EXHIBITIONS
2025 Personal exhibition "Comfort promzone", Center of Contemporary Art "Fire", Irkutsk
2024 Group exhibition "Touch", Center of Contemporary Art "Fire", Irkutsk
2024 Contemporary Art Festival "Forever", Center of Contemporary Art "Fire", Irkutsk
2023 Online group exhibition "Make art not war", Discours.io, Moscow
2023 Group exhibition "Knocking from the depths", ICEBERG/MICT GALLERY, Berlin
2023 Group exhibition "Autumn 2023", MBUK City Museum, Angarsk
2023 Group exhibition "Don't lose your face", ARTGART Gallery, Kaliningrad
2023 Street Art Festival "Transforming the City", Irkutsk
2023 Personal exhibition "Industrial zone", MBUK AGO "City Museum", Angarsk
2022 Public Art Project "Height", KALININGRART, Kaliningrad
2022 Group exhibition "There is a place to be", KALININGRART festival, ARTGART Gallery, Kaliningrad
2022 Group exhibition-project "Time of comprehension", Center of Contemporary Art "Fire", Irkutsk
2021 BAIKAL ART FEST Street Art Festival, Dorenberg Art Factory, Irkutsk
2021 Group exhibition "360", (RAUM SPACE festival), Artspace Gallery, Kaliningrad
2021 Group exhibition "Time of comprehension", MBUK AGO "City Museum", Angarsk
2020 Personal exhibition "Chernoweek", bar "MORALIST" Irkutsk
2020 Exhibition "Infinity of Search" project "Baikal regions", V.P. Sukachev Museum, Irkutsk
2019 Group exhibition "Dot. Line. Spot. Word", Irkutsk Regional Museum of Local Lore., Irkutsk
2018 Group exhibition "Find yourself in the world", The Palace of Petrochemists, Angrask
2018 Group exhibition "God save the underground", Angarsk
2017 Group exhibition "Autumn", MBUK "City Museum", Angarsk
PUBLICATIONS
2023 «Nef's paintings not on canvas», Angarskie Vedomosti, issue №9 (1754)
2023 «In memory to the irkutians», Oblastnaya Newspaper № 71 (2565)
2023 «Culture», News 360 Аngarsk
2021 «Filling the void. The first Baikal Art Fest in Irkutsk», Verblud V Ogne
2021 «Time of comprehension», News 360 Аngarsk
2021 «Time of comprehension», Aktis
2020 «Like on a postcard», Angarskoe Vremya newspaper, issue №68
2018 «Praying Underground», Svecha Newspaper, issue №1509
2017 «Еraditional Autumn Exhibition» , Vremya
2017 «What is contemporary art?», Aktis
BIO
Born in 1992 in Angarsk, southeastern Siberia. Although he did not receive formal art education, he spent much of his childhood in the studios of Soviet artists. His grandfather founded a center that developed a unique technology for creating book bindings from valuable wood species and art objects from Siberian minerals. This became a family business that continues to this day.
Later, working in the family workshop, Nef realized that he was drawn not only to aesthetics, but also to conceptual expression — a desire to explore the very nature of things. He began experimenting with forms, styles, and materials, seeking to expose their hidden potential in a raw and direct way.
In 2017, he took his first steps in creating and publicly presenting his work through regional exhibitions and street art. He was actively involved in the street art scene. In 2020, he organized his first solo exhibition "Cherno Week" in Irkutsk. In 2021, he was invited to participate in the international RAUM SPACE festival. In the following years, the geography of his projects continued to expand.
Currently, he is engaged in an active exhibition practice. His artistic research focuses on the tension between chaos and structure, between collective memory and industrial heritage. His works often present a collision of rough forms and subtle meanings.
Nef’s pieces are held in private collections in Russia and abroad. He lives and works in Siberia, continuing his family’s tradition of working with minerals while experimenting with form and context.
