Trained as an architect, he started with a practice mainly based on painting, sculpture and installation. With the arrival of numerical medias and their accessibility, video becomes central in his work. Since 1999 he developed his art practice in the field of video and multimedia art. He explores various areas, from documentary to short scenarios. In field between reality and fiction, the medium of video creates a dialogue between objects, photography, installation and the urban environment.
It´s often goes through the irony of situations that a critic raises. Among the artist´s favorite themes are nature as the opposite of non-organic structures made by human beings.
Until 2019 Dmitry Bulnygin has been living and working in Russia. In 2019 the artist has moved to France and the new period of his artistic career began. New circumstances largely shape this period of creativity: having received freedom from the previous title of “famous video artist”, with which his name is firmly associated in Russia, he seems to completely forget about his previous occupation with digital art and is completely immersed in analogue materials. He recalls the sculpture course he received at the Academy of Architecture and at the same time takes lessons on working with tools from his colleagues. Working with eclectic forms and refusing to follow a certain style gives him greater freedom of expression. The position of neophyte and eternal student suits him more than ever. New series of sculptures and installations are created from the trunks of fallen trees and offcuts of boards from the commissioned works from colleagues, from leftovers from a table in culinary paradise and from a collection of Soviet wallpaper, as well as from the ashes of one’s own stove and red clay, plastic waste and materials from hardware stores.The inspiration and breeding ground are trophies of previous generations of French hunters thrown into the street and high touch design, medieval art and personages from the Paris metro, photographs of strange animals found on the Internet and political news. And the night cry of an owl, counting down the current time…
Selected solo exhibitions include:
While the lake is frozen, Syntax gallery, Moscow (RU), 2025; Polyethylene in the Anthropocene, Montenegro European Art Community, Budva (ME), 2024; Matter matters (with support of Syntax gallery), Material, Zurich (CH), 2024; Banyan, PERMM, (Perm Museum of Modern art), Perm (RU), 2023; La vie de Château, Lgallery, Paris (FR), 2023; Without flesh, Syntax gallery, Moscow (RU), 2022; "Presence invisible», ONspace gallery, Kiel (DE), 2021; «Leaning on void», Syntax gallery, Moscow (RU), 2019; «That given», Museum ART4, Moscow (RU), 2019; «Termitaries-2», CCI Fabrika, Moscow (RU), 2018; “Tension on surface”, Triumph gallery, Moscow (RU), 2017;"Nothing is perfect", Perm Museum of Modern art (PERMM), Perm (RU), 2017;“Termitaries”, Manezh, Moscow (RU), 2016; “Selected works”, CCA Zarya, Vladivostok (RU), 2016; “Not fishes – nor slaves”, Triangle gallery, Moscow (RU), 2015; “Decorations”, DEAC, Montenegro (ME), 2015; “Nothing is perfect”, Multimedia Art Museum (MAMM), Moscow (RU), 2015.
Selected group exhibitions include:
«Stop wars», Magasins Généraux, Paris (FR), 2022 ; «Food », « Loneliness II », Screenigs on Congress Center Basel, organized by Videocity, Basel (CH), 2021; Cosmoscow Art-Fair, Moscow (RU), 2021;Untitled Art-Fair, San Francisco (USA), 2020; Festival Oodaaq, Rennes (FR), 2019; 1st Video Mapping Festival, Hauts-de-France (FR), 2018; «Invisible / One visible», Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg (RU), 2018; “Afraid”, Solyanka gallery, Moscow (RU), 2017;“Recycled landscape”, New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow (RU), 2017;
"Man as bird. Images of journeys", Palazzo Soranzo Van Axel, 57 Biennial, Venice (IT), 2017
“Russian Cosmos”, MAMM, Moscow (RU), 2016.
Public collections:
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow (RU); Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (RU); Center Pompidou, Paris (FR); Museum for Applied Arts (MAK), Vienna (AT); Museum for contemporary arts (KIASMA), Helsinki (FI); Museum ART4, Moscow (RU); Museum Erarta, Sankt-Petersburg (RU); Museum of Fine Arts, Novosibirsk (RU)
