Aidar Bekchintaev
Artist from Ufa, Russia, currently based in London.
Aidar Bekchintaev studied political science at a university in Moscow and conceptual art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His background in politics greatly influences his art, which frequently explores themes related to totalitarian tendencies, the growing role of the police, and the cruelty of power structures and security forces. Since moving to the UK, socio-political issues continue to be the central focus of his work, with digital art and virtual reality becoming his primary mediums.
Deer blood bath

Digital art, 2022

In recent years, bathing in blood extracted from severed deer antlers has become a popular ritual among some top Russian politicians, including Vladimir Putin. While this is sometimes considered a form of "alternative medicine," it is a cruel and torturous activity for the animals involved. It is unclear what impact this practice may have had on Putin's mindset, but it appears that he now desires to drown in blood the whole country.

Whale

Digital art, 2022


Slide

Digital art, 2022


Vulture

Digital art, 2022


Z end

Digital art, 2022

The Latin letter Z has become a pro-war symbol in Russia. At the beginning of the war, there were many photographs of government employees forming a line to create the letter Z in support. I imagined what it would lead to at the end - plenty of body bags lined up in the same way.

Cross

Digital art, 2022


Climbing wall 0,10

Digital art, 2022

3d "reconstruction" of the first actual exhibition of suprematist paintings with Kazimir Malevich's Black Square in 1915.

War circle

Digital art, 2022


Tire swan lake

Digital art, 2021

Zhekart pig

2020

From Zhekart series, depicts a popular form of folk art on the post-Soviet territory.

Education
  • 2014-2016 Academy of Fine Arts (Vienna, Austria) - conceptual art class
  • 2002-2009 RUDN (Moscow, Russia) - masters degree in political science

Exhibitions
  • 2023 "Everything Is Univocal" - ROAR (Russian Oppositional Arts Review), VR exhibition, Spatial
  • 2023 "Accidental Anti-War Exhibition" - AntiZona (Tbilisi, Georgia)
  • 2022 "Ruin gallery" - VR exhibition, Spatial
  • 2022 "Sustainable Presence" - Shipping Company (Tyumen, Russia)
  • 2022 “In a Whisper” - ZAMAN Museum of modern art (Ufa, Russia)
  • 2021-2022 “You will never identify me” - the wrong biennale nº5 (decentralized art biennale)
  • 2021 "Exhibition of public paper art" - Street Art Museum (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • 2021 "The end of the world", "Poverty" - Shooshoo gallery (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • 2020 "Lenin Island" - KZ gallery (virtual exhibition space)
  • 2019 "Russian field of ments" - HORS center (St. Petersburg, Russia)
  • 2017-2018 "One can not be too careful" - Series of exhibitions in Brighton (Great Britain), Minsk, Brest (Belarus), Berlin (Germany)
  • 2017 "Unloved artists of Bashkortostan" X-MAX gallery (Ufa, Russia)
  • 2017 "Cemetery Dialogue" Fragment gallery (Moscow, Russia)
  • 2017 "Narodovlastie" - Luda gallery (St. Petersburg), Collections hall of Russian state library for foreign literature (Moscow)
  • 2016 "Police in the gallery" (personal), "14 Tage - 14 Kunstlerinnen" - Blumentopf gallery (Vienna, Austria)
  • 2015-2016 "No Peace" - Series of antiwar actions and exhibitions (St. Petersburg, Moscow and Riga, Latvia)
  • 2015 "Losung/Slogan/Tag" - CTI Fabrika (Moscow, Russia)

a.bekchintaev@gmail.com
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