THE BEST RUSSIAN CONTEMPORARY ARTIST

The Best Russian Contemporary Artists (Art Index) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors (titles, awards of artists, participation in exhibitions, fairs, auctions, mention in art -ratings, the presence of works in museum collections, etc.).

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The Art Index (AIx, The Best Russian Contemporary Artists) is a list (unranked art rating) of artists from Russia and the Russian abroad, no older than 1960, compiled on the basis of indicators for evaluating achievements, popularity, creative activity of authors, and expert recommendations.
It is aimed primarily at collectors and all connoisseurs of contemporary art.
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Begalska Vika

1975

About

Vika Begalska included in the list of the Best Russian contemporary artists (Art Index). Victoria Begalska was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR. After graduating from the Kharkov State Academy of Design and Arts, she continued her artistic career in Kharkov, in the circle of artists working with photography - B. Mikhailova and S. Bratkov. In 2000 she moved to Moscow, since then, primarily associated with the Russian art scene, actively cooperating with the Ukrainian and international. Begalskaya's early artistic practices are primarily related to video. Since 2004, she has been working primarily in the technique of painting, where, in addition to reproducing aggressive female imagery, inheriting her projects in other media, the artist began to experiment with solving formal, purely painterly tasks. Since 2015 she has been working in collaboration with Alexander Vilkin.

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