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Genia Chef
1954 1961 1972-77 1978 1985 1986 1988-93 1993
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
1972 Polygraphic Institute, Moscow, USSR 1989 Gallery Maria Salvat, Barcelona, Spain 1991-92 House of Latin America, Monte Carlo, Monaco; under the patronage of Prince Louis de Polignac 1992 Sammer Gallery, Madrid, Spain 1994-95 “Neo-Mythology and Regressive Projects“, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, USA 1995 “Viva Canova“, Gallery Il Canovacchio, Rome, Italy 1997 “Promenades in Arcadia“, Italian Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany 2000 “The Myths of King Ludwig II of Bavaria“, Cultural Center of the New Academy, Pushkinskaya 10, St. Petersburg, Russia 2002 Sigmund Freud`s Dreams Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, in cooperation with the Modern and Contemporary Art Museum of Trento and Rovereto (MART), Italy 2004 “Danses de la mort", White Space Gallery, London, UK 2005 “Gloria Novi Saeculi“, Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia “Genia Chef“, Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino 2006 John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California, USA 2007-2010 “Metamorphosis & Mimicry", installation at the butterfly garden of Palace Sayn of the Princes zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Bendorf, Germany and Châteua de Goulaine of the Marquis Robert de Goulaine, France and Palace Friedrichsruh of Prince Bismarck, Aumühle, Germany 2011 “Famous and Infamous", Albemarle Gallery, London, UK “Castles of Humans, Palaces of Insects“, installation at Palace Sayn of the Princes zu Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn, Bendorf, Germany
“Glory of a New Century”, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
1976 “First Exhibition of the Avant-garde Artists", Gorkom Grafikov, Malaya Gruzinskaya, Moscow, USSR
1976-85 Participation in numerous exhibitions of Non-Conformist Artists and of the Association of Artists, Moscow 1987 “Don Quijote“, Municipal Museum, Olot, Spain 1988 “Triennial“, Municipal Museum, Ulm, Germany 1990 Master Class, Arik Brauer, Upper Belvedere Palace, Vienna, Austria 1993 “From Art to Creation“, Russian Art 1992, Rye Art Center, New York, USA Contemporary Russian Art from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, City Art Center, Oklahoma City, USA “Monumental Propaganda“, curated by Komar and Melamid, World Financial Center, New York, USA 1993-94 “Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art“, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, USA “Ideal Landscapes: Artists from the Former Soviet Union", de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, California, USA “Eros & Identity“, Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, USA “Post World New Order: Restructured Myths", Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, USA 1995 “Memento Mori“, Gallery Parzival, Kai Hilgemann, Berlin, Germany 1998 “Neo-Academism and Electronic Art", New Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia 1998/99 “American Pop Art - Russian Sots Art”, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA 1999 “Play and Passion", exhibition of the State Russian Museum at the Moscow Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia “A 25 Year Retrospective on Non-Conformist Russian Art“, presented by the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Kennan Institute, Washington, D.C., USA „Drama Lenin – Stalins Tragödie", Galerie Hohenthal und Bergen, Berlin, Germany 2000 “The Hurricane of Time: Turn of the Century/Close of the Millennium: Art of the 1960s Through 2000“, selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Villa Ormond, San Remo, Italy “Transformations of the Red Star - Sots Art“, Gallery Sandmann, Berlin, Germany “L`Age d`Or“, Museum-Center Luis Bunuel, Calanda, Spain “The Heirs of Sparta“, New Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia and Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland 2000-2001 “Jesus Christ in Art“, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, and Monasterio di Santa Chiara, San Marino 2001 “Between Earth and Heaven", Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium 2002 “Shock and Show", Festival of International Contemporary Art, Trieste, Italy “Artists of the Ideal", Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy “A Brief History of Collage and Assemblage", Zimmerly Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
2003 “Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia", Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA "Paradise", Bunker at the Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany “Foreign Visions", Stiftung Starke, Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia “Naked Before Gods", Uue Kunsti Muuseum, Parnu, Estonia “Fiction of History", V. Krasnoyarsk Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia “Berlin-Berlin!", Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany 2004 “NA KURORT - Russian Art Today“, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany and New Manege, Moscow, Russia “Gods Becoming Men", Frissiras Museum, Athens, Greece 2005 “Bellum Bellum", Gallery Sandmann, Berlin, Germany “Western Biennale", John Natsoulas Art Center, Davis California, USA “Finding Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art“, selection from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, Tarpon Springs, Florida, USA 2006 “Times of Change", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia “Meditazione sulla Realta", Palazzo della Ragione, Mantova, Italy 2007 “I Believe ", II Moscow Biennale, Vinzavod, Moscow, Russia 2008 “Power of Water", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 2009 “Born in the USSR – Russian Art from Germany", Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany “War of the Angels", Contemporary Russian Artists in Germany, Kunstverein Halle, Halle, Germany “Impressions“, artists from Berlin at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia 2010 “Shattered Utopia“, Russian Art of the Soviet and Post-Soviet Periods from the Dr. Wayne F.Yakes, Collection, Fort Collins Museum of Art, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA “The Sky in Art", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia “X International Biennale of Miniature Art“, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, awarded First Prize in the category of painting 2010-2011 “Polemically Small“, curated by Edward-Lucie Smith, Gallery Charlie Smith, London, UK and Werkstattgalerie, Berlin, Germany and Garboushian Gallery, Los Angeles, USA 2011 „Points of View, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder, USA „L`Arte Contemporanea in Russia 1950- 2011“, in collaboration with the State Russian Museum, Palazzo Caetani, Fondi, Italy
Public Collections:
State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Zimmerly Museum, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia Sigmund Freud`s Dreams Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Italian Cultural Institute, Berlin, Germany Hofstra University Museum, USA Iglesia de Santa Maria, Cadaques, Spain St. Georgs-Church, Ulm, Germany
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