Alexander Podobed was born on the 18th of September in 1960 in the village Podosinki, Smolensk region. He graduated with honors from Uzhhgorod Art School (1976-80), and then from Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design in Leningrad (1982-87). After that Podobed lives and works in Saint Petersburg. Participated in more than 100 exhibitions, performances, promotions and festivals in Russia and abroad, and actively collaborates with theaters. In the early 90's one of the quietest leaders of the group "SVOI", winner of the All-Union Exhibition "Futurodesign" (CHA, Moscow, 1989), and the festival "Phoenix" (Copenhagen, Denmark, 1996). Author of the projects:"The Wall of Time", "Aero-Park", "Vozdukh/Air", "Second Invasion of the Martians," "Bridge to Eden," "Almost like people", "Our own people", "RED", "Chess", "Backspace", "GeoWaltz" ,"Light", "WhiteStream". Member of the group "SVOI" (1987-94) and Fund "Free Culture" 1990 – Exhibition "SVOI", Marble Palace, Leningrad 1990 – Exhibition "Leningrad: Traditions and Perestroika", auction, Hotel Druo, Paris 1991 – Festival of the absurd "Sisyphus by Camus", Dresden, Germany 1991 – Exhibitions by gallery "Gedok", Munich, Hamburg, Bonn, Germany 1992 – Exhibition "Garderop", Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg 1996 – Project "Grau Zone" together with the theater "Derevo", Dresden, Germany 1996 – Project "Ecology of Culture", festival "Phoenix", Copenhagen, Denmark 1997 – Exhibition for the 20th anniversary of the collection, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2000 – Project "Gagarin", festival " The unofficial capital ", St. Petersburg 2001 – Exhibition "Paper Sculpture", The Stroganov Palace, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2001 – Exhibition " Abstract art in Russia. The 20th century ", Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2002 – Project "Sculpture and Recreation Garden", Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg 2002 – Project "Plot-3", Suzdal Lakes, St. Petersburg 2002 – Exhibition " Petersburg art of the 20th century ", CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2003 – Project “Backspace ”, Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg 2003 – I Festival of Independent Art, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2004 – II Biennale of Graphic Art, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2004 – IV Festival ex-Art and Performance, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2004 – project “GeoWaltz”, ART-Manege, Moscow 2006 – Exhibition “ Collage in Russia. 20th century”, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2007 – The programm “Performance: outside the theory and practice ”, Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg 2007 – project ”Perpetuum mobile”, festival “Ploty”, Suzdal Lakes, St. Petersburg 2007 – Biennale of Contemporary Art "Dialogues ”, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2007 – exhibition “ St. Petersburg Conremporary Art”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow 2009 – Project “ The Martian Chronicles ”, festival "The Sea Level ”, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg 2009 – Exhibition “This is LUDA”, Loft Project ETAGI, St. Petersburg 2010 – Project “Concert| Almost like people ”, S.P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Arts (SPbU) 2010 – II Baltic Biennale, Derzhavin Museum, St. Petersburg - Mon Repos Park, Vyborg 2010 – exhibition "Las Meninas", Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg 1994 – “Expulsion from Paradise” HMTI, St. Petersburg 1998 – “Blue line”, Art Gallery 103, St. Petersburg 1999 – “Happiness”, Gallery 103, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg 2000 – “ZOOM / One day”, Techno Art Center, St. Petersburg 2000 – “Diaries / Letters from nowhere ”, art gallery 103, St. Petersburg 2000 – ”Volkhvy”, “Borey” gallery, St. Petersburg 2001 – “People”, АRТ-collegium gallery, St. Petersburg 2001 – “Four Headless Horsemen ”, art gallery 103, St. Petersburg 2001 – “Chess”, Navicula Artis Gallery, St. Petersburg 2002 – “Vozdukh/Air”, Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg 2009 – “Light-project | Light. The Last Supper”,“LUDA” gallery, St. Petersburg 2009 – “Transition of Seagulls Through the English Channel ”, Museum of push pin, St. Petersburg 2010 – “Concert| Almost Like People”, S.P. Diaghilev Museum of Contemporary Arts (SPbU) 2010 – II Baltic Biennale, Museum of Derzhavin, St.Petersburg-Vyborg, Monrepo park, 2010 – Exhibition "Las Meninas", Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art , St.Petersburg 2010 – Project “This is Luda”, Loft-project Etagi, St.Petersburg 2010 – Exhibition “oSVOEnie Sibiri”, Krasnoyarsk region. 2011 – Project “GeoWaltz”, night of Museums in The State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, Moscow 2011 – I Minimalist Art Festival MiniFEST, Small Hall Manege 2011 – Exhibition "Movement. Form. Dance ", the Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg 2011 – Exhibition "My English Grandfather" Small Hall Manege, St. Petersburg 2011 – Exhibition "Their-11-11-11," Small Hall Manege, St. Petersburg 2012 – Project “AXEfoniya”, Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art 2012 – II Biennale of Photographic Arts, Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg 2012 – Exhibition "Sounding Substance", the Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg 2013 – Exhibition "Born to Fly and Crawl", the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2013 – Exhibition "New Foundations: from Concepts to Minimalism" KultProject, Moscow Works are in the collections of the State Russian Museum, Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Museum of Nonconformist Art, as well as in private collections in the USA, Canada, France, Germany, Belgium, Russia. Major projects and exhibitions
Solo exhibitions