Stepan Myannik

Stepan Myannik is an international multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice moves between painting, sculpture, installation and collectible design.

His work explores the relationship between attraction and discomfort, humour and violence, the familiar and the unsettling. Recurring images and objects are transformed through changes in context, scale and material, allowing apparently playful subjects to acquire more ambiguous meanings.

Material is central to Myannik’s practice. He is interested in the way an object’s meaning changes once the viewer understands what it is made from, and in how material, function and form can create both contrast and harmony within the same work.

Myannik is also the founder of Alien Cube, an ongoing art project conceived around the idea of placing an artwork beyond Earth, and Marmetica Design, a collectible-design practice exploring natural stone, light and the changing role of screens within contemporary interiors.

His current work includes Halo Screen where he is the founder of Marmetica Design UK based studio, a full-scale natural-stone screen that retains the proportions and architectural presence of a television while removing the moving image. The project continues his interest in...

BA University Of Arts London,
MA University of Southampton WSA

BIENNALE OF MODERN ART:​

-2021 — Balkan Biennale of Contemporary Art, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia​

-2017 — 7th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow. CURATOR Yuko Hasegawa​



EXHIBITIONS

2022 International antiwar group show PEREVOROT Illustrated. IF museum, Easton PA USA, IF Museum Prague, Czech Republic, Arts in Miami USA, Telaviv, Moscow, Yerevan​
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-2021 Group show, New Tretyakov Gallery State Museum. Moscow​

-2021 COSMOSCOW 9th International Art Fair. Curated by Moscow, Curator- Alexey Maslyaev​

-2021 BLAZAR 2nd International Art Fair for Young Art. Omelchenko Gallery. Moscow Museum​

-2021 Solo exhibition, ZVERREV ART CENTRE, Moscow ​

-2020. Solo exhibition, LADO space. Curated by Lidia Rusakova & Omelchenko Gallery. Moscow​
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-2020 Tretyakov art prize winner Project of the Year. BOMBA Gallery. Moscow​

-2017 SOLO SHOW. DOSE. ART PLAY. Moscow ​

-2015 Solo Exhibition. Split?-Split. MOVIE GALLERY. Moscow