Protey Temen uses different media such as video, drawing, books and installations to create visual abstractions in his field of research involving art, handwriting and design to explore and make clear the intersections between science and everyday life, through a poetic approach. He founded and manages the Inner School of Open Studies, a multidisciplinary art project presented at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art in 2017. At the same time, he developed a theoretical research that led him to found various artistic movements such as Dobrotarism (2007) and Surritualism (2014).
Temen has participated in several solo and group exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2011) in the Internet Pavilion, The Cave of Generosity solo exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2014), the European Biennial of Modern Art Manifesta 10 (2014) and the International biennial of digital art The Wrong (2017/2018). With the Maurizio Corraini Gallery, Temen has participated in ArtVerona (2019) and Artissima (2021). He exhibited at the 121+ Library in Milan with Total Timeline (2019), at the corrainiMAMbo bookshop in Bologna with Probability of Chance (2020) and at the Galleria Corraini in Mantua with Joint Studies (2021). In 2022 he participated in the 23rd International Exhibition at Triennale Milano with the site specific installation Another attempt of relative explanation.