THE BEST RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

The list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (49ART-arteex) -  of authors not older than 1960 year of birth , was made by  ARTEEX   based on their creations  evaluation , popularity , commercial activity  (their titles, awards , participations in exhibitions and fairs , auctions , mention in art-ratings , presence of their works in museum collections  and so on  were taken into consideration). 

Some authors were included in the list of Best contemporary artists within the programme   Discovery (based on expert recommendations), which allows to open new talents to the art-society.  

ARTEEX does its best to be objective making the list, but anyway it reflects only subjective position of ARTEEX.

The maximum number of names in the List is – 250 authors (Top-250). Nowadays the list is being supplemented. The list is open. ARTEEX is   considering suggestions of including authors in the list of best contemporary artists.

How to make a list of the Best contemporary artists of Russia here: https://arteex.ru/en/about/list_arteex

Semyon Motolyanets

1982

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Semyon Motolyanets included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Semyon's Creativity presented in various genres: from graphics, painting, video to performance, installation and even literary works. Semyon was born and began his artistic education in Belarus, and then in St. Petersburg he graduated from the Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting of the Art and Industry Academy by Stieglitz (MUKHA) and the program "Modern Art" of the PRO ARTE Foundation, thus connecting the academic installations of the classic post-Soviet pictorial education with the newest formation of education in the field of contemporary art. The work of Semyon Motolyanets is well known to both the St. Petersburg public and the art community outside the northern capital. Actively participating in group exhibition projects since 2006, he is also a member of the PARAZIT association and is one of the founders of the SOAP group, winner of the Innovation-2009 award in the New Generation nomination. Motolianets's works — photographs, paintings, objects like screen covers, using Soviet archetypes — are energetic and biting postconceptualism, which is not enough on the local art scene. Photo: sobaka.ru