Yuri Yudaev

Yuri Yudaev / racei

Born on June, 15, 1956 in Kaliningrad / Konigsberg
• 1977-1985 - graduated the artistic-graphic faculty of State Pedagogical University (Moscow)
• 1986 - member of Soviet Artistic Union
• 1987 - participant of the All-Union artistic exhibition «Youth of Country» (The "Manezh" Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow)
• 1987-1990 - worked on the monumental painting
• 2000 - graduated the educational program of Institute of Contemporary Art; teachers: V.Koleychuk, V.Stigneev, A.Yakimovich, E.Petrovskaya, O.Aronson, Yu.Sobolev

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Last Exhibitions and Actions:

• 2014, April 30 - May 11 : Participant of the "Abstract Painting In The Spirited Space" show / Central House of Artists, Moscow - Gallery "New Era".
• September - October 2013: participant of the Fifth Moscow Biennale of contemporary art / Project «Choosing The Route» at the design center "Artplay"
• September 2012 - February 2013: "Water - Endless Faces", exhibition in M.Lermontov’s Museum in Zarechny / Penza-19, Russia.
• October - December 2010: IV Triennale "Drawing of Russia" (Tomsk Regional Museum of Art), Diploma of the Russian Academy of Arts.
• June 2009: Anniversary exhibition dedicated to Bicentenary from Nikolai Gogol birthday in Moscow Nations House.
• August-November 2008: International Plenair in Odessa and Khmel'nitskiy Region, Ukraine
• From June 2007 to March 2008 - published 3 large art-historian articles «DEKO» Magazine, Publishing House "GAMMA".
• July 2003 - GTG (State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow) showed a video-film «Zayaz» (7'33'')
• September 2001 - performance «But me?» Novodevichie Cemetery, Moscow on a Street-Festival «Collection Leto».
• July 2000 - Moscow Performance Street-Festival of art-group «Leto»: environment "Without Trace", performance "mosTsom".

Born in Kaliningrad / Konigsberg (1956) by the Baltic Sea. My neighbor in the old German house in Konigsberg was a painter and being a little boy I was irresistibly drawn to his easel and the heady smell of oil paints.

• 1977-1985 - graduated the artistic-graphic faculty of State Pedagogical University (Moscow)
• 1986 member of Soviet Artistic Union
• 1987 participant of the All-Union artistic exhibition «Youth of Country» (The "Manezh" Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow)
• 1987-1990 worked on the monumental painting
• 2000 graduated the educational program of Institute of Contemporary Art;<BR>
teachers: V.Koleychuk,A.Yakimovich, Yu.Sobolev
Last Exhibitions and Actions:
• July 2000 - Moscow Performance Street-Festival of art-group «LETO»: environment "Without Trace", performance "mosTsom"
• July 2003 - GTG (State Tretyakov gallery, Moscow) showed a video-film «ZAYAZ» 7`33``
• From June 2007 to March 2008 - published 3 large illustrated art-historian articles in «DEKO» Magazine, Publishing House "GAMMA"
• August-November 2008 - International Plenair in Odessa and Khmel'nitskiy Region, Ukraine
• June 2009 - Anniversary exhibition dedicated to bicentenary from Nikolai Gogol birthday in Moscow Nations House.

My first teacher of painting in 1970-s was Leonid Pavlovich Ostapenko, who studied at Vasili Baksheev (1862-1958). Ostapenko instilled in me a taste for oil paints; he taught how kind of the strictness I must have as regards to pencil drawing and watercolors. Landscapes of our native nature - are his inner elements, his flesh and blood. Side by side with him I feel peace and confidence as painter.