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Basic Data

Ilya Kabakov is a Russian painter and conceptual artist of the present. During his creative period in the Soviet Union, he was considered a major representative of 'Moscow Conceptualism'.

  • Date of Birth: September 30, 1933
  • Birthplace: Dnepropetrowsk, Soviet Union
  • Nationality: Russian Art
  • Studies: VA Surikov Art Academy Moscow
  • Era: Contemporary Art
  • Style: Neo-conceptual art

Exhibitions

  • 24.09.21 – 09.01.22 The Cool and the Cold. Malerei aus den USA und der UdSSR 1960–1990 – Gropius Bau, Berlin. Berlin.
  • 03.07.21 – 12.09.21 The Ironic Curtain Art from the Soviet Underground – Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia.
  • 08.11.19 – 03.05.20 The Missing Planet - Centro Pecci, Prato.
  • 19.10.19 – 23.02.20 Michael Müller. "DEINE KUNST" The Conditions of Being Art (oder der Amateur) Dritte Fassung - Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg.
  • 06.06.19 – 31.10.19 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: How to Meet an Angel - Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow.
  • 08.03.18 – 19.05.18 Avatars. The artist and his double - Les Abattoirs - Frac Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse.
  • 01.12.17 – 02.04.18 Künstlerbücher. Die Sammlung - Hamburger Kunsthalle.
  • 18.10.17 – 28.01.18 Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future - Tate Modern, London.

 

Filme

  • Mit Fliegen und Engel, documentary by Niels Bolbrinker, 93 min, 2009.
  • Die seltsame Stadt der Kabakovs (La cité étrange des Kabakov), documentary by Heinz Peter Schwerfel, 26 min, France 2013.

 

Literature

  • Die totale Aufklärung: Moskauer Konzeptkunst 1960–1990, Boris Groys, Max Hollein, Manuel Fontan del Junco (Publ.), Ostfildern 2008.
  • Ilya Kabakov Das angeflogene Archiv - The arriving archive, Ausstellungskatalog, Ursula Keller, Galerie der Stadt Backnang, Ostfildern 1999.

 

Collections

Germany

 

France

 

Poland

 

Belgium

 

Russia

 

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