1953/Lviv/Ukraine

1980 – graduated from Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (department of Architecture and Interior Design).

Since 1984 – member of the St. Petersburg Union of Artists.

Member of the St. Petersburg Humanitarian Foundation “Free Culture”.

Since 1996 – member of the artistic association “The New Blockheads”.

Director of the alternative mobile museum of contemporary art “Museum Mousetrap of Contemporary Art”.

2000 – together with Vadim Flyagin founded the “Parazit” gallery, which does not have its permanent physical address.

2006 – opened the smallest Gallery in St. Petersburg “10×15”.

Works in different genres of contemporary art: press art, object, installation, performance, photo, video, author’s book.



PRIMARY SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2017

“My Little Leniniana”, Museum-Apartment of Alliluyev, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2016

“This is just a text”, together with Rostislav Lebedev, The New Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2015

“Sorrowful Slavic Baroque”, Dukley Art Center, Kotor, Montenegro.
2013

“My Poor Faberge”, “Cultural Alliance” Gallery, Project of Marat Guelman, Moscow, Russia.
2013

“To live to retirement”, Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2013

“Invitation to dinner”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011

“Omnibus sui tempus or all the time”, “Navicula Artis” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011

“Everything has its time”, the National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010

“Eternal Values”, “Square” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010

“What do you care about this Hirst”, National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009

“Name Russia”, “Luda” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009

“What am I worse?”, Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2008

“Rubber”, Anna Franz gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2008

“Ukraine has not died yet”, “10×15” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2007

“Private practice”, “Palkin” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2006

“Soviet century. Reconstruction”, “Square” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2005

“New Hermitage”, “Belka & Strelka” gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2005

“Private practice of home museums”, Borey Arrt Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2004

“This and that”, Tosno Museum of Local History, Leningrad region, Russia.
2001

“Museum of V.P. Kozin (photo department)”, gallery “Photo IMAGE”, St. Petersburg, Russia.


PRIMARY GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016

“The New Blockheads”, MMSI, Moscow, Russia.
2016

“The Circus”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2015

“ABC of the mind. Dedication to Velimir Khlebnikov”, “Kultproekt” Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2015

“Signs of the era or in search of identity,” Special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2015

“The New Arrivals. 1998-2014”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2014

“Post Pop Art”, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK.
2014

“The other capital” (Contemporary art from Petersburg today), Moscow, Russia.
2014

“ZOO-ZOO”, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
2014

“Black envy”, as part of the parallel program of MANIFESTA 10, Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2014

“Suitcase”, as part of the parallel program of MANIFESTA 10, Library of book graphics, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2014

“Apartment art as a home resistance” (exhibition of the “Parazit” art group), as part of the parallel program of MANIFESTA 10, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2013

11th Baltic Sea Biennial of the graphic arts, Kaliningrad, Russia.
2013

“Paper Sculpture”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2013

“Born to Fly and Crawl”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012

“The sounding substance”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012

an exhibition of nominees of the Kurekhin Prize (short list), St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012

“New Arrivals”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011

“Russian Povera”, Milan, Italy.
2011

“Gates and Doors”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010

“The Sky”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009

an exhibition of nominees of the Kandinsky Prize, Moscow, Russia.
2009

“Art about art”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009

ART COLOGNE, Cologne, Germany.
2009

“Recycling”, Youth Center of the State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009

“Lenin from A to Z”, The State Museum of Political History of Russia, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2008

“Russian Povera”, Sergei Gordeyev’s project, curator – Marat Gelman, River Station, Perm.
2008

“The power of water”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
2007

“Architecture Ad Marginem”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
2007

“Adventures of the Black Square”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
2007

“Diary of the artist”, The Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Guelman Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
2005

“The miracle worker was tall …”, on the 100th anniversary of the birth of D. Harms, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
2005

“St. Petersburg”, Guelman Gallery, Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
2005

Portrait of a Face, Guelman Gallery, MARS Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2005

“Collage in Russia. XX century”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2003

“Kharmsizdat Presents”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2002

“The art of tortures and executions – art against tortures and executions” (open social-network art project), Kaliningrad, Russia.
2002

“Eternal Happiness, Eternal Life”, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2002

“Art genda festival”, Hamburg, Germany.


COLLECTIONS

The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia),
The Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts named after S. Erzya (Saransk, Russia),
Central Museum of Communications named after A. Popov (St. Petersburg, Russia),
Museum of Non-Conformist Art (St. Petersburg, Russia),
“Mousetrap of Contemporary Art” Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia),
Memorial Museum of Miklukho-Maklai (Okulovka, Russia),
“Tsarskoselskaya collection” Museum (Pushkin, Russia),
Russian National Library (St. Petersburg, Russia),
The State Museum of V. Mayakovsky (Moscow, Russia),
The New Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia),
Museum of Contemporary Art (Perm, Russia),
The British Library (London, UK),
The State Library (Berlin, Germany),
Public Library (New York, USA),
Art Library of the University of Indiana (The Lilly Library) (Bloomington, Indiana, USA),
Department of the rare book of the library of the University of Iowa (Iowa, USA),
Art Library of the University of California (Santa Barbara, California, USA),
Art Library (Kohler Art Library), University of Visconti (Kohler, Wisconsin, USA),
Institute of Contemporary Russian Culture (Los Angeles, USA),
Saxon State Library (Dresden, Germany).