Paul Solovyev, a multidisciplinary autodidact artist working in the field of performance, non-performance art, readymade, installations, photography, painting and graphics. Drawing on the influence of his previous professional experience in advertising and fashion, Pavel focuses on the queer aspects of identity that challenge the notions of representation and the eschatological potential of the image. In his projects, Pavel studies the transformation and transgression of the image in the stream of sacred, mystical, political and advertising symbols that fill the mediums of modern mass culture. Pavel's works are in private and corporate collections in the USA, Great Britain, Spain, Germany, France, Japan, the Netherlands, Ukraine and Russia.

Creator of the LOVE clothing brand. As an artist and designer of the brand, Pavel collaborated with such musical groups as Aphex Twin, NAADYA, Grazhdanskaya Oborona, Burzum and others.

Member of the Club of Art Directors of Russia. Lives and works in Moscow.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

• 2019 — "Shatuny", Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, Moscow
• 2016 — "Phantom", Space "Science and Art", Moscow
• 2015 — "Black", CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
• 2015 — "War is Peace", Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow
• 2015 — "Parts of the World", "180 m2", Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

• 2020 — ENTER Art Fair. Copenhagen, Denmark
• 2019 — "One, two, three", Gallery "a-s-t-r-a", CUBE, Moscow
• 2018 — "N.Kh.", Gallery "XL", Center for Contemporary Art "Winzavod", Moscow
• 2017 — "MMXVII *", Gallery "Electrozavod", Moscow
• 2017 — "Trigger 3D", illegal exhibition at the Kursk Station, Moscow
• 2017 —  "Vogue Fashion Night Out", TD TSUM, Moscow
• 2017 — Bastille Day, Koncheevo, Moscow
• 2017 — "Revolution", CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
• 2016 — "Cosmos.LOVE", Center "Artplay", Moscow
• 2016 — "Reading Group", within the framework of the "Moon at Zero" exhibition, "Red" Center, Moscow
• 2016 — "Brilliant work", Center "Red", Moscow
• 2016 — "Postkurok", illegal exhibition at the Kursk Station, Moscow,
• 2016 — "Bar" Joy ", CTI" Fabrika ", Youth Biennale, Moscow
• 2016 — "The Temptation of St. Anthony", "Printing Workshop" space, Moscow,
• 2016 — Intervention “#Monopoly”, gallery “Regina”, gallery “Pop / off / art”, gallery “XL”, gallery “Pechersky”, gallery “Triangle”, gallery “Osnova”, gallery “Here”, gallery “Electrozavod ", Apartment exhibition on Voikovskaya, Moscow
• 2015 — Pirtoy, Tengri Umai, Almaty
• 2015 — "Image of the enemy", Center "Red", Moscow
• 2015 — "When I eat", CTI "Fabrika", Moscow
• 2015 — Festival "Outline", Karacharovsky mechanical plant, Moscow
• 2015 — "New Wave Uncut II", gallery "MSK Eastside", Moscow
• 2015 — "# Accident", FIAN accelerator complex, Troitsk, Moscow
• 2015 — "Futuristic Mimicry", State Museum of Mayakovsky, Moscow
• 2014 — MMXIV *, Electrozavod Gallery, Moscow

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:

• "Chronicles of Artistic Isolation: Overcoming and Breakthroughs", "Rhino" Magazine
• "Rap as a way of codifying reality", Sreda Magazine
• “Now the ballet is still the same, but we are all wearing masks”, Kommersant Style
• "Adaptation. Painters. Personal experience ", radio" Culture"
• "Art in Quarantine", Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation
• "Cranks", review by Sergey Guskov, aroundart
• Interview to ArtTube
• "Cultivation of the soul", conversation for BangBang Education

Born in 1987 г.

Yuri is a graphic artist and painter with an extraordinary background. He first started in the visual arts at the age of 20, then, after studying at the Moscow School of New Cinema (MSNC) to become a screenwriter and director, he returned to painting and drawing.

Jury's work is a methodological look into the nature of painting; in this he continues the line of abstract painters from America and the German neo-expressionists of the 1960-70s (De Kooning, Baselitz and Kiefer were particularly close). Through them, Samoilove also addresses the question of method, which for him lies in the problem of the relationship between figurative and abstract art. The artist approaches this boundary by means of automatic writing and palimpsest of textures.

In creating abstraction, there is a very great risk of entering the figurative precisely by accident, unintentionally. Automatic writing, removes this problem by making the image identical in meaning and importance to the abstraction. The line is erased, and the unambiguously figurative can use that plastic language in which it is not immediately recognized.

The same with palimpsest: Yuri applies and erases layers of paint, overlaps one with the other, scrapes the drawing with a sharp turn of the brush, and uses spray paint along with acrylics from the tube and pastels. The texture of these works gravitates toward sculptural plasticity, hence the pathos of the material. The material and its molding become no less interesting and important than the image itself.

All this creates works in which the viewer can discover the collision of different problems of the visual, each of which is attractive in its own way: from the limits of figurative painting, automatic and deliberate, to the pressurization of texture as a way of overcoming painting itself.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:

• 2022 - "How to disappear completely", a-s-t-r-a gallery, Art Center "Vinzavod"
• 2022 - St. Petersburg Art Fair "1703", a-s-t-r-a gallery, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2021 - blazar young art fair, a-s-t-r-a gallery, Moscow
• 2021 - participation in the international project "Exit from the Black Square", Novosibirsk
• 2021 - Program Art Moscow at 46th Russian Antique Salon, a-s-t-r-a gallery. Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
• 2020 - Participation in the International Contemporary Art Project THE WALL. Kamensk-Uralsky Art Museum, Kamensk-Uralsky
• 2020 - Group exhibition "I have lost track of the world". Curator Irina Shulzhenko. Richter Space, Moscow
• 2019 - Participation in the group exhibition "One, two, three" curated by a-s-t-r-a gallery. CUBE MOSCOW, Moscow
• 2019 - Participation in the international project "Exit from the Black Square. Trekhgornaya manufactory, Moscow
• 2019 - Personal exhibition "Dead Bodybuilder". Richter Space, Moscow
• 2018 - Two guys /One Exhibition (together with American photographer John Hunter Tenney, Free Workshop)
• 2018 - Performance "Seven Gentlemen in Moscow". Osnova Gallery, Moscow
• 2018 - Performance "Round 9". "October, Moscow.
• 2017 - Performance "Sixth Symphony". Pluto, Moscow
• 2017 - "The Garden" (Meditating Dog Experimental Art Studio)