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Education
1975 - 1980
Moscow State Pedagogical University
Awards
2021
Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts
2018
Diamond of Goodwill Award
2017
Figurine ‘Faith’
in the XXII International Festival of Fine Arts ‘Traditions and Modernity’, 2017
2016
Academist
2016
Dove of Peace Order
2015
Order ‘Benefits of Honour and Glory’
2014
Medal ‘Praiseworthy’
2012
Order of Friendship
2005
Member of the Friends of France Association
2001
Member of the Friends of India Association
2001
Honoured Artist
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Event: Anniversary exhibition of works by the Honored Artist of the RF Karakhan Seferbekov
Dates: 10 Dec 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
Anniversary exhibition of works by the Honored Artist of the Russian Federation Karakhan Seferbekov was opened at the permanent representation of Dagestan in Moscow.
"Various thematic exhibitions of Dagestan artists are regularly held within the walls of the permanent mission. This has become a kind of tradition.
Event: XLVI Russian Antique Art Fair/Program Art Moscow
Dates: 21 Apr 2021 - 24 Apr 2021
On April 21-25, 2021, old and new art meet in Gostiny Dvor.
“Living together” is the motto of the event, where all spheres of collecting will be presented in a single space of Gostiny Dvor im Moscow.
Program Art Moscow / 46 The Russian Antique Salon popularizes the Living together format, where a large-scale exposition covers all areas of collecting, erasing genre and time boundaries. Sections "Antiques", "Contemporary Art / Design", "Jewelry Art" and - new - "Retro cars" fill the space of the grand fair in Gostiny Dvor. There are at least four reasons why the event is interesting for both the professional and the general public.
The exhibition concept, combining classic and modern, was not invented yesterday - it is successfully implemented by such giants in the world of art fairs as TEFAF and BRAFA.
Event: 'Russia to the World' dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of Dagestan
Dates: 8 Feb 2021 - 26 Feb 2021
Solo- exhibition 'Russia to the World' dedicated to the 100-th anniversary of Dagestan, that is held with the support of the Moscow Government, the Department of National Policy and Interregional Relations of Moscow, the Moscow House of Nationalities State Budgetary Institution.
The exhibition presents about forty canvases of different periods and different genres.
Among them there are plein air artworks from the cycle 'Autumn Moscow', with images of the majestic Cathedral of St. Basil, Kremlin, Moscow streets Varvarka and Ilyinka in the center , sketches of the China-Town in Moscow, landscapes of autumn Izmailovo, as well as the Moscow region and Suzdal.
For the first time, the artist presents six pleinair artworks painted in Dagestan mountains this autumn.
The exposition "The Relict Forest of Samur" widely presents paintings of southern Dagestan.
cycle of artworks and speaks of my love to the World around and, of course, of the artist's love for his Motherland.
Event: Art Catalog 'Light and Colour by Karakhan Seferbekov'
Dates: 14 Apr 2020 - 14 May 2020
My friends!
Already for several months now I have been preparing the release of a catalog of my artworks 'Light and Color', it is a little pity that the current situation delays this process, however, I look forward to this event!
Event: 45th Russian Antique Salon (‘Art of the Twentieth Century’)
Dates: 27 Nov 2019 - 1 Dec 2019
For the first time from November 27 to December 1, 2019, the 45th Russian Antique Salon will be held at Gostiny Dvor on Ilyinka, where
Karahan Seferbekov will present his works in the field of "Art of the XX century."
RUSSIAN ANTIQUE SALON is a global program that was launched by EXPO-PARK EXHIBITION PROJECTS in 1996. Since then, Russian Antique Salon presented 44 groundbreaking public art projects that engaged thousands of people in Russia and around the globe, motivating collectors and wide audience to invest in
art.
Russian Antique Salon has developed a distinguished reputation, and is today the only fair program in Russia in the field of antique trade. Over
Event: Exhibition dedicated to Moscow City Day
Dates: 1 Sep 2019 - 11 Sep 2019
Exhibition dedicated to Moscow City Day, Gostiny Dvor, Moscow, 2019
Event: Moscow Art Fair
Dates: 13 Jul 2019 - 13 Aug 2019
Moscow Art Fair - this is the first event in the framework of the "Central House of Artists Program in the Gostiny Dvor".
The range of participants is the widest - from antiques to the art of our contemporaries.
Event: Spring Antiques Fair
Dates: 1 Mar 2019 - 20 Mar 2019
Spring Antiques Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2019
Event: Solo exhibition ‘Karakhan’
Dates: 10 Feb 2019 - 10 Mar 2019
Solo exhibition ‘Karakhan’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2019
Event: ‘The Many Colours of Russia. Dagestan has Many Faces. Culture and Contemporaneity’
Dates: 26 May 2018 - 22 Jun 2018
Annual Interregional Festival of National Cultures ‘The Many Colours of Russia. Dagestan has Many Faces. Culture and Contemporaneity’, Moscow House of Nationalities, Moscow, 2018
Event: ‘Painting of Karakhan’
Dates: 20 Mar 2018 - 20 Apr 2018
Solo exhibition ‘Painting of Karakhan’, Russian Collections Antiques Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2018
Event: XLIII Russian Antiques Salon
Dates: 1 Oct 2017 - 20 Oct 2017
XLIII Russian Antiques Salon, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2017
Event: 'Karakhan Seferbekov Exhibition'
Dates: 4 Mar 2016 - 24 Mar 2016
Solo exhibition, Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre, Moscow, 2016
Event: ‘Painting of Karahan Seferbekov. Retrospective’
Dates: 20 Dec 2015 - 10 Jan 2016
Solo exhibition ‘Painting of Karahan Seferbekov. Retrospective’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2015 (awarded the Order ‘Benefit, Honour and Glory’)
Event: ‘Summer Opening Day’
Dates: 1 Jun 2015 - 21 Jun 2015
Solo exhibition ‘Summer Opening Day’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2015
Event: Solo exhibition ‘Confrontation’
Dates: 1 Nov 2014 - 21 Nov 2014
Solo exhibition ‘Confrontation’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2014
Event: ‘Habitat’
Dates: 25 Jan 2014 - 15 Feb 2014
Solo exhibition ‘Habitat’, Permanent Mission of the Republic of Dagestan under the President of the Russian Federation, Moscow, 2014
Event: ‘Flora and Fauna’
Dates: 20 Dec 2013 - 20 Jan 2014
Solo exhibition ‘Flora and Fauna’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2013
Event: ‘Habitat’
Dates: 5 Jun 2013 - 30 Jun 2013
Solo exhibition ‘Habitat’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2013
Event: ‘Pink Lotus’
Dates: 10 Jul 2012 - 30 Jul 2012
Solo exhibition ‘Pink Lotus’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2012
Event: ‘Spring Moscow’
Dates: 1 Mar 2011 - 20 Mar 2011
Solo exhibition ‘Spring Moscow’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2011
Event: ‘Love and Mercy Will Save the World’
Dates: 3 Jun 2010 - 30 Jul 2010
Solo exhibition ‘Love and Mercy Will Save the World’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2010
Event: ‘Spring in Venice’
Dates: 10 Apr 2010 - 20 Apr 2010
Solo exhibition ‘Spring in Venice’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2010
Event: ‘Melody of My Heart’'
Dates: 20 Jun 2009 - 20 Jul 2009
Solo exhibition ‘Melody of My Heart’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2009
Event: ‘Karakhan Seferbekov’
Dates: 1 Apr 2008 - 20 Apr 2008
Solo exhibition ‘Karakhan Seferbekov’, Moscow-City, Moscow, 2008
Event: ‘The Colour of the Russian Palette’
Dates: 6 Feb 2007 - 6 Mar 2007
Exhibition ‘The Colour of the Russian Palette’, Harbin, China, 2007
Event: ‘Departing Not To Return’
Dates: 25 Jun 2006 - 25 Jul 2006
Solo exhibition ‘Departing Not To Return’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2006
Event: ‘Autumn in Paris’
Dates: 1 Oct 2004 - 15 Oct 2004
Exhibition ‘Autumn in Paris’, International Cultural Centre, Paris, 2004
Event: ‘Journey to the East’
Dates: 10 Aug 2003 - 10 Sep 2003
Solo exhibition ‘Journey to the East’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 2003
Event: ‘Journey Beyond Three Seas’
Dates: 25 Feb 2003 - 5 Mar 2003
Solo exhibition ‘Journey Beyond Three Seas’, Indian Cultural Centre, Moscow, 2003
Event: ‘Golden Brush -2002'
Dates: 10 Oct 2002 - 24 Oct 2002
Exhibition ‘Golden Brush’ dedicated to the Days of Slavic Writing and Culture, New Manege, Moscow, 2002
Event: 'Departing Not To Return'
Dates: 1 Feb 2002 - 10 Feb 2002
Exhibition ‘On the Roerich Anniversary’, Centre for Science and Culture, Delhi (India), 2002
Event: ‘Golden Brush-1999'
Dates: 1 Nov 1999 - 14 Nov 1999
Exhibition ‘Golden Brush’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1999
Event: II Moscow International Art Salon ‘Central House of Artists-99’
Dates: 1 Sep 1999 - 14 Sep 1999
II Moscow International Art Salon ‘Central House of Artists-99’, Central House of Artists, Moscow, 1999
Event: Solo exhibition
Dates: 20 Jan 1999 - 20 Feb 1999
Solo exhibition, Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Delhi, 1999
Event: ‘Fantastic Reality’
Dates: 10 Sep 1998 - 10 Oct 1998
Solo exhibition ‘Fantastic Reality’, Berlin, 1998
Event: International Exhibition, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, 1998
Dates: 1 Mar 1998 - 20 Apr 1998
International Exhibition, Paris, Brussels, Berlin, 1998
Event: 'Hot Sun'
Dates: 29 Aug 1996 - 29 Sep 1996
Solo exhibition, House of Friendship with Peoples of Foreign Countries, Moscow, 1996
Event: 'People'
Dates: 6 Nov 1995 - 16 Nov 1995
Solo exhibition, Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Berlin, 1995
Event: A l'Hôtel de ville
Dates: 10 Oct 1994 - 10 Nov 1994
Solo exhibition, Paris, 1994 (the work was awarded the Grand Prix de Peinture du Castellet diploma)
Event: 'Under Moscow Sun'
Dates: 15 Dec 1993 - 28 Dec 1993
Solo exhibition in a private gallery, Los Angeles, 1993
Event: 'Fantastic Reality'
Dates: 5 Sep 1992 - 5 Oct 1992
Solo exhibition, Russian Centre for Science and Culture, Berlin, 1992
Event: ‘Spring Exhibition’
Dates: 1 May 1990 - 16 May 1190
‘Spring Exhibition’, Kuznetsky Most, 1990
Biography
Academist - Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts (2016)
Honoured Artist of RF (Awarded the title Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation in 2001)
Karakhan Seferbekov was born in 1957 in Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea. He was educated in Moscow. In 1980 he graduated from the graphic arts faculty of the State Pedagogical Institute in Moscow. He studied painting with leading professors of the Russian Academy.
The artist works in the style of expressionism. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists. Karakhan Seferbekov began exhibition activities in 1982 and he is a regular participant at Russian and international exhibitions in Europe, India, the USA, China and other countries.
In 1994 the artwork of Karakhan Seferbekov was awarded the Grand Prix de Peinture du Castellet (Paris, France). As part of a group of prominent artists from Russia he participated in an exhibition held in 1998 in several European cities, Paris, Brussels and Berlin, and was awarded the diploma of this exhibition.
In December 1999 his solo exhibition ‘At the Turn of the Century’ took place in Moscow under the auspices of the International Confederation of Artists’ Unions. In 2001 he was awarded the title Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation for the series of Tibetan works included in many Russian and foreign catalogues.
According to the results of a personal exhibition in 2004, Karakhan Seferbekov was enrolled among the permanent residents of the Paris workshops Cité internationale des Arts in Paris. Every year Karakhan Seferbekov holds several solo exhibitions in Moscow.
After many years working as an artist Karakhan Seferbekov has produced thousands of paintings that now adorn galleries and private collections in Russia, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Holland, Finland, Sweden, the USA, the United Arab Emirates, India, China, Japan, Australia, Thailand, Vietnam and other countries.
The works of Karakhan Seferbekov are included in the collections of the Russian Academy of Arts, the Cultural Centre for the Arts in Paris Cité Internationale des Arts, the Urusvati Institute of Himalayan Studies in India, the Han Jianmin Sino-Russian Picture Gallery (now a branch of the International Academy of Culture and Arts) in Harbin (China), the foundation of the Centre for the Science and Culture of Bulgaria in Sofia, the Art Fund of the city of Kutaisi in Georgia, the International Fund for the Promotion of Art in Moscow, the Museum of Local History in Derbent, the Akhtynsky Museum of Local Lore in Dagestan, the Enlightenment Fund of Dagestan and the Yaroslavl Art Museum.
Ranks and awards:
Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation, 2001
Corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts 2021
Cavalier of the Order of Friendship of the Russian Federation, 2012
Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, 2016
Medal ‘Praiseworthy’ of the Russian Academy of Arts, 2014
Cavalier of the Order ‘Benefits of Honour and Glory’, 2015
Cavalier of the Dove of Peace Order, 2016
‘Honorary Citizen of Magaramkent District’, Republic of Dagestan, 2015
Figurine ‘Faith’ in the nomination ‘Responsibility in Conversation with Society’ in the XXII International Festival of Fine Arts ‘Traditions and Modernity’, 2017
Diamond of Goodwill Award, Republic of India, 2018
