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Igor Alekseevich Novikov, also Igor Alexejewitsch Nowikow, (born 2 January 1961 in, Moldavian Soviet Socialist Republic) is a Swiss- Russian painter, Nonconformist Art, art theorist, philosopher, graphic artist member of the Russian Academy of Arts.

Life: Igor Novikov was born in a family of a famous artist academician Alexey Novikov (Russian: ??????? ??????? ????????) member of the Imperial Academy of Arts. He belongs to the generation of Moscowian Soviet Nonconformist Art painters who have been shaped by the demise of the Soviet Union. Igor Novikov now lives and works on Zurich, Switzerland. Igor A. Novikov grew up in Moscow. He attended the Ilja-Repin primary and secondary school of Fine Arts.

In 1981, he started to study at the Moscow Academy of Fine Arts Vasily Surikov, the central institute for fine arts in the Soviet Union. In 1987 he completed his studies with the Diploma in Painting. Novikov List of Russian artists the term Soviet Nonconformist Art refers to art produced in the former Soviet Union from 1953-1990 (after the death of Joseph Stalin until the advent of Perestroika and Glasnost) outside of the rubric of Socialist Realism. Afterwards he founded with young colleagues the colony of artists "Furmanny Lane" in Moscow within the movement of Russian Soviet Nonconformist Art and was member of the group until the closure in 1991. He is considered one of the most influential figures in Nonconformist Art before and after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Russia. "No! and the Conformists”, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, catalogue issued. In 1986 he had a personal exhibition at the “Remont” gallery, Warsaw, Poland. Novikov joined the Union of Soviet Artists 1987, and after the fall of the Iron Curtain in Russia.

His "Red and White” exhibition occurred in 1989 in Hala GWARDIA, Warsaw, Poland; he published a catalogue for it.


Igor Novikov received the opportunity for first exhibitions as a student. After the participating in several group exhibitions in Russia, he was permitted to exhibit abroad.

1990' “Furmanny Lane” was exhibitions at the City Museum Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, Switzerland, with catalogue. 1992 Personal exhibition at Villa Turque Le Corbusier, EBEL, La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, catalogue.

1991's exhibitions "NEW Conformists Exhibitions”, and Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Torun, Poland, with catalogue.

Igor A. Novikov Solo retrospective national exhibitions took place 1993 in the Tretyakov Gallery in Moscow (solo exhibition) and 1994 within the comprehensive collective exhibit of the art of Russian nonconformists in the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg. Personal exhibition retrospective the Russia Pavillonat the Russian Chamber of Commerce Seville Expo '92. 1994 Personal exhibition retrospective at the Russian Chamber of Commerce, Moscow. From 1990 to 1993, he worked with a UNESCO scholarship in La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland. Exhibitions „ Artistes Russes". 1996 Personal exhibition at the Moscow City Council. Exhibition at the „Russian House" and Francisco Infante-Arana, Eduard Gorokhovsky, Budapescht

1997 Personal exhibition presented by Art Collection Otto, Streletzki, Berlin, catalogue issued. 2002 exhibition Igor Novikov and Alexey Novikov, Valeri Zelinski, Le Manoir de la Ville de Martigny, supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland, Switzerland . 2003 Personal exhibition at Design Center, Langenthal, Switzerland, with support of the Russian Embassy in Switzerland. 2005 Personal exhibition at Altstadhalle, Zug, Switzerland.

2008 Exhibition at Chelsea Art Museum, New York, Kolodzei Art Foundation of Russian and Eastern European Art, Kolodzei Art Foundation USA, with catalogue. „Igor Novikov: Goodbye Russia” catalogue for the Solo Exhibition retrospective at Koller Auctions, Zürich. Kunstberatung Zürich AG, 2009.

Exhibitions retrospective „Igor Novikov: Impression 100/50" catalogue for the Solo Exhibition at Nadja Brykina Gallery AG, Zürich, and Russian Contemporary Arts Foundation,supported by the Russian Embassy in Switzerland Zürich 2010. More work stays in Western countries followed, e.g. in Klagenfurt, Austria, and in Berlin, Germany.

Since 1979, Igor Novikov has participated in over a hundred group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world, including the first show of nonconformist art. Works by Novikov can be found in the collections of major museums: the State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Ludwig Museum major public collections in Russia, Europe, and the United States

Since 1990 he lives and works in Bern, Zurich Switzerland.


Works: Igor Novikov and his painting „Miss Switzerland". Nadja Brykina Gallery (2010) Zürich

Igor Novikov blends in his paintings diverse techniques, styles and time levels. As background he often applies classical paintings from the world heritage of fine arts, in particular master pieces of Russian painters of the 19th century. He replicates these works while alienating them superficially with graphical figures or pictograms. This gives to the paintings surprising and often ironic relationships to real life and current situations. Thus his works become testimonies of the transition of the Soviet Union to modern Russia, but also of Swiss or European issues. This contradiction of well-known classics and modern alienation results in strong messages and effects.