SELECTED WORKS
Severin Infante
Severin Infante was born in 1971 in Moscow into a family of artists, Francisco Infante andNonna Goryunova. He combines his artistic practice with work in graphic design and entrepreneurial activity. He lives and works in Moscow.
About the artist
«Light is the primary medium in Severin Infanté’s artistic practice. In his dynamic installations and objects of the 1990s, as well as in performances later realized as photographic series in the 2000s, and in the project “Square Meter”, he explores and employs the capacities of light as a force that transforms visual perception. In the exhibition, works defined by the title’s size and format occupy the gallery walls, fitting into a structured grid of vertical and horizontal axes. Some squares remain unfilled, creating voids reminiscent of windows of an unloaded or not yet generated digital screen. These dark, unlit “screens” disrupt the flatness of the wall, forming recesses that seem to sink into darkness. Pulsation and movement are also present within the works themselves, where light elements composed of points are embedded into painterly or photographic surfaces, dissolving the materiality of the images and causing them to “wander.” The spectrum of subjects ranges from minimalist geometric constructions to striking “touristic” landscape views and text-based compositions. Some motifs recur, their variability achieved through changes in color or the trajectories of the light grid. If the “square meters” of Severin Infanté’s works in the main hall function as building blocks of a dynamic spatial installation, then the works from the “Practice of Light” series, realized in the 2000s, demonstrate a different mode of the artist’s relationship with light. Unlike the constructed pictorial objects, these works—created through direct photography without montage or image manipulation—serve as “documents” recording a landscape transformed through light-writing» — Irina Gorlova, curator of the exhibition project «Square Meter» in SISTEMA GALLERY.
Personal exhibitions:
2026 “Square Meter”, SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow
2026 “Formulas of Eternity”, GES-2, Moscow
2025 “Venezia. The Subtleties of Translation”, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
2023 “Star Revenge”, GES-2, Moscow
2022 “Family Values”, AZ Museum, Moscow
2021 “Flight as a Dream”, Bakhrushin Museum, Moscow
2014 “Season of Victory”, Manege, Moscow
2013 “Skyscape”, Moscow Planetarium × Krokin Gallery, Moscow
2011 “Gates and Doors”, Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 “Practice of Light. Part I”, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions: 2006 “Meta-Moscow”, Karenina Gallery, Moscow
2005 Meta-Moscau, Karenina Gallery, Vienna
2005 “The Image of the Book”, Kuznetsky Most 20, Moscow
2005 “Art Moscow”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2004 “Metamoscow”, Novosibirsk State Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2004 “SKY”, Sam Brook Gallery, Moscow
2003 “Metamoscow”, New Collection Gallery, Moscow
2003 “Moscow — New York”, C.A.S.E. Museum, Jersey City, USA
2002 “Cloud Mixers”, New Collection Gallery, Moscow
2001 Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
2001 ART Brussels, Brussels
2001 ARCO, Madrid
2000 Int Art Exposition III, San Francisco, USA
2000 ART Brussels, Brussels
1999 Int Art Exposition II, San Francisco, USA
1999 “Correspondences”, New Collection Gallery, Moscow
1998 “Phocom-2”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1998 “Graphite”, World Trade Center, Moscow
1998 “Trends: Design, Environment, Interior”, State Geological Museum, Moscow
1998 EXPO-98, Russian Pavilion, Lisbon
1998 “Constructivist Workshop”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1998 “Electronic Artists — to Pushkin”, Phoenix Gallery, Moscow
1998 “Art Machine”, A-3 Gallery, Moscow
1997 “Morphology of Fire”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1997 “Phocom-1”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1997 “Labyrinth of Time”, Manege, Moscow
1997 “Pause”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1997 “Entering the Spiral”, Dominanta Gallery, Moscow
1997 “Metamorphoses of Quiet Life...”, Russian Cultural Foundation Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1997 “Credo”, Exhibition Hall of the Russian Cultural Foundation, Moscow
1996 “Square”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1996 “+/- TIME”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1994 “Labyrinth”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1993 “Glass Style of Keys”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1993 Opening of Zima Theater, Moscow
1993 “Art Myth”, New Jerusalem Museum, Moscow
1991 “Practice of Noise”, Regina Gallery, Moscow
1991 Musical action at the opening of O. Golosiy’s exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1990 Competition for church façade design projects, Grenoble
Fairs:
2001 ARCO, Madrid
2000 ART Brussels
1999–2001 Int Art Exposition, San Francisco, USA
Collections:
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Russian Culture, Texas, USA
Gerhard Lenz Collection, Munich, Germany
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow
Natalia Opaleva Collection
Private collections in Russia and abroad
2026 “Square Meter”, SISTEMA GALLERY, Moscow
2026 “Formulas of Eternity”, GES-2, Moscow
2025 “Venezia. The Subtleties of Translation”, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
2023 “Star Revenge”, GES-2, Moscow
2022 “Family Values”, AZ Museum, Moscow
2021 “Flight as a Dream”, Bakhrushin Museum, Moscow
2014 “Season of Victory”, Manege, Moscow
2013 “Skyscape”, Moscow Planetarium × Krokin Gallery, Moscow
2011 “Gates and Doors”, Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
2010 “Practice of Light. Part I”, Krokin Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions: 2006 “Meta-Moscow”, Karenina Gallery, Moscow
2005 Meta-Moscau, Karenina Gallery, Vienna
2005 “The Image of the Book”, Kuznetsky Most 20, Moscow
2005 “Art Moscow”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
2004 “Metamoscow”, Novosibirsk State Museum, Novosibirsk, Russia
2004 “SKY”, Sam Brook Gallery, Moscow
2003 “Metamoscow”, New Collection Gallery, Moscow
2003 “Moscow — New York”, C.A.S.E. Museum, Jersey City, USA
2002 “Cloud Mixers”, New Collection Gallery, Moscow
2001 Art Chicago, Chicago, USA
2001 ART Brussels, Brussels
2001 ARCO, Madrid
2000 Int Art Exposition III, San Francisco, USA
2000 ART Brussels, Brussels
1999 Int Art Exposition II, San Francisco, USA
1999 “Correspondences”, New Collection Gallery, Moscow
1998 “Phocom-2”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1998 “Graphite”, World Trade Center, Moscow
1998 “Trends: Design, Environment, Interior”, State Geological Museum, Moscow
1998 EXPO-98, Russian Pavilion, Lisbon
1998 “Constructivist Workshop”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1998 “Electronic Artists — to Pushkin”, Phoenix Gallery, Moscow
1998 “Art Machine”, A-3 Gallery, Moscow
1997 “Morphology of Fire”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1997 “Phocom-1”, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1997 “Labyrinth of Time”, Manege, Moscow
1997 “Pause”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1997 “Entering the Spiral”, Dominanta Gallery, Moscow
1997 “Metamorphoses of Quiet Life...”, Russian Cultural Foundation Exhibition Hall, Moscow
1997 “Credo”, Exhibition Hall of the Russian Cultural Foundation, Moscow
1996 “Square”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1996 “+/- TIME”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1994 “Labyrinth”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1993 “Glass Style of Keys”, Zima Theater, Moscow
1993 Opening of Zima Theater, Moscow
1993 “Art Myth”, New Jerusalem Museum, Moscow
1991 “Practice of Noise”, Regina Gallery, Moscow
1991 Musical action at the opening of O. Golosiy’s exhibition, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1990 Competition for church façade design projects, Grenoble
Fairs:
2001 ARCO, Madrid
2000 ART Brussels
1999–2001 Int Art Exposition, San Francisco, USA
Collections:
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Russian Culture, Texas, USA
Gerhard Lenz Collection, Munich, Germany
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow
Natalia Opaleva Collection
Private collections in Russia and abroad
