Andrei Krementschouk

Andrej Krementschouk ( Russian Андрей Кременчук , Andrei Kremenchuk ; born May 2, 1973 in Gorki , Soviet Union ) is a Russian photographer and writer. He lives and works in Leipzig . From 2009 to 2011 he was a member of the Berlin photo agency Ostkreuz .

Andrej Krementschouk was born in Gorki (now Nizhny Novgorod) in 1973. After 8th grade he left school and completed an apprenticeship as a restorer of icons and metal objects of art at the University of Art and Restoration in Suzdal . From 1991 to 1995 he studied in Vladimir at the Conservatory, at the Faculty of Ethnic Music. He passed the diploma as a choir director.

From 1991 to 1997 he worked as a freelance goldsmith and restorer of icons. Andrej Krementschouk studied illustration and communication design with a focus on photography with Ute Mahler at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and then masterclass at the Leipzig University of Applied Sciences (HGB) with Tina Bara.

His first book, No Direction Home , received several awards and international attention. His pictures from the " forbidden zone " around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant , which exploded in 1986, of abandoned, decaying places and "leftover" banned people living there, which he published in 2 illustrated books and which were shown in several exhibitions, document the objectivity of the permanent reverberation of the invisible radioactive horror of this man-made disaster.

Works

• 2008–2012 Chernobyl Zone
• 2005-2007 No Direction Home
• 2006-2010 COME BURY ME

Publications

Literary works

• The table. Novel. Translated from the Russian by Christine Auras. Osburg Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-95510-153-4 .

Monographs

• three days in winter. Revolver Publishing, 2014, ISBN 978-3-95763-233-3 .
• with Wolfgang Kil and Esther Ruelfs: Chernobyl Zone II. Kehrer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8 . (German English)
• Chernobyl Zone I. Kehrer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-200-9 .
• COME BURY ME. Kehrer Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86828-120-0 .
• with Boris Mikhailov : No Direction Home. Kehrer Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-86828-056-2 .

Further photo books (selection)

• Homeland? Eastern Europe in Contemporary Photography. Kerber Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86678-964-7 .
• The town. About becoming and passing away. Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern 2010, ISBN 978-3-7757-2659-7 .

as editor

• Alexander Chekmenev: DONBASS. Kehrer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-185-9 . (German / English / Russian)

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

• 2018 - "infinite / infinite", Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2016 - »Russians«, Salzhof, Freistadt
• 2012 - »The fragility of branches«, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
• 2011 - "No Direction Home", Blue Sky, Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland USA
• 2011 - »Heimat - Chernobyl«, Gallery Clara Maria Sels ( Düsseldorf )
• 2011 - »Zone - home. Chernobyl. Andrej Krementschouk «, Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen, ZEPHYR - Room for Photography / C4.9b, ( Mannheim )
• 2011 - »No Direction Home«, in the studio in the high-rise - art and literature workshop, Berlin
• 2009 - »Krementschouk Andrej, Photography«, Kunstverein Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen
• 2009 - "No Direction Home", Clara Maria Sels Gallery, Düsseldorf
• 2009 - "No Direction Home", Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig

Group exhibitions

• 2014 - »Home? Eastern Europe in Contemporary Photography «- Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie , Regensburg
• 2014 - »HEIMAT« - DZ BANK art collection, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
• 2013 - »CROSSING VIEWS« - photography from Leipzig, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg
• 2013 - "The look behind", Märkisches Museum Witten, Witten
• 2011 - »Religion and Rites«, DZ BANK Art Collection, Art Foyer, Frankfurt am Main
• 2011 - "The Street of Enthusiasts", Heinrich Böll Foundation and the Morat Institute and Morat Institute
• 2010 - »The city. On becoming and passing ', Bavarian Insurance Chamber, Munich
• 2010 - F / STOP 4th International Photography Festival, Leipzig
• 2010 - FotoDoks 2010 - Documentary Photofestival, Munich
• 2010 - »The city. On becoming and passing ”, C / O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Berlin
• 2008 - “good prospects - young german photography 2007–2008” in Deichtorhallen , Hamburg
• 2008 - “good prospects - young german photography 2007–2008”, Martin-Gropius-Bau , Berlin
• 2008 - »Russian Variations«, painting and photography. Drostei , Pinneberg near Hamburg
• 2008 - "Friction and Conflict", Kalmar Art Museum, Sweden

Awards / grants

• 2013 DZ BANK art collection - project funding
• 2012 Robert Bosch Stiftung - Cross-border commuters
• 2010 PDN Photo Annual 2010 - "No Direction Home"
• 2009 German Photo Book Prize 2010, silver for "No Direction Home"
• 2007–2008 "No Direction Home" in "Gute Aussichten - Junge deutsche fotografie 2007/2008"
• 2007 Project funding by the cultural work of VG Bild-Kunst

Secondary literature

• Klaus Honnef: Outside - Inside. Photographer between distance and participation. Exhibition catalog. F / 12.2, 2014.
• Wolfgang Kil: Half-life of memory. In: Chernobyl Zone II. Kehrer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8 .
• Esther Ruelfs: BETWEEN IDYLL AND RUINS: THE ABOLISHED UTOPIA - Essay on the photographs by Andrej Krementschouk. In: Chernobyl Zone II. Kehrer Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8 .

Web links

• http://www.krementschouk.com/
• "Subtle novel about war suffering" Mannheimer Morgen
• "The good German" Frankfurter Rundschau
• Dana Jennings: Pastorals of the Atomic Age
• Review: Chernobyl Zone (I) by Andrej Krementschouk
• Without a home
• Come back to bury me
• Lightly salted cucumbers and dragonflies in the shimmering air
• Andrej Krementschouk "No Direction Home" ( Memento from June 10, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
• No Direction Home
• Review: No Direction Home by Andrej Krementschouk
• Literature by and about Andrej Krementschouk in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Vita Andrej Krementschouk ( Memento from July 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
2. ↑ The table