Victor Popov

This is the first ever one-man show of Victor Popov in the Russian Museum. The oeuvre of the artist is based on modernistic tendencies of European art and Russian Suprematism and Constructivism. The experience of practical work with wood and former membership in the Leningrad group of Surrealists have formed the plastic language of Victor Popov's sculptures.The exhibition comprised works characterising the main tendencies in his oeuvre: non-objective spatial objects and assemblages with 'found objects'.Victor Popov contributed to the exhibition organised by the Russian Museum: Abstraction in Russia: XX Century.
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VICTOR POPOV

Artist Victor Popov represents the second wave of Russian avant-guard. Born in 1952 in the USSR, the artist travelled throughout the country decorating children playgrounds or building wooden fairy-tale towns where got his passion for working with wood. In 1985 Popov moved to St. Petersburg, then Leningrad, in 1985 and joined a trendy group of avant-guard artists whose exhibitions gathered large crowds of art-lovers in pre-perestroika years. Popov’s art is heavily influenced by traditions of the first wave of Russian avant-guard, especially by suprematism founded by Kazimir Malevich which focused on geometric forms. After moving to Germany in 1991 Popov returned to working with wood making a series of abstract wooden sculptures. Popov had a personal exhibition in The State Russian Museum in 2005. His works were exhibited in many international exhibitions throughout Europe and Asia.

Victor Popov

1952 Born in UDSSR Kasachstan
1974-1979 Study of art at the Academy of Applied Arts in Lvov, Ukraine.
1980-84 Nowosibirsk, 1985-91 Sankt-Petersburg: Development of his individual style which included both
fantastic- realistic components and elements of caricature.
Independent work as free-lance artist with presentations of his art in national and international exhibitions.
1991 Emigration to Germany, Düsseldorf which since then has become the centre of his creative and private life.



Exhibitions:

1989 Manegeue, St. Petersburg/Russia;
1990 Art Gallery \”Terseus\”, Stockholm/Sweden;
1990 Museum of History, St. Petersburg/Russia;
1991 Municipal Museum Nagoja/Japan;
1991 Seoul, Korea, Groupexhibition (museum)
1992 Gallery Kontraste, Düsseldorf/Germany;
1994 Participient at the International Symposium of Wood Sculptors at the Open-Air Museum, Kommern/Germany
1998 East-West-Bridge, Frankfurt/Germany;
1998 Gallery Forum, Weimar/Germany;
1999 Taking Leave from the 20th Century, Düsseldorf/Germany;
2000 Christo nell arte russa, San Marino Italy;(catalogue)
2001 Maui Hawaii Gerard Marti\\\”Celebrities Gallery
2001-2002 The Russian Museum Abstracts of the 20th. Century,(catalogue)
St. Petersburg/Russia;
2002 Care art Festiv...