Sister 1, 2026

Sergey Bondarev   Emerging artists

Artist, designer. Lives and works in St. Petersburg. Born in November 1, 1980.

Graduated one of the best art schools in Russia, Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts (2004), specialization - "artist -monumentalist"; the previous university was Yekaterinburg Art College of I.D. Shadr (1999), specialization - "graphic artist".

Paintings, drawings and collages of Sergey Bondarev are in private collections in Russia, Europe, the USA. Solo exhibitions were held in Moscow, Yekaterinburg and St. Petersburg. Sergey Bondarev is an ideologist and co-founder of Creative Union "KultuRRa" which is famous by fashion and art-projects.

Winner of the Artist of the Year 2015 Award ("TOP 50. Most famous people of St. Petersburg"). The headliner artist of Helsinki Fashion Week (2016). Creates art-windows for the brand new luxury department store Au Pont Rouge. Sergey Bondarev collaborates with the Mikhailovsky Theatre (The Mussorgsky Opera and Ballet Theatre which is considered as the top music theaters in Russia. Theatre was opened in 1833, located in a historical building in the center of St. Petersburg).

"My art is anti-conceptual: when you look at it, you don't need to think, you need to feel. I deliberately try to evoke an emotive response from my audience, and often try to provoke my viewers to perceive beauty in something horrendous. Like every artist, I work on an instinctual level, releasing my thoughts without an ounce of control, assembling momentary impressions into collages that I then transform into paintings.

My art is an ironic tale about contemporary society, its aspirations and the images that dominate the minds of its members. It's a tale about societal consumption and globalization that prompts viewers to notice the intimate places where things are living lives of their own on the backdrop of a chaotic world".