Maxim Korolkov

Maxim was born in 1990 in Verkhnyaya Tura, Sverdlovsk Oblast, and graduated from the Ivan Shadr Sverdlovsk Art College in Yekaterinburg and the Painting Department of the St. Petersburg Repin Academy of Arts in 2012 and 2018 respectively. The artist currently lives and works in St. Petersburg.

Maxim Korolkov creates paintings in which the fragility of human body acts as the metaphor for the invincibility of spirit. His artworks celebrate physical power and moral courage, the beauty of the body and the all-conquering love.