Sergei Mironenko was born in Moscow, Russia in 1959. He received a degree from the Gorki Theater Academy of Art in Moscow. Mironenko belongs to the generation of avant-garde Moscow artists who emerged at the end of the 1970s. He began his career as a member of the legendary "Toadstools" group, in which it was possible to express oneself with any means whatsoever: text, performance, graphics, painting, poetry and music. In this way Mironenko was able to experiment with different forms of art, thereby becoming an eclectic artist.

At the beginning of the 1980s, he was one of the most active supporters of Moscow's non-official exhibitions, which generally took place in the apartment-galley known...