In 1978, having been invited by Timur Novkov, he joined “Letopis” founded by Bob Koshelohov in 1977.

Evgenij Kozlov lead a series of biographic and artistic journal entries from 1979 to 1983. more >>

In 1982, Timur Novikov offered him membership in “Новые Художники” (”Novye Khudozhniki” / “New Artists”), becoming the group’s second member. more >>

During the 80s, Evgenij Kozlov created his own specific style to portray a metamorphosis of reality (the “E-E” style), often using his own photos for the task (“Anna Karenina I” more >>, “Anna Karenina II” more >>,. “Good Evening Gustav” more >>) and creating new symbols («art из CCCP “Art from the USSR” more >>).

In 1991, Evgenij Kozlov expanded his artistic talent to video art. The same year he developed his ideas about the nature of creating and understanding art in conversations with Hannelore Fobo. Based on the “New Classics” artistic cycle of 1989-1990 he formulated his theory about the “Art of the Future” more >>

In 1994, Evgenij Kozlov moved to Berlin and - with the aid of Hannelore Fobo – opened the “Russkoee Polee 2” studio within the confines of an old factory in central Berlin.

The studio regularly showed Evgenij Kozlov’s own work and hosted a number of cultural activities, beginning with the third exhibition of the “2 x 3 m” collection” more >>See here >> Other activities included - the fourth ‘2 x 3 m’ exhibition (1995) more >>, already housing 25 pieces from Russian artists. Curators and artists flew in with special flights provided via support from British Airways.

- various exhibitions taken part in by Oleg Kotelnikov, Oleg Zajka, Andrey Khlobystin, Natalia Pershina-Yakimanskaya (Gluklya), Evgenij Kondratev, Andrius Ventslova and others

- concerts by “New Composers” (1999, 2000 more >>), “Mumiy Troll’” (2001 more >>),  the composer Dmitriy Pavlov, who wrote music for the film “Kukushka” and Andrey Boreyko, head conductor for the Dusseldorf Symphonic Orchestra (2003 мmore >>)

- club parties: “Russkij Novy God” with Bob Young / Club 90º (1998), “E-E Relax Party” (1999), “Chocoparty” (1999) and “The Next Century is Gøod” (2000)

In Berlin, Evgenij Kozlov continued resorting to more sizeable cycles, such as „Angels of the Russian Field”(«Ангелы Русского Поля», “Angely Russkogo Polya”), 1994, “Virtuoso Reality”(«Виртуозная Реальность» “Virtuoznaya Realnost”) more >>, 1996, “Lolita”,1996, “The Book for People, Princesses and Princes” («Книга для Людей, Принцесс и Принцев»  “Kniga Dlya Ludey, Princess i Printsev”) more >>, 1991-2007, and others.

In 1997, Evgenij Kozlov became the husband of Hannelore Fobo.

In 1998, per request from the Berlin House of Representatives, Evgenij Kozlov painted the portrait of M. S. Gorbachev for Berlin’s honorary citizen gallery. more >>

In 1999, commemorating 10 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall, Evgenij Kozlov oversaw an event allowing schoolchildren to write upon a chocolate wall 12 metres wide, two metres high and weighing 8 tons. The event was organised by “Eurochocolate” and held on the Marlene Dietrich Platz square at the centre of the city. “The Berlin Chocowall” was destroyed after the event was over, the chocolate dispersed to the children and other viewers present. more >>

The year 2003 sees the release of “Leningradskiy Al’bom / The Leningrad Album”, earlier works (1967-1973) dedicated “to all youth and men in the world throughout XXI, XXVI, XXXIX and LXIV centuries”. more >>

As of 2005, the artist began signing his works exclusively with the “E-E” symbol.

In 2007, Maurizio Cattelan includes Evgenij Kozlov into his list of 100 “great solitary masters” presented in the “Charley 05” album, making him the only Russian artist in his “gallery of obsessions”. more >>

2009 Under the label "E-E films" Evgenij Kozlov & Hannelore Fobo have begun producing films about the works of Evgenij Kozlov, as well as publishing the video archive with films from artistic territory of St. Petersburg in the 1990s. more >>

In 2010, E-E will complete the “Century XX” cycle consisting of 100 collages more >>, 500 graphic works more /video >> and 500 lightboxes. In order to better describe such a monumental cycle, he implemented the term “Chaose-art” more >> to denote a complex concept for describing art starting in the middle of the XX century.

Solo shows

1989 «Новая Классика» / «New Classic Art», Russkoee Polee, Leningrad

1991 Raab Galerie , Berlin

1992 Galerie Cornelisson, Schlangenbad

1995 «Miniatures in Paradise», Berlin, (Tiergarten) more>>

1997 «Целую целую жизнь» / "Ich küsse das ganze Leben", LiteraturWerkstatt, Berlin

2000 «Е-Е (культовые герои 80-х годов / cult heroes of the 80s) », Petersburg archive and library of independent art, Pushkin street 10, St. Petersburg

recent group shows (selection)

2005 «Transcontinental Nomadenoase», Art Basel Miami Beach

2005 Meyer Riegger, Karlsruhe

2006 «Los Chowchillas, Mexico City»

2007 Laura Mars Grp, Berlin more >>

2007 «The Raw, the Cooked, the Packaged» Kiasma, Helsinki more>>

2010 «Brushstroke. New Artists and Necrorealists 1982 - 1991», The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg more>>