*1965

“…It is better then to see the paintings as landscapes of the mind, projections and
open territories of imaginary inscription. That Serebriakova reflects upon this is
beyond doubt, since she stated earlier “Art is a sort of ritual that incessantly defines emptiness… ” (Mark Gisbourne)

Born in Moscow in 1965, Maria Serebriakova has been living and working in Berlin since 1998. Emerging as an artist in the late 1980s the artistic language of Serebriakova was formed under Perestroika and may be defined as “radical artistic minimalism”. Exhibited at Documenta in 1992 she has many other solo and group exhibitions include the shows at Centre for Contemporary Art PS1 (MOMA, New York, USA), National Museum of Contemporary Art (Oslo), Stedelijk Museum (Amsterdam). The artist travels along the landscapes of her mind and records her travel memories on canvas. Her images-phantoms are circles appearing as if suns or constellations, rhythmic lines that arc across the surface of some paintings, architectural elements of buildings, variable horizon line, silent spaces filled with air. The predominating colour of her works is grey in tone, meditative, known as a borderland or mediation between black and white.

SOLO SHOWs

2010 Suspicious Garden. REGINA Gallery. London, Russia
2008 Day Night Day. REGINA Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2005-2006 White sea. Giorgio Persano Gallery. Torino, Italy
2004 Maria Serebriakova.Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
2002 Maria Serebriakova. Kunstburo. Vienna, Austria
2002 Maria Serebriakova. REGINA Gallery. Moscow, Russia
2001 Hotel Moscow. Project in Moscow. Moscow, Russia
When the winter gets too long. Art & Idea. New York, USA
TV-painting. Kunsthalle Lophem. Buero 2002. Bruges, Belgium
Maria Serebriakova. Art Athina 2001. Galleria Giorgio Persano. Athens, Greece
2000 Mexico for two. Project in 2 parts. Art & Idea. Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico
1999 Maria Serebriakova. Giorgio Persano Gallery. Torino, Italy
1999 Maria Serebriakova. Hotel San Francisco. Cuidad of Mexico, Mexico
1998 NBK – Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Berlin, Germany
1997 Maria Serebriakova. Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
Drawings. XL Gallery. Moscow, Russia
1996 Maria Serebriakova. Kunsthalle Lophem. Bruges,Belgium
1995 Maria Serebriakova. La Base. Centre d’Art Contemporain. Levallois, France
1995 Ultima Thule. Amsterdam, Netherlands
1994 Le Creux de l’Enfer. Centre d’Art Contemporain. Thiers, France
1993-1992 Maria Serebriakova. ZenoX Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
1992 Maria Serebriakova. Galeria Giorgio Persano. Torino, Italy
1992 KünstlerhausBethanien. Berlin, Germany
1991 Optika Vzgliada – Ida Applebroog & Maria Serebriakova. Avtozavodskaja Exhibition Hall. Moscow, Russia
The Way Things Stand. Schola Gallery. Moscow, Russia
1990 Malerei und Objekte. Inter Art Gallery. Berlin, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 Works on paper. Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
2009 Nomad. Kulturcentrum. Bruges,Belgium
Ein netter Raum. Galerie Rauminhalt. Vienna, Austria
2007 2nd Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Special project. Through the picture. Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
2006 25 years Zeno X Gallery. Zeno X Gallery. Antwerpen, Belgium
2005 1st Moscow Biennale of contemporary art. Special project. Invasion. Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
2003 … Biedermeier, oder was? Galerie Hubert Winter. Vienna, Austria
2002 Regarding Landscape. Art Gallery of York University. The Koffler Centre Art Gallery. The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art. Toronto, Canada
2001 Aspects of the collection III. Museet For Samtidskunst / The National Museum of Contemporary Art. Oslo, Norway; Hunger nach bildern? Kunsthalle Palazzo. Liestal, Switzerland
2000 Face to Face. Cabinet Overholland. Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam, Netherlands
1999 Les Champs de la Sculpture 2000. Paris, France
Let and Go. CCAC. San Francisco, USA
1995 VI Triennale der Kleinplastik. Stuttgart, Germany
Photo-Reclamation: New Art from Moscow & Saint Petersburg. The Photographers Gallery. London, UK
1992 Documenta IX. Kassel, Germany
1991 Perspective of Conceptual. PS1 Gallery. The Clocktower. New York, USA
University of Hawaii. Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
1990 The Missing Picture. Alternative Contemporary Photography from the USSR. MIT List Visual Art Center. Cambridge, UK; Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism. Tacoma Art Museum. Seattle, USA;
ICA. Boston, USA;
Des Moines Art Center. Iowa, USA
1989 Precious Art/ Dorogoe Iskusstvo. The Central Place of Youth. Moscow, Russia
1987 A Retrospective of Moscow Artists 1957-1897. Association Ermitage. Moscow, Russia

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Museum Overholland. Nieuwesluis, Netherlands
MOMA. New York, USA
S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium
Tacum Museum. Seatle, Boston, USA
The State Russian Museum – Marble Palace. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Museum of Contemporary Art. Oslo, Norway
Kunstmuseum. Biel, Switzerland
Rubell Family Collection. Miami, USA
NBK Neuer Berliner Kunstverein. Berlin, Germany
Moscow House of Photography. Moscow, Russia
Deutsche Bank Collection. London, UK
UCLA Hammer Museum. Los Angeles, California, USA

*1966

Pavel Pepperstein who was born in Moscow is the son of Irina Pivovarova, an author of children’s books, and Viktor Pivovarov, a well-known painter, studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prague. He lives in Moscow Being a member of the Moscow Conceptualists movement, his works were exhibited at the 53rd Venice Biennial in 2009. Acting the part of mythical figure, he rarely appears in the public, has no permanent address or official studio and prefers anchoritic lifestyle and nomadic existence.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 Text – Bild – Konzepte | with Victor Pivovarov, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim
2012 Ophelia | with Victor Pivovarov, Regina Gallery, London
2011 Landscapes of the Future – The Venice Biennale Installation | Kewenig Galerie, Cologne
2011 Leviathan | Sutton Lane, Paris
2010 Pavel Pepperstein | artothek, Cologne
2010 From Mordor With Love | Regina Gallery, London
2010 Vesna | Artberloga Gallery, Moscow
2009 Pavel Pepperstein | Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz
2009 A Suprematist Study of the Ancient Greek Myths | Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2009 Pavel Pepperstein | Schau Ort, Zurich
2009 EITHER-OR | Kewenig Galerie, Cologne
2008 EITHER-OR | Regina Gallery, Moscow
2008 Objects Above the Sea | Sutton Lane, London
2008 gigantomania | Sprovieri Gallery, London
2008 Rembrandt | Semeno V Gallery, St. Petersburg
2007 Landscapes of Future | Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2007 City of Russia | Regina Gallery, Moscow
2007 Talking Animals | Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich
2006-07 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
2006 Landscapes of Future | Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2006 Pentagon | Regina Gallery, Moscow
2006 Drawings | Artplay, Moscow
2006 Museum im Fluss | Kunsthaus Zug
2005 Riders on the storm | Sutton Lane, London
2005 Europa | Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf
2004 Eyes | Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2004 Hypnosis | Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich
2004 Hypnosis | Regina Gallery, Moscow
2003 Hypnosis | Sprovieri, London
2003 Flags and Flowers | Sutton Lane, London
2003 Battles | Regina Gallery, Moscow
2002 america | Galerie Ursula Walbröl, Düsseldorf
2002 Traum und Museum | Kunsthaus Zug
2002 political hallucinations | Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2002 Götter und Monster | Neuer Aachener Kunstverein
2001 the girl and the tunnel | Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich
2001 Zeichnungen | Galerie Romain Larivière, Paris2000 Moses, Pavel Pepperstein and Russia | Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
2001 Russian Novel 2000 | Regina Galerie, Moscow
1999 Drawings | Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
1999 New drawings | Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel
1998 Die süsse Dunkelheit | Galerie Obscuri Viri, Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 In an Absolute Disorder. Contemporary Russian Art. The Kandinsky Prize (2007-2012) | Arts
2012 Santa Mònica, Barcelona
2012 Text-Bild-Konzepte | Stadtgalerie Mannheim
2012 Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk | Belvedere, 21er Haus, Vienna
2011 Russian Cosmos | Museum of Contemporary Art Castello di Rivoli, Turin
2011 The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds after 1989 | ZKM -Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe
2011 Modernikon: Contemporary Art From Russia | cur. by Francesco Bonami and Irene Calderoni, Foundation Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice
2011 Ostalgia | New Museum, New York
2011 Art works | Deutsche Bank Towers, Franfurt / Main
2010 Contrepoint: Russian Contemporary Art, From the Icon to the Avant-garde | Musée du Louvre, Paris
2010 Out of Joint | Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2010 Les Utopies Mutantes | cur. by Olga Sviblova, Passage de Retz, Paris
2010 Je mehr ich zeichne – Zeichnung als Weltentwurf | Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen
2010 André Thomkins, Pavel Pepperstein, Robert Watts | Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz
2010 Collection Florence & Daniel Guerlain – dessins contemporains | Musée des Beaux Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon, Besançon
2010 Diary of a Madman | Regina Gallery, Moscow
2010 The Beijing International Art Biennale | cur. by Roger Gustafsson, Beijing
V Contemporary Visual Art Competition, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
2010 FUTUROLOGIA | Garage CCC, Moscow
2010 East Bound | Kai 10 – Raum für Kunst, Düsseldorf
2010 Neugierig? | Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
2009 European Drawings | cur. by Laura Cherubini and Giorgio Verzotti, Oredaria Arti
2009 Contemporanee Gallery, Rome
2009 Das Gespinst | Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
2009 Making Worlds | La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2009 Political Comics, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
2009 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary art, Moscow, Russia
2008-09 Anatomie – les peaux du dessin collection Florence et Daniel Guerlain | Frac Picardie, Amiens
2008 Die totale Aufklärung. Moskauer Konzeptkunst 1960 – 1990 | Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt and Fundación Juan March, Madrid
2008 U-TURN Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2008 Moskvopolis | Luis Vuitton, Paris
2007 Cultural Confusion | Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich
2007 Intellectual realism | special project of 2 Moscow biennal in Tretyakov gallery, Moscow
2006 Spivaks Generation | Kewenig Galerie, Cologne
2005 Angels of History | MuHKA, AntwerpenEssence of Life – Essence of Art | Ludwig Museum–Museum for Contemporary Art, Budapest
2004 26. Biennal Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
2004 Privatisierungen – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa | KW Institute for contemporary art, Berlin
2004 Berlin – Moscow | State Historical Museen, Moscow
2004 Moskauer Konzeptualismus | Kupferstichkabinett Berlin
2003 Berlin – Moscow | Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2003 Korrekturen | Galerie Kamm, Berlin
2003 Neue Ansätze – Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Moskau | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
2001 Die Ausstellung eines Gesprächs (Projekt Sammlung 4); Groys, Kabakov und Pepperstein | Kunsthaus Zug
2000 How to meet an angel (with Ilya Kabakov) | Galerie Sprovieri, London
2000 Russian Novel 2000 | Ridzina Gallery, Moscow
2000 Pavel Pepperstein and Victor Pivovarov | Karmelitenkloster Graz, Austria
1999 Vater und Sohn, Victor Pivovarov and Pavel Pepperstein | Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
1997 Drawing 3, Pavel Pepperstein and Max Matter | Elisabeth Kaufmann, Basel
1996 Tennis Game (mit Ilya Kabakov) | Pori Art Museum/Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1995 Freuds Träume und Schema N 5 | cur. by Andrej Monastr, Galerie Pastzi-Bott, Cologne

INSPECTION MEDICAL HERMENEUTICS (ESTABLISHED 1987)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Galeria Jule Kewenig, Mallorca
1998 Binokel und Monokel – Leben und Werke | Kunsthaus Zug
1997 Porträt eines Greises | Staatliche Russische Museen, St. Petersburg
1996 Das weisse Fenster | Villa Waldberta, Feldafing
1995 Das Problem der Erinnerung | Kiew
1994 Erlebnis im Turm (Der goldene Schatten) | Galerie Inga Baecker, Cologne
1994 Paramen | Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
1994 Processioni | Human Space Modern Art Center, Milan
1993 Switzerland + Medicine | Swiss Institute, New York
1993 Leere Ikonen | Galerie l, Moscow
1993 Goldene Ikonen und schwarze Linie | Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg
1992 Ein Seitenraum des Sakralen in der UdSSR | Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna
1992 Die Schweiz + die Medizin | Shedhalle, Zurich
19 – 91 | Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich
1991 Das Militärleben von kleinen Bildern | Galerie Krings-Ernst, Cologne
1990 Drei Inspektoren (Drei Kinder) | Galerie Mladych, Prague
1990 Orthodoxe Ablutschungen / Umschläge und Abschlüsse | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001 Body of Art | Biennale di Valencia
2000 Image of father in Contemporary Art | Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
2000 Star of MH | Museum of contemporary Art, Karaganda (Kasachstan)
2000 Le Pôle du Froid | Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris , Central House of Artists, Moscow
2000 Home/Homeless | B001, Malmö Expeditions | Gwelman Gallery, Moscow
1999 Präprintium | Graz
1999 Solitude in Budapest | Akademie of Fine Art, Budapest
1999 Star of MH | Museum of contemporary Art Zaritzino, Krasnojarsk, Siberia
1999 Neues Museum | Ifa-Galerie, Berlin
1999 The crazy twins | Central House of Artists, Moscow
1997 Ökologie der Leere -|nstitut für zeitgenössische Kunst | Moscow Biennale, Sarajewo
1998 Mystical correct | Galerie Hohenthal & Bergen, Berlin
1998 Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden | Sophienhof, Kiel
1998 Präprintium | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin
1998 Ausstellung von Projekten | Aidan Galerie, Moscow
1998 Das Märchen besuchen | Institut für zeitgenössische Kunst, Moscow
1998 Biennale Cetinje | Crna Gora (Montenegro)
1998 Euromont | Moscow
1998 Gesichter | Zarizyno Museum, Wanderausstellung, Russia
1998 Entropia at home/Entropia zuhause | Ludwig Forum, Aachen
1998 Von Lissitzkij bis Pepperstein | Griffelkunst Hamburg
1998 Lenin | Galerie Hohenthal & Bergen, Berlin
1995 Zeichnungen der Moscower Szene | Galerie Hohenthal & Littler, Munich
1996 Kunst im Verborgenen, Nonkonformisten Russlands 1957-95 | Sammlung Museum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Zarizyno. Ludwigshafen a Rh. Kassel, Altenburg
1996 In Moscow…In Moscow… | Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe
1996 Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden | Nationalgalerie, Prag, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
1996 Kräftemessen | Kunstraum Lothringerstrasse, Munich
1996 Papier | Galerie Hohenthal, Cologne
1996 Hölle(r), Hermeneutik und die auf dem Wasser Sitzenden | Galerie Sophie Ungers, Cologne
1996 Über Schönheit | Ridshina Galerie, Moscow
1996 Grenzen der Interpretation | Russische Humanitäre Universität, Moscow
1993 Fontanelle. Kunst in (x) Zwischenfällen | Kunstspeicher, Potsdam
1993 Kontext Kunst. Die Kunst der 90er | Neue Galerie, Graz
1993 Adresse provisoire pour l’art contemporain russe | Musée de la Poste, Paris
1993 Passagio del Oriente | Biennale die Venezia, Venezia
1993 Exchange II | Shedhalle Zürich, Zurich
1993 Pré-création | Fri-Art Centre d’art contemporai, Fribourg
1993 Sehen-Lesen. Die Sprache der Kunst | Kunsthalle Vienna, Kunstverein Frankfurt /Main
1993 Fluchtpunkt Moscow | Ludwig Forum, Aachen
1993 Moscower Künstler der Neunziger Jahre | Zentrales Künstlerhaus, Moscow
1993 Sieg und Niederlage | Galerie Obscuri Viri, Moscow
1993 Architektur als Idee | Deichtorhallen Hamburg
1993 6 Moscower Konzeptualisten | Galerie Rigassi Bern
1993 Biennale Cetinja | Crna Gora (Montenegro)
1992 Russische Kunst von den 60er Jahren bis zur Perestrojka | Setagaya Museum, Tokio
1991 Unter Null (Kunsteis-Kälte-Kultur), Zentrum Industriekultur Nürnberg | Stadtmuseum Munich
1991 MANI Museum – 40 Moskauer Künstler im Frankfurter Karmelitenkloster Kau
1991 Mutter – Kosmos | Moscow
1991 Sowjetische Kunst um 1900 | Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1991 …a Mosca…. a Mosca | Villa Campoleto, Ercolano, Galleria Comunale d’Arte, 1991 BolognaPerspective of Cenceptualism | The Honlulu University
1991 Gallery P.S.1. | Clocktower Gallery, New York
1990 Artisti Russi Contemporanei | Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Lugi Pecci, Prato
1990 In Richtung des Objekts | Kaschirskaja Ausstellungshalle, Moscow
1990 Hier und dort | Awtosawodskaja-Halle, Moscow
1990 The work of art in the age of Perestrojka | Gallery Phillis Kind, New York
1990 The green show | Exit Art, New York
1990 Mosca, Moskva, Moscow | Sala Umberto Boccioni, Milan
1990 Between Spring and Summer | Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, ICA Boston, Boston
1990 In den USSR en erbuiten | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1990 Katalog | Palast der Jugend, Moscow
1990 Shizo China | KLAVA, Moscow
1990 Für kultivierte Freizeit | Moscow
1989 Teure Kunst | Palast der Jugend, Moscow
1989 Perspektiven des Konzeptualismus | KLAVA, Moscow
1989 ISKUNSTVO, 2. Teil, Moscow-Berlin
1989 Moscow-Vienna-New York/Kunst zur Zeit | Messepalast, Vienna
1989 Furmannnyj Gasse | Warsaw
1989 UdSSR heute, Sammlung Ludwig | Neue Galerie, Cologne
1988 Zweite Ausstellung der KLAVA (Klub der Avantgardisten) | Moscow

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS/CATALOGUES (SOLO)
Pavel Pepperstein und Gäste | Pavel Pepperstein and Guests, exh. cat. Kunsthaus Zug, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-7757-1413-8

CATALOGUES (GROUP)
With reference to Hans Haacke, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-86335-103-8
Utopie Gesamtkunstwerk, exh. cat. Belvedere Wien, Köln 2012, ISBN 978-3-86335-139-7
Collection Florence & Daniel Guerlain – dessins contemporains, exh. cat. Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archéologie de Besançon, Besançon 2010, ISBN 9782847510799
east bound, exh. cat. KAI 10 – Raum für Kunst, Kerber Verlag Bielefeld/Leipzig/ Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86678-404-8
Victory over the future, exh. cat. Russian Pavilion, 53rd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale Di Venezia 2009, Moscow 2009, ISBN 978-5-93977-053-8
U-Turn – Quadrennial for Contemporary Art, exh. cat. and guide The Danish Arts Council, Schultz Distribution, Copenhagen 2008, ISBN 978-87-992777-0-4
Angels of History – Moscow conceptualism and its influence, exh. cat. Museum voor Hedendaagse, Kunst Antwerpen, Europalia International, Mercatorfonds and state Museum and Exhibition Center ROSIZO, Moscow 2005, ISBN 90-6153-619-7
26a Bienal de São Paulo, exh. cat. Fundação Bienal de São Paulo
Moskauer Konzeptualismus, exh. cat. Kupferstichkabinett Berlin, Verlag der Buchhandlung König, Köln 2003, ISBN-10: 3883757675
Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000 Chronik, exh. cat. Berliner Festspiele, Trilistnik Verlag, Moskau / Ars Nicolai, Berlin 2003, ISBN-10: 3-8947-907-2
Neues Moskau: Kunst aus Moskau und St. Petersburg, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen e.V., 1999
Präprintium; Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat, Edition Temmen, 1999, ISBN 978-3-86108-534-8
Memento aus Moskau; Begegnungen mit inoffiziellen Künstlern 1978-1997, Wienand 1997
Kunst im Verborgenen; Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995, Sammlung des Staatlichen ZarizinoMuseums, Moscow, Prestel 1995
Fluchtpunkt Moscow; Werke der Sammlung Ludwig und Arbeiten für Aachen, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1994
6 Moscower Konzeptualisten, exh. cat. Edition Galerie Rigassi AG, Bern 1994
Noma oder der Kreis der Moskauer Konzeptualisten, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hatje Cantz Verlag, 1994
Pavel Pepperstein „Idéologosation de l’inconnu, Pro-création?“, CQFD,Écrite théoriques sur l’art, 1993
in Moscow…in Moscow…, Bocca Editori, 1992
Sowjetische Kunst um 1990, DuMont Buchverlag Cologne, 1991
40 Moskauer Künstler im Frankfurter Karmeliterkloster; eine Ausstellung Moskauer Avantgarde-Kunst
der achtziger Jahre, Mani Museum, 1991
Kontext Kunst: the art of the 90’s, Köln 1994
Soviet Contemporary Art, Setagaya Art Museum, 1991
Auf sechs Büchern; Inspektion Medhermeneutik, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf 1990, ISBN-902473620X
Catalogue, exh. cat. Sintez International Fine Arts, Moscow 1990
Contemporary Russian Artists, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci Prato, 1990
Between Spring and Summer; Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, exh. cat. Tacoma
Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington and The Institut of Contemporary Art, Boston, Masacusetts, 1990
The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika, exh. cat. Phyllis Kind Gallery, 1990
Ich Lebe – ich Sehe, exh. cat. Kunstmuseum Bern, 1988
PRESSE / PRESS
Becky Shirwan „The Life and Times of Pavel Pepperstein“, Elephant Magazine, Issue 11, Summer
2012, p. 132-143
Reinhatd Ermen „Zeichnen zur Zeit V – Pavel Pepperstein“, Kunstforum International, No. 215, April
2012, p. 208-211
Skye Sherwin „Artist of the week 82: Pavel Pepperstein“, guardian.co.uk, April 8, 2010
Quinn Latimer: „Pavel Pepperstein“, http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/pavelpepperstein/, March 29, 2010
Astrid Mania „Östlicher Zirkelschlag“,http://www.artnet.de/magazine/reviews/mania/mania03-20-
10.asp, March 20, 2010
Laura Schleussner „Pavel Pepperstein – Galerie Kamm – Berlin“, Flash Art, Vol XLIII, No. 270,
January-February, 2010, p.101
„A Suprematist Study of Ancient Greek Myths“, Monopol, Dezember, 2009, p. 126
Simone Reber „Kunststücke“, Der Tagesspiegel, November 14, 2009, p. 26Dominikus Müller „Angriff der Suprematistengötter“, http://www.artnet.de/magazine/reviews/mueller/
/mueller11-10-09.asp, November 10, 2009
„Pavel Peppperstein“, Blablart.com, November 5, 2009
Benedikt Stegmeyer „Wenn der Künstler fehlt“, zitty Berlin, 22-2009, p. 94
Niklas Maak „Neue Hoffnung zwischen den Blumen des Bösen“, http://www.faz.net/s/RubEBE
D639C476B407798B1CE808F1F6632/Doc~E4D7EA1881E4C4071B5A0C9BD7FBEFEB5~ATpl~Ecommon~S
content.html, June 7, 2009
Johanna Di Blasi „Der Markt schläft seinen Rausch aus…“, http://www.stuttgarter-zeitung.de/stz
/page/2046545_0_9223_-der-markt-schlaeft-seinen-rausch-aus-.html, June 6, 2009
„Johanna Di Blasi „Die Biennale von Venedig in Zeiten der Krise“, http://www.haz.de/
Nachrichten/Feuilleton/Uebersicht/Die-Biennale-in-Venedig-in-Zeiten-der-Krise, June 5, 2009
Claudia Herstatt, „Jung, unangepasst, käuflich“, http://www.welt.de/wams_print/article3835809/Jungunangepasst-kaeuflich.html, May 31, 2009
Max Seddon „Pavel Pepperstein“, www.frieze.com/shows/review/pavel_pepperstein/, Feb 3, 2009
„Pavel Pepperstein im Museum für Gegenwartskunst“, Kunst Bulletin, 4/2007, p. 59
Ekaterina Degot „City Report: Moscow“, Frieze Magazine, April 2005, p. 98-103
Monika Krisch „Zwischen Zitat und Einfühlung“, Die Welt, April 16, 2004, p. 34
Michaela Nolte „Das Auge im Visier“, Der Tagesspiegel, April 24, 2004, p. 26
Emily Pethick „ Pavel Pepperstein“, www.artforum.com, December 11, 2003
„Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Moskau in der Kunsthalle (Düsseldorf)“, Kunst Bulletin, July/August 2003
„Pavel Pepperstein im Kunsthaus Zug“, Kunst Bulletin, November 2002
Catrin Lorch: Pavel Pepperstein, Frieze Magazine, October 2002, p. 98-99
Dorothea Zwirner „Schriftbilder der Seele“, Der Tagesspiegel, September 14, 2002
www.museenzug.ch/kunsthaus/art_samml_projekt/art_samml_projekt.htm, Kunsthaus Zug, 2001
http://kulturzentrum.minoriten.austro.net/2000_5/11-12-unsere_termine.htm, “Zwei Agenten; Victor
Pivovarov + Pavel Pepperstein”, December 2000
www.stiftung.brandenburgertor.de/kultur/autoren/content_pepperstein.html, Stiftung
Brandenburger Tor, October 1999
Groys, Boris, Pavel Pepperstein: “Der Künstler als Subkultur”, Parkett No. 55, 1999, p. 7-12
Groys, Boris/Pepperstein, Pavel: “Die Rolle der Kritik”, Kunst-Bulletin, November 1998, p. 8-15
www.geocities.com/SoHo/Studios/5013/peppr.htm, “Esotericum, The art of Tarot”, XL Gallery, 1995
Frank Frangenberg „Unterhaltung in einem chinesischen Restaurant“, Kunstforum, May/Jun, 1995,
p. 311-31

*1966

Born in 1966, Andrei Molodkin attained international recognition in recent years owing to his politically motivated crude oil sculptures and large-scale ballpoint pen drawings and is to represent Russia this year at the 53rd Venice Biennale.

Andrei Molodkin’s sculptures consist of transparent Plexiglas structures that are hollowed out inside in the form of a phrase or sculpture. Using connected pipes, the artist then fills this matrix with crude oil from Chechnya, Iraq or Iran.

In his sculptures, Molodkin uses words and shapes that play a central role in political, economic or religious issues. He sees phrases or slogans such as ‘Hope’, ‘Democracy’, ‘Das Kapital’ or ‘Yes we can’ as empty vessels that can be filled in very different ways depending on the context.

Into these moulds, Molodkin injects crude oil – one of the world’s oldest raw materials yet the lifeblood of today’s economic system.
In this way, Molodkin initiates a political and cultural discourse in which the terms used – and, in turn, man’s cultural heritage – are replaced by ‘black gold’ as the central commodity.
Words such as ‘hope’ are – and always have been – used and abused by political and religious leaders and their agents. By filling these with crude oil, the artist highlights the radical extent to which economics has penetrated and dominated culture and politics.
In a time in which words are used as vessels into which equally empty ideologies and discourses can be poured, Andrei Molodkin sees not only his works of art but also culture as a whole as being filled with “an emptiness that we have to fill and affirm with economics”.

By making crude oil a key part of his art, Andrei Molodkin transforms this essential industrial raw material into an aesthetic form. Besides the aspect of increasing the (mercantile) value of a material that is rarely used in art, Molodkin sees the fuel – which, after all, is derived from long-dead organisms – as symbolising the cycle of life and death, a theme that is also addressed in his drawings.

Molodkin’s relationship with crude oil began back in his army days, when he was given the task of accompanying gigantic oil cisterns that were being transported to Siberia by rail, using residue from the containers as a means of keeping warm. Later on, when working on a photography project in Northern Russia, he came into contact with the giant crude oil cisterns which he found to look like cathedrals on the inside. This reminded the artist of reports in the Russian media describing crude oil as the “flesh and blood of the nation” and inextricably linking national resources with the national identity.

It was during his time as a soldier that Andrei Molodkin began his ballpoint pen drawings. These large-scale drawings frequently feature a death’s head as a motif. As well as using the iconography of death, the time-consuming process involved in producing these works also brings together life and death: on the one hand birth in the creation of the picture, the entire evolution of which can be traced through ballpoint pen strokes, and, on the other, death symbolised by the completion of the work.

Molodkin creates ballpoint pen drawings with specific political or economic references – a prime example of this is ‘Gazprom’, which depicts the headquarters of Russian energy group Gazprom.

Andrei Molodkin’s latest project has generated extensive media coverage, with newspapers such as the Independent, Artinfo, the Evening Standard and The Times reporting on Molodkin’s intention of continuing to use the notion of crude oil to symbolise the cycle of life and death.

SHORT INFO

1966 Born in Boiu, Russia,
1976-1980 Attended the Special School of Arts-Plastiques, Boui),

(1985-1987 College of Arts, Krasnoe-on-Volga), and the
(1987-1992). Faculty of Interior Architecture of the Stroganov Art Academy, Moscow. Military service (1987-1992).
The artist has had his works featured in many individual and group exhibitions in Western and Eastern Europe and in the USA. In 2009 he represented Russia at the 53rd Venice Biennale and in 2012 the museum Villa Stuck, Munich, presented a major exhibition with his work in.
Furthermore, his works have been covered in publications such as Art Forum, Art Press, Third Text, Kh/Zh, the New York Times, the Village Voice and the Independent.

PUBLICATIONS

Cold War II, Ed. Margarity Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn, Kashya Hildebrand Gallery, Zürich, 2007
Holy Oil. Ed. Margarity Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn, Tretyako Gallery, London 2009
Liquid Modernity. Ed. Margarity Tupitsyn, Victor Tupitsyn,, Orel Art, London 2009
Victory over the Future. Russian Pavilion. 53rd International Art Exhibition. La Biennale di Venezia, 2009
Andrei Molodkin. Liquid Black. Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, 2012

1969-2013
Born in 1969, Monroe (Vladislav Mamyshev-Monroe) died tragically in March, 2013, while visiting in Bali, Indonesia. He was one of the most visible Perestroika artists and became famous for his impersonations of Marlin Monroe, Luibov Orlova, Adolf Hitler, and many other figures, who either inflicted disaster or fell victim to it. In the early 1990s, Monroe initiated the socalled Piratskoe televidenie (Pirate TV) in Russia, which turned out to be the most innovative medium, both aesthetically and issue-wise. He exhibited world-wide and befriended many internationally recognized artists, including Marina Abramovic. Monroe was featured in the movies
and played Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet in Polytheatre. Yet, his most important references should be traced to his milieu in St.Petersburg – the group of artists and musicians, such as Timur Novikov, Viktor Tsoi of Kino, Segei Kuryokhin
of Pop-Mekhanika, and Sergei Bugaev-Afrika. Monroe’s works are in a variety of museums in Russia and in the West. Before his death, he was preparing a performance for Art Paris.
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