Elena Surovtseva

Elena Surovtseva was born in 1952 in Kazakhstan. She graduated from the Moscow Higher Industrial Arts School (formerly the Stroganov School). She lives and works in Moscow. She has participated in more than 200 exhibitions in the USSR, Russia and abroad (Germany, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands, etc.), including in solo ones. Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Laureate of the State Prize in Literature and Art (1996). In form, Surovtseva’s artworks are unique and deeply personal. A well-defined silhouette, a contrasting combination of heavy, broadly resolved masses with light, flattened, carefully crafted details. Plastic of the female body brings with it great opportunities.

In recent years, she has discovered a new understanding of sculpture; stylized, symbolic, abstract works has appeared, similar to sacred signs and ghostly silhouettes, which are very trendy and interesting in terms of design solutions.

Her artworks can be found in the Tretyakov Gallery, museums in Russia, in private collections in Russia, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Italy, and France.

Featured exhibitions:

1985 - International Symposium in Nyiregyhaza, Hungary, Grand Prix.
1986 - International exhibition of sculpture. Quadriennale, Riga, Latvia
1988 - Group exhibition. Berlin
1990 - Ninth International exhibition of sculpture. Mucsarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1991 - Group exhibition of sculpture. Buenos Aires, Argentina
1993 - Art-Modern Gallery. Exhibition of the seven best sculptors of Moscow
1993 - Rose Gallery. Exhibition with V. Tsigal and D. Tugarinov. Hamburg, Germany
1994 - Group exhibition. Central House of Artists, Moscow
1994 - Auction “Sotheby's”. Brussels, Belgium
1997 - Solo exhibition, Anna Pavlova’s Gallery. The Netherlands
1997 - Auction “Sotheby's”. Brussels, Belgium
2001 - Solo exhibition “Russian Field”. Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
2005 - Exhibition “Artists without Borders”. Gallery of Contemporary Art, Moscow
2009 - All-Russian exhibition “Sculpture 2009”. Saransk
2012 – “The Reality of Illusions”, together with Danila and Daria Surovtsev. Zurab Tseretelli’s Art Gallery.
2012 - “ARMONIA” jointly with V. Razgulin. Vincent Gallery.

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