B I O G R A P H Y

Alexandre Beridze is a French Russian artist who was born in Russia in 1975 into the family of the Russian artist painter, Fedor Kholenkov.

Alexandre was named after his great great grandfather Alexander Dmitrievich Kononov, lumber industrialist of the noble Saint Petersburg family. Alexander Dmitrievich Kononov and Anna Barbara Richelieu, Beridze’s great great grandmother of French origins, were great art patrons. Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov lived in their house in Saint Petersburg when he composed the opera Snow Maiden in 1881. 

Alexandre’s grandfather Fedor Kholenkov, grandson of Alexander Dmitrievich Kononov and Anna Barbara Richelieu, was a Russian artist painter. When Alexandre was four, he asked his grandfather to draw planes and tanks for him but his grandfather didn’t want to go back to his memories of a soldier in the World War II, and instead taught his grandson the basics of drawing so he could draw for himself. Ever since, becoming passionate about drawing and painting, Alexandre studied Fine Arts and later settled in France in 2000.  

Since 2005 Alexandre Beridze has been conducting regular exhibitions. The most notable was the personal exhibition at the Adler Gallery in Paris in 2011, after which, Bertrand Saint Vincent, the Editor-In-Chief of the famous French newspaper “Le Figaro” wrote an article on the front page on March 8, 2011. The same year – Beridze participated with the Adler Gallery in the Art Paris Fair and was mentioned by the Journal du Net among 10 most promising artists in France. In 2014, Beridze participated in Florence Biennale, where he was awarded the Sandro Botticelli prize honoring the distinguished contemporary artists. Multiple personal exhibitions followed in Paris, Monaco, Nice and Brussels.

Alexandre Beridze works in the style of Expressive Abstraction.

The art critics noted the rich color palette of Alexandre’s work, his ability to experiment with colors, different techniques and graphic images. In 2010, the artist formulated for himself his own art theory – “Lines of color” claiming that everything around us consists of color fragments and lines, which together form one picture. In 2012, Alexandre Beridze started to enrich the Color Lines Series by adding a content in a form of segments in between the lines what he called Intersections. Alexandre recalls his childhood, when he enjoyed looking at the changing view through a window of a moving train. “We are surrounded by the segments of images, a succession of shots forming a whole” says Beridze.

The Sacred Geometry, often described as the origin of all forms, is Beridze’s important source of inspiration. It is said that every natural pattern of growth or movement comes back to one or more geometric shapes. The molecules of our DNA, the cornea of our eye, snowflakes, flower petals, crystals, a shell, the stars, the galaxy we spiral within, the air we breathe, and all life forms are created out of geometric codes.

This is why, in 2014 Alexandre Beridze started to incorporate the geometric figures into his work to express his visualization of the world by color fragments and lines, segments of images and the geometry.

In 2016, Beridze began the series of work entitled “Reflection” and was noticed by a group of French and Russian scientists, mentalists, neuroscientists and philosophers according to whom Alexandre is the first artist to visualize and draw the thought process. “What has always seemed to be the property of philosophy alone – the reflection, the attention, the subconscious, the impulse of life – became available to vision thanks to Beridze’s art” – say the scientists.

Beridze’s art inspired the scientists to numerous essays and studies of his work, such as “Figurative mental – the art of Alexandre Beridze”, by French mentalist Jean-Louis Tripon. Alexander Poustovit, Doctor of Philosophy from Kiev, described Beridze’s art in his study, “Alexandre Beridze – Portrait of a thought”. Maria Falikman, Doctor of Psychology, Head of the Department of Psychology at the Higher School of Economics, National Research University in Moscow, wrote an essay; “The Mental Figurative of Alexandre Beridze and the metaphor of consciousness”. Jean-Louis Tripon and Beridze published a book “Discovering our mental life” – “A la decouverte de notre vie mentale”, that was presented in the book salon in Paris in 2018.

             ‘There is a permanent kaleidoscope in front of our eyes, and the beauty exists only in the soul of a person who watches.’

                                                                                                    — Alexandre Beridze 

E X H I B I T I O N S

June 2021 – Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Dec 2020 – May 2021 – Biba Gallery Worth Avenue, Palm Beach, USA
Sep – Oct 2020 – I-Intelligence Gallery, Paris, France
Jul – Sep 2020 – Centre of the Contemporary Art, Saintes, France
Nov – Dec 2019 – Fragments Vol. 15, Personal Exposition, ArtHub Gallery, Brussels
May 2019 – Formula 1, Grand Prix Monte Carlo, Monaco
March 2019 – Workshop, Matisse Museum, Nice
Jan – Apr 2019 – Reflection, Personal Exposition, G3 Gallery, Brussels
June 2018 – Personal Exposition, Instant Art Gallery, Saintes
Nov 2018 – Fresco of the Matryoshka, Ekaterinburg, Russia
March 2018 – 12th Monaco – Japan Painters Meeting, Rainier III Auditorium, Monaco
Oct – Dec 2017 – DolceMonacArt, Group Exposition, Dolceaqua, Monaco
Sep – Nov 2017 – Vegetal Group Exposition, Exotic Garden, Monaco
Jun – Sep 2017 – Figurative Mental, Personal Exposition, Phoenix Park, Nice
Mar – Apr 2017 – The Fragment Captures, Personal Expo, Phoenix Park, Nice
Nov – Dec 2016 – The Fragments, Personal Exposition, Thematic Art Gallery, Brussels
Oct – Dec 2016 – Group Exposition, Instant Art Gallery, Saintes
Sep 2016 – Personal Exposition, Pontaillac Art Gallery, Royan
Jul – Aug 2015 – Personal Exposition, Dadiani Art Gallery, Monaco
Dec 2014 – Biennale, Florence
Jul – Aug 2014 – Personal Exposition, Art House, Monaco
Feb 2013 – Personal Exposition, Orel Gallery, Paris
Jun – Jul 2012 – Personal Exposition, Artist Quay, Monaco
Aug – Nov 2011 – International Autumn Fair, Sarria, SpainMar – Apr 2011 – Art Paris International Art Fair, Paris
Mar – Apr 2011 – Lines of Colors, Personal Exposition, Adler Gallery, Paris
Oct – Nov 2010 – Year of Russia in France, Personal Exposition, Paris
March 2010 – London Art 2010 Group Exposition, Waldorf Palace, London