Aleksandr Lavrentev

Born in Leningrad, 1980
Graduated from the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design (Department of Decorative and Applied Arts) in 2005.
In 2003, I took up photography while simultaneously working as a metal and enamel artist. I held my first solo exhibition in 2008. In 2011, I was invited to join the State Hermitage Museum as a photographer. Over the next 11 years, I provided illustrations for the museum’s catalogues, art books, and other publications. Alongside my official work, I pursued personal creative projects and occasionally participated in exhibitions. After leaving Russia in 2022, I returned to painting, where I continue to develop the central themes of my photographic period.

Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design, 1998-2005

Solo:

Shades, Art and Musical Centre of the Mayakovsky Library, SPb, 2008

Snow on Silver, Achtung Baby club, SPb, 2008

Shades. North \ Sauth, Tolstoy square gallery, SPb, 2009

Stairs, Kuchnya gallery, SPb, 2010

One, two, three. Portraits 2005-2010, Stachka gallery, SPb, 2011

One, two, three. Portraits 2005-2010, Centre of contemporary culture Fakel, Kupchino, SPb, 2012

Youthful Petersburg, Russian Consulate, Turku, 2012

Somewhere, Once Upon A Time.., Exhibition hall of Anikushin Art school, Kronschtadt, 2012

Russian Dream, Architector's Hall, SPb, 2013


Galaxis, Hermitage.Berlin, Charlottenburg, Berlin, 2019

±42 | 118, MOST, SPb, 2020

Collective:

2008


Babylon, Air-surface gallery, SPb

Rapid reaction paintings, Air-surface gallery, SPb

Mansard, Art and Musical Centre of the Mayakovsky Library, SPb

2009

Young Russia Photography, Manege, SPb

Photo New Rave, Nepokorennie gallery, SPb

Sphere in Art, Michail Shemyakin Foundation's gallery, SPb

Nudity is Controversially, State Urban Sculpture Museum, SPb

The Game, Bye Bye Ballet, SPb

2010

We, Manege, SPb

Newspeak: Petersburg Version, State Hermitage Museum. SPb

Super Me, Kuchnya gallery, SPb

2011

Noir Look, Modernariat gallery, SP...