Overview
Vladimir Grig

Vladimir Grig inherited his illustrational skillset from traditional soviet practices, spending numerous years perfecting his image of artistic creation. The majority of his works contain a slight twist on graphical design which includes images from the ‘50s and ‘60s. Using technological advancements as well as historical artistic perspectives, Grig connects the everyday lives of our past, our present, and our future. Drawing the most inspiration from within him; dreams, memories, and fantasies about an idealistic and romantic past are a driving force behind his artworks. Grig’s allusions that life, time, and beings in existence are a cyclical phenomenon suggest a unique perspective rarely attempted. At the same time his art contains mysticism which is characteristic of early Russian literature from the beginning of the 20th century.


His early artistic endeavors began in the late ‘80s with Grig working as a book illustrator with several known publishing houses. In 1995, he received a grant from the Berlin Academy of Art, recognizing his numerous contributions to the fine art culture. Grigs’ multitudes of projects have been nominated for prestigious honors such as the Kandinsky Award as well as the Kurehin Award. His development of the entity called “Dimensionen” has been displayed at the 55th Annual Biennale in Venice. Chiesa di San Pantalon, the subordinate of the award show, has featured several of his constructs, labeling them “masterpieces.” Vladimir Grig is a renowned originator of more than 40 expositions which range from solo exhibitions to collaborations with various artists. Demonstrations and festivals in Russia, Germany and Austria have featured his works in some of their most prominent galleries including the Russian Museum and Soil Science Museum in St. Petersburg, as well as being the focal point of Krasnodar Kovalenko Art Gallery.

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Vladimir Grig

Selected Exhibitions

2024 – Once Upon a Time in the Shining Forest…, Gridchinhall Gallery, Moscow Region
2024 – The Message, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
2021 – Andy Warhol and Russian Art, Sevkabel Port, St. Petersburg
2017 – We Have Arrived, Gridchinhall Gallery, Moscow Region
2015 – Who Am I? Where Am I?, Gridchinhall Gallery, Moscow Region
2014 – Contemporary Drawing, The State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
2014 – Art of the Present, Signal Exhibition Space, St. Petersburg
2014 – Vladimir Grieg for Samuel Beckett, GEZ-21, St. Petersburg
2014 – Russia Makes It Herself, VDNKh, Moscow
2014 – Heroic Cantata for Crickets and Orchestra, Dokuchaev Soil Science Museum, St. Petersburg
2014 – After the Comic Book, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
2013 – Art Moscow 2013
2013 – Baltic States Graphic Biennale “Kaliningrad – Königsberg 2013”
2013 – New Russian Realism, Central House of Artists (CHA), Moscow
2013 – How Vasek Karasev Turned into an Amoeba, installation in the Retro-Mutants project, New Archive, New Holland, St. Petersburg
2013 – How Vasek Karasev Turned into an Amoeba, installation in the Retro-Mutants project, KultProekt Gallery, Moscow
2013 – Dimensionen – II, ALGallery, St. Petersburg
2013 – How Are You?, East Gallery, Moscow
2013 – Art Moscow (2004–2013)
2012 – The Vanishing, East Gallery, Moscow
2012 – How Vasek Karasev Turned into an Amoeba, installation within the Invisible Border project, St. Petersburg Art Season in Moscow, KultProekt Gallery, Moscow
2012 – Kandinsky Prize Nominees Exhibition, Udarnik Cinema, Moscow
2012 – Horarium, sound art project, APosition Festival, Small Manege, St. Petersburg
2012 – St. Petersburg Graphics. Large Format, ALGallery, St. Petersburg
2012 – HEAVENLY LINE. PANORAMAS OF ST. PETERSBURG, 19TH–20TH CENTURIES, Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg
2012 – THE GAME, part of the North–South exhibition, Small Manege, St. Petersburg

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