Junus Karimow

Junus Karimow is an artist who has produced a multifaceted body of work based on a brilliant nature study. The source of these qualities is a solid training at the Surikov Moscow State Academic Institute of Art, with the study of the human form as its central theme. Karimov's specialities are figurative, but also nude painting and expressive portraits. His range extends from classical realism to modern and abstract.

The artist’s nude drawings calls to mind the figurative works in Art Deco and of Tamara de Lempicka. Karimow is a master of the use of graphite sticks and consequently, of the dynamic modulation of the body.
Rubinesque curves and taunt muscles result in a manifestation full of energy and erotic: the Power woman.

Karimow’s portrait series are reminiscent of the 1920’s, of the „New Functionalism” or the „magical realism”, as Franz Roh called it. Karimow uses oil, acryl, and paster it to masterfully depict diverse surface structures and materials: hair and skin, shiny and dull fabrics, wool and silk.

In his collection “Venice Impressions”, the artist’s whole character bursts forth in rich, at sometimes almost orientally graceful magnificence. When he himself describes these works, we uncover a cornucopia of sty...

1984 Awarded the academic degree of the Fine Art Diploma
1978-1984 Surikov State Art Academy, Moscow
1976-1978 Intensive private studies of abstract painting
1974-1976 The Repin State Academic Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (Faculty of Graphics), St. Petersburg
1967-1974 Art college in Tashkent (Uzbekistan)

2021 Artbox Gallery, Artbox Project World 1.0, Zürich.
2020 Portrait Society of America, International Self-Portrait Project.
2019 The National History Museum, VIZart International Biennial Self-Portrait/WHO I AM, Tirana, Albania.
2015 Solo Exhibition Between Surreal Dream Images and Classic Aesthetics, Galerie Stadtwerke Troisdorf in cooperation with the Museum Burg Wissem, Troisdorf, Germany.
2013 Solo Exhibition Expressionism of Light in Karimow‘s Spatial Painting, Hennef Town Hall, Germany.
2013 Annual Art Exhibition, Paintings, Graphics, and Sculptures of Contemporary Artists from the Middle Rhine region, Neuwied, Germany.
2013 Karimow’s students’ group exhibition Experimental Painting and Spatial Composition, Gerstaecker, Eitorf, Germany.
2011 Karimow’s students’ group exhibition Figurative Portraits, Karl Arnold Foundation, Königswinter, Germany.
2006 – 2008 Solo Exhibition The Possibilities of Pictorial and Constructive Space - to a Young Audience, Cologne, City Library.
2005 Solo Exhibition Surrealistic light in Karimov's figurative painting, at the Ärztehaus in Cologne, Germany.
2003 Solo Exhibition Constructivism and Freedom in Painting and Graphics. Searching for the New Ways of Reality Perception, Maisfabrik...