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, without even wondering how they work and even more so what they look like. Svetlana has a unique opportunity to know how they look from the inside, thanks to her husband, who brings them back to life after a breakdown.

She is a technical portraitist!

Today, Svetlana’s works are in private collections throughout Russia, the CIS countries, Finland, Israel and the USA.

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.

07.11 - 08.11.2020 Mobile exhibition at the Autoblogger Show event, Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg
09.10. - 11.10.2020 Mobile exhibition at the competition "Final Cup of DOSAAF Russia in trophy-raids", Leningrad region.
03.10. 2020 Mobile exhibition at the competition Retro rally "10 Lakes" All-season resort "Igora", Leningrad region.
25.09. - 09/27/2020 Mobile exhibition at the event "Motosammit", Exhibition Center "Garden City", St. Petersburg
09/19/2020 Mobile exhibition at the Tsunami Picnic festival, Igora Drive Motorsport Complex, Leningrad Region.
12.09 - 13.09.2020 Mobile exhibition at the World of Cats event, Expoforum Convention and Exhibition Center, St. Petersburg
09/12/2020 Mobile exhibition at the festival "Hello cemper meet", Leningrad region.
09/11/2020 Mobile exhibition at the competition "Championship and Cup of Russia in trophy-raids", Leningrad region.
22.08. - 08/23/2020 Mobile exhibition at the Classic Touring Cup competition, Igora Drive Motorsport Complex, Leningrad Region.
08/02/2020 Mobile exhibition at the Harmony art festival, St. Petersburg
17.07. - 07/19/2020 Mobile exhibition at the competition "July Utopia", Leningrad region.
06/26/2020 Mobile exhibition at the competition "Mohovel", Leningrad region.
June 2020 Mobile exhibition at the "Trial" competition, Leningrad Region.
June 2020 Mobile exhibition at the Moto-Enduro competition, Leningrad Region.
02/29/2020 Mobile exhibition at the "Trial" competition, Motorsport complex "Pargolovo cross", St. Petersburg


11/23/2019 Mobile exhibition at the "Trial" competition, Leningrad Region.
10/13/2019 Mobile exhibition at the Retro rally competition "10 Lakes" All-season resort "Igora", Leningrad region.
09/28/2019 Mobile exhibition at the competition "Championship and Cup of Russia in trophy-raids", Leningrad region.
09/14/2019 Mobile exhibition at the festival of retro technology "Fortuna", Kronstadt
09/08/2019 Mobile exhibition at the festival "GTNAUTO", Gatchina
06/08/2019 Mobile exhibition at the "Road Site Picnic" festival, Kronshtadt

Personal exhibitions:

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:

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 Race", Art Museum. D.D. Zhilinsky, Sochi
24.09. - 09/27/2020 "Royal Races", Auto Sprot Museum, Sochi
25.09. - 10/14/2020 "Self-portrait, adult children", Loft project "Etazhi", St. Petersburg
24.03. - 06/26/2020 "Revelation", Loft project "Floors",
St. Petersburg