Joseph Backstein

Иосиф Бакштейн

1945-2024

Russian Art

Exhibitions 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.

2014   

“Paradise” Irina Nakhova, CCA Winzavod, 16 Sent. – 26 Oct. 

2012   

“Stalker. Art in the factory”, VNIIMETMASH, 1 Sept. – 7 Sept.

2008   

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Alternative Art History and Other Projects. Garage.
Илья и Эмилия Кабаковы «Альтернативная история искусств и другие проекты». ЦСК «Гараж; 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

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.

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.

1995

Частный взгляд на войну, Музей Дома на набережной, Москва

A Private View on  the War The “House on the Embankment” Museum Moscow

1994

Новые тенденции в некрореализме
(персональная выставка Евгений Юфит, Санкт Петербург), Галерея в Беляево, Профсоюзная, 100, Москва
New Trends in Necrorealism (a one person show of Evgenij Jufit, St.Petersburg) Beljaevo Gallery, Moscow. Co-curated with Ekaterina Andreeva.

20-летие Бульдозерной выставки  Галерея в Беляево, Москва, The 20th Anniversary of the Bulldozer Art Show
Beljaevo Gallery, Moscow.

“20 Years since Bulldozer Exhibition”. Exhibition hall “House 100”, Moscow

15 Sept. – 30 Sept.
Co-curated with Alexander Glezer, Alexandra Obukhova, Larisa Pyatnitskaya.

1993

Monumental Propaganda, The Central House of Artists, Moscow and the World Financial Center, NY, USA.

1992

An exhibition on the premises of Butyrskaja prison, Moscow, Выставка около Бутырской  Москва

«Сердца четырех». Дом офицеров, Москва, The Hearts of the Foursome, The House of Officers, Moscow

1991

The Optics of the Gaze «Оптика взгляда» (групповая выставка Марии Серебряковой и Иды Аппельбруг)
Выставочный центр «В Пересветовом переулке», Москва. Maria Serebrjakova and Ida Appelbroog.

«Посещение», A Visit, Выставочный центр

«В Пересветовом переулке», Москва

1990

«Особенные истории» -  Андрей Монастырский и Конрад Аткинсон.  Выставочный центр «В Пересветовом переулке», Москва. Particular Stories, a show of Andrej Monastyrskij and Conrad Atkinson, “V Peresvetovom Pereulke” exhibition center, Moscow

1989

IsKUNSTvo - Искунство- II

The Construction Industry Exhibition Center on Frunzenskaja Naberezhnaja, Moscow. (1 June – 20 July)

Dear Art (Дорогое искусство),

The Palace of Youth, Moscow.

Co-curated with Elena Kurlyandtseva.

Documentation Research. Photo objects by the Collective Actions group (Исследование документации. Фото объекты группы Коллективные действия), Sadovniki Exhibition Center, Moscow.

"Na Kashirke" Gallery, Moscow, (15 Nov. – 26 Nov.)

Co-curated with Elena Elagina.

Prospects of Conceptualism (Перспективы концептуализма)
“Peresvetovom Pereulke” exhibition center, Moscow

1988
An art show at the Sandunovskie baths (Выставка в Сандуновских банях), Moscow. (12-19 Jan). Co-curated with Gia Ambramishvily

Avantgardists’ Club — 88 (Клуб Авангардистов – 88).

“V Peresvetovom Pereulke” exhibition center, Moscow

1987

Steamship, an action (Пароход, акция), Moscow

Creative Atmosphere and the Artistic Process (Творческая атмосфера и художественный процесс)
an art show of the Avantgardists’ Club

“V Peresvetovom Pereulke” exhibition center, Moscow, (8 June – 3 July)

“In Peresvetov lane” exhibition center, Moscow
Co-curated with Sven Gundlach

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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