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Andrey Syaylev
born 1982 in Sari-Agach, Kazakhstan
Andrey Syaylev was born in 1982. He graduated from the Samara Art School. Works as a sculptor, painter, photo and video artist, as well as a street artist. Appears as a curator. Lives in Moscow.

Participant of the 1st Triennale of Russian Contemporary Art (2017), the 5th and 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, the MANIFESTA-10 (2014) and numerous video festivals in Russia and Europe. Solo exhibitions in the Guelman Gallery, Samara Regional Art Museum, Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin Foundation.

The work of Andrey Syaylev is an attempt to materialize the flow of time making out the architectonics of it's "spatial sections". Deeply plunging into details, the artist in the experimental series separates various textures, materials and spaces into micronutrients.

The most frequent figures of his works are pattern structures, for example, bricks, tile laying or books. For the artist, they play the role of ideal forms of «compressed» temporality. Brickwork or a multi-volume become as the models of visual meshworks that structure the human perception.

The artist considers his task to transmit to the viewer the skills of adjustment of the specific «depth of field» in perception of reality.


Solo exhibitions:

2022 — The Rupture — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 — ART COLLECTOR SHOP — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 — BEYOND THE INVOLVEMENT — workshops of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin foundation, Moscow, Russia
2017 — Current Moments — Kiel, Germany
2017 — CHORD. ONE AND A HALF METERS FROM THE GROUND — Cultural Transit Foundation, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2011 — Reading/Drawing — Samara regional art museum, Samara, Russia
2010 — SIMULTANEITIE — Globus gallery, Storeys project, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2009 — FREIGHT TRAIN — Guelman gallery, Moscow, Russia


Selected group exhibitions:

2024 — Function. Affect — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 —1st GROUND Biennale. Textiles in contemporary art — GROUND Solyanka, Moscow, Russia
2024 — 3 х 5 —PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2023 — Function — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2022 — Silence Mode — PA Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019 — Series of public art objects «PILLARS OF KRASNOYARSK». as a part of 13 Krasnoyarsk museum biennale «Negotiators»
2017 — PEACEBUILDING / MYROSTROYENIE. special project of the 3d Ural industrial biennale of contemporary art, Ekaterinburg, Russia
2016 — NO TIME. special program of the 6th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2015 — REMEMBERING TOMORROW — Museum of Street Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
2015 — ART FUND — Srednevolzhsk branch of the NCCA, Samara, Russia
2014 — NOT A MUSEUM. as part of Manifesta-X, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 — QUARANTINE — Kiel, Germany
2014 — VISUAL LIBRARY. As part of ARTBAT FEST, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2013 — NOTHING OF THE KIND. special program of the 5 th Moscow biennale of contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2013 — ART VS GEOGRAPHY. festival White nights in Perm, Perm, Russia
2013 — NOTHING OF THE KIND — Moscow Museum, Moscow, Russia
2012 — NEW CIRCUMSTANCES. Yekaterinburg, Ural branch of the NCCA, Russia