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.
Ivan Novikov was born in 1990 in Moscow. He graduated from the Surikov Art Institute in Moscow and the Baza Institute of Contemporary Art. Since 2014 he has taught at the Baza as a head of a painting department. In 2015 he became a co-founder of the artist-run-space “Red Centre”, a progressive exhibition space for young artists at the Red October manufacture.
Novikov has had a number of solo exhibitions, among which are: Why? (START, CCA Winzavod, 2011), Lien Xo (pop/off/art gallery, Moscow, 2016), Shining Mycelium (VCCA, Voronezh, 2016), Double-edged (pop/off/art gallery, Moscow, 2018), and has participated in numerous important group projects such as Manifesta 10 (First Cadet Corps, St. Petersburg, 2014), “REPAIR” (ROT, Kassel, 2012), the 5th Moscow International Bienniale of Young Art (2016), the Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art (“Garage” Museum, Moscow, 2017).
He was the winner of the “Garage” Museum grant programme (2015, 2016) and a winner of the Competition in “Regional Project” nomination of the Innovation Award (2018), the first and most important award for contemporary visual art
in Russia. Novikov also was a finalist of the annual V-A-C Foundation and MHKA Antwerpen Russian art purchasing program (2015, 2018).
Novikov is also known as a curator (2012 Sorry, could I try next time? Agensy Art.ru, Moscow; 2015. Quarantined. Krasny Center, Moscow; 2019 Sans (t)rêve et sans merci. Сube, Moscow).
He is a member of the editorial board of the “Moscow Art Magazine”.
He lives and works in Moscow and and Hue, Vietnam.
2018 Double-edged. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2018 Good morning, Indochina! HLAM gallery. Voronezh
2018 Special communication: story about Mr. N. Zarya Centre for Contemporary Art. Vladivostok
2017 Luggage without the action. Electrozavod. Moscow
2016 Lien Xo. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2015 Perverted basket. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2015 Shining mycelium. Krasny Center. Moscow
2013 Umwelt. Komnata gallery. Moscow
2011 Why? Start project. CCA Winzavod. Moscow
2020 Painting minus. CCI Fabrika. Moscow
2019 Infography. Сube. Moscow
2019 Yoko Ono. Sky Is Always Clear. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2019 Poorest Class: Animals. CCA Winzavod. Moscow
2019 Heroes of Our Time. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2018 Fragile Things. Osnova gallery. Moscow
2018 How are you? NM. Parallel. Vienna. Austria
2018 Simple digits. The 8 Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art. Tashkent. Uzbekistan
2018 IAM. Garage MCA. Moscow
2018 Strange, lost, unseen, useless. CCA Winzavod. Moscow
2018 General Rehearsal. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2018 Together. VSCA. Vladivostok
2018 10+7. History of the shows. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2017 Back to home. Intelligentsia Museum. Nizhny Novgorod
2017 1st Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Garage MCA. Moscow
2017 Transparent borders. Krasny Center. Moscow
2017 Kartateka. Argunov Library. Moscow
2016 In the network of form. Krasny Center. Moscow
2016 Souvenirs from Nowhere. Matadero CCC. Madrid. Spain
2016 Experiences of the Imaginary. New Holland. Saint Petersburg
2016 INTERACTION. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2016 The Raw /The Cooked. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2016 City – artists, artists – city. The State Museum of Moscow. Moscow
2015 Voices. Krasny Center. Moscow
2015 Futuristic mimicry. Chekhov’s house. Moscow
2015 Bomb. Krasny Center. Moscow
2015 Forma-fest. Kristall factory. Moscow
2015 Dirty linen. Krasny Center. Moscow
2015 Hooray! Sculpture! CCA Winzavod. Moscow
2014 The Other Side. Garage MCA. Moscow
2014 Painting expansion. The State Museum of Moscow. Moscow
2014 Taint. Grad gallery. London. UK
2014 Generation START. The First Cadet School. Manifesta 10. Saint Petersburg
2014 Klukva. Ugor CCI. Syktyvkar
2014 Supposing. Museum of Divnogory. Voronezh
2014 Surgery. The Ekaterina Cultural Foundation. Moscow
2014 Forever living corpse. CCA Winzavod. Moscow
2013 Baza. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2013 Why do we go to see exhibitions. Multimedia Art Museum. Moscow
2013 Before the paradise. CCA Sokol. Moscow
2013 Nothing of the Kind. The State Museum of Moscow. Moscow
2013 Stability. Ghosts. Random gallery. Moscow
2013 MediaUdar. Artplay. Moscow
2013 Our cause. CCI Fabrika. Moscow
2012 REPAIR. Project POT. Kassel. Germany
2012 P.S.How it makes. Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. Yekaterinburg
2012 Art for Fake. Gallery K35. Moscow
2011 Reactualization of a sign. Vspolny gallery. Moscow
2011 Parallel process. The Moscow House of the Artist. Moscow
2011 Choose as heart. Krasnoyarsk museum Biennial. Krasnoyarsk
2011 The Chinese wall. 11 rooms gallery. Samara
2011 Auditorium Moscow. A Sketch for a Public Space. White Chambers. Moscow
2010 Freedom. Liberty. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow. Moscow Biennale of Young Art. Moscow
2010 Media Act. Zhir project. Moscow
2008 Neither jury, nor prize. NCCA. Moscow Biennale of Young Art. Moscow
Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
Museum of Contemporary Art “Garage”. Moscow
National Centre for Contemporary Art. Moscow
Zarya Centre for Contemporary Art. Vladivostok
