Mykola Mykolayovych Sologubov (Mykola Sologub) was born on August 6, 1969, in Kyiv, to the artist's great-great-grandfather. His father, Nikolai Vasilyevich Sologubov (Sologub), was born in Kyrgyzstan and lost his parents early, a famous Soviet artist. Of the Lithuanian nobles, the ending of the surname is Russified.
His maternal grandfather was the famous Ukrainian Jewish poet Matz (Motl) Davydovych Hartsman. He went to war as a volunteer and died at the front in 1943. His brother is the painter Matthew Weisberg.
Mykola Sologub studied at the Kyiv Republican Art School for Gifted Children, specializing in sculpture. But, at the age of 14 he was expelled with a negative characterization for behavior and was able to graduate only from a school for the blind and deaf, in any other, with such a characterization his brothers did not agree.
All these events made it impossible to officially continue art education. He was engaged in self-education, studied philosophy, art history, worked as a laboratory assistant in the Kyiv branch of the Lviv Polygraphic Institute.
He received his art education from his father. Since childhood, he painted in his studio, which was located on Andrew's Descent, in Kiev, and when the city began to open galleries, in 1989, Nicholas began to work with them. The career of a modern artist developed immediately.
Now the workshop is located in Podil. And in the grove in the hut, where in summer the master arranges performances, exhibiting paintings on the fence and on the walls of the house, mentally traveling to different countries and eras. A special place in the work of Nicholas - the development of underground space, he created a museum in the fate of his house, filling it with art objects and artistically decorating the pipes that go to the world of hell. Which - metaphorically - is life above.
Since childhood, he was interested in finding a picture of the world, which he found in ancient cultures, but did not find in modern life and therefore painted it, drawing parallels between the images of art in different countries. Demonstrated the semiotic sign of the existence of such a picture of the world, trying to get a response from a contemporary relying on common sense.
A technique that allows the artist to get closer to his goal - a fusion of book graphics and sculpture. In his works, expressing the idea of ​​losing the plane of the canvas - the former meaning of the picture (myth) - the artist creates a sign of this myth with new (available to him) means, demonstrating beyond the canvas, paints the sculpture, complements the canvas with three-dimensional elements. He is looking for a new picturesque language that will return the picture to its former meaning - a sign of true creativity.
Mykola Sologub's work is known in Kyiv and European countries.Some exhibitions:2013 "Singularity", Constellation Theater, Kyiv.2014 "Painting", m M-17 (personal).2014 "Diotima", Museum of Russian Art, Kyiv.2015 Tolerance Foundation, Poland.2017 April 21-24, Art Expo NY. New York, USA.2017 "Red Buddha" National Museum of Shevchenko. Kiev. 20.06 - 02.07 (personal).2018 ArtWeCan. Erotic art festival-fair Kyiv. Ducat.
Works are stored in collections:
National Museum "Kyiv Art Gallery".Taras Shevchenko National Museum, Kyiv.Museum - workshop. Ivana Kavaleridze, Kyiv.Collection of Igor Dychenko "Art Arsenal", Kyiv.Berdychiv Historical Museum. Berdychiv, Ukraine.Taras Shevchenko Museum, Beijing, China.Gambassi Thermo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tuscany Italy.Cultural Center. Kennedy, New York, USA.Meno Fortas is a drama theater directed by Eimuntas Nyakrosius in Vilnius, Lithuania.Rustaveli State Academic Theater under the direction of Robert Robertovich Sturua in Tbilisi, Georgia.
Participation in international symposia and art festivals:
2008 Symposium of European artists. Tuscany, Italy.2008 Art-Kyiv. Ukrainian house. Kiev.2009 "From the collection of Sokolova" Calgary. Canada (personal).

Together with Andriy Gushchyn, Mykola founded the literary and art magazine Gilgemesh, which he illustrated for many years and in which he published his literary and philosophical work, The Epic of the Fictional Ukrainian Poet and Artist Nivkin, Who We All Are.