Timur Novikov co-founded the New Artists group in Leningrad in 1982. In 1989 he co-founded Pirate TV (with Yuris Lesnik and Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe) and subsequently wrote scripts and worked as a director, an actor, and a designer of video films. In the 1990s numerous exhibitions of his work were held internationally, including at the World Financial Center, New York (1997); Museum of the New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg (1995); Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (1993); mumok, Vienna (1991); and Tate Liverpool, England (1989). His work is now held by the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg; the Museum in Tsaritsyno, Moscow; the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; and mumok, Vienna, among other collections.