Figurina Elena

Elena Figurina is a well-known Petersburg painter, graphic artist, sculptor.

Artist was born in 1955 in Ventspils (Latvia). In 1979, she graduated from The Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrument-Making. Has taken part in exhibitions since 1978. In 1981-1990, was a member of The Society for Experimental Fine Arts (TEII). A member of The Academy of Contemporary Art. Has taken part in more that 200 exhibitions in Russia and abroad. Her works are in private collections in Germany, Holland, Denmark, Belgium, the USA, Norway, Finland, Australia, Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, Russia. Lives and works in St Petersburg.

Elena Figurina’s picturesque style is expressive, using broad strokes and local colors. Even the earliest works of the artist do not fit into the framework of naive art, which for her is too straightforward and at the same time too passively contemplative. Art for her is not a profession or even a vocation. This is her individual way of being on earth as a thinking and feeling being. She says that, conceiving a picture, you need to clearly formulate for yourself the question of what exactly you care about. The solution of this internal problem is the main thing in creativity.

Selected exhibitions:

• 1989 Kleine Typografie Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• 1990 Exhibit Gallery, Berlin, Germany
• 1990 Aurora Magazine, St. Petersburg
• 1991 Lind and Andreasen Gallery, Denmark
• 1992 Guelman's Gallery, Moscow
• 1992 International Images Gallery, Sewickly, USA
• 1992 Werdermann art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• 1995 The State Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg
• 1996 The Museum of Anna Akhmatova in The Fountain House, St. Petersburg
• 1997 Werdermann art Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• 1998 The Centre of Contemporary Art, The St. Petersburg University
• 2001 D-137 Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2002 Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
• 2002 “Na Obvodnom“ Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2013 "Paintings and Sculpture of 1991-2001 from the Private Collection". DiDi Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2014 Art-group "Chronicle" Exhibition, DiDi Gallery, St. Petersburg

Collections:

• The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• The Museum of the History of St. Petersburg
• The State Museum of Theatre and Music, St. Petersburg
• The Far East Museum of Fine Arts, Khabarovsk
• The Museum of Fine Arts, Sevastopol
• Zimmerly Museum, New Jersey, USA
• Oregon University Museum of Arts, USA
• The Museum of Contemporary Art, The St. Petersburg University
• The Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg
• The Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg