Pavel Otdelnov
Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov (born 19 June 1979), is a Russian artist based in London. He works across painting, drawing, video, and installation, examining industrial landscapes, urban space, environmental issues, and the cultural history of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Otdelnov's practice draws on archival materials, field research, and personal testimony.
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- Name
- Pavel Otdelnov
- Birth Name
- Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov
- Born
- 19 June 1979
- Birthplace
- Dzerzhinsk, Russia
- Education
- Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute; Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art
- Known for
- Painting; Installation
- Awards
- * Innovation Art Prize (2020, Promzona)
- Nationality
- Russia
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- landscape · painting · installation artwork · contemporary
- Honours
- Innovacija · Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award
- Languages
- Russian
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Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov (born 19 June 1979), is a Russian artist based in London. He works across painting, drawing, video, and installation, examining industrial landscapes, urban space, environmental issues, and the cultural history of the Soviet and post-Soviet periods. Otdelnov's practice draws on archival materials, field research, and personal testimony.
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Biography
Biography
His exhibitions are often conceived as site-specific projects that combine painting with text, sound, and found objects. Painting remains central to his practice, often integrated into multimedia installations exploring historical memory and post-industrial transformation.
Pavel Otdelnov studied at Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art and Nizhny Novgorod Art School. The recorded working language is Russian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are landscape, painting, installation artwork and contemporary. Works named in the authority record are Promzona. Work by Pavel Otdelnov is recorded in the collections of Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum and Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Distinctions recorded are Innovacija and Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award.

Pavel Otdelnov in 2025. "A Child in Time" show at A.P.T. Gallery, London
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Artist Pavel Otdelnov in his studio in 2021
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Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Pavel Otdelnov • Birth Name — Pavel Aleksandrovich Otdelnov • Born — 19 June 1979 • Birthplace — Dzerzhinsk, Russia • Education — Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute; Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art • Known for — Painting; Installation • Notable Works — Inner Degunino (2014), Promzona (2019), Ringing Trace (2021) • Style — Industrial landscape painting • Awards — * Innovation Art Prize (2020, Promzona) • Kandinsky Prize longlist (2015, 2017, 2019; shortlist 2021) • Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award Special Prize (2017) • Website — https: otdelnov.com/en
Biography
Biography
Pavel Otdelnov was born in Dzerzhinsk Nizhny Novgorod Region, a major cluster of the Soviet chemical industry. Since the 1930s, the artist's family was employed at local chemical enterprises. Given its industrial background, Dzerzhinsk faced an economic decline and neglect after the collapse of the Soviet Union, which has served as one of the sources of imagery and subject matter for Otdelnov. From 1994 to 1999, Otdelnov studied painting at Nizhny Novgorod Art College with Pavel Rybakov. His early exhibitions included the group show Międzynarodowy Plener Malarski (Sławków, Poland, 1997) and a solo exhibition at the Peter's House exhibition hall in Nizhny Novgorod (1999). His graduation project, Cargo 200, addressed the experience of soldiers returning from the Afghan and Chechen wars. In 1999–2005, Otdelnov studied at Moscow Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts in the Painting Department under the instruction of Pavel Nikonov and Yuri Shishkov. According to Otdelnov, studying in Pavel Nikonov's workshop emphasized artistic risk and independence. Nikonov encouraged students to move beyond repetition and not to fear losing achieved results. Treating them as colleagues, he promoted open discussion and critical thinking. Otdelnov later described the main lesson he learned from Nikonov as the value of inner freedom. In 2005, he presented the graduation project in the form of a Gospel-inspired series. From 2005 to 2007, he was a post-graduate student at Surikov Art Institute. From 2013 to 2015, he studied at the Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2022, he relocated to the United Kingdom and has since been living and working in London.
Combine. Retrospective. 2007—2008
Combine. Retrospective. 2007—2008
• Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Construction. 2008 In 2007, Otdelnov and Egor Plotnikov went on a creative journey to Western Siberia where for two weeks they observed the operations of the Novokuznetsk Iron and Steel Plant and West-Siberian Metal Plant, two industrial behemoths built during the Soviet industrialization. The trip was initiated by Pavel Nikonov as a continuation of the Soviet practice of creative travel assignments. The idea behind this particular trip was to reconceptualize the experience of artists who participated in expeditions to major national construction projects in the 1920s–30s: Alexander Drevin, Aleksandr Labas, Alexander Tyshler, Nadezhda Udaltsova, Alexander Shevchenko, and others. The resulting series of paintings by Otdelnov and Plotnikov based on photos and sketches from the trip were exhibited at Heritage Gallery in May 2012. In Otdelnov's words, that visit to Novokuznetsk enabled a view of the Soviet industrial architecture as ancient ruins, akin to the Baths of Caracalla or a Roman Forum, that apparently achieved reconciliation with the surrounding landscape and became its part.
Land. Sky. 2007—2008
Land. Sky. 2007—2008
In 2007–2008 Otdelnov painted a series of five abstract landscapes where he amalgamated the inflection of the Russian lyrical landscapes from the 19th century and the expressive language of abstract painting. In his LiveJournal, the artist refers to Alexei Savrasov and Mark Rothko as the two main sources for the series Land. Sky. Three of the five landscapes from it were exhibited at Art Sanatorium, an exhibition hosted by the Tretyakov Gallery in 2010. This was Otdelnov's first attempt to present painting as part of an installation. The canvases were hung in a specially constructed isolated room with black walls, an invitation for the viewer to come inside and be surrounded by the acutely familiar Central Russia landscapes.
Google Landscapes and Urban Outskirts. 2010
Google Landscapes and Urban Outskirts. 2010
Around the same time, Otdelnov began working with images found on Google Maps or its satellite service (Highway II, 2010; the Color Fields series, 2010). Here, he seeks to contemplate the landscape from a removed perspective, whereby the computer screen acts as a filter to set a certain distance between the landscape and the artist. One of the notable influences on Otdelnov at the time was the Godfrey Reggio movie Koyaanisqatsi, with a minimalist score composed by Philip Glass. In the 2010s the artist lived in Khimki near Moscow and travelled to his studio in the capital every day. During his commute, Otdelnov was able to take in the landscapes of the Moscow outskirts and spent his weekend wandering around residential areas or the big waste dump not far from his home. These observation practices resulted in the series titled Metro, 2009–2010; In Motion, 2010; and the painting Desert, 2010, where the artist addresses for the first time the motifs central to his subsequent art: the urban outskirts, landfills, and abandoned plots.
Neon Landscape. 2012
Neon Landscape. 2012
In the fall of 2012, Otdelnov had his first solo show in Moscow where he presented the painting series Neon Landscape (Agency. Art Ru Gallery). The paintings made in oil on canvas and on wood focused on the exploration of the nature of light. The setting of choice was airport terminals, passageways and runways, metro stations, and highways, and the main protagonist was artificial lighting – coalescing into lines that are usually disregarded as background and remain unseen, even if they actually guide our movement through urban space.
Inner Degunino. 2013—2014
Inner Degunino. 2013—2014
In 2013, Otdelnov began the series Inner Degunino, where he depicts Moscow's residential areas and draws inspiration from the Zapadnoye Degunino District, situated near the Moscow Ring Road, comprising mostly industrial facilities and pre-fab mass housing of type P-44. According to the artist, his aim was to "construct an image of the modern Russian landscape, uncover the features of our time usually unseen through the habitual optics. This is primarily about the deserted post-Soviet landscapes, with their power transmission lines stretching into the void, with the ubiquitous pre-fab panel housing, and the gloomy sky." The author's take on the architecture of residential areas with spot inclusions of industrial plants across the endless snowy expanse drew the attention of David Elliott, a curator of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, which then featured Otdelnov's paintings at the Biennale in the summer of 2014. The exposition garnered high praise from art critics and culture correspondents. In October 2014, Otdelnov exhibited the completed Inner Degunino series at a solo show at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Inner Degunino was featured in the top 50 most prominent art projects of 2014 according to the editorial board of AroundArt; was ranked 3rd in the readership survey for the best exhibition; and was nominated in 2015 for the Kandinsky Prize in the Project of the Year category. The image of the artist's painting Ark from the Inner Degunino project was used in 2014 on the album cover for a Nizhny Novgorod band, KernHerbst, where the artist's brother Leonid Otdelnov is a member
Mall. 2015—2016
Mall. 2015—2016
• Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Mall. Lego. 2015 Otdelnov continued to explore the subject of post-Soviet urban outskirts in his project Mall, dedicated to the shopping centers that emerged around residential areas of Russian cities in the well-off "noughties". The artist depicts the bright boxes of malls surrounded by decrepit pre-fab panel houses as if they were glitches — visual artifacts caused by a software error. The Mall was exhibited at Triumph Gallery in late 2015. The preface to the exhibition gives the artist's own account of why he turned to glitches: A year later, in November 2016, the exhibition Mall. The Time of Colorful Sheds was organized as part of the Non-Places Programme run by the Department of Research Art and hosted by the Smena Center of Contemporary Culture in Kazan. In 2015, Otdelnov's contemplations on the notion of glitches in the post-Soviet landscape were presented at two other exhibition projects. In July 2015, he made a total installation for the exhibition Piece of Space Traversed by Mind at the New Wing of Gogol Museum on Nikitsky Boulevard: he painted a monochrome landscape on the walls with a snow field, gray sky, and power transmission line pylons, and the "glitch" was manifested in Lego bricks suspended on thin wire. In 2015, Otdelnov also participated in Expanding Space. Artistic Practice in the Urban Environment, a project aimed at creative exploration of contemporary phenomena and features of Moscow, organized by V-A-C Foundation. Otdelnov proposed a large-scale object constructed with bright composite panels to be installed next to the Moscow Ring Road near the 81st kilometer. It employed the parallax effect to make the structure seem stably whole from one vantage point but, as the perspective shifts, to disintegrate into parts becoming fluid and unstable. This piece was meant to imitate abandoned or uncompleted mall projects that look like a disruption in the landscape and, at the same time, symbolize the volatility in the economy.
Russian Nowhere. 2020—2021
Russian Nowhere. 2020—2021
• Illustration — Russian Nowhere. Exhibition view. 2021 The next project by Otdelnov that addressed the subject of post-Soviet wastelands and non-places was the Russian Nowhere, exhibited at Triumph Gallery in 2021. The artist searched for imagery by travelling the country through Yandex and Google Street View. For the paintings, he chose the most banal and typical images that could be taken anywhere in Russia. Next to the landscapes, Otdelnov placed illuminated red-letter signs, fashioned after the ubiquitous shop signage. The sign texts were borrowed from online comments in such social media communities as The Beauty Of Blight, Birch Tree, Russian Death, etc. Philosopher Svetlana Polyakova noted the extreme degree of dehumanization in the landscapes of this series: Following the exhibition at Triumph, the project was shown at the Yeltsin Centre in Yekaterinburg. In 2021, The Village, an online media outlet, reported on a new coinage Otdelnovesque — referring to the state of alienation and despondency.
Sand and Landscapes of the Kazanka River Floodplain. 2016—2017
Sand and Landscapes of the Kazanka River Floodplain. 2016—2017
In 2016, as part of the Non-Places Program run by the Department of Research Art, an interdisciplinary project in Moscow, Otdelnov went to Kazan for a residency at the Smena Center of Contemporary Culture. He met local environmental experts and activists who were trying to counter planned construction projects in the Kazanka River floodplain. While in residency, he shot the film Sand and painted landscapes of the Kazanka River.
Psychozoic Era. 2018—2019
Psychozoic Era. 2018—2019
• Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Psychozoic Era. 2018 In 2018, Otdelnov further explored the environmental issues in a new film and installation, titled collectively the Psychozoic Era. The project depicted Russian industrial waste storage facilities and their impacts on the environment and people.
Shitty Sea. 2019—2020
Shitty Sea. 2019—2020
In 2020, within the frames of the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Otdelnov made Shitty Sea, a project exploring the challenges of collection, sorting, and recycling of waste, as well as the problem of the ever-proliferating landfills around Moscow. The artist planted GPS beacons into garbage bags and threw them out in different parts of Moscow to track their movements. Eventually, he visited the municipal landfills and waste sorting facilities where they ended up. The process and outcomes of this research are presented in the film The Trash Trip (2019), the paintings Landfill Aleksandrov and Landfill Timokhovo (2019), MSW (2020), Rubbish and Waste Sorting (2020). To gain a deeper insight into waste sorting, Otdelnov took a job at one such facility. An account of his observations and conversations with other sorting workers are recorded in The Waste Sorter's Diary.
Promzona. 2015—2020
Promzona. 2015—2020
• Illustration — Promzona. Exhibition view. 2019 Promzona (Industrial Zone) is a project about the industrial landscape of Dzerzhinsk and the memory of the Soviet past. Through the history of his hometown and his own family, Pavel Otdelnov examines how the legacy of Soviet industry continues to shape the landscapes, memories, and identities of those who lived within it. The project brings together painting, photography, archival research, documentary materials, and found objects. It explores abandoned factories, restricted industrial zones, workers’ settlements, and family archives, examining how a former industrial world survives in the landscape and in personal memory. As part of the project, No Entry Without Gas Mask!, a book of memoirs written by the artist’s father Aleksandr Otdelnov, was published.
Ringing Trace. 2021
Ringing Trace. 2021
• Illustration — The dorm building of the former secret Laboratory B in Sungulʹ In the fall of 2021, invited by the Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Otdelnov created a project about the history of the nuclear industry in the Southern Urals. The project was exhibited at the former dormitory of the secret Laboratory B in the village of Sokol, Chelyabinsk Region. During the Soviet time, the lab studied radiobiology, but over the recent few decades, the dorms have been vacant and in disrepair. The artist structured the exposition as a parallel alternative to that of a local history museum. Alongside the newly created paintings, the exhibits included found documents and records, which resonated deeply with Pavel. Each of the 21 rooms in the exhibition narrates the different aspects of the history of the nuclear industry: the invention of the atomic bomb, the 1957 explosion at the Mayak Facility and its liquidators, the Chelyabinsk radioactive trace and the villages that it killed, the secret lingo of nuclear scientists and the daily life in closed towns, the poisoned Techa River, which had been receiving dumps of heavy radioactive waste in 1949–1956 while the riverside population continued to use its water. The project was deemed a success by both the audience and critics and recognized as one of the best at the Biennale. Despite its remote location, the exposition was visited by many people from all across Russia, and upon completion of the Biennale program, it was decided to make the exhibit permanent. The exposition became officially permanent in 2022. • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Techa. 2021
Hometown. 2024
Hometown. 2024
• Illustration — Hometown, The Old Waiting Room. 2024 Hometown is an exhibition project by Otdelnov, shown in June 2024 in the abandoned Old Waiting Room of Peckham Rye railway station in London. The project is dedicated to the artist's hometown of Dzerzhinsk, a former centre of the Soviet chemical industry that still has factories involved in munitions production. In a series of large-scale paintings, Otdelnov depicts industrial landscapes, the environmental impact of chemical production, local crime, family history, and ghost-like figures of the city's residents, combining personal and collective memory with visual images of decline and change. The architecture of the Old Waiting Room was integrated into the exhibition as part of the installation, creating the feeling of a "ghost place". The project reflects the historical and social development of Dzerzhinsk and continues his earlier project Promzona. The exhibition received press attention as an example of artistic reflection on post-Soviet industrial cities and their social and environmental problems.
A Child in Time. 2025
A Child in Time. 2025
• Illustration — A Child in Time. A.P.T. Gallery. 2025 A Child in Time is a solo exhibition by Pavel Otdelnov held in 2025 at A.P.T. Gallery in London. The project extends the inquiry of Hometown into the subject of Soviet childhood in the 1980s and the period of Perestroika. It focuses on the experience of growing up during a time of ideological transformation and instability, marked by rationing, the perceived threat of nuclear war, and the aftermath of the Chernobyl disaster. The exhibition is structured around several thematic strands, including Primer and Television. In the Primer series, Otdelnov reinterprets the structure of the Soviet school alphabet book, replacing its didactic imagery with motifs associated with childhood anxiety and fear. The Television works draw on imagery from Soviet broadcasts, including the children's programme Good Night, Little Ones!, the news programme Vremya, and televised sessions of Anatoly Kashpirovsky. Through these references, the project examines the role of mass media and educational imagery in shaping collective consciousness and memory in late Soviet society. The project has been discussed in relation to contemporary concerns about censorship, surveillance and ideological control in the Russian art scene.
Estates: Fragile Utopia. 2026
Estates: Fragile Utopia. 2026
• Illustration — Estates: Fragile Utopia. Lewisham Arthouse. 2026 Estates: Fragile Utopia explores council estates as material remnants of post-war ideas about welfare, collective responsibility and social equality, situating them within a broader history of twentieth-century modernist urban planning. Drawing on research into the work of Patrick Abercrombie and Geoffrey Jellicoe, as well as housing developments including the Aylesbury Estate, Robin Hood Gardens and Thamesmead, Otdelnov considers architecture as a carrier of political and social ideals. The project relates British post-war housing to parallel histories of mass housing in the Soviet Union while emphasising the differences between the two contexts, using the artist's dual perspective to place British estates within a wider transnational history of modernist utopian thought. Through paintings based on contemporary observation and historical research, the series reflects on the legacy of post-war housing policy and its relationship to the present-day housing crisis.
Unheimlich. 2015—2024
Unheimlich. 2015—2024
In 2015, for the exhibition War Museum at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Otdelnov created the installation Unheimlich. The work recreated a domestic interior into which subtle references to war were inserted, including a toy tank and armed figures hidden within the carpet pattern. The project referred to Freud’s concept of the "unheimlich" and to Martha Rosler's series Bring the War Home. In the same context, Otdelnov produced photographic collages juxtaposing private interiors with images of war-damaged cities in the Donetsk Region, as well as the painting No Flights Today (2015). In 2023, Otdelnov revisited Unheimlich and produced a new version of the installation, which was presented as part of the series of exhibitions Brainwashing Machine. This updated version continued to explore the intimate intersections of domestic spaces and the pervasive presence of war, reflecting his ongoing engagement with memory, trauma, and the absurdity of conflict.
Acting Out. 2022
Acting Out. 2022
• Illustration — Acting Out at Pushkin House, 2022 In autumn 2022, Otdelnov presented his first UK solo exhibition, Acting Out, at Pushkin House of London. Spread over three floors, the show unfolded as a visual narrative on the afterlife of the Soviet Union and its psychological echoes in contemporary Russia. Using recurring motifs such as the red carpet of Soviet bureaucracy and imagery of bunkers, missile silos, and discarded rouble notes, Otdelnov reflected on the transformation of collective trauma into new forms of aggression and nostalgia. Combining historical and psychological perspectives, Acting Out addressed how unresolved Soviet legacies continue to shape Russia's present identity and its war in Ukraine, turning symbols of power and progress into reminders of loss, denial, and cyclical violence.
Scenes from a Nightmare. 2022–2025
Scenes from a Nightmare. 2022–2025
• Illustration — Scenes from a Nightmare at Wolfson College, 2025 In February 2022, Otdelnov publicly spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine. In spring 2022, he created the drawing series Hands of War, based on photographs from war correspondents. In March–April 2022, he produced the watercolor series Field of Experiments, exhibited in summer 2022 at Kalmar Art Museum (Sweden). The works depict a deserted snowy field interrupted by isolated objects such as a checkpoint, a concrete fence, a red carpet, a burned house, and human figures. The title refers to the song Russian Field of Experiments by the band Grazhdanskaya Oborona. The series addresses themes of isolation, generational rupture, and geopolitical conflict. In 2025, Otdelnov unified these works under the new title Scenes from a Nightmare and exhibited them at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Selected personal exhibitions
Selected personal exhibitions
• 2026 — Estates: Fragile Utopia. Lewisham Arthouse, London • 2025 — Scenes from a Nightmare. Wolfson College, Oxford • 2025 — A Child in Time. A.P.T. Gallery, London • 2024 — Hometown. The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye railway station, London • 2022 — Acting Out. Pushkin House, London • 2022 — The Field of Experiments, Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden • 2022 — Promzona, Uppsala Art Museum, Uppsala • 2021 — Russian Nowhere. The Art Gallery of Yeltsin Center, Yekaterinburg • 2021 — Russian Nowhere, Triumph Gallery, Moscow • 2019 — Promzona, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow • 2018 — Factory Anecdotes, Creative Industrial Cluster Oktava, Tula • 2018 — Chemical Plant, FUTURO Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod • 2017 — Ruins, Victoria Art Gallery, Samara • 2016 — Mall. Time of Colorful Sheds, Centre of Contemporary Culture SMENA, Kazan • 2016 — White Sea. Black Hole, Arsenal, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod • 2016 — Deserts. 2002 – 2017, Belyaevo Gallery, Moscow • 2015 — Mall, Triumph Gallery, Moscow • 2014 — Inner Degunino, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow • 2012 — Neon Landscape, Agency. Art Ru, Moscow • 2010 – 2012 — Otra Cotidianidad. Quinta del Berro Cultural Center, Madrid; Casa de los Picos, Segovia; Juana Frances Hall, Madrid; Cervantes Birthplace Museum, Alcala de Henares; Nicholas Salmeron Cultural Centre, Madrid; Cervantes Museum, Esquivias; Centro Ruso de Ciencia y Cultura, Madrid
Biennials
Biennials
• 2021 — Ringing Trace. Personal project within the Artist-in-Residence program of the 6th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, former dormitory of the Laboratory B, Sokol village, Chelyabinsk region • 2019 — Orienteering and Positioning. The Main Project of the 8th Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2018 — Art Art and Technology. Pros and Cons. The Main Project of the 8th International Tashkent Biennale of Contemporary Art, Central Exhibition Hall of the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan, Tashkent • 2017 — New Literacy. The Main Project of the 4th Ural Industrial Biennale of Contemporary Art, Yekaterinburg • 2015 — No Time. Special project of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, CCA Winzavod, Moscow • 2015 — Metageography. Space – Image – Action. Special projects of the 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2014 — A Time for Dreams. The Main Project of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Museum of Moscow • 2014 — No man's land. Parallel Programme of the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Grinberg Gallery, Moscow • 2007 — Personal Acquaintance. Parallel Programme of the 3rd Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art, Kovcheg Gallery, Moscow
Selected group exhibitions
Selected group exhibitions
• 2025 — The Last Train. The Old Waiting Room, Peckham Rye Station, London • 2025 — NO. Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin • 2024 — Cellule. Storage room, Centre Pompidou, Paris • 2024 — Breath 2024. CICA Museum, Czong Institute for Contemporary Art, Gimpo, South Korea • 2024–2025 — Brainwashing Machine, The Crypt Gallery, London; Artten Gallery, Stockholm; La Zona Gallery, Madrid • 2023 — 73—23, Pal Project Gallery, Paris • 2022 — Overwhelming Majority?, Shtager gallery, London • 2022 — Art for Sanity: Reverse Perspective of War, MANYI—Kulturális Műhely, Budapest • 2022 — Thing. Space. Human. Art of the second half of the XX–early XXI century from the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2021 — Living Matter. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2021 — Moscow–Seoul: Common Ideas. Museum of Moscow, Moscow • 2021 — Socialist Realism. Metamorphosis. Soviet Art 1927 – 1987. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2020 — Generation XXI. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2020 — Viral Self-Portraits. Online exhibition. Museum of Modern Art (Ljubljana), Ljubljana • 2018 — Where will I be, Selected works from MMOMA Collection. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk • 2018 — Metageography: Orientalism and Dreams of Robinsons. Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok • 2018 — 10/7. Collection Highlights / Display History, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow • 2017 — Come Back Home. Institute of Russian Realist Art, Moscow • 2017 — Noise of Time. Russian Contemporary Art from Erarta Museum, Maritime Centre, Kotka, Finland • 2015 — Fest, Krasnoyarsk Museum Center. Krasnoyarsk • 2015 — Piece of Space Traversed by Mind. New Wing of Gogol Museum, Moscow • 2015 — Sub Observation, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow • 2015 — Expanding Space, GES-2, Moscow • 2015 — Russia. Realism. XXI century. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg • 2014 — Fortune Museum. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow • 2014 — Perception Transfers. From analog to digital. CCA Sokol, Moscow • 2013 — Strabag Art Award, Vienna • 2013 — Stanzas, Erarta Gallery, St. Petersburg • 2013 — Horizons, CCI Fabrika, Moscow • 2012 — Combine. Retrospective. Heritage Gallery, Moscow • 2011 — The forms of life. Return to reality. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow • 2011 — Russian Metaphysics. Italian Objectivity. The Beginning of the New Century. Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow • 2010 — Art Sanatorium. Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Monographs and exhibition catalogues
Monographs and exhibition catalogues
• V. Diakonov (2012). Pavel Otdelnov. Neon Landscape. Catalog of the exhibition. Moscow: Agency. Art Ru. p. 38 • D. Kamyshnikova (2014). Internal Degunino. Pavel Otdelnov. Moscow: Triumph. p. 24. • I. Kulik; Otdelnov, Pavel (2015). Pavel Otdelnov. MALL. Moscow: Triumph. p. 44. • D. Kamyshnikova; K. Zatsepin; P. Otdelnov (2019). Pavel Otdelnov. PROMZONA. Moscow: Triumph. p. 192. • S. Polyakova; M. Bobyleva; P. Otdelnov (2021). Pavel Otdelnov. RUSSIAN NOWHERE. Catalog of the exhibition. Moscow: Triumph. p. 78. • A. Erofeev; E. Tolchennikova; A. Korytov; M. Loskov (Eds.). (2020). ЧА ЩА (CHA SHA). Exhibition in the Forest. Jart Gallery. p. 329 • A. Khitrov, I. Krasilschik, A. Stognei, G. Timchenko, I. Venyavkin, A. Zerkaleva (2025). NO. The Book. Berlin, Germany: Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. pp. 260. • D. Ozerkov, D. Vierny & pal project, ed. (2024). 73-23. Exhibition catalog. Paris. p. 232.
Gallery
Gallery
• Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. No Flights Today. 2015 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Glory to Labour. 2016 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Gas Holder. 2017 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Garages. 2020 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Globality. 2020 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Techa. 2021 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Birch grove. 2021 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Relocated. 2021 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Hometown. Exhibition view. 2024 • Illustration — Pavel Otdelnov. Estates: Fragile Utopia. Exhibition view. 2026
Life and career
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Life and career
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1979
Pavel Otdelnov born at Dzerzhinsk.
Style and technique
Otdelnov was trained as an academic painter. The curriculum of the art college was based on the study of Socialist realism and placed a strong emphasis on painting from life. His student and early works of 2000s reflect the influence of Pavel Nikonov, Nikolay Andronov, and Andrey Vasnetsov. During this period, his practice was centred on exploring the formal properties of painting – the materiality of pigments, the interplay between surface and depth, and the organisation of compositional structure. In 2009–2010, Otdelnov's artistic vocabulary evolved: his impasto technique became more refined, the pictorial space deepened, and the succession of expressive colour fields, textures, and paint drips was subdued in favour of softer tonal transitions. In 2015, Otdelnov began working with video, and in 2016 he exhibited photographs for the first time. Otdelnov has described painting as a medium intrinsically linked to time. He compares his mode of perception to time-lapse footage, which allows changes in familiar landscapes and everyday life to become visible: From the mid-2010s onward, Otdelnov began incorporating painting into large-scale installation and research-based projects, including Promzona and Ringing Trace. Within these projects, painting functions alongside video, found objects, archival documents, and immersive environments. Critics have compared his work to that of Gerhard Richter and artists associated with the Düsseldorf School of Photography. Otdelnov has cited influences ranging from nineteenth-century Russian landscape painting to Mario Sironi and Giorgio Morandi. He has also referred to artists such as Semen Faĭbisovich, Mikhail Roginsky, Erik Bulatov, and Cyprien Gaillard.
Books by art critics
• K. Zatsepin (2016). Пространство взгляда. Искусство 2000 — 2010–х годов. Сборник статей [The Space of Vision. Art 2000 — 2010s. Digest of articles] (in Russian). Samara: Book Edition. p. 115. • D. Mille (2020). Trajectories of Modernization in Russia: Artists Recalibrating the Sensorium. In Latour, Bruno; Weibel, Peter (eds.). Critical Zones. Observatories for Earthly Politics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, MIT Press. pp. 378–379. • S. Reviakin; E. Lucie-Smith (2022). Russian Art in the New Millennium. Unicorn Publishing Group. p. 256 • I. Kulik (2024). Projected Passages. Contemporary Art in a Hauntological Perspective. PArt. Lectures (in Russian). AST. pp. 66–71/384.
Selected collections
• Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia • State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia • Uppsala Art Museum, Sweden • Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden • Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia • Institute of Russian Realist Art, Moscow, Russia • National Center for Contemporary Art, Russia • Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia • Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia • Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia • Bardin Scientific and Technical Museum, Novokuznetsk, Russia
Awards
• 2015 — Kandinsky Prize: long list, "Project of the Year" nomination for Inner Degunino project • 2017 — Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award: short list, Artist of the Year nomination for White Sea. Black Hole project • 2017 — Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award: "Special Award of the French Institute" nomination, for the White Sea. Black Hole project • 2017 — Kandinsky Prize long list, "Project of the Year" nomination for White Sea. Black Hole project • 2019 — Kandinsky Prize: long list, "Project of the Year" nomination for Psychozoic era project • 2020 — Artist of the Year by Cosmoscow Foundation • 2020 — Innovation Art Prize: the winner, "Artist of the Year" nomination for Promzona project • 2021 — Kandinsky Prize: short list (Promzona project)
Scholarly articles
• I. Sokolov (2021). The Russian Tlen. Or aesthetics of the bumblefuck. Young Anthropology – Undergraduate Student Journal of Anthropology. 3. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga: pp. 27–31. • E. Sarkisian Åkerman (2021). Det kollektiva och det privata minnet: Sokol, Otdelnov och Muromtseva, Konst i ruinerna av en utopi: en analys av nominerade bidrag till Kandinsky- och Innovatsijapriserna 2019/2020 (in Swedish). [The Collective and the Private Memory: Sokol, Otdelnov and Muromtseva part of: Art in the Ruins of a Utopia: An Analysis of Nominated Entries for the Kandinsky and Innovation Prizes]. Uppsala University. pp. 29–35/54. • L. A. Zaks (2021). Эстетическое наших дней: новая феноменология [The Aesthetic of Our Times: A New Phenomenology]. Koinon Vol. 2(3), pp. 44–66. • S. V. Polyakova (2021). Русское Нигде как пространство семиозиса: к истории одной выставки [Russian Nowhere as a Space of Semiosis]. Human Being: Image and Essence. INION RAN. Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University, Vol. 1(49), pp. 146–164 • P. Otdelnov (2023). Making of an Art Project: Ringing Trace. In N. Mörner (Ed.), Ecological Concerns in Transition. Södertörn University. pp. 59–64. • R. Wigh Abrahamsson; A. Brutemark; Joosse, S. et al. (2023). IMAGINATIVE POWER: The role of art in environmental communication, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences. 26 p. • A. Arutyunyan; A. Egorov (2024). Personal Traces in the Soviet Industrial Aftermath. Pavel Otdelnov's Promzona and Haim Sokol's Paper Memory Exhibitions in Moscow. In F. Guerin & M. Szcześniak (Eds.), Visual culture of post-industrial Europe. Amsterdam University Press. pp. 243–266. • P. A. Otdelnov (2024). A Critical Juncture. In L. Piters-Hofmann (Ed.), What Is to Be Done?. Logos Verlag. pp. 165–172.
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- 1.Yuzhakova. 4th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art. New Literacy. Catalogue. Ural University Publishing Center. 134–137, 482/490. 2017. 978-5-7996-2244-2.
- 2.de Pury, Kate. Pavel Otdelnov: Future Ruins. Art Focus Now. January 2020.
- 3.Adashevskaya, Liya. Глазами очевидца. Диалог Искусств [Dialogue of Arts]. 42–45. January 2015. 1812-304X.
- 4.Safonov, Sergey. Kovcheg gallery. Post-war and contemporary art. 2011.
- 5.Plungian, Nadia. Визуальный словарь Павла Отдельнова. Colta.ru. 18 September 2017.
- 6.Zhivopis-Info. Энциклопедия живописцев: начало XXI века. 4. 306. 2008. 978-5-9900524-5-1.
- 7.Otdelnov, Pavel. Художник Павел Никонов хотел вернуть в советское искусство «правду жизни», а потом уехал в деревню и нашел там космос. Павел Отдельнов — памяти своего учителя. Meduza. 14 November 2025.
- 8.Otdelnov, Pavel. Четыре плюс пять плюс шесть. AroundArt. 29 January 2014.
- 9.Otdelnov, Pavel. Неактуальное искусство. AroundArt. 18 June 2014.
- 10.Elliott Brown, Roland. Russian Intellectuals in Exile. New Lines Magazine. 19 October 2023.
- 11.Artist Pavel Otdelnov. SHAPESLewisham.
- 12.Kulik, Irina. Проект СОВРЕМЕННИКИ. Павел Отдельнов. mmomatv. 20 March 2019.
- 13.Pavel Otdelnov — Official website. otdelnov.com.
- 14.Отдельнов, Павел Александрович. Great Russian Encyclopedia.
- 15.Nikonov, Pavel. Комбинат. Ретроспектива. Heritage. 2012.
- 16.Kiseleva, Evgenia. Мартеновская печь как арт-объект или индустриальная эстетика. Salon Nedvizhimosty, No. 6 [Real Estate Salon]. 140–143. 2012. 1726-2437.
- 17.Highway.
- 18.Kulik, Irina. Проектируемые проезды. Современное искусство в хонтологической перспективе. AST. 66–71. 2024. 978-5-17-145601-6.
- 19.Diakonov, Valentin. Pavel Otdelnov. Neon Landscape. Catalog of the exhibition. Agency. Art Ru. 38. 2012.
- 20.Uspensky, Anton. Опустошение пейзажа. Dialogue of Arts Magazine. 2014–2015.
- 21.Elliott, David. Catalogue of the 4th Moscow Biennal of Young Art "Time to Dream". The State Centre for Contemporary Art. 156–159/263. 2014. 978-5-94620-095-0.
- 22.Vasilyeva, Zhanna. Эллиотт нашел время мечтать. Российская газета. 25 June 2014.
- 23.Kamyshnikova, Daria. Internal Degunino. Pavel Otdelnov. Triumph. 24. 2014. 978-5-6045889-1-8.
- 24.Orlov, Sergey. KernHerbst "КОВЧЕГ": альбом на все времена. Культура В Городе. Culture in the city. 7 May 2015.
- 25.Shestakova, Alexandra. Спальник в космосе. Kommersant. 2014-10-27.
- 26.Potemkin, Dmitry. Expanding Space. Artistic Practice in the Urban Environment. V–A–C press. 472. 2018. 978-5-9909519-4-5.
- 27.Interview. Выставка «Блок пространства отдан разуму», 1 июля — 16 августа 2015.
- 28.Khachaturov, Sergey. Картины на карантине. Art territory. 16 November 2015.
- 29.Kulik, Irina. Mall. August borg. 2015. 978-5-906550-56-9.
- 30.Chuchalina, Katerina. Expanding Space. Artistic Practice in the Urban Environment. V—A—C Foundation. 2015.
- 31.Zatsepin, Konstantin. Энигматический пейзаж. Literary and analytical portal Circus Olympus TV № 24 (57). 2017-02-06.
- 32.Polyakova, Svetlana. Pavel Otdelnov. RUSSIAN NOWHERE. Catalog of the exhibition. Triumph. 78. 2021. 978-5-6043737-7-4.
- 33.The Village. "Пяр", "оп" и "реджекшн": Как говорят на 6-ой Уральской индустриальной биеннале. 4 November 2021.
- 34.Sitnikov, Mikhail. Павел Отдельнов: главная черта современного искусства — его критичность. Art Uzel. 25 February 2021.
- 35.The Village. Павел Отдельнов об исследовании районов и эстетизации советской эпохи. 27 March 2021.
- 36.Sandalov, Felix. Арт-надзор. Какой видят Казань художники из резиденции «Не-места». Inde.io. 28 September 2017.
- 37.Filatova, Maria. Moscow – Kazan – Moscow. Tsarskaya Bashnya, Kazansky Railway Station. 128. 2018. 9785604073032.
- 38.International Cultural Foundation BREUS Foundation. Премия Кандинского. Выставка номинантов. Каталог. 2019. 978-5-6040802-5-2.
- 39.Khachaturov, Sergei. Стёртая память и оптический сбой. Artterritory. 23 October 2019.
- 40.Yakovlev, Andrey. Страна отходов. Как мусор захватил Россию и можно ли ее спасти. Individuum. 228. 2021. 978-5-6045889-1-8.
- 41.Mokrousov, Alexey. Дезориентация на местности. Novaya Gazeta. 11 November 2019.
- 42.Aksenova, Yulia. Living Matter. State Tretyakov Gallery. 165. 2021.
- 43.Dialogue Trianon. Psychozoic Era. 2018. 2021.
- 44.Kamyshnikova, Daria. Павел Отдельнов. Промзона. Triumph. 192. 2019. 978-5-6041668-8-8.
- 45.Mille, Daria. Trajectories of Modernization in Russia: Artists Recalibrating the Sensorium. Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, MIT Press. 378–379. 2020. 978-0262044455.
- 46.Arutyunyan, Anna. Personal Traces in the Soviet Industrial Aftermath. Pavel Otdelnov's Promzona and Haim Sokol's Paper Memory Exhibitions in Moscow. Visual Culture of Post-Industrial Europe. Amsterdam University Press. 243–266. 2024. 978-90-4856-009-7.
- 47.Wedland, Aaron James. See Death and Life in Dzerzhinsk. A chilling, heartening show at MMOMA. The Moscow Times. 18 February 2019.
- 48.de Pury, Kate. Artist probes Russia's toxic legacy through family history. Associated Press. 20 February 2019.
- 49.Geraint Rhys Whittaker. In the Footsteps of Ghosts. Wales Arts Review. 23 February 2020.
- 50.Burov, Maxim. Фосген рассеивается. Чем запомнится «ПРОМЗОНА» Павла Отдельнова. Colta.ru. 2019-03-03.
- 51.Otdelnov, Aleksandr. Без противогаза не входить!. Triumph. 56. 2019.
- 52.Amarilla, Estrella. The Ringing Trace: capturing the Invisible Legacy of a Soviet Nuclear Catastrophe. The Calvert Journal. 18 February 2022.
- 53.Guskov, Sergey. Pavel Otdelnov. Building of the Former Dormitory of Laboratory B. Artforum. 10 October 2022.
- 54.Geusa, Antonio. The 6th Ural Industrial Biennale: tо hug and to cry. Art Focus Now. 5 January 2022.
- 55.Tolstova, Anna. Политический пейзаж. Павел Отдельнов: живопись в расширенном поле. Kommersant Weekend. Kommersant. No. 44. 15 December 2023.
- 56.Kishkovsky, Sophia. Exiled Russian artist reflects on the impact of war on his hometown in Peckham show. The Art Newspaper. 12 June 2024.
- 57.Gurn, Il. Pavel Otdelnov’s Hometown. London Cult. 18 June 2024.
- 58.Otdelnov, Pavel. What Is to Be Done? Art Practice, Theory, and Promotion in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia. Logos Verlag. 165–172. 2024. 978-3-8325-5863-5.
- 59.From Soviet Past to Russia's Present: Artist Otdelnov Faces Down His Native City's Ghosts in New Exhibition. The Moscow Times. 24 June 2024.
- 60.Pavel Otdelnov: A Child in Time. New Exhibitions. 20 February 2025.
- 61.Gurn, Il. Cycles of Revival, Continuity and Repetition. Art Focus Now. 19 February 2025.
- 62.Kishkovsky, Sophia. Russia tightens screws on freedom of expression. The Art Newspaper. 27 May 2025.
- 63.Goshchanskaya, Olga. "Double Outsider": in the London studio of artist Pavel Otdelnov. Zima Magazine. 2026-04-07.
- 64.Zupančič, Tadej. Pavel Otdelnov, ruski umetnik v Londonu Arhitektura me zanima predvsem kot nosilka utopičnih idej. Outsider. 46. 40–45. 2026.
- 65.Trevelyan, Mark. Pavel Otdelnov on Britain's fragile urban utopias. Reuters. 2026-04-04.
- 66.Il Gurn. Homes for the Future. Art Focus Now. 2026-04-15.
- 67.Tolstova, Anna. Политический пейзаж. Павел Отдельнов: Живопись в расширенном поле. Kommersant Weekend. Kommersant. 15 December 2023.
- 68.Предыстория создания картины Сегодня рейсов нет на личном сайте Павла Отдельнова.
- 69.Ruvenal, Caio. In a New Art Exhibition, the Kremlin’s Brainwashing Methods Are Revealed. El País. 7 March 2024.
- 70.Brainwashing Machine.
- 71.The Moscow Times. Russian Artist Pavel Otdelnov Reflects on Kremlin's War in Ukraine. 20 July 2023.
- 72.Pavel Otdelnov on his exhibition Acting Out. Arterritory.com. 3 November 2022.
- 73.Howe, Kate. Pavel Otdelnov shows a portrait of today's Russia in London. Art Focus Now. 19 October 2022.
- 74.Verhagen, Marcus. Pavel Otdelnov: Acting Out. Art Monthly. 28–29. 2022.
- 75.Woods, Allan. Cultural dialogue seen as impossible. Toronto Star. 23 February 2023.
- 76.Kalmar Konstmuseum. The Field of Experiments. Kalmar Art Museum.
- 77.University of Oxford. Scenes from a Nightmare: Exhibition by Pavel Otdelnov.
- 78.The Field of Experiments. Kalmar Konstmuseum.
- 79.Källén, Matilda. Pavel Otdelnov: "Efter kriget måste vi starta om från noll". Dagens Nyheter. 31 March 2022.
- 80.Promzona – Pavel Otdelnov. Uppsala konstmuseum. 2022.
- 81.Павел Отдельнов. "ТЦ. Время цветных сараев".
- 82.Exhibition of Pavel Otdelnov “Deserts”. Gallerix.
- 83.Российский центр науки и культуры в Королевстве Испания. Неделя русской культуры в Мадриде. Выставки живописи Павла Отдельнова Россия: взгляд изнутри. 14 February 2011.
- 84.Russian Center for Science and Culture in the Kingdom of Spain. Персональная выставка российского художника Павла Отдельнова в Мадриде. 17 October 2011.
- 85.Rtvcyl.es. Segovia acoge una exposición de pintura del joven talento ruso Pavel Otdelnov. 1 December 2011.
- 86.49ART – Russian Investment Art Rating: list of artists. 49art.ru.
- 87.Schulte, Robert. Ural Biennial 2017: Literacy for the New Age. An interview with curator João Ribas. Spike Magazine. 3 October 2017.
- 88.Smirnov, Nikolai. Metageography. Space – Image – Action. State Tretyakov Gallery. 284. 2016. 978-5-906550-47-7.
- 89.International Biennale for Young Art 2014. Artmap. 2014.
- 90.Kulik, Irina. Устаревшая точка зрения считать, что живопись – это не актуально. ArtAndYou. 3 June 2014.
- 91.Personal acquaintance. Parallel Programme of the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art.
- 92.Goshchanskaya, Olga. 'The Last Train': Art on the Threshold of Emigration. London Cult. 27 November 2025.
- 93.Dmitry Ozerkov. 73–23. Dina Vierny & pal project. 160-171/232. 2024. 978-2-901206-09-5.
- 94.Anton Khitrov, Ilya Krasilschik, Anastasia Stognei, Galina Timchenko, Ilya Venyavkin, Alexandra Zerkaleva. NO. The Book. Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. 186-187/260. 2025. 978-9934-9255-5-9.
- 95.NO. THE EXHIBITION / NEIN. DIE AUSSTELLUNG. Kunstraum Kreuzberg. 2025.
- 96.Khitrov, Anton. Российские художники, выступающие против войны, провели партизанскую выставку в парижском Центре Помпиду. Meduza. 21 March 2024.
- 97.Breath 2024. CICA Museum. 31 July 2024.
- 98.Vickery, Jo. Brainwashing on Betancourt Street. Art Focus Now. 15 March 2024.
- 99.Brainwashing Machine. The Crypt Gallery. 8 September 2024.
- 100.Kony, Elena. Russian Artists Exiled in a Loop. Art Focus Now. 8 December 2023.
- 101.Kharitonova, A. M. Соцреализм. Метаморфозы. Советское искусство 1927—1987. Just Design. 202–211/224. 2021. 978-5-6046152-0-1.
- 102.Viral Self-Portraits. MG+MSUM, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana. 15 May 2020.
- 103.Egorov, Andrei; Kovalenko, Elena; Ananiev, Aleksei. Come back home. Institute of Russian Realist Art. 176. 2017. 9785990926011.
- 104.Petrova, E. Russia. Realism. XXI Century. Palace Editions. 96. 2015. 978-5-93332-528-4.
- 105.Lapina, Alena. Как я провел лето. The Art Newspaper Russia. 26 August 2014.
- 106.Gorlova, Irina. Поколение XXI. Дар Владимира Смирнова и Константина Сорокина. State Tretyakov Gallery. 192. 2020. 978-5-6044419-0-9.
- 107.Pavel Otdelnov. Internal Degunino. Kandinsky Prize. 15 June 2015.
- 108.The Sergey Kuryokhin Centre. The Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award 2016 laureates.
- 109.Centre for Contemporary Art named after Sergey Kuryokhin. Award Ceremony of the Sergey Kuryokhin Prize 2016. 26 April 2017.
- 110.Kandinsky Prize. Kandinsky Prize 2017.
- 111.Kandinsky Prize. Kandinsky Prize 2019. 22 February 2019.
- 112.Artist of the Year — Pavel Otdelnov. Cosmoscow. 2020.
- 113.Innovation Art Prize. The Innovation Prize 2020.
- 114.Kandinsky Prize. Pavel Otdelnov. Promzona (Exhibition project). 13 October 2021.
- 115.Erofeev, Andrey. ЧА ЩА (CHA SHA). Exhibition in the Forest. Jart Gallery. 329. 2020.
- 116.Reviakin, Sergei. Russian Art in the New Millennium. Unicorn Publishing Group. 256. 2022. 978-19-13491-98-7.
- 117.Sokolov, Igor. The Russian Tlen. Or aesthetics of the bumblefuck. Young Anthropology – Undergraduate Student Journal of Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto Mississauga. 3. 27–31. Fall 2021.
- 118.Sarkisian Åkerman, Ellen. The Collective and the Private Memory: Sokol, Otdelnov and Muromtseva. 54. 2021. 1534884.
- 119.Zaks, L. A. Эстетическое наших дней: новая феноменология. Koinon. Liberal Arts University – University for Humanities Ural Federal University. 2. № 3. 3. 44–66. 2021. 10.15826/koinon.2021.02.3.027.
- 120.Polyakova, S. V. Русское Нигде как пространство семиозиса: к истории одной выставки. Human Being: Image and Essence. Humanitarian Aspects. INION RAN. Faculty of Philosophy, Moscow State University. 1. 49. 146–164. 2021. 10.31249/chel/2022.01.08.
- 121.Otdelnov, P. A. Making of an Art Project: Ringing Trace. Södertörn University, Centre for Baltic and East European Studies (CBEES). 59–64/222. March 2023. 978-91-85139-14-9.
- 122.Wigh Abrahamsson, Rebecka. IMAGINATIVE POWER: The role of art in environmental communication. Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, SLU, Department of Urban and Rural Development, Division of Environmental Communication. 26. December 2023.
- 123.Otdelnov, Pavel. What Is to Be Done? Art Practice, Theory, and Promotion in Late Imperial and Soviet Russia. Logos Verlag. 165–172. 2024. 978-3-8325-5863-5.
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Formation and teaching. Otdelnov studied at Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art and Nizhny Novgorod Art School. Otdelnov received Innovacija and Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award. Recorded as having studied at Surikov State Academic Institute of Fine Arts, Joseph Backstein Institute of Contemporary Art and Nizhny Novgorod Art School.
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