Sergey Sergeev

Works

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2. Palimpsest 
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
3. Metal objects
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
4. New wave
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
5. Captcha
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
6. Still life, portrait, landscape
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   
7. Grey Piter (St. Petersburg)
   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

   

Bio

SERGEY SERGEEV

Born in 1953 in Leningrad, USSR.

In 1973, he graduated from the Theatrical Decoration Department of the Leningrad Art School named after V. A. Serov (now the Saint Petersburg Art School named after N. K. Roerich).

From 1973, he continued his studies at the Leningrad Higher School of Industrial Art named after V. I. Mukhina (now the Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design) but did not complete his education due to professional reasons.

During this period, Sergeev began studying techniques (ground and layering), etching graphics, and the philosophy of the Northern Renaissance of Flanders (Lucas Cranach, Rogier van der Weyden, Jan van Eyck, Hugo van der Goes, Pieter Bruegel, and Hieronymus Bosch). At the same time, he was influenced by the artistic traditions of Northern China, particularly Zen Buddhism in imagery. The main concept he developed was « simplicity and complexity. »

At that time, he also began working at the Mariinsky Theatre as a costume designer and contributed to the creation of costumes and sets for the renowned ballet The Creation of the World, with the principal role performed by Mikhail Baryshnikov. Later, he worked at the « Lennauchfilm » studio as an animation artist and assistant director.

From 1975, Sergeev became a freelance artist and a participant in the nonconformist movement. He never joined the official Union of Artists of the USSR or the Russian Federation for ideological reasons. In 1975, Sergeev became one of the founders of the « Alipiy » group, whose first exhibition was held in his apartment.

Starting in 1981, he was one of the organizers and active participants in all exhibitions of the Experimental Fine Arts Society (TEII).

In 1995, he became one of the founders and the permanent art director of the contemporary art gallery D137 in Saint Petersburg, which later became one of the iconic galleries of the time (www.d137.org).

From 2013, Sergeev began working in France and permanently settled there in early 2022.

Sergeev holds the status of an official artist in France and is a member of the artists’ association « La Maison des Artistes. »

In 2023, he participated in the establishment of the FABLE association (France. Art. Beauté. Liberté d’expression), where he serves as its secretary. FABLE is an international artists’ association for those living in France or other countries who love France and its culture.

Sergeev has a studio in Haute-Savoie, where he organizes exhibitions and meetings for members of the FABLE association. In 2024, he achieved great success with an exhibition at the renowned contemporary art venue Ecuries de Saint-Hugues à Cluny, France.

Today, his works, exhibited since 1975, can be found in museums and collections such as the Hermitage Museum (Hermitage -Vyborg), the State Russian Museum, the Sergey Kuryokhin Foundation, the ERARTA Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museum of Nonconformist Art in Saint Petersburg, the Zimmerli Art Museum in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA, the Kolodzei Art Foundation in the United States, the Sandretto Foundation in Italy, as well as in many private collections, such as Helen Mirren and Taylor Hackford in the USA.

Personal exhibitions

1980 – Observatory, Crimea
1994 – Bread and Wine, Art Collegium Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 – Maxim Publishing House, Moscow, Russia
1996 – Painting of Various Years, Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1997 – Selected, Gallery D137, St. Petersburg, Russia
2000 – Palimpsests, Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2001 – Shift, Gallery D137, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003 – Shift. Changing exhibition between D137 Gallery and « ARKA » Gallery, ARKA Gallery, Vladivostok,Russia
2004 – Bull’s Whisper, D137 Gallery,Saint-Petersburg,Russia
2006 – Einsturzende Neubauten. D137 gallery. St. Petersburg. Russia
2009 – Urban architecture. D137 Gallery. St Petersburg. Russia
2011 – « InsideOutside » D137 Gallery. St Petersburg. Russia
2016 – « Captcha » The State Museum of Urban Sculpture. St Petersburg. Russia

2020 – « Freedom from the Actual », Art Square Gallery, St. Petersburg. Russia
2020 – « Freedom from the Actual », CUBE Gallery, Moscow. Russia

2022 –  « Freedom from the Actual », Museum of Contemporary Art ERARTA, St. Petersburg. Russia

2023 –  Window to Paris,  Sergeev’s studio – Annemasse, France

2024 –  Anomaly,  Sergeev’s studio – Annemasse, France

Major group exhibitions

1977 – apartment exhibition of non-conformist artists « Alypius, » St. Petersburg, Russia
1978 – Artists of Leningrad, Observatory, Crimea
1979 – Alypius, University of Tartu, Estonia
1981 – First Exhibition of the Fellowship of Experimental Art on Bronnitskaya, St. Petersburg, Russia
1982-1987 – Series of exhibitions of the Fellowship of Experimental Art, Youth Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
1988 – Modern Art of Leningrad, Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia
1988 – Art Contact, Rigas-Modas, Riga, Latvia
1988 – Galerie Art-2i, Paris, France
1988 – Guernsey’s Exhibition and Auction, New York, USA
1989 – The Art of Contemporary Russia, Gallery Lory, New York, USA
1989 – Exhibition, Simferopol Museum of Fine Art, Ukraine
1990 – The Russian Experiment, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, USA
1990 – Leningrad Artists on Malaya Gruzinskaya, Moscow, Russia
1991 – St. Petersburg Art, Helsinki/Porvoo, Finland
1991 – Hammer Center, Moscow, Russia
1991 – Art Collegium, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1992 – TIAS ‘92 (Tokyo International Art Show), Tokyo, Japan
1992 – East-West Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1993 – Russian Artist of Perestroika, Karlsruhe, Germany
1994 – Third Petersburg Biennale, Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 – Art Reality ‘95, Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 – Avantgard Gallery, Duisburg, Germany
1997 – International Society for the Development of Science and Culture, Hamburg,Germany
1997 – Portraits of Twentieth-Century Artists, Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia
1997 – Neobattalism-2, Borei Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1998 – Anatomy of Modern Art, Art Collegium, St. Petersburg, Russia
1998 – Collection, Palitra Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
1996 – 1999 – Series of exhibitions, Gallery D137, St. Petersburg, Russia
2000 – All Petersburg 1999, Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia
2000 – was represented by D137 Gallery at the 6-th Moscow International Art Fair Art-Manege, Russia
2001 – Russian Abstraction. XXI century. The newest technology, D137 Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2001 – Russian Abstraction in the Twentieth Century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2002 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Moscow’ 2002 », Moscow, Russia
2002 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Forum Berlin’ 2002 », Berlin, Germany
2004 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Moscow’ 2004 », Moscow, Russia
2005 – Nunerous Serial. Pushkinskaya, 10. Saint-Petersburg. Russia
2005 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Moscow’2005 », Moscow, Russia
2006 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Moscow’2006 », Moscow, Russia
2006 – D137. XL gallery. Moscow. Russia
2007 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Moscow’2007 », Moscow, Russia
2009 – was represented by D137 Gallery at « Art Vilnius’2009″, Vilnius, Lithuania
2012 –  » Napoleon 12. Art Anfas. Art Practice, the festival of contemporary art, « Lazarev » gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 – « Without barriers. Russian Art 1985-2000 », State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2012 – « Works of the Year 2012 », St. Petersburg Artists Union, St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 – « Peterburg.20 anniversary », « Manege », St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 – « Crosses », project D137 Art Club, the Museum of Contemporary Art « Erarta », Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 – « My artwork – I myself ». The image of George Gurianov in the art of 1980s-2010s, project D137 Art Club and the Museum of the Academy of Fine Arts, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2018 – « In Search of a portrait » , Cultural Center Gromov , St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 – « Abstraction at the forefront », Sergey Kurekhin Center for Contemporary Art, Saint-Petersburg, Russia

2021 – « Homage to the Character », From the collection of the Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia

2022 – PAX MUNDI, Plexus Art Gallery, Montreux, Switzerland

2024 – FABLE, Gallery CLUNY Stables of Saint-Hugues, Cluny, France

2025 – Exhibition: The First Edition of the National Artists’ Days 2025, Sergeev’s studio – Annemasse, France

Museum collections

State Hermitage, St. Petersburg-Viborg,Russia
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
State Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Russia
Sevastopol Museum of Fine Art, Russia
Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Museum of Nonconformist Art of St. Petersburg, Russia
Kolodzei Art Foundation, Inc., USA
Sandretti Foundation collection, Italy
Helen Mirren&Taylor Hackford collection, USA
Gallery D137, St. Petersburg, Russia