Artist Pavel Otdelnov
Pavel Otdelnov is an artist working in painting, drawing, video, installations, and exploring such subjects as urban space, environment, Soviet history and historical memory. Now, working from his own experience of displacement and historical erasure, Otdelnov’s work uncovers overlooked narratives and investigates how ideological systems shape both individual lives and collective memory. His practice is grounded in long-term research and often engages with post-industrial and post-Soviet landscapes, reflects on trauma and identity.
Pavel Otdelnov was born in 1979 in Dzerzhinsk, Russia. He graduated from the Moscow State Academic Art Institute named after V.I.Surikov and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Moscow. Now he lives in London. Although an established artist in Russia, since coming to the UK in 2022 (on a Global Talent Visa), after protesting against the war in Ukraine, he has struggled materially and with underrepresentation.
Since 1996, Pavel Otdelnov has shown in both public and private contexts in Russia and elsewhere. In 2015, 2017, and 2019, he was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination Project of the Year. In 2021 he became a Finalist for the Kandinsky Prize in the nomination Project of the Year. In 2017 he became a Laureate of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award (A special prize of the French Institute). In 2020 he became a Winner of the Innovation State Prize in the Artist of the Year nomination. In 2020 Otdelnov was called The Artist of the Year by the Cosmoscow Foundation. His works are in the collections of The Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), The State Russian Museum (St. Petersburg), the Uppsala Art Museum (Uppsala), the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (Moscow), and The Pushkin Museum (Moscow), as well as in corporative and private collections.
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In the Footsteps of Ghosts
Film by Geraint Rhys, 2020
