Born in 1994 in Ufa.

Graduate of Bauman Moscow State Technical University (2012-2018) and the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” at MMOMA (2021-2022). He lives and works in Moscow and Paris. 

Arthur's works are in private collections. 

In Arthur's works, abstraction is a way of cognizing and fixing the processes of changeability of the world around us and making decisions that affect our lives. The artist's paintings begin with a single point on the canvas and culminate in a multi-layered mass of elements, like our thoughts, which overlap and intertwine with each other for further action. The final outcome of a particular work is never initially known to the artist, but working on a canvas is not pure improvisation, but rather a thought process, a decision-making and a choice that one is doomed to make endlessly. 

SELECTED PROJECTS:

• 2024 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Tangled Holidays, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — “Razdvatrikchetrychetpyat”, ZAMAN museum, Ufa
• 2024 - St. Petersburg Art Fair “1703”, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Manezh, St. Petersburg
• 2023 — “Forêt imaginaire”, Faux gallery, Paris, France
• 2023 — Seller of colored shells, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2023 — “Les primevères”, Microcredit, Paris
• 2023 — “Sorting Center”, ZAMAN Museum, Ufa
• 2022 — Blazar young art fair, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2022 — “The Future Already”, MMoMA (10 Gogolevsky Street, Gogolevsky), 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, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2021 — Solo exhibition “Google page 7”, 2021, Moscow
• 2021 — “Watching the Earthlings”, HERE Gallery on Taganka
• 2021 — “Fields” exhibition; BLAZAR ART
• 2020 — Solo exhibition, IMPULSE, 2020, Moscow
• 2020 — Opening/Collection/Plans, New sincerity gallery, 2020, Moscow

TEXT FOR THE EXHIBITION “SELLER OF COLORED SHELLS”:

“In his solo exhibition “seller of colored shells” Artur Krivoshein turns to the visualization of the period of childhood. What surrounds us every day in our childhood? What books, movies, games? Endless explorations of space, walks, conversations and little discoveries and performances. How do you figure out amongst all this diversity what truly impacted you? Going through our memories, just like sorting through seashells on the beach, we find funny ones, beautiful ones, colorful ones, ugly ones, all shapes and sizes. Which one will you take as a memento?

Krivoshein connects the emergence of paintings with the experience of his family, for example, conversations about art with his grandfather, who was also an artist, permeate his childhood memories. As a child, a reproduction of Van Gogh hung in the house, which the artist mistook for his grandfather's work. This incident can clarify much about the artist's attitude to painting. Van Gogh in the 20th century occupies the place of the myth of the painter who, working with color and reflecting on its effects, was a marginal artist and the beginning of the modernist canon. Krivoshein, in turn, confronts modernist techniques that intertwine art history and the “family tree.” These instances indicate that the artist collages not just elements (strokes, stains, and shards of images), but the connections of these elements to family subjective experience. According to the artist, only abstract art is capable of doing this - it can delineate and map this experience in a different way. Abstraction, understood in this way, can be traced in the titles of many of the works - “At the Desk with Spring”, “Blues of Fictitious Animals”, “Tiger Taste”: they are poetic and they themselves seem to cut and glue different parts of the language, which is like playing with a child's language: he learns the language by playing with the phrases themselves, tasting them. 

In the case of Van Gogh, the artist is credited with using dissonant colors, according to Goethe's theory. Artur Krivoshein, on the contrary, works with color harmoniously. A painting should be ready when it finds “unity” with the artist himself. 

The experience of childhood cannot be described, according to the artist, in any other way - it can only be grasped through abstract means. Exploring memories, which are so often abstract in nature, and especially vivid in color precisely in connection with childhood, Krivoshein creates and as if invites the viewer to share this experience, to “take apart” his collection of shells, to find his color and his moments”.

Boris Klyushnikov, philosopher and art theorist

Exhibition Seller of colored shells, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, 2023

TEXT FOR THE EXHIBITION “MIXED UP HOLIDAYS”:

“Artur Krivoshein's solo exhibition “Tangled Holidays” addresses the modern world where history repeats itself, ways of life and values change, new words come and old holidays are replaced by new ones. A society where digital space is the second reality in which a person spends most of his time. A world where artificial intelligence can connect the unconnected, and where logic and the usual course of things are sometimes lost. Arthur's series of works is dedicated to depicting this reality. The artist's technique is spontaneous and dynamic, as he works without a sketch. Arthur associates this method with the surrealist concept of “automatism”, when a work is created without special preparation, without control, based on an unconscious feeling. The outcome of the work is initially unknown to the author, finding old books, newspapers, unusual quality paper, rare variety of paints and pastels, he makes collages and paints pictures. The avant-garde aspiration to connect art with life, to make it an everyday practice, unintentionally becomes the main line in the artist's work. The works “The Revealed Division of the Underside”, “Sky Population Project”, “Juggling the Multipoint” and others are a response to irrational reality and seek to show a “sur” that mixes news agenda, personal and common subjects, dreams, digital reality and natural motifs. Fabrics, old photographs, scraps of books from different times and countries, acrylic and oil in Arthur's paintings create multifaceted surreal images. They capture the moment, call to stop in the moment, being “points of preservation” in the endless surrealistic game of our life. The exhibition also presents a separate room with joint paintings by Krivoshein and artist Vlad Maltsev, or rather the art group “2KM”. Guided by the principle of “art-life”, this series was painted this summer at the dacha in real time. The artists filmed their daily creative process, in which they combined two directions - abstractionism and figurative art. The authors write about what they see around them - it could be “Striped Fog”, “Fruit Colonnade” or “Appetizing Rise”. The proximity to nature, animal life, summertime pushes the digital world away, allowing us to explore the real and be in the present.”

Alina Muratova

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• The Blueprint - The Blueprint 100. Contemporary Art
• Poster Daily - 10 emerging artists to keep an eye on
• Artguide - Seller of Colored Shells
• Artocratia - Artur Krivoshein. SELLER OF COLORED SHELLS
• Simple group - Artur Krivoshein
• ARTuzel - Artur Krivoshein: “Abstract painting is an exact science”
• BURO. - “Collection as a self-portrait”: Anastasia Postrigay - about how much the choice of a painting says about its buyer
• Big City - 18 exhibitions of the fall in Moscow
• Cabinet de l'art - Arthur Krivoshein, Show me how to be mysterious, 2023
• Cultobzor - Artur Krivoshein. Seller of colored shells