Philipp Kondratenko

Born in Leningrad in 1974, Philipp graduated from the School of Visual Arts of the Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg. He currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

In his artistic practice, Philipp Kondratenko deliberately avoids portrait likeness, creating conventionalised images that reflect the inner substance rather than outer details. In the recent years, the artist has been mainly focusing on abstract art, consecutively jettisoning from his works such general means of painterly expression as form, contrast, and light and colour saturation.