Walera Martynchik-Russian artist , based in London. CV

Biography,education and selected exhibitions

1948-born in Belarus
1972- graduated (MA in Public Art) from the State Academy of Fine Art and Drama, Minsk, Belarus

After graduating for 15 years had been working as an artist–designer in the State Public Art company, taking part in projects, involving murals, sculptures, stained glass ,tapestry and ceramic.
But dissatisfaction with the official propaganda art brought him to the Nonconformist movement in the Soviet Art and secretly he has started to develop his own style in painting.

1987- was allowed to exhibit his works.

1990- First exhibition in London


Since 1990 lives and works in London


Solo exhibitions

2008 "Walera Martynchik" Ivana Morozoff Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
2008 "Walera Martynchik" New End Gallery, Hampstead, London
2007 "Consolation Zone" Martynchik Art Foundation, Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Sq., London EC1
2006 “Walera Martynchik” ArtLondon.com Gallery, London
2005 “Walera Martynchik” ArtLondon.com Gallery London
1997 “Walera Martynchik” Galery Basmajan, Paris, France
1994 “Walera Martynchik” Vlissingen City Gallery Holland
1994 “Walera Martynchik” Gallery Basmajan, Paris, France
1992 “Walera Martynchik” Gallery Basmajan, Paris,France
1990 “Walera Martynchik” Red Square Gallery, London

Selected group exhibitions

2007 "21 Century Watercolour" Royal Society of watercolour artists, Bankside Gallery, London

2005 “21 Century Watercolour” Prize winner Bankside Gallery, London

2005 New English Art Club, Mall Gallery, London

2004 Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Gallery, London

2002 Demarco Art Foundation, Brooks Univercity, Oxford

2001 Dach exhibition,Gallery im Kunshaus, Tacheles, Berlin

2000 Demarco Art Foundation, Stainly Picker Gallery, London

1998 Kensington Art Fair, London

1995 Art from Belarus, Edinburgh Festival

1991 Olimpia Art Fair London


After liberalisation of political and cultural lives in the former USSR an organiser and a leader of “Forma”-a group of nonconformist artists in Belarus

1989 “Forma” exhibition Union of Artists gallery, Moskow

1989 “Forma exhibition Troitsk City-gallery, Moskow

1988 1st Festival of Soviet underground Art Narva, Estonia

1988 “Forma” exhibition Na Kashirke gallery, Moskow

1987 “Forma” exhibition “Kadriorg” State Art Museum,Tallin, Estonia

1987 “Forma” exhibition Kohtla-iarve, city - gallery. Estonia


Selected publications:

Spirit that rose above ideology-Ham&High, London, February 2008

Walera Martynchik Art- Scene, London, March 2008

Interview with Martynchik-The London Magazin, London,2008

“Soviet Nonconformist Art” Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection,1995,New York,USA

“Le Mond surpeuple de Martynchyk” Le Cotidien de Paris,1992, France

“Interview with W.Martynchyk” Rzezba Polska, Warsow 1987,Poland

“Interview with W.Martynchyk”Decorativnoe Isskusstvo,Moskow 1989, Russia

“In search of modernity” Molodez Estonii,june1988 ,Tallin,Estonia

“The rise of Belorussian Stars” Juish Chronic”may1990, London

“Russishe Kunst in Watertoren” Sheldbode,Vlissingen,july1994, Holland

“Sketches for W.Martynchyk’s portrait” Krynitsa magazine 1988,Minsk,Belarus