Konstantin Batynkov was a member of the legendary Mitki group that produced one of the most important trends in the new art of St Petersburg during the 1980s and 1990s, in the critical transition between the Soviet Union and the new Russia, Leningrad and St Petersburg.
In the last few years the artist has concentrated on painting in black and white. In his pictures always-recognisable realia of everyday Russian life are interwoven with phantasmagorical subjects. His strange perspectives allow him to fill the canvas with a vast number of characters and in each of them lives a touching and vulnerable ‘little man’, the typical hero of classical Russian literature. Sometimes these characters are so tightly crammed into his works that they become component microelements of the cosmos, and occasionally the cosmos in the form of a nocturnal starry sky or huge stack of logs pushes the figures beyond a very low or high horizon. Batynkov’s work is nostalgia according to the traditional Russian ideal of Sobornost’, an ideal of community in heart, mind and spirit that was never achieved in the succession of tragic historic experiments conducted in 20th-century Russia. (Olga Sviblova)
KONSTANTIN BATYNKOV. 1959 was born in Sevastopol, Ukraine SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2016 “Konstantin Batynkov. Views”, Museum of Moscow, Moscow 2015 “PROKosmos”. Krokin gallery and Moscow Planetarium. Moscow 2014 “View from the window”. Krokin gallery. Moscow 2013 “Children of the 90-ies”. Krokin gallery. Moscow 2012 “Paracadutisti”. Nina Lumer Gallery, Milano 2011 “Still Life”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow, Russia 2010 “Parade”. Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia 2011 “Still Life”. Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia 2009 “Landscape”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2008 “Moscow”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2007 “Forest ”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2006 “Children”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2005 “About War”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2004 “Other Life”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2003 “Ally – Alien”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2002 “Outward Tibet”. Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 “Parallel Vienna 2016”, Parallel Vienna, Vienna 2015 “Viktory as a new epos”. Krokin gallery & Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow, Russia Attitudine alle Confluenze, Galleria Nina Due, Milan 2014 “ZOO”. Krokin gallery, Zoological Museum of Moscow State University by M. V. Lomonosov. Moscow, Russia 2013 “Between Earth and Sky”. RIZZORDI ART FOUNDATION . Saint-Petersburg, Russia 2012 “Circus”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow 2011 “Earth. Space. Gagarin”. Krokin gallery. Moscow 2011 “WHALES of the SEASON © 7” – Krokin Gallery, Moscow 2010 “WHALES of the SEASON © 6” – Krokin Gallery, Moscow 2009 “ART MOSCOW”, Central House of Artists, Krokin gallery booth 2008 “The Moscow News”. NCCA. Izhevsk.Russia. 2007 Art-Moscow. Stand of Krokin Gallery. Russia 2006 “Still-Life”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia 2005 “Black-White Project” Krokin gallery jointly with Marina Gisich gallery. Sankt- Petersburg. Russia 2004 Art-Moscow. Stand of Krokin Gallery 2003 “School”. Krokin gallery within the project “Archival Contemporaniety”. Moscow. Russia PROJECTS WITH N. POLISSKY AND S. LOBANOV 2002 “de Moscau”. Le Quartier centre d’art contemporain de Quimper. France 2001 “Forgotten master drawings”. Pinakoteka. Moscow. Russia 2000 “Vertep”. M. Guelman gallery. Moscow. Russia 1999 “Manilov project”. M. Guelman gallery. Toko-bank. Moscow. Russia 1997-98 “Human rights”. A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia COLLECTIONS: State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
(graphics, photo, painting)
since 1983 the member of Artist Union of Russia
since 1985 participating in exhibition activity of “Mit’ki” group.
2004 Laureate of professional prize for creative achievements of Moscow artists “Master’2003″.
The artist lives and works in Moscow
“Son of the Regiment”. Krokin gallery and State Institute of Art Studies. Moscow
“The Kremlin”. Krokin gallery, Moscow
“Circus”. Krokin Gallery at Art-Vilnius art fair. Vilnius, Lithuania
“In the Roads”. Krokin gallery. Moscow
“Backstage”. Krokin gallery. Moscow
Konstantin Batynkov – Palais Liechtenstein – Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Feldkirch
“Other Life”. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
“Cheerful Pictures” – Pop/Off/Art Gallery, Moscow
“Interni”. Nina Lumer Gallery, Milano
“Other Life”. Museum named by Vrubel. Omsk. Russia
“Graphic”. Semionov Gallery. Saint-Petersburg. Russia
“The Dark Forest”. Gallery Karenina. Vienna. Austria
“The Knight’s Romance”. Gallery Pop/Off/Art. Moscow. Russia
“Other Life ”. ”. The Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre. Russia
“Town ”. VP Studio. Moscow. Russia
“ Graphic ”. Gallery Karenina. Vienna. Austria
“Goal ! ”. Moscow House of Photography. CHA. Moscow. Russia
“Waves Runners”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Slaves “. S’Art Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Marine ”. VP Studio. Moscow. Russia
“UFO”. Sam Brook Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Bulldozers”. Krokin Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Project – Cul’t – Prosvet”. Krokin Gallery. Krokus Expo. Moscow. Russia
“Health Resort ”. ATV-Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Melioration”. Art-Festival. Moscow. Russia
“Press-format”. Sam Brook gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Sea fight”. S’Art gallery. Moscow. Creative Center “Mit’ki – Vhutemas”. Saint-Petersburg. Russia
“Euro”. A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
NordArt 2014, KiC Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
“The Sky”. Group project of Krokin gallery in Moscow Planetarium. Moscow
NordArt, Kunst in der Carlshütte 2013, NordArt, Kunst in der Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf
“Tell Me, Unkle…”, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
“Still Life”. Krokin gallery. Moscow
“Whales of the Season 7″. Krokin gallery. Moscow
“Russian Cosmos”, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
“Visual/Conceptual” – National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA) – Moscow Branch, Moscow
“TRACTOR DRIVERS” 35-th anniversary of the bulldozer exposition – Krokin Gallery, Moscow
“THE WHALES OF THE SEASON © 5” – Krokin Gallery, Moscow
Contemporary Russian Art – Egon Schiele Art Centrum Cesky Krumlov, Ceský Krumlov
Étude to Art Object – Moscow museum of modern art – MMOMA, Moscow
“Sotheby’s”. London. Great Britain.
“Meander”. Stand of Krokin Gallery. Pirogovo resort. The Moscow region.
“A(rt)R(ussia)T(oday)-index” – LNMM Latvijas Nacionālais Mākslas Muzejs / LNMA Latvian National Museum of Arts, Riga
“IX Biennial of Graphic Art of the Baltic States” – Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad
“MOCKBA! Contemporary Art from Russia” – Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin
“WHALES OF THE SEASON © 4” – Krokin Gallery, Moscow
“Mitkat” – Hyvinkään Taidemuseo – Hyvinkää Art Museum, Hyvinkää
“The New Inpayments”. NCCA. Moscow. Russia
“The Draft of Siberia”. VII The Krasnoyarskaya Biennalle. Russia
“Motherland – Mother“. Zverevsky Centre of contemporary art. Moscow. Russia
“Kity of Season 3“.Krokin Gallery.Moscow. Russia
“The Marry Christmas Postcard”. VP Studio. Moscow. Russia
“Outskirts of Landscape”. Zverevsky Centre of contemporary art. Moscow. Russia
“Russia – Motherland of Elephants”. Gallery Pop/Off/Art. Moscow. Russia
“Mail Art”. The Central Museum of telecommunication named by A. S. Popov. Sankt- Petersburg. Russia
“The New Angelarium ”. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Russia
“Baroque ”. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Krokin Gallery. Russia
“The New Inpayments”. NCCA. Moscow. Russia
Art-Moscow. Stand of Krokin Gallery
“Project-Kult-Prosvet”.“. Stand of Krokin gallery. Krokus Expo. Moscow. Russia
Millionaire Fair. Stand of HSC «Otrada». Curator Krokin Gallery . Krokus Expo. Moscow. Russia
“Election ”. Forum of the Art initiatives. New Manege. Moscow. Russia
“Alleys of. Culture. Lawn of Rest”. Kovcheg Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“The New Russian Avangard”. P.H. Burda. Munich. Germany
“Hydrolysis”. The Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre. Russia
“Project Pobeda. Monuments”. Krokin gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Filmpictures”. Gallery Pop/off/art. Moscow. Russia
Art-Moscow. Stand of Krokin Gallery
“We”.Moscow international forum of art initiatives. New Manege. Russia
“Millionaire Fair”. (within project of Krokin gallery). Krokus Expo. Moscow. Russia
“Tsu-sima”. S’ART Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Hunters for the ghosts”. Biennale of Contemporary Art in Prague. Czechia
“Want to See the World – Become the Soldier”. VI The Krasnoyarskaya Biennale. Russia
“Barbyezone”. Gallery Ru.Arts. Moscow. Russia
Central House of Artists. Moscow, Russia
Forum of the Art initiatives. New Manege. Moscow. Russia
“My Nabokov”. Stella Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“San Francisco International Art Exposition”. (within project of Krokin gallery). USA
“Mit’ki on Brestskaya”. Moscow. Russia
“Art Kliazma”. Russia
“Art Chicago”. (within project of Krokin gallery). USA
“Art-Moscow”. Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
“Azbuka”. “DAR” Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Dow-Johnes”. РТС. Moscow. Russia
“Stengazeta”. A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
“The Walls”. A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
“Klava’s lovers”. Project. Art-Moscow. Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
“The Snowmen”. Art-Moscow. Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
“New comings”. Moscow House of Photography. Moscow. Russia
“Art Forum”. Perm. Russia
“Architecture & Design”. Central House of Artists. Moscow. Russia
“The Heroes”. Exhibition hall New Manezh. Moscow. Russia
“Project of Museum of USSR”. A. Sakharov museum. Moscow. Russia
“Motherland or Death”, “Christ – the good man”, “Geteroportrait”. Зверевский центр современного искусства. Moscow. Russia
“Identification”. “DAR” Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Vodka”. M. Guelman Gallery. Moscow. Russia
“Forum of the artistic initiatives”. Exhibition hall New Manezh. Moscow. State Center of Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod. Russia
“Mit’ki’ New-year Tree”. Manezh square. Moscow. Russia
“Mit’ki – to the Navy”. Saint-Petersburg. Russia
Irkutsk V. Sukachiov Regional Museum of Art, Irkutsk
Krasnoyarsk V. Surikov Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk
National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Moscow Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk
Penza K. Savitsky Regional Picture Gallery, Penza
Perm State Art Gallery, Perm
Saratov A. Radishchev State Art Museum, Saratov
Museum of actual art «ART4.RU», Moscow
Viktor Bondarenko collection, Moscow
Alexander Smuzikov Collection, Moscow
Jacques Duby Family Collection, Paris , France
