1961

Russian artist and art historian. Born January 29, 1961, in Leningrad. Graduated from Art School No. 1 in the Dzerzhinsky District in 1977. In 1983, he defended his diploma in the Art History Department of the History Faculty of the A. A. Zhdanov Leningrad State University. Since 1988, he has participated in exhibitions of the New Artists group and worked in the NC/VCH squat. Since 1995, he has been the Academic Secretary of Timur Novikov's New Academy of Fine Arts. Together with Novikov, he has held numerous exhibitions and events, published a number of manifestos and art publications, and founded several organizations: Artistic Will (1997), the Institute of the History of Contemporary Art (1999), and the Museum of Contemporary Art at the National Academy of Fine Arts (2002). He has participated in over 200 exhibitions and festivals. The works are in the collections of the State Russian Museum, the A.S. Popov Central Museum of Communications, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Moscow), the Zimmerli Art Museum (USA), the Museum of Nonconformist Art, and private collections in Russia, France, the USA, Mexico, Germany, Austria, Switzerland.