BIOGRAPHY

Victor Alimpiev was born in Moscow in 1973. He graduated from the Art School of Memory of 1905, and the New Art Strategies at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. Lives and works in Moscow.

Solo exhibitions

2017

• Centimeter: a colour cut of darkness, quantifiable algae, also known as smoke. REGINAGALLERY, Moscow

2015

• Radiant. REGINAGALLERY, Moscow

2014

• Victor Alimpiev. Selected Works. High Line Art, New York

2013

• There is nothing behind you. Contemporary Art Center Winzavod, Moscow
• Vot. EX3 Center for Contemporary Art, Florence

2011

• Magic rustle. REGINAGALLERY, Moscow
• Several. REGINAGALLERY, London
• Traces. Centre d’Art Passerelle, Brest, France

2010

• Вот! Citykirche. Mönchengladbach, Germany
• My breath. Regensburger Kurzfilmwoche. Регенсбург, Германия
• Malerei. MMIII Kunstverein Mönchengladbach, Germany
• Motor Empathy. Galerie Sollertis. Tulouse, France
• Ad Hoc. REGINAGALLERY, Moscow

2009

• To trample down an arable land. Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
• To trample down an arable land. 3-rd Moscow Biennale, Red October, Moscow
• To trample down an arable land. Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
• They met at the middle. Guelman Progects, Moscow

2008

• Encounters: Victor Alimpiev. Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, UK
• Whose is this exhalation? Cultural Foundation EKATERINA. Moscow
• My Breath. Studio la Citta. Верона, Италия

2007

• Victor Alimpiev. S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum for Actuele Kunst. Гент, Бельгия
• Two Songs. Art Laboratory Berlin. Берлин, Германия
• Screening in frameworks of «Prospectif cinema». Center Pompidou, France

2006

• Helen’s Shoulders (with Anatoly Osmolovsky). Stella Art gallery. Moscow
• Wetterleuchten. Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
• Victor Alimpiev. O.K. Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
• Der Wind weht nicht am Parkett! Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany

2005

• Shining. Contemporary City foundation, Москва, Россия
• Sweet Nightingale. REGINAGALLERY, Moscow

2004

• Far off fight. Guelman gallery, Moscow

2003

• To Oleg. Guelman gallery, Moscow

2002

• Ode (with Marian Zhunin). ТV Gallery, Moscow

Group exhibitions

2018

• General Rehearsal, A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C. MMOMA, Moscow
• Walking On The Fade Out Lines. Works from collection of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
• It’s OK to change your mind! Works from Gazprombank collection. Bologna, Italy

2017

• Garage Triennal of Russian Contemporary Art. Garage museum of contemporary art, Moscow

2016

• House of impressions. Wandering with Troubadour. The Pushkin State Museum of Arts, Moscow
• Borscht and champagne. Selected works from the collection of Vladimir Ovcharenko. MMOMA, Moscow
• Work out. Videoinsight foundation, Turin, Italy
• Heritage. High classics. Victoria Art Gallery, Samara
• I see a Darkness, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
• The Tempest. Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

2015

• Mirrors, MMOMA, Moscow

2014

• Upstairs. Museum of Moscow

2013

• 55th Biennale di Venezia
• 5th Moscow biennale
• More light (For a Different Space-time). 5 Moscow Biennale Film Program, Moscow Manege/MediaArtLab
• Transition Project. Yapi Kredi Kültür Merkezi, Istanbul

2012

• Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
• After the Lessons. Czech Center Gallery, Prague
• The Freedom of Sound – John Cage behind the Iron Curtain. Ludwig Museum, Budapest

2011

• Ostalgia. New Museum, New York
• Modernikon. Contemporary Art From Russia. 54th Biennale di Venezia, parallel program, Casa dei Tre Oci
• Expanded cinema. Garage museum of contemporary art, Moscow

2010

• Ultimate/Concrete. PERMM, Perm, Russia
• Time, forward? ICA Moscow
• Art of wasting time. M`ARS Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• Workers and filosophers. Moscow school of management Skolkovo
• Modernikon. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
• 54th London Film Festival
• Etats de l’Artifice. Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
• Au present. Centre d’Art Passerelle, Paris
• Walking a fine line. Parables of the Sublime and the Subversive in Russian Video Art. Espace Croisé, Roubaix, France
• More of an activity: the artist as choreographer. Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
• 67th Venice Film Festival
• Futurologia. Garage museum of contemporary art, Moscow
• Visual/contemplative. National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow

2009

• Re-Imagining October. Calvert22, London

2008

• 1st Brussels Biennial
• God and Goods – Spirituality and Mass Confusion. Villa Manin Centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
• Worlds on video – international video art. Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina (CCCS), Florence

2007

• Paul Klee – Theater here, there and everywhere. Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
• International and National Projects. P.S.1, New York
• Silence. Listening to the Show. Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
• Urban formalism. MMOMA, Moscow
• Talking Pictures. Theatrical Stagings in Contemporary Film and Video Art. K21, Dusseldorf
• Two songs. Art Laboratory Berlin
• Something about power. L-Gallery, Moscow
• 2nd Moscow Biennale

2006

• 4th Berlin Biennale
• Russia! Guggenheim museum, Bilbao
• Fremd bin ich eingezogen. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel

2005

• We’re talking about music. Theatre play (with Marian Zhunin). 37th Biennale teatro, Venice
• Russia! Guggenheim museum, New York

2004

• 7 sins. Moderna galerija. Любляна, Словения
• Manifesta 5. Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain
• Body display. Secession, Vienna
• Movimento/Movimenti. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Renato Guttuso – Villa Cattolica, Bagheria, Italy

2003

• 50th Biennale di Venezia
• Horizon of realities. MUKHA Museum of Contemporary Art of Antwerp

Public collections