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		BELYI Peter

Biographical information: Born in 1971 in Leningrad USSR, Peter Belyi graduated in 1989 from the Secondary Art School of the Academy of Arts, and studied ceramics at Mukhin Academy of Applied Art from 1990 to 1992. He lived in London from 1995 to 2001 and graduated from Camberwell College in 2000 with an MA in Printmaking. He lives and works in St Petersburg, Russia mainly in printmaking, objects and installations. He teaches at the Smolnyi Institute in St Petersburg. He is a member of the Russian Union of Artists and the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers.
Collections where works are held
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 - La biblioteca di Pinocchio. Galleria Pack, Milan, Italy

2007 - Unnecessary Alphabet. Anna Frants Gallery Space, New York

Danger Zone. Daneyal Mahmood Gallery, NewYork Memorial Model-making. Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
Minute of Silence. Navicula Artis, St Petersburg, Russia
Lenproekt. State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2006 - Unnecessary Alphabet. Belka& Strelka, St Petersburg, Russia
KRUG2. Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia
Climactic Zone. Navicula Artis, St Petersburg, Russia

2005 - SH854. M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow
Privatisation of the Chimneystack. New Realms Gallery, London

2004 - Metaphorical Slide Tower. Pinacoteca Udine City Museum, Udine, Italy

2000 - Head of the Artist. Gisich Gallery, St Petersburg, Russia

2003 - Dreams of a Concierge. Navicula Artis, St Petersburg, Russia

2002 - Invasion. Extra, St Petersburg, Russia
Superprints. Che, St Petersburg, Russia

2001 - City Heights. Gallery 27, Cork Street, London

1998 - Peter`s Fountains. The Blythe Gallery, Manchester

1995 - Exhibition Hall of Odense University, Odense, Denmark

1994 - Eleven Portraits of Prince Charles. Institute of Contemporary Arts, St Petersburg

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008 - Russian Povera. Project by Sergey Gordeev. Curator - Marat Guelman. Rechnoi Vokzal,Perm

2007 - Celestial Mechanics. Pulkovo Observatory, St Petersburg, Russia
Something About Power. 2nd Moscow Biennale, L Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Border Territory. MARS Gallery, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
Architecture Ad Marginum. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2006 - Modus R. Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami

2005 - My Neighbourhood. Russia 2, M. Guelman Gallery in the frames of 1 Moscow Biennale of contemporary Arts, Moscow
White Project. M. Guelman Gallery, Art Moscow
Post Modellismus. Krinzinger Progekte, Vienna
Collage in Russia. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia

2004 - Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy, London Art Moscow, Central Hall of Artists, Moscow

2003 - Dream of the Dictator. Art Manezh, Manezh, Moscow Lorgues Print Festival. Lorgues, France
Dream of Triton. Anna Akhmatova Museum, St Petersburg
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy, London
National Print Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London

2002 - Discerning Eye. The Mall Galleries, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy, London
Art Futures 2002. Contemporary Art Society, London
National Print Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London

2001 - Discerning Eye. The Mall Galleries, London
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Royal Academy, London
National Print Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London
5th Open Print Exhibition. Royal West of England Academy, Bristol

2000 - National Print Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London (publicity materials)

1999 - Discerning Eye. The Mall Galleries, London
National Print Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London
Rouble Art. Alchemy Gallery, London
The End of Style. City Museum, St Petersburg
200 Years of Lithography. Russian State Museum, St Petersburg

1997 - Paper Theatre III. Bookcamera or The Book & The Elements, St Petersburg

1996 - National Print Exhibition. The Mall Galleries, London

1992-1994 - Time of Transition. Travelling exhibition in England and Wales

1992-1993 - Bristol City Museum, Bristol

1991 - Exhibition Hall of Artist`s Union, St Petersburg
Autobiographical notes
What the critics say: One of the deepest and subtlest of the St. Petersburg artists, Peter Bely concertedly explores the archaeology of cultural consciousness. For many years, he has been developing a project of "memorial modeling," in which he affirms culture as a current event outside of contemporaneity and contemporaneity as a future cultural layer for which trash is important.

The artist builds into our everyday reality a dimension of great responsibility - something akin to a fatedness to history. The artist`s statement coincides with the materiality of the works, so that his installations do not have protagonists. Each of his works is a way of approaching fatedness in its broader sense, as an immaculate embodiment of history in thousands of private lives.

Alexander Evangely
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