Born in 1985 in Ufa, Russia. Since 2023 lives and works in London, UK. Aidar Bekchintaev studied political science at RUDN 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, power structures, and other socio-political issues.
Empire
2024
2024
Whale
2022
2022
Cross
2022
2022
Things I wish I'd never seen
2022
2022
Trinity
2023
2023
Carousel
2022
2022
Bath
2022
2022
Slide
2022
2022
Swordsman
2023
2023
Violence
2023
2023
Gzhel
2020
Horovod
2020
2020
Selected Exhibitions
- 2023 "Exactly.AI Exhibition", - Shoreditch Arts Club (London, UK)
- 2023 "Everything Is Univocal" - ROAR (Russian Oppositional Arts Review), VR exhibition, Spatial
- 2023 "Accidental Anti-War Exhibition" - AntiZona (Tbilisi, Georgia)
- 2022 “In a Whisper” - ZAMAN Museum of modern art (Ufa, Russia)
- 2021-2022 “You will never identify me” - the wrong biennale nº5
- 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" (Solo) - 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" (Solo) - 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
