EXHIBITIONS
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 Personal 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
I was born in 1992, in Angarsk, southeastern Siberia. I did not receive any formal art education, but I spent a lot of time in my youth in the workshops of Soviet artists. My grandfather was the founder of an art center that developed a unique technology for creating book bindings from valuable wood species and art objects made from Siberian minerals. This became a family business, and to this day, my family continues to work and develop in this direction.
While working in the family workshop, I always knew there was something else within me, a desire to solve problems not only of an aesthetic nature but also to explore the nature of things in the world. Staying true to myself became the starting point for my self-expression as an artist. The search for the right expression of my thoughts led me to experiment with different styles.
The criminal environment and the gray industrial city surrounded by prisons reminded me of a gloomy art house that left its mark. Therefore, in my works, I like to use brutal materials such as industrial waste, fragments of architecture, roots, and various artifacts. At the same time, I allow accidents to enter the creative process, leaving blots, smudges, and stains, like the will of chance, confusing all our plans.
Museum exhibitions, jewelry production, street art, and the experience passed down from Soviet masters also left their mark. Therefore, when working with rough forms, I apply various techniques, paying attention to details and showing respect for history and culture. Each artwork is based on the experience acquired in the specific environment of an industrial city and the solid foundation of family manufacturing traditions. I am driven by the desire to understand life as it is, without the desire to embellish reality, with a willingness to see beauty even in the most unattractive things.
All of my works are a sublimation of the problems I encounter in modern realities. As I study my own reactions, I enjoy exploring the boundaries of absurd combinations that allow me to see the unreality of what's happening, such as painting a clay brick with a pen, encrusting a rusty engine with semi-precious stones, or spending the night in a seedy place and receiving an award from the governor in the morning. The desire to express the interaction between chaotic and rational elements, along with experiments with forms and environments, leads to the creation of my own visual language, on which I am just beginning to speak.
