Russian Contemporary Art

Andrey Bartenev was born in Norilsk, Russia in 1969. He lives an artistic life with a single conviction « Art, for me, is a single entity », he says, and « I do not care what form it takes ». His work is unique and recognizable. Inspired by the mythology of art, and by science fiction, Andrey produces absurd creations, strange, daring, provocative. He lives his own life as a piece of art in three dimensions, wearing crazy costumes and a bright make-up. Sculptural performances of the artist  were shown throughout Europe.

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ALEXANDER SITNIKOV was born in 1945 in Russia, in Penza area.In 1972, he graduated from the Art Institute of Moscow, after Surikov, and specialised in graphic techniques. In 2002 A.Sitnikov won the National Russian Prize for his sequence of paitings "My 20th century". In 2003, he won the silver medal of the Russian Art Academy. Works of Alexander Sitnikov are to be found in a large number of public collections internationally and in major Russian state art museums.

NATALIA SITNIKOVA was born in Moscow in 1978. Graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.Surikov.

Sitnikova lives and works in Moscow. She creates abstract oil paintings and she became one of the most prominent artists in this field of her generation. Works of N.Sitnikova are present in the collections of the State Russian Museum, St-Petersburg, the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art etc.

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Olga Tobreluts is born in Leningrad in 1970. She studied in Architectural College in Leningrad, than followed the course of computer graphics in Berlin. She lives  in St-Petersbourg.

Olga Tobreluts belongs to a selected group of Russian artist, who became well-known internationally. She was one of the first in media art  and as a creator of massive video installations. She was also one of the first contemporary artists who picked modern computer technologies as a medium. Tobreluts’s artworks appear to be intricate manipulations, in which historical realities and myths of modern culture are melted together for the purpose of transforming them into a magical super reality.

Olga Tobreluts is an adherent of Neo-Academism. Her work  was exhibited by Tate Gallery (1999), by Henie Onstad Museum, Olso, Norway, by State Russian Museum in St. Petersburg, to name just a few. She is the winner of a number of prestigious international art competitions. 

Eduard Steinberg was born in Moscow in 1937. He never received a formal art education, he considered his father Arkady, artist and poet, to be his art mentor. 

Steinberg developed an interest in abstract art in the 60s. He made his first abstract works with reference to Malevitch, El Lissitsky and other avant-garde artists.  Steinberg  created  "in his compositions with geometrical connotations, floating in the moving cosmic space, the unusual forms,- to give visual interpretation of life phenomenae that had not yet received any exact verbal or philosophical explanation". (Alexandre Kamensky)

Eduard Steinberg passed away on March,28  2012 in his home in Paris.

IRINA STARZHENETSKAYA was born in 1943 in Uzbekistan, where her family was sent during the war. Graduated from the State Institute of Moscow named after V.Surikov in 1968. In 2000, she won the National Russian Prize and in 2004, the gold medal of the Russian Academy of Arts. Starzhenetskaya works and lives in Moscow. Her work can be found in : the Gallery Tretyakov in Moscow, the State Russian museum of St Petersbourg, Museum of contemporary art in Moscow, Museum of contemporary art Ludwig of Cologne in Germany, State arts museum of Tbilissia in Georgia, National gallery of Bratislava, Arts museum of Arkhangelsk, Vologda, Irkoutsk, Kurgan, Kalmykia, Petrozavodsk, Nizhniy Tagil, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Sotchi, Tomsk, Yaroslavl.

Among Russina art lovers, Irina Starzhenetskaya is known for her refined sense of colour.