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.
Pankin was born in 1938 in Moscow in a family of an architect with a backgorund of a graphic artist who then became the first teacher of Alexander Pankin. Pankin has graduated from Moscow Architectural Institute in 1963 and has been expermienting with abstraction. In 1971 he became a member of Architects’ Union. Throughout 1970s – the beginning of 1980s he worked in Eliy Belyutin’s New Reality studio under and researched the forms ofthe new figurative painting tradition.
From the beginning of the 1990s, Pankin started his ‘Malevich and visual thinking’ research series which later evolved into what the artist refers to as the ‘meta abstraction’- his very own significant style of combining visual arts with mathematical methodology, be it painting, objects, installations or any other media. Throughout his career, Pankin had over thirty solo exhibitions, including his project at Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art (2019). Artists’ works could be found in the collections of The State Tretiakov Gallery, The State Russian Museum and NCCA as well as many prestigious private collections in Russia and abroad. Pankin lives and works in Moscow.
2019 Between zero and one. Alexander Pankin and the Avant-gardes. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2019 Geometry of name. Krokin gallery. Moscow
2018 Head. Krokin gallery. Moscow
2018 From realism to meta-abstraction. A3 gallery. Moscow
2017 Dialogue between number and light (with Dmitry Pankin). Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2016 Architecture. Obvious и and hidden. Krokin gallery. Moscow
2014 From Neo-Avant-Garde to Science art. Exhibition hall “Peresvetov pereulok” Moscow
2014 Head as Structure. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2013 From abstraction to meta-abstraction. A3 gallery. Moscow
2013 The Number of Mona Lisa. Krokin gallery. Moscow
2008 Fibonacci. Krokin gallery. Moscow
2008 Fibonacci Triangle. Central House of Architects. Moscow
2005 Retrospective «From spot to construction». Gallery of masters. Moscow
2004 The geometry of numbers – art. Central House of Architects. Moscow
2003 Numerical geometry and its image in contemporary culture. Pushkin-Institute. RAS. Moscow
2003 Number as image and visual meaning. NCCA. Moscow
2002 The Image of a number. Culture center “Dom”. Moscow
2001 Trihedral (with E. Gor and V. Umnov). Artgavan Gallery. St. Petersburg
2001 Number as art. Museum Center of The Russian State University for the Humanities. Moscow
2000 Point of view. Malevich in the mirror of objective art. Culture center “Dom”. Moscow
1998 Malevich and Visual Thinking. State Exhibition Hall “Na Solyanke”. Moscow
1997 Malevich – viewpoint – space. А-3 Gallery. Moscow
1996 Works of the 1960’s and their integral. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
1996 Triune. Exhibition Hall «v Peresvetovom pereulke». Moscow
1992 Zeidler Art Galerie. Gdansk. Poland
1992 МEmil Halosen museo. Lipinlahti. Finland
1992 Human. Exhibition Hall «v Peresvetovom pereulke». Moscow
1991 JBM Company. Company office. Moscow
1990 Reality, sign, art – 2. Exhibition Hall «v Peresvetovom pereulke». Moscow
1990 Luxemburger Schlos (with E. Gor). Konigstein. Germay
1989 Russen kommen! (Gor-Pankin-Wasilkow) Galerie Art Leuchter-Peltzer. Dusseldorf. Gemany
1988 Reality, sign, art. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
1985 House of Scientists of The JOINT INSTITUTEFOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH. Dubna. Moscow region
2020 Structural Resistance. Exhibition Hall “Na Shabolovke”. Moscow
2020 Forms of Movement. Sevkabel Port. St. Petersburg
2019 – 2020 Geo-metry in Culture XX-XXI centuries. 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus. NCCA. Moscow
2019 Yellow sound. 85 th Anniversary of Alfred Schnitke. The State Historical, Architectural, Art and Landscape Museum-Reserve “Tsaritsyno”. Moscow
2019 Earth/Sky. Art.Ru agency. Moscow
2019 And Shadows of Childhood will Disappear. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2019 Above the barriers. “New Reality”. TNK Art gallery. Moscow
2019 Curator’s childhood. Belyaevo gallery. Moscow
2018 Laziness. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2018 Moscow. “Open club” gallery. Moscow
2018 Square oil. CCA “Oblaka”. Ufa
2018 Because of music. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2018 Painting in words / Between text and image. Belyaevo gallery. Moscow
2018 – 2019 20 years of Museum of Nonconformist Art: Chronicles. Museum of Nonconformist Art. St. Petersburg
2017 – 2018 Collectors’ cabinet. Perelyotny kabak. Moscow
2017 Possibility to simplify. Exhibition Hall “Promgraphica”. Moscow
2017 Guernica: Spain 1937 – Moscow 2017. Spanish Culture center. Cervantes Institute. Moscow
2017 TerraTabula. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2017 Burluk – Burlesque. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2017 Thaw. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2017 Russian Troika and so on. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2017 Light against Light. Exhibition Hall “Nagornaya”. Moscow
2017 Private Time. Alexander Mironov collection. CCA Winzavod. Moscow
2017 Formula of a Circle. “Open club” gallery. Moscow
2016 – 2017 Silk Road. NCCA. Moscow
2016 – 2017 Moscow Thaw: 1953-1968. The State Museum of Moscow. Moscow
2016 Red and Black. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2016 Landscapes of Abstraction. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2016 Notation. Moscow Musical Theatre Helicon-Opera. Moscow
2015 Science-art-2015. Festival-laboratory. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2015 Possibility of Flight. NCCA. Moscow
2015 Around the Square. Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow
2015 East-West. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2015 Yellow Submarine. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2015 A Raw Nerve. Omelchenko Gallery. Moscow
2015 Art of Being Together. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2015 Square oil. Central House of Architects. Moscow
2015 Notation. CCI Fabrika. Moscow
2015 Victory as New Epic. Russian Academy of Arts. Zurab Tseretelli gallery. Krokin gallery. Moscow
2015 Book illustration forum. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2014 Science-art “Na Kashirke”. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2014 Sub Rosa. The State Darwin Museum. Moscow
2014 Counted. Measured. Divided. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
2014 I am Malevich. Architect’s Union of Russia. Москва
2014 Lucida Space. Peresvetov Pereulok gallery. Moscow
2013 Sky. Planetarium. Moscow
2008 100% blacksquare. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2008 The Power of Water. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
2008 Kulibin. Krokin Gallery. Moscow
2007 New Angelarium. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2007 Adventures of the “Black Square”. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
2006 SupreMADIsm «International Constructivism». Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2005 Collage in Russia. XX century. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
2005 Photogram. Projection. Silhouette. NCCA. Moscow
2005 Purest abstraction. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2004 New Arrivals. NCCA. Moscow
2004 Kazimir Malevich’s Birthday. NCCA. Moscow
2003 The Figuration as abstraction. Sam Brook Gallery. Moscow
2003 Abstraction of the age of perestroika. ARTSALON.ru Gallery. Moscow
2003 Moscow abstraction. Second half of the XX century. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2002 Counter-evolution. All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts. Moscow
2001 Abstraction in Russia. XX century. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
2000 To Malevich. Culture center “Dom”. Moscow
1998 Fokom-98. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1998 Art-Manege-98. Manege Exhibition Hall. Moscow
1998 Das Haupt. Techniker Krankenkasse. HDWK. Hamburg. Berlin. Germany
1997 Modern Art. Wiesbaden. Muschelsaal. Germany
1997 Metamorphosis of the still life in XX century. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
1996 First congress of Creative Foundation of Russia. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1996 Exhibition, devoted to Malevich. Malevich Foundation. Guelman Gallery. Moscow
1996 Zwischen Glauben und Asthetik. Zeitgenossische russische Maler. Leo-Lippman-Sale
1995 Russische Haus. Fridrich Nauman. Lauenburg. Berlin. Germany
1995 The New Sincerity. Moscow Underground in dialog with Mikhael Morgner. Goethe Culture Center. Moscow
1995 Autonomous art. «Le Chat» gallery. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1994 Zwischen Glauben und Asthetik. Zeitgenossische russische Maler. Evangelische Akademie. Hamburg. Germany
1994 No! – and conformists. Images in soviet art of 1950-1980’s. X. Dunikowski Sculpture Museum in Rabbitery. Warsaw. Poland – The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
1994 Contemporary Russian graphics. “Anshlag” Collection. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1994 Grosse Kunstaustellung. Kunstpalast. Dusseldorf. Germany
1993 From Russia to the Field Gallery. to Benefit Children’s studio of the Tretyakov Gallery. State Road West Tisbury Center. USA
1992 New Collection. Far Еast Museum of Fine Arts. Khabarovsk
1992 From Pleistocene to Holocene. Prehistoric art in the context of contemporary culture. Malevich-Center. Paleontological Museum named after Yu.A.Orlov of the Paleontological Institute of RAS. Moscow
1992 Masandra. Russian Avant-garde of XX century, Тhe Kaliningrad Regional Museum of History and Art
1992 Nuance. Far Еast Museum of Fine Arts. Khabarovsk
1992 A point in the vast darkness (Art-research). Malevich-Center. “Dom-100” Gallery. Moscow
1992 Grosse Kunstaustellung. Kunstpalast. Dusseldorf. Germany
1991 On the ways to spiritual. Exhibition Hall of Culture Foundation. Moscow
1991 Russische Maler (Realismus bis Avangarde), Atelier Harald Sommer. Baden. Germany
1991 Contemporary Sovjet Art. Kostakis Heuse of Art. Canada
1991 Perestrojk’art. Galerie Christine Colas er Orgcomitede Moscow (АН СССР). Paris. France
1991 Kunst Europa, 63 deutsche Kunstvereine zeitgen Kunst aus Landern. Mappener Kunstkreis. Mappen. Germany
1991 Contemporary artists to Malevich. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1990 Auktion of Polisch and Russian Contemporary Art Galerie. Gdanski Kantor Sztuki
1990 Grosse Kunstaustellung. Kunstpalast. Dusseldorf. Germany
1990 International Art Auction “East Meets West” Old. Modern and Contemporary Art Simultaneously Mechlen-Warsaw-Tokyo
1990 Russische Avangarde 1970-1989. Galerie am Lindenplatz. Schaan
1990 Pittori Moscoviti Contemporanei. Palazzo Rondanini alla Rotonda. Regione Lazio. Roma. Italy
1990 Arte Russa. Tra Rivoluzione e Perestroika, 14. Salone Nazionale L’evento Culturale Dell’anno Roma. Italy
1990 Zeitgenossische Kunstler aus Moskou (vom “Labirint” bis heute). Osteuropaisches Kulturzentrum. Koln. Germany
1990 Alternative art of the 1960’s. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
1990 Art-myth. Fist Moscow International Art Fair. CHA. Moscow
1989 Galerie For Dam. Assen. Netherlands
1989 100 Kleuren. Galerie Dijkstra. Amsterdam. Netherlands
1989 Russka Kunstnarer. Galerie Atrium med Gdanski Kantor Sztuki. Stockholm. Sweden
1989 Red-White. Tentoonstellung van hedenfaagse Kunst uit Polen en Rusland Open Havenmuseum. Amsterdam. Netherlands
1989 L’avant-garde Russe et Sovietigue. 1970-1980. Fodation Vasareli. Galerie Bodenschatz. Mosckovskaja Palitra. Paris. France
1989 Soviet Avant-garde of 1920-1980. Association “Moscow palette”. Minsk. USSR
1988 Labirint. Neu Kunst aus Moskau. Warschaw-Hamburg-Hanover
The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
National Center for Contemporary Art. Moscow
The State Russian Museum. St.Petersburg
The State Hermitage. St.Petersburg
Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts. Kaliningrad
Far Eastern Art Museum. Khabarovsk
The Kursk Deineka Picture gallery. Kursk
The State Fedin Museum. Saratov
