Rinat Voligamsi
“Voligamsi” is a pseudonym of the artist. You will know his real name by reading this word backwards. The picturesque style, such as it is presented in 11.12, has developed in the 2000-s. His works have acquired an ironic and at the same time philosophical meaning, as well as his trademark retrophotorealistic manner. Voligamsi’s creative path is complex, full of crises and reinterpretations, because the artist always sets himself a super-task — to reveal the most complex and profound things. His works are both interesting and understandable, thanks to the fact that the artist expresses himself in an ultra-precise pictorial language.
The world of Rinat Voligamsi is surrounded by an aura of something unconsciously inexplicable one. Despite its deliberate desolation, there are always a lot of strange phenomena happening in it. A specific source is difficult to identify, as if the very existence was endowed with unprecedented forces that distort the reality around. A kind of parallel world with distorted rules of existence. There is an underlying sense of anxiety, although nothing clearly indicates this. And it seems to be obvious that such hypetrophication should not be taken for the truth, but pseudo-documentality still tries to deceive the brain. At the peak of a tense emotional state, our eyes can see things that are not really there, making us believe in miracles.
Rinat Voligamsi is a laureate of the State Prize of Russia in the field of literature and art in 1994. Repina 2014, Nominee Of The Kandinsky Prize 2014.
The artist’s works are in the collections of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Russian Museum, the Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation, the Redbase Contemporary Art Foundation, the Frances Foundation, the White Rabbit Collection, the collections of Igor Tsukanov and Roman and Sofia Trotsenko, and other museum and private collections.
Rinat Voligamsi lives and works in Ufa.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021
Eclipse. 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
2018
Dvoegorsk. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2016
Village. 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
2014
Snow. 11.12 GALLERY, Singapore
2013
Snow. 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
2011
Unofficial Album. Smaller Hall of the Artists’ Union, Ufa
Untitled. Ravenscourt Galleries, Moscow
2007
People, Talks, Flies. Central House of Artist, Moscow
2002
Untitled. Amadeus Art Gallery, London
2001
Untitled. Central House of Artist, Moscow
2000
Untitled. Miras Gallery, Moscow
1999
Untitled. Maximum Gallery, Ufa
Untitled. New Gallery of the Artists’ Union of the Republic of Bashkortostan, Ufa
1995
Untitled. Exhibition and Leisure center, Zlatoust
Selected Group exhibitions
2022
Exhibition of Achievements of Contemporary Artists. GUM-RED-LINE, Moscow
Art Beyond Time. Cube, Moscow
2021
Space Is Ours. Art Story Gallery, Moscow
Antologue of «Arte povera» in Fine Arts and Design. The Dialogue between Russia and Italy. Heritage Gallery, Moscow
Out of the Capital’s Borders. Miras Gallery, Ufa
2019
Voligamsi, Muratov etc. 11.12 GALLERY, Moscow
2016
Ufa. Return Point. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Enrichment of Reality. Tenishevs’ Cultutal and Exhibition Center, Smolensk
2015
Russia. Realism. 21st century. State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
2014
The Exhibition of Kandinsky Prize Nominees. Udarnik, Moscow
2013
Born To Fly and Crawl. State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg
Art Against Geography. Museum of Modern Art, Perm
2012
I Novosibirsk Trienniale of Graphics. Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk
2011
Art Against Geography. Center of Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow
IX Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk
White Nights in Perm (Cultural Alliance). Art Residence, Perm
International Project “THE FACE. Evolution of Portrait in Photography”. Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Chelyabinsk, St. Petersburg, Paris, Tokio
2010
After the Disaster. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk
2008
Tunguska Substance. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk
2007
I, I and I Again. Miras Gallery, Ufa
V Novosibirsk Biennale of Graphics. Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk
2004
IV Ural Trienniale of Printmaking. Art Museum Named after Mikhail Nesterov, Ufa
2002
Bashkortostan artists. Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow
selected Art Fairs
2022
Contemporary Art Fair 1703. Saint Petersburg
Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
2021
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Central. Hong Kong
International Contemporary Art Fair DA!MOSCOW. Moscow
2020
International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
2019
International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
International Contemporary Art Fair DA!MOSCOW. Moscow
2018
International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
2016
International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
2015
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Stage Singapore. Singapore
International Contemporary Art Fair Cosmoscow. Moscow
International Contemporary Art Fair Context Art Miami. Miami
2014
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Stage Singapore. Singapore
International Contemporary Art Fair Scope Basel. Basel
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Beijing. Beijing
2013
International Contemporary Art Fair Scope Basel. Basel
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Stage Singapore. Singapore
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Paris. Paris
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Palm Beach. Palm Beach
International Contemporary Art Fair Art China. Beijing
International Contemporary Art Fair Scope Miami Beach. Miami
2013-2011, 2009, 2007-2006
International Contemporary Art Fair Арт-Москва. Moscow
2007, 2003, 2001-2000
International Contemporary Art Fair Арт-Манеж. Moscow
2006
International Contemporary Art Fair Art Miami. Miami
2005-2004
International Contemporary Art Fair London Art Fair. London
2004
International Contemporary Art Fair Le Salon d’Automne. Paris
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg, Russia
Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow, Russia
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art. St. Petersburg, Russia
Vrubel Omsk Regional Museum of Fine Arts. Omsk, Russia
Krasnoyarsk Museum Center. Krasnoyarsk, Russia
The State Russian Museum and Exhibition Centre ROSPHOTO. St. Petersburg, Russia
The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantine Sorokin. Moscow, Russia
White Rabbit Collection. Sydney, Australia
Redbase Contemporary Art Foundation. Jakarta, Indonesia
Fondation Francès. Senlis, France
Tsukanov Family Foundation. London, Great Britain
Aksenov Family Foundation. Moscow, Russia