Zvezdochetov Konstantin

Bio

1958 was born in Moscow

1976-1981 studied at the School-Studio at the Moscow Art Theater. A.P. Chekhov (production department)

1978 was a member of the Doubling-2 group

1978-1984 one of the founders and members of the Amanita Group

1982 one of the organizers of Apt Art

1986-1988 together with Gia Abramishvili initiated the creation of the group “World Champions”

1986 founding member of the Avant-Garde Club (ClAva)

since 1993 member of the Moscow Union of Artists

1994 member of the group “Sea of Sailors”

Lives and works in Moscow

Collections

Museo d’árte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

Múcsarnok, Budapest, Hungary

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

The Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection, New Brunswick, United States

Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA

Art4.ru Museum, Moscow

Selected solo exhibitions

1982 Exhibition of paintings. Gallery Apt-art (Apartment N. Alekseev), Moscow

1983 Decorator and life. Gallery Apt-art (Apartment N. Alekseev), Moscow

1984 For the soul and the calf (together with Nikita Alekseev). Gallery Apt-art (Apartment N. Alekseev), Moscow

1991 Sangria di artista. Galeria Carini, Florence, Italy

Day of knowledge (together with the movement of E. T. I.). Regina Gallery, Moscow

1992 Le vieil écho (together with Larisa Rezun-Zvezdrochetova). Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Dharmendra. L-gallery, Moscow

1994 Artists - to metro builders (together with Yuri Neprintsev). Regina Gallery, Moscow

1995 Choosing Pepsi. XL Gallery, Moscow

1996 Night Boyce, or Non-Russian Boys (together with Sergey Epikhin). XL Gallery, Moscow

Babies of Fakos. XL Gallery, Moscow

Diligence (together with George Litichevsky). Spider & Mouse Gallery, Moscow

1997 Erotica destroys consciousness (together with Lyudmila Borisova). XL Gallery, Moscow

You are what you eat. M. Gelman Gallery, Moscow

1998 One - Potato, Two - Potato ... XL Gallery, Moscow

Institute of Nutrition, or Zoo. Gallery Moscow Fine Art, Moscow

2000 Gestapo collective farm. XL Gallery, Moscow

2001 Bite. Central House of Artists, Moscow

2002 Palinton-2 / Critical Opera. XL Gallery, Moscow

The hellish pain of monsters, or the Reptiles of your time. WAM Gallery, Moscow

2003 Returning of the Artist (together with Alexander Vinogradov, Vladimir Dubosarsky, Valery Koshlyakov and Sergey Bratkov). La 50 Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Russo, Venice, Italy

2004 At work. XL Gallery, Moscow

2005 Losses. XL Gallery, Moscow

Woman and hell. Cultural Center "Art-arrow", Moscow

2006 Hello, dear Boltansky! Gallery "D137", St. Petersburg

2007 Hello, dear Boltansky, or Lamps and funny faces. Paperworks Gallery, Moscow

2009 I could not stand it. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Normal civilization. XL Gallery, Moscow

2011 Scribes (together with Yuri Albert and Andrei Filippov). State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Selected group exhibitions

1978 Experiment. Exhibition Hall on Malaya Gruzinskaya 28, Moscow

1979 20 portraits, 5 self-portraits. Rock club them. Rockwell Kent, Moscow

1982 The first exhibition of Apt Art. Apt-Art Gallery (Apartment of N. Alekseev), Moscow

1983 Come Yesterday and You’ll Be First. City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, USA

AptArt. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, USA

1984 AptArt in Tribeca. Contemporary Russian Art Center of America, New York, USA

1985 Russian Art Show. Danceteria, New York, USA

AptArt. Moscow Vanguard in the ‘80s. Washington Project for the Arts, Washington

1987 Creative atmosphere and art process. The first exhibition of the Vanguard Club. Exhibition Hall of the Proletarsky District on Vostochnaya St., Moscow

Housing. The Hermitage Amateur Society, Exhibition Hall on Profsoyuznaya 100, Moscow

Retrospection of the work of Moscow artists. 1957-1987. The Hermitage Amateur Society, Exhibition Hall on Profsoyuznaya 100, Moscow

1988 Art Drummers. Art-rock parade "ACCA". House of Culture MELZ, Moscow

Ich lebe - Ich sehe. Kunstmuseum, Bern

Nowe ruskie. Palac Nauki i kultury, Warsaw

Steirischer Herbst-88. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria

1989 ... to 33. Moscow Youth Palace, Moscow

Dialogue. Avant-Garde Russe et Art Contemporain Sovietique. Center Culturel Boris Vian, Paris

Expensive art (exhibition of the Avant-Garde Club). Moscow Youth Palace, Moscow

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

Moskau-Wien-New York: Kunst zur Zeit. Messepalast, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna

1989-1990 10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painting. Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington; USA;

Central House of Artists, Moscow; State Art Gallery of Georgia, Tbilisi; Central Exhibition Hall "Manege", Leningrad

1990 Aperto’90. La 44 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Shizokitay: Hallucination in power (exhibition of the Avant-Garde Club). Construction pavilion of VDNH on Frunzenskaya nab., Moscow

Towards the object. Gardeners Gallery (exhibition hall of the Krasnogvardeisky district), Moscow

In de USSR en Erbuiten. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Artisti russi contemporanei. Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy

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, United States

1991 Private lessons. Exhibition Hall "On Solyanka", Moscow

Aesthetic experiences. Museum-Estate "Kuskovo", Moscow

MANI Museum - 40 Moskauer Künstler. Karmeliterkloster, Frankfurt, Germany

Moscou-Leningrad-Tbilisi. Nouveau Theater d’Angers, Angers, France

Geopolitics. State Museum of Ethnography of the Peoples of the USSR, St. Petersburg

BiNationale (Israelische - Sowjetische Kunst um 1990). Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; Central House of Artists, Moscow

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, United States

1992 documenta IX. Kassel, Germany

3rd International Istanbul Biennal. Istanbul, Turkey

Festival dell arte contemporaneo. Fortezza da Basso, Florence, Italy

1992-1993 a Mosca ... a Mosca. Villa Campoleto, Herculaneum; Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

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

Art as power and power as Art. Central House of Artists, Moscow

1994 An artist instead of a work, or Jump into the Void. Central House of Artists, Moscow

II Cetinjski Bijenale. Cetinje, Montenegro

Identita e rappresentazioni cartografiche. Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini, Rome

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

1997 III Cetinjski Bijenale. Cetinje, Montenegro

1998 Book of the artist and poet. National Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

1999 Book of the artist. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

2002 Actual Russian painting. State Exhibition Hall "New Manege", Moscow

2003 Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin

Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

2004 Berlin-Moscow / Moscow - Berlin 1950-2000. State Historical Museum, Moscow

My Kabakov. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

Amanita. E. K. Art Bureau, Moscow

Esotericum. Tarot cards. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

2005 Comembers. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Apartment exhibitions. Yesterday and today. Museum Center of the Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow