Valentin Afanasiev

Russian federation

(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.

Valentin Afanasiev

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

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