1958

Born in Leningrad in 1958. A prominent representative of Leningrad underground culture, an artist, poet and musician. Since the 1970s, he participated in exhibitions with Timur Novikov, the founder of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Since 1982, he has been a member of the New Artists group, an association of nonconformist artists of the Leningrad New Wave. In the 1980s, he collaborated with Sergei Kuryokhin's Pop Mechanics Orchestra. He is one of the permanent residents of the Pushkinskaya 10 Art Center in St. Petersburg, a former squat that became the epicenter of the Leningrad underground in the late 80s.