Leonid Tskhe

    Embraces
    Las Meninas
    The Risk-taker
    Ivory Black
    Rehearsals
    The Boy and the Ball of Thread
    NeoPetersburg  
    Sever-7
    Palaces
    Performative Drawing


About
Conversation

The Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach am Main (2022–now)    
The “School for Young Artists”, The St Petersburg Pro Arte Institute (2013–2015)
The Ilya Repin St Petersburg State Academy of Arts (2001–2007)
The Boris Ioganson Art Lyceum (St Petersburg, 1998–2001)

Teaching
The Rodchenko Art School, Moscow. Sergey Bratkov’s Class (2019)
School of Active Drawing & Performative Posing of North-7 (2013–2019)   
The Ilya Repin St Petersburg State Academy of Art (2010–2019)  
Offsite student shows: 
Stagings Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA, 2018)
Commonplace. The “Peresvetov Pereulok” Gallery (Moscow); Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2016)

Select solo exhibitions
OhNE. Ivan Zubarev & Leonid Tskhe (Offenbach am Main, 2024)
Capriccio Vladey (Moscow, 2024) 
The Risk-taker and the Magician. Vlad Kulkov & Leonid Tskhe Vladey (Moscow, 2023)
Mono. Ovcharenko Gallery (Moscow, 2022) 
The Boy and the Ball of Thread Ovcharenko Gallery (Moscow, 2019) 
Plays Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2019) 
Stagings MMOMA (Moscow, 2018) 
Personal Summer House Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2017) 
Form as a Story. Freud’s Dream Museum (St Petersburg, 2016) 
NeoPetersburg Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2015); ART4Ru (Moscow, 2016); Mikhail Nesterov Museum (Ufa, 2017)
Levopisanie. The “North-7” gallery (St Petersburg, 2013) 

Select group exhibitions
Returned Look Vladey (Moscow, 2024)
Unnamable. Selected works from the collection of the MMOMA Arsenal Centre of Contemporary Art (Nizhny Novgorod, 2021)
Law Start Futuro Gallery (Nizhny Novgorod, 2021)
Millennials The State Russian Museum (St Petersburg, 2021)
The XXI Generation A Gift by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin. State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow, 2020) 
Birds’ Concert Tsaritsyno Museum (Moscow, 2020)
Every Artist is Someone’s Child MOST Gallery (St Petersburg, 2020)
Luxury. The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Constantin Sorokin (Moscow, 2020)
MorMir. Kunsthalle nummer sieben (St Petersburg, 2020)
Lost & Found North-7 Expedition. M HKA (Antwerp, 2019)
Cosmorama XVIII Museum of Moscow (Moscow, 2019)
SHARPPS-7 (The School of Active Drawing & Performative Posing Sever-7). Ovcharenko Gallery (Moscow, 2018)
Drawing Lesson Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2018)
The Phantom Knight Tsaritsyno Museum (Moscow, 2017)
The Seventh Part of the World Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2017)
New Space. The Change (Kazan); the Centre for Urban Culture “The Truth” (Moscow, 2016)
Contemporary Drawing PERMM (Perm, 2016) 
Picture after Painting NCCA & the Academy of Arts (St Petersburg, 2015) 
Complex Issues. The 13th Festival “Contemporary Art in the Traditional Museum”. (St Petersburg, 2015)
No Time Parallel programme of the 6th Moscow Biennial for Contemporary Art, The Winzavod (Moscow, 2015)
Star City The graduate show of the Pro Arte Institute’s “School for Young Artists”. The New Museum (St Petersburg, 2015)
Places. The 3rd International Art-Prospect Festival (St Petersburg, 2014)
Tower. Parallel programme of the Manifesta 10, the “North-7” gallery (St Petersburg, 2014)

Select press: exhibition reviews
Pavel Gerasimenko. “Iz dachi v zamok” Arterritory (2017)
Pavel Gerasimenko. “Forma kak rasskaz” MMOMA / Dialogue of Arts (2017) 
Valentin Dyakonov. “Nichto akademicheskoe ne chuzhdo” Kommersant (2016) 
Pavel Gerasimenko. “Ot grafiki k zhivopisi” Arterritory (2015) 
Pavel Gerasimenko. “Est li zhizn’ posle zhivopisi?” Arterritory (2015) 

Select press: general
Pavel Gerasimenko. “Painter Leonid Tskhe Reinvents Himself” Art Focus Now / Vladey (2024) 
Anna Tolstova. “Taynaia zhizn’ akademizma” Kommersant Weekend (2023) 
Pavel Gerasimenko. “Leonid Tskhe” Bolshaya Rossiyskaya Encyklopedia (2023)
Lisa Matveeva. “Risunok iz nitok” paperpaper.ru (2020) 
Sergey Khachaturov. “Natura – dura?” Arterritory (2015) 

Solo (exhibition) catalogues
Leonid Tskhe. Catalogue. Moscow: Ovcharenko Gallery (2025)
Femme Fatale Special issue. St Petersburg: Grafikkabinett WöD (2021) 
Leonid Tskhe. Stagings Exhibition catalogue. St Petersburg; Moscow: Name Gallery & MMOMA (2018)

Group exhibition catalogues and general surveys
Edward Lucie-Smith, Sergei Reviakin. Russian Art in the New Millennium London: Unicorn (2022) 
Every Artist is Someone’s Child. Works on Paper of the 2010s Generation St Petersburg: Grafikkabinett WöD (2021) 
The XXI Generation. A Gift by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin. Moscow: State Tretyakov Gallery (2020) 
Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art. St Petersburg: State Russian Museum (2020) 
North-7. Catalogue. Vol. 1, Vol. 2 St Petersburg: Grafikkabinett WöD (2019) 
Innovation Prize 2015. Catalogue. Moscow: NCCA (2016) 

Collabs
“Papa”, HJÄRNSTORM No. 142–3 (2021) 
Shostakovich: Symphony № 4 Concert booklet. St Petersburg: musicAeterna (2021) 
Kodeks Adriana Tver: Kolonna Publications (2020) 

Interviews
Andrey Shabanov with Leonid Tskhe for the 5th anniversary catalogue, Ovcharenko (2025) 
Vladey with Leonid Tskhe (2024) 
Andrey Shabanov with Vlad Kulkov & Leonid Tskhe. The Risk-taker and the Magician (2023) 
Anna Zavediy. Studio studies: Leonid Tskhe (2019–2020) 

Public collections
The State Tretyakov Gallery (Moscow)
The State Russian Museum (St Petersburg)
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art
BREUS Foundation (Moscow)
Contemporary Art Museum ART4 (Moscow)
M HKA, Museum of Contemporary Art (Antwerp)

The artist’s institutional collaborations
Ovcharenko Gallery (former “Regina”, Moscow, 2018–now)
Grafikkabinett WöD (St Petersburg, 2019–2021)
Name Gallery (St Petersburg, 2015–2018)

Art residences
The Foundation of Vladimir Smirnov and Constantin Sorokin (Moscow, 2016, 2020)

Awards
The State “Innovation” Prize, nomination “New Generation” (short-listed, 2016) 

Art fairs
DA!Moscow (2019, 2021)
Viennacontemporary (2018)
COSMOSCOW (2016, 2017, 2018)
North-7’s Independent Contemporary Art Fair (St Petersburg, 2017, 2018)