Molochnikov, Mikhail Viktorovich

In 1984 he graduated from the Moscow Architectural College. Since 2004, a member of the German Union of Artists VVK. He is one of the founders and members of the MTM Group , together with which he implements projects in the genre of " artist 's book ." Lives and works in Berlin and in Moscow.

• State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg, Russia.
• State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow, Russia.
• State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow, Russia.
• State Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia.
• Kolodzei Art Foundation , NY, USA.
• Special Collections Librarian, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, USA.
• The State Museum-Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany.
• State Library named after Lenina, Moscow, Russia.
• The Alexandria library, Alexandria, Egypt.
• National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
• Ford fund, USA.
• Reinhard Grüner, Munich, Germany.
• Museum MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) , Skopje, Macedonia.
• Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, Germany.
• Julia Vermes Collektion, Basel, Switzerland.
• Museum "ART 4", Moscow, Russia.
• Collection of Boris Friedman, Moscow, Russia.
• Collection of Mikhail Kaminsky, Moscow, Russia.
• Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
• Mikhail Karminsky, Frankfurt, Germany.
• The collection of the House of abstract painting KollerArtHouse.

• “The 20th century is ending. The peace comes, the education in its twilight of many secret, intimate spiritual worlds. Art is shrouded in mystery, acquires other-worldly vision. “The Owl of Minerva flies out at dusk,” Hegel used to say. Few artists manage to express this unique state of time, when the historical idea is exhausted and the metaphysical one flourishes, when the voracious caterpillar of civilization disappears and unexpectedly flushes out its immortal soul - culture. The work of Mikhail Molochnikov belongs to this unique phase of history, this sphere of insight, when metaphysical sensitivity to the last issues of life is sharpened. Hence his inner quests - Gnosticism and Hermeticism, magic and metaphysics, the organic rapprochement of neo-Pythagoreanism with Zen art and tantrism. Actually, the artist’s life itself cannot be separated from his work — it is no less mysterious than his art and is full of mysterious signs and mystical incidents — like a cast from his sacred masks and labyrinth structures. Contemplating the picture of the world, he seeks support in pre-Renaissance cultures, when the optical and distant perception of the world was not the supreme arbiter. “We are invisible creatures,” Mikhail Molochnikov repeats after Meterlink. Compositions of the artist keep in themselves the world behind the mirror, and it is enough to take a step to find oneself on the other side of reality, in the world of spiritual and mysterious essences, participating in the world of Borges and Nabokov. His tools include dreams, free associations, highlighting the fundamental layers of the subconscious, invading the most reserved depths of the psychic. A genuine universality of images arises, sometimes gaining universal proportions, generating images of a mandala. Hence the artist’s “festive insanity”, paradoxes, eccentricity causing, ecstatic with meditativeness, and rebellious mocking gaming freedom, which overthrows all norms and rules. Of course, this art system is stylistically connected with postmodernism, its “magic” line, rationalization of irrational forces. It is actualized by the situation when radical changes are foreseen, when sustainable lifestyles are disrupted and deep shifts occur, as is the case today in Russia. However, unlike many of his contemporaries, Mikhail Molochnikov is not confined to a situation closed by certain dates. In his works, a distant, in essence, time perspective. This is the poetics of the eternal and unchanging beginnings of life, passing, like catharsis, through chaos and illogicality, leading ultimately to deeply positive and constructive results. What information do Mikhail Molochnikov’s compositions report? Looking into the future, we, the contemporaries of the master, ask if our descendants can in the mirror of his books, masks, labyrinths, screens get an idea about the people of our time and our life? Obviously, it will be a very special information - about how people saw themselves from within, about their doubts and fears, about their presentiments and self-warnings, about their self-irony, and about their belief in sustainable values ​​”- Vitaly Patsyukov .

• 2000 - "Dancing Kali Yuga." Gallery "House", Moscow.
• 1999 - Sensual Penetration. Grand Marriott Hotel, Moscow.
• 1997 - "M-16". Gallery "Velta", Moscow.
• 1996 - "Birds of fish." Velta Gallery, Dar Gallery, Moscow.
• 1995 - House of Shchukin. Municipal Gallery "Helikon", Moscow.
• 1994 - “No Names”. Gallery "Salon", Moscow.
• 1994 - Insects and People. Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
• 1992 - "Secret Signs." Gallery "A 3", Moscow.
• 2005 - “Objects and drawings 1999–2005”. Gallery "GAD", Berlin, Germany.
• 2006 - “22”. Gallery GAD, Berlin, Germany.

• 2014 - "Paper Sculpture", State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg, Russia
• 2010 - ALLA GLORIA MILITAR, AIRCRAFT Gallery, Bratislava, Slovakia
• 2010 - "Moscow printed graphic art 1961-2009 from the Kolodzey collection" Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, USA
• 2010 - “The Origin of Darwin through the Eyes of Contemporary Artists”, State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
• 2010 - “BUM-PAPER”, fund “ERA”, Moscow, Russia
• 2009 - "0.5", the gallery "POP / OFF / ART",
• 2009 - Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
• 2009 - 20th Book Fair, Mainz, Germany
• 2009 - “ARTIST BOOK`2009”, All-Russian State Library of Foreign Literature named after M.I. Rudomino, Moscow, Russia
• 2009 - “Dmitry Kawarga and Mikhail Molochnikov”, Barbarian-Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
• 2008 - Book Fair “Page's 11”. Paris, France.
• 2008 - 59 Book Fair. Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2008 - "Moscow - New York = Parallel Pla" y. From the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA.
• 2008 - "RE". Northampton University Gallery, England.
• 2008 - "The Power of Water". State Russian Museum, Petersburg.
• 2008 - 60 Book Fair. Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2008 - “ On the mortal in art. In memory of Nikolai Konstantinov . Rostov-on-Don.
• 2008 - “Kaliningrad - Konigsberg 2008” (International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
• 2007 - Utopian Architecture. State Russian Museum, Petersburg.
• 2007 - 59 Book Fair. Frankfurt, Germany.
• 2007 - “ABC”. Northampton University Gallery, England.
• 2007 - 19th Book Fair. Mainz, Germany.
• 2007 - "Russia is the birthplace of elephants." Gallery "Pop / off / art" , Moscow, Russia.
• 2007 - NCCA "Moscow - New York = Parallel Pla". From the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art ", Moscow.
• 2006 - Historic MADI: Its Roots. The art of Arginina and Russia in the 20th century. ” MADI Museum, Dallas, USA.
• 2006 - Alexandria Library. International Biennale "Artist's Book". Alexandria, Egypt.
• 2006 - “Confrontations”. Berlin and Krakow, Germany and Poland (catalog).
• 2006 - "Pictures of paper: Soviet and Russian art 1955-2005." Kolodzei Collection of the City of New York, USA.
• 2006 - "Transport". MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
• 2006 - The New Russian Avant-Garde. Gallery "Pop / off / art" , Munich, Germany.
• 2005 - “Moscow Graphics: Works of Artists 1961–2005” / International Print Center and the Kolodzei Art Foundation. New York, USA.
• 2005 - “Collage in Russia”. State Russian Museum, Petersburg.
• 2004 - The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Kolodzei Art Foundation, presents Finding Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art / USA.
• 2004 - “ARTIST BOOK AS AN IMAGE”. NCCA, Moscow.
• 2003 - Moscow Abstraction. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
• 2003 - “Collage in Russia”. Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
• 2003 - "3 INTERNATIONALES KUNSTFESTIVAL". Magdeburg, Germany.
• 2003 - "Liebe und Flügel". Galerie "Belabush", Berlin, Germany.
• 2003 - "PARADIES". Bunker Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.
• 2001 - Art Moscow. 5th International Art Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
• 2001 - "Abstraction in Russia of the XX century." State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
• 2000 - SUPREMBYT. Gallery "House", Moscow.
• 2000 - “Kaliningrad - Konigsberg 2000” (International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
• 1999 - “THE ARTIST BOOK”. Museum of private collections, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
• 1999 - “The doby politic”. Long Island University, USA.
• 1999 - "The Living and the Dead." Gallery "ESCAPE", Moscow.
• 1998 - “The Winter Kaleidoscope”. Gallery "PAN-DAN", Central House of Artists, Moscow.
• 1998 - "The book of the artist and the poet." Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod.
• 1998 - “Kaliningrad - Konigsberg 98” (International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
• 1998 - “Gifts to M'ARS”. Gallery "M'ARS", Moscow.
• 1998 - "Art Manege 98". Manege, Moscow.
• 1997 - “The World of Sensual Things in Pictures - the End of the 20th Century”. Gallery M'ARS, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
• 1997 - International Art Fair "Art Manege". Gallery "Pan-Dan", Manege, Moscow.
• 1997 - Book Fair 97. Frankfurt, Germany.
• 1996 - "Galleries in the gallery." Gallery "Nina", State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
• 1996 - “New Russian Art” Colodzei Collection. Georgetown university art gallery, Washington, USA.
• 1996 - Sotheby's. Hotel Baltschug Kempinski, Moscow.
• 1996 - Selections from the Colodzei Collection. Atrium art gallery, Morristown, New Jersey, USA.
• 1995 - "Carnival". Central House of Artists, Moscow.
• 1995 - "Collection of Tanya and Natasha Kolodzey". Oklahoma City Center City, USA.
• 1995 - "A-1, A-2, A-3". Gallery "A-3" , Moscow.
• 1994 - “Kaliningrad - Konigsberg” (III International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
• 1994 - “The Kolodzei Collection”. City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, USA.
• 1993 - “Art Expo 93”. Gallery "Arch", Tokyo, Japan.
• 1993 - "New Names". Traverse Center, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1993 - "Image and Symbol". Art College, Edinburgh, Scotland.
• 1993 - "ART MYTH 3". Nina Gallery, Moscow Fine Art Gallery, Manege, Moscow.
• 1993 - "Exhibition of Graphics." Gallery "Moscow Fine Art", Moscow.
• 1992 - "In Richtung zu Malewitsch". Karenina Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
• 1992 - "Malevich Center in the Museum of Paleontology." Paleontological Museum, Moscow.
• 1992 - Neue Russische Buchkunst, Lyrik Kabinett. Munich, Germany.
• 1991 - "Contemporary Artists - to Malevich." State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
• 1991 - “Wook-Art”, Palace of Youth, Moscow.
• 1990 - "Art London 90". The Russian Collection, London, UK.
• 1990 - The first exhibition of the M'ARS gallery. Moscow.
• 1990 - “The Principle of Ki”, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
• 1990 - Jalokivia Mudassa / Jewels in the mud. Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
• 1990 - Moscow in Cambridge. King's College, Cambridge, UK.

• 1990 - Shock Show. Body art. Author's television, Moscow.
• 1989 - "The unification of culture of the West with the East" (Joint with Jurgen Weber). Red Square, Moscow.

• Mikhail Molochnikov on the Pop / off / art Gallery website
• http://www.barbarian-art.com/author.php?author_id=61/ Zurich
• http://www.galerieartdigital.com/ Berlin
• https://web.archive.org/web/20150524115435/http://www.kollerarthouse.ru/molochnikov.html/ Mikhail Molochnikov on the website of the KollerArtHouse House of Abstract Painting