artists

Igor Makarevich, Elena Elagina

Bio

Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Ludwig Forum, Aahen, Germany

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, The Nancy and Norton Dodge Collection,

New Brunswick, USA

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow

Selected solo exhibitions

1990 Closed Fish Exhibition. MANI Museum (N. Panitkov’s country mansion), Lobnia, Moscow region; Artists’ Studio in Bolshaya Bronnaya ulitsa, Moscow

1992 Within the Limits of the Beautiful. L-Gallery, Moscow

1993 Girls and Death. Velta Gallery, Moscow

Fischausstellung und andere Installationen. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne

1994 Life in the Snow and Other Installations. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

Story of a Woman-Writer and Other Installations. Central House of Artist, Moscow

1995

Playing Croquet. Obscuri Viri Gallery, Moscow

Leben im Schnee. Die Reise auf der Eisscholle. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne

2000 NOMAZH. Museum of Pathologic Anatomy of Animals, St. Petersburg

Borisov the Visionary. Within the Limits of the Beautiful. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

Nikolaj Ivanovitj Borisovs museum eller Traedens hemliga liv. Den slutna fiskutstaellningen. EDSVIK Konst-Kultur, Sollentuna, Sweden

2001 Evidence of Harmony. Yaroslavl Art Museum, Yaroslavl

Prodigal Daughter. Museum of Station Custodian, Vyra, Leningrad region

Suche nach der verlorenen Zeit. Krings-Ernst Galene, Cologne

2002 Iron Fly. XL Gallery. Moscow

Pests. Central House of Artist, Moscow

2003 Pagan. XL Gallery, Moscow

2005 Within the Limits of the Beautiful. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2007 Russian Idea. XL Gallery, Moscow

2009 In situ. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Selected group exhibitions

1990 Schizo-China: Hallucination at Power. (Avantgardists’s Club Exhibition). Construction Pavilion of VDNKh on Frunzrnskaya Naberezhnaya, Moscow

1990-1991 Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism. Tacoma Art Museum, Takoma; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines

1991 MANI Museum - 40 Moskauer Künstler. Frankfurter Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt am Main

1992 Ex USSR. Groninger Museum, Groningen

1993 Adresse provisoire pour I’art contemporain russe. Musée de la Poste, Paris

Von Malewitsch bis Kabakov: Die russische Avantgarde im 20. Jahrhundert. Museum Ludwig in Josef-Haubrich Kunsthalle, Cologne

1995 Art of Dying. New Manege State Exhibition Halls, Moscow

Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957–1995. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany; Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow

1997 Ecology of the Void (Exhibition of the Avantgardists’ Club). Institute of Contemporary Art, Moscow

Piwowarow, Prigov, Makarewitsch, Jelagina. Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne

2001 Mysterious Relative. Fersman Museum of Mineralogy, Moscow

2003 Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

2003-2004 Berlin – Moskau / Moskau – Berlin 1950–2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; State Historical Museum, Moscow

2005 International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Prague

2006 The Origin of Species. Museum of Modern Art, Toyama; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima

2007 Ceci n’est pas nourriture... Era Foundation, Moscow

Architecture: ad marginem. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2008 Die totale Aufklärung - Moskauer Konzeptkunst. Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main; Fundación Juan March, Madrid

Works

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Seine Boats. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1990. Metal. 20x40x5 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. On the Pier in Kuibyshev. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1990. Landscape on canvas, metal, glass, plastic. 91x109x10 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Portrait of a Helmsman. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1994. Marble, metal. 40x29 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Portraits of Workers at the Oranzhereya Fish Plan. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1993. Photograph, board, plastic tubes. 75x101 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. In Search of Sturgeon. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1996. Glass, wood. 66x101 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Deck. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1990. Wood, electric bell. 51x41x10 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Eagle Hoary with Frost. From the Life in the Snow series. 1993-2003. Metal, cold storage plant. 195x100x50 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Fish Boat. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1996. Black metal, lead. 46x44x30 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. At the Reception Center. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1998 Wood, plexiglas, paper, enamel. 62x80x12 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Still Life Fish. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1993. Wood, glass, metal, rubber. 124x58 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Still Life. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1996. Wood, metal. 65x53 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Sketch, lead pencil. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1990. Wood, metal, plexiglas, lead. 40x29 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Main Bank. From the Closed Fish Exhibition project. 1990. Wood, metal. 16x8 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Book of Fire. From the Life in the Snow series. 1998. Assemblage. 101x101x10 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. Buratino Formula. From the Life in the Snow series. 1993-2003. Collage on paper. 90x138 cm.

Igor Makarevich and Elena Elagina. From the Life in the Snow series. 1993. Lavis, aquatinta on handmade paper. 40x30 см.