Ivan is an accomplished event production expert with a broad and deeply technical background. Starting as a sound engineer, he quickly expanded into full technical direction, covering team coordination, complex technical solutions, 3D visualizations, Layher and truss engineering, and detailed production planning.

From small jam sessions to large festivals attended by tens of thousands, Ivan's multidisciplinary approach and wide-ranging expertise enable him to create extraordinary events.

Ivan Harlamov
Selected works
2025

Technical Director / Producer / Project Management / Build Design & Drawings

Falling Rhythm is an international art exhibition presented in Barcelona as a collective artistic process, bringing together works by more than a dozen artists from around the world who engage with living materials, the disruption of form, transformation, and spatial memory.

The exhibition unfolded at the urban gallery Potassi K19, integrating sculpture, painting, video art, and multimedia works into a unified cultural narrative that reflects conceptual rhythms of change and rupture. The project was open to the public in central Barcelona, creating a platform for dialogue between participants and audiences within the context of contemporary art and visual culture.

2024 - 2025

Concept Development / Technical Direction / Lighting, Rigging & Structural Design

043 Stage at Morskaya is an independent music and audiovisual project produced by the 043 production center as part of the Morskaya festival.

The stage was designed and launched as a self-contained space within the festival, focused on live performances and a jam-based format. The musical program was built around a continuous process of performance and real-time interaction between artists, without rigid division into sets or time slots.

The visual component took the form of a light and media installation integrated into the stage and operating as a unified system with the music. Light and media content did not duplicate the sound but formed an independent visual layer that complemented the structure of the performances.

The project was realized as an autonomous stage with its own concept, technical architecture, and production, maintaining an independent identity within a large-scale festival event.

2024

Concept Development / Technical Direction / Layher Stage Structure Design & Technical Drawings

Study Fair 2024 was an online education fair for the creative industries, held on April 6–7, 2024, at Sevkabel Port in Saint Petersburg. The project was designed as a physical meeting point between online education and the professional environment, bringing together schools, platforms, and courses focused on design, media, music, visual arts, and digital professions.

The exhibition featured two distinct zones: an exhibition area with interactive booths for direct communication with educational brands, and a lecture hall dedicated to career development, navigating professional shifts, and long-term growth in the creative sector.

2024 - 2025

Soundvision & Sound system placement / Tech Support & Consulting

A new multimedia art space, Cistern, has opened on the grounds of the former Stepan Razin factory in Saint Petersburg. The project, led by Alexey Onatsko, was created to promote media art and digital creativity.

The opening exhibition by the studio dreamlaser features seven installations exploring the theme of the future through light, mirrors, and sound. Each installation uses visual effects to create illusions, contrasting positive and negative expectations of what lies ahead.

The space plans to host up to four exhibitions per year, as well as educational and cultural events.

2018 – 2022 St. Petersburg / Moscow
2022 - present Madrid / Barcelona

Concept Creator / Technical Director / Producer

043 is an independent production center operating at the intersection of music, performing arts, and spatial formats.

The project combines technical production, stage design, and original artistic initiatives. 043 creates stages, installations, and event formats—from intimate performances and audiovisual projects to large-scale festival solutions. Its work is centered on environmental integrity: sound, light, structures, and space are treated as a unified system.

The practice of 043 is built around live formats—performances, jam sessions, exhibitions, and temporary stages—where the process is as important as the final result. Projects often develop within major festivals and urban events while maintaining an author-driven approach and independent identity.

The production center works both on its own initiatives and on external projects, taking responsibility for concept development, technical implementation, and production. 043 is oriented toward dialogue between artists, space, and technology, creating environments for live interaction and experimentation.

Sep, 2021—Feb, 2022

Technical Management / Artist Coordination / Exhibition Technical Maintenance / Team Coordination

HYDRA is a multimedia exhibition realized at Sevkabel Port as a standalone art-and-technology project.

The exhibition was conceived as a total installation, combining light, sound, media content, and spatial structures into a single environment. The project explored the interaction of form, movement, and perception, immersing the viewer in a continuously transforming audiovisual structure.

The exhibition functioned as a cohesive spatial statement in which technical solutions were not merely supportive elements but an integral part of the artistic language. Light and visual scenes formed a sequential route through the space, creating the effect of an uninterrupted experience.

HYDRA became an example of integrating media art, scenographic thinking, and an engineering approach within a large-scale exhibition venue.

2022

Cross-Team Coordination / Production Management / Staffing

A.R.R.C 2.0 is a multimedia total installation realized in the Kabelny Tsek workshop at Sevkabel Port as a standalone media art project.

The project was created by the studio dreamlaser in collaboration with curator Ksenia Chekhovskaya and musician Anny Ly. It unfolds as a four-part route through sequential spatial acts, built on an interactive combination of lasers, light, mirrors, and LED elements. The installation develops a thematic and visual narrative centered on inner evolution and self-discovery, allowing visitors to experience different states through specially constructed zones: AIM, REACT, REFLECT, and CHAOS.

The A.R.R.C 2.0 format combines media technologies, spatial effects, and active viewer interaction, delivering a multimedia experience grounded in the perception of light and movement.

2024

Technical Direction / Client Concept Implementation / Stage & Structural Design / Tech Management

Nihao, Shifu! is a large-scale festival of Chinese food and culture that brings together authentic cuisine, stage programming, and educational formats.

The festival functioned as a multi-layered urban event: a food market with dozens of participants, concerts, lectures, and workshops, all integrated within a single space. The project was designed for a broad audience and a steady flow of visitors, with well-planned logistics and comfortable on-site navigation.

Nihao, Shifu! is an example of a cultural festival that successfully works with mass audiences while preserving its identity and creating a holistic user experience that goes beyond gastronomy.

2023 - 2025

Technical Direction / Site & Build Coordination / Drawings & Layout Schematics

Morskaya is an annual nighttime event at Sevkabel Port that marks the opening of the summer season and brings together multiple music stages across the entire venue.

The event format is designed as a large-scale open-air, multi-stage party: several independent stages with different musical directions, bars and public areas operating in parallel, a dense flow of visitors, and a continuous program running until morning. The event occupies the full territory of the space and functions as a unified urban nightlife experience.

Morskaya is one of the venue’s key recurring events and requires complex coordination of stages, infrastructure, and technical production under conditions of high attendance.

2024

Concept & Artistic Direction / Sound & Visual Art / Technical Direction & Realisation

Backscatter is a captured anomaly of light and sound, brought under one roof. The installation invites reflection on the nature of interaction left behind after a melancholic journey.

The work was presented by the artist collective 043, united by shared aesthetic principles. Since 2018, the group has been creating immersive performative events, and Backscatter marks their first experience in producing an installation.

2023 - 2025

Technical Direction / Site & Build Coordination / Drawings & Layout Schematics

Port Art Fair is a major independent contemporary art fair hosted at the Sevkabel Port venue.

The project operated as a high-intensity exhibition and commercial event, featuring hundreds of artists and participants, a dense flow of visitors, and parallel zones for displays, sales, lectures, and public programming. The fair’s format required precise spatial organization, navigation, and infrastructure to ensure the seamless coexistence of art, commerce, and education.

Dedicated zones were established for art sales, facilitating direct communication between artists, collectors, and the public, alongside a lecture hall with a comprehensive program. The scale of the event demanded complex logistics, phased installation and dismantling, stable technical systems, and effective crowd management.

Port Art Fair demonstrated how an independent art project can function as a large-scale urban event while maintaining high content quality, a steady tempo, and full production control.

2024 - 2025

Technical Direction / Site & Build Coordination / Project Design

AUTOPÍA is a large-scale, multi-format automotive event.

The project took the form of an extensive temporary exhibition of classic, sports, and specialty vehicles set within an open natural landscape. The event format combined exhibition zones, live-music stages, a food court, family and children’s activities, as well as cultural and recreational spaces operating in parallel throughout the event.

The event functioned as a complex, distributed system with high attendance and constant movement across the site. Its execution required robust technical solutions for an outdoor environment, precise infrastructure coordination, and synchronized operation of all zones within a single rhythm.

AUTOPÍA became an example of a scalable format successfully delivered over multiple consecutive years, maintaining production quality, pacing, and control over a complex spatial configuration.

2023

Site Management / Build Coordination

Balabanov is an interactive retrospective exhibition presented at Sevkabel Port and dedicated to the life and work of Alexey Balabanov.

The exhibition was structured as a sequential spatial journey combining the director’s biography, filmography, archival materials, unfinished projects, and key artistic motifs. The format merged scenography, installations, media content, and an audio guide, creating a cohesive narrative within an industrial setting.

The project relied on interactive engagement with the viewer and used sound, light, video, and physical objects as equal elements of the exhibition. It functioned as a large-scale multimedia installation designed for extended individual exploration and deep immersion into context.

2023

Blueprints design / 3D visualisations / Production

Planet K-30 is an annual music and cultural festival in Saint Petersburg that brings together electronic and contemporary music, urban performances, and independent cultural initiatives.

The event unfolds across multiple venues throughout the city and features a diverse music program with prominent artists and DJs, alongside related urban events such as concerts, on-board listening sessions, performances, and media art installations.

The festival operates as a multi-stage event with a dense program structure, combining live performances, showcases, installations, and relaxation areas to create a cohesive cultural experience for a broad audience.

2022

Stage management / Production

“Great” Fest is a recurring music and cultural festival in Saint Petersburg that brings together live performances by artists, market areas, food courts, and audiences within a single urban event.

The format features a multi-stage program with different musical directions and accompanying activity zones, generating dense urban foot traffic and a diverse cultural experience.

The event operates as an independent festival format, requiring comprehensive coordination of the venue, stages, and technical production under conditions of active visitor flow.

2021 - 2022

Idea / Production

Sevcabel Port Live is an Ivan's personal music project, developed at Sevcabel Port.

The project was conceived as a series of intimate live performances inspired by open studio recording formats and direct, live interaction between musicians. Conceptually, Sevcabel Port Live focused on an honest performance process, minimal distance between artist and audience, and capturing music in the moment—without concert theatricality or post-production aesthetics. Formats such as Tiny Desk and KEXP were used as references.

Ivan acted as the creator and producer of the project, overseeing the musical direction, visual environment, and technical execution of the recordings. The format suggests regular releases of episodes featuring different artists, filmed within the venue’s industrial setting.

Due to circumstances beyond the project’s control, the series was discontinued at an early stage. Before Ivan’s relocation to Europe, two full episodes were recorded and released. Despite its short lifespan, the project succeeded in articulating the core idea and format envisioned as a long-term music platform.

2019 - 2021

Technical Direction / Site & Build Coordination / Drawings & Layout Schematics

Classic Electric is an artistic and musical project and community of young Saint Petersburg–based composers, sound producers, and media artists working at the intersection of academic tradition and contemporary electronic music.

The project creates a platform for collaborative practice, the exploration of new forms of sonic expression, and the promotion of contemporary audiovisual art through regular A/V concerts and experimental events.

Classic Electric brings together musicians with formal academic backgrounds and electronic artists for collective work on compositions that develop and reinterpret the traditions of classical music in a contemporary context.

Project events include audiovisual concerts with live performances in which sound and visual media function as an integrated environment—operating not only as concerts, but as experimental spatial installations.

2021

Stage Management & Artist Coordination

Locals Only is a music and sports festival in Moscow that combines live music performances, elements of extreme sports, and urban culture. The festival’s name comes from surfer slang—“locals only,” meaning “for insiders only”—and reflects the idea of community and immediacy in the cultural experience.

The event format combined a multi-genre music program featuring notable artists from various directions, showcase performances in urban sports and activities, and an active social space for audiences and performers. The festival functioned as a dense urban format with multiple stages and activity zones, requiring comprehensive venue coordination and technical production.

2021

Cross-Team Coordination / Management

Andy Warhol and Russian Art is a large-scale art exhibition presented at Sevkabel Port as an international art project, showcasing a visual dialogue between the works of Andy Warhol and those of Russian artists.

The exhibition was structured as a sequential spatial experience in which more than one hundred works by Warhol—one of the key figures of 20th-century American pop art—were displayed alongside works by Russian artists reflecting the perception, interpretation, and influence of pop art within the Russian artistic context.

The show featured a wide range of media, including painting, graphics, photography, and objects, and was organized into multiple zones, each revealing specific themes and periods of Warhol’s practice in comparison with Russian artistic responses.

The project functioned as a large cultural platform highlighting the connections between international and Russian art, serving as a significant example of cross-cultural artistic dialogue within an urban environment.

Contact
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