
Valentin Afanasiev
(born 1945).
Born in Chernivtsi.
Lives and works in St Petersburg and Paris.
Known for his invention of a unique system of functional colour and sound relations which allows music to be perceived in colour.

Education:
1972 - Leningrad State Conservatoire in the violin class of Professor B.A. Sergeev
Exhibitions:
Orjonikidze Culture Centre, Leningrad.
"Exhibition of the Twenty". Flat of K. Kuzminsky, Leningrad
1965 - "Spring Exhibition". Leningrad Branch of the Union of Artists, Leningrad.
1971 - "At Kustarny". Studio of V. Ovchinnikov, Leningrad.
1972 - Exhibition in Harbour, Leningrad
1973 - Exhibition of Still Life. Leningrad Branch of the Union of Artists, Leningrad.
1974 - First Exhibition of Non-Conformist Artists. Culture Centre n.a. Gaza, Leningrad.
1975 - Second Exhibition of Non-Conformist Artists. Nevsky Culture House, Leningrad.
1976 - Museum-apartment of F.M.Dostoevsky, Leningrad.
1976 - Apartment Exhibition of Non-Conformist Artists. Moscow
1977 - Our Contemporary. State Russian Museum, Leningrad Branch of the Union of Artists, Leningrad.
1978 - Exhibition of the Leningrad Artists. Museum of Modern Art, Yerevan.
1978 - Kalinin Club, Leningrad.
1978 - Institute of Film Engineers, Leningrad
1979 - Still Life. LDHS, Leningrad.
1980 - "Olympic Exhibition". Leningrad Palace of Youth, Leningrad.
1980 - В. Levitin, M. Ivanov. Artist's shop, Leningrad.
1981 - Exhibition of the Association of Experimental Visual Art (TEPA). Kirov House, Leningrad.
1981 - Exhibition of Non-Conformist Artists. Leningrad Palace of Youth, Leningrad.
1985 - Exhibition Hall of the Union of Composers, Leningrad.
1985 - First Exhibition of Seven. Exhibition Hall of the Union Directorate of Museums of the Leningrad Region. Liteiny, 57, Leningrad.
1986 - "The Millennium of the Baptism of Rus. Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, Leningrad.
1987 - Second Exhibition of Seven. Exhibition Hall of the United Directorate of Museums of the Leningrad region. Liteiny, 57, Leningrad.
1988 - J. Brovina, A. Zaitsev, V. Levitin, Leningrad Region Museums Directorate, Liteiny, 57 (gallery "Petrovsky Passage").
1988 - "Spring-88". Vernisage group, Moscow.
1988 - Exhibition of paintings. St. Boniface Monastery Frankfurt-Nuremberg-Hannover-Munich, Germany.
1988 - Contemporary Art of Leningrad. CEH "Manezh", Leningrad.
1988 - "The Sign of History". Exhibition Hall of the United Directorate of Museums of the Leningrad Region. Liteiny, 57, Leningrad.
1988 - Group exhibition at the Journalists House, Leningrad.
1989 - Exhibition of paintings. UNESCO, Paris, France
1989 - Exhibition of paintings. Gallery Gete Terseus, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Exhibition of Russian Artists. Paris
1990 - Exhibition of paintings. Scala Gallery, New York, USA
1990 - Heaven and the Tolid. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St Petersburg.
1990 - Festival of Leningrad Galleries. CEH Manezh, Leningrad.
1990 - Contemporary Art of Leningrad. Germany, Norway.
1992 - Zh. Brovina, I. Olasyuk, Navicula Artis Gallery, St Petersburg.
1992 - Exhibition of paintings. Art Gallery Joseph D. Carrier, Toronto, Canada.
1992 - Resurrection. State Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg.
1993 - Exhibition of paintings. Central Exhibition Hall of the Union of Writers, Moscow
1993 - Exhibition of paintings. Gallery G.Krohn, Stockholm, Sweden.
1993 - Exhibition from the Tsarskoye Selo Collection, Michigan, United States
1993 - From the Avant-garde to the Present Day. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St Petersburg.
1994 - Autumn Salon. Paris, France.
1994 - III St. Petersburg Biennale. Gallery Art Collegium, Saint Petersburg.
1994-1996 - "Self-Identification. Aspects of Petersburg Art 1970-1990s. Kiel-Berlin-Oslo-Sopot-Copenhagen-Saint Petersburg
1994 - Exhibition of paintings. Pushkin Center, Paris, France.
1994 - "P. Kondratyev and His Environment. Cultural Foundation, St Petersburg.
1994 - "Not a Muse but an Artist". Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists, St Petersburg.
1995 - Exhibition of works from private collections. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St Petersburg.
1995 - Exhibition of paintings. Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
1995 - After the "Black Square", Moscow.
1995 - Exhibition of paintings. Marly le Roi (Hotel de ville), France.
1996 - Petersburg-95. Central Exhibition Hall Manege, St Petersburg.
1996 - Exhibition of the Chudnovsky Collection. Lafayette University, United States.
1997 - Purple Gallery, New York, USA.
1997 - Valentin Afanasiev. Paintings. La Galerie Art Present, Paris, France.
1998 - Anatomy of Contemporary Art, Art Collegium Gallery, Saint Petersburg
1998 - "Anatomy of Contemporary Art of Saint Petersburg". CEH Manege, St Petersburg.
2002 - Exhibition from the Manezh Exhibition Hall.
2003 - Exhibition from the funds of the Museum of Non-Conformist Art "Pushkinskaya, 10", St. Petersburg.
2003 - "Tradition and Modernity". Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St Petersburg.
2004 - "Ghazanevshchina. To the 30th anniversary of the opening of the exhibition at the Gaza Culture Centre. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, St Petersburg.
2007 - "Music of Fine Arts", Derzhavin Museum, St Petersburg.
2009 - Valentin Afanasiev. The Art of Visible Music. MonaKo Art Hall, St Petersburg.
2011 - Works of the Year. IFA, St Petersburg Creative Union of Artists.
2011 - "Autumn Exhibition". St. Petersburg Union of Artists
2013 - Exhibition "Sounding Substance". Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2013 - Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Paris
2015 - "Synergy of Light, Painting, Music" (joint exhibition with A. Ivashintseva), Stable Wing of Yusupovsky Palace, St Petersburg
2016 - Kandinsky's Superstrings. Museum of Non-Conformist Art, St. Petersburg. Collective exhibition featuring Alexander Oligerov, Felix Volosenkov, Vladimir Dukhovlinov, Sergey Kovalsky, Bob Koshelokhov, Vladislav Makarov, Ivan Olasyuk, Aslan Uyanayev, Valery Shalabin, Dmitry Filov etc.
Personal exhibitions:
1978 - Dzerzhinsky House, Leningrad
1978 - Writers Union, Leningrad
1980 - Graphics Section of the Union of Artists, Leningrad.
1988 - Association "Vernissage", Leningrad
1994 - Gallery "10-10", St. Petersburg
2012 - Novy Peterhof Hotel, Peterhof
2012 - Gallery "Molbert", Saint Petersburg
2016 - Museum of Non-Conformist Art "Pushkinskaya, 10", Saint Petersburg
2019 - Music Can Be Seen. Dostoevsky Museum, St. Petersburg