Andrey Ostashov is a professional sculptor and artist, born in Belarus. He works with stone and bronze, creating fantasy worlds, where modern age blends with motives of Oriental and Occidental mythology. Ostashov’s work is displayed in museums and private collections of art connoisseurs around the globe. His capacity to capture the innermost feelings of his characters, the sensuality of each sculpture — the dialogue of Ostashov’s sculptures with the audience is invariably emotional and profound.
Andrey Ostashov was born in the city of Lida in the USSR. In 1997, he graduated from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts in Minsk.
He is a member of the Belarusian Union of Artists, participant of more than a hundred international exhibitions, art projects and general practice training courses. He has won numerous awards at art and architectural competitions and holds scholarships of Belarusian Ministry of Culture and the Minister
of Culture of the Republic of Poland.
Ostashov won the “Faith” award at the VII Moscow International Festival of Arts “Traditions and Modernity”; the diploma “For the Vastness of Concept and Grandeur of Implementation” (Moscow, 2013); the diploma “For Contribution to the National Visual Arts” of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia (Moscow, 2015).
He lives and works in Minsk (Belarus) and Pietrasanta (Italy), where his sculptures are currently cast.
As they reflect on Ostashov’s sculptures, art experts and spectators refer to the aesthetics of the East and the West, the depth of implications of ancient epics and myths, and the combination of all of these complex and multilayered stories in his works. However, a sculptor is, first and foremost, the creator of the form and line, an expert on bronze and stone, a creator of surface and volume. These are his key ideas and his main words. His language is unique and powerful.
Ostashov collaborates with galleries in Moscow, St. Petersburg, Minsk, Astana. Vienna, Monaco. Taipei, and Sochi.
