Yuri Avvakumov Biography
 
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1957 born in Tiraspol
1981 graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute
Lives and works in Moscow.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION 2007 Games. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2006 Red Corner. Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2005 La Scala. Krokin Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000 MiSCeLLaNeouS. The Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
1996–2000 Russian Utopia: a Depository. Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, Netherlands; The Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1994 1:43. Karlheinz Mey; State er Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
1992–93 Temporary Monuments. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2008 BORNHOUSE, XI International Exhibition of Architecture, Chiesa di San Stae, Venice
Tunguska Explosive. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Persymphans. The Schusev State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, Russia
Discovery of Light. State Central Museum of Modern History of Russia, Moscow, Russia
 2007 Kandinsky prize. Winzavod, Moscow, Russia Barocco. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Design of Siberia. Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2006 Depository of Dreams. White Space Gallery, London, England
 Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited. Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
2005 Essence of Life. Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
 Re: modern. Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
Accomplices: Collective and Interactive Works in Russian Art of the 1960s–2000s. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 Critic’s Choice. Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland Malign Muses. Mode Museum, Antwerp, Belgium
Imagine Limerick. City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
2003–04 Moscow-Berlin/Berlin-Moscow 1950–2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia
2003 Utopia Station. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Form Specific. Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2001 Family Album: Brooklyn Collects. Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
2000 Fifth Element–Art of Money. Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany View From Here. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1997 Living Bridges. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1996 Sensing the Future. Architect as Seismograph. VI International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice, Italy The Archaeology of the Future City. Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Hiroshima Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Gifu Prefectural Museum, Gifu, Japan Die kunst des fliegens. Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen, Germany
1995 Arte Russa. Villa Zorn, Sesto San Giovanni, Italy Einblicke. Werkstatt Moskau II. Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany|
1993–94 Aspects actuels de la mouvance construite internationale. Musée des Beaux-Arts et de la Céramique de Verviers, Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
1992 3rd International Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
1991 Vision von raum. FIAC, Paris, France; Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, Germany
1990–91 Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism. Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA
1990 Avantgarde 20/90. Manege, Moscow, Russia In de USSR en erbuiten. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands Construir! Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels, Belgium
1989 Papierarchitekture. Neue projekte aus der Sowjetunion. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Architecture et Utopie. Pavilion de l' Arsenal, Paris, France Architecture and Imagination. De Tien van Fort Asperen, Leerdam, Netherlands
1988 Fantasy vs. Utopia. Palazzo dell'Arte, XVII Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1986 Paper Architecture. In Search of Identity. Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1982–83 Dolls House. The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), London, GB

 

 

 

 

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