Ima Maxim

Maxim Ima is a street art artist from Saint-Petersburg, curator of exhibition and public art projects. Laureate of the Sobaka.ru magazine award "Top 50 famous people of St. Petersburg" in the art nomination.

His artist's career began in 2005. Train rides in the Leningrad Region and abstract graffiti were the first that influenced the formation of the style of Maxim Ima.

A few years later, a new stage began, the artist turned to the creation of large-scale inscriptions. They were quotes and sayings about street art and contemporary artists, discussions about the value of art.

In 2009, Maxim became a co-worker at the exhibition hall "Protvor", where he curated several of own projects. After that, his curatorial activity began. Over the past few years, Maxim Ima has implemented his projects at the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh" in St. Petersburg and at the Street Art Museum.

Now the artist turns to figurative painting and graphics, curates public art projects together with the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh".

Selected exhibitions:

• 2009 "Marginal and Actual". Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg
• 2009 "Space of Silence". Plant "Red Banner", St. Petersburg
• 2009 "Wholetrain". CAG Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
• 2010 Personal exhibition "Fiction". Exhibition Hall "Protvor", St. Petersburg
• 2011 "55/13". Artplay, Moscow
• 2011 "Nursery". Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg
• 2015 Personal exhibition "It is clear that nothing is clear." Loft-project "Etazhi", St. Petersburg
• 2015 "Casus Pacis". Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2015 "Art Wall". Center for Contemporary Art. S. Kuryokhina, St. Petersburg
• 2016 "Post-trigger". Kurskiy station, Moscow
• 2016 "The holiday comes to us." Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2017 "Artification". Plant "Stepan Razin", St. Petersburg
• 2017 "Enter your text." Berthold Center, St. Petersburg
• 2018 "Fabulous country of Street Artia". Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2018 "Parts of the Walls". Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", St. Petersburg
• 2019 Personal exhibition "The Writer". Notfound Gallery, Moscow
• 2019 "At least stand, at least fall." Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2020 Personal exhibition "Everything is here". Loki Gallery, St. Petersburg
• 2020 Personal exhibition "Well, you and the rat." Futuro Minor, Nizhny Novgorod
• 2020 Personal exhibition "Flowers Series". R14 Hall, St. Petersburg
• 2020 Personal exhibition "Covers". Belief X 404, Moscow
• 2020 "Kommunalka". Gallery "Triumph", Moscow
• 2020 Exhibition-self-organization "Fox nose". St. Petersburg
• 2020 "State of emergency". Gallery "Triumph", Moscow
• 2020 "Break 15 minutes". All-Russian Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow
• 2021 Personal exhibition "Say". Farm Benoit, St. Petersburg
• 2021 "A shadow of the soul, but a little sharper." Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
• 2021 “Generation of Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg

Curated projects:

• 2017 "As usual". Loft-project "Etagi", St. Petersburg
• 2018 “(Not) Superfluous person (New ruins: concrete). The area of ​​the western facade of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", St. Petersburg
• 2019 "At least stand, at least fall." Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2020 "New Ruins: Granite". The area of ​​the western facade of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manezh", St. Petersburg