Evgeny Zyablov

Evgeny Maksimovich Zyablov (Евге́ний Макси́мович Зя́блов, born 27 June 1960, Tashkent) is a Russian curator, manager, art publisher and entrepreneur, internationally renowned as Commissioner of the 1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2005).

Evgeny Zyablov was born in 1960 in Tashkent (Uzbek SSR) into a family of engineers from Taganrog.

His father - Maxim Pavlovich Zyablov, mother - Nelly Vladimirovna Zyablova (Lomakina).

After serving military service in the Soviet Army, Evgeny trained as a geologist at the Rostov State University, and then, as an architect at the Rostov Civil Engineering Institute.

He worked in geological expeditions, as a designer and furniture design engineer.

Zyablov is a Graduate Gemologist (G.G.) of the Gemological Institute of America.

He studied economics and audit in absentia, defended his thesis for the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences (PhD) at the Moscow Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship (HSPP).

He has participated in various private and public projects in the fields of art, protection of cultural heritage and investment.

Over the years, Evgeny Zyablov worked in government positions, in particular, he was the head of the Investment Department of the Moscow Property Fund (1995-1996), the Deputy Chairman of the Committee for Municipal Loans and Stock Market Development in Moscow (Moskomzaim) (1997-1999), the Director of ROSIZO (2001-2007).

In September 1998, the Moscow Collection Gallery, owned by Evgeny Zyablov, registered a periodical illustrated publication about art named Moscow Collection.

Zyablov was a founder, publisher (1999-2006, together with Alexander Sysoenko in 2000–2005) and editor-in-chief (1999-2001) of one of the leading Russian art publications, the ArtChronika magazine; founder, publisher and art director of the ArtGuide magazine (2005).

In June 1999, the "zero" May issue of this magazine was presented under the title ART Moscow Collection and with the subtitle "Chronicle of Artistic Life".

Evgeny Raitses joined the project as art director, while Zyablov retained the functions of editor-in-chief.

A photo of Zyablov's daughter was placed on the cover of the issue, for which the founder of the magazine was criticized.

Starting in 1999 with a declared circulation of 10 thousand copies, Artchronika quickly gained a reputation as one of the leading Russian publications on the topic of contemporary art, and at the peak of its success it was published with a circulation of 40 thousand copies.

Since 2000, the magazine ArtChronika has been published regularly, every two months.

To issue the magazine, Evgeny Zyablov created ArtChronika LLC, and in 2000 Alexander Sysoenko joined him as a co-publisher.

Zyablov continued to lead the publication for some time, but hid under the pseudonym "Evgeny Maksimov".

From 2001 to 2007, Evgeny Zyablov was the Director of the State Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO.

In May 2001, Zyablov was appointed to the post of Director of ROSIZO, and since 2002, Nikolay Molok has replaced him in the chair of the editor-in-chief.

The appointment of Zyablov opened new prospects for ArtChronika: the magazine began to enjoy the support of the Ministry of Culture and became a joint project of the reorganized ArtChronika CJSC and ROSIZO.

It was published by the Council of Europe in 2001.

Zyablov also was the Commissioner of the Russian pavilion at the 50th and 51st Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art (2003, 2005), and at the 9th and 10th Venice Biennale of Architecture (2004, 2006) as well.

Co-founder (in 2003, together with Denis Lukashin) of the first Russian non-state technological laboratory for complex examination of painting "Art Consulting".

He is a patent holder for a method for determining the age of oil paintings.

Probably the most successful initiative of the Artchronika editorial staff was the rating “Top 30 of most influential persons in Russian art” based on the results of 2004, which has been published annually (in an expanded to the "Top 50" version) since 2006.

At the turn of 2005–2006, Evgeny Zyablov sold the publishing rights to Shalva Breus for an unnamed amount and didn't take part in ArtChronika anymore.

The first issue of Artguide was released in March 2005 with a declared circulation of 40 thousand copies.

Zyablov again combined several functions: the author and ideologist of the project, as well as the publisher, but this time the chief editor was originally Nikolai Molok.

Apart from him, the editorial board included eminent specialists, and the project itself was carried out with the support of Natural Le Coultre (the family company of Yves Bouvier), as well as Le Petit Futé and E.K ArtBureau.

However, already in 2006, the publication of Artguide, for unnamed reasons, was stopped.

From 2009 to 2011, he managed investments in the field of cultural heritage at CJSC Leader (pension fund asset management company).

In 2009, a former employee of the Artguide editorial board Danila Stratovich, after agreeing with Zyablov, resumed the release of Artguide, indicating in the imprint of the printed version "Founded in 2005 by Evgeny Zyablov".

Currently Artguide exists only as a website and a mobile application.

The print edition of Guidance on inventory and documentation of the cultural heritage has been prepared by the ad hoc accounting and documentation group under the Cultural Heritage Cooperation and Technical Assistance Program.

In 2013, the magazine was closed.

Artguide (full name - Artguide Moscow) was Evgeny Zyablov's second publishing project.

It was a periodical illustrated pocket-size guide about current and upcoming events in Moscow art life.

It was a "flip-flop": on the one hand, the cover and texts in Russian, on the opposite side - the cover and texts in English.

In 2014–2015, he was the developer and scientific supervisor of the professional retraining program “Art Market and Investments in Art and Jewelry” at the Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.