has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
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About me
genia chef (geniachef)
painting, computer and video art
- Biography
born in Aktjubinsk/USSR
1972-77 Polygraphic Institute Moscow (painting and graphic art)
1977 first place citation for the Diploma, "Master of Fine Arts",
1978 member of the Association of Painters of Moscow, participates in numerous exhibitions of the Association of Painters and of nonconformist artists, Moscow
1985 moves to the West, lives in Berlin, Spain,
New York
1988-93 studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna
1993 "Magister artium" of the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (painting and graphic
art)
Gold medal of the Academy (Fueger Gold
Prize)- Exhibitions
2007 "I believe", II. Moscow Biennale
2006 "Meditazione sulla Realta", Palazzo della
Ragione, Mantova, Italy"Times of change", State Russian
Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia"Western Biennale", John Natsoulas Art Center, Davis, California, USA
2004 "Na kurort" - Russian Art today,
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany and
Moscow, Russia"Gods becoming men", Frissiras Museum
, Athens, Greece2003 "Remembrance: Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia", Yeshiva University Museum
New York, USA"Paradise", Bunker Alexanderplatz,
Berlin, Germany"Foreign Visions", Foundation Starke/
Berlin and Museum of Modern Art
Skopje,Macedonia
"Fiction of History", Museums-Biennale Krasnojarsk, Russia2002 "Shock and Show" - Festival of
international contemporary art, Triest,
Italy"A brief history of collage and
assemblage",
Zimmerly Museum New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA"Artists of the Ideal", Palazzo Forti,
Verona, Italy2001 "Between Earth And Heaven", Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium
2000 - 2001 "Jesus Christus", State Russian Museum, Sankt Petersburg and Vatican Museum,
San Marino"25 Years Nonkonformist Russian Art Retrospektive", Kolodzei Art Foundation, Kennan Institute, Washington DC, USA
and Woodrow Wilson Center,
Washington DC1998/99 “American Pop Art - Russian Sots Art”, Frederick Weisman Art Museum,
Minnesota University, Minneapolis, USA- Publications
"Art Tomorrow" by Edward Lucie-Smith,
numerous catalogues, articles, radio and tv interviews
. chrisamar wrote on November 16, 2008 19:29:
Thank you very much for your answer.
Your are a famous artist. And your art-work impressed me much.
Pictures sometimes telling more than what we see on the surface area.
There is some spirituallity in. The 5th element.
Your Instalation got this very special thing too.
Regards form the North of Germany:
Chrisamar