Igor Baranov

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Fields of art

Arts, general:
Visual arts: Graphic Arts, Sculpture, Painting, Curating, Installation, Arts pedagogy
Performing arts:
Music:
Special groups: Youth, Multicultural / diversity, LGTB, Other
Other culture: Environmental art

Region

Helsinki, Kymenlaakso & Etelä-Karjala, Uusimaa (other than capital city area)

Languages

English, Russian

Social media

https://www.facebook.com/Igor.Baranov.Art
https://www.instagram.com/igor_baranov_art/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yj31DndPew

Born in Leningrad in 1983. Since 2020 based in Finland.

Graduated from St. Petersburg Fine Arts Academy .

Participant of more than 50 exhibitions, 20 of which are personal.

Since 2009 teaching course is Repin Institutti, Kotka, Finland.

Selected solo exhibitions:

2021 – Safetyness archeology, Sevcabel Port, St.Petersburg, Russia

2020 – Herbarium, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2019 – Reincarnation of the Past, Baozhen Gallery, Beijing, China

2016 – Herbarium, Galleria Pato, Kouvola, Finland

2014 – Uusikuva Gallery, Kotka, Finland

2011 – Identification of Myth, Square Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

2010 – Kadieff gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2010 -Totems, Ant Gallery, Helsinki, Finland

2008 – Kalevala – Ethnomechanics, DiDi Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia

Residences and grants:

2018 – Resident of”Guanlan printmaking base”, Shenzhen, China

2018 – Resident of the Salmela Art Center Mantyharju, Finland

2009 – Resident of the Salmela Art Center Mantyharju, Finland

2003 – practice at the lithographic school,Tidaholm, Sweden.

Works kept:

State Hermitage Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia)

National Museum of Karelia (Petrozavodsk, Russia)

Salmela Art Center (Mantyharju, Finland)

Recently, I’m focused in large scale woodcuts and objects with led light. The theme, that I am working with is “time and collective memory”. I am also interested to discover contrasts as “individual – state” and “human – environment”.