Portrait of Hermann Hesse (1996) Painting by Vyacheslav Kostyuchenko

Vyacheslav Kostyuchenko was born in Slavgorod, Altai Territory. Vyacheslav entered an art school in 1980. His mentor was the artist Sergei Chernyshov .

Sergei Chernyshov was not only an excellent painter with a good school, strict and attentive teacher, but also a person with great erudition and open-mindedness.

In the following years, from 1989 to 1992, Vyacheslav spent a lot of time in the workshops of such artists as: Ildar Khabisov, Artur Muratov, Damir Muratov, Andrey Titov, carefully analyzing and studying their work. That time, it was these young masters who had a huge impact on the formation of Vyacheslav as a novice painter. Also during that period, Vyacheslav first works as an artist in one of the local cinemas, and then teaches composition in the city palace of pioneers and schoolchildren.

In one of his works from 1995, "The First Dream of Don Juan Carlos Castaneda" , Vyacheslav directly refers his viewer to the work of Andrei Titov, literally citing one of his wonderful works painted a year earlier. Wherein, the author very subtly in his inherent good manner mocks both over his comrade's work, over the viewer's feelings and over himself at the same time. Linking and opposing the history and philosophy of the West and the East. He refers his viewer to another reading of Chuang Tzu’s parable about butterfly Chuang Tzu, also Chuang Chou, is a Chinese philosopher of the supposedly IV century BC era of the Warring States era, one of the scholars of the Hundred Schools.

In 1990, Vyacheslav Kostyuchenko entered the Omsk State Pedagogical University at the Faculty of Art and Graphics.

In 1993, the young artist leaves for Moscow and opens a permanent exhibition of paintings at Moscow State University with the assistance of the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy and vice-rector of Moscow State University Viktor Guskov.

He actively exhibits his works and the works of other masters at various venues in Moscow.

Since 1996, Vyacheslav Kostyuchenko begins to study and at the same time practice the art of interior. He works a lot and successfully in this direction until 2003.

Since 2003, he has been actively engaged in architectural projects in the city of Moscow, continuing to improve himself in painting.

Since 2013, he begins to publish his poems on the open Russian portal stihi.ru.

According to Vyacheslav, one of the greatest evaluations of his paintings of all that he could only imagine was the dry, restrained praise of his teacher Sergei Chernyshov, who, shortly before his death, saw many of his student's works.

Also, since 2013, Vyacheslav has been writing a number of articles for magazines such as archidom.ru on themes like "Design Philosophy" and "Fine Arts in the Interior and Our Life."

Currently, Vyacheslav Kostyuchenko works as an artist, architect, and writer. The paintings of Vyacheslav Kostyuchenko are in the hands of many private art collectors from the USA, Germany, France and Russia.

• Nationality: RUSSIA
• Date of birth : unknown date
• Artistic domains:
• Groups: Russian Contemporary Artists