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 removal 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 single exhibitions in different European galleries (Inter Art, Köln; Ulrich Gering, Frankfurt; Noordeinde. 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" 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

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