Georgy Guryanov

From 1984 to 1990, Guryanov was the drummer, arranger, and backing vocalist in Kino and participant in Sergey Kuryokhin's Pop Mechanics.

From 1993, he was an honorary professor at the New Academy of Fine Arts (Russian: Музей Новой академии изящных искусств) in Saint Petersburg.

Even before school, he began to study music at the Kozitsky Palace of Culture, where he learned to play the balalaika, domra, piano, and guitar.

He visited Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Paris, Rome, Budapest, New York, Los Angeles, Cadaques, and lived for long periods in Berlin, London, and Spain (having studied Spanish since 1993).

In 1985, he helped record the drum parts for the band Narodonoe opolcheniye's (Russian: «Народное ополчение», lit.

[5] In the 1980s, Guryanov also began to collaborate with the duo New Composers (Russian: Новые композиторы), pioneers in the field of electronic music in the USSR.

In 1984, together with Timur Novikov and Igor Verichev, Guryanov performed in the "Ballet of Three Lovebirds" by Daniil Kharms to the music of New Composers.

At the time of Tsoi's death, according to Guryanov, the group was preparing to go to Tokyo to meet with an influential Japanese production corporation.

[10] In 1986, Guryanov, Novikov, and Sergey "Afrika" Bugaev founded the Club of Friends of V V Mayakovsky (Russian: «Клуб друзей Маяковского»).

Guryanov made a painting specifically for the exhibition of two phalluses in blue and red on white canvas, which, according to Hannelore Fobo, "broke a double taboo: as a symbol of same-sex love and of Russia as an independent state, which happened only a year later.

"[11] In 1990, he took part in the project "Youth and Beauty in Art" (conference and exhibition), held by Timur Novikov and Dunya Smirnova at the Leningrad House of Scientists.

[citation needed] In 1991, he participated in the exhibition "Academism and Neo-Academism" in the Marble Palace (Museum of V. I. Lenin), alongside artists such as Novikov, Denis Egelsky, and the young couturier Konstantin Goncharov, who created the "Strict Youth" (Russian: «Строгий юноша») fashion house.

[citation needed] In 1992, he won the television competition "New Name of Russia and the Commonwealth Countries" (Russian: «Новое имя России и стран Содружества»).

[13] In September 1995, Guryanov took part in the exhibition "On Beauty" at the Regina Gallery, Moscow, curated by Dan Cameron.

Other references in Guryanov's work include the photographs of Alexander Rodchenko and films such as A Severe Young Man, Querelle, and Death in Venice.

"[2] In an analytical review of the Russian contemporary art market in 2016, Guryanov was recognized as the most expensive artist in Russia for the last 10 years among those who reached their career peak after 1991 and exhibited at auctions in the last decade.

[20] In 1989, Guryanov helped found Pirate Television (Russian: Пиратское телевидение) alongside Yuris Lesnik, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, and Timur Novikov.

The exhibition, titled "My artwork - Me myself" (Russian: «Мое произведение искусства – я сам»), featured works by friends and contemporaries such as Timur Novikov, Viktor Tsoi, Evgeny Kozlov, Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe, Denis Egelsky, Edyge Niyazov, Metsur Volde, and Andrey Khlobystin.