Chef, Genia

Biography

 

 

 

                    

                      Was born in Aktjubinsk, UDSSR

                      lives and works in Berlin

1972 - 77         Polygraphic Institute of Moscow (Painting and Graphics)

                      1. Price for his degree, Master of Fine Arts

1978                Member of the artist association of Moscow,

                       Participated in exhibitions of nonconformistic artists

1985                Emigrated to the West

1988 - 93          Academy of fine arts in Vienna, Magister Artium degree

Awards

1993               „Goldener Fuegerpreis“ of the academy of fine arts in Vienna

1995               „Delfina Trust Studio“ scholarship, New York

2010               Gained the 1. price for painting when participating in the 10.

                      international biennal for miniatures, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia

Exhibitions

1976               „First exhibition of the avantgardists", Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow,
                      UdSSR

1989               Gallery Maria Salvat, Barcelona, Spain

1994               „Old Symbols, New Icons in Russian Contemporary Art“, Stuar Levy Fine

                      Art, New York, USA „Monumental propaganda", Smithsonian Institution,

                      Washington DC, USA


                      „Ideal Landscapes", de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa

                      Clara, USA


                      „Neo-Mythology and Regressive Projects“, single exhibition, Stuart Levy

                      Fine Art, New York, USA

1997               Italian cultural institute, Berlin, Germany

1998               „American Pop Art - Russian Sots Art“, Frederick Weisman ArtMuseum,

                      Minnesota University, Minneapolis, USA „Neo-Academism and

                      Electronic Art", Novaja Akademija, St.Petersburg, Russia

1999               "25 Years Nonkonformist Russian Art Retrospective", Kolodzei Art

                      Foundation, Kennan Institute, Washington DC, USA and Woodrow

                      Wilson Center, Washington DC, USA

2000               „Jesus Christ in Art“, Public Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia

                      and Monastero di Santa Chiara, San Marino

2001               "Between Earth and Heaven", Museum of Modern Art, Belgium

2002                Artists of the Ideal", Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy

2003                „Remembrance - Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia, Yeshiva University

                       Museum, New York, USA

2004                "Na kurort", „Kunsthalle“ Baden-Baden, Germany

2005                Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australien

2006                „Times of change", Public Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia

2007                II biennal of Moscow, Vinzavod, Moscow

2007-2010        Installation „Metamorphose & Mimikry", Castle „Sayn“, Bendorf,

                       Germany - Château de Goulaine, France – Castle „Friedrichsruh“,

                       Aumühle, Germany

2009                „Born in the USSR – Russian Art from Germany", Federal Ministry of

                       Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany

2011                „Glory of a New Century“, sigleexhibition, Public Russian Museum, St.

                       Petersburg, Russia „Points of View“, CU Art Museum, University of

                       Colorado, Boulder, USA

2013                Multimedia-Installation „Dead House“, 55. biennal in Vienna, Palazzo

                       Bembo

                       „Russian Berlin“, Central Exhibition Hall, Perm, Russia

                       Gallery „Diede“, Burgbrohl, Germany

                       „Shattered Utopia“, Russian Art of the Soviet and Post-Soviet

                       Periods from the Wayne F.Yakes, M.D.Collection, Fort Collins

                       Museum of Art, Fort Collins, USA

                       „The Sky In Art", State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia


2014                „The Blinding Light of History, Genia Chef, Ilya Kabakov and Oleg

                       Vassiliev“, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, USA

 

Public Collections (selection)

 

Public Russian Museum, St.Petersburgh, Russia Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, USA Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino Museum „Haus am Checkpoint Charlie“, Berlin, Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Mazedonia Freud Museum of Dreams, St. Petersburg, Russia Hofstra University Museum, USA Santa Maria-Kirche, Cadaqués, Spain Sankt Georgs-Kirche, Ulm, Germany