Boris Mikhailov - Dusk

Opening 21 February 15:00 - 18:30

Boris Mikhailov, Untitled from the series At Dusk, 1993, tinted photography, Courtesy the Artist / DEWEER gallery

With the show ‘Boris Mikhailov – Dusk’, DEWEER gallery presents the work of Ukrainian photographer Boris Mikhailov. The gallery thus expands its collaboration with artists from eastern Europe. After Ilya and Emilia Kabakov and Sergey Bratkov, among others, the focus is now on an artist who is generally recognized as one of the most important and influential photographers from the former Soviet Union.

For his first show at Deweer gallery, Boris Mikhailov’s aim has been to make a statement instead of an overview of his 40 years of practice. In view of the economically turbulent times the world is going through at the moment, Mikhailov wanted to show how he responded to the crisis that ravaged his country in the beginning of the nineties, just after the fall of the Berlin wall. That is why he chose to show the famous serie ‘At Dusk’ (1993). With about 60 photographs, this exhibition presents the largest selection from the series ever shown.

In his 40 year long career, Boris Mikhailov has accumulated an impressive list of prizes and exhibitions. He showed his work a.o. at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (1993), at the Kunsthalle Zürich (1996), the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (1998), the Sprengel Museum in Hannover (1998 en 2007), at Tate Modern in London and more recently at the Fotomuseum Winterthur (2003), the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2004), the Centre de la Photographie in Genève (2005) and the Venice Biennial (2007).

Boris Mikhailov, Dusk, DEWEER gallery, 22 February until 5 April 2009, exhibition views