Sergei Kiryuschenko

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In his perceptional and intellectual relations and interactions with the reality as well as in his inclination for abstract form, Sergei Kiryuschenko approached the subject matter of conceptual project closer than any Belarusian painter.

Sergei Kiryuschenko evolved from expressively emotional and utterly pictorial elements of his early works to intellectually mediated and logically arranged plastic structures of recent years. Despite an element of dramatic nature and passion in them, one can see a strong geometrical and organized beginning. And the method of shaping is like the logical procedures of thinking. The audience is shown the process of matter being structured, the process developing in accordance with some specified module. The plastic structure-scheme formed on a base of that module and the module itself are not only a framework and signs-symbols of modern visual culture and modern life. These signs-symbols contain a lot of meanings: visual, mental, spiritual and communicative.

It’s interesting that the break that occurred in Sergey’s creative thinking wasn’t caused by some specified conceptual program. It happened on purely visual level. It was a highly complex process of contemplation of the reality in a trans-like state. This process was the one of the complete autonomy from the social, national and cultural traditions. It also took the artist to the level of possibilities where he could practice the perpetual peering into the infinity of pure form. And his “peering” has an intellectual rather than emotional quality to it. Exactly this quality inspires the series of Sergey’s works and organizes them in accordance to rules untraditional to painting.

Sergei Kiryuschenko is an expert without a shadow of a doubt. He arranges his rhythmic arrays with filigree work; and the spot-surfaces of the local colors are painted using various methods and surprising resourcefulness. And the audience can sense his deep love for what he does…

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Sergei Kiryuschenko was born in Chita, Russia in 1951.
1977 graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Arts
1983 became a member of Belarusian Artists’ Union

Exhibitions:
1970 First personal exhibition in Minsk, Belarus; Participated in underground apartment exhibitions in Leningrad USSR (now Saint Petersburg, Russia)
1979 Participated in various republican and national exhibitions (Minsk, Moscow)
1983 All-union (USSR) young artists’ exhibition in Moscow
1988 Co-created an Artistic Association “Nemiga-17”
1989 All-union (USSR) Exhibition-Contest of easel painting at the Central Artists' House. Moscow, Russia
1991 Marseille Pauvert’s Art Gallery. Dammarie-lès-Lys, France
1991 INSEAD. Fontainebleau, France
1991 Henry Malreau’s Cultural Center, Orsay, France
1991 Cultural Center. Macerata, Italy
1994 “Space of Blue” Personal Exhibition
1994 Art Gallery. Nitra, Slovakia
1996 “Running Earth” Personal Exhibition
1997 “Appolonia” Project, the Council of Europe. Strasbourg, France
1998 Art Exhibition at the Commerzbank. Hamburg, Germany
2000 “Exhibition of Three Belarusian Artists”, Jesuits’ Gallery. Vienna, Austria
2001 “Temptation by Space” Personal Exhibition
2002 The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2006 “Actual Belarusian Art”. Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2006 'High Time to Get Down to Down-to-Earth Art’. Makarovschina village, Belarus
2008 'The 1st Belarusian Biennale'. Republican Art Gallery “Palace of Art”. Minsk, Belarus
2008 “Together”. Republican Art Gallery “Palace of Art”. Minsk, Belarus
2008 “RCS” (Russian Contemporary Show). Han Ji Yun Contemporary Space, Beijing, China
2008 “Good-Bye”. Art Place 'Fur Fortgeschrittene”. Berlin, Germany
2009 “Grapheme”. Yanka Kupala Museum. Minsk, Belarus
2009 'Belarusian Pavilion at 53d Venice Biennale in Minsk. National Exhibition Center 'BelExpo'. Minsk, Belarus

Sergei Kiryuschenko’s works are at the National Museum of Art of Belarus, the Ministry of Culture of Republic of Belarus and Russian Federation, at the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia) and numerous private collections in Belarus, Russia, France, Canada, Israel, Germany, Italy, Austria, the Netherlands, the United Arab Emirates and the USA.

ARTICLES: 

"Mastatstva" ("Art") magazine #2, 2006. An interview with Sergey Kiryuschenko (in Belarusian), pdf (2,0MB)

"Topos" magazine #1, 2007 by Olga Shparaga about Sergei Kiryushchenko's project It’s High Time to Get Down to Earth Art (in Russian), pdf (561KB)

Sergei Kiryuschenko's project "It's High Time to Get Down to Down-to-Earth Art"

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