Anton Konukhov
born 1978 in Pushkin, Leningrad Region, lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia
Anton Konukhov was born in 1978 and graduated from St. Petersburg Academy of Art and Design. He worked at the Nepokoryonnye (Unvanquished) 17 studio and participated in the parallel events program for Manifesta 10, as well the group exhibitions Prospekt Nepokoryonnykh (Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art) and The "Unvanquished" in Time and Space (Gromov House of Culture). He has#nbspheld solo exhibitions in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

Anton works at the confluence of paintings and objects, creating a canvas that acquires sculptural characteristics thanks to metallized color combinations. Flowing, reflecting and distorting the visible, it as if Konukhov's painting wants to go outside its own boundaries, conquer the external space, and re-encode the relationships that exist within spit.

The sprawling background of the history of twentieth-century art can be seen in Konukhov's work. The geometrism of American minimalist sculpture enters into a dialog with the post-minimalist idea of "anti-form" – liberated material – and also with the Italian arte povera's play with texture.

In continuing the reflection on the relationship between material, artist, and viewer that are intrinsic in these ideas, the artist structures his own expression of reality: to him the world is diverse and mutable. But it is this accident – "objectified" in the solidified, gold-cast streams – that is, from Konyukhov's standpoint, a means of conveying the idea of time as it#nbsptruly is: universal and ubiquitous.


Personal exhibitions

2022— EXPLOITATION — PA Gallery, Moscow
2021 — THE CURRENT MOMENT — GRAUND Solyanka, Moscow
2019 — M4 — PA Gallery, Moscow
2019 — Flow — Unconquered 17, St. Petersburg
2015 — ANTHROPOS — Unconquered 17, St. Petersburg


Group exhibition

2024 — 3 х 5 —PA Gallery, Moscow
2023 — Function — PA Gallery, Moscow
2022 — Silence mode — PA Gallery, Moscow
2019 — Unconquered in Time and Space — DK Gromov, St. Petersburg
2019 — Grisaille — Tirage Unique Gallery, Moscow
2017 — Unconquered Prospect — MMOMA, Moscow
2017 — New Collection — DK Gromov, St. Petersburg
2014 — MANIFESTA 10, Parallel program
2013 — Lars von Trier: the mystery — New Exhibition Hall of the Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg
2010 — Super Me — Sr. Petersburg
2010 — Psychonautics 2 — St. Petersburg
2009 — Psychonautics — Tolstoy Square, St. Petersburg
2009 — Rapid Response Painting
2008 — Babylon — Earth-Air Gallery, St. Petersburg
2008 — Archaic — Earth-Air Gallery, St. Petersburg
2007 — Вialogues — Manege, St. Petersburg
2006 — Young Russian Art — G.T.G., Moscow
2006 — Young Art Session — City Museum of Sculpture, St. Petersburg