Semen Motolyanets (1982 -)

Semen Motolyanets was born in 1982 in Belorussia. Between 1999 and 1998 he studied Design at the Minsk State Architectural and Civil Engineering Institute. Then in 2003 he graduated in painting from the Minsk State Art College and in 2009 he graduated in decorative painting from the Saint Petersburg State Art-Industrial Academy. Between 2003 – 2010 he mastered his black and white photography technique at the 'F. K' studio of the well known photographer Igor Lebedev.

Furthermore he studied contemporary art at the PRO ARTE foundation institute in St. Petersburg (The PRO ARTE Foundation is a non-governmental organization founded in 1999 to promote contemporary culture in the fields of visual art, music and dance).

Semen Motolyanets participated in dozens of solo and group exhibitions as well as participated in the 1st Ural Industrial Biennale.

Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions:

2011 Stability. Museum and Galleries of Contemporary Art Erarta, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 Contemporary Art in Traditional Museum, the 10th Festival of the Foundation "Pro Arte". Museum of Hygiene, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 Northern art today. Loft project "Etagi", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 Housing Problem. Modernariat Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 Rock, Paper, Scissors, solo exhibition. Gallery "Parasite", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 Life. Version of science. Centre of Contemporary Art "Winzavod", White Shop, Moscow, Russia.

2011 The internal police. Gallery "Borey", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 Video Format, the second festival of video art. Contemporary Art Center named after Sergey Kuriokhin, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2011 55 / 3 exhibition and self-organization of young artists. ARTPLAY, Moscow, Russia.

2011 History of Russian Video Art. Volume 3. Moscow Museum of Modern Art in Ermolaevsky Lane, Moscow, Russia.

2010 Interpretation. Portrait of a Museum. The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2010 The parasite in the museums of the world project. The State Tretyakov Gallery, The Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia.

2009 Gold for the people in the framework of the 9th International Biennial of Contemporary Art "Conversations", Small Hall of the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2009 Vtorichnya Pererabotka / Recycling. Youth Educational Center of the State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2009 The Museum Project, consisting of soap. Gallery "Luda", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2008 Rehearsal for Life, personal exhibition of photos. State Literary and Memorial Museum of Anna Akhmatova, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2007 The territory of creativity. The Museum of Nonconformist Art, Art Center "Pushkinskaya 10", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2006 The Russian Idea. Gallery "Navicula Artis", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

2006 New Names. The Museum of Nonconformist Art, Art Center "Pushkinskaya 10", Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Selected Public and Private Collections:

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;

Museum of Non conformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia;

Private collections in Russia and in Germany.