Works of contemporary famous artists
ALPHABETICAL SELECTION OF THE AUTHOR:
Maria Agureeva
Maria Agureeva was born in 1985. Graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Technology and Design (Department of Graphic Design, 2003 – 2009), ICA ( Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow) (2014-2015) . The artist works with installations, videos, performances, sculpture.
AN-NA
AN-NA is a modern Russian artist. She works in various media – from painting and sculpture to visual poetry and volumetric collages; she actively uses available materials and mixed techniques, which reveal creative tasks in the best possible way.
Anna Andrzhievskaya
Born 1989, lives and works in Saint-Petersburg. Member of group North-7.
Work with the theme of perception of art through fountains, edible sculpture and graphics.
Andrey Andreev
Creates painting, graphics, installations, performance.
Explores social ties, ironically reflecting them in art. Works with public space. Criticism of capitalist relations.
2019 winner Tretyakov Prize in the nomination ‘Internet project of the year’ with the project ‘Where is my father?’
Konstantin Batynkov
Konstantin Batynkov was born in 1959 in Sevastopol, his family moved to Moscow in the same year. The artist works in different media with equal success, mainly in painting and graphics. In 2003, his works were awarded the 2nd prize, and in 2005 – the Grand Prix of the Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale. In 2015, Konstantin Batynkov became an Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Vika Begalska and Alexander Vilkin
Vika Begalska and Alexander Vilkin is a Moscow-based artistic duo who started working together in 2014. One of their most significant mutual projects by the duo– a performative puppet play entitled Aphrodite’s Girdle, got noticed and made it to a short-list of a prestigious Russian prize in contemporary art– the Innovation Prize. In 2017, the video footage of the performance was shown at the Teresa Union’s personal show at M HKA museum in Antwerp, Belgium.
Pavel Belan
1974 – was born in Kovrov , Vladimir region .
Media: sculpture, graphics.
The author always drew and invented. He is interested in all topics and methods, especially the form.
Pavel is the author of several public projects, including the «Horse-Fire» sculpture for the Moscow City Day – 2017.
Lives and works in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Ekaterina Bortsova
Ekaterina Bortsova is one of the most advanced and contemporary artists. She was born in Ukraine. She started her path as an artist at the Kharkov Art School, specializing in fine and decorative arts, and received the qualification of an artist, painting performer and a teacher.
Olga Bozhko
Olga Bozhko has many various talents. She is a design critic, journalist, set designer and also an artist. As an artist, she is definitely interested in the human existence in an urban civilization, opposed to nature topic. But Bozhko always seeks to combine these two opposite principles. At one of her exhibitions, she knitted a huge sock with a birch ornament, placing nature in the center of civilization, which, of course, is the gallery itself. This time she “grew” birches, rowan trees, and other Christmas tree-sticks right on the concrete slabs, which Olga used as canvases.
Annouchka Brochet
Annouchka Brochet is a Russian artist.
She produces ceramics, installations using ceramics and videos, also using old ceramics as ready-mades. She also do paintings (oil on canvas), paintings on glass and Plexiglas, light boxes, installations with Plexiglas and shadows, and works on mirrors. Annouchka concentrates her works mainly on the Cult of Beauty, the consumption ideology, and the position of women in society and art. Her feminist position is quite unique in the Russian scene.
Erik Bulatov
Erik Bulatov is one of the key figures in contemporary Russian art, one of the reformers of the painting in the second half of the 20th century. Its formation and fame in the 1960 – 1980’s were connected with the circle of non-conformism, “other art” in which he was perceived by one of the authorities, along with his closest friends – Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vasiliev and others. Bulatov’s name is usually connected with such stylistic trends as “pop art”, “sots-art” and “photorealism”, but it is obvious that the artist’s works are not limited to them.
Pasha Bumazhny
Pasha Bumazhny was born in Leningrad in 1984.
Pasha Bumazhniy is a artist who want to draw with a leg , with a lake , with a fake bees, with a real trees , with a chess , with a tiny face , with a bred , with a cranky tread, with a standart paper needs , with a sticky lucky neembs , with a pinky massive geeps, but he didn’t do nothing but just want to.
lives and works in St. Petersburg.
Peter Bystrov
Peter Bystrov is a well-known performance and visual artist, whose works please the eye of the viewer with their uniqueness, but at the same time do not leave us without grounds for a thought. The author uses a unique technique without trying to reliably express the details.
Valery Chtak
Valery Chtak (b. 1981) is a Russian artist. Since 1998 Chtak and friends attended an informal contemporary art school founded by Avdey Ter-Oganyan. From 2000 to 2005 Chtak was part of the Radek Group, a community of artists, musicians and cultural activists that emerged from Ter-Oganyan’s school. Since 2002, Chtak has regularly participated in group exhibitions in Russia and abroad, and has implemented personal projects.
Valery is a nominee for the State Prize in the field of contemporary art “Innovation” in the nomination “New Generation” (project “Only the Truth”, 2011).
Tatyana Chernomordova
Tatyana Chernomordova graduated from the Academy of Arts named after Repin, Central Saint Martins College.
In her work, Tatyana processes boards using icon-painting technology and copies landscapes on them from paintings performed by old masters, adding figures of her friends in the images of Venus or St. Sebastian
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Olga Chernysheva
Olga Chernysheva (born 1962 in Moscow, Russia) is a contemporary artist who lives and works in Moscow. Her work spans film, photography, drawing and object-based mediums, where she draws on quotidian moments and marginal spaces from everyday life as a way of exploring the increasing fragmentation of master narratives in contemporary Russian culture.
Artyom Diatyan
In his paintings Artem Diatyan often seeks to overcome the rigid construction of abstract compositions, subordinating it to dynamic energy, which finds its existential recharge in multilayered and polysemantic at the same time. This, in turn, allows the viewer to find and see in the work something personal and intimate. At the same time, the genesis of the work of art is directly verified in the author himself, the author, who, in an effort to bring the picture to perfection, for years turns to it again and again ..
Leta Dobrovolskaya
Leta Dobrovolskaya works with various media, including video, painting, graphics, sculpture and fabric printing. Often in her artistic practice, she explores the theme of the past, it can be an aesthetic dialogue with the Soviet heritage or references to the Baroque style. Leta is interested in the moment when a symbolic object turns into an object of aesthetic games and speculation. Her practice appeals to the creation of some semantic ambiguity and ambiguity. Often in her works she balances between understanding a household object to a conventional form, freeing this subject from vulgarity and literality, giving the object a new syntax.
Irina Drozd
Education and residences:
2019 – Florence, Italy, Marino Marini Museum, residence.
2019 – Budapest, Hungary, Hegyvidek Summer camp. Residence.
2014-Paris, France, residence Ivry sur Siene, RX Gallery
2013-Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris,France, Artist-in-Residency
2013-Groningen, Netherlands, Artist-in-Residency
2010-Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France, Artist-in-Residency
2007- High Art School in Berlin (professor – Werner Liebmann)
2003-2009 – St. Petersburg State Academy of Art and Design (former – V.Muhinoj), 1997-2002 – Venetzianov Tver High Art school
Andris Eglitis
Andris Eglitis was born in Riga in 1981. He studied at Janis Rozentals Riga Art High school (1992-1999), then received a degree in Fine Art from Art Academy of Lativa (1999-2005), also studied at Manchester Metropolitan University (2002), Saint Petersburg Academy of Arts (2004), and Higher Institute of Fine Arts (Gent, Belgium, 2012-2013). He was awarded a Purvitis Prize (2013) and an Autumn Exhibition prize (2002, 2007).
Angelina Ermachkova
The main direction is Realism. The red line of creativity is ontology.
Media: painting, drawing, mosaic, sculpture, installation. Participates in exhibition projects, group exhibitions and monumental projects for the design of public buildings.
Lives and works in Moscow.
Despina Flessa
Despina Flessa was born in Athens in 1986, where she currently lives and works. Gained BA Painting (2012) and MFA Visual Art (2015) from Athens School of Fine Arts, Greece. In 2010 she studied in the Drawing & Painting Department at Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland. In 2016 had the first solo show (together with Dimitris Efeoglou) at Zoumboulakis Galleries, Athens. In Russia her works were first exhibited at «Heliogabalus» show (curated by Alexander Plusnin), in parallel prorgamme of V Moscow International Biennale for Young Arts (pop/off/art gallery, 2016).
Kirill Garshin
Was born in Voronezh (Russia) in 1990.
2013 – Graduated from Voronezh Art Institute.
The artist explores the topics of illness, deviation, and the bounds of social realm in terms of contemporary.
Artist in residence in LIA Leipzig International Art Programme (Germany).
Kirill Garshin lives and works in Voronezh.
Sergey Geta
Sergey Geta was born in 1951 in Kiev. He graduated from the Kiev Art Institute. Since 1975 he has taken part in art exhibitions and competitions of international standing, including the Biennale of Graphics and Drawing in Germany, Poland and Malta. He is a member of the Union of Artists of Russia. Sergey Geta’s works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; the Zigzag Corporation, the USA; the Crystal Art Museum, Japan; and art museums in Nuremberg, Wroclaw and Kiev, as well as in numerous private collections around the world. The artist lives and works in Moscow.
Alexander Golynskiy
Alexander Golynskiy was born in Simferopol in 1987. In 2007, he received a diploma from the Interior Design Faculty at the Crimean Samokish Art School. He later furthered his education as a stage designer for theatre, television and film industry at the Kyiv National Academy where he later performed researches and taught. In 2013 he was awarded as a finalist of the Grand U-ART prize in Paris, France. Artist graduated from the Free Workshops Art School in 2016 and later proceeded with his education at BAZA Institute for Contemporary Art in 2018.
Ivan Gorshkov
Sculptor, painter, graphic artist.
Co-founder of the Voronezh Center of Contemporary Art. His semi-abstract objects of wood, toys, cloth, enameled metal resemble monsters, mutated organic and deformed figures of people. These images are reflected in painting in an expressionistic manner. Combines installations with fictional subjects and characters.
Evgeny Gorokhovsky
Evgeny Gorokhovsky (b. 1951) – is a well-known Moscow artist from the middle generation. He was born in Odessa in an architect family of Edouard Gorokhovsky, who was an important figure in soviet nonconformist art. In 1973 he graduated from the staging faculty of the Moscow Art Theatre School and then worked as a set designer in Novosibirsk.
Andrey Grositsky
Andrey Grositsky (1934 – 2017) was born in Moscow. In 1959 he graduated from the Moscow State Institute of Art n.a. V. I Surikov. From 1962 to 1994 he taught at the Extramural People’s University of the Arts (ZNUI) with M. Roginsky, B. Turetsky, I. Chuikov. In 1968 he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, but continued his extremely individual search in painting and soon began to take part in apartment exhibitions of unofficial art.
Valery Grikovsky
Work was recognized with awards, including:
2009 – The winner of 6th International Drawing Biennal (Novosibirsk, Russia) in a nomination “The original drawing” (1 place)
2010 – Diploma 4th All-Russia Tomsk Triennal “Figure of Russia”
2012 – SALON D’AUTOMNE (Paris, France), Prix De Penture 2012.
2015 – Kuryokhin Award 2015 (St. Petersburg), the nomination “the best work of visual art”, the nominee (shot list)
2021 – ZverevArtPrize (Moscow, Russia) – People’s Choice Award
Lives and works in St.Petersburg, Russia.
Dmitri Gutov
- Born on the December 10, 1960 in Moscow
- Studied at the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow Pedagogical State University in the name of V.I. Lenin from 1978 to 1980
- In 1985 he graduated from the Faculty of Easel Painting of the Correspondence Folk University of Arts
- In 1992 he graduated from the Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in the name of I. E. Repina
Dinara Hörtnagl
Dinara Hörtnagl (Nurimova) was born in Yekaterinburg in 1988.
Since early childhood she lived in St. Petersburg.
2013 graduated the Repin Academy of Fine Arts, the graphic faculty under the guidance of Professor Andrei Alekseevich Pakhomov.
She graduated from the Academy with honors and a golden medal for academic success.
In 2015 she joined the Union of Artists of St. Petersburg.
Since 2018 Dinara has been living in Vienna, Austria and part time in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Yulia Ivashkina
Yulia Ivashkina (born 1982) belongs painting, graphics, objects and sound installations. In her works Ivashkina researches production and representation of imaginary perceptions.to the young generation of Russian artists who started working in 2000’s. She mainly works with Ivashkina’s first solo exhibition has been organized within Winzavod Contemporary Art Center’s ‘’Start’’ program for young artists. In this project, through constructing complicated installation, Yulia studied imaginary spaces as echoes of non-existing past, images of lost and disappeared places forming unsteady borders between real and imaginary world.
Ramil Karipov
Ramil’s works are works of different genres, made in the author’s synthetic style. The author’s attention is not focused on a specific problem or idea, the main goal is to express the subjective perception and vision of the surrounding world. Ramil Karipov’s paintings are a reaction to objects and events of the outside world, a distorted, alternative reality of the artist. The author’s autodidactism allows him working in different artistic directions and techniques and organically combine elements of variable styles, creating a unique artistic language.
Nikolay Kasatkin
Nikolay Kasatkin is a classic of contemporary Russian art, one of the iconic representatives of the sixties generation. Nikolay Kasatkin was born in 1932 in Zhukovo village, Smolensk region. Since 1933 he lived in Moscow, though since 1983 during summers he worked and lived in Vorontsovo village, Smolensk region. In 1959 he graduated from Moscow State Art Institute n. a. V.I. Surikov, in 1973 became a member of the Moscow branch of USSR Artists’ Union.
Sergey Katran
Sergey Katran is a well-known Moscow artist, author of objects, audio and video performances, sculptures and multicomponent exhibition projects. In his work, he always moves towards a philosophical understanding of the laws of the Universe, all his artistic ideas, usually have a strict scientific foundation.
Aleksei Kuklin
He was born in 1998, Odintsovo, Moscow Region.
Education:
2020 – University of Civil Engineering (NRU MGSU). Industrial and civil construction. Bachelor program.
Works in the technique of abstract painting.
He lives and works in Odintsovo, Moscow Region.
Tanya Klyat
Her artworks were shown at Moscow International Biennale For Young Art (2018, 2020), 8 Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art (2019), Scope Art Fair Miami Beach (2019). She was a resident of Open Studios in Moscow Center for Contemporary art Winzavod (2018-2019)and resident of White Room Foundation (2020-2021). Tanya is within the list of top-100 young contemporary artists in Russia according to authoritative portal InArt and Top-35 at art-rating “I LIKE IT-2022” of portal 49art. She is a participant and winner of contests for artists and decorators. The artist’s works are represented by the galleries in Russia, Europe and Middle East, objects and graphics are in Zverevski Museum, Russian and Western private collections.
Oksana Kondratenko
Oksana Kondratenko was born on November 26 in Klaipeda, Lithuania. Now he lives and
works in St. Petersburg, Russia. Has 2 higher educations. But throughout her life she
realized that the main business of her life was drawing and in 2019 she graduated from the
College of Traditional Culture in the class of Porcelain painting and received the profession
of a painter.
Porcelain painting is the most important activity for the Artist.
The artist draws inspiration from the world of women she understands.
Anna Kotova
Anna was born in 1992 in Siberia.
She graduated from the Institute of Arts with a degree in graphic design.
She loves graphics, watercolor, experiments with materials, paints with acrylics and oils.
Also engaged in design; creates collages, illustrations, digital art. Works as a filmmaker.
She lives and works in Moscow.
Andrey Krasulin
Andrey Krasulin was born in 1934 in Moscow and spent his childhood in Pushkino (Moscow area). From 1953 to 1960 he studied at the Moscow Stroganov School of Art and Industrial Design, majoring in monumental and decorative sculpture. In soviet and post-soviet time Andrey took commissions from the state in collaboration with architects: bas-reliefs in theatre halls, sculptures in public places, and often memorials. These works were often abstract that was very atypical for that time.
Ludmila Krutikova
Krutikova Liudmila was born in Moscow.
Education:
– Master degree in Moscow State Textile Academy named after Kosygin, Applied Arts Department,
– Master degree in Moscow State Stroganov Academy of Design and Applied Arts (Stroganov Academy)
2008-2010 – has been working as Associate Professor in Moscow State Textile University, Applied Arts Department.
Nastya Kuzmina
Nastya Kuzmina (b. 1989, Ulyanovsk, Russia) is a young artist living and working in Moscow. By education, programmist and enginner. Nastya is graduate of The Rodchenko School of Art, where she studied under the guidance of the world famous Russian artist Sergey Bratkov (“Photography Sculpture Video”). In 2016 Nastya completed Interdisciplinary Contemporary Dance Study Programme SOTA by GARAGE Museum of Contemporary Art.
Oleg Lang
Oleg Lang (1950–2013) born in the city Novomoskovsk, in the region of Tula. Graduate of the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow, Oleg Lang has managed to develop a unique artistique style. He was recognised as an outstanding painter already in the 1980s. His artistic trajectory is very individual, even though it can evoke certain associtions — now with «refined» primitivism, now with the brutality of «the New Fauves». For Lang, painting is a universal language, that has never lost its relevence and is still efficient.
Alexey Lantsev
Alexey Lantsev’s works are in the ownership of numerous museums and private collections: The Modern Art Museum of Vladikavkaz, The Krasnodar Art Museum, The Novosibirsk Art Museum, The National Bank of Iceland, Deutsche Bank (Germany), Standard & Poor’s, Raiffeisen Bank, Clifford Chans, Novosibirsk Art Museum, 20th Ceturury Art collection Abramtsevo Museum, Mstislav Rostropovich and Galina Vishnevskaia collection.
His works are also in private collections in France, Hong Kong, Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Israel, Switzerland, Russia
Rostislav Lebedev
Rostislav Lebedev is a famous contemporary artist, active participant of unofficial artistic movement of Soviet period. Lebedev has gained recognition as one of the founders of Sots Art. He was one of the first artists in Soviet art to use techniques that later became clichés of postmodernism: quotes from classical works, their ironic combination, thematization of discursive practices – political, Freudian with aggressive sexual context, postcolonial. In his works Lebedev features reflexive references to the artistic practice of his contemporaries and compatriots.
Mikhail Levius
Media: painting, graphic arts.
In his work he relies on experience of such figurative artists as Justin Mortimer, Phil Hale, representatives of New Leipzig school of painting, in particular Matthias Vaysher and Neo Rauch. He combines realistic and abstract methods.
He imitates collage technique and he uses multilayered positioning of esthetically contrast images.
Dmitry Likhovtsev
Dmitry Likhovtsev was born on December 20, 1979.
Graduation work “Hockey”, dedicated to the Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, was created under the guidance of artist of the Russian Federation, a full member of the Russian Academy of Arts, a member of the Union of Artists of the Russian Federation, Doctor of Art History, Professor Valery Maloletkov.
Member of the creative groups of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Union of Sculptors of the Moscow Union of Artists (since 2014).
Нe lives and works in Moscow.
Roman Manikhin
Roman Manikhin was born in 1977 in Moscow. In 2008 he graduated from the Moscow State Art University named after S.G. Stroganov, faculty of Communicative Design. He is working with painting, printed graphics, volumetric installations. In 2011 he was accepted in the Moscow Union of Artists in the poster section.
Igor Makarevitch
Born in the Trialeti village, Georgia in 1943
Studied at the Moscow secondary art school from 1955 to 1962
Studied at the art faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography from 1962 to 1968
Worked as an artist on Central Television from 1968 to 1971
Misha Most
Mishas works main concern is dedicated to the humans perception of the future, to correlation between the human and science, society and technology. In 2017 Misha has created a 10 000 sq.m. mural on a faсade of a metallurgic factory, which set the world record for the wall mural of one artist. In September 2017 on his personal show at Winzavod art center Misha has presented a unique project – “artists assistant”, worlds first fully programmed painting drone. Also since 2021 stars working in the sphere of digital art and nft.
Vilgeniy Melnikov
He was born on November 25, 1984 in Essentuki city.
2002-2005 – studied at the Academy of Mechanical Engineering
2007-2009 – Mironenko V.I. Private School of Arts
In 2009 he founded the studio of experimental sculpture OfelyArt in Saint Petersburg.
2015-2016 – built an art residence OfelyArt Home
Angelina Merenkova
Angelina Merenkova (born 1988) is one of the brightest names of the younger generation of Moscow artists. In her work, she implies a vast variety of techniques– from painting and installations to photography, embroidery and sewing. Merenkova graduated from Bauman’s University and later completed degrees at Free Workshops (2011-2012) and Baza(2012-2014) Institutes of Contemporary Art. In 2017, Angelina had her first solo exhibition, Sign Horizon, at pop/off/art gallery space.
Artem Muntyan
Artem Muntyan was born in the city of Hincesti (Moldova) in 1986.
Main topics: а human being, memory, legacy of the past, reconciliation of the past and the present. Media: painting, graphics, sculpture, installation, performance. Since 2000, Artem has been engaged in the historical reconstruction of early Russia (10th-11th century), the period of the Tatar-Mongol invasion of Russia in the 13th century, the Don Cossacks during the development of Siberia by Ermak in the 16th century.
Artem became engaged in visual art in 2013, when he gathered artists in his native city and became one of the founders of the BALOK art group.
Artem is a Russian artist of Moldovan origin. “Moldova is my mother, it gave birth to me, while Russia is my father, it raised me and tought me how to live”, – Artem Muntyan.
Katerina Muravuova
The sphere of Katerina’s creative interests is wide: from conceptual painting to objects and interactivevideo/light installations and social projects and digital reality. The themes with which the artist works are a portrait of modernity and thesearch for self-identity.
Gregori Maiofis
- Born on the March 22, 1970 in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg)
- Studied at the State Art Institute in the name of I.E. Repin from 1986 to 1989
- Moved to the USA in 1991
- Since 1999 started working with digital photography and video
- In 2004 received the Kultur Kontakt Foundation Award (Austria)
- In 2006 received the Betty and Jim Kasson Award (USA)
- Lives in Saint Petersburg
Latsis Normund
Latsis Normund is a Latvian cinematographer, artist and sculptor. He was born on January 18, 1961 in the Ogre city, Latvian SSR. In 1990 Latsis graduated from the Latvian Academy of Arts, Faculty of Theory and History of Arts. In 1996 he graduated from the directing department of VGIK (workshop of V.M. Kobrin). Since 1991 he has been living and working in Moscow.
Vladimir Nasedkin
Vladimir Nasedkin (b. 1954)— a renowned artist working with graphics, sculpture, photography, objects and installations. He has participated in multiple group exhibitions in Russia’s most significant museums. Nasedkin’s personal exhibition has been shown within the 2011 Venice Biennale’s parallel program in Ca Foscari University and in Museo Petro Canonica in Villa Borghese (Rome, Italy, 2012).
Ivan Novikov
Ivan Novikov is one of the most notable representatives of the emerging generation in Russian contemporary art scene working with painting and installation. His study of the relationships between a human being and nature has had a particular impact on his creative process. Ivan conducts a research on the boarder of theory and history of art, world and in particular Asian history, politics and religion, and matters of communication between anthropology and art.
Irina Nakhova
Irina Nakhova is one of the key figures of Moscow Conceptual School that formed in the 1970s in the USSR. She is a painter, book illustrator, author of large-scale installations, in which she applies different media and techniques. She is one of the first artists who started creating installations in Russia.
Anatoly Osmolovsky
Anatoly Osmolovsky has earned the right to be called the ‘leading political artist in Russia’. In the course of the last two decades he has become known as a figure that has, on multiple occasions, been responsible for redirecting the trajectory of Russian contemporary art. He was one of the founders and leading figures of ‘Moscow Actionism’ in the 90s, and at the turn of the century he was responsible for the emergence of ‘Non-Spectacular’ art in Russia, even if several years later he then declared a return to the ‘creation of art’ and the exploration of its formal foundations and fundamental structures.
Margo Ovcharenko
Margo Ovcharenko, an art photographer, was born in 1989 in Krasnodar. In 2011 she graduated from the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia n.a. Rodchenko. She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Re:Generation (Lausanne), Moscow Photobiennale, Moscow International Festival “Fashion and Style in Photography” and international contemporary art fairs. Margo has had solo exhibitions in Paris, Copenhagen, St. Petersburg and Moscow.
Alexander Pankin
Alexander Pankin is a significant artist from Moscow, one of the most famous representatives of ‘unofficial’ art who had been constantly evolving and ethroughout past 40 years. He is widely known for his very own and unique version of abstract painting that has developed into an analytical artistic research that touches the problematics of classic Avantgarde with the newest innovations of the modern day’s theoretical science.
Kristina Pashkova
Technical University, Public Relation specialist (2014, Lipetsk). Graduate of the Free Workshops of MMOMA (2020, Moscow), a student of Institute of Contemporary Art of Joseph Backstein (since 2020, Moscow) and WHW Akademija (2022, Zagreb). Participated in many group exhibitions since 2020. Her works have been exhibited at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Moscow, Winzavod, the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art and the State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. I participate in the art group “Textile Laboratory”.
Arkady Petrov
Arkady Petrov is one of the most famous artists of the “seventies” generation, in whose work both the unique personality and typical features of the art of this time were reflected. The main motive of Petrov’s art is the life and culture of the Soviet province of the mid-twentieth century. More broadly, the life of the “simple Soviet man” as a special case of the “little man”, one of the traditions that determine Russian culture. The artist reinterprets the stereotypes of Soviet society, looking at them through the prism of kitsch, and images of Russian mass culture – from painted postcards to portraits of Alla Pugacheva, a famous Russian singer. Petrov transformed the impersonal aesthetics of kitsch into a gallery of human types, naive and epic at the same time, depicting a unique slice of the era.
Igor Petrushov
Sculptor and graphic artist.
He made his first career in the mass media. He worked for a number of Moscow newspapers, founded an advertising agency. He started his artistic career at the age of 29. The focus of interests is corporeal, new value of objects, food as a way of transforming the body.
Aleksander Plusnin
Aleksander Plusnin (1981) – has graduated contemporary art institute “BAZA”, actively takes part in projects and exhibitions which happen on the leading platforms, in museums and biennales of contemporary art (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2019; Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary art, 2018; Ikuo Hirayama International Caravanserai of Culture, Tashkent; Special project of the 12th Krasnoyarsk museum biennale 2017, Museum Centre «Ploschad’ Mira», Krasnoyarsk; Vl Moscow biennale of contemporary art, 2015, Allrussian museum of decorative and folk art; lX Shanghai biennale of contemporary art, 2012).
Ivan Plusch
Ivan Plusch was born in 1981 in Leningrad; he graduated from the St. Petersburg Art College, n. a. N. K. Roerich and from the St. Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy, n. a. V. Mukhina in 2009. He is one of the founders and leaders of the group “The Unconquered” (2006), has regularly participated in the Youth Biennale, was a participant of the Parallel Programme of “Manifesta 10” (St. Petersburg, 2015), and has been a participant and organiser of numerous contemporary art projects. Ivan is a laureate of the Innovation Award (2013) and the Kuryokhin Prize. His works are in the collections of the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (as part of ROSIZO), as well as in numerous private collections around the world. He lives in St. Petersburg.
Anastasia Poliakova
Anastasia Poliakova was born in Moscow in 1989.
1999-2006 – Russian Arts Academy Arts School
2006-2009 – Surikov State Arts Institute
2009-2011 – GITIS State Theatrical Arts Institute, Scenography Department
2012-2013 – Mosfilm Studios, Set Designers’ Courses
2016-2017 – British Higher School of Design, Theatrical Design Department
Works as a painter, graphic artist and theater designer.
Victor Ponomarenko
1987 Victor Ponomarenko was born in Staroshcherbinovskaya (Krasnodar
region).
2009 He graduated from Krasnodar School of Art, Faculty of Painting.
2012 the artist has been a member of the art group “OKNO”.
2015 He graduated from Russian Academy of Arts.
2015 – 2017 Victor was working as a teacher of Painting, Drawing, Font and
typography in Krasnodar School of Art.
2018 He was the finalist of the “Untitled Prize”, Contemporary Art Contest.
2019 He was a member of the 8-th Moscow Internationall Biennale of
Contemporary Art (parallel program).
Victoria Poviraeva
The artist is mostly interested in the search for a liminal sensation, various intermediate and transitional states In creativity. The effect of “fascination” and suspended state, the simultaneous feeling of failure and constant expansion, flowering and pulsation are the distinctive features of the works and conscious guidelines in aesthetic utterance.
Most of the topics revolve around the issues of the position of an individual in the modern world, the perception of its boundaries in space and in relation to other individuals and the environment. In this regard, It is also important for artist to interact delicately with matter, which she perceives as an active component in her practice to identify these subtle images-symbols of modernity.
Victoria Predybailo
Victoria Predybailo has been engaged in ceramics for almost 10 years. The author refers to ceramics precisely as an art in which one can express oneself as an artist and creator. She studied at the Gaya Ceramic Center (Bali Island), attended master classes by Frances Marsden (Toulouse, France). Practical skills were acquired in the production of Klinskaya Ceramics (Klin).
Tanya Pioniker
She began her exhibition activities at the age of 17 — in 2011, becoming the youngest participant in the special “START” project at Winzavod. In 2014 she took part in the parallel program of the European Biennale Manifesta 10 in St. Petersburg. In 2017, the second personal exhibition “XVII” took place in VLADEY Space. The third solo exhibition “New ABC-book” was held in Gogol center in 2021. She took part in many group exhibitions, including a large-scale exhibition of contemporary art “One Family” as part of the “Cherry Forest” festival (2019). In 2020, she was shortlisted for the ISCP residence, New York, USA.
Vitaly Pushnitsky
Vitaly Pushnitsky was born in 1967 in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). In 1994 he graduated from the State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (the former Academy of Arts), and he studied simultaneously in the private studio of the artist Ivan Gurin. He has been a member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists since 1994. Pushnitsky has received numerous Art grants (USA) and created public projects for different countries (Russia, India, Denmark, Norway and others).
Victor Ribas
Victor Ribas is a professional artist, film maker; a graduate of Institute of Fine Arts and Culture (Khabarovsk, RF). He lives and works in Moscow.
On a ‘human fractal’ of Viktor Ribas, a pioneer artist in creating photographic portraits with laser lighting since 2006.
Pavel Rogatov
Pavel Rogatov is an artist who uses painting, installation and creation of objects and sculptures in his practice.
In his works, Pavel Rogatov addresses traumatic human phenomena, considering them through the prism of humor and allegory. It is also typical for Pavel to turn to the theme of games as a special form of human creative activity. Pavel Rogatov is currently a student at the Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia. Rodchenko. He also has an education as a classical painter and miniature painter.
Ekaterina Rozhkova
Katya draws her pictures with a simple pencil. She draws for a long time, in great detail, and very scrupulously. She draws simple objects – buckets, plates, typewriters, trees. But behind these normal things that we have all known since childhood hides an entire universe. Each image balances on the border between extreme concreteness and true abstraction. The large-scale format of her easel works and the technical luxuriousness of her classic drawing skills generate an unusual effect.
Ekaterina Rusova
In hometown, studied at the Shlein Art School, which gave a basic understanding of the direction of future activity, namely, work in graphics. Actually, the final work was in the appropriate style and is now in the exhibition space of the city library.
Later, she took private lessons from teachers who were members of the Union of Artists. This was enough for further independent development and search for the necessary expressive means.
Alexander Savko
1957 was born in Bendery, Moldova
1974 – 1981 study in Theatre Art School, Department of Scenography, Odessa
Ekaterina Scheglova
As a portrait painter, Katya painted over 400 people and did a number of personal exhibitions, among which are the long-time project Kids Of the World, projects Siblings and Mirrored Heart, exhibited several times in Russia. Also she took the Residency at Mana Contemporary Foundation in New Jersey. Some of her recent works participated in the Art Madrid Artfair January 2022.
Vladimir Shinkarev
Vladimir Shinkarev was born in 1954 in Leningrad. From 1974 to 1977 he took courses at Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design and Ilya Repin Leningrad Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture. In 1975 he started taking part in unofficial apartment exhibitions. In 1985 he founded The Mitki art group, which he left in 2008. He is also widely known as a writer and an author of a number of books, including the cult «Maxim and Fyodor» (1978-80). In 2008 he was awarded with Joseph Brodsky prize. His works are included in collections of State Tretyakov Gallery, Hermitage Museum, State Russian Museum, Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK). The artist lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.
Viktoria Shumskaya
Viktoria Shumskaya is one of the most promising mid-career artists. Shumskaya was born in Ukraine in 1968. She studied in Ural College of Applied Art and Arts, UA from 1985 to 1989 and in Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts, UA from 1996 to 2002. In 2002 she was awarded the Cultural City Network scholarship (Gratz, Austria).
Ivan Simonov
He was born in Moscow in 1991.
He started his art career from a streetart. Ivan was a photographer and it reflected on his technique in artwork. He use a documentary photo of people that have come in his camera and then glue them on the streets in his project #malenkielydi (smallpeople).
Albert Soldatov
Albert Soldatov was born in 1980 in Moscow. In 2002 he graduated from the Moscow State University of Printing Arts, as a graphic artist. From 2010 to 2014 he studied at the Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia in the “new media” studio. Laureate of the Kandinsky Prize in 2014 in the nomination “Young Artist. Project of the Year”, he works mainly in video. He has had several solo projects and has participated in numerous group ones. Among them are the video programme CITIZENFIVE, Art Athina (2017, Athens), the Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art in the Garage Museum (2017, Moscow), the 9th Andrei Tarkovsky International Film Festival “Zerkalo” (2015), “Great Hopes” (2014, “Manezh” Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow), the special projects of Biennales and others. His works are in the collection of the Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, and in private collections. Soldatov lives and works in Moscow.
Haim Sokol
Haim Sokol is an artist and he teaches at the Alexander Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia and is a member of the editorial board of the Moscow Art Magazine. Graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. He is also a recipient of the professional award “Soratnik” and has been nominated for the “Innovation” prize and the Kandinsky Prize.
Marina Stakhieva
Marina Stakhieva, artist (visual artist)
She was born in Syktyvkar (Komi Republic) in 1992. In 2015 she graduated from the Yaroslavl Art School. She is a student of the Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after I.E. Repin, graphic faculty, easel graphic workshop. Lives and works in Saint Petersburg. She mainly works with graphics, installation and performance.
Yana Tarakanova
Yana Tarakanova is a young Russian artist.
She was born in 1995 in Zelenograd.
She studied at the Palace of Art on Columbus Square in Zelenograd and at the British Academy of Design.
She also graduated the law faculty of Moscow State University.
In many of her works, Yana seeks to reveal the idea that artists light fire in people.
Artist’s morning
550€
Natasha Tarr
Natasha Tarr was born in 1982 in Zlatoust (Chelyabinsk Region, Russia). In 2011 she graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, after which she continued her education at the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Her first solo exhibition “The Most Ancient Theft” took place at the venue for young art “START” in the WINZAVOD Centre for Contemporary Art (Moscow) in 2013, after which her exhibition “The Only Nice Things” was held in the pop/off/art Gallery in 2014.
Lusine Tatevosyan
Lusine Tatevosyan is a contemporary Moscow artist.
In 2017 she graduated from the State Institute of Theater named after M.A. Litovchin, the faculty of mastery of a multimedia artist.
Since 2015, she has been a participant and winner of many art competitions, exhibition projects both in Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as in Italy, Cyprus, Turkey, Belarus.
Broken Backgammon
197€
Olga Tobreluts
1970 Born in Leningrad (St Petersburg), Russia
1985 Graduated in Architectural College, Leningrad (St. Petersburg), Russia
1989 Institute of Architecture LISI Leningrad (St. Petersburg)Russia
1992 Institute ART +COM Berlin Germany
Lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia, and Budapest, Hungary
Since 2000 the artist intensifies the romantic, even magical tradition, which was fully manifested in a series of performances “Anthology of Heaven ‘(1999-2002), carried out on the roof of the artist’s studio and a long-play history of “Private Moon “(2003 – 2017). For the first time made the light object in shape of crescent Moon to the installation for open space, traveled to different countries and continents including Russia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Austria, France, Switzerland and the Arctic.
Ivan Tuzov
Ivan Tuzov is a contemporary Russian artist, born in Leningrad in 1984. From 2003 to 2009 he studied at the Russian State Pedagogical University named after A.I. Herzen, at the faculty of Fine Arts. From 2012 to 2013 he participated in the “School for Young Artists” program, created with the support of the PRO ARTE Fund.
Daniil Vasiliev
Daniil Vasiliev is a newborn contemporary Russian artist.
Education:
2007 – 2014 St. Petersburg State Academic Art Lyceum named after B.V. Johanson
2014 – 2020 St. Petersburg State Academy Institute of Painting named after Repin, Faculty of Graphic Art. Daniil Vasiliev is a student of the artist Leonid Tskhe, a member of the North-7 art group. He raises mystical motives in his works.
Vlad Yurashko
Vlad Yurashko was born in 1970 in Poltava (Ukrainian SSR); in 2002 he graduated from the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts. The exhibition “Swear to Tell the Truth” is his fourth solo project in the pop/off/art Gallery. The artist’s solo exhibitions have been held in a number of leading galleries and contemporary art foundations in Russia, the Ukraine and Europe. Yurashko is a participant of the Main Project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013); the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015) and the Kiev Biennale “Month of photography” (2003, 2005); as well as dozens of international exhibitions.
Vasily Slonov
Vlad Yurashko was born in 1970 in Poltava (Ukrainian SSR); in 2002 he graduated from the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts. The exhibition “Swear to Tell the Truth” is his fourth solo project in the pop/off/art Gallery. The artist’s solo exhibitions have been held in a number of leading galleries and contemporary art foundations in Russia, the Ukraine and Europe. Yurashko is a participant of the Main Project of the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2013); the 3rd Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art (2015) and the Kiev Biennale “Month of photography” (2003, 2005); as well as dozens of international exhibitions.
Tatyana Yan
Tatyana Yan was born in Moscow in 1965. I n 1987 she graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute (Dmitry Bisti’s workshop). Her first art works were performed in the etching and lithography technique, and she also participated in exhibitions as a graphic artist. Since 1995 she has been active in paintings exhibitions.
Anastasia Zhikhartseva
(Anastasiia Okulova – real name)
She was born in 1986, originally from Krasnodar.
Anastasia graduated from the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts in 2021.
Continues her artistic career primarily as an artist, including printing, sculpture and performance.
Currently working in Sweden.
Yuri Zlotnikov
Yuri Zlotnikov (1930–2016) – is one of the undisputed classics of Russian contemporary art scene, one of the first abstractionists of the Thaw period. Zlotnikov’s use of the system approach to the creation of artistic language distinguishes his work when compared to other ways in which Abstractionism is represented within the Neo Avant-Garde. This to some extent makes him a successor of the artistic systems of V. Kandinsky and P. Mondrian. He created his own “signal system”, where he combined the artistic approach and scientific methods. His works had a huge impact on the development of Russian contemporary art.
