Andrei Shchurok

Andrei Shchurok (Born in Minsk, Belarus) is a painter and designer. He grew up in Vitebsk, where he received a classical academic art education and where the city’s cultural environment, with its rich avant-garde legacy, played a decisive role in shaping his interest in the visual arts. Already during his student years, he turned to abstraction, creating his first series of works in this direction. Alongside his artistic practice, he worked for several years as an interior designer and as a production designer for film and television advertising. He lived and worked in Minsk, Moscow, and Saint Petersburg. A new chapter in his life began in 2012, connected with Mallorca, which became a source of inspiration and a place of intense creative work for the artist. This period was followed by a number of solo exhibitions, as well as participation in group exhibitions and several art residencies. In recent years, his painting has shown a tendency toward the simplification of form and a reduction of detail. At the same time, color has remained the central instrument—an emotional catalyst and a field of exploration. The artist deliberately encodes meaning within abstract compositions, creating visual metaphors that are not revealed directly ...

1999-2001 Academy of Management, Faculty of Business Administration, Specialist in Enterprise Advertising Management, Minsk, Belarus
1993-1998 State University, Faculty of Arts and Graphics, Specialist in visual Arts and Design Education, Vitebsk, Belarus
1990-1993 School of Arts, Painting Department, Vitebsk, Belarus

Selected solo exhibitions:

2019 Aquí y Allí, Can Boni Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2018 La sed de mar, ART Mallorca Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2018 Il dono della tenerezza, Arianna Sartori Gallery, Mantua, Italy
2018 The Scent of Rain, Regional Art Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus
2017 Oxygen (H₂O), ART Mallorca Gallery, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2017 Edge of the Sun, Center for Contemporary Art, Vitebsk, Belarus
2010 Jazz and Painting, Palazzo Ducale, Mantua, Italy
2009 Mix à Trois, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2009 She is my baby / TU-144, Regional History Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus
2008 23, Center for Contemporary Art, Vitebsk, Belarus
2008 She is my baby, Center for Contemporary Art, Vitebsk, Belarus