Timur Novikov ist 1958 in Leningrad geboren.Bereits 1977 wird Timur Novikov Mitglied der Gruppe , die Gruppe löst sich kurze Zeit später auf und Novikov gründet 1982 Die Neuen Künstler, später auch bekannt als Club der Freunde Majakovskis, in dem auch Sergej Bugaev-Afrika Mitglied war. 1990 ruft Novikov seine Kunstakademie, die Bewegung zur Schönheit ins Leben. Nichts verdeutlicht seinen Einfluss auf die junge Petersburger Szene besser, als dieser Neoakademismus, der sich noch intensiviert, als er 1994 Direktor des Museums der Neuen Akademie der Schönen Künste wird.Mit leichter Hand und Anmut schafft Timur Novikov seine Bilder und Photographien, minimalistisch, immer der Ãsthetik verpflichtet. Gern gestaltet er auch Ausstellungsprojekte thematisch um. Seine ungewöhnlichste Konzeption entwickelte er für den Marmorpalast in Sankt Petersburg mit dem Oskar Wilde Zyklus, mit Werken der Photographen Pierre et Gilles und einer Hommage an Tschaikowsky, für den er noch einen Porzellan-Schwan auf einen Sockel hob. Im Westen ist er durch seine brillante Ausstellung 1994 im Stedeljik-Museum Amsterdam bekanntgeworden,nachdem er 1998, ebenfalls gemeinsam mit Afrika, bereits in der Tate Gallery Londonausgestellt hat. Als er in Berlin zum ersten Mal ausstellte, wurde das in der Zeitung wie folgt kommentiert: In der Raab Galerie stellen junge Künstler aus Leningrad aus, die ihren Müttern sämtliche verfügbaren Textilien entwendetet haben, um daraus Bilder für den Westen zu machen. Diese Arbeiten wurden in Berlin nicht nur gut verkauft, das verdiente Geld wurde sofort in eine Videoanlage, Malutensilien und Farbe angelegt. Inzwischen konnten die Berliner Sammler voller Genugtuung erfahren, dass die in Berlin erworbenen Werke vom Stedelijk-Museum für die Novikov- Ausstellung ausgeliehen wurden. Timur Novikov stirbt 2002 in St. Petersburg.

Ausgewählte Einzelausstellungen

2020 The Theory of Beauty. The National Gallery of Komi Republic
2018 Timur Novikov. Swan. Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. St.Petersburg
Timur Novikov. To the 60th birthday. Marble Palace. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
In Search Of Lost Time. Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. St.Petersburg
In Timur's Gardens. Kuryokhin Center. St.-Petersburg
2016 Timur Novikov & Joseph Brodsky. Horizons. White Space Gallery. London
Research Museum of Russian Academy of Art. Mask Department. Saint-Petersburg
2013 Timur Novikov. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow Timur Novikov. Ikon Gallery. Birmingham.
2012 Timur Novikov. “The Horizons”. ArtMost. London. March,
2011 Timur Novikov. "1980". The State Fine Art Museum of Altai. Barnaul
Timur Novikov. Retrospective. The Museum Center of Contemporary Art in Krasnoyarsk. Krasnoyarsk
White Swan: King Ludwig II of Bavaria. Exhibition Space of the German Embassy. London
From the collection of the Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts
2010 Lost Ideals Of The Happy Childhood. The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
The Selected Drawings 1970-1980s Green Art Gallery. Perm.
2009 The Happiness In The Gardens". The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
2008 Timur Novikov's Territory. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint-Petersburg.
Sun. The History of One Masterpiece, The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
Timur Novikov. Museum of Actual Art Art4.ru. Moscow. "Russian Saints". The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
2007 The Decorative Panels From The Collection Of The Museum Of New Academy, The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Peter
2006 The Drawings On The Rice Paper, The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
2005 New Russian Saints. White Space Gallery. London, UK
The Silkscreens. The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
2004 In The Land Of Literary Heroes The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
Timur Novikov Museum of Contemporary Art. Bornholm, Denmark.
2003 The Image Of The City. The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
The Adventures Of Oscar Wild. The Museum of New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg
2002 Horizons. State Picture Gallery. Kaliningrad. 

Euro-China. Aidan Gallery. Moscow.
"Palladio's Flight". Museum of Architecture. Moscow.
Seafaring and Auronautics. D-137 Gallery. Saint-Petersburg.
In the Memory of Timur Novikov. State Russian Museum. Saint-Petersburg.
Cameos. Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
Russian Saints. Saint Gillis prison of Brussels. Brussels, Belgium.
2001 Horizons. Aidan Gallery. Moscow. "Horizons". Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Karelia. Karelia.
Retrospective. Tula Art Museum. Tula.
Open Studio. Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
Euro-China. Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
2000 Lost Ideals Of The Happy Childhood. Aidan Gallery. Moscow.
Lost Ideals of The Happy Childhood Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
Holy Martyrs. Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
Retrospective. Tver Oblast Picture Gallery. Tver.
Retrospective. State Oblast Art Museum named after I.P. Pozhalostin. Ryazan.
Sunset Of German Romanticism. Terpsichore Gallery. Saint-Petersburg.
Horizons. Naviculas Artis. Saint-Petersburg.
Russian Saints. Central main prison. Leuven, Belgium.
Russian Saints. Leuven Hulpgevangenis prison. Leuven, Belgium
1999 Tsarina Of The Sky. Aidan Gallery. Moscow., Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.

Madonna. Art-Kiosk Gallery. Brussels, Belgium.
1998 Ludwig The Second and "Swan Lake. Navicula Artis Exhibition Hall. Saint-Petersburg.
Russian Emperors. Aidan Gallery. Moscow. "Small Secrets Of History.
Photographs. Centre of Photographic Art. Saint-Petersburg.
History's Riddles. Hyroholograms. State Centre of Modern Art. Saint-Petersburg.
Retrospective. 1978-1998. State Russian Museum, Marble Palace. Saint-Petersburg.
Russians Saints. I-20 Gallery. New York, USA.
Timur Novikov, Andrej Barow: Abend mit Oscar Wild. Lichtblick Gallerie. Koln, Germany.
1997 Untitled Exhibition. World Financial Center. New York, USA.
Untitled Exhibition. Gallery Art Kiosk. Brussels, Belgium.
1996 Ludwig The Second Bavarian and P.I. Tschaikovsky's "Swan Lake". XL Gallery. Moscow.
Timur Novikov. Serigraphies. G. Soros Modern Art Centre. Saint-Petersburg.
1995 Timur Novikov. Architecture in the German Empire. Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
Swan Song Of German Romanticism. Aidan Gallery. Moscow.
1994 Tapestries". Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts. Saint-Petersburg.
In The Land Of Literary Heroes. All-Union Museum named after A.S. Pushkin, N.A. Nekrasov's Memorial House. Saint-Petersburg.
Dekorativnoye iskusstvo (Decorative Art) magazine building. Moscow.
Swan Song Of German Romanticism. Kunstlerhaus Bethanien. Berlin, Germany.
1993 Swan Lake. Museum of City Sculpture. Saint-Petersburg.
The West-East Divan. Arabic Reception-Room Appointments, Nikolayevskiy Palace, Navicula Artis Gallery. Saint-Petersburg.
Timur Novikov. Stedelijk museum. Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Russian Resurgence: Recent Works by Timur Novikov. Frederic R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University. Malibu, California, USA.
Oscar Wilde's Adventures. Paul Judelson Arts. New York, USA.

1992 Timur Novikov. Apologia of Beauty. Gallery 1.0. Moscow.
Duets. Moscow Institute of Architecture. Moscow.
Timur Novikov. Museum of Ethnography. Saint-Petersburg.
Russian Resurgence: Recent Works by Timur Novikov. Centre for the Fine Arts. Miami, Florida, USA.
1991 Timur Novikov. Gagarin Party. "Cosmos" Pavilion. VDNH (Exhibition of National Economic Achievement). Moscow.
Interferenzen. Musee D'Art Moderne Vienne, Palais Lieshtenstein. Vienne, Austria.

Timur Novikov. Raab Gallery. Berlin, Germany.
Timur Novikov. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York, USA.
1989 Timur Novikov and Afrika. Tate Gallery. Liverpool, UK; Raab Gallery, London, UK.
Timur Novikov. Turun Linna ja Historiallienen Museo. Turku, Finlande.