Russian Art from the 1960s to the 2010s: A Lecture Series by Sasha Obukhova
Sasha Obukhova will discuss the lives and work of Russian artists in the broad historical context.
With an encyclopedic knowledge of Russian contemporary art, art historian and Garage Archive curator Sasha Obukhova is one of the main experts in her field. Her expertise formed through the study of art history and her immediate immersion in the art scene, as well as thanks to her meticulous work as an archivist who has collected information on art events for over 30 years. Her broad perspective and attention to detail add monographic depth to every artist’s portrait, presenting them in a political, aesthetic, and institutional context. Each lecture will include a demonstration of archive materials and artworks, with the series forming the prototype for a book on Russian contemporary art.
The founders of Sots Art Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid worked as a duo from 1972 to 2003. They created their first collaborative work in 1965. In 1967, after graduating from Moscow Higher School of Art and Industry, both worked as school teachers and as monumental artists. In the same year they had their first joint exhibition, Retrospectivism. In summer 1972, they worked as decorators at a pioneer summer camp outside Moscow, where the idea of the Sots Art series of paintings occurred to them. In 1977, they moved to Israel and in 1978 to the USA. They took part in the Bulldozer Exhibition (1974), the Biennale of Dissent (Venice, 1977), documenta 8 (Kassel, 1987), and the Venice Biennale (1999). They live and work in New York.
ABOUT THE LECTURER
Sasha Obukhova (b. 1967, Moscow) is an art historian. She graduated from Moscow State University. In 1993 she studied at the Central European University (Prague). She has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Art (Moscow), The State Tretyakov Gallery, and the National Center for Contemporary Arts. In 2000, she was a member of the working group that curated the permanent exhibition Art of the Second Half of the Twentieth Century at the Tretyakov Gallery. In 2004, she was a founding member and director of Art Projects Foundation, where she established the Archive of Russian Contemporary Art. She lives and works in Moscow.
1 окт 2024
