The Artist Boris Makarov

Boris Makarov (b. 1991) is a multidisciplinary artist working with ceramics, photography, and graphic media. Ceramics serves as the central medium in his practice, uniting the study of organic forms and natural processes with their reinterpretation through a sensual, intuitive methodology. Drawing inspiration from the textures of minerals, tree bark, plants, and stone, he translates embodied emotional experiences into tangible objects imbued with a sense of artifact—existing at the intersection of reality and its associative image. Employing empirical approaches to modeling, the artist favors an intuitive, co-creative dialogue with the material.He has completed several educational programs in contemporary art and photography: Igor Mukhin’s workshop at Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (2018–2019); Polezreniya Photography School (2017–2018); the School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops” (2022–2023); the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow, under the “New Artistic Strategies” program by Joseph Backstein (2021–2022); and the online school “More Than a Project” in the “Artistic Research” track (2025). Since 2020, he has participated in solo and group exhibitions, art fairs, residencies, and collaborations with local brands across Moscow, St. Petersburg, and other Russian regions. He lives and works in Moscow.Education
2025 Artistic Research Lab, “Bol’she chem proekt” Online School
2022–2023 Contemporary Art, School of Contemporary Art “Free Workshops,” Moscow
2021–2022 New Artistic Strategies, Institute of Contemporary Art (Joseph Backstein), Moscow
2018–2019 Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia (Igor Mukhin’s Workshop), Moscow
2017–2018 Polezreniya Photography School, Moscow Solo Exhibitions
2023 “Non-Fading”, Skrepka Bistro, Moscow
2021 Fineart Photography School, Moscow
2021 “Artifacts Without Viewers,” FAZATRON NIIR, Moscow Art Fairs
2025 Cosmoscow, SBER Private, Timiryazev Center, Moscow
2025 Win-Win 8, Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art (CCA), Moscow
2024 Cosmoscow, Serene Gallery, Timiryazev Center, Moscow
2023 ArtMoscow, Elohovshkiy Gallery, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow
2023 |catalog|, Sytin Typography, Moscow
2023 Win-Win 7, Winzavod CCA, Moscow
2023 Third Place Art Fair, St. Petersburg
2022 Win-Win 6, Winzavod CCA, Moscow Group Exhibitions
2025 Sudden Oasis, Web Center, Moscow
2025 I Will Find, Cave Sauna, Moscow
2025 To the Sea and Back, State Darwin Museum, Moscow
2024 Follow the Meteor Shower, Serene Gallery, Moscow
2024 Experimental Co-Creation Platform, Borsch Gallery, SOK, Moscow
2024 Fluidity of Solids, M2 Gallery, Moscow
2024 Everyone in Their Place, Nebesa Gallery, Cube Moscow, Moscow
2023 Named by Vasari: Mannerism, Volga-Vyatka Branch of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Arsenal), Nizhny Novgorod
2023 Castle or Lock?, Blumkin Dental Clinic, Fabula Gallery, Moscow
2023 Open Call Vol. 3, a-s-t-r-a Gallery, Moscow
2023 Species Characteristics, MMOMA (Moscow Museum of Modern Art), Moscow
2023 Bunker, Masterskaya Gallery, Moscow
2023 I Will Take Revenge on the World with Love, GRAUND Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
2023 Untitled, Pole, Moscow
2023 Small Things, Masterskaya Gallery, Moscow
2023 Don’t Trust Silence—It’s Deceptive, Byl CCA, Stary Oskol
2023 24 Words, Akademkniga, St. Petersburg
2023 Waves, Sol Gallery, Moscow
2022 We Are Forgotten at Night, Oskol CCA, Stary Oskol
2022 Passengers: Dialogues on Landscape, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2022 Metamorphoses, GRAUND Solyanka Gallery, Moscow
2022 The Path Is the Goal, Lyubov24, Leveldva, Moscow
2022 The Demiurge Forges His Own Fate, Lyubov24, 3rd Floor Gallery, Moscow
2022 Zero Mark, K320 Gallery, Moscow
2021 Is It Better to Be Separate?, Abandoned Church, Cyprus
2021 Velvet Eclipse, Mukha Gallery, Moscow
2021 Open Call Exhibition, New Sincerity Gallery, Moscow
2021 Renaissance: Exhibition of Art Ceramics, Moscow