Leonid Tishkov’s poetic and metaphysical oeuvre manifests itself  in a diverse and often unconventional range of media, including installations, sculpture, video, photography, works on paper and books.

Leonid Tishkov started his career making cartoonist works in the 1980s that focused on ironic, black humor and political aspects. Since the beginning of the 1990s, however, his work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations that aimed to engage the viewer into absurdist situations with fictional cartoon characters and an admixture of theatrical action. At the same time Tishkov got drawn to the theme of memory, creating a set of objects, videos and photos about his native place – the Urals.

Since 2000 the artist intensifies the romantic and even sometimes magical tradition, which is also fully manifested in the installation “Private Moon”.