Voligamsi Rinat

Rinat Voligamsi was born in 1968 in Yermolaevo, a small village in the Kuyurgazinskiy District in the southern Urals of Russia. Interested in art and painting from a young age, Voligamsi entered the Ufa State Technological University in the Architecture Department in 1984 after years of self-tutelage. In 1988 due to conscription, he was recruited into the Russian army, interrupting his studies. He graduated the following year, in 1989, and began exhibiting. In 1994 he was awarded the State Prize of Russia, for excellence in the Arts. He began to gain international attention in 2006 with his provocative Unofficial Album, which recounts a parallel and fictitious biography of Vladimir Lenin and his twin brother Sergei.

 

Voligamsi’s work can be found in many important public and private collections including: The Omsk M. A. Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk, Russia; The M. B. Nesterov Republican Art Museum, Bashkortostan Republic, Russia; Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; Erarta, Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg.
Artist Voligamsi Rinat
Rinat Voligamsi was born in 1968 in Yermolaevo, a small village in the Kuyurgazinskiy District in the southern Urals of Russia. Currently lives and works in Ufa.

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

  • 2011 – Exhibition Art vs. Geography, Solo Exhibition, Moscow MOMA (Museum of Modern Art Moscow), Moscow, Russia;
  • 2011 – Showcased in the art fair Art Moscow, Green Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2011 – Solo exhibition in the Biennale Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
  • 2011 – Unofficial album., Solo Exhibition, Gallery Green Art, Premi. Russia;
  • 2011 – White Nights, Exhibition, Premi Central Museum, Premi, Russia;
  • 2010 – After a Disaster. Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
  • 2008 – An Unofficial Album, a retrospective in the National Museum, Ufa, Russia;
  • 2007 – ‘Me, Myself, and I’ Again. Miras Gallery, Ufa, Russia;
  • 2007 – People. Conversations. Flies. CHA Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2007 – Take the Flag in your Hands! Square Gallery, Omsk, Russia;
  • 2002 – Rinat Voligamsi, Amadeus Art Gallery, London, UK;
  • 2001 – Solo exhibition, CHA, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2000 – Solo exhibition, Miras Gallery, Moscow, Russia;
  • 1999 – Solo exhibition, Maximum Gallery, Ufa, Russia;
  • 1999 – Solo exhibition, New Gallery, Ufa, Russia;
  • 1999 – Solo exhibition, Gallery Maximum, Ufa, Russia;
  • 1999 – Solo exhibition, New Gallery, Ufa, Russia;
  • 1995 – Solo exhibition in Gosudarstvennyĭ Museum, Zaloust, Russia.

 

Selected Group Shows and Art Fairs

  • 2011 – THE FACE, An Evolution of Portraiture in photography, Shown in Novosibisk, Krasnoyarsk, Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Chernabelsk, SPB, Paris;
  • 2009 – Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2008 – Group Exhibition, Tunguska Substance. Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia;
  • 2008 – S. Krasnov and his friends. The Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2008 – Group exhibition at the Ravenscourt Galleries, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2007 – Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2007 – Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2006 – Art Miami, Miami, USA;
  • 2006 – Art Palm Beach, Palm Beach, USA;
  • 2006 – Art Moscow, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2005 – London Art Fair, London, UK;
  • 2004 – Paris Autumn Salon, Paris, France;
  • 2004 – London Art Fair, London, UK;
  • 2003 – Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2002 – Artists of Bashkortostan. Russian Art Institute, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2001 – Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia;
  • 2000 – Art-Manege, Moscow, Russia.

 

Selected Public and Private Collections

  • The Omsk M. A. Vrubel Museum of Fine Arts, Omsk, Russia;
  • The M. B. Nesterov Republican Art Museum, Bashkortostan Republic, Russia; Krasnoyarsk Cultural-Historical Museum Complex, Krasnoyarsk, Russia; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow;
  • Erarta, the Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg.