Alexander Timofeev

VITA

1971               born in St. Petersburg, Russia

1983-1989      attendance at the school of arts St. Petersburg, subordinated to the

                       academy of arts

1989               admission into the Russian academy of arts St. Petersburg, faculty of

                       painting

1993               final degree at the Russian academy of arts, becoming of erasure

                       and journey to Israel 

1994               relocation to Germany

1995               admission into AdBK academy of arts in Nuremberg, faculty of

                       painting

2004-2006      Timofeev-academy of arts, Andreas-Stadl, Regensburg

1996-2008      more than 30 solo exhibitions in different European galleries (Inter

                       Art, Köln; Ulrich Gering, Frankfurt; Noordeinde, The Hague;

                       Weihergut, Salzburg; et.al..)

lives and works in Berlin since 2008

Solo-Exhibitions (Selection)

2008               Secret Room, Galerie Noordeinde, Den Haag 

                       Alexander Timofeev: secret room, The State Russian Museum -

                       Stroganov Palace, St. Petersburg 

                       Alexander Timofeev, The State Russian Museum - Marble Palace, 

                       St. Petersburg 

2007               Alexander Timofeev, Galerie Weihergut, Salzburg

2006               Alexander Timofeev - Enttäuschung (disappointment), Galerie

                       Noordeinde, Den Haag 

1996               first exhibition in „Galerie Rutznoser", München

Group-Exhibitions (Selection)

2005               Drei Generationen (3 generations), new works by Alexander

                       Timofeev, his parents Victor Timofeev and Sofia Timofeeva - &

                       studies of his students, academy of arts Andreasstadl, Regensburg

2001               Kunst ohne Grenzen (art without constraints), Inter Art Galerie Reich,

                       Cologne

About the artist

Alexander Timofeev is one of the most virtuosic envisioners in present painting. He uses photography not only to come to an amazing reality, but also to rehearse things off the beaten track, which cannot be transposed with paintings in such an extreme expression of a moment. First of all, Timofeev is a great narrator, a performer of psychic dramas, who is geared to and matches himself with the great tradition of the Russian art of narration, for example Dostojewski. For that, he needs the series, the sequence, which enables him to get a deep access to the soul of his protagonists. Thus, his realism is not only one of the epidermis, but one of the events, which go under your skin.

Gottfried Knapp - Newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, Feuilleton; Redakteur für Kunst und Architektur