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

VLIB

Exhibitions

 

Over the years Nikolai Gugnin has been taking on the task of covering the artistic life of the Vitebsk Regional Organization of the Union of Artists of Belarus. He authored many regional, group and personal exhibition catalogues. His exhibition reviews have been published in the magazine «Mastatstva Belarusi (Belarusian Art)» and in some regional periodicals. Nikolai Gugnin is also focused on research work. In 1982 he passed Ph.D. defense in Art History. He wrote some chapters on book illustrating in the 5th and 6th volumes of the «History of the Belarusian Art» definitive edition, authored articles on contemporary Belarusian art issues in scientific and popular publications. N. Gugnin is an editorial board member of the scientific and practical journal «Art and Culture», along with being one of the project initiators within the regional integrated program of aesthetic education in the Vitebsk Region.

He takes an active part in the artistic life of the region, namely by being the Chairman of the Committee on Monumental and Monumental Decorative Art of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee, and by participating in regional, national and international art exhibitions.

 

Art exhibitions of N. Gugnin

 

International

1999

– 39th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
– exhibition of the artist association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Nienburg (Germany).

 

2002

– 42nd International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
– VIII International watercolor exhibition, Lyon (France).

 

2003

– 43rd International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
– IX International watercolor exhibition, Lyon (France).

 

2004

– 44th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
– X International watercolor exhibition, Lyon (France).

 

2005

– 45th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
– XI International watercolor exhibition, Lyon, Villeurbanne (France).

 

2007

– III International biennale «Vitebsk Watercolor», Polotsk (Polotsk Picture Gallery);
– exhibition of Vitebsk artists «Vitebsk Mosaic», Bad Rehburg (Germany);
– 46th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
– exhibition of Vitebsk watercolor painters, Nienburg (Germany);
– exhibition based on the results of the plein air, Bad Rehburg (Germany);
– XIII International watercolor exhibition, Villeurbanne (France).

 

2008

– International exhibition «Friendship Palette», Smolensk (Russia);
– exhibition «Vitebsk Railway Station» (Belarus, Mexico, Russia), St. Petersburg (Russia);
– International exhibition «Water and Colour», St. Petersburg (Russia).

 

2009

– International bookplate exhibition, Athens (Greece).

 

2010

– International exhibition «Watercolor Celebration».

 

2013

– II International exhibition of creative works by teachers from Art and Graphics Departments of CIS countries, Smolensk (Russia).

 

Republican

1972

– republican youth exhibition «Youth of the Country», Minsk.

 

1999

– republican exhibition «Melodies of the Fatherland», Minsk;
– republican exhibition «Vitebsk Region Artists», Minsk.

 

2002

– republican exhibition «Akvarelnaya Syabryna–2002», Vitebsk.

 

2004

– republican exhibition «Akvarelnaya Syabryna–2004», Vitebsk.

 

2007

– republican exhibition «Kvetkavy Rai», Minsk (National Library of Belarus).

 

2015

– republican exhibition «Teachers and Students» dedicated to I. Stolyarov, (National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus), Minsk.

 

Regional

1989

– II Regional bookplate exhibition, Vitebsk.

 

2011

– regional exhibition «Vitebsk Artists in the late XX-early XXI centuries» (Vitebsk Art Mus), Vitebsk.

 

2014

– regional art exhibition «City Portrait», Vitebsk;
– regional art exhibition of members of the Belarusian Union of Artists dedicated to the International Festival of Arts «Slavianski Bazaar in Vitebsk», Vitebsk.

 

Group and Personal

1976

– personal bookplate exhibition, Noginsk, Moscow Region (USSR);
– personal bookplate exhibition, Lublin (Poland).

 

1981

– exhibition of teaching artists, Vitebsk.

 

1987

– exhibition of teachers of the Fine Arts Chair, Vitebsk.

 

1989

– exhibition of Vitebsk artists, Smolensk (USSR);
– exhibition of teachers of the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State Pedagogical Institute named after S. M. Kirov, Vitebsk.

 

1992

– exhibition of teaching artists, Vitebsk.

 

1994

– exhibition «75 Years of the Vitebsk Art School», Vitebsk.

 

1995

–exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Vitebsk, Polotsk, Ushachy, Gorodok.

 

1996

– exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Minsk (National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus);
– personal exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Art Museum).

 

1997

– exhibition based on the results of the 1st (regional) plein air in memory of I. Khrutsky, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Art Museum).

 

1998

– exhibition to the 60th anniversary of the Belarusian Union of Artists, Vitebsk;
– exhibition based on the results of II Republican plein air in memory of I. Khrutsky, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Art Museum).

 

1999

–exhibition based on the results of the plein air in memory of I. Khrutsky, Vitebsk;
– exhibition «Akvarelnaya Syabryna», Vitebsk;
– exhibition dedicated to International Women's Day 8th of March, Vitebsk;
– exhibition «Autumn–99», Vitebsk;
– exhibition dedicated to the anniversary of the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Vitebsk;
– personal watercolor exhibition, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Regional Library named after V .I. Lenin);
– exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Kursk (Russia);
– exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Lida;
– exhibition of Vitebsk artists, Smolensk (Russia).

 

2000

– exhibition «Tribute to Vitebsk from Vitebsk Artists», Vitebsk;
– exhibition based on the results of two plein airs, Vitebsk.

 

2001

– exhibition «Christendom. The Third Thousand Years», Vitebsk;
– exhibition «Christmas», Vitebsk.

 

2002

– exhibition «Spring–2002», Vitebsk;
– exhibition of printmaking, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local History);
– personal exhibition, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Regional Library named after V.I. Lenin);
– exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Mogilev (Mogilev Regional Museum named after P. Maslennikov);
– exhibition «Christmas», Vitebsk (exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Belarus).

 

2003

– all-russian exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Smolensk (Russia);
– exhibition of Vitebsk artists in the Northern Okrug of Moscow (Russia);
– exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Vitebsk (exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Belarus).

 

2004

– personal exhibition, Gorodok (Gorodok District Museum of Local History);
– exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, dedicated to the 45th anniversary of the Department, Vitebsk (exhibition hall of the Union of Artists of Belarus).

 

2006

– IX Reporting exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Vitebsk (exhibition hall of the Art and Graphics Department);
– personal anniversary exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Regional Museum of Local History).

 

2007

– exhibition based on the results of the plein air in Rehburg, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Regional Library named after V.I. Lenin).

 

2008

– exhibition of watercolor painters from Vitebsk and Smolensk «Spring Dripping».

 

2009

– anniversary exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Department, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Art Museum).

 

2010

– exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the international organization «Art and Cooperation», Vitebsk (exhibition hall of the Center of Folk Crafts «Zadvinye»);
– anniversary exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Art Museum).
– exhibition dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Art and Graphics Department of the Smolensk State University, Smolensk (Russia).

 

2011

– anniversary exhibition dedicated to the 65th anniversary (Vitebsk Art Museum), Vitebsk.

 

2015

– exhibition of creative works by teachers from the Art and Graphics Departments of Vitebsk and Smolensk State Universities, Smolensk (Russia).

 

2016

– anniversary exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary (Vitebsk Art Museum), Vitebsk.