Valeriy Lukka
Valeriy Lukka was born in 1945 in the village Porokhovo, located in the Yaroslavl region. In 1977, Lukka received a diploma from the Repin Institute of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture in Leningrad, where he later started his artistic activity.
In the late seventies, Lukka, along with Vyacheslav Mikhailov (also an Academy of Arts graduate) and Felix Volosenkov, became a founding member of an art group devoted to searching for new ways of expression, as all art groups do. In order to create a desired artistic effect, the group members use layers of paint to create relief. This is how they rejected an established painting tradition they respected. They aimed at making their works closer to true life and more organic. In addition to their true to life focus, their creative work still contained literary references and links to eternal mythological images. The most of their attention, however, was paid to the physiology of texture.
Experts of Lukka’s art describe his works as containing a ‘specific individual style of conceptual expressionism’. Indeed, Lukka’s painting is distinguished by its sincerity and often with sick hysterics, but, being a true fruit of postmodernism, it is charged with irony and full of references from classical art.
He chose not to use customary techniques and themes in order to give his art a "living" quality, which is an approach that has its followers. Each of the three innovative group members are canonized by art critics and admirers who call the group TheThree Bogatyrs (a group of heroes from the Russian folk epics). The artwork of Felix Volosenkov and Vyacheslav Mikhailov is also featured in the museum collection.
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Lukka Valeriy (1945 - ). Born in 1945 in Porohovo village, Yaroslavl region, Russia.
- 1977 – graduated from the St.Petersburg State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Sculpture and Architecture, named after I.E.Repin;
- 1983 – Member of the Artist’s Union of Russia;
- Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art;
- Member of AICA ;
- A member of the National Association of Italian artists "ITALART";
- A member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Contemporary Art "SPASI".
Since 1978 participant of more than three hundred exhibitions in Russia and abroad.
Personal exhibitions
- 2010 – "... even the iron does not know his destiny ..." gallery "Kvadrat", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2008 – "Inner Landscape" gallery "ARTre.FLEX", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2007 – "RESIDENT" The Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2004 – "Between Chaos and farce," The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2002 – "Life in Art" gallery "Delta", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2002 – "1 +1" gallery "Northern Capital", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2002 – "Vyritsa - Helsinki" The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2002 – Gallery "Dix", Helsinki, Finland;
- 2002 – "Experiences of self-knowledge", "Art Gallery 103";
- 2002 – "Memories of Villendorfskoy Venus", gallery "Delta" , St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2001 – Art Gallery of Novosibirsk Region, Novosibirsk, Russia;
- 2001 "The Return of the Prodigal Son," Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia;
- 2000 – Gallery "Delta", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1999 – Schloss Trautenberg bei Leutschach, Schloss Gamlitz, Austria;
- 1998 – "Small caryatids, graphics, and other" gallery "Borey", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1998 – Tyyligalleria Oy, Helsinki, Finland;
- 1997 – "The Irony of Expressive Romanticism" Gallery "Aurora", Tver, Russia;
- 1994 – "Second Platform" gallery "Palette", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1994 – "Comments on other people's pictures" gallery "Delta", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1993 – "Gallery Art Russa" (Jointly with V. Mikhailov and F.Volosenkovym), Piacenza, Italy;
- 1992 – "Residual Figuration", "gallery" Borey ", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1990 – from the Leningrad State University, Leningrad;
- 1990 – Gallery "Centre Deux", Hamburg, Germany;
- 1989 – Center for Russian Culture and Science, Helsinki, Finland;
- 1988 – Gallery "Punkt", Gdansk, Poland;
- 1987 – The editors of "Aurora", Leningrad;
- 1885 – Library of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Leningrad.
Some group exhibitions
- 2013 – "People and landscapes," Center "Master Class", St. Petersburg (with Feliks Volosenkov);
- 2011 – "Between Eros and Thanatos ... closer to the" Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2010 – “ARTMANEGE 2010”, Manege. Moscow, Russia;
- 2010 – "The True Place (Jerusalem)", "Tatiana Nikitina ArtHolding", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2008 – "It is my only weapon is the same Tatyana? .." "ArtHolding Tatiana Nikitina," St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2007 – "STATUS QUO", Kharkiv Municipal Gallery, Kharkov, Ukraine;
- 2002 – "White Christmas" State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2002 – "Meeting the Manege" Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2002 – "Abstraction in Russia:" The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2001 – "Portrait of Russia - XX century" The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2001 – "About Love" (SAVE), Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2000 – "Forty Immortals lines" (SAVE), Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fountain House, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2000 – «Millenium» Tauride Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 2000 – «Tres Faciunt Collegium» Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1998-1999 – "Petersburg shops. Twentieth Century, "Central Exhibition Hall" Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1998-1999 – "The Anatomy of Modern Art" Gallery «Art Collegium», St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1998-1999 – "Seasons in the black box stage" (SAVE), State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1998-1999 – "Exhibition of New Acquisitions," The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia";
- 1997 – «Schilderkunst uit Sint-Petersburg vandaag», Gent, The Netherlands;
- 1997 – "Nevsky Prospect" (SPASI) Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia;
- 1997 – "The Mirage of St. Petersburg" (SPASI) Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1997 – "Red in Russian Art" The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1996 – "The first exhibition SPASI" Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1996 – "Trois peintres de Saint-Petersburg", "Espace Kiron" (with G.Bogomolovym and A.Gerasimovym), Paris, France;
- 1995 "Fünf Maler - drei Generationen - aus St.Petersburg", Baden-Baden, Germany;
- 1994 "Entartete Kunst im Sozialismus" Musbah, Herrenhof, Germany;
- 1994-2002 – "Petersburg" Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1994 – "From avant-garde to the present day," Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1994 – "The Shadow of the Poet," All-Russian Museum A.S.Pushnika name, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1992 – "Garderop" Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1992 – "Bible Stories" Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- 1992 – Auction Gallery "Gioffredo", Nice, France.
Works are in collections
- The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- National Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- All-Russia Museum of AS Pushkin, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- Anna Akhmatova Museum at Fountain House, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- The Museum of Nonconformist Art, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- The State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- The State Museum of Theatrical and Musical Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- Center for the Arts named after Sergei Diaghilev, St. Petersburg, Russia;
- Museum of Contemporary Art "Erarta", St. Petersburg, Russia;
- Art Museum of Astrakhan, Astrakhan, Russia;
- National Museum of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia;
- Far Eastern Art Museum, Khabarovsk, Russia;
- Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia;
- Museum of Art of Novgorod Land;
- Novgorod Regional Art Museum, Novgorod, Russia;
- Novosibirsk Regional Art Gallery, Novosibirsk, Russia;
- Perm Regional Art Gallery, Perm, Russia;
- Russian Culture Fund, Moscow, Russia;
- Tver Regional Picture Gallery, Tver, Russia;
- Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia;
- Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine;
- Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum Rutgers, New Brunswick, USA;
- State Art Gallery Mandal, Norway;
- Museum of Art, Narva, Estonia;
- Private collections in Austria, Italy, Poland, Russia, USA, Finland.
Auctions
- 1989 – Christie’s, London, UK;
- 1990 – "Nelleman Thomsen", Arhus, Denmark;
- 1990 – Druo – Richelieu, Paris, France;
- 1990 – "М.Bernaerts", Mekhelen, Belgium;
- 1990 – "Marriott Hotel", Warszawa, Poland;
- 1992 – "Gioffredo" Gallery, Nice, France.
