alexander shappo
1971 – born in Vitebsk, Belarus;

1982–1986 Novopolotsk Children's Art School;

1986–1989 the National Art College named after I. Akhremchik, Minsk, Belarus;

1992–1999 the Belarusian State Academy of Arts, Sculpture Department, Minsk,
Belarus.

A member of the Belarusian Union of Artists.


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exhibitions
1988
"Poni-Bazh", the National Art College named after I. Akhremchik, Minsk, Belarus;

1989
The National Youth Exhibition, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

1992
"Artists from Belarus", the Art Centre "Pushkinskaya 10", St. Petersburg, the Russian Federation;

1996
"10 Years after the Chernobyl Disaster", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

1998
The National Youth Exhibition, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Drawing Exhibition, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

1999
The National Youth Exhibition "Time. Space. Personality", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2000
The National Youth Exhibition "New Names", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Youth Exhibition "Belarus in the Third Millennium", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Belarusian Sculpture "Minsk-Riga", Riga, Latvia;

2002
The Exhibition of Belarusian Sculpture "Russian gallery", Vilnius, Lithuania;

"Minsk-Riga-Minsk", the Museum of Modern Belarusian Sculpture named after A. Bembel, Minsk, Belarus;

"The Great Spring Sculpture Salon", the Museum of Modern Belarusian Sculpture named after A. Bembel, Minsk, Belarus;

2003
"The 50th Anniversary of the Faculty of Arts", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2004
"A Cat and a Dog", the Art Gallery of the Palace of the Republic, Minsk, Belarus;

"Ecology", the Central House of Artists, Moscow, the Russian Federation;

The National Exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Youth Exhibition "Travelling", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The exhibition dedicated to the 80th anniversary of Vitebsk art school, the Art Gallery named after Leonid Shchemelev, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition "Congresses", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2005
The exhibition dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Salvador Dali's birth, the Art Gallery of the Palace of the Republic, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition of Belarusian Sculpture, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition "Autumn-2005", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The 7th International Ice Sculpture Festival, Jelgava, Latvia ("In memory of Exupéry" - the 2nd place in teamwork);

2006
The Exhibition "Artifact Season" of the 15th International Festival "Slavianskiy Bazar", the City Hall, Vitebsk, Belarus;

The National Youth Exhibition "How I Spent the Summer", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The 8th International Ice Sculpture Festival, Jelgava, Latvia ("One heart for two" - the 2nd place winner in individual work, "Evolution" - the 3rd place winner in teamwork);

The National Exhibition "Belarusian Graphic Art", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2007
The National Exhibition dedicated to Yakub Kolas, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The exhibition dedicated to the 60th anniversary of Minsk State Art College named after A. K. Glebov, the Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus;

2008
A prize winner of the 7th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan;

The National Exhibition "A Portrait in Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition "Drawing and Sculpture", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

I Belarusian Biennial of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

"ART B-ROSSO 2008", B-ROSSO Gallery, Nicosia, Cyprus;

"NEW WORKS NEW GALLERY NEW ARTIST", Gallery Viktor Grray, Dusseldorf, Germany;

DIE SCHONEN RUSSEN KOMMEN - Accrochage - Gallery Viktor Grray, Dusseldorf, Germany;

2009
The National Exhibition "Nude", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus "Memory of a Heart", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition "Millennium", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Graphic Art "Dmitriy Molotkov. A Master of Printmaking", the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

"Memory Fragments". One-year anniversary of the Victoria Kovalenchikova Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;

2010
The National Exhibition "Printmaking", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Belarusian Art "The Land Beneath White Wings", the National Art Museum of the Republic Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

The Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam. Westergasfabriek. Amsterdam, the Netherlands;

Open Art Fair. Jaarbeurs Utrecht Exhibition Centre. Utrecht, the Netherlands;

Art Nocturne. 35 International Kunst - en Antiekbeurs. CC Scharpoord. Knokke, Belgium;

Russian, Eastern & Oriental Fine Art Fair. Park Lane Hotel. London, the United Kingdom;

Art & Antiques Fair. Brabanthallen. Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands;

"Primavera'10". AHOY. Rotterdam, the Netherlands;

"Reflected Reality", the Victoria Kovalenchikova Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;

2011
The National Exhibition "Drawing and Sculpture", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The Group Exhibition of Sculpture "Enriching Each Other", the Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Graphic Art "…And to discern your beauty's most is to discern what's life about", the National Art Museum of the Republic Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Sculpture "A TOUCHing Exhibition", the National Art Museum of the Republic Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

"Tales of Breukelen". BWAC. Red Hook New York. New York, the USA;

2012
"With Love to Latin America", the National Historical Museum of the Republic of Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

I Minsk Triennial of Contemporary Art, the Exhibition Centre "Belexpo", Minsk, Belarus;

III Belarusian Biennial of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2013
The Art Project "Door", the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

New York City Affordable Art Fair, New York, the USA;

2014
The Exhibition of Contemporary Belarusian Art "Avant-gARTe", the Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Contemporary Belarusian Sculpture "Sculpture: XXI", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The exhibition of painting, graphic art and sculpture dedicated to the 150th anniversary of Kastus Kalinovskiy's uprising, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

IV Belarusian Biennial of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2015
The Exhibition of Painting "Labyrinth", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Sculpture "Project", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

"12 Strategies", the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of City Sculpture within the framework of ХI National Festival of Architecture "Minsk-2015", the City Hall, Minsk, Belarus;

The Exhibition of Contemporary Portrait "No 1/8", the Memorial Museum and Studio of Z. I. Azgur, Minsk, Belarus;

II International Exhibition of Printmaking "In Search of the Lost Paradise", the Cultural Centre "Nuevo Inicio", Granada, Spain;

"Erotic and Genre Project", the Gallery of the Belarusian Union of Designers, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Belarus "Victory", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2016
The exhibition "The Year of Sculpture" of the section "Sculpture" of the Belarusian Union of Artists, Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus;

"Postoolat 2016", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

XIX Moscow International Art Salon "Central House of Artists – 2016. The Image of Time";

All-Belarusian Art Objects Festival "Because...", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

"Contemporary Belarus Through the Eyes of Artists", the National Art Museum of the Republic Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

2017
"Person to Person", the National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition of Contemporary Art "Return of the Image. To the 130th Anniversary of Marc Chagall's Birth", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The exhibition of participants of the art project "Autumn Salon with Belgazprombank" – "Today and Tomorrow. Young Artists from Belarus", the Arka Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania;

2018
The International Festival of Contemporary Art "Art-Minsk", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

The National Exhibition "Standing Form", the Mogilev Regional Art Museum named after Pavel Maslenikov, Mogilev, Belarus;

VI Belarusian Biennial of Painting, Graphic Art and Sculpture, the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;


Personal exhibitions:
1994 "Shapa-1", Novopolotsk, Belarus;

1995 "Shapa-1", the City Hall, Vitebsk, Belarus;

1996 "AXIS", the 6th Line Gallery, Minsk, Belarus;

1998 "Sh-3", the 6th Line Gallery, Minsk, Belarus;

1999 a personal exhibition of sculpture dedicated to the diploma defence, the Museum of Modern Belarusian Sculpture named after A. Bembel, Minsk, Belarus;

2000 "Shappo and Sons", the Palace of Arts, Minsk, Belarus;

2000 "Cocktail", the Gold Gallery, Minsk, Belarus;

2001-2002 "The Christmas Punch", the Museum of Modern Belarusian Sculpture named after A. Bembel, Minsk, Belarus;

2006 the Exhibition of Graphic Art "Ecce Femina", the Museum of Modern Fine Art, Minsk, Belarus;

2012 "Boogie Bronze", Mazda-centre, Minsk, Belarus;

2012 "Floating down the Polota River", the Palace of the Rumyantsevs and the Paskeviches, Gomel, Belarus;

2014 "Shappo Cocktail", the K35 Art Gallery, Moscow, the Russian Federation;

2015 "Beginning", the Art Museum, Vitebsk, Belarus;

2016 "23 Novellas with a Prologue and an Epilogue", the DK Gallery, Minsk, Belarus;

2016 "Suite No. 45", the National Art Museum of the Republic Belarus, Minsk, Belarus;

2018 "Colonel", the Memorial Museum and Studio of Z. I. Azgur, Minsk, Belarus;

2018 "Strusto, Dauble, Richi, Savanar", Mikhail Savitsky Art Gallery, Minsk, Belarus;


Achievements:
1996 the commemorative plaque to Ivan Khrutskiy, the Academician of Painting, Polotsk, Belarus;

2003 the commemorative plaque to the Belarusian architect A.Voinov, the Belarusian National Technical University, Minsk, Belarus;

2006 the commemorative plaque to V. Anurkin, the Honoured Constructor of the Russian Federation, village Mezhdurechye, Belarus;

2008 installation of the outdoor sculpture "Street Musician" dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Novopolotsk, Belarus;

2008 installation of the outdoor sculpture "A trumpeter and a dachshund", the village of Deauville in the vicinities of Moscow, the Russian Federation;

2008 installation of the outdoor sculpture "An accordion player and a cat", the village of Deauville in the vicinities of Moscow, the Russian Federation;

2009 the winner of the national competition held to create a monument to the architect John, Polotsk, Belarus;

2012 installation of the monument to the architect John in honour of the 1150th anniversary of Polotsk, Belarus;

2013 the World War II Minsk defenders' mass grave memorial "Memory", Minsk, Belarus;

2014 the memorial to victims of fascism "A Cube of Courage and Grief", Bobruisk, Belarus;

  1. 2015 the relief "Heritage" in the Business and Cultural Complex of the Embassy of Belarus in the Russian Federation, Moscow;

2017 the memorial sign "Bobruisk – the cultural capital of Belarus", Bobruisk, Belarus;

2018 the commemorative plaque to the writer Kulakovskiy A. N., Soligorsk, Belarus;

2018 the commemorative plaque to the Hero of Socialist Labour Selivanov A. V.;

2018 the grave monument to the People's Artist of the Republic of Belarus Tikhanovich A. G.

Works were acquired by the National Art Museum of the Republic of Belarus (Minsk, Belarus), the Museum of Modern Fine Art (Minsk, Belarus), Vitebsk Art Museum (Belarus), Art Gallery of Polotsk National Historical and Cultural Museum-Reserve (Belarus) and private collectors in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, France, Germany, Russia, Japan, the Netherlands, etc.



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