Margarita Tupitsyn

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Margarita Tupitsyn ( Russian Маргарита Тупицына , Margarita Tupizyna ; * 1955 in Moscow , Soviet Union) is a Russian art historian who became known as an internationally active curator and specialist author for large museums .

Life and work

Tupitsyn emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1975 with her husband, the mathematician Victor Tupitsyn, and settled in New York City . She received her PhD from the City University of New York . The art historian then worked as a curator at various exhibitions, most of which were devoted to contemporary Soviet and Russian art and photography of the 20th century, including for the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum , the Queens Museum in New York City, the Sprengel Museum in Hanover, and the Boston Institute of Contemporary Art . She has held visiting professorships at Rutgers University , the State University of New York Purchase and The New School University, New York City. From January to May 2000 she had a "Berlin Prize" scholarship from the American Academy in Berlin , during which she worked on the subject Against Kandinsky: Abstraction into Revolution .

Tupitsyn's adopted home is New York City.

Curated exhibitions (selection)

  • 2010 - Louvre : Faces à faces: soirées d'art contemporain: La scène conceptuelle russe et après
  • 1995 - Folkwang Museum : Faith Hope Adaptation: Soviet Pictures 1928-1945
  • 1986 - Sots Art for the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City
  • 1989 - Exit Art : The Green Show . New York City.
  • 1981 - Russian New Wave , the first exhibition of Moscow conceptual art in New York City

Works (selection)

Monographs; Exhibition catalogs

  • Moscow Vanguard Art between World War II and the Fall of the Soviet Union 2011
  • Against Kandinsky / Against Kandinsky. Exhibition schedule: Museum Villa Stuck , Munich, November 23 , 2006 - February 18 , 2007 Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2007 ISBN 978-3775718967 .
  • Gustav Klutsis and Valentina Kulagina : Between the Public and the Private , Steidl ICP , Göttingen 2004. ISBN 3-88243-974-2 .
  • Malevich and film / with essays by Kazimir Malevich and Victor Tupitsyn . Yale University Press , New Haven 2002
  • El Lissitzky : Beyond the Abstract Cabinet , Yale University Press and Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 1999 ISBN 978-0-3000-8170-1
  • Aleksandr Rodchenko . The New Moscow, Schirmer / Mosel Verlag, 1998
  • Kriticheskoe Opticheskoe , Ad Marginem, Moscow 1997
  • The Soviet Photograph, 1924-1937 Yale University Press, New Haven 1996.
  • Utopia, Ilusion Y Adaptacion: Arte Sovietico 1928-1945 , IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, 1996
  • Faith, Hope and Accommodation: Images from the Soviet Union 1928-1945 by Plitt Verlag 1995

Essays

  • The Grid as a Checkpoint of Modernity , Tate Papers, Autumn 2009
  • "Letters that do not speak of love". Alexander Rodtschenko's "Woman with a Leica" in: Fotogeschichte Heft 88, vol. 23 (June 2003), Jonas Verlag, Marburg
  • Collaborating on the Paradigm of the Future , Art Journal, Vol. 52, No. 4, Interactions between Artists and Writers (Winter, 1993), pp. 18-24
  • Conceiving Counter-Soviet Art In: Art in America , Margarita Tupitsyn reviews recent books on “counter-Soviet art” by Matthew Jesse Jackson and Boris Groys.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tupitsyn's profile at Steidl Verlag (English)
  2. ↑ Poetry in Pictures ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. in the Moscow Times on June 6, 2008 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.themoscowtimes.com
  3. ↑ a b c artswriters.org grantee id134 2011 Margarita Tupitsyn ( Memento of the original from April 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / artswriters.org
  4. ↑ a b c Margarita Tupitsyn Berlin Prize Fellow - Class of Spring 2000 ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanacademy.de
  5. ↑ a b KulturSpiegel 11/1995 "The New York-based Russian Margarita Tupitsyn organized the show at the Folkwang Museum."
  6. ↑ Artslant profile
  7. ↑ Review by Erika Wolf from October 25, 1999: Artmargins online (English)
  8. ^ "The Grid as a Checkpoint of Modernity" Tate Modern speech on March 28, 2009, during the exhibition Rodchencko and Popova: Defining Constructivism
  9. ↑ http://www.fotogeschichte.info/index.php?id=68
  10. ↑ http://scahweb.org/?p=4334
personal data
SURNAME Tupitsyn, Margarita
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tupitsyna, Margarita; Тупицына, Маргарита (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian art historian
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow , Soviet Union