Sergey Grinevich

Sergey Grinevich (Belarusian: Сяргей Грыневіч; born 25 February 1960, in Grodno) is a Belarusian painter.

Grinevich was born in 1960 in the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic near Grodno, a town with 370,000 inhabitants, near the border with Poland and Lithuania. From 1971 to 1978 he was a student in the city's Republican school of Fine Art. In 1978 he began his studies at the Belarusian State Academy of Arts (Department of monumental painting), where he graduated in 1983. He has taken part in art exhibitions since 1982.

Sergey Grinevich is now one of the most influential artists in Belarus. Together with Juri Jacovenko, Valentina Choba, Vladimir Panteleev and Victoria Iliyna, he is a member of an artist group there. In his paintings, he combines motifs from the past (famous personalities, military, banal everyday motifs) and creates in a sampling principle using the colorful and serial principles of Andy Warhol or the style of the striking and symbolically shortened visual worlds of Erik Bulatov and Alex Katz icons of a socially critical life and present. His criticism is directed against the ubiquitous consumer world, the power of the military and traditional religious symbols, and against environmental degradation. He transforms elements of the iconography and the insignia of socialist realism, mixes the motifs to images based on several levels and accentuates the paintings often ironica.

• Artist about himself: I have painted all my life and, oddly enough, with every year there appear more and more mysteries in this profession for me. Perhaps this permanent intrigue, and the desire to get closer to the unknown keeps me in the profession, which in the great scheme of things is not actually a profession, but my life choice ...

2019

• Beijing International Art Biennale,  China.

2018

• National Museum, Beijing,  China
• Tyzenhaus gallery, Grodno

2017

• Gallery Nebo, Kiev, Ukraine
• DK gallery, Minsk

2016

• DK gallery, Minsk
• Museum Erarta, Sankt Petersburg
• Art Zurich 2016
• Art-Riga 2016

2015

• Hall Luzan, Zaragoza, Spain
• „Novi Zamok“, Grodno, Belarus
• New Castle, Grodno
• Art-Monaco, Monte Carlo

2014

• Rothause, Kreuzlingen, Switzerland
• National Museum, Minsk, Belarus
• Bel-Expo, Minsk, Belarus
• Art-Zabor project, Brest, Belarus
• Art-Zabor project, Paris

2013

• ArtPalm Beach 2013, Florida, USA
• Agart gallery, Bialystok, Poland
• Nebo gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine
• Art- Southampton, NY, USA
• Museum of Contemporary Art, Minsk, Belarus

2012

• Grodno exhibition hall, Grodno, Belarus
• De Twee Pauwen gallery, The Haag, Netherland
• Kryga gallery, Grodno, Belarus
• Gallery ZPAP, Warsaw, Poland
• „Sady Pobedy“ gallery, Odessa, Ukraine
• Gallery of Siaulu University, Lithuania
• Rothause, Kreuzlingen Switzerland
• 1 Triennial of contemporary art, Minsk, Expocenter, Belarus

2011

• Gallery Wystawa, Warsaw, Poland
• Y Gallery, Minsk, Belarus

2010

• Central Artist House, Moscow, Russia
• Kryga gallery, Grodno, Belarus
• International plain-air of Mark Rothko, Daugavpils, Latvia
• Art-Kyiv contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine
• Agart, art gallery, Bialystok, Poland

2009

• Belarusian pavilion, BelExpo, Minsk, Belarus
• Fine-art gallery, Polotsk, Belarus
• Art-Kyiv contemporary, Kiev, Ukraine
• Region museum, Grodno, Belarus
• „Sady Pobedy“ gallery, Odessa, Ukraine

2008

• International festival „Traditional and contemporaneity“, the Manezh, Moscow, Russia
• Art gallery, Polotsk, Belarus

2007

• Art-Manezh, Moscow, Russia
• „Mastatstva“ gallery, Minsk, Belarus

2006

• National Museum of Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus
• Grodno exhibition hall, Grodno, Belarus
• „Anixis“ gallery, Baden, Swiss
• „U Maistra“ gallery, Grodno, Belarus
• Covalenco gallery, Geldrop, Netherlands 

2005

• Mastatstva gallery, Minsk, Belarus
• „Espace Pierre Cardin“, Paris, France

2004

• Municipal Museum, Limoges, France
• Palace „Ossolineum“ Wroclaw, Poland
• „Paradis“ gallery, Moscow, Russia

2003

• municipal Museum, Limoges, France

2002

• „U Maistra“ gallery, Grodno, Belarus
• "Mastatstva“ gallery, Minsk, Belarus
• „Author design" salon, Moscow, Russia

2001

• „Mastatstva“ gallery, Minsk, Belarus
• „Anixis“ gallery, Baden, Swiss

2000

• Museum of Modern Art, Minsk, Belarus
• „Amatininkaj“ gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania
• „Anixis“ gallery, Baden, Swiss
• „Art felchlin“ gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

1999

• II international symposium „Sulecin“, Poland
• „U Maistra“ gallery, Grodno, Belarus
• Gallery of Belarusian union of artists, Grodno, Belarus

1998

• The international exhibition Expo-98, Moscow, Russia
• The international Artist Settlement "Berkshire", New York , USA

1997

• The II International Chagall symposium, Vitebsk, Belarus
• The II International Biennale „Dialogues“, St. Petersburg, Russia
• "U Maistra" gallery, Grodno, Belarus

1996

• The Center of Fine Arts „Zhylbel“, Minsk, Belarus

1995

• „U Maistra“ gallery, Grodno, Belarus

1994

• The Alternative theatre, Minsk, Belarus

1993

• Gallery of Belarusian union of artists, Grodno, Belarus
• Gallery „Goya“ of Aragon’s union of artists, Zaragoza, Spain
• Municipal gallery, Utebo, Spain
• „Barbasan“ gallery, Zaragoza, Spain

1992

• Gallery AL-Kaunas, Lithuania
• Gallery AL-Palanga, Lithuania

1991

• International symposium „Byelovezha-91“, premium of The Union of Polish Artists and Designers

• Friedrich Kisters: Sergey Grinevich Blick und Richtung, published in Switzerland by Human Bios GmbH, Kreuzlingen (2013) Language: German ISBN 3-03742-002-2; ISBN 978-3-03742-002-7 Hardcover: 200 pages