Joseph Backstein

Иосиф Бакштейн

1945-2024

International Exhibitions
held in Russia

Curated by Joseph Backstein/Иосиф Бакштейн

2019

Advising curator, Komar and Melamid. (Curator: Andrei Erofeev)

Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMNA, Petrovka St, Moscow),

March 22-June 9

2015   

“Contemporaries of the Future. Jewish Artists

in the Russian Avant-Garde, 1910s–1980s”,
Jewish Museum & Tolerance Center, 25 March – 24 May.

Co-curated with Maria Nasimova, Grigory Kazovsky.

peter_weibel: technē_revolution
Organizer: Moscow Museum of Modern Art The general partner of the project: OAO NOVATEK Supported by AUSTRIAN CULTURAL FORUM MOSCOW. Moscow Museum of Modern Art September 11 – November 1, 2015

2014   

“Paradise” Irina Nakhova,

CCA Winzavod,

16 Sept. – 26 Oct. 

2008   

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Alternative Art History and Other Projects.

Илья и Эмилия Кабаковы «Альтернативная история искусств и другие проекты». ЦСК Гараж/ Garage

ГМИИ им. А. С. Пушкина; ЦСИ Винзавод. Москва». “Gates”,

The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts,
“Alternative history of Arts”, CCA Winzavod. “Red wagon”,

CCC Garage. “Life of flies”, CCA Winzavod. “Toilet”,

CCA Winzavod. “Tennis”, CCA Winzavod.

2007/2008   

Yoko Ono "Odyssey of the Cockroach" TSUM, Moscow for the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 31 May – 24 June. Йоко Оно «Одиссея таракана». ЦУМ, Москва. Co-curated with Philip Dodd.

2007

Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Commissioner and co-curator with Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Fulya Erdemci, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Rosa Martínez, and Hans-Ulrich Obrist. TsUM Department store and Federation Tower (Moscow’s newly opened and tallest building). 90 artists from 20 countries were shown.

2006

"Norman Foster: Space and Time”, Pushkin Museum, Moscow.
Норман Фостер «Пространство и время». ГМИИ им. А.С. Пушкина, Москва

2005

First Moscow biennale of contemporary art. Dialectics of Hope. Co-ordinating curator with Hans Ulrich Obrist, Daniel Birnbaum, Nicolas Bourriaud, Rosa Martinez, Iara Boubnova and Robert Storr. The main project sites were the V. I. Lenin Museum, the Shchusev Museum of Architecture and the Vorobyovy Gory Moscow Metro station. As part of the main project, 41 artists from 22 countries presented their works.

Mona Hatoum, Measures of Distance,

Мона Хатум, «Мера дистанции», ЦДХ, Москва

2001

  On the Way to the Screen
(A-K Dolven, G.Gussin, Soo ja Kim, B.Melhus, S.Neshat, J. Toomik),
со-куратор вместе с Виктором Мизиано,

международная видео выставка, ЦДХ, Москва.

Co-curated with Victor Misiano

1995

Антигерои, Персональная выставка Ноэля Хардинга (Канада)

ЦДХ, Москва
Antiheroes Noel Harding’s one person show (Canada)

The Central House of Artists, Moscow

1993

Personal exhibition of Conrad Atkinson,

Fotocenter, Moscow.

Co-curated with Vera Pogodina.

1991

«Оптика взгляда»

(групповая выставка Марии Серебряковой и Иды Аппельбруг)

The Optics of the Gaze: Maria Serebrjakova and Ida Appelbroog
Выставочный центр «В Пересветовом переулке», Москва.

1990

Schizo-China

The Construction Industry Exhibition Center

on Frunzenskaja Naberezhnaja Moscow

Квон Су Пак  Выставочный центр «В Пересветовом переулке»,

A one person show of Kwon Soo Pak (South Korea),

Beljaevo Gallery, Moscow

«Особенные истории» Андрей Монастырский и Конрад Аткинсон.  Выставочный центр «В Пересветовом переулке»,

Particular Stories, a show of Andrej Monastyrskij and Conrad Atkinson,

“V Peresvetovom Pereulke” exhibition center, Moscow

Moscow Biennales 1-6

2005-2015

Founder and; Artistic Commissioner of Biennales 1-6

and Curator of main exhibition, Biennales 1-2

On Moscow Conceptualism

1987-2019

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