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).
Chtak’s works have been presented at Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris (2007), Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2016), Multimedia Art Museum (2020, 2015), Museum of Moscow (2014), Zarya Center for Contemporary Art (2016), were part of the parallel program of the European Contemporary Art Biennial Manifesta-10 (2014) , the Moscow Biennial of Contemporary Art (2013, 2011) and many others. The artist’s works are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the SFERA Contemporary Art Support Foundation (the successor of the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation), and in the private collections of Pierre Brochet, Andrei Tretyakov, Samir Sabe D’Akra and others.
Lives and works in Moscow.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2009 – Say ‘Shibboleth’, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – Anarchisme. Hassidisme. Agnosticisme, Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2009 – Bob Hated Everybody, Globe Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| 2010 – Painting is a Dead Language, Orel Art UK, London, UK |
| 2010 – Chtak Runs in Circles, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – Only the Truth, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2012 – Author Unknown, Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2013 – This is not a Nightmare, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2014 – Don’t Come Close, Palto Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – No News, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Buongiorno Stranieri. Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Worshood, CUB Gallery, Riga, Latvia |
| 2015 – Darkness, Obscurity and Gloom, Centre Red, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Technically, It’s Very Simple, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – C – Alphabet, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – Crab Inside, Zarya CCA, Vladivostok, Russia |
| 2016 – If It’s My Way – There’s No Way, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2017 – The Story Of How Nobody Understood Anything, Museum of Moscow City, Moscow, Russia |
| 2017 – Conquest of Bread, CUB Gallery, Riga, Latvia |
| 2018 -Long Live A, Vladey Space, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – What If She Wants to Lie Down? Centerpoint, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2018 – Joffe vs Chtak, Vice Versa (with Alisa Joffe), Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – British Celebrities, SAAS Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| 2018 – Two (with Kirill Kriuchkov), Zarya CCA, Vladivostok, Russia; Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2019 – The Museum of the Same Thing, Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2020 – It Could be Much Worse, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Notes”, VLADEY space, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Prices are not romantic, Coat Gallery, Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Another solo exhibition, Syntax Gallery, Cube Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Everything is clear, IGUMO Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2022 – Later, H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh, Russia |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2005 – Portrait of a Face, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2006 – Formalite, La Generale, Paris, France |
| 2006 – Russia Redux#2, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY City University,
New York, USA |
| 2007 – Artist’s Diary, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia |
| 2007 – On Geekdom, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece |
| 2007 – Moscoupolis, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France |
| 2007 – Ars Erotica, Ars Politica, Ars Theoretica, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| 2008 – The Young, Aggressive, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 – Invasion/Evasion, Red October, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – Russian Lettrism, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – Rendez-Vous ’09, MAC, Lyon, France |
| 2010 – The Diary of a Madman, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – Crisis of Disorder, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – Russian Cosmos, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy |
| 2012 – Futurologia, School of Architecture, Nantes, France |
| 2012 – Apocalypse and Resurrection in the Chocolate House, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2013 – Heavy Metal, Parallel program of the 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary
Art, Winzavod CCA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2014 – In Search of Horizon, LDZ, Riga, Latvia |
| 2014 – Not Museum, Parallel program of the Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| 2015 – ArtBat Fest, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2015 – The Pierre Brochet Puzzle, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Laughter in the Gallery, Parallel Program of the 5th Moscow International
Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Generation U, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – Art Up. Art In Festival, MMoMA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – Unofficial Language Only, Parallel program of the 5 Moscow Biennale of
Young Art, Winzavod CCA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2017 – Elikuka Friends, Vladey Space, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – “MONUMENTAL”, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow |
| 2018 – Art of the 2000s, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2020 – “Generation XXI, The Gift of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin”,
New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
Сollections
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
SFERA Contemporary Art Support Foundation (the successor of the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation), Moscow
private collections of Pierre Brochet, Andrei Tretyakov, Samir Sabe D’Akra and others
| 2009 – Say ‘Shibboleth’, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – Anarchisme. Hassidisme. Agnosticisme, Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2009 – Bob Hated Everybody, Globe Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| 2010 – Painting is a Dead Language, Orel Art UK, London, UK |
| 2010 – Chtak Runs in Circles, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – Only the Truth, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2012 – Author Unknown, Mironova Gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2013 – This is not a Nightmare, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2014 – Don’t Come Close, Palto Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – No News, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Buongiorno Stranieri. Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Worshood, CUB Gallery, Riga, Latvia |
| 2015 – Darkness, Obscurity and Gloom, Centre Red, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Technically, It’s Very Simple, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – C – Alphabet, Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – Crab Inside, Zarya CCA, Vladivostok, Russia |
| 2016 – If It’s My Way – There’s No Way, MMOMA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2017 – The Story Of How Nobody Understood Anything, Museum of Moscow City, Moscow, Russia |
| 2017 – Conquest of Bread, CUB Gallery, Riga, Latvia |
| 2018 -Long Live A, Vladey Space, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – What If She Wants to Lie Down? Centerpoint, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2018 – Joffe vs Chtak, Vice Versa (with Alisa Joffe), Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – British Celebrities, SAAS Gallery, London, Great Britain |
| 2018 – Two (with Kirill Kriuchkov), Zarya CCA, Vladivostok, Russia; Triangle Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2019 – The Museum of the Same Thing, Syntax Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2020 – It Could be Much Worse, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Notes”, VLADEY space, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Prices are not romantic, Coat Gallery, Cosmoscow, Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Another solo exhibition, Syntax Gallery, Cube Moscow, Russia |
| 2021 – Everything is clear, IGUMO Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2022 – Later, H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh, Russia |
| 2005 – Portrait of a Face, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2006 – Formalite, La Generale, Paris, France |
| 2006 – Russia Redux#2, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY City University,
New York, USA |
| 2007 – Artist’s Diary, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia |
| 2007 – On Geekdom, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece |
| 2007 – Moscoupolis, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France |
| 2007 – Ars Erotica, Ars Politica, Ars Theoretica, Prometeo Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| 2008 – The Young, Aggressive, Musashino Art University, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 – Invasion/Evasion, Red October, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – Russian Lettrism, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia |
| 2009 – Rendez-Vous ’09, MAC, Lyon, France |
| 2010 – The Diary of a Madman, Regina Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – Crisis of Disorder, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2011 – Russian Cosmos, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy |
| 2012 – Futurologia, School of Architecture, Nantes, France |
| 2012 – Apocalypse and Resurrection in the Chocolate House, Kyiv, Ukraine |
| 2013 – Heavy Metal, Parallel program of the 5 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary
Art, Winzavod CCA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2014 – In Search of Horizon, LDZ, Riga, Latvia |
| 2014 – Not Museum, Parallel program of the Manifesta 10, Saint Petersburg, Russia |
| 2015 – ArtBat Fest, Almaty, Kazakhstan |
| 2015 – The Pierre Brochet Puzzle, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Laughter in the Gallery, Parallel Program of the 5th Moscow International
Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia |
| 2015 – Generation U, Osnova Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – Art Up. Art In Festival, MMoMA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2016 – Unofficial Language Only, Parallel program of the 5 Moscow Biennale of
Young Art, Winzavod CCA, Moscow, Russia |
| 2017 – Elikuka Friends, Vladey Space, Moscow, Russia |
| 2018 – “MONUMENTAL”, Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow |
| 2018 – Art of the 2000s, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia |
| 2020 – “Generation XXI, The Gift of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin”,
New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow |
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
SFERA Contemporary Art Support Foundation (the successor of the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation), Moscow
private collections of Pierre Brochet, Andrei Tretyakov, Samir Sabe D’Akra and others
2011 – catalog of works by Valery Chtak “Only Truth”
