Albert Yuri

Bio

1959 was born in Moscow

1974-1977 studied at K. Arnold Studio, Moscow

1977-1980 studied at the V. I. Lenin Moscow State Pedagogical Institute

1987 member of Club of Avantgardists (CLAVA)

2000 Krasner-Pollock Foundation grant

2001 Civitella Ranieri Fellowship

2011 Kandinsky Prize

2014 Innovation Prize

lives and works in Cologne, Germany, and Moscow

Collections

Bakhchisaray Museum, Bakhchisaray, Russia

Ludwig Forum fuer Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Stadtsparkasse, Cologne

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina

The Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Graphische Sammlung, Munich

Ministry of culture of the Russian Federation, Moscow

Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Selected solo exhibitions

1988 Fragments of the Moscow Underground (with V. Zakharov). Taidehalli, Helsinki

1989 Moscow Days. Galerie Hlavniho Mesta Prahy, Staromestska radnice, Prague

1990 Yuri Albert. Neue Arbeiten. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne

Three Artists - Two Generations (with V. Zakharov and E. Steinberg). Stadsgalerie Heerlen, the Netherlands

1992 Pictures, collected by Y. Albert. 1.0 Gallery, Moscow

Mummy, look an artist! L Gallery, Moscow

How I became an Artist (with D. Gutov). Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow

1993 Triple Trying (with A. Filippov and D. Prigov). ICA, Moscow

1994 Art of internal space. Exposition I: Yuri Albert, V. Efimov. 1.0 Gallery, Moscow

1995 Mami, schau, ein Künstler! Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Cologne

1996 Selfportrait with closed eyes. Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow

1997 Le chef d’oevre inconnu. Hohenthal und Bergen Galerie, Munich

1999 Selbstportrait mit geschlossenen Augen. Haus der Niederlande, Münster

2004 Painting. Guelman Gallery, Moscow

2007 Exhibition. Era Foundation, Moscow

2008 Painting, sculpture and graphics. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

Tales about Art. National Centre for Contemporary Art / Nizhny Novgorod Museum of Fine Arts

Victor and the hares; Fragma, Pragma, Enigma; Artistic co-op Cupid (with A. Filippov and V. Skersis). PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow

2009 Show and Tell: Deep Water (with A. Filippov and V. Skersis). Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

Moscow Poll, Paperworks gallery, Moscow

2010 Zabor Vody (with A. Filippov and V. Skersis). PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow

2011 Blindfolded Self-Portraits. Paperworks gallery, Moscow

Metamorpheus (with A. Filippov and V. Skersis). Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

2013 What did the artist mean by that? Moscow Museum of Modern Art

2014 Fragen der Kunst: Moskauer Abstimmung. Weserburg museum of modern art, Bremen

2015 I Need to Tell You So Much with My Art. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

2015 The Station Master (with P. Davtyan, A. Filippov and V. Skersis). Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

2015 K'nstgesschichten. Kunstverein Rosenheim

2016 Graphics for the Visionary. Peresvetov gallery, Moscow

2017 Allegorical Abstraction (with P. Davtyan, A. Filippov and V. Skersis). Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

Werke und Tage. Stiftung Arina Kowner, Zürich

2018 Elitär-demokratische Kunst. Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz

Allegorical Abstraction (with P. Davtyan, A. Filippov and V. Skersis). National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod

2019 Rococo(b) (with P. Davtyan, A. Filippov and V. Skersis). PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow

Allegorical Abstraction (with P. Davtyan, A. Filippov and V. Skersis). PERMM, Perm

Selected group exhibitions

1978 Performances Show in M. Odnoralov atelier, Moscow

1979 Group exhibition in Albert’s apartment, Moscow

1983 APT Art in Nature. Kalistovo (Moscow region)

APT Art beyond the Fence. Tarasovska (Moscow region)

Come Yesterday And You’ll Be First! City Without Walls, Newark, NJ; Contemporary Russian Art Centre of America, NY

1986 Oh, Malta! Embassy of Malta, Moscow

Art against Commerce. Bitsa Park, Moscow

17th Annual Youth Exhibition. Moscow

1987 Visual Artistic Culture. Hermitage Association, Moscow

Retrospective Exhibition of Moscow Artists 1957 – 1987. Hermitage Association, Moscow

1st Exhibition of the Avantgardists´ Club (KLAVA). Avtozavodskaya Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Contemporary cubism. Exhibition of KLAVA, Moscow

1987 - 1988 In Hell, Exhibition of KLAVA, Moscow

1988 In the Baths. Exhibition of KLAVA. Sanduny Baths, men’s dept, Moscow

2nd Exhibition of KLAVA. Avtozavodskaya Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Labyrinth, Palace of Youth, Moscow

2nd Exhibition of the 1st Creative Art Association. Moscow

Nowi rosjanie. Palac Kultury i Nauki, Warsaw

1989 Expensive (Dear) Art. Youth Palace, Moscow

Momentaufnahme: Junge Kunst aus Moskau. Alte Stadtmuseum, Münster; BBK Cologne; Ravensberger Spinnerei Bielefeld

Art instead of Art - 7 Artists from Moscow. Mucharnok Exhibition Palace, Budapest

Jenseits des Streites - Neue Kunst aus Moskau. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne

New Jerusalem. Exhibition of KLAVA. New Jerusalem (Moscow region)

Perspectives of Conceptualism. KLAVA, Avtozavodskaya Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Furmanny Zaulek. Polish Modern Art Foundation, Warsaw

1989 - 1990 10 + 10. Contemporary Soviet and American Art. Fort Worth MAM; San Francisco MOMA; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Milwaukee Art Museum; Central Artist’s Union Hall, Moscow; Central Exhibition Hall, Leningrad

1990 Towards the Object. Kashirskaya Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Made in Furmanny. City Gallery, Melbourne

Catalogue. 1.0 Gallery, Soljanka Exhibition Hall, Moscow

The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika. Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York City

In de USSR en Erbuiten. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

UdSSR Heute - Soviet Art from the Ludwig Collection. Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; Musee d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne

Schizo-China. Exhibition of KLAVA, Frunzenskaya Exhibition Hall, Moscow

For Cultural Recreation. Krasnogvardeisky district exhibition hall, Moscow

Erosion: Soviet Art from the P. Halonen Collection. Amos Anderson Museum, Helsinki

1991 Solitary Pursuits. 1.0 Gallery, Soljanka Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Artistos Russos Contemporaneos. Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela

MANI Museum - 40 Moskauer Kuenstler im Frankfurter Karmelitenkloster. Frankfurt am Main

Gulliver’s Travels. Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne

OstKunst – WestKunst. Ludwig Forum, Aachen

1991-1993 Perspectives of Conceptualism. The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu; Clocktower Gallery, P.S.1, New York; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina

1992 CocArt. Galleria Bianca Pilat, Milan

III International Istanbul Biennale. Istanbul

1992-1993 a Mosca ... a Mosca ... Villa Campoleto, Ercolaneo; Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderne, Bologna

1993 RINACO Collection of Contemporary Art. Central Artist’s Union Hall, Moscow; Espace d’Exposition, Caisse de Depots et Consignations, Paris

1994 Fluchtpunkt Moskau. Ludwig Forum, Aachen

II International Biennale Cetinje. Montenegro

Artist instead of Piece of Art. Central Artist’s Union Hall, Moscow

The Border Zones of Art. Art Museum, Sotchi

Private Mix, Eigen+Art Galerie, Berlin

1995 Kunst im Verborgenen, Nonkonformisten Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatlicher Lindenau Museum, Altenburg

in Moskau ... in Moskau... Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe

Kräftemesse. Privatisierungen. Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringer Strasse 13, Munich

Zeichnungen der Moskauer Szene. Hohenthal und Littler Galerie, Munich

Einblicke (Werkstatt Moskau II). Galerie im Marstall, Akademie der Künste, Berlin

Dry Water. Bakhchisarai Museum, Bakhchisarai, Crimea

New Russian Art: Paintings from the Christian Keesee Collection. City Art Center, Oklahoma-City, USA

Multiplication. Exhibition Hall at Kashirskaya, Moscow

1995 - 1996 Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden - konzeptuelle Moskauer Kunst. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin; Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel; Galerie Hlavniho Mesta Prahy, Prague

1996 Fluxus: вчера, сегодня, завтра. История без границ (работы из коллекции Музея МАНИ). ЦДХ, Москва

Ostsee Biennale’96. Bekannt (-) Machung. Kunsthalle Rostock

KLAVA – 96. Exhibition of KLAVA. ICA, Moscow

nature? Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der BRD, Bonn

1997 Ecology of Emptiness. KLAVA, ICA, Moscow

III International Biennale Cetinje. Montenegro

Russian Art in 15 Biographies (from Tsaritsino Museum’s collection of contemporary art). Mucharnok Exhibition Palace, Budapest

Faces of History. Fine Art Museum, Novosibirsk; Picture Gallery, Nizhniy Novgorod; Picture Gallery, Samara; Fine Art Museum, Yekaterinburg

Mystical Correct. Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin

1998 11th Tallinn Print Triennale. Tallinn

Malewitsch und das Schwarze Quadrat. Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin

Against Pushkin’s background. Picture Gallery, Nizhniy Novgorod

Fauna. Maly Manezh, Moscow

1998-2001 Modernism and Post-Modernism: Russian Art of the Ending Millennium. The Yager Museum, Oneonta, NY; Plattsburg Art Museum, SUNI, Plattsburg, NY; Elain L. Jacob Gallery Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan; Evergreen House Museum, The Johns Hopkins University Baltimore, Maryland; Fondo del Sol Visual Arts Centre and Museum, Washington, DC; Willington B. Gray Gallery, School of Art, East Carolina University, Greenville, South Carolina

Präprintium. Moskauer Bücher aus dem Samizdat. Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Wien, Minoritenkloster Graz, PrinzMaxPalais Karlsruhe

1999 Russian Art 1980-1990 from the collection of Contemporary Art Tsaritsino. Central Artist‘s Union Hall, Moscow

Motherland or Death. Zverev Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow; Museum of Nonconformist Art, Sankt-Peterburg

1999-2000 Le Fou dedouble. L’idiotie comme strategie contemporaine. Central Artist‘s Union Hall, Moscow; Central Exhibition Hall, Nizhniy Novgorod; Regional Art Museum, Samara; Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg; Chateau d’Oiron, Oiron, France

2000 Bons baisers de Russie. Espase EDF Bazacle, Toulouse

KLAVA’s lovers. Exhibition of KLAVA, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow

2000-2002 2000+Arteast Collection: The Art of Eastern Europe in Dialogue with the West. Moderna galerija, Ljubljana; Orangerie Congress, Innsbruck; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Umetnička galerija Skopje

2001 Mysterious relation. Museum of Mineralogy, Moscow

Russian Abstraction of XX century. State Russian Museum, Sankt-Peterburg

Das rote Haus. Zeitgenossische russische Kunst aus der Sammlung Bierfreind. Städtische Galerie Bietigheim-Bissingen; Städtische Galerie Willa Zanders, Bergisch-Gladbach

2002 Die russische Avantgarde und Paul Cézanne. Gustav-Lübke-Museum, Hamm

MM (Moscow Minimalism), Art Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main

Aus anderer Sicht. Galerie im Bürgerhaus, Neunkirchen (Saar)

Zu neuen Ufern. Schloss Auerstadt

2003 Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Sammlung H. G. Oroschakoff & Sammlung, Verlag und Archiv V. Zakharov. Kupferstichkabinett Berlin

2004 Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin. State Museum of History, Moscow

Einladung zur Hinrichtung. Galerie Schueppenhauer, Cologne

7 Sins. Moderna galerija, Ljubljana

My Kabakov. Stella art gallery, Moscow

2005 Apt-Art, 1982-1984. EK-Artbureau Gallery, Moscow

Apartment Exhibitions 1956-1979. RGGU Museum Centre, Moscow

Accessories. Collective and Interactive Works in Russian Art 1960-2000. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Works on the Edge. Ludwig Museum, Budapest

Reflexion. NCCA, Moscow; NCCA, Yekaterinburg

Allusive Form: Painting as Idea. The Jane Voorhees Zimmerly Art Museum, New Jersey

Russian Pop-art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Angels of History. Moscow conceptualism and its influence. MuHKA, Antwerp

Portrait of Face. Guelman Gallery and MARS Art Centre, Moscow

Essence of Life – Essence of Art. Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest; State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Collage in Russia. The 20th Century. The State Russian Museum, Sankt-Peterburg

2006 Innovation, NCCA, Moscow

Artists Against the State: Perestroika Revisited, Roland Feldman Gallery, NY

Soft Opening. Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin

Signs of Reality. “Victoria” Gallery, Samara; Museum of Fine Arts, Izhevsk

2007 The History of Russian Videoart, volume 1. MMCA, Moscow

I believe. Winzavod, Moscow

Heterotopias - First Contemporary Art Biennale of Thessaloniki. Thessaloniki, Greece

The Artists Diary. Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow

The Word and the Picture. State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

The Woes of Wit. Literature Museum, Moscow

Thinking Realism. The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Adventures of Black Square. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

On Geekdom. Benaki Museum, Athens

Nominants of Kandinsky Prize. Winzavod, Moscow

2008 The Future Depends On You. New Rules. The Arsenyev Primorsky Joint State museum, Vladivostok; The Krasnoyarsk museum center, Krasnoyarsk; The Far East Art museum, Habarovsk; Tolmachevo airport, Novosibirsk; Sverdlovsk Regional museum of Local History, Ekaterinburg; The Samara Regional Art museum, Samara; The Kovalenko Krasnodar krai Art museum, Krasnodar

Nominants of Kandinsky Prize, Latvian Railway history museum, Riga; Palazzo Italia, Berlin

Total Enlightment. Moscow Conceptual Art 1960 – 1990, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt-am-Main / Fundación Juan March, Madrid

That Obscure Object of Art, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vien

Russian Povera, River Station Hall, Perm

Suspended. Georgien/Russland – Begegnung auf einem anderen Terrain, Neues Kunstforum, Köln

2009 Excuse me, are you famous? WL project, Berlin

That Obscure Object of Art, Ca’Rezzonico, Venice

The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt-am-Main

Art about Art, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

The History of Russian Videoart, volume 2. Moscow Museum of Modern Art

The Russian Lettrism, Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow

Collection and Archive of Vadim Yakharov, NCCA, Moscow

3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow

By Hook or by Crook, PROEKT_FABRIKA, Moscow

Identity Crisis. Open Gallery, Moscow

2010 Manifestes. Centre d’art Passerelle, Brest, France

Au Present. NCCA, Moscow/FRAC Bretagne, Brest

Aesthetics Vs. Information. Klaipėda Culture Communication Centre Exhibition Hall

Le contrepoint Russe. Louvre, Paris

Field of Action. The Moscow Conceptualist School in Context 1970s-1980s, The Cultural Foundation EKATERINA, Moscow

Memories and Dreams. Open Gallery, Moscow

2011 Expanded Cinema, Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Yuri Albert, Konstantin Zvezdochetov and Andrei Filippov. Literati.  State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Looking for a Masterpiece. Open Gallery, Moscow

Hostages of Voids. Aesthetics of empty space in Russian Art during 19-20th centuries. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; 16th LINE, Rostov-upon-Don

Paper Time. State Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

Looking for a Masterpiece. Open gallery, Moscow

2012 Norman. Archetypal Variations, NCCA, Moscow

I've Been Here! Open Gallery, Moscow

2013 Lost in Translation. Ca' Foscari Esposizioni, Venice

Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. ARTPLAY, Moscow

Reconstruction. Ekaterina Cultural Foundation, Moscow

Weightlessness. Worker and Collective Farmer, Moscow

2014 Contemporaries of the Future. Jewish Artists in The Russian Avant-Garde, 1910s-1980s. Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow

2015 Laughter in the Gallery. On Shabolovka Gallery, Moscow

Museum of Great Hopes. Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod

Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Face-to-Face: The American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959/2015. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2016 Kollektsia! Contemporary Art in the USSR and Russia. 1950-2000. Centre Pompidou, Paris

Thinking Pictures. Moscow Conceptual Art in thq Dodge Collection. Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ

2017 Stealing from the West. Akademie der Künste der Welt, Köln

One Work — Thirty Five Comments. Freehome, Berlin

MbhalffullMD. Freehome, Berlin

Bin überfordet. Freehome, Berlin

Simple Feelings. Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod

From Pages to Sculpture: Artists’ Books 1430 to the Present. White Space Gallery, London

2018 General Rehearsal. MMOMA, Moscow

2019 A Very Important Message. The New Archive of Limited Edition Art (NATI). New Tretyakov, Moscow

Sekretiki: Digging Up Soviet Underground Culture, 1966–1985. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow