Dima Rebus is known for his large-format watercolour works based on his own hand-designed chemical solutions. The complex painting combines the aesthetics of abstract, cartoon and realistic techniques. The underlying stylistics of the works hold a general sense of suspense and involuntary mysticism. The universe of Underground Aquarellka, created by Rebus, is filled with metaphysical imagery, meshing with unexpected plot twists. Carefully constructed compositions refer back to the artist's fascination with computer gamification culture and early experiences of digital interactivity. One of the main focuses of his artistic practice is to develop themes of adaptive norms and the characteristic evolution of their parameters in contemporary society. In the world he constructs, the alarmist mood is replaced by a more philosophical detached view, accepting the facts of isolation, or disappearance, as natural stages in the cycle of being.
The artist's early creative years were associated with the burgeoning wave of street art in the early 2010s. Rebus combined his studies at the Moscow Institute of Art and Industry with his work as an illustrator for Esquire, Psychologies, GQ and Snob. He collaborated with National Geographic Channel (USA), Canal+ (France). For several years has illustrated the author's column of Total Football magazine. In 2012 he created illustrations for the author's series of children's books "Andersen's Fairytale Rebus".
Dima Rebus's first solo exhibition "Shtick" was held in Moscow in 2011 at the Fabrika Centre for Creative Industries. In spring 2014, as part of the parallel programme of the European Biennale of Contemporary Art "Manifesta", he took part in the exhibition "Casus Pacis / The Cause for Peace". In the group exhibition, Russian and Ukrainian artists worked together against the military conflict, creating works dedicated to the speedy establishment of peaceful relations between Russia and Ukraine. In the summer of that year, with the exhibition Insomnia, he participated in the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. At the end of 2014, he had a solo exhibition at YawnArt (Artwin Gallery) in Brussels, Belgium. In 2016, he participated in the 5th International Biennale of Young Art with his project "Good Deal": at the Trekhgornaya Manufactory, Rebus was given a building which became an object for street art, the facade of which he "wrapped" in painted polyethylene film.
In 2017, he was invited by the Goethe-Institut in Berlin to take part in an exhibition reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. Goethe-Institut in Berlin to participate in an exhibition reflecting on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution. As part of the exhibition, Rebus presented the project Life Goes On. A wall made up of several hundred barrels of oil with faces depicted on them embodied the revolutionary crowd.
He has exhibited at international contemporary art fairs including Art Central (Hong Kong), Art Dubai (Dubai), Blazar (Moscow), Cosmoscow (Moscow). Dima Rebus's work can be found in numerous contemporary art collections.