Vladimir Potapov (1980, lives and works in Moscow) has won numerous awards, including the 2009 International Painting Prize at the Russian Art Week and the Audience Award at the Zverev Art Prize. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Havana Biennial and in German, Hungarian, Swiss, and Russian galleries and museums. It has also been included in various museums and private collections. Potapov lives and works in Moscow but is currently blacklisted. Potapov presented his first solo exhibition at Frank Taal Galerie in 2025.
He is one of the leading Russian artists of the middle generation, a curator, theorist, and populariser of contemporary art. He is well-known for his conceptual approach to the painting medium, which resulted in a series of series that problematize the surface, space, and material of a contemporary picturesque artwork.
In Moscow he is represented by the leading gallery POP OFF ART
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Vladimir Potapov was born in 1980 in Volgograd. He gained a degree in The Volgograd State Institute of Arts named after P.A.Serebryakov. Later on he graduated from the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops. Moscow. Potapov was nominated for a number of major regional and international awards in contemporary art. He has participated as an artist and curator in dozens of group exhibitions. Recently Potapov had a personal exhibition in Kunsthalle Rostock (Only History Lies Ahead. Rostock. Germany. 2018), and in The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (From Memory. Moscow. Russia. 2015).
He is one of the leading Russian artists of the middle generation, a curator, theorist, and populariser of contemporary art. He is well-known for his conceptual approach to the painting medium, which resulted in a series of series that problematize the surface, space, and material of a contemporary picturesque artwork.
In Moscow he is represented by the leading gallery POP OFF ART
Bio
Vladimir Potapov was born in 1980 in Volgograd. He gained a degree in The Volgograd State Institute of Arts named after P.A.Serebryakov. Later on he graduated from the School of Contemporary Art Free Workshops. Moscow. Potapov was nominated for a number of major regional and international awards in contemporary art. He has participated as an artist and curator in dozens of group exhibitions. Recently Potapov had a personal exhibition in Kunsthalle Rostock (Only History Lies Ahead. Rostock. Germany. 2018), and in The Moscow Museum of Modern Art (From Memory. Moscow. Russia. 2015).
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