Pavel Otdelnov

Pavel Otdelnov (b. 1979, Dzerzhinsk, USSR) is a London-based artist. He graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after Surikov and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. Since 1996, he has exhibited extensively in Russia, Sweden, the UK, and beyond.

He was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in 2015, 2017, and 2019 (Project of the Year), and became a finalist in 2021. He received a Special Award from the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Awards in 2017, and in 2020 was named both Artist of the Year by the Innovation Prize and by the Cosmoscow Foundation.

His works are part of museum, corporate, and private collections, including the Uppsala Art Museum, Kalmar Art Museum (Sweden), the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, and the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Russia).

2013 – 2015 Institute of Contemporary Arts, Moscow
2005 – 2007 M.F.A. in Painting, Surikov Art Institute, Moscow
1999 – 2005 B.F.A. in Painting, Surikov Art Institute, Moscow
1995 – 1999 Nizhniy Novgorod Art College, Nizhny Novgorod

Exhibitions (selected)

Solo shows

2025
Scenes from a Nightmare, Wolfson College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
A Child in Time, A.P.T. Gallery, London, UK

2024
Hometown, The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, London, UK
Abyss & Hands of War, Robinson College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

2022
Acting Out, Pushkin House, London, UK
The Field of Experiments, Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Promzona, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala, Sweden

2021
Ringing Trace, Artist-in-Residence programme, 6th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Chelyabinsk region, Russia
Russian Nowhere, Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg, Russia

2019
Promzona, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia

2017
Deserts. 2002–2017, Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2014
Internal Degunino, Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA), Moscow, Russia
No Man’s Land (with Julia Malinina), Parallel Programme of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia

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Group exhibitions (selected)

2025
NO, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

2024
Cellule, Storage Room, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
After Shock, Vrij Paleis Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2023
(Anti)Propaganda: Unmasking the Manipulation, BEREG (Berlin...