Leonid Tskhe (b. 1983 St Petersburg) lives and works between
St Petersburg and Offenbach/Frankfurt am Main, Germany
He is a member of the art group “North-7”
Instagram: @leonidtskhe
Email: leo13tskhe [at] gmail.com
Gallery: Ovcharenko
St Petersburg and Offenbach/Frankfurt am Main, Germany
He is a member of the art group “North-7”
Instagram: @leonidtskhe
Email: leo13tskhe [at] gmail.com
Gallery: Ovcharenko
Education
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 Museum (Moscow, 2016); Mikhail Nesterov State 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 (2024)
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, since 2018)
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)
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 Museum (Moscow, 2016); Mikhail Nesterov State 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 (2024)
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, since 2018)
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)