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.
His art is deeply connected with unofficial soviet artists, first of all with Erik Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev. After graduating his creative search expressed in post-Sezannist experiments (under the influence of R. Falk), then (since second part of 60’s) – in combining a painting and an object. In his works Kasatkin studied an influence of photography and kitch culture on painting. Though a “conceptual landscape”, which was based on the principle of combining recognizable landscape structures both in nature and in the history of art, has become his most important theme since the beginning of 1970’s. Just like Eric Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev, Kasatkin worked with the space of the image, the objective principles of its construction, considering the achievements of both avant-garde art and realistic painting (especially the landscape of the 19th century). Therefore, he developed his own, recognizable and unique style in art.
Kasatkin took part in numerous important solo and group shows such as “Nikolay Kasatkin. Double Perspective” (Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM, 2018-2019), “Nikolay Kasatkin. A Dual Picture” (The State Tretyakov Gallery, 2015), “Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitsch in Contemporary Art (The State Tretyakov Gallery, ), “Always Other Art. Victor Bondarenko Collection” (Moscow Museum of Modern Art, 2010).
Kasatkin passed away on 26th of October, 2019 in Moscow.
2019-2020 Nikolay Kasatkin. Природа картины, картины природы. ГЦСИ Арсенал. Нижний Новгород
2018-2019 Nikolay Kasatkin. Double Perspective. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM. Perm
2018 Nikolay Kasatkin. Dual Reality. Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre “Ploshad Mira”. Krasnoyarsk
2018 Spaces of a picture. The Kostroma Museum Reserve. Kostroma
2015 Looking back. Retrospective. 2015 – 1948. New Manege. Moscow
2015 Nikolay Kasatkin. A Dual Picture. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2012 …I wish you knew the kind of garbage heap. A-3 Gallery. Moscow
2012 Shadows and Reflections. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2009 Izmailovo – Vorontsovo. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2007 Traces. Continuation. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2005 Sky. Clouds (with E. Gorokhovsky). pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2004 Traces. Sam Brook gallery. Moscow
2003 House of the Moscow Government (Tverskaya, 13). Moscow
2002 On the way. Retrospective exhibition (on 70th anniversary). Na Solyanke gallery. Moscow
2001 Spaces of a picture. A-3 gallery. Moscow
2001 From civilization to nature. RusArts gallery. Moscow
1999 Transformations of the landscape. A-3 gallery. Moscow
1998 Picture within a picture. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
1998 Origin of a picture. Exhibition Hall “Dom”. Moscow
1997 Mother’s Rugs. Phoenix gallery. Moscow
1994 Russian landscapes. Altes notariat gallery. Roitlingen. Germany
1992 Galerie Karenina. Vienna. Austria (with N. Vostrikov and S. Shablavin)
1991 Retrospective exhibition. Smolensk State Museum-Reserve. Smolensk
1983 Retrospective exhibition (one day exhibition). House of Artists on Kuznetsky most 11. Moscow
1968 Nikolay Kasatkin. Sinyaya Ptitsa café. Moscow
1967 Nikolay Kasatkin. Smena magazine. Moscow
1966 Retrospective Exhibition. Chita
1965 Exhibition with V. Galatsky. House of Artists on Zholtovsky st., 17. Moscow
1964 Exhibition of engravings. DK Himikov club. Usolye-Sibirskoe. Irkutsk region
1964 Graphic exhibition. Limnological institute. Listvyanka village
2019-2020 A cradle of styles. 80th Anniversary of Moscow Academic Art Lyceum. Moscow
2019 Between Zero and One. Alexander Pankin and Avantgardes. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2018 Reflection. Moscow Academic Art Lyceum. Moscow
2014 Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitsch in Contemporary Art. Zarya Centre for Contemporary Art. Vladivostok
2013 Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitsch in Contemporary Art. The Kramskoy Museum of Fine Arts. Voronezh; 16thLINE Gallery. Rostov-on-Don; National Centre for Contemporary Art. Vladikavkaz
2012 Decoration of the Beautiful. Elitism and Kitsch in Contemporary Art. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2011 Reverse Perspective. Parallel program of 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2010 Always Other Art. Victor Bondarenko Collection. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2006 New age picture. Moscow painting of 2000’s. Belgorod State Art Museum, Belgorod
2005 Classics and Contemporaries. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2005 Ways of painting. Fine Arts of the second half of XX century from museum collections. Museum of History, Architecture and Fine Arts “New Jerusalem”. Istra
2005 Sixth. Horoscope for 2006 in pictures. pop/off/art gallery. Moscow
2004 War and Peace. All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts. Moscow
2004 Last? Exhibition. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
2004 Gifts of Moscow artists 2001-2004. Vologda Picture Gallery. Vologda
2004 Gifts of Moscow artists to Russian Museums. House of Artists on Kuznetsky most 11. Moscow
2004 Landscape. Fine Art gallery. Moscow
2003 The figuration as abstraction. Sam Brook gallery. Moscow
2003 Objects and Things, All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts. Moscow
2003 Antiterror. Autism center. Moscow; Kentavr gallery. Moscow; Solnechnogorsk historical-local lore museum. Solnechnogorsk
2002 Counter-evolution. All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts. Moscow
2002 Exhibition of 10th anniversary of “The International Art Fund”. Russian-German House. Moscow
2002 Space of the Object. All-Russian Museum of Decorative-Applied and Folk Arts. Moscow
2002 Summer Holidays. Fine Art gallery. Moscow
2002 RusArta gallery collection. RusArta gallery. Moscow
2002 Skill and Youth, exhibition on the “City day”. A-3 gallery. Moscow
2002 Reaction, exhibition devoted to “Nord-Ost”. A-3 gallery. Moscow
2002 Russian winter. RusArta gallery. Moscow
2002 45 years in art and about art. Exhibition on the anniversary of “DI” magazine. Zurab Tsereteli Art gallery. Moscow
2001 Artists of “DI” circle. Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow
2001 AtlAntis. 15 years in Starokonushenny. A-3 gallery. Moscow
2001 Moscow Artists. “Pervaya galereya” with A-3 gallery. Makhachkala
2000 Dialogue of the generations. Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow
2000 G. Osetsimskaya Collection. Moscow Center of Arts. Moscow
2000 Tibet 2001. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
2000 Moscow International art salon Central House of Artists-2000. CHA. Moscow
1999 Artists of “Museum” program. Exhibition Hall of the Russian Foundation of Culture. Moscow
1999 Idea of the USSR museum, exhibition-laboratory. Academic Sakharov Center. Moscow
1999 Heart of the fatherland. Exhibition on the “City day”. A-3 gallery. Moscow
1999 First Novosibirsk International Biennale. City picture gallery. Novosibirsk
1998 Surrealism at the service of Revolution. A-3 gallery. Moscow
1998 Charity exhibition. The Embassy of France in Russia. Moscow
1997 E. Nutovich Collection. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow
1997 We are your artists, Moscow, exhibition on the 850th of Moscow. Kamergersky Lane. Moscow Artistic Academic Theater. Moscow
1997 Art-Manezh (in E. Nutovich collection). Moscow
1997 Charity exhibition. The Embassy of France in Russia, Moscow
1995 Graphic exhibition at the presentation of the poet Mikhail Sokovnin’ book. Phoenix culture center. Moscow
1994-1996 Russian Artists exhibition and Charity Auction “Realism and Avant-garde”. Alte-Post gallery. Wasterland. Germany; Bonn. Germany; Crea gallery. Bruges. Belgium; Antwerp. Belgium; Hasen. Netherlands; Hague. Netherlands; Amsterdam. Netherlands
1994 Moscow artists. New Look, Exhibition center “Moscow”. Moscow
1992 Group exhibition (S. Shablavin, N. Kasatkin, N. Vostrikov). Galerie Karenina. Vienna. Austria
1991 Exhibition of Russian artists “Realism and Avant-garde”. Park hotel Taunus. Frankfurt-am-Main. Germany
1991 Exhibition devoted to the poets Yan Satunovsky and Mikhail Sokovnin. State Literature Museum. Moscow
1990 Group exhibition (A. Grositsky, N. Kasatkin, D.Prigov, I.Shelkovsky). Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
1989 First International exhibition-manifestation “Art in defense of the environment”. Warsaw. Poland
1989 Self-portrait. Moscow Artists Exhibition. House of Artists on Kuznetsky most 11. Moscow
1988 II Exhibition of the association of Moscow Artists “Artists and Contemporaniety”. House of Artists on Kuznetsky most 11. Moscow
1988 Labyrinth. Moscow Palace of Youth. Moscow
1988 Meeting of Soviet and Italian artists. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1987 I Exhibition of the association of Moscow Artists “Artists and Contemporaniety”. Exhibition Hall “Na Kashirke”. Moscow
1987 Retrospection (creativity of Moscow artists 1957-1987). Exhibition Hall Belyaevo. Hermitage. Moscow
1984 II All-Union Exhibition of drawing. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1983 Untraditional materials in sculpture. House of Artists on Kuznetsky most 11. Moscow
1978 One evening exhibition “Painting of graphic artists”. House of Artists on Kuznetsky most 11. Moscow
1967 Painting Exhibition. Central House of Art Workers (International Television students’ club). Moscow
1966 Literary soiree with poets Vsevolod Nekrasov and Mikhail Sokovnin, Moscow Institute of latrotechnics. Moscow
1963 Exhibition of engravings of IZOGIZ. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow
1962 Exhibition of young artist non-members of the Moscow union of Artists. Moscow
1960 1st exhibition Soviet Russia. Manege. Moscow
1959 7th All-Union Exhibition of degree works. The Academy of Arts of the USSR. Moscow
Sepherot Foundation. Lichtenstein
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. New Jersey. USA
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow
The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin. Moscow
The State Establishment of Culture “The Belgorod State Art Museum”. Belgorod
The Gagarin Joint Memorial Museum. Gagarin
Museum of History, Architecture and Fine Arts “New Jerusalem”. Istra
The Smolensk State Museum-Preserve. Smolensk
Vologda Regional Picture Gallery. Vologda
Yaroslavl Art Museum. Yaroslavl
