About Indie Ru
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Education
2024 - 2025
Philosophy of Art course. Currently enrolled in a Philosophy of Art program (September 2024 - July 2025), culminating in a thesis defense.
2019 - 2019
Certificate of Completion for the Course on Post-War Abstract Painting at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
2011 - 2012
Private painting classes taught by Jurgen Nickel, a member of the Russian Union of Artists & the International Union of German Culture
2005 - 2011
Moscow Architectural Institute
1995 - 2000
Art School
Awards
2015
XVII International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts “RUSSIAN ART WEEK”
2015
XVIII International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts “RUSSIAN ART WEEK”
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Dates: 15 May 2017 - 25 May 2017
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Event: Contrasts
Dates: 1 Feb 2017 - 1 Mar 2017
My first solo show in museum
Event: XVIII International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts “RUSSIAN ART WEEK”
Dates: 1 Nov 2015 - 30 Nov 2015
Achieved 1st place in categories: Installation
Event: XVII International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts “RUSSIAN ART WEEK”
Dates: 1 Apr 2015 - 30 Apr 2015
Achieved 2nd place in two categories: Conceptual work and genre painting.
Event: The Last Touch
Dates: 10 Nov 2013 - 30 Nov 2013
Solo exhibition and performance art
Event: Terre di mezzo
Dates: 12 May 2013 - 11 Jun 2013
My first solo show. It was covered in the press, and the opening was attended by the city mayor, as well as outstanding representatives of culture and art
Biography
Indie Ru is a contemporary artist whose abstract paintings and conceptual objects explore emotional connections in an increasingly atomized society. Unconventional materials: beach sand, salt, jute, and barbed wire merge with holographic effects in her visual language marked by a tactile dialogue between rawness and refinement.
She shares her creative process on the YouTube channel Indie Ru, with nearly 100,000 subscribers and over 6 million views. Her practice is informed by a Certificate in Post-War Abstract Painting from the Museum of Modern Art in New York and current studies in the Philosophy of Art. A two-time laureate of the International Exhibition and Competition of Contemporary Arts, she has exhibited internationally, including at the Museum of Modern Art in Russia.
Ru transforms manufactured hostility and organic ephemerality into shared sensory landscapes - raw spaces that make our shared vulnerability palpable.
