Купалян Александр
Alexander was born in 1982 in Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod).
Graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Art College (2004), the Faculty of Painting of the V.I. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute in the workshop of theatrical and decorative art (2010), as well as the creative workshop of theatrical and decorative art under the guidance of M.M. Kurilko-Ryumin. Since 2013, he has been teaching painting and composition at the V.I. Surikov Moscow State Art Institute. In 2017 he underwent an internship at Accademia di Belle Arti di Napoli (Naples, Italy). Since 2016, Alexander has been a member of the Moscow Union of Artists (MOSKh), and since 2019 he has been a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts.
Alexander Kupalyan works in the field of monumental art and creation of murals. Large-scale and expressive works, placed by the artist in urban space, inevitably capture the viewer's attention and provoke public discussions on acutely relevant topics of modernity.
Alexander's work is a resonant artistic statement, which is a distinctive synthesis of academic traditions and bold visual solutions. The artist himself assesses his task as follows: to create something significant, not to stop at what has been achieved and to try to change the world around him.
Alexander also actively participates in theater and opera productions as a scenographer. Among his works: opera “Iolanta” (Helikon Opera, 2019), “Oprichnik” (Mikhailovsky Theater, 2021), “Onegin” (Nizhny Novgorod State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater named after A.S. Pushkin, 2023) and others.
Currently lives and works in Moscow.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
- 2024 — “The Yellow Notebook”, solo exhibition, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
- 2021 — “To Adam's Children”, solo exhibition, Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg
- 2020 — “OPTIMISTIC TRAGEDY”, group exhibition, VS unio gallery, Moscow
- 2019 — “Noems”, group exhibition, Nizhny Novgorod State Exhibition Complex, Nizhny Novgorod
- 2018 — “Return to the Masterpiece”, solo exhibition, VS unio gallery, Moscow
- 2017 — “Silk Road”, group exhibition, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
- 2012 — “Cinema-theater palette. Young artists”, Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow
- 2012 — “Theater”, group exhibition, Maly Manezh, Moscow
- 2011 — “Heirs of Great Masters”, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
- Cabinet de l'art - Alexander Kupalyan: “Return to the Masterpiece”
- Snob - Real Painting by Alexander Kupalyan
- Dog.ru - Sasha Kupalyan
- BURO. - Artist Sasha Kupalyan has installed an art object at the entrance to the New Tretyakovka on Krymsky Val.
- marie claire - Alexander Kupalyan: what you need to know about the Russian artist
- Dog.ru - “Reading the kokoshnik”. Nizhny Novgorod “Boyarynya” in Sochi: what?
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