2023The song is sung. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020Showroom. Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Soft Homeland, Guangzhou Contemporary Art Centre, Guangzhou, China
2019Russians on Pancake. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
To Fly! Tula Regional Art Museum, Tula, Russia
Musical concert for chromatic accordion. From the poems by Dmitry Prigov. Krasnoyarsk Museum and Exhibition Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2018Wardrobes of Moscow. With the support of the Krokin Gallery, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2016Ships. Dukley European Art Community, Budva, Montenegro
Workshop 123, Hall of the Artists Union, Podgorica, Montenegro
2015Song. Dukley European Art Community, Budva, Montenegro
I Love Life. Yugoceania, Kotor, Montenegro
Military. Catwalk shows. Berlin, Brussels, Perugia
2014Morning paints tender. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013Made in Guslitsa. Art estate Guslitsa, Moscow Region, Russia
Crematory for Barbie. Matryoshka Maternity Ward, «Tula Necropolis» Museum, Tula, Russia
Soft fatherland. Art-Guslitsa, Moscow region, Russia
2012The State. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm; Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow; The Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk; Museum of Modern Art, Tver, Russia
2009That’s Dead. (Сurated by Linor Goralik). Marat&Julia Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004Hautecoupure. (In collaboration with S.Rumiantseva). Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003Our boy restrains himself. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2002Cemetery. Krokin Gallery, within the project «Archivation of Contemporaneity», Moscow, Russia
2001Gold Rush. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Arsenal. Tula Kremlin, Tula, Russia
2000All Hail to Arms. Project OGI Club, Moscow, Russia
Proud Ace. Fine Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1999–2000Philately. Guelman Gallery, Moscow / NCCA, St. Petersburg, Russia
1999Flowers Poems, Albums. Soros Contemporary Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Stalin Wake. Project OGI Club, Moscow, Russia
1998Dmitry Tsvetkov, Maria Delforje. L N'est Pas C Gallery, Jenvalle, Belgium
Dmitry Tsvetkov, Philipp Lavandi. Patricia And Jery Perio De Corbion, Gesves, Belgium
1997The Axe Porridge. L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Music Phrase. Today Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1996Bad News. L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Great Geographic Discoveries. A-3 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Awards for Life. Expo-88 Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1994The New Archeology. House of Sculptors, Moscow, Russia
1992Dmitry Tsvetkov. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024The garden where only you, Dmitriy Tsvetkov and Alexandra Bocheverova, as part of the exhibition for the 'Teacher / Student' initiative at HSE ART GALLERY, Moscow, Russia
Threads. Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2023-2024New Now. The Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2022Personal Space, a collective retrospective exhibition, the Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021Soft Homeland. The Ruarts Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2020The Russian Fairy Tale. From Vasnetsov to the Present, the New Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2015Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2013Art Space Event. The Ruarts Gallery, Artplay Big Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
2012Noir. The Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009Ice Age. The 3rd International Photography Month in Moscow: Photobiennale 2000, Garage Centre of Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
2007Socialist Art: Political Art in Russia. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
La Maison Rouge. Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France
2006Messages from Moscow Artists. Helios Fukuno Creative Cultural Centre, curated by Georgy Nikich, Toyama, Japan
2005Europalia festival, Brussels, Belgium
Moscow Breakthrough. Bargehouse, London, UK
2004Na Куport!. Russische Kunst Heute, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
2001Art as a Tourism. Maly Manege, Moscow, Russia
2000Christmas. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Klava's Lovers. (Avant-Gardist Club). Art Moscow Fair, Moscow, Russia
The Wall Newspaper. A. Sakharov Centre, Moscow, Russia
Chukchee is a Good Man. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
1999-2000Motherland or Death. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Museum of Non-Conformism, St. Petersburg, Russia
1999The Alphabet. Dar Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1998Kunstmarkt. Dresden, Germany
1997The Russia Collection 2. Palace of Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
The World of Sensual Things. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow , Russia
1996International Art Initiatives Forum. Maly Manege, Moscow, Russia
International Art Plein Air. Kutaisi, Georgia; Paris, France
1994Business+Art. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1993Conversion. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Art-Myth 3. Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
VII Congress of Peoples' Deputy. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1990Moscow Artists. Rondanin Gallery, Rome, Italy
Joint-Venture. The Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
1988Moscow Artists. Osaka, Japan
1987The XVII Youth Exhibition. Kuznetsky Most, Moscow, Russia
Biography
Dmitry Tsvetkov was born in 1961 in Kolomna, Russia. In 1988, he graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. Immediately after graduation, from 1988 to 1991, he worked at the Monumental Painting workshop in Moscow. Between 1991 and 1993, he lived and worked in New York, where his artistic practice evolved under the influence of the Western art context. In 1996–1997, Tsvetkov worked as an illustrator for The Moscow Times, and from 1998 to 2001, he collaborated with the editorial office of Izvestia, combining journalistic experience with his own artistic research. In 2006, he was awarded a fellowship from the Joseph Brodsky Fund in Rome, and in 2010 he completed an artistic residency at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy. In 2007, he received the “Master” Award (initiated by the curators of the Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow) for the best solo exhibition of the year. He was shortlisted for the Kandinsky Prize three times — in 2008, 2009, and 2012.
Tsvetkov’s artistic practice is distinguished by its diversity of media. In addition to painting and graphic art, he actively employs decorative and applied techniques such as embroidery, sewing, beading, knitting, and tapestry. Clothing, accessories, toys, and everyday objects in his work are not functional items, but vehicles of meaning and material for visual expression. Among his key solo exhibitions: Wardrobes of Moscow (Museum of Moscow, 2018), Russians on the Blin (Zverev Centre, Moscow, 2019), Soft Homeland (Guangzhou, China, 2020), Showroom (Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, 2020), A Song Has Been Sung (Ruarts Gallery, Moscow, 2023).
Tsvetkov’s works are held in the collections of major art institutions such as the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, and others, as well as in the Ruarts Foundation Collection and several important private collections.
