
BORIS MIKHAILOV
Biography
Born in Kharkov,former USSR, on 25th August 1938.
Lives and works in Berlin and Kharkov.
2002-2003
Gast dozent at The Academy of Visual Art,Leipzig.
2001
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards for the best books on the photography ,London,England.
The Citybank Private Bank Photography Prize,London,England.
2000
Visiting lecturer, Department of Visual and Enviromental Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Le prix du Livre de Photographie des Recontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles 2000 », Arles, France
The Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography, Göteborg, Sweden
1998-1999 (December-May)
Kulturstiftung Landis & Gyr, Professor Swiss Federal Institute of Technology and Collegium Helveticum,grand, Zürich, Switzerland
1997
Albert Renger-Patzsch Award, A support for European Photographic book projects by the Dietrich Oppenberg Foundation,Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Stipendium Landeshauptstadt München, Kulturreferat, Germany.
1996(June)-1997 (July)
DAAD, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Grant, Berlin, Germany
1996
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation Award, Zürich, Switzerland
Stipendium Landeskulturzentrum, Salzau, Germany
1994
Stipendium of “Light Work“, Artist-in-Residence program, Syracuse University, NY, USA
Selected Solo exhibitions
2003
Fotomuseum Winterhur,Winterthour,Switzerland,(cat.)
Frans Hals Museum,Haarlem,Holland,(cat.)
2002
"Case History",First International Festival of Photography,Roma,Italy,(cat.)
"The Insulted and the Injured",Pase/MacGill Gallery,New York,USA.
"TV-Mania",Gallery Barbara Weiss, Berlin,Germany.
"TV-Mania",Galerie der Stadt Schwaz,Schwaz,Austria.
"Boris Mikhailov",Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten,Graz,Austria.
2001
Saatchi Gallery,London,England.
Haus der Kulturen der Welt,Berlin,Germany.
BildMuseet,Umea,Sweden
Orchard Gallery,Derry,Irland(cat.)
The Photographic Museum Helsinki,Finland
2000
Boris Mikhailov. 2000 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden
Boris Mikhailov, The Photographers’Gallery, London, England;
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel;
Barbara Gross Gallery, Munchen, Germany
1999
Boris Mikhailov,Cerntre National de la Photographia,Paris,France
By the Ground, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Boris Mikhailov, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venizia, Italy
Case History, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Case History and Dance, Scalo Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1998
Boris Mikhailov, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands(cat.)
Boris Mikhailov. Les Misérables (About the world), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; (cat.)
Peri Center of Photography,Turku, Finland
1997
Photomania, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Crimean Grafomania, Galerie in der Brolfabrik, Berlin, Germany;(cat.)
Hippolyie Photographic Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Boris Mikhailov A Retrospective, SCCA, Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
1995
Boris Mikhailov, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main(cat.). Travelled to Kunsthalle Zürich, Zwitzerland (1996)
After the Fall, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA;(cat.)
1994
Hotel Europa, Foto Festival, Rotterdam, The Netherlands;
Perspectief Photografic Center, Rotterdam, The Netherland
1992
Boris Mikhailov: Works form 1970-1991, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria;
1990
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Boris Mikhailov: Arles-Paris 1989, Signalhallen,Armemuseum , Stockholm, Sweden
The Missing Picture, Alternative Contemporary Photography from the Soviet Union,List
Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA, USA;
Union Bank Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Selected group exhibitions
2003
"Micropoliticas:Art and evryday life 2001-1968",Espai d\'Art Contemporani de Castell,
Madrid ,Spain(cat.)
"Cruel and Tender:Realism and Photography",Tate Modern,London,England(cat.),travel to Museum Ludwig,Cologne,Germany
"Warum?",Martin-Gropius-Bau,Berlin,Germany,(cat.)
"Witness",Barbican Center,London,England,(cat).
"Architecture of Homelessness",Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich,Germany
2002
25th Bienal de Sao Paulo,"Iconogrrafiias Metropolitanas",Sao Paolo,Brasil,(cat.)
\'How extraordinary that wold exists",Wattis Institute forContemporaryArts,SanFrancisco,
USA,(cat.)
"Parc Huma",Institut de Cultura,Barcelona,Spain(cat.),traveled to
"Park Huma",Centre de Cultura,Palma de Mallorca,Spain.
"Balzam",HelmHaus Zurich,Switzerland(cat.)
"DieAufgabe der Zeit",Westfalischer Kunstverein,Munster,Germany.
Photographer\'s Gallery,London, England.
2001
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2001,The Photographer\'s Gallery,London,England(cat.)
"Instant City",Certro per L\'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci,Prato,Italy(cat.)
"Remake Berlin",DAAD Gallery,Berlin
"Home/Homless",Bo01 City of Tomorrow ,Malmo,Sweden(cat.)
"Remake Berlin",Internationale de la Photographied\'Arles 2001,Arles France(cat.)
"Trade",Fotomuseum Winterthur,Switzerland
"Trade",Fotoinstitute,Rotterdam,The Nitherlands
"Autowerke",BMW Collaction,Franz Hals Museum, Haarlem,The Nitherlands
"Kunst and Kur"Kunsthaus- Meran,Merano,Italy(cat.)
2000
"How look at it"Photographsof the 20th Century,Sprengel MuseumHannover,Germany(cat)
"Remake Berlin", Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland;(cat.)
12th Biennale of Sydney,Sydney, Australia;(cat)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia(cat.)
Festival "Bons Baisers de Russie Caronne", Toulouse, France(cat.)
Foto Biennale Rotterdam. Positions Attitudes Actions, Social and Political Commitment in Photography, Rotterdam, The Netherlands(cat.)
How you look at it. Photographs of the 20th Century, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
BMW Collection,"Autowerke", Hamburg, München, Germany(cat.)
"After the Wall",Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof,Berlin,Germany.
"Global Conceptualism,Points of Origin,1950-1980s",MIT Cambrige,MA,USA
1999
Future is now, Ukrainian Art in the Nineties, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia(cat.)
After the Wall, Art and Culture in post-Communist Europe, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.(cat.) travelled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; ,
Ich und die Andersen, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Karlsruhe, Germany. Travelled to Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munchen, Germany(cat.)
Under/Exposed, Stockholm Metro, Sweden(cat.)
Global Conceptualism. Points of Origin, 1950-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York,(cat.),NY, USA. Travelling to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA; Miami Art Museum, FL, USA; Vancouver, Canada;
1998
Contemporary Centre Regional d’Arts, Séte, France
Nabuyashi Araki & Boris Mikhailov, Satani Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Richard Billingham &Boris Mikhailov, Barbara Gross Gallery, München, Germany
1996
Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change: 1890-1990, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY, USA; (cat.)
10ª Biennale of Sydney,Sydney, Australia,(cat.)
1995
If I were a German…, Galerie in der Brotfabric and Galerie Andreas Weiss, Berlin, Germany(cat)
Currents ’95 - Familiar Places, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA, USA
Contemporary Russian Photography, Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany(cat.)
NeuerBerliner Kunstverein,Berlin,Germany(cat.)
1994
Photo-reclamation, Photographers’ Gallery, London, England; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, England(cat.)
1993
New Photography 9, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1992
Herbarium, The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Russian Art, Fotogalerie Wien / Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Wien, Austria(cat.)
1991
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA(cat.)
Photo Manifesto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
1990
International Biannual of Photography, Turin, Italy(cat.)
"Erosion"Amos Andersen Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland(cat.)
1988-1990
Ny Sovjetisk Fotografi (New Soviet Photography), Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark(cat). travelled to Kulturhusel, Stockholm and many other museums in Sweden
Selected bibliography
Books by the artis
"Boris Mikhailov,a retrospective",edited by Urs Stahel,Fotomuseum Winterthur and Scalo,2003,ISBN3-908247-72-1
"Salt Lake"Boris Mikhailov,text by Friedrich Meschede,Steidel,Guettingen,Cermany ISBN3-88243-815-0
"55",Boris Mikhailov , text by Gilda Williams,Phaidon,London,ISBN 0 7148 4066 1
"Boris Mikhailov,Dance",The Hasselblad Award 2000,text by Boris Groys,Scalo- Hasselblad Center,ISBN3-908247-42-X
"Drucksache N.F.4",Boris Mikhailov,Internationale Heiner Muller Gesellschaft e.V.,
Berlin,ISBN 3-933807-21-2
"Case History", Scalo Zürich - Berlin- New York, 1999. ISBN 3-908247-09-8
"Unfinished Dissertation", text by Margarita Tupilsyn, Scalo Zürich - Berlin - New York, 1998. ISBN 3-931141-97-7
"By the Ground",Octagon,Stuttgart,1996,ISBN3-9227789-91-7
"At Dusk",Octagon,Stuttgart,1996,ISBN3-927789-91-7
"Boris Mikhailov", ed. By Brigitte Kölle, Oklagan, Stuttgart, 1995. ISBN 3-89611-001-2
Selected publications (Books and catalogues)
Modern Contemporary,Art at MoMA since 1980,The Museum of Modern Art New York,MoMA/Thames&Hudson ISBN-0-87070-021-9
AutoWerke,BMW project,Hatje Cantz Verlag,ISBN3-7757-09001-0
How you look at it. Photographs of the 20Th Century. Thomes & Hudson, London, 2000. ISBN 0-500-97592-2
Boris Mikhailov. Les Misérables (About the world), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1998. ISBN 3-89169-135-1
Boris Mikhailov, SMA Cahiers 14, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1998 (cat)
Porticus am Main, 1997. ISBN 3-928071-34-3
Europa Europa. Das Jahrhundert Avantgarde in Mittel und Osteuropa, Band 1-4, Cantz,Ostfeldern-Ruit, 1994 (encyclopedia)
Carnegie International, 1991, Vol. I, II, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, Rizzoli, New York, 1991. ISBN 08478-1499-8
Selected public collections
Berlinische Galeria,Berlin,Germany
Sprengel Museum Hannover,Germany
Museum Folkwang, Essen,Germany
Kunstbibliotek,Berlin,Germany
DG Bank,Frankfurt am Main,Germany
BMW Bank,Munchen,Germany
Metropolitan Museum of Art,New York,NY,USA
The Museum of Modern Art ,New York,NY,USA
Stedelijk Museum,Amsterdam,The Netherland
The Photographic Museum Helsinki,Finland
Kiasma Museum,Helsinki,Finland
Maison Europeenne de la Photographie,Paris,France
Portuguesse Centre for Photography
Museum of Contemporary Art,Zagreb ,Croatia
Saatchi Collection,London,England.
Museum Folkwang,Essen,Germany.
Fotomuseum Winterthur,Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,CA,USA
Zurich University,Switzerland
Collegium Helveticum,Zurich,Switzerland
DAAD Berliner Kunstlerprogramm,Germany
Zimmerli Museum,New Jersey,NY,USA
Dom of the Photography,Photo Museum Moscow,Russia
Tel Aviv Museum of Art,Israel
Cetro d\'Arte Contemporanea,Castello di Rivara,Italy
Languedoc-Roussilen,Frag Montpilier,France
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