Artworks by Ilya and Emilia Kabakov at Galerie Clara Maria Sels on artnet

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

(American/Ukrainian)

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

How to Meet an Angel (Detail), 2000

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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

How to Meet an Angel, 2000

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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

I.Kabakov, Landscape with a Barge, 1972, 2002

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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Old Bridge, 1998

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Biography

Timeline

1933: Ilya Kabakov: Born on September 30 in Dnepropetrovsk (USSR)
1945 - 1951: Ilya Kabakov: Studied at the Art School, Moscow
1945: Emilia Kabakov: Born on December 3 in Dnepropetrovsk (USSR)
1951 - 1957: Ilya Kabakov: Studied at the V.I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow
1952 - 1959: Emilia Kabakov: Studied at the Music School, Moscow
1962 - 1966: Emilia Kabakov: Music College, Irkutsk, Dnepropetrovsk (USSR)
1969 - 1972: Emilia Kabakov: University, Moscow
1973: Emilia Kabakov: Immigrated to Israel from USSR
1975: Emilia Kabakov: Since 1975 lives and works as curator, art dealer in New York, NY
1990: Kunstpreis Aachen, Freunde des Ludwig Forums fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
1992: Arthur Kopcke Award, Kopcke Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Max Beckmann-Preis der Stadt Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1993: Honorary Diploma, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
: Joseph Beuys-Preis, Joseph Beuys Foundation, Basel, Switzerland
1995: Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministere de la Culture et de la Francophonie, Paris, France
1997: AICA Best Show Award (Best Installation in a Gallery, Museum or Specific Site for "The Life of Flies" at Gladstone Gallery), International Art Critic Association, New York/NY, U.S.A.
1998: Kaiserring der Stadt Goslar, Goslar, Germany
: DAAD Fellowship, Artists-in-Residence Programme of the German Academic Exchange Service, Berlin, Germany
2000: Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa of University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
2002: Oskar Kokoschka Preis, Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft und Kultur, Vienna, Austria
2007: Doctor Philosophiae Honoris, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France
: The Orden of Friendship, The President of the Russian Federation, Russia
2008: The Praemium Imperiale from The Japan Art Association, Japan
: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov live and work in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2017: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Exhibitions in 2017:
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Tate Modern, London, UK
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Utopian Projects, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Paintings 2012–2015, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Ship of Tolerance, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK
2016: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Exhibitions in 2016:
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Ship of Tolerance, Zug, Switzerland
From Rodchenko to Kabakov, La Ollezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano Arte e Cultura, Switzerland
Art & Language and Ilya Kabakov: The Non-objective World, Sprovieri Gallery, London, UK
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
2015: Angeologia, Antiguo Collegio de San Ildefonso Museum, A project by Nina Menocal, Mexico City, Mexico
2014: The Disappearance of the fireflies (Collection Yvon Lambert), Prison Sainte Anne, Avignon, France
: Manifesta 10, State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation
: Printed Utopias? The Editions, Mike Karstens Galerie, Münster, Germany
: Ilya Kabakov in Swiss Private Collection, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland (solo)
: Monumenta 2014: The Strange City – Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Grand Palais, Paris, France (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: The Paintings About Sun, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
2013 - 2014: Utopia and Reality? El Lissitzky – Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Two Mountains, Sprovieri Gallery, London, England (solo)
: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Happiest Man, Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, (solo)
: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Vertical Paintings and Other Works, Ivory Press, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: The Ship Of Tolerance, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russian Federation (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Pace Gallery, 32 East 57th Street, New York, United States (solo)
2013: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: A Collective Memory, Sharjah Art Foundation Art Spaces, United Arab Emirates (solo)
2012: A return to Painting, Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy (solo)
: The Ship of Tolerance, Havanna Biennale, Cuba (solo)
: Return to Painting, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov – El Lissitsky, Vanabbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands (solo)
2011: I don’t know, Galeriartist, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: The Louvre Museum, Paris, France
: Die Tragodie des Teufels, Munich State Opera, Munich, Germany (solo)
: The Flying Paintings, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France (solo)
: Ilya Kabakov. Orbis Pictus, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland (solo)
: The Flying Paintings, Niccolo Sprovieri Gallery, London, England (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. The Blue Carpet, Macro Museum, Rome, Italy (solo)
: Until Now: Collecting The New (1960- 2010), Minneapolis Institute Of Arts, U.S.A. (solo)
: Ruhr-Atoll. Project for the preservation of natural resourses, Essen, Germany (solo)
: The Two Cabinets, Nottingham Gallery Of Contemporary Art, England (solo)
2010: The Canon, Kewenig Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Glasnost: Soviet Non-Conformist Art from the 1980s, Haunch of Venison, London (group)
: Under the Snow, Es Baluard Museum of Art, Palma de Mallorca, Spain (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, No Comment, Galerie Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Poetique Du Chantier, Musee-Chateau, Annecy, France
: Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: Under The Snow, Niccolo Sprovieri Gallery, London, England (solo)
: Labyrinth. My Mother’s Album, Beraldo Museum Of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
: Monument To The City Of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (solo)
: How To Meet An Angel, Jellinek, Mentrum, Amsterdam, Holland (solo)
: The Tennis Game, Galeria Continua, Le Moulin, France (solo)
: Entre Libre: Ilya Kabakov, 52 entretiens dans la cuisine communautaire, ceuvre de la collection du FRAC Bretagne, Galerie Dourven,Domaine du Douvren, France (solo)
: Romeo and Juliette, Galeria Continunua, San Gimignano, Italy (solo)
: Spione, Mauer. Kinderheim - An Der Brucke Zwischen Den Welten. 1989, Villa Schoningen, Berlin (group)
: 1989.The End Of History Or The Beginning of The Future?, installation: The Big Archive, Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria (group)
: The Medals Of Dishonour, The British Museum, London, England
: Heart in Heart, Athens Museum Of Contemporary Art, Greece
: Betwee Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90th from the IMMA collection, Irish Museum Of Modern Art /IMMA/, Dublin, Ireland (group)
: The Labyrinth. My Mother Album, Musee d’Art Moderne Et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France (group)
: Holbein To Tillmans. Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel, Switzeland (group)
: Mythologies, installation: What Shall We See After Death, Burlington Gardens, Haunch of Venison Gallery, London, England (group)
2009: 2000 + Collection / 20 Ways to Get An Apple / , Maribur, Slovenia
: Under The Snow, CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain (solo)
: The Canon and Other Works, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Orbis Pictus, The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama, Japan; travelling to: Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima: The Setagaya Art Museum, Setagaya; Ashikaga Museum of Art, Ashikaga City (solo)
: Ilya & Emilia Kabakov. Retrospective, organized by The Ministry of Culture and Cinematography & Moscow Biennale at The Pushkin Museum, The Garage by K.Melnikov, Vinzavod Contemporary Art Space, Moscow, Russia (solo)
: Canon, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
: What We Shall See After Death, Atlas Sztuki Foundation, Lodz, Poland (solo)
: Collectiepresentatie XXI, installation: August 20th, 1968-2000, Muhka Museum, Antwerpen, Belgium (group)
2008: Emilia and Ilya Kabakov - Unter dem Schnee, Sara Hilden Museum, Tampere, Finland
: The White Cube and Other Works", Arndt & Partner Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: Moscow Retrospective in four different venues, Moscow, Russian Federation

Public Collections

: ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Colección Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia
Collection Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt
Collection Fundación La Caixa, Barcelona
Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano, Switzerland
Collection of Sprengel Museum, Hannover
Collection of the City of Sevilla, Spain
Collection of the United Nations, Geneva
Ellipse Foundation – Contemporary Art Collection, Lisbon
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Jerusalem Museum, Israel
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany
Lhoist Group Collection, Belgium
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome
Museum of Avant-Garde Mastery, Moscow
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Palma de Mallorca
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
Neue Galerie im Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
Sarajewo Art Museum, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Sammlung Desdner Bank, Frankfurt
Schaulager Basel, Switzerland
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands
Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey

Literature

2015: Das Meer The Sea La Mer De Zee: Hommage à Jan Hoet (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Phillip Van den Bossche, Frank Maes, Hans Theys et al. Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2015: 228, illustrated; Getlein, Mark and Annabel Howard. Art Visionaries. London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd., 2016: 204–7, illustrated.
2014: The 21st-Century Art Book. London and New York: Phaidon Press, 2014: 138, illustrated; Chanson, Maxime. 700 Artists’ Processes. Paris: editions jannick, 78; Eurasia. A View on Painting (exhibition catalogue). Text by Norman Rosenthal. Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2014: 26–31, illustrated; Ilya Kabakov: Drawings / Dessins. Text by Jean-Hubert Martin. Koln and Paris; Walther Koenig; Les Éditions Dilecta, 2014.
2013: Celant, Germano, Thomas Demand, Rem Koolhaas and Harald Szeemann. When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013 (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Ca’ Corner della Regina and Fondazione Prada, 2013: 522, illustrated; Collecting Ideas: Modern and Contemporary Works from the Polly and Mark Addison Collection. Denver: Denver Art Museum, 2013: 70–71, illustrated; Degot, Ekaterina and David Riff, ed. Bergen Assembly: Monday Begins on Saturday (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2013; Ferriani, Barbara and Marina Pugliese, eds. Ephemeral Monuments: History and Conservation of Installation. Text by Germano Celant. Los Angeles: Getty Publications, 2013: 72, illustrated; Ilya & Emilia Kabakov (exhibition catalogue). Text by Kate Fowle. New York: Pace Gallery, 2013; Ilya Kabakov: Paintings 2008–2013: Catalogue Raisonné. Volume 3. Bielfeld, Germany: Kerber Verlag, 2013; Kabakov, Ilya and Emilia. “Illya and Emilia Kabakov.” Interview with Hossein Amirsadeghi. In Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces. New York: Thames & Hudson, Inc. 2013: 248–253, illustrated.
2012: ARSENALE 2012: The First Kyiv International Biennale of Contemporary Art (exhibition catalogue). Kiev: Mystetskyi Arsenal, 2012; The Desire for Freedom. Art in Europe Since 1945 (exhibition catalogue). Berlin: Deutsches Historisches Museum, 2012; Kabakov, Ilya. The Text as the Basis of Visual Expression. Köln: Oktagon, 2000; Gielen, Denis. S.F. Art, Science & Fiction. Brussels: Musée des Arts Contmporains de la Fédération Wallonie-Bruxelles au Grand-Hornu, 2012: illustrated; Ilya and Emilia Kabakov (exhibition catalogue). Milan: Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan, 2012; Ilya and Emilia Kabakov: The Appearance of the Collage (exhibition catalogue). Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2012; Ilya Kabakov: A Return to Painting (exhibition catalogue). Bielefeld, Germany: Kerber Verlag, 2012; El Lissitkzy, Ilya Kabakov, Emilia Kabakov: Utopia and Reality (exhibition catalogue). Texts by Charles Esche, Boris Groys, John Milner and Anton Vidokle. Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Van Abbemuseum, 2012; Kabakov, Ilya. “Ilya Kabakov on Kazimir Malevich.” In In My View: Personal Reflections on Art by Today’s Leading Artists. Edited by Simon Grant. London: Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2012: 55.

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

(American/Ukrainian)

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Ilya and Emilia Kabakov

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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