Kurmaz Svetlana

Biography

Born and raised in Krasnodar. In 1985, she graduated with a Red Diploma from the Kuban State University, faculty of Artistic and Technical Graphics. From 1985 to 1992 she worked as a teacher of drawing, composition and etching graphics at the Department of Graphics of Kuban State University.
From 1992 to 2002 lived and worked in Moscow.
From 2002 to 2022 lived and worked in Prague (Czech Republic)
In 2022 she returned to Moscow.
Member of the Moskow Artists Union since 1996.
Since 2003 to 2018 - co-founder & art director of a modern art XPgallery in Prague.
Participant of more than 150 exhibitions and international art fairs in Russia and abroad.
Participant of the international Artist in residence programs in France (Perpenjan,2000) and Germany (Berlin,2001).
Winner of the Florence City Prize (Italy,1993) Libera l' Idea. Publications and articles in catalogues of exhibitions and fairs in Russia and abroad.
10 albums with collections from 2010 to 2020 "Svetlana Kurmaz. Painting"
2021 - Personal contract with the French Singulart Gallery. Today in Moscow: cooperation with SMART galleries, First Gallery, Svetlana Sazhina Gallery. The paintings are in private, corporate and museum collections in Russia and more than 15 other countries.

"I work with almost the same interest in figurative and abstract painting. In that part of my creative interest where I interact with the subject, the landscape or the human being, I compose visual stories inspired by real life experiences. Abstract painting takes us beyond the usual object world and the method of work here is different. For me, abstract painting is a pictorial task with all the unknown."