Pavel Otdelnov
Pavel Otdelnov works in painting, graphic arts, installation, photography, and video. His main genre is landscape. Otdelnov paints industrial parks, residential areas, landfills and other uninviting spaces. He produces figurative art, but at the same time many of his works, like the “Neon Landscape” series with blurred city lights, are reminiscent of abstract painting.
Pavel Otdelnov
Pavel Otdelnov
Pavel Otdelnov
Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, in the Nizhny Novgorod region — a city kept alive by the chemical and defense industries. His childhood in Dzerzhinsk defined his sphere of interests: the fate of Soviet ideology, daily life in industrial regions, militarism and state violence.
The artist unites his works in conceptual cycles, which he exhibits in a particular fashion. The “Ringing Trace” project, for example, was essentially a total installation in an abandoned constructivist dormitory in Snezhinsk. It portrayed the Kyshtym radiation disaster through painting as well as texts and found objects.
Otdelnov studied in Moscow, where he graduated from the Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts and the Institute of Contemporary Art. He has participated in the Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art and the Ural Industrial Biennale. In 2020, Otdelnov won the Innovation Prize and the Moscow International Market for Contemporary Art Cosmoscow named him Artist of the Year. He has lived and worked in London since 2022.