Vjacheslav Pobozhenskij

Pobozhensky Vyacheslav Yakovlevich St. Petersburg
Artist Vyacheslav Pobozhensky was born on March 15, 1942 in the city of Saratov. He graduated from the Faculty of Architecture LISI.

Member in organizations:
1) St. Petersburg Creative Union of Artists (IFA)
2) St. Petersburg branch of the Union of Artists of Russia
3) Union of Independent Artists of St. Petersburg
4) St. Petersburg Free Culture Foundation (Pushkinskaya, 10)
Architect, icon painter, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, muralist, designer.
He was engaged in architecture and design of holiday homes, cafes, restaurants. He designed the interiors of the Military Medical Academy, Center for the Arts. Mravinsky. He built about 120 pumping stations, 4 dams. He received the State Prize for one of the dams - the Gilevsky site of the Alei River. Seriously studied Old Russian art. He delved into the stylistic features and techniques of writing Russian and Byzantine icons from the 12th to the 20th century. He was engaged in the restoration of icons. He himself wrote about 350 icons. Two of them are in the collection of the Vatican. For these icons he received a medal from Pope John Paul II.
In the 70s he began to engage in modern painting, thereby expanding knowledge in the visual arts. He worked in different techniques: painting, drawing, stained glass, mosaic, ceramics, etc. All this helped to understand what painting is with a capital letter. Cre...

Vyacheslav Pobozhensky participated in more than 150 group and solo exhibitions in Russia, Finland, Sweden, France, Majorca, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, England, USA, South Africa, China, etc. Here are some of them:
1983 - The first exhibition of the TEII "Association of Experimental Fine Arts", Palace of Youth, Leningrad;
1984 - Exhibition TEII "The Edge of the Portrait", House of Culture. Kirov, Leningrad;
1986 - Personal exhibition in the gallery “Artegranika OY”, Helsinki, Finland;
1987-1990 - Exhibitions of the group "Island", Leningrad;
1988-190gg. - Auction art “Deutsch Auktion Haus”, Zurich, Switzerland;
1988-1990 - exhibitions of Soviet artists in the gallery “Koller”, Switzerland;
1989 - Art Sovetiko-89 exhibition, Helsinki, Finland;
1989 - Auctions “Sotheby”, “Christie's”, Stockholm, Sweden;
1990 - Exhibitions of Soviet artists in Barcelona, Spain, “Tradition and restructuring”, Paris, France, “Philips”, London, England;
1992 - Personal exhibition in the gallery "Mars", Moscow;
1994 - Exhibition of Leningrad artists in the gallery “Barbara Botz”, Dusseldorf, Germany;
1995 - Personal exhibition, Aachen, Germany;
1995, 1996, 1997 - Personal exhibitions in the gallery “Barbara Botz”, Puerto Andratx, Mallorca; ...