Yuri Krupenkov

BIOGRAPHY

Yuri was born in 1969 in Minsk. In 1988 he graduated from the Minsk Art School, in 1996 - the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Member of the Union of Artists of Belarus, Associate Professor of the Design Department of the Belarusian State University, Associate Professor of the Department of Painting of the Belarusian State Academy of Arts.

The artist expresses his ideas and emotions through narrative themes. He also has been working on a series of portraits of renowned figures of Belarusian culture. Yuri is the author of the series "Holocaust" and "In Memory of the Town" Winner of the Grand Prix of the International Competition "Holocaust through the Eyes of Artists", 2000 (Minsk, Belarus).

Yuri is also engaged in book graphics and collaborates with numerous Belarusian and Russian publishing houses. More than thirty books with his illustrations have been published (co-authored with Olga Krupenkova).

The works of Yuri Krupenkov were acquired by private collectors from different countries (USA, Netherlands, Germany, France, RF), are in k (Minsk, Belarus), Vitebsk Regional Art Museum (Vitebsk, Belarus), State Museum of the Great Patriotic War ( Minsk, Belarus), Svetlogorsk art gallery "Tradition" (Svetlogorsk, Belarus), galleries "Hevis" (Nagykanizsa, Hungary), Museum of the History of the City of Minsk. Conference Art-Limmud Belarus, (Vitebsk, Belarus, 2013, 2014); Seminar on the problems of printed graphics and ex-libris under the auspices of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation (Vologda, Russian Federation, 2014); Eighth International Children's Shagall Plein Air (Minsk, Belarus, 2014).

EXHIBITIONS

Yuri Krupenkov - author of 15 personal exhibitions: 2005 "Living Fairy Tale", Museum of Contemporary Fine Arts (Minsk, Belarus); 2006 - “Once again about love” “M-Gallery” of the Goethe Institute (Minsk, Belarus); 2008 - "Free program", Svetlogorsk Picture Gallery named after Pryanishnikov (Svetlogorsk, Belarus); 2011 - "Urban motives", Belarusian State University of Informatics and Radioelectronics (Minsk, Belarus); 2012 - "Romance of Realism", Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Minsk, Belarus); "Vandroўka", Main building of BSU (Minsk, Belarus); 2014 - "Duet", gallery Hevis (Nagykanizsa, Hungary); 2015 - "Vandroўka-2", Vitebsk Regional Art Museum (Vitebsk, Belarus); 2017 - "Quiet melodies of our townships" - Museum "Space of Chaim Soutine" (Smilovichi, Belarus), gallery "Shofar" (Vilnius, Lithuania); "Breath of Spring" - ONT (Minsk, Belarus); 2018 - "In Memory of the Town", National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk, Belarus); 2019 - "Tandem", Museum of the History of the City of Minsk (Minsk, Belarus); 2020 - “Pages of Memory. My shtetl ", Gallery" University of Culture "(Minsk, Belarus); 2020 - "In Memory of the Town", Museum "Mir Castle Complex" (Belarus).