Boris Matrosov

Boris Igorevich Matrosov (born 1965, Moscow) is a Russian artist, former member of the art group World Champions and Chair of the Avant-garde Club (CLAVA).

World Champions were known for mocking the seriousness of the practices of the older generation of Moscow Conceptualists, such as Andrei Monastyrsky and Collective Actions.

In 2005, he made a text object Happiness Is Not Far, for the Art-Pole Festival, curated by Aidan Salakhova.

In 2016, Matrosov made an object No, She Couldn’t Have Known How It Would All… (based on the text from his earlier work) on the rooftop of Garage Museum of Contemporary Art Matrosov's works are in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Pierre-Christian Brochet, Paquita Escofet Miro, Igor Markin and Sergey Borisov 2015 — Only Paper.

Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow 2014 — The Austere Russian Landscape (with Nikita Alexeev).

GMG Gallery, Moscow 2009 — A Frozen Bear or a Russian Story as a Global Puzzle.

Leningrad Blockade Museum (Rumyantsev Mansion), Saint Petersburg 2001 — Daedaluses and Icaruses.

State Library for Foreign Literature, Moscow 1998 — Motherland, Repin House, Shiryaevo, Samara Oblast 1998 — European-Style Renovation.

Slavyansky Cultural and Historical Center, Moscow 1998 — Motherland or Death (Avant-Garde Club exhibition).