Painters of Vitebsk

Artist – a magician, a big heart. It retrieves beauty finds freshness in all subordinates element.

Marc Chagall

Vitebsk Regional Library

Named After V. I. Lenin

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Exhibitions

  

Art exhibitions of А. Memus

 

Since 1976 Alexander Memus has been participating in town, national and international exhibitions of the Union of artists.

He participated in 130 exhibitions:

– student: Vladivostok, Moscow, Leningrad (Russia);

– town: Vitebsk, Polotsk, Orsha (Belarus);

– republican Minsk, Vitebsk, Bobruisk (Belarus);

– international: Smolensk, Pskov (Russia), Warsaw, Szczecin, Radom, Krakow (Poland), Dordrecht (Holland), New York (the USA).

A. Memus works in the field of portraiture, landscape, still life. Volume, shape, silhouette, dense shade or tender semitone in the works of the artist looks as a feast of recognition and comprehension of the hidden beauty in the world.

He participated in the third triennial of self-portrait in the city of Radom (Poland); graphic biennale in St. Petersburg (Russia); five international art open-airs in Ruzhanystoke (Poland).

 

 

International

2011

– international exhibition «Collegium», Orsha.

 

2012

– international exhibition «Collegium», Orsha.

 

2013

– international exhibition «Collegium», Orsha.

 

Republican

2002

– republican exhibition «Retrospective Review of a Drawing» (Art School), Vitebsk.

 

2008

– republican exhibition of Vitebsk artists, Minsk.

 

2009

– republican exhibition «Millennium» (to the 1000 anniversary Lithuania), Minsk.

 

Group and personal

1986

– personal exhibition at the shop «Art» (25 drawings), Vitebsk.

 

1989

– personal exhibition in a picture gallery, Polotsk;
– personal exhibition «100 drawings by
А. Memus» (M. Chagall Centre), Vitebsk.

 

1990

– personal exhibition «Selected Drawings» at the House of Art Workers, Minsk.

 

1992

– personal exhibition of watercolours from a series «Witnesses» (State Art Museum of Belarus), Minsk.

 

1993

– personal exhibition of watercolours from a series «Along the Bank» (Arts and Crafts Centre), Vitebsk.

 

1996

– exhibition with a group of Minsk artists at the gallery of A. Pavlova, Dordrecht (Holland).

 

1998

– exhibition of the four (G. Shutov, F. Gumen, A. Karpan, A. Memus), Pskov (Russia).

 

1999

– personal exhibition «Watercolour Lessons» (Art Museum), Vitebsk;
– exhibition of the four (I. Moguchaya, P.Kirillin, V. Shilko, A. Memus) at the gallery of A. Pavlova, Dordrecht (Holland).

 

2000

– the third triennial of self-portrait, Radom (Poland).

 

2001

– exhibition of the three (S. Sotnikov, А. Dukhovnikov, А. Memus) «Provincial project», Rogachev (Belarus).

 

2001–2002

– personal exhibition, Postavy (Belarus).

 

2004

– graphic biennale, St. Petersburg (Russia).

 

2009

– exhibition of Vitebsk and Lettish artists, Daugavpils (Latvia).

 

2011

– regional exhibition «Vitebsk Artists at the End of the 20th – Beginning of the 21st Century» (Art Museum), Vitebsk;
– exhibition «100 Belarusian artists», Lvov (the Ukraine);
– exhibition «Town Portrait», Vitebsk.

 

2012

– personal exhibition «Twosome» (M. Chagall Art Centre), Vitebsk.

 

2014

– personal exhibition (EC «Mogilev Regional Art Museum named after P. Maslennikov»).

 

Open-airs, projects

2001

– international art and literature open air, Różanystok (Poland).

 

2002–2003

– international art and literature open air, Różanystok (Poland).

 

2004–2005

– international art and literature open air, Różanystok (Poland).

 

2007

– «Abstrakt» (the project by V. Vasilyev), Vitebsk.

 

2010–2011

– «Cinematograph» (the project by D. Danilovich), (M. Chagall Art Centre), Vitebsk.

 

Art critic M. Tsybulsky opens the exhibition by A. Memus «My Muse». Art Museum. Vitebsk. 2013. Photo by G. Korzhenevsky
V. Volnov, O. Akunevich, P. Podgursky at the personal exhibition. Art Museum. Vitebsk. 2013. Photo by G. Korzhenevsky
The participants of the exhibition by A. Memus «My Muse». Art Museum. Vitebsk. 2013. Photo by G. Korzhenevsky
A. Memus at the opening of art exhibition  «Twosome». M. Chagall Art Centre. Vitebsk. 2012. Photo by Yana Ilyina