Sergei Sovkov, “Dampfbad (Steambath), Date Unknown, Oil on Canvas

Born in Kyshtym, Russia, in 1972, Sergei Sovkov studied at the art faculty of the Togliatti State University located in Samara Oblast, graduating in 1997. He later attended the Repin Academic Institute of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Sovkov took a position as a lecturer and a professor at Togliatti Stat University where he taught for seventeen years before devoting himself full-time to painting in 2014. 

An abstract-realist painter, Sovkov paints colorful and textured images of people, often male nudes, engaged in their daily lives, and has also painted a series of still life images. A member of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia since 2006, he was awarded a gold medal of “Cultural Heritage” for his individual style and skill in painting. In 2011, Sovkov was awarded the title of Laureate of Cultural Heritage.    

Since his first exhibitions in 1995, Sergei Sovkov has exhibited in galleries and multiple international exhibitions, including among others, the 2018 Parallax Art Fair in London, and two solo shows at the Galerie Time in Vienna. Sovkof’s works are held in many private collections.  

In 2015 Sergei Sovkov met his future husband Austrian-born Erwin Sovkov, a photographer and eurythmist who graduated in 2008 from Vienna’s Institute for Eurythmy, which was established in 1912 by philosopher and writer Rudolph Steiner. Sergei and Erwin have together worked on their art project “Crystal House”, a combination of their visions in the fields of painting, photography, and ceramics presenting the inseparable inner and outer worlds of a human being. Married in 2016, they opened their company “Blaue Tauben”, located in Vienna, as a venue for paintings and ceramics by Sergei Sovkov and male nude art photography by Erwin Sovkov. 

Sergei and Erwin Sovkov’s Blaue Tauben Art Studio is located at: https://www.blauetauben.com

Sergei Sovkov’s work can be also be found at: https://sergey-sovkov.pixels.com