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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov
The Ship Of Siwa (From the Ship of Tolerance)
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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
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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
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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.
