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
300 000 rub. Untitled, 2014Paper, black ink, mixed technique, collage, 31х210 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Untitled, 2012Paper, black ink, mixed technique, collage, 27х295 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Spring, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Spring Mood, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х44 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Butterflies among Flowers, 2017Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 44х64 см€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Microcosm 1, 2012Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х65.5 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Microcosm 1, 2012Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х63 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Diptych. Stream of Time, 2013Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 100х39 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Diptych. Stream of Time, 2013Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 100х39 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Insight, 2019Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 72х72 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Microcosm 2, 2015Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 72х72 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Microcosm 2, 2015Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 72х72 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Celestial Bird, 2023Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 72х72 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Between Worlds, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Stars, 2015Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 72х72 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Between Worlds, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Microcosm 1, 2012Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х68 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Between Worlds, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Waiting for Spring, 2012Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 70х50 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Waiting for Spring, 2011Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Waiting for Spring, 2012Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 70х50 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Love, 2020Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х61 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Love, 2020Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х61 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Love, 2020Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х61 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Love, 2020Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х61 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Love, 2020Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х61 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Love, 2020Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 61х61 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Spring, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Spring, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Spring, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Sky Flight, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Sky Flight, 2018Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. World Tree, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 64х45 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Butterflies among Flowers, 2017Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 44х64 см€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Butterflies among Flowers, 2017Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 44х64 см€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XIII – Death, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XII – The Hanged Man, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XI – Justice, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XIX – The Sun, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XVI – The Tower, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. II – The High Priestess, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. I – Мagician, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. V – The Hierophant, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. VIII – Strenght, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XVII – The Star, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. X – Wheel of Fortune, 2022Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. IX – The Hermit, 2022Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XX – Judgement, 2022Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XVII – The Star, 2022Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. IV – The Emperor, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. VII – The Chariot, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XIV – Temperance, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XV – The Devil, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. III – The Empress, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. XXI – The World, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Tarot Cards. 0 – The Fool, 2022Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Карты Таро. VI – Влюбленные, 2021Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 63х45 cm€ 1 000
100 000 rub. Project Antennas to Space, 2000-2002Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 140 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Project Antennas to Space, 2000-2002Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 140 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Game of constructivism, 2021Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 170 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Game of constructivism, 2021Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 170 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Game of constructivism, 2021Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 200 cm, 170 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Insight, 2017Paper, ink, acrylic paint, 70х70 cm€ 3 000
300 000 rub. Game of constructivism, 2022Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 280х32х25 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Letters, 2022Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 240х32х23 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Letters, 2022Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 240х32х33 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Project Antennas to Space, 2000-2002Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 200 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Project Antennas to Space, 2000-2002Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 140 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub. Project Antennas to Space, 2000-2002Cardboard, collage, mixed technique, 140 cm€ 2 500
250 000 rub.