Pakhomov Sergey
Born in 1966 in Moscow.
"Sergey Pakhomov is an artist, theater and film actor, musician, as well as the infamous character DED PAKHOM, who turned his life into a work of art. PAKHOM's style of writing combines the technique of icon painting and Russian folk crafts - Khokhloma, Palekh, Zhostovo. Starting from the 80- In the 1990s, he participated in exhibitions, performances, performed in musical groups. In the 90s, he began acting in films and talk shows. He got widely famous owing to the film "The Green Elephant" in 1999. PAKHOM's psychic abilities thundered throughout Russia in 2015 year after the release of the 16th season of the TV show "Battle of Psychics". In 2002-2009 he worked as an art director in several glossy magazines. The works of the Russian Foolish PAKHOM, a man "OUT OF THIS WORLD", were already popular among foreign collectors in the 80s, looking for new geniuses behind the "Iron Curtain" of the Soviet Union. Since then, he has participated in exhibitions in Vienna, Berlin, London, New York, Paris, Moscow - repeatedly in the Tretyakov Gallery, his works are in the collection of London's Saatchi Gallery. " VLADEY
Sergey's paintings are characterized by a wide format, a bright palette and "psychic themes". The artist describes his style as "a mixture of idiocy and absurdity." In performances, he embodies the collective images of a Russian peasant and a holy fool. Being a well-known figure in social networks, repeatedly replicated in different images, Pakhomov refigures his images and calls this method "artistic DJing".
EDUCATION
- 1981 - Krasnopresnenskaya art school
- 1985 - Moscow Art and Industrial School named after Kalinin
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2023 - Les fleurs du…, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow
- 2022 - Six female portraits painted in blood, gallery "Eto ne zdes", Moscow
- 2017 - Living Water, Regina Gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2016 - Charged with goodness, Vladey Space, Winzavod, Moscow
- 2013 - Heavenly Office, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2012 - Altare, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 - Red Branch, ArtRaum Gallery, Moscow
- 2009 - Yellow. Gallery D-137, St. Petersburg
- 2009 - Bony gentleman, gallery TsekhV. Winzavod, Moscow
- 2008 - And we are already dead, or Pizdyulkin is listening, gallery D-137. Saint Petersburg
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2019 - Philosophy of a common cause, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow
- 2019-2020 - Let the lucky star shine in height, GUM-Red-Line, Moscow
- 2012 - Fun is the main feature of the Soviet Union, Saatchi Gallery, London
- 2011 - Russian Landscape, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 - Alla Gloria Militar, Aircraft Gallery, Bratislava
- 2010 - Duel, Ruarts gallery, Moscow
- 2010 - Art Therapy, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Birth of Darwin (State Darwin Museum, Moscow) - 1996 - Neuve Zwerg, East Side Gallery, Berlin
- 1996 - 4th International Biennial of Easel Graphics "Kaliningrad - Koenigsberg 96", Kaliningrad Museum of Fine Arts, Kaliningrad
- 1994 - Exhibition in memory of Alexander Kharitonov, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 1993 - Traditions and Postmodernism, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 1992 - Art-Expo, New York
- 1991 - Group exhibition, Natan Fedorovskij Galerie, Berlin, Basel
- 1988 - First erotic exhibition, Moscow
- 1987 - Group "Iris", Club of avant-garde artists, Moscow