1965

Born on November 2, 1965 in Moscow, he graduated with a red diploma from the Moscow College of Architecture and Civil Engineering in 1985. From 1985 to 1988, he studied at MARCHI, the Faculty of Residential and Public Buildings. In 1988 and 1990, he attended MIR 1, a workshop led by B. Yukhananov, at the Free Academy in Moscow and Leningrad. In 1990, he became the head of the first cable television studio in Moscow. From 1990 to 1994, he collaborated with S. Kuskov and K. Preobrazhensky in the Permafrost Laboratory. In 1991, his work won first place at the First International Video Art Festival in Leningrad. From 1992 to 1993, he worked as an artist for the journal Place of Printing, which focused on interpretive art. In 1995, he received a scholarship from the International Association of Fine Arts - AIAP (UNESCO) in Paris. Since 1996, he has been a member of the New Russian Classicism movement in St. Petersburg. In 1998, he founded the Kray Closed Club in Moscow, which operated from April 1 to September 1 of that year. From 2000 to 2002, he was part of the FSB group (Front of Peaceful Prosperity) together with A. Molodkin. During this time, he also worked as a stylist for the Eurasia party. In 2008, he received the Kandinsky Award in the "Best Project of the Year" category for his exhibition "Motherland-Daughter".