BIOGRAFIE
1954 | Born in Aktjubinsk, former Soviet Union |
1972 - 1977 | Polygraphic Institute Moscow (painting and graphic art) |
1977 | first place citation for his Diploma, "Master of Fine Arts" |
1978 | member of the Association of Painters of Moscow, participates in numerous exhibitions of the Association of Painters and of nonconformist artists |
1985 | moves to the West, lives currently in Germany |
1988 - 1993 | studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna |
1993 | "Magister artium" of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (painting and graphic art)
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2016 | Academician of the International Academy of Culture and Art Lives and works in Berlin, Germany |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2019 | "On the Edge of the World", Solo Show, State Art Museum Novosibirsk, Russia |
2019-20 | Serie "Eternal Life", part of the project "2020-2070", Rosnano and Frida Project Foundation, Moscow |
2018 | "Family Album", Museum of Fine Arts Kaluga, Russia (solo show), will be continued as travelling exhbition to different museums in the Moscow region |
2017 | PS Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale, Malta |
2015 | 56th Venice Biennale, "The Pavilion Telluria", project with Vladimir Sorokin, Palazzo Corfù |
2014 | “Genia Chef, Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vassiliev. The Blinding Light of History“, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, USA |
2013 | 55th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Bembo |
2011 | “Glory of a New Century“, solo show, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
2007 | II Moscow Biennale |
2005 | Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia |
2004 | Kunsthalle Baden-Baden |
2003 | Yeshiva University Museum, New York |
2002 | Palazzo Forti, Verona |
2001 | Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium |
2000 | “Jesus Christ in Art“, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg |
1998 | “American Pop Art - Russian Sots Art”, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis |
1997 | Italian Cultural Institute, Berlin |
1994 | Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York |
1976 | “First Exhibition of the Avant-garde Artists", Moscow |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2017 | Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts |
1993 | Gold medal of the Academy (Fueger Gold Prize) |
1977 | first place citation for his Diploma, "Master of Fine Arts" |
WERKE IN SAMMLUNGEN
The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Freud`s Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg Hofstra University Museum, USA St Mary's Church of Cadaques, Spain St. George Church, Ulm, Germany |