Sergei Bugaev (Afrika)
1960
Born in Novorossiysk, USSR
1980
to date Lives and works
in Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1981
to date Member of
the "Pop-mechanics" project, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1983
to date Member of
the "New artists" group, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1985
to date Chairman
of the "Friends of Mayakovsky Club", Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1993
to date Member
of the Crimean Association for Psychologists, Psychiatrists and
Psychotherapists
Lives and works in Moscow and St.
Petersburg.
Selected personal
exhibitions
1982 - 1985
Individual exhibitions in the workshop of
T.Novikov, Lenindgrad (St.
Petersburg)
1986
Africa. "Assa"
Gallery, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1989
Africa and Timur Novikov. Raab Gallery, London
1990
Donalddestruction. Leningrad
branch of the Central
Lenin Museum,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
1991
Donalddestruction. Project Artaud, San-Francisco, USA
Donalddestruction. The Clocktower, New York, USA
Donalddestruction. The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Donalddestruction. CRDC Espace Graslin, Nantes, France
1992
Afrika. Fisher Gallery University
of Southern California, Los-Angeles, USA
Afrika. Queens Museum
of Art, New York, USA
Afrika. Montogemery Museum
of Fine Arts, Montgomery, USA
1993
Afrika. Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
State University,
Columbus, USA
Afrika. New World and Center Galleries, Miami-Dade
Community College, Miami, USA
Afrika. The State Russian Museum,
St. Petersburg
Method. Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
1994
Afrika.
L'Espace Montjoie, Paris
1995
Krimania: Ikonen, Monumente, Mazafaka. MAK, Vienna
1996
The Evolution of Image (in collaboration with Tommi Grönlund and Petteri
Nisunen). The State Russian Museum, St.
Petersburg
Tohtori ja potilas: Muisti ja muistinmenetys (with Bracha Lichtenberg
Ettinger). Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland
Afrika. ACP Galerie Peter
Schuengel, Salzburg, Austria
1997
Rebus 11: Works on Copper. I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
1998
New Photographs. The New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
1999
MIR: Made in XX century. La 48 Biennale
di Venezia, Padiglione Russo, Venice, Italy
MIR: Made in the XX Century. I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
Afrika. Galerie Vedovi, Brussels
Afrika. No Name Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Cosmonautics Day (in collaboration with Adam Bartos). Museum of Cosmonautics, St. Petersburg
2001
Yakobson's Dream (The Great Rebus). Central House of Artists, Moscow
The Unconscious: Lacanian Associations
(in collaboration
with Sergei Anufriev). Freud's Dream
Museum, St. Petersburg
2002
Stalker 3. I-20 Gallery, New-Tork, USA
The Last Judgement. New Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg
2004
The
Industrial Unconscious. Moscow Modern Art Museum,
Moscow
2005
The Unconscious: don't believe your eyes.
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2006
Afrika. Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
2008
Good Ballerina Is Always Right. I-20 Gallery, New York, USA
Afrika. Forsblom Projects, Helsinki
Sergei Bugaev Afrika. Museum Kuppersmuhle
Für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany
Selected group
exhibitions
1982
1st exhibition of the "New Artists" group. S. M. Kirov
Institute of the Textile and Light Industries, Leningrad
(St. Petersburg)
1983
2nd exhibition of the "New Artists" group. "Assa" Gallery, Leningrad
(St. Petersburg)
1984
3rd exhibition
of the "New Artists" group. "Assa"
Gallery, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Spring exhibition of the Experimental Pictorial Art
Association. The Youth
Palace,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
The facets of a portrait. The Kirov
House of Culture, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1985
4th and 5th exhibitions of the "New Artists" group. "Assa" Gallery, Leningrad
(St. Petersburg)
Spring exhibition of the Experimental Pictorial Art
Association. The Youth
Palace,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
Happy New Year! The People's Art Theatre, Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
1986
Spring exhibition of the Experimental Pictorial Art Association. The Youth Palace,
Leningrad
(St. Petersburg)
New design. "Vodokanal"
Club, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
The "New artists" at the city's anniversary.
Peter and Paul Fortress,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
1987
The final exhibition of the "New Artists" group marking
the film premiere of "ASSA". The Youth Palace,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
The exhibition of the "New Artists" group
dedicated to the closure of the "Assa" Gallery. "Assa"
Gallery, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Exhibition of the "New Artists" group. House of Folk
Arts, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Bez Oreolov. Gdansk
Kantor Sztuki, Gdansk, Poland
Exhibition of the Experimental Pictorial Art
Association. The Youth
Palace,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
Leningrad Young Artists' Forum. The Youth Palace,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
Art-contact. "Days of
Art" Festival, Riga
Exhibition of the Experimental Pictorial Art
Association. Gavan Exhibition Pavilion,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
XVII
Youth Exhibition. The show-room of
the Ministry of Agriculture,
11 Kuznetsky
Most, Moscow
1988
De Nya Fran Leningrad. Kulterhuset, Stockholm
80 Talents Nua Ruska Awangarde. Art
Atrium, Stockholm
40th anniversary of unofficial art in Leningrad. Gavan Exhibition
Pavilion, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Kunster Hus. Arhus, Denmark
Da Da Majakowski. Dionysus
Gallery, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Leningrad Show. Gallery Route One, Point
Reyes Station, USA
7 Independent Artists from Leningrad. Young Unknowns
Gallery, London
Exhibition of the Experimental Pictorial Art
Association. The Youth
Palace,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
"New People" - Mayakovsky's 95th anniversary. The "NCh-VCh" Club,
Leningrad (St.
Petersburg)
Shock Workers of Art. "ASSA" Art-Rock-Parade. MELZ
Culture House (DK MELZ), Moscow
Leningrad's Contemporary Art. Central
show-room "Riding Hall", Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
1989
The Green Show. Exit Art, New York, USA;
Dunlop Art
Gallery, Regina, Canada; Mendel
Art Gallery,
Saskatoon, Canada
First North American Exhibition of the Friends of Mayakovsky Club. Paul
Judelson Arts, New York, USA
Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Art
Foundation. Wright Art Gallery,
University of California,
Los-Angeles, USA
Red Wave. West Sawtelle Gallery, Los-Angeles, USA
From unofficial art to Perestroika. Gavan Exhibition
Pavilion, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
Soviet Art from Leningrad. Bluecoat
Gallery, Liverpool, Great Britain
Budka. Grafiart Gallery, Turku, Finland
Leningrad Now. Kaj Forsblom Gallery, Helsinki
1990
Jovenes Artistas de Leningrado. Museo de
Arte Moderna, Mexico
New
Generation. Kramskoy Regional Art Museum, Voronezh
1990
Art Territory.
Institute des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris; The State Russian
Museum, Leningrad (St. Petersburg)
In de USSR en Erbuiten. Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam
Friends of Mayakovsky Club: Exhibition II. Paul Judelson Arts, New York, USA
The Work of Art in
the Age of Perestroika. Phyllis
Kind Gallery, New York, USA
1990 - 1991
Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual
Art in the Era of Late Communism. Tacoma
Art Museum, Tacoma;
Institute of contemporary art, Boston; Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, USA
1991
BiNationale (Israelische - Sowjetische Kunst um 1900). Kunsthalle
Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; The Central House of
Artists, Moscow
Geopolitics. State
Ethnographic Museum for the Peoples of the USSR, St. Petersburg
Chill and Beauty. Galleria
Vapauden Aukio, Helsinki
From Thaw till
Perestroika. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Neoacademism. Leningrad branch of the Central
Lenin Museum, St. Petersburg
1992
Art Meets Ads. Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Montage and Modern
Life: 1919-1942. Institute
of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1993
Aesthetic Arsenal:
Socialist Realism under Stalin. P.S.1, New York, USA
Exquisite Cadaver. The Drawing Center, New York, USA
St. Petersburg Alter. Le Manoir del la Ville de Martigny, Martigny,
Switzerland
Labour and Capital. The Central House of
Artists, Moscow
Drawing A Line Against AIDS. Peggy
Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim
SoHo Museum, New York, USA
From Chaos to Creation: Soviet and Russian Art
1972-1992. Rye Art Center, New York, USA
Old
Symbols/New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art. Stuart Levy Gallery, New York,
USA
1993 - 1996
After
Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen. Centre International d'Art
Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada; The Picker Art Gallery,
Colgate University, Hamilton; DePress Art Center and Gallery, Hope
College, Holland; Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham; Ins and
B.Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester; Art
Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, USA; Art
Gallery of Mount Saint Vincent's University, Halifax, Canada; Atlanta
College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, USA
1994
New Russian Art: Paintings from the Christian Keesee Collection. Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma
City, USA
Renaissance and Resistance. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Third World War. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1994 - 1995
Self-identification.
Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany; Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Museet for
samtidskunst, Oslo; Państwowa Galeria Sztuki, Sopot, Poland; Sophienholm,
Stockholm; Central show-room "Riding Hall", St.
Petersburg
1995
Of Beauty. Regina Gallery, Moscow
Cocido y Crudo. Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia. Fine
Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
From Gulag to Glasnost. Jane Voorhees Art Museum,
Rutgers, State University of New Jersey, Rutgers, USA
1996
Strangers in the Arctic: 'Ultima
Thule' and Modernity. Rundetarn, Copenhagen; Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland; Nykytaiteen
Museo, Helsinki; Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Metaphern
des Entrücktseins: Aktuelle Kunst aus St. Petersburg. Badischer Kunstverein,
Karlsruhe, Germany
1997
Cabinet. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
St.
Petersburg Festival. World Financial Center, New York, USA
Red. The State Russian
Museum, St. Petersburg
1998
It's the Real Thing:
Soviet and Russian Sots Art. Frederick
R. Weisman
Art Museum at the University of Minnesota,
Minneapolis, USA
1998 -
1999
Fauna. State Show-room "New Riding Hall", Moscow; Zachęta
Narodowa Galeria Sztuki, Warsaw
1999
New Contributions. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
1999 -
2000
Pole of Cold.
"Medical Hermeneutics" Check-Up and Russian Art of the 90s/ Le Pole du froid. Inspection
Hermeneutique Medicale et I'art russe des annes 90. Museum
and Show-Centre, Krasnoyarsk; Kemerovo Regional
Pictorial Art Museum, Krasnoyarsk; Novosibirsk Picture Gallery, Novosibirsk; Ecole
national superieur des beaux-arts, Paris; Central Artists House, Moscow
2000
Mare Balticum. Charlottenborg
Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
Seeing Isn't Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost. The
Lamont Gallery at Phillip Exeter Academy,
Exeter, USA
2001
I Bienal de Valencia. Valencia, Spain
2002
Cutting Edge. ARCO, Madrid
2003
American Effect: A Look at how America is seen by Artists from
around the World. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Attack! Kunst und Krieg in den Zeiten der Medien. Kunsthalle
Wien, Vienna, Austria
art03. dLux media arts, Sidney
From Leningrad to St. Petersburg - 25 Years
of Art. Chelsea
Art Museum,
New York, USA
Berlin-Moskau/Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
2004
Laocoon Devoured. ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain
Channel-0. Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst,
Montevideo/Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Se Opp! Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo
TO
THE SPA! Russische Kunst heute. Kunsthàlle Âàden-Âàden, Baden-Baden, Germany; State Show-room "New
Riding Hall", Moscow
Berlin-Moskau/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000. The State
History Museum,
Moscow
2005
Neoclassicism. Part I. Artists of Timur Novikov's Circle. RuArts Gallery, Moscow
Art Digital 2004. Modern
Art Centre "Ì'ÀRS", Moscow
Piter Folk. Central Artists' House, Moscow
Russia! Solomon R.
Guggenheim Museum,
New York, USA
Barbizona. RuArts Gallery, Moscow
Confederates. The
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2006
Naked Life. Museum of contemporary art, Taipei, Taiwan
Artists Against The State: Perestroika Revisited. Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
Excess. Z33, Hasselt, Belgium
¡Rusia! Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y
Contemporáneo, Bilbao, Spain
Modus R: Russian
Formalism Today. Newton Building,
Miami, USA
New-Year Exhibition. Museum of the New Fine
Arts Academy, St. Petersburg
The Nature of Cosmos. Russian Ethnographic Museum, St. Petersburg
2007
I Believe! Wine
Factory Modern Art Centre, Moscow
Sots Arts. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; La Maison Rouge, Paris
Petroliana. Oil
Patriotism. Moscow Modern Art Museum, Moscow
Observatory. Astronomy Museum
of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Russian
Academy of Science, St. Petersburg
The Future Depends on You. Moscow Modern Art Museum,
Moscow
The Storm and the Harbour. Palazzo Donà dalle Rose, Venice, Italy
XII Mänttä Art Festival. Mänttä, Finland
Arte
Contro. Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto,
Italy
Russia-Miami 2007. Collins Building,
Miami, USA
Movement. Evolution. Art. Cultural
Foundation "Ekaterina", Moscow
2008
St. Petersburg Modern Art Exhibition from the
Collections of the State
Russian Museum. Nizhny Novgorod State
Art Museum, Nizhny
Novgorod
The Future Depends on You. New Rules. Arseniev Regional
Ethnographic Museum, Vladivostok; Krasnoyarsk Museum and Show-Centre, Krasnoyarsk
Good Artist... RuArts Gallery, Moscow
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