OLEG
SLEPOV
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000
The Gallery Club "By Ravine",
Moscow, Russia
1999
"Grant Gallery",
New York, USA
1998
The Gallery of Classic and Contemporary Art "Burganov-Centre",
Moscow, Russia
1996
The Gallery "Ars Moderna",
Riga, Latvia
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
2001
"To your name…" All-Russian Art Exhibition,
Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
2000
PETITIO PRINCIPII,
Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
All-Russian Art Exhibition, Dedicated to Victory Day,
Glory Museum on Worship Hill, Moscow, Russia
1999
"Pushkin-200", Selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art,
Washington DC, USA
"The Body Politic", ", Selection from the Kolodzei Collection of Contemporary Russian Art,
Long Island University, New York, USA
1998
"ART-SALON-97",
Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Moscow, Russia
1997
"ART-MANEGE-97",
Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Moscow, Russia
1996
"ART-MANEGE-96",
Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Moscow, Russia
1995
"Sochi Festival of Modern Art",
The Sochi Art Museum, Sochi, Russia
1994
"Ballmann" Gallery,
Bermatingen, Germany
1993
"ART-MYTH-3",
Central Exhibition Hall Manezh, Moscow, Russia
"Black and Wight",
Gallery "Studio Oberhauser", Saarbruken, Germany
Since 1983 Oleg Slepov participated in over a sixty group exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world.
MAJOR MUSEUMS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Kolodzei Art Foundation, USA
The Museum of Classical and Contemporary Art "Burganov-Centre", Moscow,
RussiaPrivate collections in Russia, USA, Germany and Poland.
Marina Erenburg, "The Well of Time", Vol. 1
"…Work by Oleg Slepov, based on "history" and "tradition", are the felicitous combination of classical strictness of form grotesque and brutal subject. Due to intellectual metaphors and shades of meaning, the artist is one of the most interesting and promising representatives of contemporary Russian sculpture. The main object of his suggestive, expressive creative work is the "Men of Irreality", standing in permanent conflict with his own personality and the universe; having not only human nature, but, like the ancient got-animals, the nature of metamorphosis.The symbolical features of composition, slight taste of archaic, idol-like figures reflect a mixture of "strange" and "frightening", that are so liked by the artist.His work today are an enigma and conundrum, and the characters seem to be immersed in the never ending dream of space, time and flesh…"