The Artist Egor Plotnikov

The artist explores the theme of landscape as a social and a “museum” genre existing on the periphery of the actual cultural field. By depicting wastelands, roadsides and buffer zones on canvases, which are on the border of human habitation and wild nature, Egor moves the character of the painting — the sculpture of the viewer — beyond the pictorial plane. Large format paintings are often “shrunk” to small “insignificant” landscape fragments, and the characters-sculptures begin to “hide” from the viewer. The empty wall/canvas/sheet and the space of the hall become a strong communication field and an important part of the artwork.

Egor Plotnikov was born in 1980 in Kirov (Russia).
In 2000 he graduated from Vyatka Art School named after A. A. Rylov.
In 2006 — Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (the workshop of P. F. Nikonov).
In 2006-2010 he worked at the Creative Workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts (under the guidance of S. P. and A. P. Tkachev).
In 2006 he joined the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov (workshop of P. F. Nikonov).
In 2006-2010 trained at the Creative Workshops of the Russian Academy of Arts (under the guidance of S. P. and A. P. Tkachev).

The participant of exhibitions since 1994, including exhibitions in Russia, Italy, Belgium, England, Germany, USA, Denmark, Sweden, France, Netherlands. Works are held in private collections in Russia and other countries, as well as in the collections of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Russian Foundation for Culture, the Moscow Union of Artists, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Aksenov Foundation, and Russian regional museums.