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GRISHA BRUSKIN
BIOGRAPHY
1945 Born October 21 in Moscow, Russia
1988Moves to New York, New York
The artist currently lives and works in New York City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Grisha Bruskin: Archaeologist’s Collection, Marlborough Gallery, Monaco
2004 Modern Archeology, Marlborough, New York, New York, United States
2003 Grisha Bruskin, Fragmenteeiner endlosen Sammlung, Judengasse Museum,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany (exhibition catalog)
2002Das Alphabet des Grisha Bruskin, Kunsthalle, Emden, Germany (exhibition catalog)
2001Grisha Bruskin: Life is Everywhere, StateRussianMuseum, St. Petersburg; traveled to
StatePushkinMuseum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Paradise Lost, MarlboroughChelsea, New York, New York
2000 Grisha Bruskin, Marlborough Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1999 Grisha Bruskin: Life is Everywhere, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Grisha Bruskin: Leben über Alles, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zürich, Switzerland
1997Grisha Buskin: Birth of the Hero, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zürich, Switzerland
1996 Grisha Bruskin: Mythical Imagery, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, California
Grisha Bruskin: Revisions, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1995 Grisha Bruskin, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1994Grisha Bruskin: ‘General Instruction’ and Other Works, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Grisha Bruskin: Metamorphoses, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1993Grisha Bruskin, General Instruction/Lev Rubinstein. Another Name, The State Pushkin
Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, traveled to the StateRussianMuseum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Grisha Bruskin: Painting, Sculpture, Prints, Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Grisha Bruskin: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, Struve Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1992 Grisha Bruskin, Alex Lachmann Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1991 Grisha Bruskin: Paintings and Sculpture, Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Grisha Bruskin: A Personal Mythology, Erika Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990 Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1984 Grisha Bruskin, Central House of Workers in the Arts, Moscow, USSR
1983 Grisha Bruskin, Vilnius, Lithuania
1976 House of Artists, Moscow, USSR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Seven Artists, Gebert Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2005 Sculptures Monumentales a Saint-Tropez, La Citadelle, Saint-Tropez, France (catalogue)
Avantgarde im Untergrun: Russische Nonkonfirmisten aus der Sammlung Bar-Gera, Kubstmuseum Bern,Bern, Switzerland
Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscou, Russie (catalogue)
RUSSIA! Nine Years of Masterpieces and Master Collections, SolomonR.GuggenheimMuseum,
New York, United States (catalogue)
2003La Fête, Le Bellevue, Biarritz, France Museo Valenciano de la Illustracion y la Modernidad, Valencia,
Spain (exhibition catalog)
Persecuted Art & Artists Under Totalitarian Regimes in Europe During the 20th Century, Art Museum
Ashdod, Ashdod, Israel
Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia, YeshivaUniversityMuseum, Center for
Jewish History, New York, New York
Das Recht des Bildes, Judische Perspektiven in der modernen Kunst, Museum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
2002La Parade des Animaux, Festival International de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo,
Monaco
Russian Revolutions: Generations of Russian Jewish Avant-Garde Artists, Singer Gallery, MizelCenter for Arts and Culture, DenverColorado
500 Years of Russian Art, Sán Paolo, Italy
The Image of Evil in Art, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library, Graduate Theological Union, Berkley, California
Sculpture by Abakanowicz, Arman, Botero, Bruskin Chadwick and others, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
2000 Dumbo Double Deuce: New York and Russian Artists, Brooklyn, New York
1999 20th Century Sculpture, NassauCountyMuseum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York
1998 Forbidden Art - The Postwar Russian Avant-Garde, ArtCenter, College of Design, Alyce de Roulet
Williamson Gallery, Pasadena, California; traveled thrgough 1999 to State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; The State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; Miami University Art Musuem, Oxford, Ohio
It’s the Real Thing - Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis-St.Paul, Minnesota Art Museum
1997 Artistas NAO CONFORMISTAS da Uniao Soviética, The Nancy and Norton Dodge
Collection at the JaneVorheesZimmerliArt Museum, Rutgers, New Jersey; traveled to Caixa Geral de Depositos, Lisbon, Portugal
Nonconformist Art From the Soviet Union, Palace of the Arts, Budpest, Hungary
Contemporary Artists Welcome the New Year - The Jewish Museum List Graphic Commission, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
1996Nonconformisten. Die zweite Russische Avantgarde 1955-1988, Sammlung Bar-Gera ;
traveled to Staatliches Russisches Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia; Staatliche Tretyakov Gallerie, Moscow, Russia; Städelches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt am Main, Germoany; Exhibition Hall of Baier Department of Culture, Leverkusen, Germany; Museum of Josef Albers, Square-Bottrop, Germany
On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Department of New Currents: The First Five Years, The StateRussianMuseum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1995 Reinventing the Emblem, YaleUniversityArtGallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change 1890-1990, The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
From Gulag to Glasnost: Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union 1956-1988, The Nancy and Norton
Dodge Collection at the JaneVoorheesZimmerliArt Museum, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Moscow: The Group, Heidi Neuhoff Gallery, New York, New York
Sculpture in the Little Forest, Raanana, Israel
1994 Itinere, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1993 Drawing the Line Against Aids, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; traveled to Guggenheim
Museum Soho, New York, New York
Von Malewitsch bis Kabakov: Russische Avantgarde im 20 Jahrhundert, Eine Ausstellung des Museums Ludwig, Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Post-Modernism and Tradition, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A la découverte… des collections romandes 1, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
Europa-Europa: Das Jahrundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Fujisankei Biennale, Open-Air Museum, Hakone, Japan
1992 On Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
1991 Artistas Rusos Contemporaneos, Auditorio de Galicia, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1990 Chagall to Kitaj: The Jewish Experience in 20th Century Art, BarbicanArtGallery, London,
England
1989 100 Years of Russian Art 1889-1989: From Private Collections in the USSR, Barbican Art
Gallery, London, England; traveled through the United Kingdom and the USSR
Sculpture by Abakanowicz, Botero, Bruskin, Davies, Grooms, Mason, Marlborough Gallery, New York,
New York
Von der Revolution zür Perestroika: Sowjetische Kunst aus der Sammlung Ludwig, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; traveled to Palau de la Virreina - Ajuntament de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;
Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, St. Etienne, France
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Artists for Liberty, Berlin Wall, Foundation Pascal Jeandet; traveled to Paris, London, and Madrid
Recent Acquisitions, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Bilder für den Himmel - Kunstdrachen, Haus der Kunst, München; traveled through 1992 to
Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, France; Kunstsammlung Nordhein- Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia; Deichtor Halle, Hamburg, Germany; Museu Calouste
Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal; Musée des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium; National Gallery, Berlin,
Germany; Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark; e tc.
1988 Ich lebe - Ich sehe: Künstler der achtziger Jahre in Moskau,
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Olympiad of Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
Sowjetkunst heute, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Glasnost - Die neue Freiheit der sowjetischen Maler, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Kunstdrachen: Bilder für den Himmel, Art Museum of the MiyagiPrefecture, Sendai, Japan; traveled
through Japan and Europe from 1988—1992
1987 ThePainter and Modernism, Exhibition Hall Kashirka,Millionschikov Street, Moscow
Object, Malaya Gruzinskaya, Moscow
Retrospection 1957-87, Exhibition Hall of the Provsouznaya Hermitage Association, Moscow
1966 Seventh Exhibition of Young Artists of Moscow, House of Artists, Moscow
PUBLIC INSTALLATIONS AND COMMISSIONS
1995Visage, sculpture for the city of Raanana, Israel
1999Leben Uber Alles, tryptich, Reichstag, Berlin,Germany
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Achenbach foundation for Graphic Arts, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco,
California, United States
ArkansasArtCenter, Little Rock, Arkansas, United States
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sydney Besthoff Sculpture Garden, New Orleans Museum, New Orleans Louisiana, United States
Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas, Venezuela
IsraelMuseum, Jerusalem, Israel
Jewish Museum, New York, New York, United States
Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, West Germany
Kupferstichkabinett Staatliche Museum of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
MilwaukeeArt Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, United States
PortlandMuseum of Art, Portland, Maine, United States
Reichstag, Berlin, Germany
StatePushkinMuseum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
StateRussianMuseum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
State Tretyakoft Gallery, Moscow, Russia
JaneVoorheesZimmerliArt Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2005 Derek Summers, Wilhemina. “Figurative Sculpture Remains the Focal Point of Successful Art
Collections in the United States.” Sculpture Review, p 22-25, Printemps.
“Grisha Bruskin. Letter Follows.”. Moscow: Novoye Literaturmoye Obozrenie
2004 “Soviet Nostalgia.” (radio interview). WNYC, Sudio 360, 7 Fevrier
2003 Gluek, Grace. “Nyet to Passé Soviet Realism, Yes to Lenin as Mickey Mouse.” New York
Times, Friday, December 5, p. E44.
“Art as Protest.” Jewish Renaissance, Vol. 3, Autumn.
Huther, Christian. “An den Symbolen des Kommunismus nagt der Zahn der Zeit.” Frankfurter Neue Press, October 17.
Sternberg, Judith von. “Der Zeichenerfinder.” Frankfurter Rundschau, October 10.
Hierholzer, Michael. “Diffuse Traditionen, exakte
Phantasien.” Frankfurter Allgemeine, September 12.
Huther, Christian. “Archaologe und Archivar.” Main- Echo, October 17.
“Archaologe und Archivar zugleich: Grisha Bruskin- Schau in Frankfurt.” AllgemeineZeitung,
September 26.
“Grisha Bruskin. Fragmente einer endlosen Sammlung.” A & B die Zietung Kunst-Kultur-Design, October/November.
“Schwarzer Humor in brokelnden Raumen.” Bild, September 11 .
Ostrovsky, Grigori. “Persecuted.” Vesti, September 18.
O.M. “Greetings from far away.” Moscow News, p. N17, May 6-12.
Terentieva, Maria. “In the Absence of Preposition.” Knizhnoye Obozrenie, August 18.
Rubenstein, Lev. “Myslenno vami.” Politburo, p. N20, May 26-June 1.
“Grisha Bruskin. Myslenno vami.” Novoye Russkoye Slovo, August 23-24.
“Grisha Bruskin. M’yslenno vami” Moscow: Novoye Literaturnoye Obozrenie.
2002 Tokareva, Marina. “Grisha Bruskin . . .” Obschaya Gazeta, pp. 24-30, January.
Zvinkahu, Mila. “Porcelain with star and swastika.” Free Time, #12, p. 43, December.
Baschbach, Gabriele. “Am Steurrad und doch kein Kapitan.”Ostfriesesn Zeitung, June.
Wagner, Ina. “Bilder wie Inventare einer fremd gewordenen Kultur.” Emder Zeitung, June.
Schultz, Mathias. “Auf Spurensuche in der Ewigkeit.” Werkschau von Grisha Bruskin in der Kunsthalle Emden, July.
2001 Riese, Hans-Pieter. Das rote Haus. Zeitgenossische russische Kunst aus der Sammlung
Bierfund.Cologne: Wienand.
Kolodzei, Natalia. "Grisha Bruskin: Russian Artists are Needed by the World Culture." ARTchronika,
no. 1.
Grant, Daniel. "The Brisk Trade in Bruskin." ArtNews, February.
Klebanova, Nina. "The Present Time of Grisha Bruskin." Nezavisimaya Gazeta, February 9.
Glueck, Grace. "Art Review; In Connecticut, David Smith and Lord Snowdon Reign." New York Times,
July 20 [Forbidden Art of Postwar Russia, BruceMuseum, Greenwich, CT.].
La Fête, Pentagraf Impresores, S.L.: Biarritz.
Goldstein, Alexander. “Two myths of Grisha Bruskin.” Vesti, August.
Pritsker, Maya. “Paradise lost?” Novoye Russkoye Slovo - Russian Daily, November 2.
Novak, Dimitri. “Grisha Bruskin: You see the catepillar - you remember what happened in your life.”
St. Petersburg News, December 7.
Molok, Nikolai. “Propaganda for the plate.” Izvesta, October 17.
Orlova, Milena. “Conceptual artist in the porcelain store.” Kommerstant, October 17.
Balakhovskaya, Faina. “Model to follow.” Vremya, #191, October 17.
Romer, Fedor. “Sopromat.” Artgazeta, November 1.
Martinenko, Olga. “Porcelain Alfbet.” Moscow News, October 16-22.
Nevskaya, Tatyana. “Grigori Bruskin.” Gazeta, October 17.
“Legende ‘Bruskin’.” Pulse, December.
Dolinina, Kira. “Fragile past of Grisha Bruskin.” Kommersant #226, December.
Zubanova, Veronika. “The Truth is on the Bottom of the Plate.” Business - Petersburg, #223,
December 14.
Zvinkahu, Mila. “Fundamental lexicon of Grisha Bruski.” On Nevsky, #12, p. 59, December.
Kusmin, M. “Everyone here is becoming hero.” Smena, December.
Borovsky, Alexander. “Tale-tellers in the city.” Sobaka, #9.
Heartney, Eleanor (et. al). Grisha Bruskin, Life is Everywhere, Napoli: Palace Editions.
2000 Heartney, Eleanor. "Berlin: Future Perfect?" Art in America, February, pp. 109-115.
Henry, Clare. "Grisha Bruskin." Sculpture, May.
Illyina, M. "Akhmatova with Bruskin’s Etchings or Book as an Art." Novoye Russkoye Slovo, May 26.
Svetova, A. "New Unique Edition of the ‘Requiem’ by Akhmatova." Kontinent USA, no. 12, June.
Herrmanns, Ralph. "Rysk konstnars vandringssaga". Dagens Industri, June 16.
I.G. "The Most Expensive Artist from Russia." Novoye Russkoye Slovo, November 17.
Grant, Daniel. "Griska Bruskin: Another Record." ArtNewsletter, December 26.
Lozanskaya, Tatiana. "Grisha Bruskin Beats the Records." KontinentUSA, no. 22, November.
1999 Beaucamp, Eduard. "Die Artisten im Parlamentarischen Alltag." Frankfurter Allgemeine
Zeitung, April.
Buck, Robert T. "A Conversation with the Artist." Grisha Bruskin: Life is Everywhere. New York:
Marlborough Gallery.
F.A.Z. "Leben über Alles." Frankfurter Allegmeine Zeitung, June.
Schwerfel, Heinz P. "Grosse Bilder fur Berlin." Art, June.
Sidlin, Michail. "Ten Years Later." Nezavisimaya Gazeta, June 10.
Pritzker, Maya. "What is Grisha Bruskin Doing in Reichstag?" Novoye Russkoye Slovo, June 11.
Sisnev, Vissarion. "The Father Signed the Reichstage, the Son Painted It." Trud, June 25.
Schwartz, Constance and Franklin Hill Perrell. 20th Century Sculpture. Roslyn Harbor, NY: Nassau
CountyMuseum of Art.
Everett, Deborah. "Grisha Bruskin, New Work." NYArts, vol. 4, no. 8. p. 8.
Yershova, Tatiana. "Ours are in Berlin Again." Kontinent USA, no. 1, September.
Molok, Nikolai. "Painting over Reichstag." Itogi Newsweek, September 28.
Pritzker, Maya. "Porcelain Book, or in a Memory of a Happy Childhood." Russkoye Slovo, October 11.
Essel, Zeno van. "Bruskins Kunst ist ein Stuck abgeschlossene Zeitgeschichte." Das Schweizer Kultur-Magazin, November 22.
Andy Jllien Gallery. Zurich Handelszeitung, no. 49, December 1999.
Baiggell, Matthew. "Grisha Bruskin, Marlborough." ARTnews, December, pp. 172-73.
1998 Pritzker, Maya. "The Auction." Novoye Russkoye Slovo Newspaper, July 3.
Zakharov, Vadim. "Grisha Bruskin: We felt like in Agatha Christie’s Novel." Kommersant-Daily
Newspaper, July 10.
Khidekel, Regina. "It’s the Real Thing: Soviet and Post-Soviet Sots Art and American Pop Art."
Minneapolis-St. Paul, University of Minnesota Press.
Walther, Ingo, ed. Art of the 20th Century. Frankfurt: Taschen.
White, Garrett, ed. "Forbidden Art." Curatorial Assistance/Distributed Art Publishers
1986-1997 Bibliography on request
Film Performance
2003 Grisha Bruskin, Good-buyUSSR, with the participation of Vladimir Tarsov, Lev Rubrnstein, Dimitri
Prigov and Irina Prokhoroav. International Book Fair. Messegalande Halle, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 Grisha Bruskin, From the series “Classics of Contemporary Art” Produced by N. Zaretskaya for
Television, Moscow, Russia
2001 Grisha Bruskin. Alphabetic Truths, with the participation of Valdmir Tarasov and Dimitri Prigov.
Cultural Center “Dom”, StateRussianMuseum, St. Petersburg, Russia
1997 Grisha Bruskin/Valadimir Tarasov:Azbuka or An Island is a Piece of Land Surrounded by Water.
Festival Kukart-III. Tzarskoye Selo, Russia
1995 Grisha Bruskin in Buenos Aires. Produced by GALA/Herminia Denoto. Directed by Hugo Mendonga
1993 Grisha Bruskin in New York. Produced by R. Blahacek for German television. Directed by
Jana Markova
1992 Grisha Bruskin, Produced by TV Galereya, Moscow, Russia. Directed by N. Zaretskaya
1988 Grisha Bruskin: The Birth of the Hero, Exhibition Hall at Milliontshikov Street Kashirka, Moscow, Russia