Svetlana Yakimcheva

Svetlana Yakimcheva

Sant-Petersburg, Russia

About 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 and the USA.

Education:

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

Events:

08/06/2009 mobile exhibition at the automobile festival "Road side picnic" St. Petersburg

08/09/2019 mobile exhibition at the GTNAUTO Automobile Festival St. Petersburg

14/09/2019 mobile exhibition at the Fortuna Automotive Retrotechnics Festival St. Petersburg

28/09/2019 mobile exhibition at the stage of the Russian trophy raid championship St. Petersburg

10/13/2019, a mobile exhibition at the automobile festival of the retro rally "10 Lakes" venue resort "Igora" St. Petersburg

02/29/2020, a mobile exhibition at the trials competitions. St. Petersburg

Exhibitions:

Personal exhibitions:

02/06/2020 - 02/09/2020 Baja "Northern Forest" Motorsports complex "Igora Drive" St. Petersburg

Group exhibitions:

03/20/2020 - 03/26/2020 "Revelation" Exhibition center loft project "Floors". St. Petersburg