Slava explores the relationship between the material world and modern technology. The interconnection of the physical and the unreal is reflected in the surrealist pictorial images and in the fluidity of lines, and the atmosphere of mysticism of his works. In semi-abstract subjects he constructs new myths about modernity.

Slava Nesterov was born in 1989 in Perm, lives and works in Moscow. He graduated from Perm State National Research University in Contemporary Theories of Human Capital (2012) and then from the Joseph Bakstein Institute of Contemporary Art (2019).

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 — Will we meet tomorrow?, Syntax gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 — Eight songs, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 — Through three laughing thresholds, Syntax gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 —Scattered Observation, Syntax gallery, Moscow
2019 — Immortalitas vulgaris, Dom molodezhi gallery, Smolensk, Russia
2019 —Actants, Tsvetnye Gory Art Residence, Sochi, Russia
2019 — Untitled, Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 — Faire des merveilles, Museum of African Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal
2024 — Moyboi, Devyatnadtsat' Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 — SURREAL: Magical Realism in Animation and Contemporary Art, Bayt AlMamzar, Alisa Gallery, Dubai, UAE
2024 — What Are You Afraid of?, Tsekh White, CSI Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2022 — Monsters under the bed, Third place, St. Petersburg, Russia
2022 — Apok, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 — In the dust of this planet, ART4, Moscow, Russia
2021 — Dreams of the Mind, Ural vision gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2021 — Is it better to be separate?, off-site exhibition, Avdimou, Cyprus
2021 — Living Matter, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 — Nonlinear episode, ISSMAG gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 — Museum of Artificial History, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
2021 — Bandit Baroque, Name gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2018 — Moscow Conceptualism. Connection, ArtPlay Media, Moscow, Russia