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.

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Pavel Pepperstein

1966

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Pavel Pepperstein included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (ARTEEX). Pavel Pepperstein is a Russian artist, writer, critic, art theorist, fashion designer, and even a rap artist. Born in 1966 in the family of Moscow conceptualist Viktor Pivovarov and writer Irina Pivovarova. In 1985-1987 studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. In 1987, together with artists Sergey Anufriev and Yuri Leiderman, he founded the group “Inspection Medical Hermeneutics”, which existed until 2001. Pavel Pepperstein - the creator and ideologist of the movement “psychedelic realism”. His works mix recognizable cultural images and witty comments, the works are filled with references to surrealism, Malevich's suprematist models, oriental watercolors, pop art, book illustrations and political caricature. For his artistic activity, Peppershtein held more than 100 solo and group exhibitions in Russia and abroad. He participated in the largest biennial of contemporary art: the International Biennale in São Paulo (2004), the Venice Biennale (2009), the Manifesto (2014). In 2014, he won the Kandinsky Prize in the main nomination “Project of the Year” with the project “Holy Politics”. The artist's works are in the collections of the Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Louvre (Paris), the Pompidou Center (Paris), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf (Düsseldorf), as well as in private collections around the world. Source: ovcharenko.art

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