Alex Kuznetsov (b. 1978, Belarus)
Lives and works between Paris and Portugal.
Alex Kuznetsov is an artist whose practice focuses on process-based abstract painting, exploring materiality, repetition and duration as fundamental elements of visual perception.
Working primarily with acrylic and using industrial tools instead of a traditional brush, Kuznetsov creates layered surfaces through sequence, accumulation and controlled chance. His work sits at the intersection of painterly gesture, material process and optical perception. Painting is approached not as an image in the conventional sense, but as a constructed structure in which each layer carries a trace of time, movement and physical action.
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Gravity, duo show with L’Atlas, HD Galerie, Paris, France
Afterimage / Condition, Galerie Diego Escobar, Marseille, France
2025
Unplanned Decisions, HD Galerie, Paris, France
2023
Ground Line, Speerstra Gallery, Paris, France
Horizons, Speerstra Gallery, Bursins, Switzerland
2021
Another Output, Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020
Horizons / Ground Line, National Centre for Contemporary Art (State Museum), Minsk, Belarus
2018
Variations, Speerstra Gallery, Bursins, Switzerland
2016
Shift, MSK Eastside Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2015
Visual Attractions, Speerstra Gallery, Bursins, Switzerland
2014
Metalism, MSK Eastside Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2013
Abstractism, Speerstra Gallery, Bursins, Switzerland
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Group exhibition, Galerie Zberro, Paris, France, October 2026
2025
Oscillations, Liminal Gallery, Paris, France
2022
Intersections, Mobilab Gallery, Lausanne, Switzerland
Paper Works, Speerstra Gallery, Paris, France
2021
Moscow – Seoul: Common Ideas, Museum of Moscow
2020
The 101, Adda Sarto Gallery, Paris, France
2019
Border, National Palace of Art, Minsk, Belarus
2017
UPAW, Prince Albert II of Monaco foundation, Monaco
Mirus Gallery Anniversary, Mirus Gallery, San Francisco
2015
New Wave Uncut, MSK Eastside Gallery, Moscow
Urbanism, Museum Moscow, Moscow
2014
A Major Minority, 1AM Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Art Fairs
2026
Moderne Art Fair, Paris, France, 22–25 October 2026
San Francisco Art Fair, California, USA
2025
Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary, Florida, USA
2021
Vienacontemporary, Vienna, Austria
Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
2020
Cosmoscow Art Fair, Moscow, Russia
Residency
2014
Distil Ennui Studio, London, UK
Selected Collaborations and Projects
2025
Revolut, The Art of Payments, global virtual card collection based on eight original works
Borgmann 1772, limited artist edition, Lisbon, Portugal
2020
Vogue magazine, June 2020 / Editorial project
2017
Urban Painting Around the World, charity auction supporting the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation, Monaco
TUMI / Artist Suitcase, Monaco
2014
Absolut Artist Collaboration
Selected press
GraffitiART Magazine (France), June 2025
Arquitectura y Diseno (Spain), March 2023
Park Magazine (NYC), 2023
LE MILE magazine (Germany), October 2021
AD Architectural Digest magazine (Russia), Dec-Jan 2018/2019, March 2020, March 2021
Elle Decoration magazine (Russia), Nov 2018
Private collections
France, Portugal, USA, United Kingdom, Belarus, Russia, China, Spain, Germany, Japan and Italy