Angel of hope#2 (2013) Painting by Marina Podgaevskaya

When creating my paintings, I first act as an observer photographer. And then I transfer this into the space of the painting, exaggerating or weakening where necessary, color and shape. I create a work that does not copy nature. There is a real image and there is its artistic embodiment. These are not artificially created objects, but the memory of a state.
I took part in about 40 exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
My paintings are located: at St. Petersburg University, at the Pulkovo Observatory and at the Slovak Embassy in St. Petersburg, in private collections in the USA, Great Britain, Russia, Slovakia, France, Germany...
I graduated from the Leningrad Art School in St. Petersburg in 1983. I graduated from the school-studio of Dutch (old classical) painting in St. Petersburg (Russia).
My main exhibitions:
2006 - participation in the exhibition of marine painters at the Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg (Russia).
2007 – participation in a charity auction at the Moscow Embassy in St. Petersburg (Russia).
2007 - personal exhibition “Unobtrusive Dream”, “Di Di” gallery, St. Petersburg (Russia).
2008 - personal exhibition at the English Club, St. Petersburg (Russia).
2009 – “The Life of Artists in St. Petersburg”, Cosmopolis, Nantes, France
2009 - “White Nights of St. Petersburg”, House of Culture, Mesker,
2009 – “The Mystery of the Soufflé”, Belle-il-en-Mer, France
2009 – exhibition at the JMA gallery, Venice, Austria.
2009 - “Collection of white nuances of St. Petersburg”, Rex gallery, Le Pouligen, France
2009 – Festival “Great Chapel Art”, Pornichet, France.
2009 - “Lights and colors of St. Petersburg”, Marie, Saint-Nazaire, France
2009 – participation in the exhibition “Art-Manege”, Moscow (Russia).
2010 – participation in an exhibition at the JMA gallery, Venice, Austria.
2010 – participation in the Biennale in Beijing (China).
2010 – participation in the Art Fair in Utrecht (Holland).
2010 – participation in an exhibition at the JMA gallery, Venice, Austria.
2010 – participation in the art exhibition "ART MANEGE" in Moscow (Russia).
2011 – Art Fair in Beijing (China)
2011 – personal exhibition in Samara at the “Babylon” gallery (Russia).
2013 – personal art exhibition Kunstverein ZeitKunst veregale in Baden-Baden (Germany).
2016-Art Canton-2016 - Art exhibition in Guangzhou, China.
2016-Shanghai Art Fair-2016, Shanghai, China.
2017 – personal art exhibition “METAMORPHOSIS” in the “BABILON” gallery, Samara (Russia).
2018 - abstract art. exhibition at ART PLAY (MOSCOW)
2018 - personal exhibition in the ALPERT gallery (Moscow, Russia)
2020 - participation in the art exhibition "Expocentre" in St. Petersburg (Russia)
2024 - participation in the International Art Fair in Barcelona (Spain).
At first I worked in a classical manner, but then for more freedom I began to paint in an abstract style. I am interested in painting in series, changing my writing style and themes, this forces me, as an artist, to rethink and create new paintings.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : 1963
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Russian Contemporary Artists