Alexander Pogorzhelsky

Observations of everyday life is the main theme of my paintings. For me, it’s always important to get direct visual contact with the object of representation, and to receive my own impressions of it. I use this general concept through every series of paintings and drawings. The objects I depict usually acquire new colours, scale, transform into brand new compositions and images. I do each work in one session, that’s how I attain the maximum concentration and accuracy to deliver my own impressions in representation of the object.

1980 born in Moscow
1997 Graduated from Moscow Academic Art College named after V.I. Surikov
2004 Graduated from Moscow Academic Art Institute named after V.I Surikov
2002-2003 Graduated from Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Lives and works in Milan

Selected personal exhibitions:

2021 (Proto)Type, Alexander Pogorzhelsky and Maria Pogorzhelskaya, Woolbridge Art Lab, Biella, Italy
2020 “Proto)Type”, Alexander Pogorzhelsky and Maria Pogorzhelskaya, GUM-Red-Line Gallery, Moscow
2018 “Artefacts”, NK Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2017 “Eatable Uneatable”, Alexander Pogorzhelsky and Taisia Korotkova, VP Studio, Moscow
2016 “Observations”, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St.Petersburg
2015 “Power Point”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Supported by 21 Gallery, Moscow
2014 “Flesh”, Alexander Pogorzhelsky and Maria Pogorzhelskaya, NK Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2013 “Daily Life”, CCA Sokol, Supported by Gallery 21, Moscow
2011 “Fragments of Life” Gallery 21, Moscow
2009 “Paintings about everyday life”, Culture Centre “Art Propaganda”, Samara
2007 “Works” Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2005 “Seasons”, Fine Art gallery, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions:

2023 Cosmopolita, Cittadella degli archivi, Milan
2021 Living Matter, New Tretyakov gallery, Moscow
2021 Recyclage Des Formes, Espace Volteur,Paris
2021 Dream Catchers, Ilona K Artspace, Moscow
2021 Paper vision/Digital waste paper, InArt Gallery, Moscow
2019 «Mosca-Milano. Iconografie d’incontro», Raffaele Cioffi Studio, Lissone, Italy
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