Maxim Ima

Maxim Ima (born 1987, Leningrad) is an artist and curator, living and working in St. Petersburg. As an artist with street background, Ima continues to make street art with bold philosophical texts, multi-figure and abstract compositions, but now he combines it with fruitful studio work. Graphic series, according to the author, allow you to think through the concept more clearly, constantly develop the techniques and motives found. The series on canvases, on the contrary, are full of experiments and improvisation, where the original idea can be transformed in an absolutely unpredictable way.

2023 Endless Cycle (with Alexander Efros), 10.203 space, Saint Petersburg
2021 HERBARIUM, DIDI Gallery, Saint Petersburg
2021 Say, Ferma Benua, Saint Petersburg
2020 Covers, Belief X 404, Moscow
2020 Flowers Series, R14 Hall, Saint Petersburg
2020 What a Rat You Are, Futuro Minor, Nizhny Novgorod
2020 Everything is Here, Loki Gallery, Saint Petersburg
2019 The Writer, Notfound Gallery, Moscow
2015 It is Clear that Nothing is Clear, Loft Project Etagi, Saint Petersburg
2010 Fiction, Protvor Exhibition Space, Saint Petersburg

2024 Cart Full of Flowers, BIS ART GALLERY, Moscow
2024 Coal, Ruarts Foundation, Moscow
2023 Electric Poetry, Artplay, Moscow
2023 Unsorted, cultural space Ц-1, Moscow
2023 Forest, Pesochny, Saint Petersburg
2023 |not|front door, Beriozka gallery, Saint Petersburg
2023 Useless Palace, Inloco gallery, Dubai
2022 Do Not Tell Mom, Name gallery, Saint Petersburg
2022 Between The Lines. Textual in Visual, Triumph gallery, Moscow
2022 How to Draw The Emptiness, Marina Gisich Projects, Saint Petersburg
2021 Splendour and Misery, ZooCreate, Graphite, Moscow
2021 Splendour and Misery, 10.203 space, Saint Petersburg
2021 A Shadow of the Soul but Slightly Sharper, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow
2021 Millennials in Contemporary Russian Art, Marble palace, The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
2021 Animal Show, 10.203 space, Saint Petersburg
2021 Nepravda, 10.203 space, Saint Petersburg
2020 Cape Lisy Nos, Lisy Nos, Leningrad Oblast
2020 Communalka, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2020 State Of Emergency, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
2020 Break of 15 Minutes, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow
2019 At Least Stand, At Least Fall, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg
2018 Wall Elements, The Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Saint Petersburg
2018 Fairyland of Street Art, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg
2017 Artification, Stepan Razin Factory, Saint Petersburg
2017 Enter Your Text, Berthold Centre, Saint Petersburg
2017 Holiday Comes to You, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg
2015 Casus Pacis, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg
2015 Art Wall, Sergey Kuryokhin Center for Modern Art, Saint Petersburg
2011 55/13, Artplay, Moscow
2011 Creche Exhibition: Young Artists and Christmas, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, Saint Petersburg
2009 Wholetrain, СAG Gallery, Saint Petersburg
2009 Space of Silence, Krasnoe Znamya Factory, Saint Petersburg
2009 Marginal and Relevant, The Museum of Urban Sculpture, Saint Petersburg

2023 Rumors (two-part research and exhibition project jointly with Anastasia Pronina), KAZANSKAYA PAGE, BENUA PAGE, Saint Petersburg
2021 New Ruins. Glass, open area by Manege’s back facade, Saint Petersburg
2020 New Ruins. Granite, open area by Manege’s back facade, Saint Petersburg
2019 At Least Stand, At Least Fall, Street Art Museum, Saint Petersburg
2017 NOT Superfluous Man (New Ruins. Concrete), open area by Manege’s back facade, Saint Petersburg
2017 As Usual, Loft Project Etagi, Saint Petersburg