Sergey Shekhovtsov was born in Salsk, Russia, in 1969. Graduated from the Surikov Academy of Art in Moscow (1996). Lives and works in Moscow. Sergei Shekhovtsov has taken part in exhibitions in Russia and abroad: in State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, 2005); Miami Design District (Miami, USA, 2007); Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (Moscow, 2007); Ekaterina Cultural Foundation (Moscow, 2007); Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow, 2007); Russian Pavilion (Venice Biennale, 2009); Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2010); ZKM (Karlsruhe, Germany, 2011); Saatchi Gallery (London, 2014). He represented Russia at the 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo (Brazil, 2004).
Sergei Shekhovtsov is a master at detecting the ambiguities, which make up our lives. He has been doing it from the outset of his artistic career, when he first had ‘a sense of the world as a soft, amorphous, deceptive substance’. Hence the choice of foam rubber as his favoured working material – a humble, workaday, unartistic substance, but endowed with limitless imitative ability: ‘You can make a whole world out of it, use it in any manner of ways”.
SERGEY SHEKOVTSOV Nato nel 1969 a Salsk, Russia. Diplomato al Surikov Art College, Mosca (1996). Vive e lavora a Mosca SOLO SHOW 2016 2013 2010 2009 2008 2006 2004 2003 2002 SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2015 2014 2012 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003-04 2002 2001 Abramtsevo-2000. Abramtsevo Museum, regione di Mosca
“Sergey Shekhovtsov. Words, that are not”, NameGallery, St. Petersburg
2014
Sergei Shekhovtsov. Straight Through, Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
Sergey Shekhovtsov, Short Cut, Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow
2011
Scena di battaglia. Galleria Nina Lumer, Milano
Foam. Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Big Battle. XL Gallery, Mosca
F 392. XL Gallery, Mosca
Tron. XL Gallery, Mosca
Park. Galleria Nina Lumer , Milano
Porolon. Anna Nova gallery, San Pietroburgo
Zoo. Orel Art Gallery. Parigi
Ephemeral Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Mosca
Porpourri. Regina Gallery, Mosca
Singer. State Tretyakov Gallery, Mosca
Elite affairs (with V. Koshlyakov), Regina Gallery, Mosca
Sponges. Regina Gallery, Mosca
We Must Cultivate Our Garden – Anna Nova Gallery, St. Petersburg
Russian Contemporary Art – Havremagasinet Art Center, Boden
BE OPEN / VERGE. Exhibition of Russian contemporary art, Fuorisalone, Milano
BE OPEN / VERGE. XL Gallery, Mosca
2011
Materia Prima. PAC, Milano
Car culture. ZKM, Karlsruhe
Lesson in History. Palais de Tokyo, Parigi
Face, image, time. Ekaterina Foundation, Mosca
La Biennale di Venezia. Padiglione russo. Venezia
Russia 21. Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev
Russian Poor. 3° Biennale di Mosca
Sketches of Installations. XL Gallery, Mosca
Contemporary Russian Art. Loop gallery, Seoul
Future depends on you. Ethnography Museum, Vladivostok; Museum center, Krasnoyaesk
Capricci. “Casino” Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Russia Miami 2007. Miami Design Distict, Miami, USA
I Believe! Winzavod Art Center, Mosca
Movement. Evolution. Art. Ekaterina Foundation, Mosca
Nuovi acquisti. NCCA, Mosca
Future depends on you. Museo d’arte moderna, Mosca
Moscow News. The Gallery of Art Critics, Palace Adria, Praga
Moskow Breakthrough. Bargehouse. OXO Tower Wharf, Londra
BRussia. Europalia – 2005 festival. Royal Park, Bruxelles
Russian Pop Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Mosca
The Artist and the Arms. M’ARS center, Mosca
P.S. Beyond the red Horizon. NCCA, Mosca
Za Czermonnym Horyzontem. Zamek Ujazdowski, Varsavia
26. Bienal de Sao Paulo. Ciccillio Matarazzo Pavilion, Sao-Paulo, Brazil
Go, Russia! Regina Gallery, Mosca
Pop/Art. Zverev center of contemporary art,
Davaj! Dal laboratorio di arte libera in Russia. Postfuhramt, Berlin; Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna
