He was born in Novorossiysk, on the Black Sea, and in the early 1980s moved to Leningrad, where he met and became friends with leaders of the art scene there, such as the painter Timur Novikov and musician Boris Grebenshchikov. Shortly thereafter he adopted the artistic moniker "Afrika" and began working as an artist himself. In 1987 he starred as Bananan, the lead character in the groundbreakingly avant garde film Assa by Russian film director Sergei Solovyov.
Afrika works mainly in performance and installation art. His 1993 project "Krimania" took the form of an initial performance, which involved the artist spending three weeks in a mental institution in Simferopol, Crimea, at the end of which he staged an exhibition for the patients and staff of the hospital.
The second part of the project was a major exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK), entitled "Krimania: Icons, Monuments, Mazáfaka." The work addresses the issue of collective versus individual identity of the Soviet citizen after the breakup of the Soviet Union.
In August 2013, a group of artists from St. Petersburg (Yevgeniy Kozlov, Oleg Maslov, Inal Savchenkov, Oleg Zaika) filed lawsuits against Bugaev, accusing him of illegal possession of 25 of their works from the late 1980s. The works had been missing since the beginning of the 1990s and appeared unexpectedly in the exhibition and exhibition catalogue "ASSA. The Last Generation of the Leningrad Avant-Garde", organized by Sergei Bugaev in May and June 2013 at the state-owned Research Museum of the Russian Academy of Arts, St. Petersburg.[2][3]
On November 5, 2013, the Dzerzhinsky District Court in St. Petersburg ruled in favor of the artists, ordering that all but 4 of the 25 paintings be returned (those four were Savchenkov's paintings established to belong to artist Vladislav Gusevich.)[4][5]
Soviet nonconformist art was Soviet art produced in the former Soviet Union outside the control of the Soviet state started in the Stalinist era, in particular, outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Other terms used to refer to this phenomenon are Soviet counterculture, "underground art" or "unofficial art".
Nathan Isaevich Altman Russian: Натан Исаевич Альтман, romanized: Natan Isayevich Altman; Ukrainian: Натан Ісайович Альтман; December 22 [O.S. December 10] 1889 – December 12, 1970) was a avant-garde artist, Cubist painter, stage designer and book illustrator, who was born in Ukraine in the Russian Empire and worked in France and the Soviet Union.
Nikolai Efimovich Timkov was a Soviet Russian painter, Honored Artist of Russian Federation, and a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists. He lived and worked in Leningrad and is regarded as one of the leading representatives of the Leningrad School of Painting, worldwide known for his landscape paintings.
Arseny Nikiforovich Semionov was a Soviet painter and art teacher, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his landscape and cityscape paintings.
Dmitry Ivanovich Maevsky was a Soviet Russian painter, lived and worked in Leningrad, a member of the Leningrad Union of Artists, regarded as one of the representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for his lyrical landscapes.
Elena Mikhailovna Kostenko was a Soviet Russian painter, living and working in Saint Petersburg, a member of the Saint Petersburg Union of Artists, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting, most famous for her portrait paintings.
Timur Petrovich Novikov was a Russian visual artist, designer, art theorist, philosopher, and musician. He is considered one of the most influential proponents of Nonconformist Art before and after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991.
Boris Mikhailovich Lavrenko was a Russian Soviet realist painter, People's Artist of the Russian Federation, professor of the Leningrad Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture named after Ilya Repin, who lived and worked in Saint Petersburg, regarded as one of the major representatives of the Leningrad school of painting.
The year 1957 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian fine arts.
The year 1956 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1958 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1960 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The Leningrad School of Painting is a phenomenon that refers to a large group of painters who developed in Leningrad around the reformed Academy of Arts in 1930–1950 and was united by the Leningrad Union of Soviet Artists (1932–1991).
The year 1967 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1974 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1991 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts. After the opening of the former Soviet Union to the world, it started to show to the world more of its arts.
The year 1990 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
The year 1943 was marked by many events that left an imprint on the history of Soviet and Russian Fine Arts.
House with an Arch is a painting by the Russian artist Sergei I. Osipov (1915–1985), executed in 1972 during the one of his visit of Staritsa ancient town and recognized as one of his most famous works in the genre of winter cityscape.
(E-E) Evgenij Kozlov (Russian: Евгений Козло́в, tr. Yevgueni Kozlov, IPA: [jɪvˈɡʲenʲɪj kɐˈzlof] is a Russian artist living in Berlin. Known chiefly as a founder of the art group "New Artists", perhaps the most influential art phenomenon in the Soviet Union in its last decade, he works under the artist’s name of E-E which has been his sole signature since 2005. Since 2017, he has been adding People as a second signature to most of his works, stressing the universal character of his approach to art.
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