SELECTED WORKS
About the artist
Mikhail Dobrovolsky was born in Voronezh in 1994. Graduated from Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, specializing in architectural engineering (Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees). Works in various media focusing on painting, graphics, objects and sound. Collaborates with the galleries “H.L.A.M.” and “Utilization”, self-organization “High Five” and researcher of contemporary art Vlad Strukov. Participant of art residencies “Vyksa” and ” Radiance”, Cosmoscow and blazar fairs.
Mikhail Dobrovolsky works with the image of violence that anyone can encounter on a daily basis in today’s aggressive urban environment. Capturing everyday regular actions, he takes them to the point of the absurd to reveal conflicts that people are so accustomed to that they no longer pay attention to them. The artist examines how violence manifests itself through physical contact, verbal and non-verbal communication, and the transformation and transmutation of the corporeal.
The works are in the collections of Anton Kozlov, Pierre Brochet (Moscow), Andrey Malakhov (Moscow), Evgeny Khamin (Voronezh), as well as in other private collections in Moscow, Voronezh, and London.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2023 "Some hard leaves", CCA "Radiance", Apatity, Russia;
2022 "Lunch", OSSI Apartment Gallery "MI", Samara, Russia;
2022 "On Top", VYKSA AIR art residence, Vyksa, Russia;
2022 "A Place for Text", H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
2021 "Roman Alekseevich, like everyone else, is dissatisfied with the fact that the Ministry of Finance predicted an increase in prices for key food products in 2021.", H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
2020 "I will never come to the exhibition of this artist again.", High Five Gallery, Voronezh, Russia.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 "Room for Everyone", szena gallery, Moscow;
2023 "Before and after: projects in the Vyksa Art Residence", CCA "Arsenal", Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;
2023 "This Night", Nakovalnya Gallery, Moscow;
2022 "Holidays", Serene Gallery, Moscow;
2022 Morphology of Streets Festival, Tyumen, Russia;
2022 ISLET FICTIONS in collaboration with Tatiana Danilevskaya and Ivan Kalinichev. Gnesta, Sweden;
2021 "Forms and types. Transformations", Utilization Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
2021 "Our everything", CCA "Chicory", Zheleznogorsk, Russia;
2021 "Zhenya's Dream", Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow;
2020 the rooms 2.0, "House on the Embankment" (apartment of Simon Mraz), Moscow;
2019 "Orange with pomegranate flavor.", High Five Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
In partnership with the H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh.
2023 "Some hard leaves", CCA "Radiance", Apatity, Russia;
2022 "Lunch", OSSI Apartment Gallery "MI", Samara, Russia;
2022 "On Top", VYKSA AIR art residence, Vyksa, Russia;
2022 "A Place for Text", H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
2021 "Roman Alekseevich, like everyone else, is dissatisfied with the fact that the Ministry of Finance predicted an increase in prices for key food products in 2021.", H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
2020 "I will never come to the exhibition of this artist again.", High Five Gallery, Voronezh, Russia.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 "Room for Everyone", szena gallery, Moscow;
2023 "Before and after: projects in the Vyksa Art Residence", CCA "Arsenal", Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;
2023 "This Night", Nakovalnya Gallery, Moscow;
2022 "Holidays", Serene Gallery, Moscow;
2022 Morphology of Streets Festival, Tyumen, Russia;
2022 ISLET FICTIONS in collaboration with Tatiana Danilevskaya and Ivan Kalinichev. Gnesta, Sweden;
2021 "Forms and types. Transformations", Utilization Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
2021 "Our everything", CCA "Chicory", Zheleznogorsk, Russia;
2021 "Zhenya's Dream", Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow;
2020 the rooms 2.0, "House on the Embankment" (apartment of Simon Mraz), Moscow;
2019 "Orange with pomegranate flavor.", High Five Gallery, Voronezh, Russia;
In partnership with the H.L.A.M. Gallery, Voronezh.
