Dima Kadyntsev
Born in 1987 in Novokuybyshevsk (Samara Region). A graduate of the Samara Art College, he studied at the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art. He is a resident of the Garage Museum of Fine Arts for the 2024 season. He currently lives and works in Moscow.
Dmitry Kadyntsev's pictorial language is based on free associations and combines abstract and figurative imagery. His style is soft and restrained, free of accentuated brushstrokes and smudges, engaging the viewer with expressive juxtapositions of color. The muted, contrast-free color palette of his paintings and drawings is dominated by light shades of gray, violet, blue, green, and yellow.
His paintings draw on the psychological energy of immersions in natural and urban landscapes, random everyday situations, and childish fantasies. His recurring motifs include the human figure, door, brick wall, and deer, while recognizable locations include a forest, a river, and a children's playground.
Dmitry Kadyntsev's pictorial language is based on free associations and combines abstract and figurative imagery. His style is soft and restrained, free of accentuated brushstrokes and smudges, engaging the viewer with expressive juxtapositions of color. The muted, contrast-free color palette of his paintings and drawings is dominated by light shades of gray, violet, blue, green, and yellow.
His paintings draw on the psychological energy of immersions in natural and urban landscapes, random everyday situations, and childish fantasies. His recurring motifs include the human figure, door, brick wall, and deer, while recognizable locations include a forest, a river, and a children's playground.
The artist chooses an irrational model of interaction with the objective world, presenting reality as a shimmering fog of unclear possibilities and elusive appearances. He operates by intuitively capturing an image "floating between the observer and the plane," comparing it to a celestial body obscuring another celestial body for the observer.
Solo exhibitions:
2025 "Grey Gardens," Iragui Gallery, Moscow
2024 "Something's Broken on Your Scooter, Get Another One," Gallery 9B, a project following an art residency, Nizhny Novgorod
2023 "Pioneers or, Grandma, Hi, I Work at the Factory," Fabrika Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 "Where I'm Not," as part of the "Volga. Zero" project Alabina, Samara
Group exhibitions:
2024 "Their Unstoppables Were Slumbering," Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2024 "3," Masla Lisse Gallery, Moscow
2024 Final exhibition of students from the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art, Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow
2023 "I Want to Believe," Prostranstvo 37a, Moscow
2023 "I Will Be Near" Biennale, Fabrika Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2023 "Complete Creative Freedom *with Some Restrictions," Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2022 "Metasequoia Foxii," Winzavod, Moscow
2022 BLAZAR Young Contemporary Art Fair: Independent Artists' Section, Moscow
2022 "Volga: The Route Rebuilt," Smena Center for Contemporary Culture, Kazan
2021 "Invitation to Travel," Victoria Gallery, Samara
2021 "Dream of a Wagon Station and a Switchman" (with Kirill Makarov), Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation workshops, following a residency, Moscow
2020 "Alice" Contemporary Art Center, Victoria Underground Gallery, Samara
2020 "Hall of the Newest Reality of the Samara Region," Victoria Underground Gallery, Samara
2020 "Art in the Bushes" at the A. Tolstoy Samara Literary Museum, Samara
2020 "Field of Action," New Space, Samara
2017 "Volga." "Zero", Gudok Shopping Center, Samara
2016 IX Shiryaevo Biennial of Contemporary Art "Cash", Shiryaevo
2014 Special Project of the International Shiryaevo Biennial of Contemporary Art "Barge Haulers: Between Europe and Asia" (with Daria Emelyanova), Samara
2014 "On Silence and Monuments" (with Daria Emelyanova), Art Center, Samara
Participant in the contur art fair(2024), blazar art fair (2021), and Cosmoscow art fair (2020, 2025)
Dima Kadyntsev's works are included in the collection of the Sfera Foundation for Contemporary Art and in private Russian collections.
Solo exhibitions:
2025 "Grey Gardens," Iragui Gallery, Moscow
2024 "Something's Broken on Your Scooter, Get Another One," Gallery 9B, a project following an art residency, Nizhny Novgorod
2023 "Pioneers or, Grandma, Hi, I Work at the Factory," Fabrika Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2017 "Where I'm Not," as part of the "Volga. Zero" project Alabina, Samara
Group exhibitions:
2024 "Their Unstoppables Were Slumbering," Stella Art Foundation, Moscow
2024 "3," Masla Lisse Gallery, Moscow
2024 Final exhibition of students from the BAZA Institute of Contemporary Art, Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow
2023 "I Want to Believe," Prostranstvo 37a, Moscow
2023 "I Will Be Near" Biennale, Fabrika Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2023 "Complete Creative Freedom *with Some Restrictions," Zverev Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
2022 "Metasequoia Foxii," Winzavod, Moscow
2022 BLAZAR Young Contemporary Art Fair: Independent Artists' Section, Moscow
2022 "Volga: The Route Rebuilt," Smena Center for Contemporary Culture, Kazan
2021 "Invitation to Travel," Victoria Gallery, Samara
2021 "Dream of a Wagon Station and a Switchman" (with Kirill Makarov), Smirnov and Sorokin Foundation workshops, following a residency, Moscow
2020 "Alice" Contemporary Art Center, Victoria Underground Gallery, Samara
2020 "Hall of the Newest Reality of the Samara Region," Victoria Underground Gallery, Samara
2020 "Art in the Bushes" at the A. Tolstoy Samara Literary Museum, Samara
2020 "Field of Action," New Space, Samara
2017 "Volga." "Zero", Gudok Shopping Center, Samara
2016 IX Shiryaevo Biennial of Contemporary Art "Cash", Shiryaevo
2014 Special Project of the International Shiryaevo Biennial of Contemporary Art "Barge Haulers: Between Europe and Asia" (with Daria Emelyanova), Samara
2014 "On Silence and Monuments" (with Daria Emelyanova), Art Center, Samara
Participant in the contur art fair(2024), blazar art fair (2021), and Cosmoscow art fair (2020, 2025)
Dima Kadyntsev's works are included in the collection of the Sfera Foundation for Contemporary Art and in private Russian collections.
- From the series "Running Candle"oil on canvas
- From the series "Running Candle"oil on canvas
- From the series "Running Candle"oil on canvas
- From the series "Running Candle"oil on canvas
- shadows, the light of Leviathan? his light?oil on canvas
