| Maxim Demin The artist is a restorer. Graduated from Saint Tikhon's Orthodox University of the Humanities. For a long time he worked in the museum Andrei Rublev restorer of easel tempera painting. He taught the restoration of easel oil painting at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V.I. Surikov. Member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. Nominee and winner of art awards, as well as international competitive exhibitions of contemporary art. Author of scientific articles and participant in conferences on the study and restoration of works of Old Russian art. A practicing restorer working with private collections and church monuments. Composer and musician, founder and participant in the musical projects "winter outside the window" and "31/22." I am inspired by the cultural code — the deep memory of images associated with traditions, faith, and lifestyle. Therefore, in my works there are motifs of houses, paths, harvests, traces of time. These recognizable forms become entry points into the space of spiritual experience, where the thing ceases to be utilitarian and acquires a figurative and symbolic dimension. A special place in my practice is occupied by working with found objects.Old frames, photographs, architectural decor elements, fragments of everyday life from past centuries — all this is carefully restored, rearranged, integrated into new artistic constructions." Objects with their own history become part of assemblages and installations, combining traces of time, human labor and spiritual experience.In my works, I turn to canonical images and biblical subjects through the processes of destruction, preservation and transformation of matter itself. I am talking to the viewer about God in the modern world, about the gap and continuity, about digital reality, personal spiritual experience and the impossibility of existing outside the memory of previous generations. |
Selected projects:
2025-2026 - Gallery Object Object, personal exhibition "Where the sky touches the earth", Palekh.
2025 - Museum of the History of Orthodoxy, personal exhibition "My Soul", Yoshkar-Ola.
2025 - Chernigov Book Chamber, personal exhibition "Compass of my Soul", Moscow.
2025 - Museum of Christian Culture, personal exhibition "I'll be happier than the snow", St. Petersburg.
2024-2025 "Free Post Office Station", personal exhibition "Awe", Yekaterinburg.
2024 – Zaryadye Media Center, exhibition of the V Moscow Art Prize nominees, Moscow.
2024 – Gallery ”Today/tomorrow“, exhibition "1/8 Echoes", St. Petersburg.
2024 – Erarta Museum “Revelations of the Soul", St. Petersburg.
2024 – Heaven Gallery, Cube Moscow, exhibition “They know the Ways", Moscow.
2024 – QI “Wing” solo exhibition “Window to the Good News", Moscow.
2024 – Museum of the History of Religion, exhibition of the project "After the Icon", St. Petersburg.
2024 – Mira Center, exhibition "Visible - invisible", Suzdal.
2023-2024 – CSI "Fire", personal exhibition "Forty", Irkutsk.
2023 – Arkhangelsk Museum - Reserve, exhibition "Not the past", Moscow.
2023 – Astra Gallery (Vinzavod), Statement project, Moscow.
2022 – Contemporary Art Center, Contemporary Art Festival “Enlightenment", Yaroslavl.
2022 – National Art Gallery “Khazine" of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Biennial of Contemporary Art “The Word Source Code", Kazan.
2022 – Artmusa Museum of Modern Art, solo exhibition "Lignum", St. Petersburg.
2021 – I Biennale of Christocentric Art, Chernigov Courtyard, Moscow.2020 – Creative Union of Artists of Russia, ART Workshop XXI project, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Samara.
2019 – Creative Union of Artists of Russia, ART Workshop XXI project, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Kaliningrad, Tolyatti, Stavropol.
2019 – Annenkirche, exhibition of the project "After the Icon", St. Petersburg.
2019 – Cathedral of Christ the Savior, "After the Icon", Moscow.
2019 – Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, "Philosophy of Canon", Moscow.
2018 – Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, "In Search of the Lost Middle", Moscow.
2018 – Art Box Center for Contemporary Art, III International Exhibition and Competition of Contemporary Art "Abstraction Festival", Moscow.
2016 – Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, "Alchemy of the Process", Moscow.
2015 — Nagornaya Gallery, IV International project "Abstract Art in Modern Russia" THE IDEAL SPACE, curated by David Ru, Moscow.
2014 — Central House of Artists, "Russian Art Week", Moscow.
2014 — Moscow State University of Design and Technology, "Art is the future of current problems of contemporary Art", Moscow.
2025 - Museum of the History of Orthodoxy, personal exhibition "My Soul", Yoshkar-Ola.
2025 - Chernigov Book Chamber, personal exhibition "Compass of my Soul", Moscow.
2025 - Museum of Christian Culture, personal exhibition "I'll be happier than the snow", St. Petersburg.
2024-2025 "Free Post Office Station", personal exhibition "Awe", Yekaterinburg.
2024 – Zaryadye Media Center, exhibition of the V Moscow Art Prize nominees, Moscow.
2024 – Gallery ”Today/tomorrow“, exhibition "1/8 Echoes", St. Petersburg.
2024 – Erarta Museum “Revelations of the Soul", St. Petersburg.
2024 – Heaven Gallery, Cube Moscow, exhibition “They know the Ways", Moscow.
2024 – QI “Wing” solo exhibition “Window to the Good News", Moscow.
2024 – Museum of the History of Religion, exhibition of the project "After the Icon", St. Petersburg.
2024 – Mira Center, exhibition "Visible - invisible", Suzdal.
2023-2024 – CSI "Fire", personal exhibition "Forty", Irkutsk.
2023 – Arkhangelsk Museum - Reserve, exhibition "Not the past", Moscow.
2023 – Astra Gallery (Vinzavod), Statement project, Moscow.
2022 – Contemporary Art Center, Contemporary Art Festival “Enlightenment", Yaroslavl.
2022 – National Art Gallery “Khazine" of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Biennial of Contemporary Art “The Word Source Code", Kazan.
2022 – Artmusa Museum of Modern Art, solo exhibition "Lignum", St. Petersburg.
2021 – I Biennale of Christocentric Art, Chernigov Courtyard, Moscow.2020 – Creative Union of Artists of Russia, ART Workshop XXI project, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Samara.
2019 – Creative Union of Artists of Russia, ART Workshop XXI project, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Kaliningrad, Tolyatti, Stavropol.
2019 – Annenkirche, exhibition of the project "After the Icon", St. Petersburg.
2019 – Cathedral of Christ the Savior, "After the Icon", Moscow.
2019 – Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, "Philosophy of Canon", Moscow.
2018 – Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, "In Search of the Lost Middle", Moscow.
2018 – Art Box Center for Contemporary Art, III International Exhibition and Competition of Contemporary Art "Abstraction Festival", Moscow.
2016 – Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, "Alchemy of the Process", Moscow.
2015 — Nagornaya Gallery, IV International project "Abstract Art in Modern Russia" THE IDEAL SPACE, curated by David Ru, Moscow.
2014 — Central House of Artists, "Russian Art Week", Moscow.
2014 — Moscow State University of Design and Technology, "Art is the future of current problems of contemporary Art", Moscow.