Viacheslav Fomich Koleichuk

Collection of Contemporary Art, Tsaritsyno State Museum-Reserve, Moscow
Museum of Contemporary Art, Louny, Czech Republic
Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, USA
L. Talochkin, Moscow
V. Dudakov, Moscow
D. René, Paris, France
P. Batkin, London, United Kingdom

EXHIBITIONS
1966 "Exhibition of Kinetic Art" (with the 'Movement' collective). House of Culture of the Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow
1967 "EXPO-67". USSR Pavilion, Montreal, Canada
1975 "EXPO-75". USSR Pavilion, Okinawa, Japan
1975 "Experimental Modelling in Architecture". Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow
1976 Autumn Exhibition. House of Architects, Moscow
1977 "Structures". House of Architects, Tallinn
1978 "Science and Art". House of Scientists, Moscow
1979 "Color, Form, Space". 28 M. Gruzinskaya St., Moscow
1980 "Experimental Modelling in Design". Center for Technical Aesthetics, Moscow
1983 All-Union Design Exhibition. Central House of Artists, Moscow
1983 "Kinetic Form Creation". House of Knowledge, Riga
1984 "Mayakovsky and Productive Art". Mayakovsky Museum, Moscow
1984-85 "Tradition und Gegenwart". Düsseldorf, Hannover, Stuttgart, Germany
1985 "Design for Socialist Society". International Exhibition. VDNKh USSR, VNIITE, Moscow
"EXPO-85". USSR Pavilion, Tsukuba, Japan
1986 "Images of Symmetry in Art". Center for Biological Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Pushchino, Moscow Region
"Masters of Culture for Peace". Manege, Moscow
1986 "Vjaceslav Fomic Kolejcuk. Plastiky, Kolaze, Documentace". House of Arts, Brno, Czechoslovakia
1987 "Computer and Art". Center for Nuclear Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences, Protvino, Moscow Region
"Design in the USSR". Design Center, Stuttgart, Germany
"Space-Time-Art". Exhibition Hall of the Union of Artists of the Tatar ASSR, Kazan
"Artist and Modernity". First creative association of Moscow artists. 'Kashirka', Moscow
"Object-I". 28 M. Gruzinskaya St., Moscow
"Retrospective of Moscow Artists' Creativity. 1957-1987". 'Hermitage' society, 100 Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow
1988 "ARS". Exhibition Hall of the Kiev District, Moscow
"Geometry in Art". 'Kashirka', Moscow
2nd exhibition of the First Creative Association of MOSKh. House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
"Poetry of Chance". Moscow Architectural Institute, Moscow
"Designer-Artist". Center for Technical Aesthetics, VNIITE, Moscow
1989 "What is Photography". 150 Years of Photography. Manis, Prague, Czechoslovakia
"Moscow Unofficial Art of the 60s-70s" (from the collection of L. Talochkin). Regional Art Museum, Kuibyshev
"Collection of Tanya and Natasha Kolodzei". State Museum of Art of Uzbekistan SSR, Tashkent
1990 "Zvukstruk+Popfon+Bikapo" (with G. Vinogradov and B. Stuchebryukov). Palace of Youth, Moscow
1990 "Viatscheslav Koleitschuk. Retrospective 1965-1990". Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
"Towards the Object". 'Kashirka', Moscow
"Universal Progression". International Exhibition. Manege, Moscow
"In de USSR en Erbuiten". Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"Images on Facades". Felix-Poulate Square, Grenoble, France
1990-91 "Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976". "Moscow Collection" Gallery. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, Leningrad
1991 "Viatscheslav Kolejtschuk. Retrospective 1965-1990". Institut Baukunst, Graz, Austria
1992 "The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Russian Art. Herbarium". Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Fotogalerie Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Art-Contact". Manege, St. Petersburg
1994 "Europa, Europa". Bonn, Germany
1994 "Total Illusion". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
1995 "Spinning-Turning". Museum of Cinema, Moscow
1995 "20 Years of Exhibitions at the VDNKh House of Culture". 100 Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow
"Postscriptum". On the eightieth anniversary of the 0-10 exhibition. 28 Malaya Gruzinskaya St., Moscow
"New Visual Reality". Museum of Decorative and Applied Arts, Moscow
"Light Stereography". National Technical Museum, Prague, Czech Republic
1996 "Architecture of a Landscape". Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
Exhibition of nominees for the national theater prize "Golden Mask". Exhibition Hall at Tverskaya, Moscow
"Boundaries of Interpretation". Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow
"Tallinn-Moscow. 1956-85". Tallinn Art House, Estonia
"Hobbytronica". Turin, Italy
Exhibition at the opening of Kazimir Malevich's room, Malevich Foundation, Moscow Fund "Citizens". Design Gallery, Moscow
Performance in the concert program dedicated to the 100th anniversary of L. S. Theremin (with S. Krejci). State Concert Hall of the Republic of Tatarstan, Kazan
Performance at the "Theater and Music" festival. House of the Actor, Nizhny Novgorod
1997 "Credo", Russian Culture Foundation, Moscow
"Light Performance". 100 Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow
Demonstration programs of the author's exotic acoustic musical compositions and structures, Moscow
Performance at a concert dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the "Osenebri" group by P. Luferov. Central House of Artists, Moscow
International Art Fair "Art-Manege". Manege, Moscow
Performance at the Alternative Music Festival (with S. Krejci). House of Composer, Moscow
Performance at the electronic music and audiovisual art concert (with S. Krejci).
Grand Concert Hall of the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music, Moscow
"Fokom '97". 1st Exhibition-Festival of New Visual Culture. Central House of Artists, Moscow
Digitale 97. Dialekte. Cinematheque. Cologne, Germany
1998 "Constructivist Workshop. Geometry, Structure, Ornament". State Tretyakov Gallery, Krymsky Val, Moscow

Experimental and theoretical development of the problems of "overcoming material", kinetic and programmed art, the creation of paradoxical kinetic, constructive, and visual models and images. Exploration of new means of artistic expression (self-collage, handmade holography - "light-stereography", photo-painting). Creation of self-tensioned and self-erecting structures and compositions, acoustic exotic musical instruments (ovaloid, constructive sound spatial structures).

Vyacheslav Koleichuk is an inventor and form-maker, a type always present in art, but always in small numbers. At the beginning of our century, numerous diverse reasons, both external and internal to art, led formal innovation, artistic invention and discovery to become the most valued qualities of creativity.
Koleichuk is an heir of the avant-garde artists of the early 20th century. The influence of these related phenomena is evident in his work. We feel the impulses he received from Rodchenko and K. Ioganson, Tatlin and Malevich... But we also clearly sense his persistent resistance to this legacy—even the old constructive ideas are reinterpreted by Koleichuk in the language of new spatial relations. The massive forms of K. Ioganson, for example, have been transformed by Koleichuk into open, floating organisms.
Fundamentally, by his talent and personality type, Koleichuk is a "classic," a "son of harmony"—not a classicist or a phlegmatic, but a classic. This should be understood not as an evaluative term, but as a definition of the master's specificity. This is the particularity of his aestheticization of technical and technological forms, which are pointedly rational and yet "irrational" in their figurative resonance... All his works remain harmonious, nobly balanced, "absolute." That is why Koleichuk's spatial structures do not require figurative-metaphorical props—their expressiveness arises directly from the harmony of the form itself, analogous to the harmony of natural formations. A "standing thread" is just a thread—not an ear of grain, not a reed. A fan-like spatial structure is simply a structure, not a paraphrase of a bird's wing silhouette, and so on.
Vyacheslav Koleichuk has been actively working for about three decades. Despite the great unity of all he has created, we see the waves of time that have flowed through his work: the democratism, open constructivism, the dynamism of the '60s; the complex conceptualism, visual and spatial games, the irrationalism of "impossible objects" of the '70s; the new conceptualism, already in the key of "postmodern" of the '80s—archaeologism of incomprehensible objects of a "foreign civilization", an interest in imagery, stylistic stereotypes including salon objects, playing with cultural meanings of things and forms... Before us is a living, developing, unfinished body of work with its absolute achievements, questionable missteps, dead-ends and new discoveries.
The artist is constantly engaged in active research of his material: constructions, forms, textures and the laws of our vision (perception of raster forms, paradoxical visual illusions), as well as natural phenomena and their visible traces: effects of magnets, heterogeneous liquids, mirrors, and much more. These observations and mini-discoveries in the surrounding reality give rise to artistically imaginative breakthroughs in his practice.
And finally. At first glance, Koleichuk's work—his inventive art—is a pure laboratory, often an easel experiment. However, these works with extraordinary and unexpected ease and without significant transformation become fully monumental solutions in architecture and design. In the transition from fantasy to reality, from experiment to practice, from play to task, Koleichuk is just as harmonious and natural as in all else. "A classic."
N. Adaskina