Born in 1957 in Minsk, Belarus, Andrei Belle currently resides and pursues his artistic endeavours in Moscow. His remarkable artistic journey is marked by numerous exhibitions and a prominent presence in both Russian museums and private collections around the globe. His works have always stood out for their highly unconventional and captivating qualities. He studied in St Petersburg and upon graduating from the V. I. Mukhina Leningrad Higher School of Commercial Art, he started working as an independent artist — a painter and graphic designer. With the advent of glasnost and perestroika, Belle’s work was much exhibited both in Russia and worldwide. Even with the reforms in the Soviet Union, the promotion of Russian art in the USA and across Europe was still not common. Despite this, his works were extensively exhibited in all these countries, USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Belgium, Holland and France. His friendship with stage artists and musicians, particularly with Andrei Makarevich, prompted Belle to design numerous musical albums for Makarevich’s, and other prominent musicians; Maxim Leonidov and Jean Tatlian among others.
 His participation in charity auctions (Sotheby’s Cow Parade in 2005 and the Milost Foundation’s auction in St Petersburg in 2007) enabled considerable amounts of money to be collected for sick children. In 2001, he was awarded the title of “Master” during the Master Class project directed by Mikhail Piotrovsky. In 2007, the President of the Russian Federation decreed that Andrei Belle should be decorated with the Order for Services to the Fatherland, 2nd class. Andrei Belle is a highly innovative and talented contemporary painter whose works are shaped by his primary preoccupations; the passage of time, and the nature of beauty. His paintings are rare and precious, filled with sensuality and delicate aesthetics. Each one is the result, and fruit of intricate and lengthy reflection and meticulous application. “Andrei Belle has a happy conception of the world. When you look at his paintings, you immediately understand what he likes. Between the painter and his model there is a clever interplay of allusions and reflections, a tangled web of traces (you know that I know what you know...). Such unusual sincerity is bound to attract attention. He's a refined painter; he paints pomegranates, faceted glass, dried fish... He's happy with his friends' discoveries, he relies on them and doesn't hide it. When you look at Belle's work from a temporal perspective, you get the feeling that everything he does is sincere: when he treats the surfaces of his paintings with quality material and the warmth of his hands, when he paints his favourite objects, when he finds fragments of old letters or photos at a flea market and inserts them into the layers of his paintwork, even when he integrates into his works, with absolute sincerity and joy, some of his friends' inspirations. Of course, the painter's work is intended to carry a friendly message: "I will call my friends, I will give my heart with love...". Where there is a message, there is also a need for understanding, for recognition; otherwise, why share your own astonishment? And Belle maintains his ability to share and to amaze. It's no coincidence that his main collectors, amongst them painters and musicians, are people who attach the greatest importance to connections and emotions.” ~Dr. Alexandre Borovski ~ (Curator of the Contemporary Art Department of the Russian National Museum) Belle has had many exhibitions both nationally and internationally and his paintings are included in important collections around the world.