Vitaly Pushnitsky

Vitaly Pushnitsky was born in 1967 in Leningrad; currently lives and works in St. Petersburg. Profession: painting, installation, drawing, sculpture.

Education

• Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Department of Graphic Arts.

Membership in creative unions and assosiations

• Member of the Union of Artists

Solo Exhibitions

• 2009 — Here and Now, AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2009 — Prisons, Temples and Banks, Huset Guldager Gallery, Bloven, Denmark

• 2008 — Incidere Venecia, Pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2008 — Son, AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2008 — Date of Birth, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2007 — Letters from Empire’s Edge, AL Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2007 — Lux, Under the II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Pop/off/art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2006 — Atmosphere, Gallery Gldager, Grinstead, Denmark

• 2006 — The Iron Age, The State Hermitage Museum: National Center for Contemporary Art. St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2005 — Roots, Park Kuhmalahti, Terra Artis, Tampere, Finland

• 2005 — Reaction, Gallery D-137, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2005 — Prints, AM Gallery / pARTner Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2004 — Introspection, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2003 — Broadcast, National Center of Photography of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2003 — Joseph Brodsky. Urania, Author's project of the exposition at Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2003 — Naked Light, White Space Gallery, London, UK

• 2003 — Heaven, Kvadrat Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2002 — Grant of CEC International Partners, New York, San Francisco, USA

• 2001 — Circences et Panem, Holstebro Musik Theatre, Holstebro, Denmark

• 2001 — The Poet of the Iron Age, Video and installation, Gallery 103, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2001 — Work on a series of paintings for Karsten Groneman private museum, Ribe, Denmark

• 2000 — Black Boxes of Dreams, Sigmund Freud Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2000 — Inventory, The project under the festival Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, Kunstkamera Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2000 — Introspection, Garden Gallery, Grindsted, Denmark

• 2000 — Arts Festival in St. Petersburg, Musikhuset, Esbjerg, Denmark

• 1999 — Reflections, Gallery A-Ia, National Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1998 — Reflections, Gallery Garden, Grindsted, Denmark

• 1997 — Solo, Horsens City Library, Horsens, Denmark

• 1997 — Solo, Private Hospital, Aabenra, Denmark

• 1996 — European Cultural Capital, Old Hous, Kolding, Denmark

• 1996 — Institute of Politics, Nykobing Falster, Denmark

• 1995 — River, Hand Fan and a Sword, Borey Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1994 — Solo, Chiron Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

Selected group exhibitions

• 2009 — Art about Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2009 — Russians, Ober Gallery, New York, USA

• 2009 — Recycling, The State Hermitage Museum, Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2009 — Landscape, RuArts Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2008 — Boris Iofan and New Babylon, Atelier №2, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

• 2008 — Philips de Pury Auction, London, UK

• 2008 — Kandinsky Prize, Short List, Moscow, Russia

• 2008 — Reconstruction, Atelier №2, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia

• 2008 — Art Moscow, 12th International Contemporary Art Fair, CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2007 — The Era of Space, Popov Central Museum of Communications. St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2007 — I need no map, Anna Akhmatova Literary and Memorial Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2007 — New Angelarium, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

• 2007 — Corniche, International Contemporary Art Fair, Venice, Italy

• 2007 — St. Petersburg art of the twentieth century, Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2007 — Art Moscow, 11th International Contemporary Art Fair, CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2007 — Something about power, II Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Center of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg; CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2006 — New Russian avant-garde, BurdaYukom Exhibition Hall, Mainz, Germany

• 2006 — Cosmos I, Belka & Strelka, Eastern Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2006 — Cosmos I, Belka & Strelka, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2006 — Russia Fly By, Hungart-7, Salzburg, Austria

• 2006 — Wake up!, Baltic Biennale, Rauma, Finland

• 2006 — Art Moscow, 10th International Contemporary Art Fair, CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2006 — Circle 3, Belka & Strelka, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2005 — Collage in Russia. XX century, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2005 — Wonderworker was tall..., On the 100th anniversary of Daniil Kharms’s birthday, Installation, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2005 — Portrait of a Face, Gallery M'Ars, Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2005 — Women Without Men, Russian Gallery, Tallinn, Estonia

• 2005 — In memory of Newton, Interdisciplinary project-workshop, Kronstadt, Russia

• 2005 —  Light I, Belka & Strelka, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2005 — Nimbus for home, Taidepappila-workshop, Park Kuhmalahti, Tampere, Finland

• 2005 — Piterskie, Marat Gelman Gallery, Art Moscow, 9th International Fair of Contemporary Art, CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2005 — Public Art, Residence Khoj, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

• 2005 — Human Project, I Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, National Center of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg; CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2005 — I Click, Therefore I Am, Art-Digital, M'Ars Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• 2004 — The Emperor Pavel I. The modern image of the past, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2004 — Silence project, III Inter-regional exhibition of contemporary art Toys, Novosibirsk, Russia

• 2004 — Stairway to Heaven project, III Open Air ArtKliazma, Moscow, Russia

• 2004 — Mimicry, Village of artists, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2004 — Ha Kyrort! Russian Art Today, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; New Manezh, Moscow, Russia

• 2003 — Digital-Analog, Marat Gelman Gallery, CHA, Moscow, Russia

• 2003 — The Space of Picture — the Space of Reality, Anna Akhmatova Museum, With the assistance of the Goethe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2003 — Touch me, Anna Akhmatova Museum, Fund Russian Album, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2003 — Pastures of Heaven, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2002 — Russian artists, Gallery Garden, Grindsted, Denmark

• 2002 — Artist’s Book, German editions of 1960-90's, Russian limited editions and books of 1995—2002, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2002 — Living Architecture, Sculpture garden, Supported by Potanin’s Fund, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2002 — Art Genda, Hamburg, Germany

• 2001 — Мир-Peace, Borey Gallery, Russian-German master class, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2001 — Media-Privet, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2001 — Discharge Album under the Festival Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2001 — Re: MIR, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

• 2000 — Off-season, Photo project, Art Clinic, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 2000 — Black Boxes of Dreams. Introspection, The project for the III International Festival of Experimental Art and Performance, Manezh, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1999 — The Art of Still Life, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1999 — I International Biennial of Graphic Art, Novosibirsk, Russia

• 1998 — Myths and Legends, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1997 — Cultural Landscape of Kaliningrad, With the support of the German Government and the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Kaliningrad, Russia

• 1997 — Window to the Netherlands, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, St. Petersburg, Russia

• 1996 — 4th International Biennial of Easel Graphic Art Kaliningrad—Konigsberg-96, Kaliningrad, Russia

  Since 1990 has been participating in exhibitions in the UAE, the Netherlands, Germany, France, Russia

Museums

• The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

• National Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

• Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia

• Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, Germany

• Kolding Art Institute, Kolding, Denmark

• Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia

• Novosibirsk State Art Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia

• Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, San Francisco, USA

• ArtLink Collection, New York, USA

Private Collections

• Private museum of Carsten Groneman, Ribe, Denmark

• Sigmund Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Steffan Hallskou collection, Kolding, Denmark

• Museum of Contemporary Art ART4.RU, Moscow, Russia

• Collection of Aslan Chekhoev, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Collection of Marat Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

• Collection of Erarta Galleries, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Collection of Galleries RuARTS, Moscow, Russia

• Collection of Umar Dzhabrailov, Moscow, Russia

• Collection of Alexey Alexandrov, Moscow, Russia

• Collection of Victor and Sergey Popov, Moscow, Russia

• Collection of Anton Sklyarov, St. Petersburg, Russia

• Collection of Valery Bely, St. Petersburg, Russia

• and other private collections in Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Holland, the USA and Russia

Titles, awards, grants received

• Grant of CEC International Partners (ArtLink), New York, USA