Born in 1963 in Moscow. In 1984 graduated from the Moscow Architecture & Construction Art College. Member of International Federation of Art since 1996, member of Germany Art Alliance (BBK). One of the founding members of MТM, an art group established in 2006 with the aim of implementing artistic concepts in the vein of Russian avant-garde books c. 1910‒1920s.
Selected solo exhibitions: “Secret Signs”, A3 Gallery, Moscow (1992); “Sensual Penetration”, Marriott Grand Hotel, Moscow (1999); “Objects & Sketches, 1999‒2005”, GAD Gallery, Berlin (2005); “Zero”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow (2015); “Alternative Reality”, Central House of Artists, Moscow (2015); “Birds & Numbers”, Erarta Museum, Saint Petersburg (2016); “Kiefer ― Velimir Khlebnikov” art marathon, Hermitage, Saint Petersburg (2017); “Structures”, Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg (2017); “OnlyCosmos”, Kaliningrad branch of National Centre for Contemporary Arts (2019); “Volta” fair, CultProject Gallery, Basel (2019); “Untitled” fair, CultProject Gallery, San Francisco (2020); “Volta” fair, CultProject Gallery, New York (2020) and many others.
Selected group exhibitions: “The Chi Principle”, Central House of Artists, Moscow (1990); “Art London 90. The Russian Collection”, London (1990); “Moscow in Cambridge”, King's College, Cambridge (1990); “Art Expo 93”, Arch Gallery, Tokyo (1993); Sotheby’s, Baltschug Kempinski Hotel, Moscow (1996); Book Fair 97, Frankfurt (1997); “Art Moscow”, 5th International Art Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow (2001); 3 Internationales Kunstfestival, Magdeburg (2003); “Collage in Russia”, Private Collection Museum, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (2003); “Moscow Abstraction”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (2003); “An Artis’t Book as an Image”, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow (2004); “Artist’s Book” International Biennale, Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria (2006); “Utopian Architecture”, State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg (2007); “0.5”, POP/OFF/ART Gallery, Moscow (2009); Book Fair, Frankfurt (2009); “Mikhail Molochnikov & Vladimir Sulyagin. Dialogues”, Central House of Artists, Moscow (2012); “Art Élysées 2012”, Paris (2012); “Shanghai Art 2012”, Shanghai (2012); “Russian Berlin”, PERMM, Perm (2013); “Bringing a World of Art to Hong Kong”, gAZE Gallery, Hong Kong (2014); “Sub ROSA”, State Darwin Museum, Moscow (2014); “This Leads to Fire: Russian Art from Non-Conformism to Global Capitalism. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation”, New York (2014); “ENTER Art Fair”, Copenhagen (2020) and many others.
Mikhail Molochnikov works can be viewed in the collections of the State Russian Museum (Saint Petersburg), State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow), Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts (Moscow), State Lenin Library (Moscow), National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), Kolodzei Art Foundation (New York), Berlin State Museums (Berlin), Bibliotheca Alexandrina (Egypt), Ford Foundation (USA), MAK (Vienna) and many other institutions; in the private collections of Boris Friedman (Moscow), Mikhail Kaminsky (Moscow), Mikhail Alshibay (Moscow), Natalia Opaleva (Moscow), Timofey Gridnev (Moscow), Raphael Filinov (Moscow), Lubov Agafonova (Moscow), Mikhail Karminsky (Germany), Nicola and Claire Savoretti (Moscow), Catarina Cardoso (Paris), Friedrich C. Heller (Vienna)and many others.
Exhibition participant:
Celestial Wind