Andrey Chezhin

Born in Leningrad (1960). Graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Film Engineers (1982). At the same time he began to take photographs. Member of the Zerkalo photo club (1985). Member of the group ‘TAK’ (1987-1996). Member of the artistic association ‘Photopostscriptum’ (1993). Member of the Union of Photo Artists of Russia (1995). Member of the ‘Free Culture’ Association (1996). Since 1998 member of the International Federation of Artists (IFA). Organiser and board member of the annual festival ‘Autumn Photo Marathon’ (1999-2005). Director of the gallery ‘PHOTOimage’ and personal museum of contemporary art ‘Museum of Stationery Button’. Currently works as a free-lance photographer. Author of 90 solo exhibitions and participant in 180 group exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Credo:
– unpredictability of the photographic process;
– conceptuality of the photographic process;
– self-sufficiency of photographic means of expression.

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Master of contemporary Russian photography, artist
The Cathedrals of Rouen
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The Button and Modernism
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Escher's Space
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Sculpture
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Moscow
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Silkscreen
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Painting
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Kharmsiada
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The Dance/A.Matisse series.
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Squares
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Выставки
Фильмография
Музеи
Exhibitions

2024 – ‘The Cathedrals of Rouen’. 3rd fair of contemporary art |catalog|. Moscow. Russia
2024 – ‘Memento vivere. Remember to live.’ Centre of Visual Culture Béton, Moscow. (group exhibition)
2024 – ‘Key of View. Andrey Chezhin’, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts. Ekaterinburg. Russia. (solo exhibition)
2024 – ‘Button and Modernism’, ‘Esher’s Space’ 2nd Fair of Contemporary Art |catalog|. Moscow. Russia (group exhibition)
2024 – ‘The Art of Reality’. 3rd St Petersburg Contemporary Art Fair ‘1703’. Russia (group exhibition)
2023 – ‘Kharmsiada’. 1st Contemporary Art Fair |catalog|. Moscow. Russia (group exhibition)
2023 – ‘Key of View. Andrei Chezhin’, Béton Centre of Visual Culture.
2019 – ‘Escher’s Space’, Siberian branch of ROSIZO-GCCI, Tomsk.
2018 – ‘Button and Modernism’, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St Petersburg.
2017 – ‘Button and Modernism’, ‘Rouen Cathedrals’, Novosibirsk Museum of Art, Novosibirsk.
2014 – ‘OMMAJ to the Rouen Cathedral’, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Gallery of Art of Europe and America of the XIX-XX centuries, Moscow.
2013 – Andrey Chegin ‘Dialog mistrza i miasta’, Sweden centre Brama Portowa 1, Szczecin, Poland.
2012 – ‘New York, New York’, (together with N.Zarovna), gallery ‘Sputnik’, New York, USA.
2012 – ‘Window from Europe’, festival ‘Photograffiti’, PERMM Museum of Modern Art, Perm.

2012 – ‘Unknown Button’, Greenhouse Gallery, Pushkinskaya-10 Art Centre, St. Petersburg.
2012 – ‘Squares. Conversation with Malevich’, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk.
2011 – ‘Button and Modernism’, PERMM Museum of Modern Art, Perm.
2010 – ‘Swiatlopis’, Stara Cerkiew, Szczecin, Poland.
2010 – ‘Przestrzen Eschera’, Piwnica Kany, Szczecin, Poland.
2010 – ‘I love this City…’, gallery ‘Sputnik’, New York, USA.
2010 – ‘America by eyes’, FotoFest, Russian cultural centre ‘Our Texas’, Houston, USA.
2009 – ‘City-text’, Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk.
2009 – ‘City-text’, gallery ‘ARTpropaganda’, Samara.
2007 – ‘Button and Modernism’ (as part of the exhibition ‘Close-up’), Central Exhibition Centre Manege, St. Petersburg.
2006 – ‘Thumbtacks and modernism’, The Visual Arts Gallery, Adirondack Community College, Queensbury, USA.
2006 – ‘Life Lines. Anna Akhmatova’, Anna Akhmatova Museum in the Fountain House, St. Petersburg.

2005 – ‘Holy Royal Passion-Bearers’, Orthodox Fair, Manezh Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg.
2005 – ‘Button and Modernism’, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl.

2004 – «Thumbtacks and modernism», Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA.

2004 – «Nevsky Baptistry», FotoFest, Vine Street Studios, Houston, USA.

2005 – ‘Holy Royal Passion-Bearers’, Orthodox Fair, Manezh Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg.
2005 – ‘Thumbtacks and modernism’, Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl.
2004 – ‘Thumbtacks and modernism’, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, USA.
2004 – ‘Nevsky Baptistry’, FotoFest, Vine Street Studios, Houston, USA.
2004 – ‘Hands’, Mikhail Shemyakin Foundation, St. Petersburg.
2004 – ‘Self-Portrait 366 Days’, Museum of Contemporary History of Russia, Moscow.
2003 – ‘Transformations of a Look’, noname gallery, Rotterdam.
2002 – Andrey Chezhin, Gomez gallery, Baltimore, USA.
2002 – ‘Kharmsiada’, Giedre Bartelt Galerie, Berlin. ‘Sailor’s Dreams’, 21st Century Gallery, Prague.
2002 – ‘Button and Modernism’, National Library, Prague.
2001 – ‘Postmodernist Petersburg’, Samara Art Museum, Samara.
2000 – St.Petersburg, Escher Series. Anya Tish gallery, Houston FotoFest, Texas.
2000 – ‘Touching St.-Petersburg’, Multihus Tobaksfabrikken, Esbjerg, Danmark.
2000 – ‘Capital destruction – rearranging landmarks’, Hovedbiblioteket, Esbjerg, Danmark.
2000 – ‘Trace of the Gulag’, NONAME gallery, FotoBiennale, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
2000 – ‘Retrospective 1988-2000’, Galeria Z, Month of photography, Bratislava, Slovakia.
1999 – ‘Russian Lens on Washington. Andrey Chezhin: New Angles’, District of Columbia Art Centre, Washington, D.C..

1998 – ‘Kharmsiade & From the Life of Thumb-pins’, NONAME gallery, Rotterdam

1998 – ‘Dream’ (St. Petersburg – Warsaw), Mala galeria, Warsaw.

1997 – ‘7 Platforms of AHE’ (1st International Festival of Free Arts ‘Solntsevorot’), Baltic House, St. Petersburg.

1996 – ‘96 Photos’, Central Exhibition Hall ‘Manezh’, St. Petersburg.

1994 – ‘Visiting Bulla’, Gallery ‘21’, St. Petersburg.

1993 – ‘Self-portrait 366 days’, Saint-Marcellin, France.

Filmography

2024 – Documentary film ‘The Last Postmodernist. Andrei Chezhin’. Olga Michi Production

Works of the artist in museum collections

State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg; Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
Beton Centre of Visual Culture
Russian National Library, St. Petersburg
‘State Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO, St. Petersburg
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
Gatchina Museum-Reserve, Priorat Palace
Collection of ‘Free Culture’ Association, St. Petersburg
Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow
Fund of artist Mikhail Shemyakin, St. Petersburg
Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl
Moscow House of the Architect, Moscow
Museum of Organic Culture, Kolomna
Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk
Perm State Art Gallery. Museum of Photography, Perm
Tomsk Regional Art Museum, Tomsk
The Navigator Fondation, Boston, USA
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA
Southeast Museum of Photography, Florida, USA
The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection
The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswik, NJ, USAA
Muzeo Ken Damy, Brescia, Italy
Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesney Zamek Ujazdowski
William Hunt Collection, New-York, USA
Palladian Collection, New-York, USA
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA

Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, NewYork, USA
Muzeo d’Arte Contemporanea di Milano
The Hechinger Collection, USA
Collection the Royal Bank of Scotland in Houston
The Brandts Musseet for Fotokunst in Odense, Denmark

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