Novikov Konstantin

Konstantin Novikov is a talented young sculptor and his art has already gained deserved recognition. Apart from his active participation in exhibitions, Konstantin Novikov is a proud author of a cup for a World Chess Championship 2012. After studying in two respectable St Petersburg colleges - Roerich Art School and Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy, — Novikov was living with his college mates in the art studio "Nepokorennye". Exhibitions that featured this group can be definitely named one of the most interesting events in St Petersburg artistic live of 2000s.

Konstantin Novikov has always been working with simple images that are capacious in their meaning, connected with memories from childhood but still quite fresh. One of his popular works is made from oiled wooden boxes from Soviet bakery house. On the top of these boxes are two naturalistic "bricks" of brown bread made from rusty iron. For the New Year exhibition Novikov made a scary installation with Soviet enameled pots with surrealistic print "pooping hedgehog" that were installed around slowly rolling Christmas tree made from barbwire. Toys on that tree were made from bread-crumb.

One of the most remarkable works by Konstantin Novikov is a caoutchouc bell. The idea was to create an interactive object based on a perceptive illusion. Pulling the bell tongue, a viewer almost physically felt vibration of bell's elastic walls coming through him instead of hearing a sound. In process of exhibiting the project, author's strategy wasn't accepted by a viewer. In the context of modern Russian realities the work gained new meanings, echoing with vibration on political situation, media condition and whole atmosphere of silent stressful waiting. Absurdist artifact from zeros epoch — a soundless tocsin — was shown at first at the large educational and patriotic forum for young talents in Seliger in 2009. Following innovative and interactive principles of contemporary art, Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, smiling and squinting in front of the sun, rang the bell. As expected, there was no sound.

Artist Novikov Konstantin

Konstantin Alexandrovich Novikov was born on the 11th of January, 1981, in Leningrad.

Member of Union of Russian Artists.

Education

  • 1996-2001 – N. K. Roerich Art School, Department of Sculpture
  • 2001-2007 – Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy, Department of Monumental Art, specialization "Sculpture"

 

Exhibitions

  • 2014 – member of Parallel Program of European Biennale of Contemporary Art "Manifesta 10", project Paradnaya (Street-door)
  • 2013 – author of draft design "Sculpture for artistic image of the song "Katusha", Vladivostok
  • 2012 – "Between the sky and the ground", Rizzordi Art Foundation, St Petersburg
  • 2012 – "Gopart", Rostov-on-Don
  • 2012 – Exercise "Articulation", III Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow
  • 2012 – "Elastic art", Erarta Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg
  • 2012 - Art Monaco
  • 2011 – "Nature morte & Nature vivante", Lazarev gallery, St Petersburg
  • 2011 - Festival of Contemporary Art "Arbatfest", Almaty, Kazakhstan
  • 2011 – "Power field", Krasnoe Znamya, St Petersburg
  • 2011 – Solo exhibition "Coma", National center for contemporary arts, St Petersburg
  • 2011 – "Upgrade of Cultural Identity – TEREMOK", Moscow
  • 2010 – "New formalism", State Museum of City Sculpture, St. Petersburg
  • 2010 - "Gopart", within festival "Perm alive", Perm
  • 2009 – "Topography of happiness: Russian marriage of the end of the XIX century – beginning of the XXI century", Tsaritsyno Museum and National Park, Moscow
  • 2009 – IX international Biennale of Contemporary Art "Dialogues", St Petersburg
  • 2009 – "Silence space", Krasnoe Znamya, St Petersburg
  • 2009 – "ART-domination", St Petersburg
  • 2008 – "Intrusion: rejection, "Red October", Moscow
  • 2008 - White Space gallery, London
  • 2008 – "Artparade", Loft Project "Etagi", St Petersburg
  • 2008 – "H2O: art in public space by artists from northern countries", Garden of The Anna Akhmatova Museum at the Fountain House, St Petersburg
  • 2008 – Festival "Art-zavod", Yekaterinburg
  • 2008 - "The memory of the fields" , Loft Project Etagi, St. Petersburg
  • 2007 – "Very-very new", Atelier No. 2 Gallery, Art Center Winzavod, Moscow
  • 2007 – Session of Young Art, State Museum of City Sculpture, St. Petersburg