About the artist
CV
Professional history and the key stages of a creative path.
Events
Selected exhibitions, screenings and festival programs
- “A Non-Academic Study of Old Age” (2026, The Just A Minute Festival, Massachusetts)
- “Driving Toward a Dream” (2025, Krasnogorsky International Sports Film Festival, Moscow)
- “The Dove” (2024, Asheville Fringe Arts Festival, North Carolina)
- “Treasure” — Colour Your Dreams In 60 Seconds (2023, The Wrong Biennale)
- “Treasure” (2022, Meta-Cinema hybrid audiovisual arts festival, Bologna)
- “The Bottle and the Pipe” — Videominute competition finalist (2022, Zaragoza)
- “When the Bird Cherry Blooms” — Doctherapy special programme (2022, Doker International Film Festival, Moscow)
- “Home” (2022, Huesca International Film Festival, Huesca)
- “The Gift” — “Beyond the Frame” street art installation (2021, In collaboration with the Artkommunalka museum and the Antonov Apples festival, Kolomna)
- “Treasure” (2021, MAX3MIN Film Festival, Milan)
- “Home” — national program (2021, Message to Man International Film Festival, St. Petersburg)
- “A Letter to Descendants” (2020, Victory Together documentary and TV film festival)
- Letter to Descendants (Participation in the "Russian Day" program at the 30th International Film Festival in Cottbus, Germany, 2020)
- Letter to Descendants (Artdocfest, in the "After the Union" program, Russia, 2019)
- Treasure (Facade Video Festival Plovdiv, Bulgaria, 2018)
- Aquariana (single photograph) (Photo exhibition as part of the 4th international photo contest organized by Fondazione Zoé, Italy, 2017)
- Treasure (10th Festival de Cine Bajo la Luna, Spain, 2017)
- Treasure (WATER CONNECTS — a group exhibition at the Hungarian House of Photography (Mai Manó House), Hungary, 2016)
- Gift (The unprecedented cinema festival, Estonia, 2015)
- Gift (Film Festival Contravision, Germany, 2014)
Achievements
Selected awards, prizes and educational programs
- At the Bottom of St. Petersburg’s Wells (a series of photographs) — Merit Award Gallery (All About Photo Magazine #52 STREET, USA, 2025)
- People of Downtown LA (photo series) — Honorable Mention in the "Street Portrait" category (Paris International Street Photo Awards, France, 2024)
- Dove (video essay) — Best Self-Funded Film award (Cine Pobre Film Festival, Mexico, 2024)
- Letter to Descendants — 1st place, “Inspiring film idea for upbringing” category (KinoIntellekt International Film Festival, Russia, 2024)
- Letter to Descendants — a special jury prize "For a multi-dimensional vision of contemporary Russia through the eyes of children" (25th Radonezh International Film and TV Festival, Russia, 2020)
- Home won a Goethe-Institut grant to participate in the DocTrain program, under the guidance of Marina Razbezhkina and Arne Birkenstock. (Rostov Kremlin, Russia – Germany, 2020)
- Treasure is one of the winners of an open international art residency competition. (Museum-Residence: Artkommunalka: Yerofeev and Others, Russia, 2017)
Publications
Articles, reviews, interviews and media mentions
- Written by Michael Hanna about Igor Gladkov (Point Pleasant Publishing, USA, 2026)
- Total Anti-Mainstream. A Review of the Comics Choice and Cyst + Secrets from the Creative Team (GeekCity, Russia, 2026)
- The phenomenon of dachas and garages in the context of Russian documentary cinema (HSE art and design school, Russia, 2025)
- Doker Film Festival 2022: Ruin, Dystopia, and Cats (etonadovidet.info, Russia, 2022)
- Scourge, Becky the Kitty, Choice and more. Nothing but Russian comics in this new roundup of releases from Alpaca (GeekCity, Russia, 2022)
- Self-publishing: how to create and promote a comic book (First Student Agency, Russia, 2022)
- Message to Man, 2021 — Films in the National Competition (seance.ru, Russia, 2021)
- National competition authors on their work (31st International Film Festival "Message to Man", Russia, 2021)
- Interview for the 30th International Film Festival in Cottbus (youtube.com, Germany, 2020)
- Voice of the Generations — an interview with Alexey Vishets (7th Bulletin of the 16th International Film Festival "Won Together", Russia, 2020)
- Rostov Kremlin became a venue for documentary filmmaking seminars (vesti-yaroslavl.ru, Russia, 2020)
What’s next