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:

• 2025 — Blazar, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow
• 2024 — BAAM ART FAIR, Berlin, Germany

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