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Scientific Approach series

2024
Materials: stone mass, glazes
10 см x 24 см
Category: sculpture
Item Number: 152968
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About the Work
About the Artist

The "Scientific Approach" series explores the phenomenon of cognition as a way for humans to understand hidden levels of reality that often remain inaccessible to our everyday perception. Each work in the series resembles a scientific experiment, where the outer layers of the object or phenomenon being studied are peeled back, revealing its essence. The work explores the theme of cognition through destruction and the creation of a new form. Dissecting an object inevitably disrupts its integrity, but at the same time opens up new perspectives for its analysis and understanding.

This paradox—the need to destroy in order to create new knowledge—is reflected in each work, helping the viewer to understand the depth and diversity of the object or phenomenon being studied.

Born in 1992 in B. Savrush (Republic of Tatarstan). Studied at Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering (KSUACE), Department of Architecture. Worked as a teacher of drawing, painting, and computer graphics at the Kazan Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering (2015-2017), in a jewelry workshop (2017), and as an event designer at the company "Romantic" in 2017-2018. Lives and works in Kazan.

1999-2004 Art education, Children's Art School No. 3, Kazan

2006-2008 Art education, Dashka Architecture School, Kazan

2009-2015 Studied at Kazan State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Faculty of Architecture, Specialty: Architect

EXHIBITIONS

2026 "All Paths, One Place," Taoxichuan Art Center, Jingdezhen, China

2026 Taoxichuan Spring Art Fair, Jingdezhen, China

2026 "Acropolis. The Appearance of a Fortress," Peter and Paul Fortress, Engineer's House, St. Petersburg.

2026 Exhibition of the XXI International Siberian Ceramics Festival, First Museum of Slavic Mythology, Tomsk.

2026 Exhibition of completed competition works for the "Glass Session on Elagin Island" project, Exhibition Halls of the Stables Building, St. Petersburg.

2026 "On the Golden Porch They Sat...," Chambers of the Courtyard of the Government Offices, Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, Kazan.

2026 "Tell me what happened?", Museum-Reserve "Island-town Sviyazhsk", Exhibition Hall "Old Water Tower"

2025 Exhibition of the XXI International Siberian Ceramics Festival, Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Novosibirsk

2025 Chuvashia Biennale of Contemporary Art 2025, "House of Seven Wings," Chuvashia Drama Theater, Cheboksary

2025 "Who Are Your Heroes?", Alafuzov Factory, Kazan

2025 "Elements." Viktor Ivanov Ryazansky Gallery

Pozhalostin Art Museum, Ryazan. Curator: Tatyana Punans

2025 "Heirs: From 19th-Century Classics to 21st-Century Classics."

Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve, Kazan. Curator: Pierre-Christian Brochet

RESIDENCES

July 21-31, 2025. Residency at the Guslitsa Creative Estate. Author's training course "Make Your Fire" - design, modeling, construction,

painting, and wood-firing of a 1.8-meter ceramic sculpture.

Works are in the collection of the

Ceramic Art Avenue Art Gallery (Jingdezhen, China)

Sviyazhsk Island-City Museum-Reserve, as well as in private collections in Russia,

the USA, China, France, and Germany.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My artistic journey begins with the question of the origins of all existence:

what are the fundamental principles underlying our

reality? Through the process of creation and creative exploration, I strive

to understand this by exploring the relationship between form and content. My

inexhaustible source of inspiration is the aesthetics of scientific theories and the language of mathematics, which reveal the multifaceted nature and harmony of the world, as well as the beauty of philosophical thought, which continues to advance where science stops.

In my artistic practice, I draw on my architectural background

and focus more on form-making. I work with ceramics because I love how this material transforms an initial idea into a real, tangible three-dimensional object. Ceramics sensitively responds to every movement during the work process, records every

touch, and leaves enormous scope for experimentation, with no end point.

This is a lifelong experiment.

My goal is to inspire the viewer on an intellectual journey,

exploring new dimensions of meaning and ideas. I hope that in my creative

path I will be able to create works that will invite dialogue and open up new perspectives on the world for the viewer.

For me, creativity is an attempt to understand existence through the language of images.