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Alexander Timofeev was born in 1971 in St. Petersburg, Russia. He pursued his artistic education at the Art School in St. Petersburg from 1982 to 1989, followed by further studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in the same city from 1989 to 1994. Later, he continued his artistic development at the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg from 1995 to 1997 under the guidance of Professor Johannes Grützke.
Alexander Timofeev belongs to a generation of young Russian artists who bring the painted image back to the forefront of their work. Following the execution of oil painting in the manner of the old masters, the artist combines quality, virtuosity, and depth in his work at the highest level. Regardless of stylistic dogmas, the traditional technique of oil painting experiences a sort of renaissance in Timofeev’s work. In terms of content, he reaches “a new synthesis […] between reality and magic, because his incredibly realistically painted figures, which seem to come from a strange play, are citizens of two worlds and have entered into a recognizable, identifiable setting like scattered angels from paradise.” (Dr. Helmut Orpel, 2003) Despite all the objectivity in his work, the artist manages to create a connection between present and past through mysterious and symbolic loading of the images, which in its manner almost seems spiritual.
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1971: Born in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1983-1989: Attended the Art School in St. Petersburg, under the supervision of the Art Academy.
1989: Admission to the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg, specializing in painting.
1993: Graduated from the Russian Academy of Arts in St. Petersburg. Started creating etchings and traveled to Israel.
1994: Moved to Germany.
1995: Enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Nuremberg, specializing in painting.
2004-2006: Timofeev Art Academy, Andreas-Stadl, Regensburg.
1996-2008: Held more than 30 solo exhibitions in European galleries (including Inter Art, Cologne; Ulrich Gering, Frankfurt; Noordeinde, The Hague; Weihergut, Salzburg; among others).
Since 2008, he has been living and working in Berlin.
Solo & Group Exhibitions:
2016: “Fetisch,” Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg.
2015: “and i see a darkness,” Artdocks Gallery, Bremen.
2014: Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg.
2011: “Icons of the Apocalypse,” Icon Museum, Frankfurt am Main. Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg.
2010: Brandt Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
2008: “The Secret Room,” State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg. Noordeinde Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands.
2007: Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg.
2006: Weihergut Gallery, Salzburg.
2005: Noordeinde Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands. Ulrich Gering Gallery, Frankfurt am Main.
2017
“On The History Of European Realism”, Pictura Groningen, Niederlande
WIKAM , Künstlerhaus Wien, Wien
Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
ART VIENNA , Leopold Museum, Wien
Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
2016
PREMIO NAZIONALE GIUSEPPE SCIUTI”, Zafferana Etnea, Italien
Ständige Ausstellung im MACS – Museum of Contemporary Art, Catania, Italien
“RESISTENCIA, TRADICION Y APERTURA”, Sammlung des Staatl. Russischen Museums, Málaga, Spanien
2015
“RUSSIA. REALISM XXI CENTURY”, Staatliches Russisches Museum, St. Petersburg, Russland
The Stampfer Collection, Liechtenstein National Museum,Vaduz, Liechtenstein
“NIGHT ON EARTH”, Moholy Nagy Galerie, Collegium Hungaricum, Berlin
Winter Selection, Gallery Arcadia Contemporary, New York, USA
2014
Galerie Artdocks, Bremen
“REALISM BIENNIAL”, The Fort Wayne Museum of Art in Fort Wayne, Indiana, USA
Summer group exhibition, Gallery Arcadia Contemporary, New York, USA
“Born to fly… and crawl”, Staatliches Russisches Museum, St.Petersburg, Russland
2012
“WIKAM”, Künstlerhaus Wien, Wien
Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
2011
“L Arte Contemporaneo in Russia 1950-2011”, Villa Pagano, Rom, Italien und im Palazzo Caetani, Fondi, Italien
“Russia Today”, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zürich, Schweiz
“MM – Mythos Marilyn”, Städtische Galerie Leerer Beutel, Regensburg und Ikonen Museum, Frankfurt am Main
2010
30 Jahre Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
“!Sky!”, Staatliches Russisches Museum, St. Petersburg, Russland
2009
“The Land of Dostojewski”, Gallery Caprice Horn, Berlin
2008
“The Poetry of Water”, Staatliches Russisches Museum, St. Petersburg, Russland
2007
“The Poetry of Water”, Staatliches Russisches Museum im Palais Lumiere, Evian, Frankreich
2005
25 Jahre Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg
Galerie Peter Bäumler, Regensburg
Individual exhibitions:
2016
Staatliches Russisches Museum, Malaga, Spanien
2015
Staatliches Russisches Museum, St. Petersburg, Russland
Galerie Art Affair, Regensburg
2012
Heylshof Museum, Worms
Bodhan und Varvara Khanenko National Museum der Kunst, Ukraine
2011
Einzelausstellung Mickhailovsky Palace, St. Petersburg
“Dystopia”, Corpo Nason Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
2010
“IPAX 2010”, Viechtach, Germany
“Tample of Visions”, Los Angeles, California, USA
Metamorphosis Show, CoproGallery, Los Angeles, California, USA
Einzelausstellung in der Galerie Mimesis in Genf, Schweiz
2009
Artery Art Fair, Miami, USA
Art-Imagin09, Neustadt
2008
Los Angeles, USA
Dreamscape Exhibition, Amsterdam, Niederlande
MK Gallery, Berlin
2007
Museum H.R. Giger, Gruyeres, Schweiz
MAF, Brüssel, Belgien
Europäisches Parlament, Brüssel, Belgien
2006
Le Mont-Dore, Frankreich
2005
Michelle Boulet Gallery, Paris, Frankreich
Schloss Voergaard, Dänemark
2004
Morpheus Gallery, Las Vegas, USA
Barockschloss Riegersburg, Österreich
Ernst Fuchs Gallery, Wien, Österreich
2003
Paradijs Gallery, Utrecht, Niederlande
2003
Privatsammler-Residenz, Nicosia, Zypern
1997-2000
Galerie Jakubska, ständige Ausstellung, Prag, Tschechien
1996
Polizeimuseum, Prag, Tschechien
1995
Galerie Valentina, Prag, Tschechien
1994
Munizipal Galerie, Saransk, Russland
1993
Galerie Na Nevskom 20, St. Petersburg, Russland
1992
Munizipal Galerie, Saransk, Russland
Museo Internazionale d´Arte Surrealista, Cittá die Gallipoli (LE), Italien
Museum vom phantastischen Realismus, Zeist, Holland
