Ponomarev Alexander

Bio

www.ponomarev-art.com

1957 Born in Dnepropetrovsk, USSR

1973 Graduated from Orel Art School, Orel, USSR

1979 Graduated from the Higher Naval Engineering College in Odessa, USSR

Lives in Moscow

Collections

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

FNAC (Fonds National d‘Art Contemporain), France

Foundation F. R., Los Angeles, USA

FRAC (Fonds Regional d‘Art Contemporain), Bretagne, France

Judishes Museum Rheinsburg, Rheinsburg, Germany

National Museum Singapore, Singapore

Picardy Art Museum, Amiens, France

Universitat Jaumi, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow

Yekaterinburg Fine Arts Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia

Nizhny Tagil Fine Arts Museum, Nizhny Tagil, Russia

Orel Fine Arts Museum, Orel, Russia

Selected solo exhibitions

1990 Alexander Ponomarev, Alexander Konstantinov. Hermitage Gallery, Moscow

1991 Alexander Ponomarev. Eugenia Gortchakova. Galerie East-West, Copenhagen

1992 Alexander Ponomarev. Galeria Espai 29, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

1993 Alexander Ponomarev. Galeria 6 de febrero, Valencia, Spain

1996 Ship Resurrection. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Alexander Ponomarev. Kino Gallery, Moscow

1997 Le souffle de l’Océan. Expo-98, Lisbon

1998 Ocean Breath. Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow

2001 Maya. Lost Island. Novaya Kollektsiya Gallery, Moscow

Maya. Lost Island. Central House of Artist, Moscow

Alexander Ponomarev. Palitra Gallery, Kharkoiv, Ukraine

2002 Smoke without Fire. A. D. Sakharov Museum and Public Center, Moscow

Mémoires de l’eau. Cité des sciences et de l’industrie, Paris

2003 Recycler la meute [I] / Base. Résidence à l’Atelier Calder à Saché, Saché, France

Recycler la meute [III] / Quelle Profondeur? Quelle Profondeur! Loire à Tours, Tours, France

2004 Alexander Ponomarev. TNT Center, Bordeaux, France

2005 Topology of Absolute Zero. Moscow House of Photography, Moscow

Traccia settentrionale di Leonardo. Galleria Nina Lumer, Milan, Italy

Le vent enrose. Rabouan-Moussion Galerie, Paris

Nemo-Verne. Bay of Somme, Crotoy, France

2006 Narcisse inversé. Le Granit, Scène Nationale, Belfort, France

Au jardin de la meute des loups. Louvre, Paris

2007 Verticale parallèle. Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Paris

Clickihope (with Julia Milner, Arseny Meshcheryakov, Andrei Bartenev, and AES+F Group). La 52 Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Russo, Venice, Italy

2008 Surface Tension. Cueto Project, New York, USA

Punto di vista. Galleria Nina Lumer, Milan, Italy

Selected group exhibitions

1989 Trans-avant-garde and Neoclassicism. Kinotsentr, Moscow

1991 Gruppe Я (Ja - Ich) - Gruppe R. Na Solyanke Exhibition Hall, Moscow; Judisches Museum Rheinsburg, Rheinsburg; Kunstmuseum, Schleswig; Stadtmuseum, Kiel; Kunstmuseum, Husum, Germany

New Circle. Martin Luther King Centre, Washington; Art Centre, Denver, USA

Artists to Malevich. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

1992 Los tres artistas rusos. Galeria Octubre, Castellón de la Plana, Spain

Magnitsky’s Lessons. Geometric Abstraction: Moscow Experience. National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

1993 Ideal City. Trends in Contemporary Russian Art. National Museum, Singapore

1995 III KUKART International Arts Festival. Tsarskoye Selo, Leningrad region, Russia

1997 Credo. Russian Cultural Foundation, Moscow

1999 ACT 99. Art-Communication Tour. Galerie der Universitat fur Gestallung, Linz, Austria; Manege Central Exhibition Hall, Moscow

2000 Auto-mobil. Polytechnic Museum, Moscow

2001 De Moscau. Le Quartier centre d’art contemporain de Quimper, Quimper, France

Abstraction in Russia. 20th Century. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2002 La Toison d’or. Apollonia, Strasbourg, France

Les Songes. Centre des monuments nationaux, Le Mont St. Michel, France

2003 Moscow Abstraction. Late 20th century. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2004 Passage d’Europe. Musée d’art moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

Rivages. Musée d’Art et d’histoire de Saint-Brieuc, Saint-Brieuc, France

2005 Sous les ponts, le long de la rivière II. Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg

2006 ARS 06. Kiasma, Helsinki

2007 Zeitgeist. Cueto Project, New York, USA

Design of Siberia. VII Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

I Believe! Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow

Floods. Ex Chiesa Di Sant’Agostino, Bergamo, Italy

2009 That Obscure Object of Art. Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, Italy