Mikhail Zviagin

Michael Zviagin (b. 1980) is a contemporary artist based in Herceg Novi, Montenegro.
His practice brings together drawing, painting, objects, texts, and independent artistic projects into a continuous exploration of form, memory, and presence. Most of his bodies of work belong to a larger, evolving structure — a metaphysical archive that has been developing over many years.
Within this archive, individual works function as documents, artifacts, fragments of lost canons, or traces of worlds existing somewhere between imagination and reality. This archival approach is reflected in the numbering of many works, emphasizing their role as part of an ongoing process of observation, documentation, and cataloguing rather than as isolated images.
Iconography plays an important role in Zviagin’s visual language. Drawing upon its compositional and symbolic structures, he employs iconographic elements not as religious references, but as universal tools for constructing images and organizing meaning. The figures that appear in his works are not portraits or characters, but temporary carriers of states, ideas, and forms of presence.
Zviagin regards himself less as a creator of closed narratives and more as a researcher and documentarian of proces...

1988-1994 Art School #1, St.Petersburg, Russia
1998-2004 The Saint Petersburg Steiglitz State Academy of Art and Design, Faculty of Decorative Applied Arts, Master

Featured: “Dharma” 01.10.2026-27.10.2026, Kotor city gallery, Montenegro, solo exhibition. 23.08.2024 personal exhibition “Left hand of truth” Bas CS gallery, Berlin. 22.04-30.06 2023 charity exhibition "XB", Podrum Pristanište Tivat, Montenegro
04.05-04.06 2021 personal exhibition "Image Transformation" ArtMuse Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
16.05-16.06 2019 IV International Biennale of Enamelart, St.Petersburg, Russia
16.05-10.06 2017 III International Biennale of Enamelart, St.Petersburg, Russia
20.09-13.10 2012 II International Biennale of Enamelart, St.Petersburg, Russia
03.04.2012 group exhibition Insita-2012, IV National Exhibition of Naive Art, devoted to Mark Shagal, Vitebsk, Belarus
2010 group exhibition in Nevsky 3 Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
10.06-03.07 2010 International Biennale of Enamelart, St.Petersburg, Russia
2009 group exhibition at Zeretelli Center, Moscow, Russia
2007 group exhibition in Experimental Gallery Air, St. Petersburg, Russia
16.06-13.07 2007 EL NU VII Internatonal Enamel Exhibition, Salou, Spain
2007 group exhibition in "O" Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
2007 group exhibition in St.Petersburg Union of Artists, St.Petersburg, Russia
2001 FedEx jewellery contest, St.Petersburg, Russia
1999 group ex...