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 |
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1999 |
– 39th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
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2002 |
– 42nd International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
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2003 |
– 43rd International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
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2004 |
– 44th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
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2005 |
– 45th International watercolor exhibition, Frankfurt am Main (Germany);
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2007 |
– III International biennale «Vitebsk Watercolor», Polotsk (Polotsk Picture Gallery);
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2008 |
– International exhibition «Friendship Palette», Smolensk (Russia);
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2009 |
– International bookplate exhibition, Athens (Greece).
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2010 |
– International exhibition «Watercolor Celebration».
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2013 |
– II International exhibition of creative works by teachers from Art and Graphics Departments of CIS countries, Smolensk (Russia).
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Republican |
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1972 |
– republican youth exhibition «Youth of the Country», Minsk.
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1999 |
– republican exhibition «Melodies of the Fatherland», Minsk;
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2002 |
– republican exhibition «Akvarelnaya Syabryna–2002», Vitebsk.
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2004 |
– republican exhibition «Akvarelnaya Syabryna–2004», Vitebsk.
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2007 |
– republican exhibition «Kvetkavy Rai», Minsk (National Library of Belarus).
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2015 |
– republican exhibition «Teachers and Students» dedicated to I. Stolyarov, (National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus), Minsk.
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Regional |
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1989 |
– II Regional bookplate exhibition, Vitebsk.
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2011 |
– regional exhibition «Vitebsk Artists in the late XX-early XXI centuries» (Vitebsk Art Mus), Vitebsk.
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2014 |
– regional art exhibition «City Portrait», Vitebsk;
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Group and Personal |
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1976 |
– personal bookplate exhibition, Noginsk, Moscow Region (USSR);
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1981 |
– exhibition of teaching artists, Vitebsk.
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1987 |
– exhibition of teachers of the Fine Arts Chair, Vitebsk.
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1989 |
– exhibition of Vitebsk artists, Smolensk (USSR);
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1992 |
– exhibition of teaching artists, Vitebsk.
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1994 |
– exhibition «75 Years of the Vitebsk Art School», Vitebsk.
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1995 |
–exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Vitebsk, Polotsk, Ushachy, Gorodok.
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1996 |
– exhibition of the association «Vitebsk Watercolor», Minsk (National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus);
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1997 |
– exhibition based on the results of the 1st (regional) plein air in memory of I. Khrutsky, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Art Museum).
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1998 |
– exhibition to the 60th anniversary of the Belarusian Union of Artists, Vitebsk;
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1999 |
–exhibition based on the results of the plein air in memory of I. Khrutsky, Vitebsk;
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2000 |
– exhibition «Tribute to Vitebsk from Vitebsk Artists», Vitebsk;
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2001 |
– exhibition «Christendom. The Third Thousand Years», Vitebsk;
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2002 |
– exhibition «Spring–2002», Vitebsk;
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2003 |
– all-russian exhibition of teachers from the Art and Graphics Department of the Vitebsk State University named after P.M. Masherov, Smolensk (Russia);
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2004 |
– personal exhibition, Gorodok (Gorodok District Museum of Local History);
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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);
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2007 |
– exhibition based on the results of the plein air in Rehburg, Vitebsk (Vitebsk Regional Library named after V.I. Lenin).
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2008 |
– exhibition of watercolor painters from Vitebsk and Smolensk «Spring Dripping».
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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).
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2010 |
– exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the international organization «Art and Cooperation», Vitebsk (exhibition hall of the Center of Folk Crafts «Zadvinye»);
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2011 |
– anniversary exhibition dedicated to the 65th anniversary (Vitebsk Art Museum), Vitebsk.
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2015 |
– exhibition of creative works by teachers from the Art and Graphics Departments of Vitebsk and Smolensk State Universities, Smolensk (Russia).
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2016 |
– anniversary exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary (Vitebsk Art Museum), Vitebsk. |