About

Photo by Marili Papadopoulou

Short biography

Alexei Kyrilloff - painter, sculpturer, architect, master of assemblage, collage and mirror constructions, saw the light in 1963 Leningrad (today St. Petersburg) former USSR. (This country doesn't exist any more). From a very young age drawing (the representation of objects and feelings ) was equally important in learning the world and expressing as language. A fact that shaped his destiny for the year to come.

His artistic education begun in the School of Art for the young near his neighbourhood with Rouben Barossian as his first teacher.
In 1981 Alexei graduated from the Leningrad secondary school of Art ( now known as St. Petersburg State Lyceum of Art B.V. Yoganson of the Russian Academy of Arts).
The same year he successfully qualified for the Faculty of Architecture. Within the atelier of Professor L.L. Shreter at I.E. Repin State Academy Institution for painting, sculpture and architecture ( the oldest and most highly respected Russian Art School, which history traces back to the Imperial Academy of Arts).
In 1987 he graduated with a MSc in Architecture and received his diploma of "Architect-Artist and Pedagogue

From 1987 until 2000 he lives and works in Greece and France. From 1998 he becomes a member of the Greek Society of Artist, and from 2004 till today he recipes perms antsy in Greece.

The first two years following the end of his studies Alexei devotes himself to Architecture, but then he makes a decisive turn towards art which satisfies his thirst for spiritual development and expression in a more holistic way ( mainly due to the liberation from the world of matter)

For a quarter of a century now, Alexei works solely as an "Artist" shaping the world of Art in his own, characteristic style.

Artist Statement: Ελληνικά | русский
Artist's own words

Exhibitions - Solo

2008

Via metastasio15. ART GALLERY and STORE ROMA, Italy
2007

AKAMANTIS. With Melina Pyrgou. Nicosia (Lefkosia), Cyprus
"FOURNOS" PYRGOS, Tinos Island, Hellas
NAFPLIO ART GALLERY, Nafplio, Hellas visit >
2006

VOURKARIANI Gallery, Kea, Hellas
2005

CHRISTINA KARELLA Gallery, Athens, Hellas
2004 - 2005

ARTEFIZ Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
2003

ANEMOS Gallery, Kifissia, Athens, Hellas
2002

"LA VOLTA" Galerie CHRISTINA CARELLA, Athens, Hellas
Garage "FLUVIA" Athens, Hellas
2001

Nov. ARTEFIZ KUNSTHALLE, Zurich, Switzerland
April LEAZARTS Gallery, Monte Carlo, Monaco
February ASTRA Gallery, Athens, Hellas
1999

ST.ART with LEZARTS Gallery, Strasbourg, France
1998

Muhle Tiefenbrouen with KARGADOS Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1997

LA MAISON DU CHEVALIER Gallery, Carcassone, France
J.P PREBET Gallery, Roanne, France
1996

LEZARTS Gallery, Nice, France
BLUE PONT Gallery, Meggen, Switzerland
LA MAISON DU CHEVALIER Gallery, Carcassone, France
1995

“ST.TRINITE" Gallerie du tableau, Marseille, France
ASTRA Gallery, Athens, Hellas
1994

KARGADOS Gallery, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
1993

Tour du Roy Rene with Gallerie du tableau and cultural department of Marseille, France
ASTRA Gallery, Athens, Hellas
1992

KARGADOS Gallery, Waldshut-Tiengen, Germany
1991

"Ychtiophage" One sculpture exhibition, Gallerie du tableau
"Ychtipopolion" Nafplion Art Gallery, Nafplion, Hellas
1990

IONE Gallery, Athens, Hellas
1989

IONE Gallery, Athens, Hellas
VOURKARIANI Gallery, Kea, Hellas

Exhibitions - Group (selection)

2009

FABULA "In Defence of African children" with viametastasio15 gallery
Musei di San Salvatore in Lauro, Piazza San Salvatore in Lauro, Roma
2003

Les 4 Kyrilloff (Maxim, Alexei, Feodor, Alexei) - grandfather, father and two brothers, BLUE POINT - Belgium
2002 - 2003

ARTEFIZ KUNSHALLE Zurich, Switzerland
2000

ART ATHINA with ASTRA Gallery, Athens, Greece
LINEART with ART POINT Gallery, Gent, Belgium
"XENITIA" St. Giannis, Makrisia, Olympia, Greece
1999

"21st CENTURY: Future-No Future", Salle Ogivale et salle des Millices, City Hall of Brussels with ART POINT Gallery and Cultural Dept. of Brussels
"Le saga des Kyrilloff" family exhibition, two brothers and father, LA MAISON DU CHEVALIER Gallery, Carcassone, France
1998

AENAON Center of Fine Arts
LINEART with ART POINT Gallery, Gent, Belgium
1997

LINEART with BLUE POINT Gallery, Gent, Belgium
"ART JONCTION" with BP Gallery, Cannes, France
French Institute of Rhodos with AENAON Fine Arts Cente, Rhodes, Greece
1996

LINEART with BLUE POINT Gallery, Gent, Belgium
"ART JONCTION" with BP Gallery, Cannes, France
Bourguignon, Kyrilloff, Martin-Independant Exhibition, International Festival of Photography, Arles, France
1995

LINEART with BLUE POINT Gallery, Gent, Belgium
1994

"Twenty Artists from Marseille" with GALLERIE DU TABLEAU and Diem Perdidi, Association, Mair Square, Antwerp, Belgium
1991

AENAON Center of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece
1989

CHISMAHAC Gallery, Mexico
1988

"THE NEW IMAGE" with CHISMAHAC Gallery, Texas, USA
VOURKARIANI Gallery, Kea,Greece

Articles

Contact

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Assemblages

Conception

Text on the background (in russian ): Luke 1. 28-37
‘Greetings, favoured one! The Lord is with you.’* 29But she was much perplexed by his words and pondered what sort of greeting this might be. 30......... ‘Do not be afraid, Mary, for you have found favour with God. 31And now, you will conceive in your womb and bear a son, and you will name him Jesus. 32He will be great, and will be called the Son of the Most High, and the Lord God will give to him the throne of his ancestor David. 33He will reign over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.’ 34.........35...... ‘The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you; therefore the child to be born* will be holy; he will be called Son of God. 36And now, your relative Elizabeth in her old age has also conceived a son; and this is the sixth month for her who was said to be barren. 37For nothing will be impossible with God.

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