Rudyev Andrey

Andrey Rudyev was born in the Cossack village Leningradskaya, located in the Krasnodar region. A high achiever in school, Rudyev could choose any profession he wanted. Every subject came easy for him including physics, mathematics, history and drawing. The school’s drawing group teacher spotted the student’s talent and insisted that he should continue his education at the Krasnodar Art School. In 1984 he graduated from the school’s theatrical art and staging department. Having served in the army, Rudyev studied at VGIK, the Soviet Union State Institute for Cinematography in Moscow. When the artist visited St. Petersburg for the first time, he realized that this was where he wanted to live and moved immediately.

Andrey Rudyev says that his first creative practices were directed at realistically portraying objects. He was fanatically devoted to realistic painting. However, as soon as he mastered his artistic skills, his views changed. In his individual preferences, he moved on from the Russian academic artists to the German classic artists of the twentieth century such as Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer, and the contemporaries, Jonathan Meese and Daniel Richter.

Rudyev is a contemporary artist who has experienced stages of painting evolution in his mind and often in his artwork. He cannot and does not want to paint like Renaissance masters. ‘The artist of the present day must train their brain, the art of today happens in minds’, Rudyev says. These words can make for a meaningful commentary not only about his works but also on pieces by other contemporary artists.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2011 Sektor of the Tenth, AL Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2010 Gotterdammerung, Gallery “Atelje 2”, Moscow.
2010 UFO 2, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg.
2009 Andrei Rudjev, Matiss-club gallery, St. Petersburg.
2009 I Want to Know Everything, ALGallery, St. Petersburg.
2008 Electricity, LJUDA Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2008 The Signs of my Power, AL Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2007 The Present Continuous, Album Gallery, St-Petersburg.
2007 Uberlebensraum, Gallery VIAarte, Wien.
2007 Vitamin Ж, “Sel’skaja Zhizn’” Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2007 Entrance-Exit”. Gallery “Am Rotten Hof”, Wien.
2007 UFO, Video installation, Regina gallery, Special Projects in Winzavod, 2ndMoscow Biennale of Contemporary art, Moscow.
2006 Gathering of materials" ALBUM Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2005 Antarctic Mission", Arctic & Antarctic Museum in the frame of festivalContemporary Art in “Traditional Muzeum”, St Petersburg.
2005 Iskusstvennoe Dyhanie’, Navicula Artis Galery, St. Petersburg.
2003 Flight to Heaven', Planetarium, Berlin, Germany.
2003 Paintings and Graphic Works', BB Bank, Berlin, Germany.
2001 LUNKI', Zveryev Art Centre, Moscow.
2001 Works by Andrei Rudyev', French Church, Berlin, Germany.
2001 Paintings, Collages and other Graphic Works', ZGG Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2000 Assemblage', Borei Gallery, St Petersburg.
1997 City Sun', La Liberte Gallery, Paris, France.
1995 Painting and Graphic Works', Burg Lohra, Thuringen, Germany.

Selected Group Exhibitions:

2011 Las Meninas Inspired, Ten43 Gallery, New York.
2009 Eto Ljuda” , Loft-project ”Etagi”, St. Petersburg.
2009 Russian Beauty, NCCA, Moscow.
2009 Art on Site, NCCA project, AL Gallery, St.Peterburg,3d moskow biennale,NCCA, Moscow.
2009 The breaking news, Nord Art Simpozium Exhibition, Budelsdorf, Germany
2009 Recycling, Youth Educational Centre of State Hermitage Museum, St.Petersburg.
2009 Artdominirovanie, Bussiness centre “Iskrasoft”, St. Petersburg.
2008 Shamanizmus, Linden-museum, Stuttgart.
2008 North-South, exhibition 8 St. Peterburg artists, Central Exhibition Hall,Krasnodar.
2008 Call me and I’ll do anything what you want, Installation, Nord Artfestival, Budelsdorf, Germany.
2008 Export-Import, Kunstler Museum, Kiel, Germany.
2008 Rubberoid Work, Artfear Art-Moskva, Album gallery, Moscow.
2007 Start point, Central exhibition hall, Krasnodar.
2007 New Metal, project for public-art festival, Tbilisi, Georgia.
2007 The Present Continuous, Installation, “Nord Art” Festival, Budelsdorf,Germany.
2006 Meeting, Installation, Workshop “Babilon Dream”, Anna Akhmatova museum, St. Petersburg.
2006 Movie for the Fishes, International Festival “Gidroliz” in historical Museum, Krasnojarsk.
2006 Innovation, Competition of National Center Contemporary Art, Moscow.
2006 VASL Exibition, in frame of Workshop, Gadani, Pakistan.
2003 Pro Piotr, Hackeshermarkt, Berlin.
2001 '11', “Northern Capital” Gallery, St. Petersburg.
2001 Demob (the last RG), Object for 'Brut Art - Contemporary Art in Berlin.
2001 Traditional Museums, Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg.
2000 Golden Pig, Installation at EXPO 2000, Hannover, Germany.
2000 Period, period, comma, National Library of Russia, St. Petersburg.
1999 Sinekura, Borei Gallery, St Petersburg.
1997 Totem (RG-III), 'Kunstverein Alte Feuerwache' Gallery, Dresden, Germany.
1996 Border Guard Day (RGI) and Envelope (RGII), IV Biennale Spatia Nova, St Petersburg.
1995 2x3, Das Russische Feld Gallery, Berlin.
1995 Nocturne Final III, Moscow-Berlin Festival, Kesselhaus der Kulturbraurei, Berlin (Residency).
1995 Exercises, Borei Gallery, St Petersburg.
1994 Mixed Show, Condat Gallery, Berlin.
1994 Group Exhibition, Grahl Gallery, Berlin.
1993 Villa Hanni, Exhibition and Symposium, Gohren, Germany.
1992-2002 Annual Exhibitions, Union of Artists, St Petersburg.
1991 Fighting Elephants, Leiden, Netherlands.
1991 Fighting Elephants, Borei Gallery, St Petersburg.
1991 Science and Art, Ice-breaker 'Krasin' Hamburg-Copenhagen-London-Stockholm.
1990 Biennale of Contemporary Art, Leningrad, USSR.
1989 Exhibition of students and teachers of Muchina Academy of Applied Arts, Odense, Denmark.
1989 Young Artists, Leningrand, USSR.
1987 Young Artists, Museum of Art, Sochi, USSR.