Biography:

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1998 - 1999  participant to the «School of contemporary art» by Avdey Ter-Oganyan.

2000 - 2005 participant to Radek Community - group of artists, activists, authors - within which he took part in various actions and initiatives

2002 - present participates to the shows in Russia and Europe personally, as well as collaborates to the other artists.

2012 - publication of Valery Chtak’s catalogue of works “Bits of truth”

2012 - Nomination for INNOVATION Prize2015 Valey Chtak’s artworks and film design in film “Rug Union”

2016 - entered the Top 10 of the top 20 artists rating according to artguide.com
2016 - entered the rating “Top-10 +1 and 50: the most notable young artists” according to The Art Newspaper Russia

2017 - entered the Russian investment artistic rating 49ART

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Solo Shows:

2018 - “Long live A.”, Vladey Space, London

2018 - “British celebrities”, SAAS gallery, London

2018 - “What If She Wants To Lay Down?”, Bazel

2018 - «TWO», «Zarya» art centre, Winzavod Art Center, Vladivostok

2018 - «YOFFE vs. CHTAK : the OTHER WAY Around», Gallery «Triangle», Winzavod Art Centre, Moscow

2017 - “the story of how no one understood anything”, Moscow-City Museum, Moscow

2017 - “Bread and will”, CUB gallery, Riga

2017 - “Valery Chtak. C-Alphabet, Triangle gallery

2016 - “In my way - No way”, MMOMA, Moscow

2016 - “Crab inside”, Zarya, Vladivostok

2016 - “Cities of RF’, VLADEY space, Moscow

2016 - “It’s easy, technically”, Triangle gallery, Moscow

2015 - “Good morning, foreigners”, Triangle gallery, Moscow

2015 - “Wordshood”, CUB gallery, Riga

2014 - “Do not come closer”, Coat gallery, Moscow

2013 - “This is not a nightmare”, Red October gallery

2012 - “Author is unknown”, Mironova gallery

2011 - “Bits of truth”, PaperWorks gallery

2010 - “Painting is a dead language”, Orel-Art UK, London

2010 - “Chtak runs in circles”, PaperWorks gallery, Moscow

2009 - “Bob Hated Everybody”, Globe gallery, St. Petersburg

2009 - “Say ‘Shibboleth’” – PaperWorks gallery, Moscow

2009 - “Anarchisme.Hassidisme.Agnosticisme”, Orel-Art gallery, Paris

2007 - ”True goth”, ABC show space, Moscow (together with A. Buldakov)

2007 - ”Layerizm”, Tcheremouschki gallery, Moscow

2006 - ”Mere Verbiage”, Francia Gallery, Moscow

2005 - ”Polski Plakat Filmowy”, Vitrine gallery, ARTStrelka, Moscow

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Selected group Shows:

2018 - «MONUMENTAL», Ekaterina foundation , Moscow

2017 - «the story of how nobody understood anything», Moscow City Museum

2017 - «EliKuka Friend's exhibition», VLADEY space, Winzavod Art Centre, Moscow

2015-2016 - “Pierre Brochet’s Puzzle”, MAMM, Moscow

2014 - “Not Museum”, Manifesta 10 parallel program

2013 - “Team, which I can’t live without”, Regina gallery,Winzavod Art Centre, Moscow

2012 - “Futurology”, Ecole Nationale Superieure d’architecture de Nantes

2012 - “Generation P”, Festival RussenKo, Kremlin-Bicetre

2011 - “Russian Cosmos”, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

2011 - ”Openning Febuary, 1”, Artberloga, Moscow

2010 - ”Esthetics vs. Information”, KCCC, Klaipeda

2010 - “The Diary of a Madman”, Regina gallery, Moscow

2009 - “Rendez-Vous’09”, MAC, Lyon

2009 - “European Atelier”, Central House of Artist, Moscow

2009 - ”Absolut Creative Future”, Winzavod Art Centre, Moscow

2009 - ”Russian Lettrisme”, Central House of Artist, Moscow

2008 - ”invasion : evasion”, Red October chocolate factory, Moscow

2008 - ”Art-Veretyevo”, Veretyevo

2008 - “The Young, Aggressive”, Musashino Art Univercity, Tokyo

2007 - ”Ars Erotica, Ars Politica, Ars Theoretica”, Prometeospace Gallery, Milan

2007 - ”Moscoupolis”, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris

2007 - «On Geekdom», Benaki Museum, Athens

2007 - “Artist’s ’diary», Central House of Artist, Moscow

2006 - “Russia Redux#2”, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, NY City University, New York

2006 - «Formalite», La Generale, Paris

2005 - «Portrait of a face», Guelman Gallery / Mars gallery, Moscow

2002-2003 - «ARTKljazma», open air festival of the arts, Moscow

2002-2005 - «Quo Vadis», the annual festival of young artists, NCCA, Moscow

2002 - ”Made in Francia”, Andrey Sakharov’s museum, Moscow

2002 - “Pop/Art”, Zverev Center for contemporary art”, Moscow

 

Collections:

• Moscow Museum of Modern Art

• The State Tretyakov Gallery

• Fund of Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin

• Daugavpils Mark Rothko Art Centre and many others

• Private collections - Pierre Brochet, Andrei Tretyakov, Samir Sabe D’Arc and many others.