Kolya Sadovnik
is a Petersburg artist, member of the art association PARAZIT, founder of the musical no wave group "Land of Somnambula".
He was born in 1984 in the Tver region. Received higher technical education. Later he graduated from the Paideia School of Contemporary Art Interpretation and became a member of the St. Petersburg Creative Union of Artists (IFA).
In 2020, he became one of the winners of the "New Names — 2020" competition, organized by the Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg.
In his works, he develops a mythological language that answers questions of personal metaphysics, eschatology, religion, which simultaneously interacts with the reality of the Present and uses its elements. Works in such media as: painting, collage, digital collage, video art.
Selected exhibitions:
- 2017–2020 "Green Room". Street Art Museum, Building X-1, St. Petersburg
- 2018 Personal exhibition "Every day of Kolya Sadovnik". Dordor Gallery, Moscow
- 2019 Personal exhibition “Kolya Sadovnik. Flowers of Metaphysical Expressionism ”. Library of the Kirov Islands, St. Petersburg
- 2019 Personal exhibition “Kolya Sadovnik. Lower gardening. Introduction ". Art space mArs, St. Petersburg
- 2019 Personal exhibition “Kolya Sadovnik. Lower gardening. Introduction. Input 2 ". Sevkabel-port, gallery "KPD", St. Petersburg
- 2020 "GOLOVA place of power". Technical opening of the gallery “House of Culture named after Gaza", St. Petersburg
- 2020 "New Names". Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg
- 2020 "Trud". Gallery "Master", St. Petersburg
- 2020 Personal exhibition “Kolya the Gardener. Lower gardening. Hydrocarbon alleys ". Art space "DK im. Krupskoy ", St. Petersburg
- 2021 "A theme full of hate." PARAZIT Gallery, Borey Art Center, St. Petersburg
- 2021 Personal exhibition "CP 5". Kerka Gallery, St. Petersburg
