Alexey Kallima


1969 born in Grozny, Chechnya

1988 graduated from Krasnodar College of Fine Arts, Painting Department.

Lives and works in Moscow.


Solo Shows (selected):

2008 Capitalism Garbage. Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Art de Bourges, France

Unnamed Hill. M&J Guelman Gallery. Moscow

Chechen Women’s Team of Parachute Jumping. Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York

Closed Party. Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin

2007 Sky Patrol. Galerie Ann de Villepoix, Paris

2006 Dead Calm, Chechnya. White Box Gallery, New York

Private Experience. M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow

2005 19.45. Gallery S’Art, Moscow

You And Your Friend From Malgobek, Dom Culture Centre, Moscow

Break 10 MIN., Art-Strelka, Vitrina Gallery, Moscow

Chronicles. Reflex Gallery, Moscow

2004 Guries And Relapes. M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow

Minutka. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2003 Case On the Roadside, or Examination On Roads, M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow

Tomorrow. Wall Graphic. France Gallery, Moscow

Distance. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2002 Zefirs (performance). France Gallery, Moscow

Monument to Victims (action). France Gallery, Moscow

2001 You Are There Where Are Absent. France Gallery, Moscow

2000 SES, action in Moscow Kremlin on Presidential election day. Moscow



Group Shows (selected):


2008 Thaw. Chelsea Art Museum, New-York

2007 Thaw. State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg

Diary of the Artist. 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Central House of Artist, Moscow

Witnesses of The Impossible. Moscow Center of Art, Moscow

Sots Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Free Party-2, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Grenoble, France

The Future Depends On You. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

HETEROTOPIA 1st Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Greece

Opening of the Contemporary Art Museum ART4.RU, Moscow

Moscopolis. Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris

Baroque. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Sots Art. Art politique en Russie de 1972 à aujourd'hui. La Maison Rouge, Paris

2006 Rebels. Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin

Contemporary Art Lexicon. Article 1. Identity. The Elena Berezkina Foundation For Visual Art

Support “ERA”, Moscow

Origin of Species. Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow

Questions of Identity. Chamelion Gallery, Walsall

Moscow News. The National Gallery, Veletrzny Palac, Prague

2005 Act of Charity. France Gallery, Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Dialectic of Hope. 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lenin Museum, Moscow

8th Kaliningrad Biennale of Graphic, Russia

4th Shiryaevo Biennale of Contemporary Art, Samara, Russia

Russian Pop-Art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Europalia. Russia Festival, Brussels, Belgium

Portrait of Face. M’ARS Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Artist And Weapon. M’ARS Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Moscow Breakthrough. The Bargehouse, London

2004 Se opp! Kunst fra Moskva og St. Petersburg = Watch Out! Art from Moscow and St. Petersburg.

National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway

Beyond the Red Horizon. Contemporary Art from Poland and Russia. Centre for Contemporary Art

at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw


2003 Fashion Control. M&J Guelman Gallery, Moscow

Hunger-Strike. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Art-Klyazma Festival of Contemporary Art, Moscow region, Russia

STOP! WHO GOES? National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Same Old Sun Everywhere. France Gallery, Moscow

New Countdown. Digital Russia with SONY. Central House of Artist, Moscow

2002 Davaj! Russian Art Now. Postfuhrampt, Berlin, Germany; Museum für Angewandte Kunst (MAK),

Vienna, Austria

Made in France (with Radek Group). Sakharov Center, Moscow

Instead of Art. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Melioration Festival of Contemporary Art, Moscow

STOP! WHO GOES? National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow

100% Vision. Regina Gallery, Moscow

Pop/Art. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Georgia From/To. Zverev Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow