Conceptual, interdisciplinary artist
Born 1969, Urals, USSR | Based at Lake Balaton, Hungary
Education
2025 — Experimental Textiles & Tufting Trainings, Hungary
2001 — Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts, Advanced Studies in Advertising Design
1992 — Ural State University, Biology Faculty, Russia
1983 — Krasnoturinsk Art School, Russia
Solo Projects
Selected from 39 solo projects, 1998–2026
• Deer Country (2019–2025) — interdisciplinary research on myth, land, and memory
• Golden Apples (2024-2026) — the path through three states: offering, dream and liberation
• Sieve of Silence (2024) — minimal textile intervention inspired by Bashō and water
• Golden Eggs (2002–2024) — long-term object project on transformation
• Eliminates (2021) — conceptual objects exploring absence and disappearance
• Maps of Peeling Walls (2009) — poetic urban archaeology
• Wedding of Tower and Metro (2006) — urban performance on spatial forces
• Angle of View (2002) —visual manifesto: “A fence becomes stairs”
• State of ‘Between’ (1999–2001) — spatial experiments on thresholds and transitions
Selected Group Exhibitions and Biennials
Over 100 collective exhibitions since 1998 in Hungary, Italy, Israel, Greece, Australia, UK, and more, including:
- 2025 – Felismerés, Várnegyed Galéria, Budapest, Hungary
- 2025 – Frontpage:Next, Athens, Greece
- 2024 – Revolution and Metamorphoses, V Biennale of Illustration, Haifa, Israel
- 2024 – JELEN – JELENÉS – JELEN|ÉS, IV International Land Art Symposium, Rácalmás, Hungary
- 2024 – Crossing Borders, contemporary art festival, Beka9 Space, Slovenia
- 2023, 2057 – Jump to the Future, international project, Italy
- 2022 – Myth, IV International Biennale of Illustration, Haifa, Israel
- 2021 – THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY Meriden, Connecticut, USA
- 2012 – Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Russia
- 2007 – Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, MMOMA, Russia
- 2004 – New Mythology,International Exhibition of Contemporary Art, Karaganda, Kazakhstan
- 2004 – ArtKlyazma, International Outdoor Contemporary Art Festival, Russia
- 2000 – Oltrepassare la memoria, Cultural Association Lameladivetro, Genoa, Italy
- 1998 – Otto Arte International Festival of Arts, Ferentino-Fumone, Italy
Public Collections (selected)
- State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (NCCA / National Centre for Contemporary Arts), Russia
- Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
- Surber’s Museum für Musikautomaten, Keszthely, Hungary
- ANSPI NEOT, Ferentino, Italy
- Underground Art Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Memberships
- PRO SYMPOSION, Hungary (member since 2024)
- Co-founder of R² (since 1989) and Maler’s Brigade (since 2004)
Residencies
- Ferentino (Italy),
- Rácalmás (Hungary)
- Kötcse (Hungary)
- Káptalanfüred (Hungary)
Teaching
- 2017 — Sketching Course: Draw Fast, Rest Slowly, Keszthely, Hungary
- 2017 — Workshop: Design of Remembrance, Keszthely, Hungary