Boris Mikhailov
Boris Mikhailov
biography
Boris Mikhailov was born in 1938 in Kharkov, Ukraine.
He lives and works in Kharkov and Berlin.
Recipient of the 2000 Hasselblad Foundation International Award and Citibank 2001 Photography Prize
selected solo exhibitions
2010
AT Dusk, 1993, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris, France
Boris Mikhailov, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
Utopia and Reality, Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germany
2009
Boris Mikhailov, Dusk, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Boris Mikhailov - Yesterday´s Sandwich - 1969/70, Suzanne Tarasiève Galerie, Paris, France
2007
Banzai!, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
Boris Mikhailov, Look at me I look at Water, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Boris Mikhailov, Barbara Gross Galerie, München, Germany
Boris Mikhailov. Yesterday, kunst Meran im Haus der Sparkasse, Meran, Italy
2006
Yesterday’s Sandwich, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Butterbrot, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France
Look at me I look at Water, Centre de la Photographie, Geneve, Switserland
Look at me I look at water / If I were a German / I am not I, Suzanne Tarasiéve Paris, Paris, France
2004
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
In the Street, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
TV-Mania, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, Spain
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (MA), USA
2003
Boris Mikhailov: private Freuden, lastende Langeweile, öffentlicher Zerfall, eine Retrospektive, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switserland
2002
TV Mania, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
The Insulted and the Injured, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
TV Mania, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Austria
2001
Boris Mikhailov: Case History & Heiner Müller Projekt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden
Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland
The Photographic Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
2000
Boris Mikhailov. 2000 Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Göteburg, Sweden
Boris Mikhailov, The Photographers` Gallery, London, UK
Dvir Galerie, Tel Aviv, Israel
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
1999
By the Ground, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubliana, Slovenia
Boris Mikhailov, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
Case History, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Case History and Dance, Scalo Galerie, Zürich, Switserland
Boris Mikhailov, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, France
1998
Boris Mikhailov, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Boris Mikhailov. Les Misérables (About the World), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
Peri Center of Photography, Turku, Finland
1997
Photomania, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Crimean Grafomania, Galerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin, Germany
Hippolyte Photographie Galerie, Helsinki, Finland
1996
Boris Mikhailov, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switserland
Boris Mikhailov - A Retrospective, SCCA, Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kiev, Ukraine
1995
Boris Mikhailov, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
After the Fall, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
1994
Hotel Europa, Foto Festival Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Perspektief Photographic Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1992
Boris Mikhailov: Werke von 1970 - 1991, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
1990
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Boris Mikhailov: Arles - Paris 1989, Signalhallen, Armémuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
The Missing Picture, Alternative Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus der Sowjetunion, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge (MA), USA
Union Bank Collection, Helsinki, Finland
selected group exhibitions
2010
les recherches d’un chien, La Maison Rouge, Paris, Frace
The Adventure of Reality International Realism, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Körpernah Akte/Nudes, Tammen Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Realismus - Das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
Ukrainian Art in Transition, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm
Investigations of a dog, Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal
Sexuality and transcendence, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
Gender Check. Femininity and Masculinity in the Art of Eastern Europe, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Ruptures and Continuities: Photography Made after 1960 from the MFAH Collection, MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, USA
1989 - 2.Abschnitt, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Malas Calles, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Photo I, Photo You, Calvert22 Foundation, London, Great-Britain
Realismus - das Abenteuer der Wirklichkeit. Courbet - Hopper - Gursky, Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden, Germany
Summa Summarum, National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
2009
Gender Check - Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna, Austria
Investigations of a Dog. Works from the FACE Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
1989. Ende der Geschichte oder Beginn der Zukunft?, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Four Perspectives Through the Lens: Soviet Art Photography in the 1970s-80s, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA
Young Ladies, Old Chaps, and Some Thai Friends, Galleria SpazioA, Pistoia, Italy
Gallery show, Shugoarts, Tokyo, Japan
Movie Painting, National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia
1968. Die Große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Printed Matter - Set 6 aus der Sammlung des Fotomuseum Winterthur, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Looking at Others - photograpfs and video-instalations, Umjetnicki paviljon / Art Pavilion Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
2008
Real. Fotografien aus der Sammlung der DZ Bank / Photographs from the Collection of the DZ Bank, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Die totale Aufklärung. Moskauer Konzeptkunst 1960-1990, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Noteka Kati – yksin, yhdessä / Fluid Street – Alone, Together, KIASMA Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Are You Close Enough?, Galerie West, The Hague, The Netherlands
Glück – Welches Glück, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum Dresden, Germany
2007
Hot + Bothered: Looking at the Landscape/Thinking about the World, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, USA
What does the jellyfish want?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
52. Biennale Venedig, Pavillon der Ukraine
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2006
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Twilight-Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
2005
Circa Berlin, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark
Minimalist Kitsch & Visionäre Sammlung Vol.1, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switserland
2004
Verworpenen en Zondaskinderen, De Hallen Harlem, The Netherlands
Social Creatures. How Body becomes Art / Soziale Kreaturen. Wie Körper Kunst wird, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
The Beauty of Darkness, Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Staatliche Tretjakow-Galerie, Moskow, Russia
Photo Exhibition, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, Germany
Fotografia Verbal: Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Museuserralves, Museu de Arte Contamporanea, Porto, Portugal
Privatisierungen. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Channel Zero, Netherlands Media Arts Institute/Montevideo TBA, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dorf in die Metropole - Rohkunstbau in Berlin, Studio 1, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit. Biss zu Gast in der Berlinischen Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2003
Witness. Contemporary Artists document our Time, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Cruel + Tender, The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London, UK
Warum, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Berlin/Moskau, Moskau/Berlin 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Mircro Politicas (3). Arte Y Cotidianidad, Espai D‘Art Contemporani De Castello, Castello, Italy
Traumfabrik Kommunismus, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Auf der Suche nach Identität. Boris Mikhailov und Studierende der HGB Leipzig, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig, Germany
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
cruel + tender / zärtlich + grausam. Fotografie und das Wirkliche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2002
Sand in der Vaseline. Künstlerbücher II, 1980-2002, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
2001
From the 60 until now..., Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2001, The Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
Remake Berlin, DAAD Galerie , Berlin, Germany
Home/Homless, Bo01 City of Tomorrow, Malmö, Sweden
Remake Berlin, Internationale de la Photographie d'Arles 2001, Arles, France
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switserland
Autowerke, Franz Hals Museum Haarlem, The Netherlands
2000
Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switserland
12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Ljubiljana, Slovenia
Positions Attitudes Actions, Social and Political Commitment in Photography, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, The Netherlands
How you look at it. Fotografien des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sprengel Museum, Hannover and Städelsches Kunstinsti-tut, Frankfurt, Germany
BMW Collection: Autowerke, Hamburg, Munich, Germany
Global Conceptualism. Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT, Cambridge, UK
After the Wall, Kunst und Kultur im postkommunistischen Europa, Ludwig Museum Budapest, Turkey, and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
1999
Future is Now, Ukrainische Kunst in den Neunzigern, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Zagreb, Croatia
After the Wall, Kunst und Kultur im postkommunistischen Europa, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Ich und die Anderen, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Karlsruhe; Münchener Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s - 1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA; Vancouver, USA; MIT, Cambridge, UK
1998
Nobuyoshi Araki & Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Satani, Tokyo, Japan
Richard Billingham & Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, Germany
1996
Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change: 1890 - 1990, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
10th Biennale of Sydney, Australia
1995
If I were a German ..., Galerie in der Brotfabrik und Galerie Andreas Weiss, Berlin, Germany
Zeitgenössische Russische Fotografie, Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
1994
Photo-reclamation, Photographers` Gallery, London, John Hansard Gallery and University of Southhampton, UK
1993
New Photography 9, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1992
Herbarium, The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Russian Art, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
1991
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, USA
Photo Manifesto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, USA
1990
Internationale Biennale der Photographie, Turino, Italy
1989
Ny Sovjetisk Fotografi, Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
public collections
MSU Muzej Suvremene Umjetnosti / Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
The Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
FRAC - Languedoc-Roussilon, Montpellier, France
Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris, France
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Museum für Photographie Braunschweig, Germany
Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Münchner Stadtmuseum, Germany
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, Japan
NMAO National Museum of Art Osaka, Japan
Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Japan
Foam Fotografiemuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Art4.ru - contemporary art museum, Moscow, Russia
Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA