Dimitrii Gutov is a Russian artist and art theoretician. Born in Moscow, 1960, he is one of the most widely known and charismatic artists of the post-Soviet era. His works are stored and exhibited in leading museums of the world: the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, Russian Icon Museum (all in Moscow), the Louvre, the Guggenheim (New York), Kiasma (Helsinki). Gutov participated in the Venetian Biennials of 1995, 2007 and 2011, at Manifesta (1996), Documenta (2007), Volta (New York, 2009), the Biennials in Istanbul (1992), São Paulo (2002) and Shanghai (2012).