Alexey Bogolepov
b. 1985
Education:
2007 — University of Alaska, BLA in Fine Art
2012-2014 — “Photography as Research” program, FotoDepartament Foundation, Saint Petersburg
Solo exhibitions:
2025 — Polystructure, Tochka Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017 — Triacon, Vyksa Steel Works History Museum, Vyksa, Russia
2016 — Interface/Container, Gallery Triangle, Moscow, Russia
2016 — Five-legged Tread of Progress, ZARYA CCA, Vladivostok, Russia
2015 — Efficiency Ritual, FotoDepartament Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2014 — BLOC, Schusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
2014 — Function, Alvar Aalto Library, Vyborg, Russia
Selected group and joint exhibitions:
2026 — Moscow—Hanoi. Landscapes of Optimism, GES-2, Moscow, Russia
2024 — Outline Maps, ROSPHOTO, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2022 — ELMON URDC, Intimate Place, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2021 — Grounding, Dokuchaev Central Soil Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2017 — Hosting the Inhuman, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2016 — White Nights, Baltic Biennale of Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016 — Children of Avant-garde, Mobahaus New Wing, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2016 — Simple Equation: Inner Modernism, GROUND Moscow, 5th Moscow International Biennale of Young Art
parallel program
2015 — Experiences of Brownian motion, Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2015 — White Nights, Gallery Kranjčar, Zagreb, Croatia. Organ Vida International Photofestival
2015 — White Nights, ZIL Cultural Center, Moscow, Russia
2015 — We-ll-timed, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 — We-ll-timed, ZEH, Minsk, Belarus
2014 — Institute.Production, Smena Center, Kazan, Russia
2014 — We-ll-timed, FotoDepartament Gallery, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2014 — Shukhov Tower. The unmoved valuе. House of Architects, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2014 — Young Photography, Syktyvkar, Russia
2013 — Russian Territory, Komaba, Tokyo, Japan
2013 — Young Photography, FotoDepartament, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Residencies:
2025 — GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow, Russia
2017 — VYKSA A-I-R, Vyksa, Russia
2016 — ZARYA Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok, Russia
2015 — TOKAMAK, Helsinki, Finland
2014 — PhotoDom, Manifesta 10 parallel program, Fotodepartament, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Select publications:
2026 — Anastasia Tailakova review on SPECTATE
2020 — Art in the Age of Neuroexistentialism in Moscow Art Magazine #115
2019 — Zombie-Buddha in Moscow Art Magazine #110
2019 — Omnitrauma of the Eye on Projection.media
2018 — A Crushing Unity. Political Ontology of Figurative Representation on Syg.ma
2018 — Zarya. Contemporary Art in Primorye, №1
2018 — Hosting the Inhuman: Antology. Exhibition reader, published by V-A-C Press
2017 — Efficiency Ritual, Amplitude compilation, published by FotoDepartament
2017 — Field trip review on Aroundart.org
2016 — Interview on Aroundart.org
2016 — Five-legged Tread of Progress on Colta.ru
2015 — Rock all night: excavating the origins of St Petersburg on Calvert Journal
2015 — White Nights on Bird in Flight
2015 — Efficiency Ritual review on Aroundart.org
2015 — Power Structure for Calvert Journal special report on the Post-Soviet city
2015 — Politics of Architecture: A Reflection on Soviet Era Buildings, Fotografia Magazine
2014 — Review of Torbjørn Rødland’s “Vanilla Partner” for Photographer.ru
2014 — New Petersburgers on Aroundart.ru
2014 — New wave: 24 photographers changing the way the world sees Russia, The Guardian
2014 — Lost Horizon for Calvert Journal special project “Russian edgelands: journeys in the urban wilderness”
2014 — Factory Architecture on Urbanautica magazine
2013 — Parallelism, Calvert Journal