Annouchka Brochet
Marina Chernikova
Valery Chtak
Group exhibition
Dubossarsky - Vinogradov
Alla Esipovich
Laszlo Fehér
Dasha Fursey
Georgy Gurianov
Valery Koshlyakov
Vlada Krassilnikova
Andrei Molodkin
Ivan Plusch
Aidan Salakhova
Arsen Savadov
Sergei Serp
Yuri Shabelnikov
Stephen J. Shanabrook
Sergey Shekhovtsov
Rupert Shrive
Olga Tobreluts
Evgeny Yufit |
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Serguei Barekov, best known as Serp, was born in 1967 at Lvov, ex- Soviet Union.
Lives and works in Moscow and Paris.
1974-84 :
Secondary and music school at Svetlogorsk.
1984-86 :
Serp moves in Saint Petersburg, where he works in a funeral orchestra. He studies at the Industrial Institute. At the same time, he has interest in Plastic Arts. From this period, the artist takes part in the necro-realism group. At first, he is simply an actor of the experimental cinema of Eugène Yufit, before becoming thereafter one of the most important artists of the movement.
1986-88 :
Serp resides in the Palace of culture and works in painting and music’s workshops. He takes painting lessons at the Fine Arts School. He also participates in painting exhibitions and music performances in Saint-Petersburg.
1989-90 :
Various participations at cinema festivals and music concerts, as actor and musician. Besides, this is the date of his first group exhibition of necro-realism painting in Western Europe, at the Stedelijk Museum, in Amsterdam.
1990-91 :
Student with a scholarship for two sessions of the Institute of High Studies of Plastic Arts, directed by Pontus Hulten, in Paris. With the necro-realism group, Serp takes part in the “Art Territory” exhibition, in Saint Petersburg, and in the “Artist’s Position”, in Paris.
1992-96 :
As a painter and a photographer, Serp and the necro-realism group participate in various cultural projects in Europe and United-States, such as: the “Russian Necrorealism, Shock therapy for a new culture” exhibition at the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Ohio, in 1993 ; the “Self-identification, position in Saint-Petersburg art from 1970 until today” exhibition at the State Museum of Contemporary Art of Oslo in 1995 ; the “Metaphern des entrucktseins: aktuelle kunstans Saint Petersburg”, Badisher kunstverein, in Karlsruhe, Germany, in1996.
1997-04 :
Serp leaves the necro-realism group, following its members’ dispersion. At this time, the artist lives in France, where he works with new technologies. He is interested in books’ edition and makes solo exhibitions.
2004-06 :
He manages the particular collection of modern and contemporary art of Pontus Hulten, from which he is in charge of the donation at the Moderna Museum of Stockholm.
Since 2006 : He lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Serp’s works are in various State’s collections and particular collections in Europe and United-States.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011
Necrorealism, Museum of Modern Art, The fourth Moscow Biennale of contemporary Art, Moscow
2010
Stroke with the brush. New painters. Necrorealists, Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
2009
Letter from the Island, The Necrorealists: Serp, Yufit and Kustov, Orel Art UK, London
The Secret Life of Bodies, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008
The Woodcutter’s Island, Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
2007
Vorschau: Pontus Hultén. Künstler einer Sammlung, Hessisches Landesmuseum, Darmstadt, Germany
Architecture: ad marginem, Russian Museum, Palais de marbre, St. Petersburg
The futur depends on you. Collection of Pierre-Christian Brochet, Museum of contemporary Art of Moscow, Moscow
2006
Pontus Hulten. Artisti da una collezione, Italia, Venezia, Istituto Veneto di Scienze Lettere ed Arti, Palazzo Franchetti
Pontus Hulténin kokoelma, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Konstmuseet Ateneum,
Helsinki, Finland
2004
Pontus Hulténs samling..., Modern Museum of Stockholm, Sweden
2002
New Visuality, Exhibition Hall of art magazine "The New World of Art", St.Petersburg
1999
Évasion des cerveaux, de Haut ville Gallery, Vaison la Romain, France
1998
Boeufstroganoff, International Art Performance, Château La Motte, France
1997
Hôtelier, Gallery des Prés, Ousson sur Loire, France
1996
Metaphern des Entrucktseins, Aktuelle Kunst aus St.Petersburg, Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruher Kunstlerhaus, Germany
1995
Self-Identification, Haus Am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Self-Identification, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway
Self-Identification, The State Art Gallery, Sopot, Poland
Self-Identification, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St.Petersburg
1994
Europe. Le territoire du Necrorealisme, Gallery de Paris, Paris
Self-Identification, Positions in St.Petersburg Art from 1970 Until Today, Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany
1993
Russian Necrorealism: Shock Therapy for a New Culture, Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, USA
International Performance Art Festival Hellerau, Dresden, Germany
FIAC, Paris, France
1992
ExUSSR, Groningen Museum, Groninger, Nederlands
Binationale: Soviet Art Around 1990, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1991
Binationale:Soviet Art Around 1990, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
Art.Europe, Kunstverein Hannover
Binationale: Soviet Art Around 1990, Israel Museum, Weisbord Pavillion, Jerusalem
Bienale de Cetine, Montenegro, Yougoslavia
Festival "Les Allumées", Nantes, France
1990
Laboratoire, Russian Museum, Leningrad, Russia
In the USSR and Beyond, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1989
International Festival of films, Kiev, Russia
The New from Petersburg. Young Artists from Leningrad, Muscarnok, Budapest
1988
Contemporary Art of Leningrad, Art Centre of Leningrad, Russia
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