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Konstantin Zvezdochetov

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
  Angels of History. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium
  AptArt. 1982-1984. E. K. Art Bureau, Moscow
2007 Woe from the mind. State Literary Museum, Moscow
  Sots-art. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow; La Maison Rouge, Paris
  Infinite Painting. Villa Manin, Centro d’arte contemporanea, Codroipo, Italy
2008-2009 That Obscure Object of Art. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Ca ’Rezzonico, Venice, Italy
2010 Portraits of second-hand. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow