Yakov Khomich
Education
1997
Lives and works in Moscow
Lives and works in Moscow
- 2026 “Cat exhibition”, Set Projects, Moscow
- 2025 "Sudden Oasis", Veb Center and Cosmoscow, Moscow
- 2025 "Quiet hour", Sample x Lime Gallery, Moscow
- 2024 "Sur Play", Museum NOU, Barcelona
- 2023 "PAST PRESENT FUTURE", ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2023 "Shadows dance beneath the water”, Geolina Morgulis & "Dom na Hlebnom", Moscow
- 2023 "Zug Zwang", Mute gallery, Dubai
- 2021 "Khomich Brothers: Paradise Garden", ARTMUZA Gallery, St. Petersburg
- 2019 "Lord of the Flies", AZ Gallery, Moscow
2023 VGIK. Specialty "Painting", qualification "Film and Television Artist, combined filming artist"
Solo exhibitions
- 2025 “In Search of King Julien", ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2024 “Haley's World", ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2022 “Halls of Waiting", ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
Group exhibitions
Art Fairs
- 2026 Blazar art fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2026 Charitable project “On the Touch”, Cosmoscow, Moscow
- 2026 Contour Art Fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
- 2026 So Shenzhen, ISM Art Space, Shenzhen
- 2025 Catalog Art Fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2025 MOORDN Art Fair, ISM Art Space, Guangzhou
- 2025 Contour Art Fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
- 2024 Cosmoscow Art Fair, Collaboration with Sber, Moscow
- 2024 Contour Art Fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Nizhny Novgorod
- 2024 Catalog Art Fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2023 Blazar Art fair, ART&BRUT Gallery, Moscow
- 2022 “BAD+”, curator, Lazy Mike Gallery, Bordeaux (France)
Biography
Yakov Khomich (b. 1997) is a contemporary artist based in Moscow. He graduated from the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in 2023, where he studied painting and production design for film and television.
His artistic practice draws on a wide range of visual traditions, from classical painting and cinema to folklore and popular culture. His background in film informs his approach to composition, narrative, and the construction of imagined worlds.
Since his first exhibition in 2019, Khomich has presented three solo exhibitions at ART&BRUT Gallery in Moscow, including In Search of King Julien (2025). His work has also been exhibited internationally, including at Museum NOU in Barcelona (2024) and Mute Gallery in Dubai (2023).
He has participated in art fairs across Europe and Asia, including Cosmoscow, Blazar, Catalog, MOORDN Art Fair in Guangzhou, and So Shenzhen.
Statement
My practice revolves around the creation of imagined worlds, where familiar images, objects, and characters are brought together to form new realities. Drawing from literature, cinema, folklore, and popular culture, I explore how recognizable elements can take on different meanings when removed from their original contexts.
These worlds exist somewhere between reality and fiction. Their characters often appear caught in moments of stillness, anticipation, or quiet transformation. What may seem playful or familiar at first can gradually reveal something more ambiguous — a sense of longing, unease, or melancholy.
My approach to painting is largely intuitive. Rather than illustrating existing narratives, I use them as starting points for creating my own. Through composition, scale, and shifts in perspective, I explore the emotional possibilities of an image, allowing new relationships and meanings to emerge.
Each series becomes a world of its own, with its own characters, atmosphere, and visual language. What connects them is my interest in the way imagination transforms familiar things, revealing something unexpected about how we perceive and experience reality.
These worlds exist somewhere between reality and fiction. Their characters often appear caught in moments of stillness, anticipation, or quiet transformation. What may seem playful or familiar at first can gradually reveal something more ambiguous — a sense of longing, unease, or melancholy.
My approach to painting is largely intuitive. Rather than illustrating existing narratives, I use them as starting points for creating my own. Through composition, scale, and shifts in perspective, I explore the emotional possibilities of an image, allowing new relationships and meanings to emerge.
Each series becomes a world of its own, with its own characters, atmosphere, and visual language. What connects them is my interest in the way imagination transforms familiar things, revealing something unexpected about how we perceive and experience reality.
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