Biography
1982/Brest/Belarus
Works with installation, object and performance.
Graduated from Saint Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and
Design (2009) and "The School of young artist" at Pro Arte Foundation (2012). Founder (together with D. Petukhov) of the artistic group "SOAP".
Winner of the "Innovation Prize" (2009), with nomination "New generation" (as a member of the "SOAP" group).
Member of PARAZIT group (since 2007).
Member of the Open Studio "Nepokorenniye 17".
Participant of Moscow International Biennale for Young Art (Moscow);
parallel program of Manifesta 10 Biennial (St. Petersburg); Ural Industrial Biennial (Ekaterinburg); Art Prospect Public Art Festival (St. Petersburg), CEC Artslink Program (New York). Residence Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
Selected personal exhibitions
2020 — “Pure future tools” in A&V Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus.
2018 — About sterile art. Cité internationale des Arts, Paris.
2018 — Anti-personal personal exhebition of Semyon Motolyanets who realized that he hasn't been understood anything about contempo- rary art, Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2017 — "A very artifical choice", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2015 — "Big paintings solve big problems", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2013 — "Protective Screens", Nina Duo Gallery, Milan, Italy.
2013 — "A couple of words," Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012 — "Rejection" (as participant of the SOAP group), Anna Nova Art Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012 — "For the CV", Dver Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2012 — "State of Things" (as participant of the SOAP group), Art Communalka Museum, Kolomna, Russia.
2012 — "Decubitus", Parazit Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — 10th Festival "Contemporary Art In Traditional Museum", Granted by PRO ARTE Foundation (as participant of the SOAP group), Museum Of Hygiene, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — "Stone, scissors, paper", Parazit Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2008 — "Rehearsal of Living", Museum of Anna Akhmatova, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Selected group exhibitions
2019 — "Ordinary things", Art-center "DK Gromov", St. Petersburg, Russia 2019 — Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum Festival, Russia. 2017 — "Nepokorennye prospect". MMOMA, Moscow, Russia.
2015 — "No strangers". Leningrad center, St Petersburg, Russia.
2015 — Art fair "Supermarket", Stoсkholm, Sweden.
2014 — "The Other Capital” Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia.
2014 — "Green envy", Borey Art Center, parallel program Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2014 — "The art of translation", ProArte foundation, parallel Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, program Russia.
2014 — "Coomunal appartment", Marata 33, part of the Special Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg, Program Russia.
2014 — Vienna Fair, Marina Gisich Gallery booth, Vienna, Austria
2014 — "Signal 1", "Signal 2", St. Petersburg, Russia
2013 — "Lost in translation", Parallel program of 55-th Venice, Venice, Biennial,Italy.
2013 — "Parazit+", Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 — "Saturnalia" (as participant of the SOAP group), supported bySmirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, Tbilisi/Batumi, Vladimir Georgia.
2012 — CEC Artslink program and «Art in odd place», New York, USA.
2012 — "Art Prospect" Public Art festival, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 — "Nordic Art Today" (as participant of the SOAP group), LoftETAGI, St. Petersburg, project Russia.
2011 — "OCULUS NOVENI", Exhibition for young artist of Pro Arte Svetoch Loft foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — "Videoforma" — 2nd video art festival, Kuryokhin Art St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — “House Issue”, Modernariat Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 — “Total Contemporary Night”, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St.Petersburg, Russia
2011 — “Inner Police”, Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia

2011 — "55/3" — The self-organized exhibition of young artists, Moscow, ARTPLAY, Russia.
2011 — "History of Russian Video Art. Volume 3", MMOMA at Moscow, Ermolaevsky, Russia.
2011 — "Life: Science version", White Hall, Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia.
2010 — Special programme of 1st Ural Industrial Biennale, Working performance by the SOAP group, Uralmash Factory, Yekaterinburg, Russia.
2010 — VIII International Festival of Experimental Art (as participant of "PARAZIT" association), Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Peters- burg, Russia
2010 — "Portrait Interpretation", State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — "OCULUS NOVENI", Loft 'Svetoch', St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 —"Video form- the 2nd video art festival, Sergey Kuryokhin contemporary art center, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2011 — "Housing Problem", Modernariat Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — Total Contemporary Nignt, Rizzordi Art Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 — "Internal Police", Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011 — "55/3- Exhibition of self-organized young artists", ARTPLAY center, Moscow, Russia.
2011 — 'The History of Russian video art. Volume III", MMOMA, Moscow, Russia.
2010 — "Happiness — is the way from work to home" installation (as participant of the SOAP group), Object in the Museum project, ERARTA Contemporary Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010 — "Hermitage Lomography", State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2010 — "«PARAZIT» in the world museums" project, the State Tretyakov Gallery and State Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia.
2009 — "Recycling", State Hermitage Youth Center, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2009 — "Museum Project", LUDA Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia (as participant of the SOAP group).
2008 — "Elusive Russian literature. Soap remnants", 10х15 Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2008 — "PARAZIT" at Russian Povera. Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2006 — "New Names", Museum Of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2006 — "Decisive Moment", Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia.
Selected collections
- The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia),
- Museum PERMM (Perm, Russia),
- Museum of Non-Сonformist Art (St. Petersburg, Russia), - private collections in Russia and Germany,
- The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, Russia)