In his practice, Martins engages with a distinctive set of materials, techniques and subjects that reveal the dynamic tension between civilization and nature. Out of old, reclaimed wooden planks, which still preserve the memory of wild forest and the warmth of a dwelling, he assembles striking and enigmatic zoomorphic sculptures. Using acrylic and graphite pencil, he creates concise monochromatic compositions, wherein the traces of anthropocentric landscape dissolve into the “snowy” whiteness of unfilled background.
Martins considers all of his works in different media, including the ones produced for public spaces, as inherently connected parts of a single social and aesthetic project – a meditation on ecologic cataclysms, the ambivalent status of a human being in the system of organic life, regional identity and the unifying potential of art.
EDUCATION
The Free Workshops Contemporary Art School of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art
The Faculty of Painting of the Krasnoyarsk Art School
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Sunspots, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018
Heat Forms, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017
Mental Firewood, Fragment Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
Garden Should Grow Up, Otdel Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2015
Mental Firewood, Otdel Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2010
Space Combat, Secach Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012
Rejected Reality, ARTPLAY, Moscow, Russia
Time to Change, Secach Gallery, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Art-Session 2012, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2011
In Depth, 9th Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Art-Session 2011, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
First on Mars, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ural, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Art From the Machine, Nazarovo, Russia
World Of Siberia, Shushenskoye, Russia
2010
I am Responsible for His Father, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Art Search, Yakut Biennale of Young Art, Yakutsk, Russia
Red Carpet, Video Festival of Kansk, Kansk, Russia
The Beginning of the Way, Mix-Max, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
17. Seriosly, Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Living Matter, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2019
The 12th Time Zone. A contemporary Art Report from Russia, Centre for Fine Arts BOZAR, Brussels, Belgium
2018
Big Country – Big Ideas, mobile exhibition on cities of Russia
The Work of the Future – art in Nikola-Lenivets, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Tragedy in the Corner, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
2017
Recycling Landscape, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2016
Artbat FEST, Almaty, Kazakhstan
2014
The Town Where You Can, KRYAKK 2014, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2012
New Conditions, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
FESTIVALS AND BIENNALE
2018
Contemporary art festival Territory.Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2017
The Main project of the 7th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
12th international festival of landscape objects Archstoyanie, Nikola-Lenivets, Russia
2015
The practice of touch, 11 Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2014
Biennale of science art, Novosibirsk, Russia
2013
Love of space, 10 Krasnoyarsk museum biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
May!, Festival of Contemporary Art, Krasnodar, Russia
2012
Liquid Life. The special project of 3th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia
Arhvarene, Architectural Festival, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2017
The winner of the annual Ruinart Art Patronat Award Contest in the field of Contemporary art
Archstoyanie’s grant for the implementation of the project Being Together, Russia
2015
Kandinsky award. Nominee Young Artist
PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
The Tretyakov Gallery
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art