Julia Kissina

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Julia Kissina, Berlin, 2014

Julia Kissina ( Russian Юлия Дмитриевна Кисина or Julia Dmitrijewna Kissina, born 1966 in Kiev , Soviet Union ) is a German-Russian artist , photographer and writer . She lives and works in Berlin and New York.

As a writer

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Julia Kissina studied at the Gerasimov Institute for Cinematography (VGIK, Всероссийский государственный институт кинематографии имени С.А. Герасимова at the Academy of Moscow in Moscow. She lived in Moscow until 1990 , from the end of the 1980s she was part of the unofficial artistic and literary life in Moscow, she was close to the circle of Moscow conceptualists , especially the group "Inspection Medical Hermeneutics". Her texts have been published in samizdat ("Mitin Journal" and "Mesto pečati"). She was also represented in anthologies of contemporary Russian literature after 1990, including a. In "Russian Flowers of Evil" , at the beginning of the 90s, two volumes of stories were published by "Obscuri viri", "The Dove's Flight Over the Filth of Phobia" (1993) and "Devil's Childhood" (1994). Her literary texts have been translated into many languages, including German. Most recently, the story volume "Vergiß Tarantino" was published by Aufbau-Verlag and the novel "Spring on the Moon" was published by Suhrkamp Verlag, as well as the autobiographical novel "Elephantinas Moscow Years" about the Moscow underground scene of the 80s. In 2017, she also published a book: Revolution Noir. Authors of the Russian "new wave".

As an artist

Julia Kissina is also known as an action artist and photographer. In the 1990s she devoted herself to conceptual photography and action art: she led a. a. a flock of sheep by the Museum of Modern Art in Frankfurt am Main, in 2003 she organized the "Penance in the custody cell" in a Berlin prison and during the "Art & Crime" festival at the HAU in Berlin in the "Absolution from the canned" campaign "open a confessional cell in front of HAU 2. In 2006 Kissina founded "The Dead Artists Society", which conducted "dialogues with classics" such as Duchamp and Malevich in spiritualistic sessions. Her photographic works have been exhibited internationally, including a. the series "Toys" (2004), "I can see something you can't see" (2008), Shadows cast people // Shadows Cast People "(2010).

Books

  • Julia Kissina, Spring on the Moon - Roman, Suhrkamp, ​​2013 .jpg
    Elephantina's Moscow Years , Novel; German by Olga Kouchvinnikova, Ingolf Hoppmann. Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2016 ISBN 9783518425329
  • Spring on the moon , novel; German by Valerie Engler. Suhrkamp, ​​Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-518-42363-9 .
  • Forget about Tarantino. Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-351-03047-9 .
  • Milin and the magic pen. Bloomsbury, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8270-5035-9 .
  • The pigeon's flight over the mud of phobia (Полёт голубки над грязью фобии), Obscuri Viri Verlag, Moscow 1993, OCLC 165116372
  • Devil childhood. (Детство дьявола). Obscuri Viri Publishing House, Moscow, 1994, OCLC 165287955 . German: devil's childhood. Translated by Anton Sergl. OCLC 165143666
  • Simple wishes. (Простые желания). Aleteia Verlag, St. Petersburg 2001, ISBN 5-89329-372-X .
  • The smile of the ax , Colonna Publications, St. Petersburg, 2007.
  • Spring on the Moon (Весна на Луне) Roman. Azbuka Verlag, St. Petersburg, 2012.
  • Dead Artists Society . Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86984-146-5 (Original title: Общество мертвых художников . Translated by Ludwig Seyfarth, Wolfgang Ulrich).
  • Julia Kissina, Ingolf Hoppmann: Revolution Noir: Authors of the Russian "new wave" . Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-42766-8 .

Anthologies

  • The Flowers of Evil , Exmo-Press, Moscow 1997, 2002, 2004.
  • Russian story in ХХ. Century. Ed. by Vladimir Sorokin . Sacharov Verlag, Moscow 2005, ISBN 5-8159-0534-8 .
  • Modern Russian prose. Zakharov Books , Moscow 2003.
  • Ruské kvety zla Belimex, Bratislava, Slovakia 2001.
  • Les fleurs du mal: une révolution littéraire dans la nouvelle Russie. Published by A. Michel, Paris 1997.
  • I fiori del male russi . Antologia. Publishing house Voland, Roma 2001.
  • Russia . 21 new storytellers. Anthology. Ed. by Galina Dursthoff. DTV, 2003, ISBN 3-423-13130-6 .
  • Il casualitico. (Fernando Pessoa, Amélie Nothomb, Valentino Zaichen, Renzo Paris, Franco Purini, Julia Kissina). Voland, Rome 2003.
  • Tema lesarva. Gabo Publishing House, Budapest 2005.
  • Cuentos rusos. Siruela Publishing House, Madrid 2006.
  • A Thousand Poets, One Language. A Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum Foundation, Dubai 2009.

Magazines

  • Lettre Internationale, Ediţia română, Budapest, N-71, 2008
  • Copybook , No. 59, Oct. 2002, Simple Wishes, Margot Winter
  • New Literature, Bucharest No. 4.1994
  • Zvezda, St. Petersburg, No. 3 1997, No. 4 2011.
  • Via Regia. No. 48/49, March / April 1997, The last days in paradise, Osiris in Italy
  • Mitin Journal , Leningrad / St. Petersburg / Prague, annually
  • Место pechati, Moscow

Art publications

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Breitenstein: Quantum leaps of poetry | NZZ . September 14, 2016, ISSN  0376-6829 ( nzz.ch [accessed November 10, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Are you a genius? - No doubt. |. Retrieved on November 10, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Kissina, Julia
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Кисина, Юлия Дмитриевна; Kissina, Julija Dmitrijewna
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian artist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiev , Soviet Union