Based in: Republic of Karelia, Russia

Sergei Gapanovich

Established ArtistA professional artist with years of practice and a recognised record of exhibitions or collections.

Biography

Sergei Gapanovich (b. 1981) is a Russian sculptor known for monumental land art interventions and conceptual sculpture. He primarily works in stone, particularly marble and granite. He spends most of his time in northern Russia and travels extensively worldwide. Married, with a son, two dogs, and an old cat, Gapanovich considers himself to be living his best and happiest life.

Artist statement

I work with contradictions. I am interested in why we expect marble to look expensive, stone to feel heavy, authority to seem convincing, protection to feel secure, and adulthood to embody maturity. In my work, I seek to subvert these seemingly obvious associations. I take materials associated with strength and durability and compel them to embody something fragile, cheap, childlike, or ephemeral. Marble becomes a toy or plastic; stone takes the form of an object that, at first glance, would not last a day. In other works, I aim to address love, fear, aggression, power, human vulnerability, and the desire to control the world around us.

Selected exhibitions & experience

2026 - Memory Imprints, Sistema gallery, Moscow, Russia
2026 - OPEN vol. 8, a—s—t—r—a gallery, Moscow, Russia
2024 - Museum of fine arts of the republic of Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2023 - Art jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia
2023 - National gallery of Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
2022 - Why do we need art now?, Belyaevo gallery, Moscow, Russia
2021 - Hard water, Miras gallery, Ufa, Russia
2021 - Earth: what happened after?, state Darwin museum, Moscow, Russia
2020 - The third fire, White room foundation, Moscow, Russia
2020 - Human in translation, Izmaylovo gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 - Staying in touch, Nagornaya gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 - The cage, state Darwin museum, Moscow, Russia
2020 - Earth: what’s next?, zeughaus, Astrakhan kremlin, Astrakhan, Russia
2020 - Stories of stone heads, Bogorodskoye gallery, Moscow, Russia
Land art & public art projects
2023 - Borduglyphs, Lenin avenue, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2019 - I just have a quick question, Essoila village, republic of Karelia, Russia
2018 - Cloud, Lenin avenue, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2018 - Rabbit rock, republic of Karelia, Russia
2017 - The famous battle of Karelia’s Indigenous people with tyrannosaurs,
Fedosova street, Petrozavodsk, Russia
2017 - A stone that will not take flight, public art object, Lenin avenue,
Petrozavodsk, Russia
2017 - Imprint, Kirov square, Petrozavodsk, Russia

Sergei Gapanovich

Biography

Artist statement

Selected exhibitions & experience

Works