Viktor Timofeev

Viktor Timofeev (1984) was born in Riga, and in 1996 he moved with his family to New York, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in art at prestigious Hunter College. In recent years, his artistic career has been closely linked with Europe and Latvia. Timofeev works with diverse media, including digital installations, drawing and virtual reality tools, with which he models situations in imagined realities.

In his work process, Timofeev encompasses, absorbs and compiles materials from diverse sources (field notes, media resources in internet databases, computer-created images etc.) and reworks them into repeatable images and complex structures. 

In “A≠B,” the core elements are androgynous, humanoid dolls forming colourful, dynamic masses. “Despite all their efforts, these little people” don’t have a psychological dimension, rather they are key informational elements, abstract units from which the artist builds micro and macrostructures which are regulated by certain laws, limits on freedom and development trajectories. Observing the interaction of these colourful bodies is as captivating as watching the chaotic yet law-governed movement of molecules in various environments. 

Drawing is an essential part of the artist's creative practice. Abstract landscapes created in dense graphite drawings with barely perceptible landscape motifs create new spatial structures. The works "One Thousand Searchable Planets", "Amory Court 2" and "Inner Speech" are part of Viktor Timofeev's project "Exact Fantasy", which was created especially for the artist's first solo exhibition in Lithuania at the "Editorial" art space in Vilnius. The drawings represent visual research, materialising as abstract, visionary works of art.

A≠B. 2019.

Viens tūkstotis meklējamu planētu / One Thousand Searchable Planets. 2023.

Amorijas pagalms 2 / Amory Court 2. 2024.

Iekšējā balss / Inner Speech. 2025.