Mikhailov Vyacheslav

Vyacheslav Mikhailov is a famous Russian artist, based in St. Petersburg, master of texture. Member of the Union of Artists since 1979. Member of the National Association of Artists of Italy “ITALART” since 1993. Honored Artist of Russia since 1999. The participant of more than 300 exhibitions, including 70 personal, in Russia and abroad.

Artist was born in 1945 in the Stavropol region, in the village Arzgir, remote from the railway. Three times Mikhailov failed to enter the art school of Rostov-on-Don. The written refusal of the school to “no longer worry because of the total lack of talent,” of course, sounded insulting, which served as a kind of challenge to the young man. At the age of 26, after serving in the army, Mikhailov dared to enter the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Repin. Daring successfully, graduating from college in painting class in the workshop of Professor Yevsey Moiseenko. In 1979, Mikhailov finishes his postgraduate studies, also in the Moiseenko workshop.

The canons of academic education did not quite satisfy the artist. In the late 1970s, graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts Vyacheslav Mikhailov and Valery Lukka, together with the artist Felix Volosenkov, declared themselves as a creative group seeking to find new means of expression. To create the necessary artistic effect, they began to use embossed colorful layers.

Thus, the artists disowned the well-known and respected pictorial tradition, trying to bring their works to life as close as possible and turn them into something organic. However, their work was not deprived of literature and references to eternal mythological images; but the first role was assigned to physiology of texture. All three innovators canonized art critics and admirers, dubbed the group Three Heroes.

Today Vyacheslav Mikhailov is one of the most famous Petersburg artists. The author was lucky to find his expressive language that makes the work recognizable. In his paintings the form is interesting along with the semantics. Mikhailov works in series, for a long time interpreting this or that topic. The artist admits that memory, a feeling of being included in a world where there is not only today, but also the past is important to him. His heavy levkas canvases really preserve the memory of the past, forcing people to think and feel.

Selected exhibitions:

1986 Institute of Technology, Leningrad 1987 Editorial office of the magazine “Youth”, Moscow 1988 International Club, Leningrad 1990 Delta Gallery, Mayak Club, Leningrad 1990 Youth Museum “White Gallery“, Yekaterinburg 1991 RRINCE Gallery, New York, USA 1992 FINE ART GALLERY, Sallineck, Germany 1992 Museum of Art, Tyumen 1992 Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg 1992 Ethnographic Museum, Marble Hall, St. Petersburg 1993 Friendship House, Ekaterinburg 1993 Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg 1993 ARTE RUSSA Gallery, Piacenza, Italy 1993 Central House of Artists, Moscow 1993 Museum of Art, Ekaterinburg 1994 Exhibition Center of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg 1995 State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg 1995 Samoilov Museum, a project of the State Museum of Theater and Musical Art with the support of NEUHOFF GALLERY, New York, St. Petersburg 1996 NEUE GALERIE, Hamburg, Germany 1996 “FREIE KUNST” IN ST. MICHAELIS, Hamburg, Germany 1997 “Petersburg Artists”, cultural center, San Benedetto del Tronto, Italy 1998 HUUSSTEGE Gallery, Hertogenbosch, Holland 1998 “KUNST MACHT WIND”, Timmendorf, Germany 1999 FORUM Gallery, Hamburg, Germany 1999 Chongqing Art Institute, China 1999 “Self-portrait“, Delta Gallery, St. Petersburg 2000 “ACHT RING DER KUNSTFREUNDE”, POOL Galerie, Hamburg, Germany 2000 Art City Gallery, St. Petersburg 2001 ATELIER ANGELIKA BLEICKER-SCHAFER, Hamburg, Germany 2001 To the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg, Manege Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg 2002 “15 wurzer Sommerkonzerte 2002”, Historischen Pfarrhof, Würz, Germany 2002 Florentine Etudes, Northern Capital Gallery, St. Petersburg 2003 Central House of Artists, Moscow 2003 Museum at SCHMIDT-HAUS, Nabburg, Germany 2005 “Architetture di colore”, Design Art’s Gallery, Bologna, Italy 2005 Retrospection, Our Artists Gallery, Moscow 2005 Arts Center, Vlissingen, The Netherlands 2005 From the series “Faces of Russia”. Personal exhibition, Museum of A.S. Pushkin, St. Petersburg 2005 F.M. Dostoevsky Literary and Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg 2005 Vinkeveen Gallery, The Netherlands 2005 International Festival of Contemporary Art. Exhibition of avant-garde art “Avangard“, Magnitogorsk Picture Gallery, Magnitogorsk 2005 Presentation of the album “Vyacheslav Mikhailov“ to the 60th anniversary of the birth, City Sculpture Museum, St. Petersburg 2006 Personal exhibition in the framework of the celebration of the 400th anniversary of Rembrandt van Rijn with the support of the Consulate General of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, House of the former Dutch church, Library Information Cultural Center for Arts and Music of the Mayakovsky Central City Hospital, 20, St. Petersburg 2006 Pupils E. E. Moiseenko, Exhibition Center of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg 2006 ASA Art Gallery, St. Petersburg 2007 Petersburg Art of the 20th Century. Collection of modern art of the Central Exhibition Hall “Manege“, St. Petersburg 2007 Journey of the Black Square, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2007 Personal exhibition “Vyacheslav Mikhailov. Architecture“, the Museum of Architecture. F.V. Schuseva, Moscow 2004–2009 “Petersburg“, Central Exhibition Hall “Manege“, St. Petersburg 2008 Personal exhibition, International Art. Inc Gallery, Houston, USA 2008 “Miracle of George about the Serpent”, State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg 2008 “21 Wurzer Sommerkonzerte 2008” im Historischen Pfarrhof, Würz, Germany 2008 Personal exhibition Pompeii, Art re.Flex Gallery, St. Petersburg 2008 “Reflection”, Art re.Flex Gallery, St. Petersburg 2009 “Parallel Worlds”, International Art Forum, Thessaloniki, Greece 2009 “The First Russian Art Fair”, The Jumeirah Carlton Tower, London, UK 2009 “Parallel Worlds”, International Art Forum, Rachmaninov Gallery, St. Petersburg 2009 “Art about Art”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2009 Personal exhibition “Vyacheslav Mikhailov. One man show: Architecture”, Push-kin House, London, UK 2010 Erarta Museum and Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg 2012 Russian Museum, Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 2012 “Buchhandlung Carl Mayr”, Amberg, Germany 2015 Personal exhibition. DiDi Gallery, St. Petersburg 2019 “Paradise Gardens“, personal exhibition. DiDi Gallery — New Museum, St. Petersburg

Collections:

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg Astrakhan State Picture Gallery. P.M. Dogadin Vologda Regional Art Gallery All-Russian Museum of A.S. Pushkin, St. Petersburg State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music, St. Petersburg State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg State Museum of Artistic Culture of the Novgorod Land, Veliky Novgorod Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts Kaliningrad State Art Gallery Magnitogorsk Picture Gallery Moscow Museum of Modern Art Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg Novgorod State Museum Reserve Novosibirsk Art Gallery Perm State Art Gallery Pskov State United Historical-Architectural and Art Museum-Reserve St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg Museum of Theater and Musical Art Tyumen Regional Museum of Fine Arts Ural Youth Museum, Ekaterinburg Culture Foundation of Russia, Moscow Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg State Art Gallery, Mandal, Norway Kadriorg State Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia Kadriorg Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia Kiev National Museum of Russian Art, Ukraine Museum at Schmidt-Haus, Nabburg, Germany Jane Voorhees Zimmerly Museum at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA Museum of Art, Tampere, Finland Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany Museum of Soviet Informal Art, New York, USA Beijing State Museum of International Art, China Shanghai Museum of Fine Arts, China As well as private collections in Russia, France, Germany, USA, Italy, Finland, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Iraq, Belgium, Great Britain

Auctions:

1988 Auction Gallery Koller, Zurich, Switzerland 1989 Versailles, France 1989 Christie’s, London, UK 1990 Nellemann Thomson, Aarhus, Denmark 1990 Auction Gallery Hoffmann Drouot Richelieu, Paris, France 1991 Art Jonction International, Nice, France 1992 Auction Gallery Gioffredo, Nice, France 2006 Sothebys, New York, USA 2007 Sothebys, London, UK 2007 MasDougalls, London, UK 2007 Sothebys, London, UK