| 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." "In my works, I explore canon images and biblical subjects through material and its relationship to their perception. I always try to achieve maximum expressiveness with minimal means, without violating the general construction of images. I am impressed by the ancient, darkened images, the ruins of old architectural structures and minimalistic, but very expressive techniques of art crafts of the Russian north of past centuries. In my artistic practice, I speak to the viewer about God in the modern world, about modern man's perception of religious classical art in the era of digitalization, about the impossibility of living and existing without knowledge of previous artistic and spiritual experience, about destruction and inaction, about prophecies and predictions, about personal spiritual experience. " |
Selected projects:
2025 - Book Chamber in Chernigovsky, personal exhibition "Compass of my soul," Moscow.
2025 - Museum of Christian Culture, personal exhibition "and more snow," St. Petersburg.
2024 - 2025 "Free Post Station," personal exhibition "Awe," Yekaterinburg.
2024 - Zaryadye Media Center, exhibition of nominees for the V Moscow Art Prize.
2024 - Gallery "today/tomorrow," exhibition "1/8 Echoes," St. Petersburg.
2024 – Erarta Museum “Revelations of the Soul", St. Petersburg.
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", solo exhibition "Forty", Irkutsk.
2023 – Arkhangelsk Museum - Reserve, exhibition "Not the Past", Moscow.
2023 – Astra Gallery (Winery), Statement project, Moscow.
2022 - Center for Contemporary Art, festival of contemporary art "Enlightenment", Yaroslavl.
2022 – Khazine National Art Gallery of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Biennale of Contemporary Art “Word Source Code", Kazan.
2022 - Art Therapy Center Villa Artis, solo exhibition 'Untitled. Favorites', St. Petersburg
2022 - Museum of Contemporary Art Artmuza, personal exhibition "Lignum", St. Petersburg.
2021 - I biennale of Christocentric art, Chernigov podvorye, Moscow.
2020 - Creative Union of Artists of Russia, project "ART workshop XXI", Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Samara.
2019 - Creative Union of Artists of Russia, project "ART workshop XXI", Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Kaliningrad, Togliatti, Stavropol.
2019 - Annenkirche, "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 the Canon", Moscow.
2018 - Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, "In Search of the Lost Middle", Moscow.
2018 - Center for Contemporary Art "Art Box", III International Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Art "Festival of Abstraction", Moscow.
2016 - Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, "Alchemy of the Process", Moscow.
2016 - Gallery Here on Taganka, curated by Andrey Bartenev, Moscow.
2015 - Gallery Nagornaya, IV International Project "Abstract Art in Modern Russia" SPACE OF THE IDEAL, curator of the project David Ru, Moscow.
2014 - Central House of Artists, "Russian art week", Moscow.
2014 - Moscow State University of Design and Technology, "Art future actual problems of contemporary art", Moscow.
2013 - Central House of Artists, international art exhibition "At the crossroads of sunny roads", Moscow.
2012 - Central House of Artists, International Art Exhibition "Open Look", Moscow.
2025 - Museum of Christian Culture, personal exhibition "and more snow," St. Petersburg.
2024 - 2025 "Free Post Station," personal exhibition "Awe," Yekaterinburg.
2024 - Zaryadye Media Center, exhibition of nominees for the V Moscow Art Prize.
2024 - Gallery "today/tomorrow," exhibition "1/8 Echoes," St. Petersburg.
2024 – Erarta Museum “Revelations of the Soul", St. Petersburg.
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", solo exhibition "Forty", Irkutsk.
2023 – Arkhangelsk Museum - Reserve, exhibition "Not the Past", Moscow.
2023 – Astra Gallery (Winery), Statement project, Moscow.
2022 - Center for Contemporary Art, festival of contemporary art "Enlightenment", Yaroslavl.
2022 – Khazine National Art Gallery of the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, Biennale of Contemporary Art “Word Source Code", Kazan.
2022 - Art Therapy Center Villa Artis, solo exhibition 'Untitled. Favorites', St. Petersburg
2022 - Museum of Contemporary Art Artmuza, personal exhibition "Lignum", St. Petersburg.
2021 - I biennale of Christocentric art, Chernigov podvorye, Moscow.
2020 - Creative Union of Artists of Russia, project "ART workshop XXI", Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Samara.
2019 - Creative Union of Artists of Russia, project "ART workshop XXI", Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladimir, Kaliningrad, Togliatti, Stavropol.
2019 - Annenkirche, "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 the Canon", Moscow.
2018 - Exhibition Hall of the Moscow Union of Artists, "In Search of the Lost Middle", Moscow.
2018 - Center for Contemporary Art "Art Box", III International Exhibition-Competition of Contemporary Art "Festival of Abstraction", Moscow.
2016 - Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, "Alchemy of the Process", Moscow.
2016 - Gallery Here on Taganka, curated by Andrey Bartenev, Moscow.
2015 - Gallery Nagornaya, IV International Project "Abstract Art in Modern Russia" SPACE OF THE IDEAL, curator of the project David Ru, Moscow.
2014 - Central House of Artists, "Russian art week", Moscow.
2014 - Moscow State University of Design and Technology, "Art future actual problems of contemporary art", Moscow.
2013 - Central House of Artists, international art exhibition "At the crossroads of sunny roads", Moscow.
2012 - Central House of Artists, International Art Exhibition "Open Look", Moscow.