LIVES AND WORKS IN PARIS, FRANCE

Aleksey started as a graffiti artist in 2007. Now he works in various media, such as graphics, painting, street art and installation. He works with the theme of memory, Stalin's repressions, post-Soviet heritage. In his projects he often works with found objects, document archives and photo archives, people's stories.

EDUCATION

• 2006-2011. Ural Federal University. Specialty: metallurgical machines and equipment, Yekaterinburg.
• 2018-2020 - Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 

• 2024. Mémoire en travail. Institut d’études slaves, Paris, France 
• 2023. ARTchive. La contemporaine. Nanterre, France 
• 2020. 2nd Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art’s, Moscow, Russia 
• 2019. 50:20:0050210. WeArt gallery. Nikolina gora, Russia
• 2018. AN-2. Hinterconti. Hamburg, Germany
• 2017. Observer’s invisible horizon. City culture center. Perm, Russia

LINKS 

Website shchigalev.com

WORKS ARE PRESENTED

Private collections of Russia, France, Austria

ARTIST VOICE

My name is Aleksey Shchigalev, I am an artist. I was born in the village of Ust-Chernaya,  Perm Region. From my education I am an engineer of metallurgical equipment. 

Works from the series “Let's go to the mountain to look!”, presented in the Graphic Gallery, are connected with the places where I was born and grew up. These are the village of Ust-Chernaya and the town of Chusovoy (Perm region). When my parents disassembled the house and moved it to Chusovoy, I was impressed by the topography of the area. Chusovoy was surrounded by mountains, the very beginning of the Ural Mountains from the west. My optics changed dramatically: now I could see the city from above. 

The multi-layered graphics, made on a CNC machine, were based on years of hiking up the mountain near my home. I started documenting changes in the landscape with my camera back in 2005.