Viktor Ponomarenko

Born in 1987, Victor Ponomarenko currently lives and works in Anapa. 

Artworks were acquired by the Jinguli Art Museum (China) and Fyodor Kovalenko Krasnodar Krai Art Museum, as well as by private collectors in Russia, Ukraine, Finland, UK, Austria, Israel, Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, and China.

2009 — graduated from the Department of Painting of the Krasnodar School of Art

2012 — joined OKNO artistic collective

2015 — graduated from the Book Illustration Department of the Russian Academy of Arts’ Repin Institute for Painting, Sculpture and Architecture (class of Professor Pakhomov)

2015 — 2017 — lectured on Painting, Drawing, Font Design and Typography at the Krasnodar School of Art

2018 — runner-up for the Untitled Prize Contemporary Art Contest

2019 — artworks featured in the offsite programme of the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art

2019 — entered the rating of the best contemporary artists on Russia (ARTEEX)

2020 — art residency at the Rajatila Gallery under Finnish state grant for holding an exhibition, cultural, and educational events in Tampere

2020 — rated among the top 35 contemporary Russian artists by 49ART 

Selected exhibitions 

2020

— Remake at the Museum, Fyodor Kovalenko Krasnodar Krai Art Museum, Krasnodar, Russia

— Ecology&Sustainable, Mega Khimki, Moscow, Russia

— The Future Is Now, Red Hall, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

— MOST Art Fest Contemporary Art Festival, Elmat, Kaluga, Russia

— Stay Home, solo exhibition, Blazar Young Art Fair, Museum of Moscow, Russia

— Enter Name, solo exhibition, Fyodor Kovalenko Krasnodar Krai Art Museum, Krasnodar, Russia

— Spring, group exhibition of the best contemporary artists of Russia (ARTEEX), Ring Road Antiques Centre, Moscow, Russia

— 33.5 by OKNO artistic collective, Larin’s Gallery, Krasnodar, Russia

— Disposable, solo exhibition, Rajatila Gallery, Tampere, Finland

2019

— Assemblage Point, offsite programme of the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Gallery on Peschanaya, Moscow, Russia

— OPEN, Bronze Horse Art Centre, Krasnodar, Russia

— Bifurcation Point, offsite programme of the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Omelchenko Gallery, Moscow, Russia

— New Point, EverArt Weekend festival, Artis Gallery, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

— What’s Next by OKNO artist collective, Fyodor Kovalenko Krasnodar Krai Art Museum, Krasnodar, Russia

— Inside, solo exhibition, MIZK Gallery at Cube.Moscow, Moscow, Russia

— Dreaming Without Freud, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

— Days of Contemporary Art (DOCA) International Festival, Institute for the Humanities and Information Technologies, Moscow, Russia

— Surface, solo exhibition, Print Shop Art Centre, Moscow, Russia

— Parallel Flight, exhibition of contemporary art on trolleybuses, Novorossiysk, Russia

— Gravity, solo exhibition, Pro Art’s Gallery, Kaluga, Russia

2018

— Group Therapy Session, Print Shop Art Centre, Moscow, Russia

— Gravity, solo exhibition, White Square Art Gallery, Anapa, Russia

— Untitled Prize, Russian Museum of Applied Art, Moscow, Russia

— Comfabbular Lemonade, Bronze Horse Art Centre, Krasnodar, Russia

— Moon-16: In the Shade of Inferno, Fyodor Kovalenko Krasnodar Krai Art Museum, Krasnodar, Russia

— Will There Be an Opening Reception?, solo exhibition, Larin’s Gallery, Krasnodar, Russia

2017

— Newest Mythology by OKNO artistic collective, Italian Hall of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

— Newest Mythology by OKNO artistic collective, Academy of Arts’ Moscow Art Lyceum, Moscow, Russia

— Newest Mythology by OKNO artistic collective, Larin’s Gallery, Krasnodar, Russia

2016

— Corpus: Anatomical Theatre, Museum Design Biennale, Research Museum of the Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia

2015

— Things That Never Happened by OKNO artistic collective, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2014

— IrReal (jointly with Katharina Lehmann and Manuela Xavier), Werkstatt Gallery, Munich, Germany

— Game Changers, Erarta Galleries Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

— Sino-Russian Travelling Exhibition of Culture and Art I, II, III, Anyang, China

— The World of Objects, solo exhibition, Open Workshops at Ligovskaya Library, St. Petersburg,

Russia

— ART MUC Contemporary Art Festival, Munich, Germany

— Private Life, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

— Red Gift, Erarta Galleries London, London, UK

2013

— Dream, Time Cafe Now, St. Petersburg, Russia

2012

— Loft Art Fair, Tkachi Creative Space, St. Petersburg, Russia

2011

— Art and Reality International Forum, Presidential Library, St. Petersburg, Russia