The exhibition “Autumn Vernissage – 2024” was held at the NGHM | Art of the 20th century from September 19 to November 4, 2024
I presented my new work “Brothers” on it, oil on canvas 90x160cm 2023

The confrontation between brothers is an ancient biblical story. Born as a symbol of the unity of all humanity, Cain and Abel in reality began to personify the most fierce and irreconcilable enmity, a split in society. Brothers grow up in the same family, raised and educated in the same cultural tradition, using the same examples. They are similar in appearance, so much so that they are always confused. But here they are standing in front of each other, preparing for a fight. Both are strong and desperately brave, both are confident in themselves and are not ready to compromise. Both go to the end and never give up. In this equality of strength and conviction to stand to the death is the insane drama and hopelessness of this fight. They know each other down to the smallest detail, down to the slightest eye movement, down to the twitch of a vein. It’s like shadowboxing, the enemy reads your thoughts, repeats your movements, anticipates your blows, and circles in the mirror dance of death. They stand, brother against brother, knowing that the battle will be terrible. They will put all their hatred and all their love, all their intelligence and all their passion, all their courage and all their despair into it. They will break, reveal, smear these familiar features, familiar for as long as you can remember. They will tear everything that connected them, scatter the memories, the eyes of the mother, the hands of the father. Cheekbones will crumble and walls will break, entire cities will be erased. They are facing each other. They look into these painfully dear, but now so alien eyes and see themselves reflected in them…

RakovGallery is a network of art galleries created by brothers Igor and Alexey Rakov in 2011. They opened their first gallery in Yekaterinburg as a space for realizing the creative ideas of contemporary Ural artists. Now RakovGallery operates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Moscow and Perm. The gallery specializes in the art of Russian contemporary artists.

Exhibition “90 years of the Union of Artists”. On November 30, an anniversary exhibition of works by artists of the Nizhny Novgorod region began working in the Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists. It is dedicated to the 90th anniversary of the Nizhny Novgorod organization of the Union of Artists of Russia.
The genre of the group anniversary exhibition involves demonstrating the entire range of artistic works of various manners and styles, themes, subjects and images. Participation in the exhibition includes works from different years, which were shown at significant all-Russian and regional exhibitions in different years, that is, those that have passed the selection process of strict exhibition commissions, as well as new works created specifically for the current project.

RakovGallery is a network of art galleries created by brothers Igor and Alexey Rakov in 2011. The first gallery was opened in Yekaterinburg as a space for the implementation of creative ideas of contemporary Ural artists. Now RakovGallery operates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Moscow and Perm. The gallery specializes in the art of Russian contemporary artists. The collection consists of works by Vladimir Kirillov, Olga Suvorova, Anna Berezovskaya, Evgeny Guselnikov, Ilya Khokhrin, Alexander Saidov, Alexander Grekov and others.

In October 2023, 22 of my works were presented in the Rakov Gallery space

Exhibition “Big Volga XIII. Cultural code of the peoples of the Volga region” is held within the framework of the National project “Culture”. This is the first of 7 exhibitions in the federal districts of the country, which are intermediate stages in the preparation of the Russia XIV project.
“Big Volga” is a large-scale art project that brought together the best painters, graphic artists, masters of other art forms living and working in the multinational Volga region.
Traditionally, the “Big Volga” takes place every five years throughout the country.
The exhibition presents works by artists from Yoshkar-Ola, Izhevsk, Kazan, Orenburg, Perm, Naberezhnye Chelny, Samara, Saransk, Saratov, Tolyatti, Ulyanovsk, Cheboksary, Ufa and Nizhny Novgorod.

The exhibition takes place at five venues:
House of Friendship of the Peoples of the Republic of Mari El
Republican Museum of Fine Arts
National Art Gallery
National Museum of the Republic of Mari El
National Library of the Republic of Mari El