Studio-artist, interior designer, ceramist.
Born and live in Moscow (Russia).
Education
2002 – Post-graduate course (Art and Craft history),
Moscow Art and Craft University – 3 years
2002 – Higher- School of Journalism – 2 years.
1991 – Moscow Art and Craft University (ceramics art) – 5 years
1986 – Moscow Art and Craft School (ceramics art) – 2 years
Organizations & Awards:
- Moscow Artists Trade Union.
- Boris Eltsin grant,
- Russian Art Academy Award – 2012
- The artistry award 2010 – international ceramics symposium «10х10» (Ukraine, Oposhnya),
Exhibitions
2018:
- Group-ceramic exhibition «Surfaces – 4». Moscow Curator.
- Moscow Biennale Of Decorative Arts.
- «10. Small format». Ceramics. Moscow state Museum-Estate Kuskovo. Curator.
- “Teacher and students”. Сeramics, Moscow. Curator
2017 – International Triennale of Silicate Arts. Kecskemet, Hungary
- «The best ones.» Ceramics and textile. Moscow
- Moscow ceramics. Triennale.
- Group-ceramic exhibition «Surfaces – 3» Moscow. Curator.
- 85 years of the Union of artists of Moscow.
2016:
- Flowers. Fruits and animals – Group-ceramic exhibition. Moscow.
- Four voices – group-ceramic exhibition. Curator. Moscow.
- ArtCeram 2016. International Сontemporary ceramics Exhibition. Paris, France.
- Group-ceramic exhibition «Surfaces – 2» Ryazan, Rissia – 2016. Curator.
- Greece forever! – Moscow and SPB ceramics. Curator. Moscow.
Solo- and- collectives exhibitions – 1986-2015.
In 2012-15:
– «Surfaces» ceramic group exhibition – Moscow 2015,
– Сeramic Market – Sevre, France 2015,
– International Ceramic Conclave – Delhi 2014,
– Moscow Ceramics 2014,
– North flame – St.-Petersburg 2014,
– Moscow Art and craft Artists – Moscow,
– Сeramic on the grass – Moscow,
– Vukovar Civic Museum – Croatia 2012,
– Moscow Art and craft Artists – Moscow 2012,
– Food-fire exhibitions – Belarus 2012,
– International ceramic biannual exhibition «Inside-Out» – Kapfenberg, Austria 2011,
– Opening-show of Russian collection in FULE (International ceramic museum – China) – Fuping 2012,
– 80 years of Moscow Artists Union – Moscow 2014.
Collections
Ceramics Museum Cuskovo (Moscow),
Nikitskiy botanical garden. Yalta, Crimea,
Ventspils Museum of history and art.
Art Museum of Tuemen (Russia),
Art Museum in Mogilev, Minsk (Belarus),
Art museum in Kirov (Russia),
Ceramic Gallery in Kanayama (Japan),
Panevezys Civic Art Gallery (Lithuania),
Vukovar Civic Museum (Croatia),
Kapfenberg Civic ceramic Gallery (Austria),
International Ceramic Museum FULE (China),
private collections (Russia, Belgium, Germany, Italy, USA, Japan).
As an artist with a classical art training, ceramics gives me the possibility to create objects with all advantages of sculpture, painting, graphics and even chemistry simultaneously. It’s a unique expression medium based on experiment.
As ceramics is not anymore the utilitarian piece only, each artist solves by himself the problem of “use” and “beauty”. Ceramic art parting with functionality makes the ceramics more expressive.
Georges Braque once said “The vessel configures the space as the music forms the silence”. The ceramic object combines the human look at the entire world and on its own self. Being a handmade object, it’s also an abstraction full of casual particular qualities and human imperfections. It has its own language and you can use it in any way you think and dream of. You should “just” find an attentive audience.
During my studies in the Ceramics School I learned different techniques of ceramics including majolica, faience, porcelain, glazed tiles and landscape sculpture. Then I made a decision to work on the vessel. Its function is still present but doesn’t play solo. Sometimes I stab my vessels to make their functional aspect even more improbable, stressing their own destination – pure beauty.
I make my ceramic objects as prototypes of borders between spaces, continuous or see-through. They relate and populate space by themselves. I can sometimes anticipate the future life of my ceramics, will they be in a beautiful garden or in a nice interior. In this case, I have often long talks with my clients before I start the work and my ceramics can become the focus point of a room or space.
I model most of my pieces from chamotte slabs, I haven’t used lately the wheel in my work. I decorate them colorfully with patterns, textures and stamps using a lot of glazes, enamels, oxides and pigments.
My ceramics are mostly electric fired, high temperature. I also like wood firing and always try to take the opportunity to participate in.