Born in 1989 in China.

Graduated from Nanyang Junior College in Singapore (1999) and the St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts in the Department of Graphics under the supervision of A.A. Pakhomov (2010–2016). His artistic practice is focused on the awakening and sublimation of the inner spirit of a person, based on the belief that at the moment of deep existential insight, an individual experiences an imperative — a call from higher dimensions or the depths of his own being. This call is not a concrete sensory phenomenon, but manifests itself as an intense internal intentionality that directs the subject to the place where the transmutation ritual is performed.

This process is visualized as entering a forest-like locus — a symbolic transpsychic space representing a portal to another ontological reality (not a literal natural landscape). Within this space, the subject acquires a personal installation, often visually likened to an operating room with pronounced ritualistic semantics. The object embodies a unique individualized rite necessary for the completion of internal sublimation.

In terms of visual representation, the dialectic of the relationship between the human body and the surrounding space is explored in depth, especially the states of dissolution (dissolution of boundaries), integration (fusion) and transgression (crossing of limits). As the individual awakens, the demarcation lines between the individual and the outside world, as well as the intrapsychic boundaries, are subject to erosion and become labile (mobile).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2025 — Solo exhibition at Simulacra Gallery, Beijing, China
• 2024 — Solo exhibition at Zimmer 48 Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 2022 — “Eschatological Fugue” Sation Hall, Brusnitsyn Cultural Portal, St. Petersburg, Russia

RESIDENCES:

• 2025 — Culterium program

FAIRS:

• 2024 — BAAM ART FAIR, Berlin, Germany

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

Gleb Nestrelyaev was born in Vladivostok in 1995. The author received his first art education in Vladivostok Art College (workshop of Makeev E.E.). Since 2019 he lives and works in St. Petersburg, where since 2020 he has been studying at the Repin Academy of Arts (workshop of H. V. Savkuev).

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2024 — a—s—t—r—a Open.Vol 6,  a—s—t—r—a gallery, Winzavod, Moscow
• 2024 — A familiar tree grows out of the haze, OpenYou Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2024 — "I am not a robot” Artocratia Gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — Avant-garde: Workshop of the Future, Serpukhov Museum of History and Art, Moscow, Russia
• 2024 — All Houses, ETO, House of Culture
• 2024 — Spring - 2024, St. Petersburg Union of Artists
• 2023 — Youth of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg Union of Artists
• 2023 — Ark. Itaian Hall, Academy of Arts
• 2022 — Beehive Fest, Villa Vitali Mansion
• 2022 — Lost?!, MORS Illustration Festival
• 2021 — One Day Today. A Journey, PortArt Gallery
• 2021 — Hive Party, Villa Vitali Mansion
• 2019 — We Are Around Me, FEFU MC Gallery
• 2019 — Molodezhnaya, Primorsky branch of the ARF
• 2019 — Once Upon a Time Today. My Neighbors, FEFU MC Gallery
• 2018 — Dreams, “MC” gallery FEFU
• 2018 — Once Upon a Time Today, FEFU MC Gallery
• 2018 — I've seen it. Summer, FEFU MC Gallery
• 2018 — Lust for Life, Seaside Branch of the ARF

FAIRS:

• 2024 — BLAZAR, Independent Artists Section
• 2024 — PAF:ALL COLORS, Sevkabel Port
• 2024 — 1703, Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Repin Collection of St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts

“Since childhood I have been attracted to colorful texture on various surfaces, cracked paint on garages or school hallways, old paper and whitewashed walls for the “hundredth time”. The sense of time from these things I try to recreate in my work. I like to observe people, communicate with them, listen to their stories. All my works are about human relationships and the cyclical nature of our history. I like to experiment with materials, often to create the surface I want I have to manipulate the work for a long time: skinning, scratching, painting and stripping the paint layer. In my work I often use mythological elements and natural motifs, personal reflective experiences to create my own stories.”

Gleb Nestrelyaev