Ovakimyan Robert

- I try to show the beauty of the surrounding world. The reality now is so severe - wars, environmental disasters - and so it is the whole XXth century. And nature anywhere in the world is perfect. And I try to show this perfection that will never go away.

I believe that all great art is made on the basis of Christianity, at least, all the paintings. After all, most of the subjects are taken from the Bible. There is nothing higher than that.

It seems to me that for every artist this subject is the most important stage or the top of his work.

Ovakimyan Robert

Artist Ovakimyan Robert

Robert Ovakimyan was born in 1966 in the city of Kapan, Armenia. The artist currently lives and works in Saint-Petersburg.

EDUCATION

  • 1986-1989 – Leningrad Art-Industrial School named after Mukhina;
  • 1987-1989 – was taught by one of the most famous artists of the Russian avant-garde, student of the Vitebsk studio of Marc Chagall, the artist Solomon Gershova;
  • 1993 – cooperation with the Institute of Material and Artistic Culture;
  • Since 2002 - a member of the Union of Artists.

Specialization: painter.

SELECTED GROUP AND SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  • 2008 – Academic Interregional Exhibition "Meetings in St. Petersburg," St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2007 – Solo exhibition with the support of Gazprombank, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2006 – Solo exhibition "Another World" New Carlebach, Finland; Exhibition Hall of the Elaginoostrovsky Palace Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2006 – An exhibition of artists of the North-West region, the Academy of Stieglitz, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2006 – "Exhibition of Armenian Artists", Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2006 – Exhibition of St. Petersburg artists. National Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2005 – The exhibition in the framework of the international project "Dialogues" with the participation of Scandinavian artists, the exhibition hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2005 – Solo exhibition "Winter Gallery", branch of London Contemporary Arts Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2005 – The exhibition "Angels of St. Petersburg", Memorial Museum of Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2004 – "Russian view of Italy", Exhibition Hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2004 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Borsboom" Utrecht, The Netherlands;
  • 2003 – Personal exhibition "Faces of Earth", Exhibition Hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2003 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Storm", the city of Vaasa, Finland;
  • 2003 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Matisse Club" Saint-Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2003 – "Tradition and Modernity" The 85th Anniversary Exhibition of the Russian Union of Artists (IFA in collaboration with the State Russian Museum) Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2002 – "Free Breathing" in the framework of the project of the State Russian Museum "Abstraction in Russia", Exhibition Hall of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 2001 – "Caught in the net", Gallery D-137, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 1997 – Personal exhibition, Gallery «Villa Sveden», Yakobshtadt, Latvia;
  • 1996 – «ArtGenda» International Exhibition, Copenhagen, Denmark;
  • 1996 – Personal exhibition in memory of Solomon Gershova, Gallery "Victor", Finland;
  • 1996 – Personal exhibition Vasa Andelsbank, Vaasa, Finland;
  • 1996 – AFRICUS the first international Biennale in Johannesburg, South Africa;
  • 1994 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Krunk" St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 1994 – "Culture Kema" State Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 1994 – “The Armenian artists of St. Petersburg”, the Museum of the Leningrad Art-Industrial School named after Mukhina, St. Petersburg;
  • 1993 – "The modern self-portrait", Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 1992 – Personal exhibition, Gallery "Paradise", St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 1992 – "Resurrection", State Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • 1991 – Personal exhibition, Jazz Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad;
  • 1990 – "Factura Viva", Jazz Philharmonic Hall, Leningrad;
  • 1990 – Exhibition of Russian independent artists, Hamburg, Rotterdam, Oslo, London, Copenhagen, Leningrad;
  • 1989 – The first solo exhibition, Gallery "Nevsky 20", Leningrad;
  • 1989 – "Two Generations" Leningrad Fine Arts 1950-1980 gg., The State Museum of the city of Leningrad.
     

SELECTED PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS

  • Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Armenia;
  • Parajanov Museum in Yerevan;
  • Collection of the Creative Union of Artists, St. Petersburg;
  • Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg, Russia;
  • Collection of the City of New Carlebach, Finland;
  • Temirkanov’s art collection and other private collections in Russia, Germany, Finland, Sweden, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Denmark, Austria, the USA, France, Norway, etc.
     

TITLES, AWARDS, RECEIVED GRANTS

  • In 2006 he was awarded the silver medal of the Russian Academy of Arts.