About The Artist
The central aspect in my work is the isolation of the photographed scene or the photographed object. I remove my apparently casual motifs of spatial and temporal reference and free them from the context in which they originally stood. I give the motifs in that way the common validity. The release from the knowledge of place and time makes it possible to emerge clearer the object itself. Beautiful and special things suddenly become visible in the supposedly ordinary and secondary. In this way, I’m looking for the signs of time and traces of globalization and development.
1981 born in Jaroslavl, Russia
1997 moves to Germany
2003-2007 study at Munich University of Applied Sciences, Photo Dep., Diploma
2005-2006 residence in Kolkata, India
2010-2012 residence in Paris, France
2009-2015 study at Munich Academy of Fine Arts, by Jean-Marc Bustamante, Diploma
2012-2015 lives and works in Munich, Germany
COLLECTIONS
2014 Kiyosato Museum of Photographic Arts (K∗MoPA), Japan
2013 Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, New York
2013 Bavarian State Picture Collection (Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlung), Munich
AWARDS
2014 7th Annual Photography Masters Cup, nominee in Fine Art
2013 Munich Award 2013 in photography (Förderpreis der Landeshauptstadt München)
2013 6th Annual Photography Masters Cup, nominee in Fine Art
2012 Lacoste Elysee Prize, Lausanne, Switzerland, nomination, grant
2012 5th Annual Photography Masters Cup, nominee in Fine Art
2012 LfA Calender Prize, Munich, Germany
2010 KATAPULT Award, Frankfurt, Germany, nomination (top ten)
2010 GetPublished Award, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany, nomination (top ten)
2009 Dummy Award, nomination, 2. Photobook Festival, Kassel, Germany
2008 Canon-Profifoto Award, nomination
2008 Varta Digital Photo Award, nomination (top nine)
SOLO SHOWS
2016 THE PLACE IS NOT IMPORTANT, 84 GHz, Munich
2014 THERE IS NO BETTER PLACE, BüKÜ, F-STOP Leipzig
2012 PARIS PHOTO, gallery SAGE, Paris, France
2012 NUIT DES IMAGES, Musée d'Elysée, Lausanne, Switzerland
2011 A TALE OF THREE CITIES; gallery SAGE Paris, France
2008 TUMBANI, Teehaus Tschajkowsky, Berlin, Germany
2007 TRAIN STATIONS, Goethe Institut, Calcutta (Kolkata), India
GROUP SHOWS
2016 Kunstmuseum Humboldschloss (Dez 2016 - Feb 2017)
2016 Artist-Atelier Weissenhaus, Germany (duo)
2016 THE PLACE IS NOT IMPORTANT, Seidlvilla, Munich
2015 AFFORDABLE ART FAIR HAMBURG, Galerie Nimmesgern Starnberg
2015 UNSEEN photo fair, Amsterdam, Galerie SAGE
2015 HONEY AND JOY, Galerie Artsquare, Munich, Germany
2015 Goethe Intstitute Munich (trio), Germany
2015 YOUNG PORTFOLIO ACQUISITIONS 2014, K∗MoPA, Japan
2015 ORTSWECHSEL, Kunstverein Freising, Altes Gefaengnis, Germany
2014 URBAN PLACES, Galerie Aspekt, Neustadt, (trio), Germany
2014 ÜBERBLENDUNG, AFF Galerie, Berlin, (trio), Germany
2014 DOES SIZE MATTER?, Gallery Sage, Paris
2013 PARIS PHOTO, gallery SAGE, France
2013 ARTIST COMES FIRST, Festival international d′art de Toulouse, France
2013 Munich Awards 2013, Lothringer 13, Munich
2012 UNDERWORLD, Galerie 5,6, Munich, Germany
2011 CATCHED, EarlyBirds, Munich, Germany (trio)
2011 PLACE IS NOT IMPORTANT, Galerie ASPEKT, Neustadt, Germany (duo)
2011 NEIGE, gallery Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2011 KATAPULT Days, winner exhibition, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2010 Collection hiemale, gallery Baudoin Lebon, Paris, France
2010 PHOTO+ART BOOK, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany
2010 VI WARSAW FESTIVAL OF ART PHOTOGRAPHY, Warsaw, Poland
2009 HEIMAT AUF ZEIT, Galerie für christliche Kunst, Munich, Germany
2009 2. Kasseler Photobook Festival, Kassel, Germany
2009 TUMBANI, groundfloor "Bayern Invest", Munich, Germany
2008 FOTOGRAFIKA, Museum Literaturnoje Pridneprovje, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine
2007 FOTOFINISH, Munich University, Munich, Germany
2007 I imagined it in a different way, Seidlvilla, Munich, Germany
2006 ON THE MOVE, SARAI, Space for contemporary media, Delhi, India (duo)
2006 THE OWN VIEW, Technikzentrum FH Muenchen, Munich, Germany
2005 I like when the light goes on, Giesinger Bahnhof, Munich, Germany
2005 54 CHARACTERS, Preview Festival, Moscow, Russia
2005 3rd CURRENT PHOTO Festival, Moscow, Russia
2005 2nd CURRENT PHOTO Festival, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2004 1st CURRENT PHOTO Festival, Saint-Petersburg, Russia