Svetlana Yakimcheva

Svetlana has two distinct passions in life – painting and cars!

For many years, she has worn two hats: holding a a degree in graphic design, she has worked as a designer in an corporate environment simultaneously organizing races on the racetrack of St. Petersburg, which led her to travel with the racing team throughout Russia and Europe. During this time, she obtained a certificate in airbrushing, thereby linking her creative and automotive interests. This is how her unique direction in painting has formed.

Combining the love for art and cars, she began to focus on the intricate beauty of technology. She saw beauty and sophistication in all sorts of technically complex devices – car engines, cogwheels and other parts, where others only see a perfectly functional mechanism. Now she tries to share her vision with the world and show everyone how beautiful those car mechanisms are...

Every artist at least once in his life painted a portrait, and it is through portraiture that one can capture the essence of a person. Svetlana also paints portraits, as each complex mechanism is a portrait of the master who created it, a hidden portrait that is not accessible to everyone... We use cars and other technical devices every day, with...

Svetlana has graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Technology and Design with a degree in graphic design (advertising).

However, her artistic path started at an early age, when Svetlana has spent 6 years studying at the art studio of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Russia and completed a two-year course in the basics of design (St.Petersburg Palace of Young Creativity).

Svetlana has also holds a certificate in airbrushing Svetlana graduated from the St. Petersburg University of Technology and Design with a degree in graphic design (advertising).

However, her career began at an early age, when Svetlana studied for 6 years in the art studio of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Russia, and completed a two-year course in the basics of design (St. Petersburg. Palace of Young Creativity).

Svetlana also holds a certificate in airbrushing and pinstriping.

Personal exhibitions:

07.08. - 09/30/2021 "Under the hood", Center for Culture, Sports and Tourism,
The city of New Ladoga. Leningrad region
04.02 - 07.02.21 “Baja. Northern Forest ", Igora Drive Motorsport Complex, St. Petersburg.
08.08. - 20.10.2020 "Under the hood", Center for Culture, Sports and Tourism, The city of New Ladoga. Leningrad region
06.02. - 09.02.2020 “Baja. Northern Forest ", Igora Drive Motorsport Complex, St. Petersburg.

Group exhibitions:

09.23-25.09.2021 "Royal Races: Russian Drive", Auto Sprot Museum, Sochi
04/15/2021 - 05/02/2021 "Youth of St. Petersburg", Exhibition Center of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
4.03.21 - N.V. "Home compote" Online exhibition Mobile exhibition at the "Old New Year" competition AUTOCOT, Leningrad region.
a, Alipova-gallery.com
2.03.21-7.03.21 "Female Image", Exhibition Center of the Union of Artists, St. Petersburg
12/28/2020 - N.V. "National hodgepodge" Online exhibition, Alipova-gallery.com
25.11 - 20.12.2020 "Me, about me, about me", Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg
18.11 - 29.11.2020 "Abstraction", Gallery "Molbert", St. Petersburg
16.11 - 22.11.2020 Collective exhibition, Gallery "WP", St. Petersburg
20.10. - 15.11.2020 "Royal Ra...