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My artistic practice emerges at the intersection of image, language, memory, and sacred narrative. I work with photography, mixed media, sculpture, and installation, often incorporating processes of layering, transparency, and repetition. My interest lies in what is hidden or obscured—what is revealed only through attentive contemplation.
Recurring themes in my work include exile, transformation, and the fragile relationship between the material and the spiritual. I draw from religious texts, personal mythology, and collective memory, reframing canonical stories through the lens of contemporary experience.
In the series Exile from Paradise, I worked with the sacred texts of the Bible, the Quran, and the Torah, focusing on the passages that recount the expulsion of the first humans from the “pure lands.” I scanned and printed selected pages in the original languages on transparent material. By layering and aligning these texts, I created subtle, yet discernible, images—angels, Adam, Eve, and their shared scene of expulsion. Each figure is presented in a separate piece, and the visual forms emerge directly from the letters, words, and rhythms of the sacred writings.
I see the role of the artist not as a commentator but as a medium—someone who listens and reveals. My process often involves chance, time-based observation, and minimal intervention. I am drawn to fleeting natural phenomena—such as the movement of moths around a lamp at night—and to the ways these ephemeral events echo deeper spiritual and psychological patterns.
Ultimately, I seek to create spaces of stillness and reverence—spaces where viewers can sense something beyond the visible, something felt rather than explained.
Biography
1971 Born in Moscow
1985-1989 Taking drawing, water-colour graphics and cabinet painting lessons in his spare time.
1994 He graduated from the Tsiolkovski Moscow state University.
1995 Post graduate courses at the Tsiolkovski university
Solo shows
2024 I can`t remember, Kultproekt gallery CUBE, Moscow
2022 Architectonics, Triumph gallery, Moscow
2021-2022 Steel Life, Kultproekt gallery CUBE, Moscow
2016 The sequences of conditions, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2014 Topsy-Turvy, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2013 CY, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2012 Skygraphics, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2010 Day After Day, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2008 Automatic letter, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2007 Out of Eden, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2003-2004 Cosmoscopia in action, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
1999 Cosmoscopia, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
1997 ‘Dance, Love, Purity’, Aidan Gallery, Moscow
Group Shows
2025 – “Paraphernalia”, Triumph gallery, Moscow
2025 -Biennale of Ecological Art, “The Skin of the Earth”, Nizhny Novgorod
2025 “Horizon – The Color Blue”, Kultproekt Gallery (CUBE), Moscow
2024-2025 “Lost in Transition”, Wynwood Hotel, St. Petersburg
2024 “Archipelago of Utopias”, Kultproekt Gallery (CUBE), Moscow
2024 – “21 days”, Gallery at Mosfilm National Museum of Art and Photography, Moscow
2024 – “Weakness”, Bomba gallery space in the CCI Fabrika, Moscow
2024 “Summer plans”, Kovcheg gallery, Moscow
2024 ”Archipelago of dreams” – Sinara Art Gallery, Ekaterinburg
2023 “Archipelago of dreams”, Victoria Gallery in ZIM Gallery, Samara.
2023 “Archipelago of dreams”, SMENA, Kazan.
2023 “Based on true events”, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Large Wine Storage, Moscow
2023 “Artist and text”, Exhibition halls Rosizo, Moscow
2023 “The Grand Duchy. Treasures of the Vladimir-Suzdal Land”
“River of history” in The State Tretyakov gallery, installation, Moscow
2022 “X-Nowness”, Basel Art Center
2022 “The Thinking Landscape“, Museum of Moscow
2021 “Moscow-Seoul“, Museum of Moscow
2021 “State of emergency“, Tambov Regional Art Gallery
2021 “Rome-ours”!, Kovcheg gallery, Moscow
2021 “Break 15 minutes”, National Center for Contemporary Art in Nizhny Novgorod (Arsenal)
2021 “Future Lab. Kinetic Art in Russia”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2020 ” Town is broken”, Kovcheg gallery, Moscow
2020 “ArchMoscow-2020“, Gostinyi dvor, Moscow
2020 “Wave of Dreams”, Triumph gallery, Moscow
2020 “Break 15 minutes”, All-Russia Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art, Moscow
2020 “The secret is shaped like an ear”, CCI Fabrika, Moscow
2020 “State of Emergency”, Triumph gallery, Moscow
2019 “Library”, Triumph gallery, Moscow
2018 «At the Fringes Exhibition», VDNKh
2018 «Other Shores», Exhibition in Manege, St. Petersburg
2018 «A Memória da Pessoa /O Destino da Sociedade. Rússia», CLIF, Brazil
Curadora: Irina Chmyreva
em parceria com PhotoVisa, International Festival of Photography, Russia
2018 «Fortress», Kovcheg Gallery
2017 «Context of the medium», CultProject Gallery
2017 «Structures Fractals», CultProject Gallery
2016 «Somebody Else’s Idea / Citation»,
The short-term exhibition of the Moscow Painters’ Club, Kovcheg Gallery
2015 «Intertext», ERARTA museum
Curator of the exhibition – Elizaveta Shagina
2015 «Atmosphere»,
The short-term exhibition of the Moscow Painters’ Club, Kovcheg Gallery
2015 «Russian Chrestomathy»,
NCCA, Nizhny Novgorod, Arsenal. Curator – Vera Pogodina
2015 The exhibition «Sound Moebius Strip», Belyaevo Gallery
2014 «SCI-ART! Science, Art and Illusion»
2014 «Сontemporary drawing», (Marble Palace), St. Petersburg
The exhibition is supported by Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation
2014 «Lucida space», National Centre for Contemporary Arts (NCCA)
Curators Vitaly Patsyukov (NCCA), Olof van Winden (TodaysArt)
2014 «The Gifts», Shchusev Architecture Museum
2013 «Sluisen», Changing poles, (NCCA)
2013 «Srez», Domestic sculpture today
2013 «Wolves and Sheep», State Literary Museum, Moscow
2013 «Dialogue With Technogeneous Reality», Samara Art Centre
2013 «Goszakaz», Pechersky Gallery, Winzavod
2012 «Russian Photography», FotoFest Biennial, Houston
2012 «Dust», Laboratoria Art&Science Space
2011 «Infusion», Laboratoria Art & Science Space, Moscow
2011 «Svoboda», Spazio Carbonesi, Bologna
2010 «Imperfetto», Spazio Carbonesi, Bologna
2009 «Dead Souls», State Literary Museum, Moscow
2008 «Dead Moroz Lives», Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2008 «On Mortal in Art. In memory of Nikolay Konstantinov», M-Gallery, Rostov-on-Don
2008 «Master of Forest-part II», (with Elena Rubinina), Land art project, Krasnogorsk
2007 «Master of Forest-part I», (with Elena Rubinina), Land art project, Krasnogorsk
2006 «ARTPole Technology», Zelenograd
2006 «Okho»: contemporary russian art, Sotheby’s New York, New York
2006 «Nuevos Misticos», Sala de Arte Contemporеneo, Tenerife
2005 «ARTPole Technology», Gorki-10
2004 «Workshops Art Moscow», Central House of Artists, Moscow
2000 «Group Show», Aidan Gallery, Moscow
1999 «Proposals for Venice Biennale 2001», New Manege, Moscow
1996 «Russian exhibition hall of new technologies», Koala Lumpur, Malaysia
1996 «My Cinema», Kodak-kinomir, Moscow
1996 «Mutants and Old Bags», perfomances (participation) group, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1996 Performances in «Petrovskoe Podvorye», (participation), Moscow, Russia
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