Aleksandr Biruk
Red Island, 2021
acrylic on canvas
130 × 170 cm
51-1/8 × 66-7/8 in
Artist Bio
Aleksandr Biruk is a Belarusian artist living and working in Warsaw.
He likens his creative process to that of a composer. He creates visual music, transferring the emotional state of his images to his audience through the interplay of form, colour and silhouettes. His process brings him great joy, and this joy can be felt when viewing his images.
"I see my painting practice more like music or poetry. Music is abstract, its composition is subject to mathematical laws - but in its abstractness, it can translate the depth of meaning. I am very passionate about creating such visual-musical compositions. Figurativity, being the second layer in my paintings, I consider as words in a song, superimposed on music and subordinated to its structure. In painting, I am particularly interested in how these abstract accents are distributed over recognizable figurative forms - creating very rhythmic poetry.
Biruk made several monumental projects, among them are:
- A painting of a bridge in Ivatsevichi within the ArtLocation project.
- Paintings for the center of Habilitation for adults with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) "Anton Tut Ryadom" ("Anton’s Right Here") in St. Petersburg. - Paintings for the Zoon in Moscow.
- A large monumental project that included more than 60 square meters of wall painting and more than 11 square meters of stained glass.
Aleksandr Biruk’s works are in various private collections in the US, UAE, Germany, Poland, Taiwan and Georgia.
2020 - My pictures, ARTMUSA MUSEUM OF MODERN ART St. Petersburg, Russia
2020 - Mythology of color, Paints of life gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2017 - Solo exhibition at the St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design. Monumental painting department.
2023 - Belarusian tentoonstellingen (Group exhibition), De Twee Pauwen, The Hague, Netherlands
2023 - Je ne suis pas arrivé (Group exhibition), Dissolution Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 - Untitled group exhibition, De Twee Pauwen, Hague, Netherlands
2022 - Spring Pigment, Dissolution Gallery, Tbilisi, Georgia
2022 - At your fingertips, InArt gallery, CAC Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
2019 - Exhibition of "АRT-START best young artists of Saint Petersburg" award finalists, House of Journalists, St. Petersburg, Russia
2019 - SAMFair, St. Petersburg Museum of Street Art
2015 - Goldfinches of white nights, Small hall of Central Exhibition Hall Manege , St. Petersburg, Russia