Bushuev Pavel
Born in 1987 in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk region.
Graduated from the Chelyabinsk Art College (2007) and the graphic arts department (studio of Andrei Alekseevich Pakhomov) of the Repin St. Petersburg State Art Academy (2014). From 2014 to 2017 he trained in the creative workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. During his studies he participated in exhibitions and competitions in Russia, Korea and China, cooperated with GOZNAK (Mint). Pavel's works are in the collections of the Fabergé Museum, BREUS Foundation, private collection of the head of the House of Guerlain, as well as in private collections of many countries, including Russia, France, Korea, USA and China.
In his works, Pavel captures the process of internal metamorphosis that takes place within a person while experiencing something that comes from the outside. Having received an academic art education, Paul continues to develop in various contemporary media, experimenting with artistic languages, however a large portion of his visual practice is black and white graphics. In his work, the artist often collides academic drawing with contemporary trends, exploring the boundaries of normality and subjectivity, reality and mysticism.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS AND AWARDS:
- 2024 — KONTUR Graphics Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
- 2023 — Fair |catalog|, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2023 — St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
- 2023 — KONTUR Graphics Fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
- 2023 — Quiet Move. (Un)obvious art scene of St. Petersburg, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2022 — blazar young art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2022 — Cosmoscow art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2022 — a-s-t-r-a Open.Vol 1, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2022 — St. Petersburg art fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg.
- 2022 — Collective self-fulfilling prophecy about our beautiful tomorrow, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Vinzavod, Moscow
- 2022 — Art Moscow program within the 48th Russian Atiquarian Salon, a—s—t—r—a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
- 2021 — Group exhibition “12345 I go looking”, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2021 — Cosmoscow art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2021 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2021 — Art Moscow program within the framework of the 46th Russian antique salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
- 2021 — “Russian Shield”, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 2020 — Cosmoscow art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
- 2019 — Art Event Suspense. Brakgausen Mansion, St. Petersburg, Russia *
- 2019 — ART Event Suspense.
- 2019 — ART Event Suspense 2.0. Port Sevkabel, St. Petersburg
- 2018 — Intervention. Hermitage Museum, Main Staff, St. Petersburg
- 2018 — International Fifth Biennial of Graphic Arts. Romania
- 2012 — International Art Exhibition. Beijing, China
- 2011 — 1st place in the competition for the design of the Olympic banknote
- 2010 — International Art Exhibition. Seoul, Korea
“Creativity must always be sincere in order to find its audience. Creativity is a constant search for its sides. It is the pleasure of discovery. It is the continuous dissatisfaction with what has already been done, as a sign that one must move on. Deformation (from Latin Deformatio - “distortion”) is a change in the mutual position of body particles, associated with their movement relative to each other. This series presents the deep deformations occurring inside a person. Perceptions of events, experiences and thoughts, as well as external factors pass through us, distorting the cognitive shell. The deformation is the fixation of these perceptions.”
Pavel Bushuev
FAVORITE PUBLICATIONS:
- Playbill - What to watch at the new contemporary art fair |catalog|
- Moscow Online - The a-s-t-r-a gallery hosted the opening of the group exhibition “Quiet Move. (Not) obvious art scene of St. Petersburg”
- Afisha Daily - Which exhibitions are worth going to in April 2023?
- Zhara Media - Pavel Bushuyev: “Being an artist is not a job, but rather a way of life”
- Buro. - “The Great Emptiness” and “Sunset in a Hundred and Forty Suns”: exhibitions visited in the past year and planned to see in 2024
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