SEMEN MOTOLYANETS
(born in 1982, Brest, Belarus)
Lives and works in Russia and in Belarus.
He works with performance, installation and object as well as with painting, graphics and video.
EDUCATION
2009 SPbGHPA, Department of Monumental and Decorative Painting;
2012 School of Young Artists of St. Petersburg Fund «Pro Arte».
AWARDS AND PRIZES
2021 Anatoly Zverev Award nominee, Moscow, Russia;
2018 French Institute Prize for the project «Very Artificial Choice»;
2017 4th place in the ranking of Russian artists according to Forbes magazine, Russia;
2016 Small prize «Autumn Salon with Belgazprombank», Minsk, Belarus;
2010 Kandinsky Prize nominee, Moscow, Russia;
2009 State Prize in the field of contemporary art «Innovation» in the category «New Generation», together with Dmitry Petukhov and group «SOAP», Russia;
2001 Institute PRO ARTE and The Ford Foundation Grant, Saint Petersburg, Russia.
Co-founder (together with Dmitry Petukhov) of the art group «SOAP».
Member of the «Open Studio Nepokonolenie 17».
Member of the group «PARAZIT».
Participant of the Moscow International Biennale of Young Art «Stop! Who is coming?» (Moscow), the parallel program of the Biennale «Manifesta 10» (St. Petersburg), the Ural Industrial Biennale (Yekaterinburg), Festival Art Prospect (St. Petersburg), CEC Artslink program (New York), the residence Cite des Arts (Paris).