Grisha Bruskin

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Grisha Bruskin (2008)

Grisha Bruskin (actually Grigori Dawidowitsch Bruskin, born October 21, 1945 in Moscow ) is a Russian painter , sculptor and graphic artist . He lives and works in New York and Moscow.

Life and work

Bruskin studied art at the Textile University in Moscow until 1968. His first solo exhibition was opened against the resistance of the CPSU in 1973 in the Central Artists' House in Moscow. The following exhibitions were not approved by the authorities or were closed shortly after the opening, for example in Vilnius in 1982 and in Moscow in 1983. The next uncensored exhibition of his paintings took place in Moscow in February 1987 and made him known to a wider public.

At the Sotheby's auction for the Russian Avant-garde and the Russian Nonconformists in Moscow in July 1988, Bruskin's oil paintings achieved top prices, which made him famous in the West. In 1989 the artist emigrated to New York.

In 1999 Bruskin created the monumental triptych Leben über alles for the clubhouse of the German Bundestag in the Reichstag building . Like many of Bruskin's works, the work deals with the relationship between the individual and the collective and the artistic indoctrination through ideological myths in the Soviet Union.

In 2012, Bruskin received the Russian Kandinsky Prize for his H-Hour project .

In 2017 Bruskin represented Russia at the 57th Venice Biennale.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • Paintings and sculpture , Marlborough Gallery, New York, March 2 - March 31, 1990
  • Life is everywhere , Marlborough Gallery, New York, September 14 - October 5, 1999
  • The Alphabet of Grisha Bruskin , Kunsthalle Emden, June 29 - October 13, 2002
  • Fragments of an Endless Collection , Museum Judengasse, Frankfurt am Main, September 11 - November 23, 2003
  • Modern Archeology , Marlborough Gallery, New York, March 10 - April 4, 2004
  • H-Hour , Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, September 3 - October 3, 2012
  • Archeologist's Collection , Udarnik, Moscow, May 17 - August 11, 2013

literature

  • Bruskin, Grisha: Past imperfect. 318 Episodes from the Life of a Russian Artist. Syracuse University Press, Syracuse, NY, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8156-0901-8 .
  • Bruskin, Grisha: Archaeologist's Collection. Kerber, Berlin 2013.
  • Bruskin, Grisha: H-Hour. Kerber, Bielefeld / Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8667-8787-2 .
  • Riese, Hans-Peter: The dialectic of time and space in the work of Grisha Bruskin. From the avant-garde to the underground . Wienand, 2009, pp. 135-139.

Web links

Commons : Grisha Bruskin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. https://fineartbiblio.com/artists/grisha-bruskin
  2. Rothamel, Jörk: Bruskin, Grigory Davidovič . In: General Artist Lexicon . Berlin, Boston: KG Saur. 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2020 from https://www.degruyter.com/view/AKL/_10144510
  3. Rothamel, Jörk: Bruskin, Grigory Davidovič . In: General Artist Lexicon . Berlin, Boston: KG Saur. 2019. Retrieved March 24, 2020 from https://www.degruyter.com/view/AKL/_10144510
  4. https://www.bundestag.de/besuche/kunst/kuenstler/bruskin/bruskin-199142
  5. http://www.kandinsky-prize.ru/category/nominees/2012/?lang=en
  6. https://www.inexhibit.com/case-studies/russian-pavilion-venice-art-biennale-2017-theatrum-orbis/