Ivan Yevtushenko Nakkuree

Age: 35

Born and lived for a long time in the Far East in Khabarovsk, in 2014, he moved to Kaliningrad. Nakkuree is a self-taught artist. His creative path began in 2010 with a passion for street art. Nakkuree’s entire continued artistic style inherits the graphic and decorative nature of his street works.

Moving from one distant region to another was the catalyst for a creative outburst. In a short period, Nakkuree mastered the technique of oil painting and painted about 20 works of various sizes in his first year. In doing so, each painting has such detail that it appears to be not a canvas, but a print. Fine brushwork.

Additionally, Ivan works with glass and creates complex detailed images combined with ornaments. The artist seeks inspiration in music, Japanese animation of the 1980s, eight-bit games, photographs of the early twentieth century, and the works of Victor Castillo, Alphonse Mucha, Bouguereau, and Jakub Rozalski. Ivan is also inspired by photographers Koudelka, Brassai, Diana Arbus, Nicolai Chorunzii, and Jack Delano. He finds inspiration in their works.

Ivan is a regular participant in the street art festival KaliningrArt. He has exhibited at the festival Territory 39:13 (Chernykhovsk), at the festival of independent art 48 Stunden Neukölln (Berlin) and the exhibition Archive 1241 in the art space Vorota (Kaliningrad). Gave a series of workshops on making canvases and creating stencils as part of street art events.