Yuri Zlotnikov

Influences

These artists lived under harsh conditions, often facing official persecution. Yet they each went their own way, siding with no-one — neither the party bigwigs nor the politicised underground.
Their nonconformism was total in that it applied not only to their attitude to Soviet ideology but also to all attempts at influencing their work.
After the perestroika, they did not try to accommodate themselves to the conditions of the art market but remained true to their own creative way.

Biography

• 1930 > Born in Moscow
• 1943-50 > Studied at the Moscow City Art School of the USSR Academy of Fine Arts
• From 1951 > Began working as a technical aesthetics designer
• 1951-59 > Worked as an artist at the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy (VDNKh), where he was Head Artist at the Science Pavilion
• 1954-56 > Apprenticed at the Bolshoi Theatre as artist/set designer
• 1961-80 > Headed the Children’s Studio at the Lenin District House of Pioneers, Moscow
• Since 1972 > Member of MOSKh (Moscow Union of Artists)
• 1970s > Led the „Teachers and Students” seminar at MOSKh, accompanied by exhibitions (circle of V. Favorsky, D. Sterenberg, M. Sokolov, N. Simonovich-Efimova and others)
• 1998 > Awarded a silver medal by the Russian Academy of Fine Arts

Selected solo exhibitions

• 2011 > Movement. Space, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich
  Cosmos of Yuri Zlotnikov, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
• 2008 > Yuri Zlotnikov, State Russian Museum, Marble Palace, St. Petersburg
• 2004 > Yuri Zlotnikov, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 2003 > Joint exhibition with A. Konstantinov, NCCA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• 2002 > Festival of Art, Delhi
• 2001 > M. Sandmann Gallery, Berlin
• 2000 > 70^th Anniversary Exhibition, Na Solyanke Gallery, Moscow
  70^th Anniversary Exhibition, House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1992 > Club of the Municipality, Ma‘alot, Israel
• 1991 > House of Artists, Jerusalem, Israel
• 1990 > Festival of Russian art, Helsinki
  Space. Colour. Impulse, Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow / Warsaw
• 1987 > Creative evening at the Moscow Artists’ Retrospective Exhibition, Moscow
• 1986 > House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1985 > Moscow House of Architects, Moscow
• 1978 > House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1977 > Institute of Art History of the USSR Ministry of Culture, Kozitsky Lane, Moscow
• 1972 > House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions

• 2011 > Dedicated to Malevich. Exhibition of Moscow Artists, Nadja Brykina Gallery, Moscow
• 2010-11 > The Art of Healing and Collecting Art, from the Collections of M. Alshibaya, D. Iosseliani and M. Kurtser, Russian Academy of Art, Moscow
• 2010 > Field of Action. The Moscow Conceptualist School in Context 1970s-1980s, Cultural Foundation „Ekaterina“, Moscow
  Visual /Conceptual – NCCA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• 2008-09 > Nonconformists. Second Russian Avant-Garde 1955-1988, Bar-Gera Collection, Slovak National Gallery, Bratislava
• 2007 > The Adventures of the Black Square, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  Fifty-Fifty, from the Collections of M. Alshibaya and M. Kurtser, State Pushkin Fine Arts Museum, Moscow
• 2006 > Time of Change. Art of the 1960-85s in the Soviet Union, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  Vom Tauwetter zur Perestroika – 5th Gallery Anniversary, M. Sandmann Gallery, Berlin
• 2005 > Russian Nonconformists, Bar-Gera Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Bern, Switzerland
• 2004 > Berlin-Moscow. Moscow-Berlin, Berlin
  The Seven Sins, Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana
• 2003 > Moscow Abstraction, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  Persecuted Art and Artists Under Totalitarian Regimes in Europe During the 20th Century, from the Bar-Gera Collection, Art Museum Ashdod, Israel
  Berlin-Moscow. Moscow-Berlin, Moscow
  Zufluchtkunst. Moscow Artists 50s – 80s, M. Sandmann Gallery, Berlin
• 2001-02 > Abstraction in Russia – 20th century, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 2001 > Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Samara, Russia
  Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
• 2000-01 > Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, Märkisches Museum, Witten, Germany
• 2000 > L’arte vietata in U.R.S.S. 1955-1988, from the Bar Gera Collection, Palazzo Forti Verona, Verona, Italy
• 1998-99 > Kunst im Aufbruch. Абстракция 1945-1959г., Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
• 1997 > Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
  Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, House of Culture “Bayer AG”, Leverkusen, Germany
  Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, Josef Albers Museum “Quadrat-Bottrop”, Bottrop, Germany
• 1996 > Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
  Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
  Exhibition from Bar-Gera Collection, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
• 1994 > Moscow Artists. A New View, House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1991 > Andligheten y Rysk Konst, Galleria Otso, Helsinki
  Contemporary Artists to Malevich, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 1990-91 > The Other Art. Moscow 1956-1976, Gallery “Moskovskaya Kollektsiya”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• 1990 > Soviet Contemporary Art, Feldman Fine Art Auctioneers, New York
• 1989 > Moscow Artists in London, Riverside Artists’ Group, London
• 1988-89 > Labyrinth, Palace of Youth, Moscow; Warsaw; Hamburg
• 1988 > Graphic Works of Moscow Artists: To the City and the World, CHA, Central House of Artist, Moscow
  Festival of Arts, International Exhibition, Baghdad, Iraq
  Geometry in Art, “Kashirka“, Moscow
• 1987 > Retrospection of Moscow Artists. 1957-1987, Hermitage Association, 100 Profsoyuznaya Street, Moscow
  The Artist and Modern Life, First Association of Moscow Artists „Kashirka“, Moscow
• 1986 > Art and Scientific-Technical Progress, CHA, Central House of Artist, Moscow
  17. Youth Exhibition, House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1956-78 > Apartment exhibitions

Curatorial projects

• 2001 > Labour Movement in Russian Visual Arts 1923-2002, Na Solyanke Gallery, Moscow
  The Age of Sakharov, dedicated to the 80 anniversary of Andrei Sakharov, Moscow
• 2000 > A New Milestone, Festival of CIS artists
  Idea – Museum of the USSR
• 1995 > Portraits of V. Favorsky. Issues. The Process, Na Solyanke Gallery, Moscow
• 1994 > Moscow Artists. A New View, House of Artist, Kuznetsky Most, Moscow
• 1986 > Art and Scientific-Technical Progress, („Russian Utopia“ section), CHA, Central House of Artist, Moscow
• 1963 > Exhibitions of Works of Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (together with K. Simonov und V. Kostin), Central House of Writers, Moscow

Museum Collections

• State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
• Ludwig Museum in the Russian Museum
• State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
• ART4.RU, Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
• NCCA, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow
• Contemporary Art Collection of the Tsaritsino State Museum Preserve, Moscow
• State Literary Museum, Moscow
• Leo Tolstoy State Museum, Moscow
• Andrei Sakharov Museum, Moscow
• Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow
• Art Museum of the Far East, Khabarovsk, Russia
• Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, New Jersey, USA
• Art Museum, Helsinki
• Art Museum, Amsterdam
• Art Museum, Madrid
• Art Museum Paul-de-Vence, France
• Galerie De France, Paris
• Galerie Georges Olivier, Paris
• Binet Art Gallery, Tel-Aviv
• Gallery Engel, Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem
• Art Museum, Ankara

Private Collections

• N. Brykina Collection, Zurich / Moscow
• Bar-Gera Collection, Switzerland
• Collection M. Alshibaya, Moscow
• Collection M. Kurtser, Moscow
• Collection G. Pospelov and M. Reformatskaya, Moscow
• Collection V. Dyakov, Moscow
• Collection L. Talochkin, Moscow
• Collection R. Klimov, Moscow
• Collection I. Rudnitskaya, Moscow
• Collection A. and D. Smirnov, Moscow
• Private collections in Russia and abroad