Composition
To achieve expressiveness of color and shapes on a plane, he experiments with various techniques. The compositionally designed formal color spots of his canvases convey, first of all, the found emotional harmony.
Ramin Nafikov was born in 1967 in Kazan. After studying at the Kazan Art College (1983-1987), he moved to Riga and enrolled in the monumental painting department of the Latvian Academy of Arts. He graduated from the academy in 1997 and has lived and worked in both Kazan and Riga since then. In Latvia, Ramin encountered contemporary Western art and began developing in this direction. Nafikov works on his canvases for long periods, spending months achieving the effect of absolute freedom and spontaneity. Nafikov developed as an artist in two cultures, synthesizing the clear techniques of linear clarity, designer restraint, and the characteristic features of the Baltic school and Eastern ornamentation. But this is not simply a clash of styles or an exotic collage. Nafikov depicts images on the brink of birth, which he deliberately leaves undeveloped in order to preserve the world of his paintings as "immaterial and vast." The artist himself uses the title of his solo exhibition, "Inner Bulgaria," and the humorous term "expressive formalism" to explain his method. The instability of form and reliance on the sense of the boundless steppe expanses—this is how one might approach describing the content of the artist's works.
To date, Nafikov has had over 20 solo exhibitions in galleries and museums across Russia and Europe.
Participation in the most significant exhibition projects:
2001, 2003, 2009, 2013 Annual exhibitions of Latvian artists Rudens (Arsenals Exhibition Hall, Riga)
2012 Abstract Art (Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow)
2012 Above and Beyond the Plane (Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow)
2013 Ideal Space (Nagornaya Gallery, Moscow)
2014 Abstraction (Khazine Gallery, Kazan)
2015 East-West (Na Kashirke Gallery, Moscow)
2015 12 Years - 12 Artists (Am Roteh Hof Gallery, Vienna)
2017 Four Stories (Bashkir State Art Museum named after M.V. Nesterov, Ufa)
2017 Summer Exhibition (Royal Academy of Arts, London)
2018 Novosibirsk Triennial of Graphics (Novosibirsk State Art Museum, Russia)
2018 "Inner Bulgaria", Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
2020 II Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art (Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow)
2020 Ramin Nafikov's painting "The Bowl", 63x95 cm, was sold at auction by the Cosmoscow Foundation for Contemporary Art for €6,500
2022 DakArt African Biennale, Senegal
2022 "Illumination. Contemporary Art of Kazan 20th – 11th Century, Victoria Gallery, Samara
2023 "Africa" (Belova Art Gallery, Kazan)
2024 "Zehntauzend dinge" (GALERIE AM ROTEN HOF, Austria)
2025 "Saved Versions", Blar, Moscow
2025 Cosmoscow 2025, Zhudrov Gallery booth
2025 OBERTON (online), Zhudrov Gallery
2026 "Abstraction", Zaman Museum, Ufa
2026 Catalog Fair, Zhudrov Gallery booth
The artist's works are in the collections of the
M. V. Nesterov Art Museum (Ufa)
Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan (Kazan)
Kazan Kremlin Museum-Reserve (Kazan)
KollerArtHaus House of Abstract Painting (Moscow)
Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art (St. Petersburg)
Marjani Foundation (Moscow)
Zaman Museum (Ufa)
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