Vladimir Dubossarsky & Alexander Vinogradov

  • 2011, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • 2011, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • 2011, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • 2011, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • Above the Kremlin, 2008, oil on canvas, 195 x 195 cm, 77 x 77 ins

  • My Pretty, 2008, oil on canvas, 195 x 195 cm, 77 x 77 ins

  • New Year in Khimki, 2008, oil on canvas, 195 x 580 cms, 77 x 228.4 ins

  • Christ in Moscow, 1999, Oil on canvas, 300 x 600 cm

  • Triumph, 1996, oil on canvas, 304 x 364 cm, 119 1/2 x 143 ins

  • Russian Troika. A Painting for a Travel Agency, 1995, oil on canvas, 240 х 435 cm, 94 1/2 x 171 1/4 ins

  • Harvest Festival, 1995, oil on linen, 200 x 450 cm, 79 x 177 ins

  • Live and work in Moscow
    Collaborating since 1994

    Vladimir Efimovich DUBOSSARSKY

    1964Born in Moscow, Russia

    1980 – 1984Moscow Art School

    1988 – 1991Surikov Moscow State art Institute

    1994Member of Moscow Department of the Artist’s Union

    Alexander Alexandrovich VINOGRADOV

    1963Born in Moscow, Russia

    1980 – 1984Moscow Art School

    1989 – 1995Surikov Moscow State art Institute

    Solo Exhibitions (selected)

    2013Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Nederlands

    2012X.Ten, Mystestskyi Arsenal, Kiev
    Retrospective, CCA Winzavod, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

    2011Vilma Gold, London
    On the Block 2, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

    2010Khimki - Life. Paperworks Gallery, Moscow
    On the Block. Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva

    2009Danger! Museum. 53rd Venice Biennale, Venice

    2008The New People are Already Here, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
    Meander, Resort Pirogovo, Moscow Region, Russia
    Vilma Gold, London, UK

    2007In the Artist’s Studio, Gallery Orel Art, Paris, France
    The Russian Painting Seasons, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    2006Anthills, XL Gallery, Moscow
    The Lightness of Being, Resort Pirogovo, Moscow Region, Russia
    Underwater Barber, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    20059 Nudes series, Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
    Charlotte Moser Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
    Starz Project, 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
    New painting, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
    Graphic Works of Different Years, Paperworks Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    2004Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, Vilma Gold, London
    L’Art Nemo, Galerie Orel, Paris
    17 Momente vor dem Frühling. A9-Foru Transeuropa, Vienna
    Raining, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna

    2003Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice (cat.)
    Our Best World, Deitch Projects, New York
    Under Water Forever, Galerie Orel, Paris
    Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, Vilma Gold, London
    Astrakhan Blues, XL Gallery, Moscow
    Painting for Finland, MUU Gallery, Helsinki

    2002Total Painting, XL Gallery, Moscow

    2001Picture for London, Vilma Gold, London
    How are you, Ladies and Gentlemen? Claudio Poleschi Arte Contemporanea, Lucca
    Sweet Girls, Fine Art Gallery Moscow

    2000Inspiration, XL Gallery, Moscow
    Flying Crans, Moscow Fine Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    1999Christ in Moscow, XL Gallery, Moscow

    1999Just Pictures, Moscow Fine Art Gallery, Moscow

    1998PS, Guelman Gallery, Moscow

    1997Erntedankfest, Atelier-Ester Freund, Vienna
    Austrian and Russian Literature, Brasilica, Viennа, Austria
    Etudes, L-Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    1996Russian Literature, Guelman Gallery, Moscow
    The Project for the Russian language edition of Playboy magazine
    Dubossarsky & Vinogradov, Moscow Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
    Triumph, Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
    Blühende Landschaften, Gallery Kai Higelman, Berlin, Germany
    Celebration, Guelman Gallery, Moscow
    A picture for Reichstag, Galerie Kai Hilgelman Gallery, Berlin

    1995Paintings Made to Order, L-Gallery, Moscow

    1994Picasso in Moscow, Studio-20 Gallery, Central House of Artists, Moscow

    Group Exhibitions (selected)

    2015Fortune Museum, A Thematic Exhibition of Works From MMOMA Collection on the Occasion of the Museum 15th Anniversary, MMOMA, Moscow

    2012Inspiration Dior, The Pushkin State Museum, Moscow
    ARCO Madrid, Triumph Gallery

    2011Space. About a Dream, Kunsthalle, Vienna
    Inspiration Dior, Pushkin Museum, Moscow
    From Russia with Love, Santagostino, Pietrasanta
    Russian Art, Sem-Art Gallery, Monaco

    2009From a Study to An Art-Object. Moscow Museum of Modern Art
    21 RUSSIA, Group Exhibition of the Russian Contemporary Artists, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev

    2008Thaw, Russian Art from Glasnost to the Present, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
    Exhibition of the Musée Mational de l’Art Moderne du Centre Pompidou, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    Russian Dreams, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, USA
    ART-index, The Latvian National Museum of Art, Arsenal, Riga, Latvia

    2007I Believe, Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
    New Exposition, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
    Sots Art, Political Art in Russia from 1972 to Today, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia; La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

    2006Art Attack! Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
    Russia! Gugenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
    Triumph of Painting, Part 6, The Saatchi Gallery, London

    2005Russia! Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
    Russian Pop Art, State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
    Angels of History: Moscow Conceptualism and its influence, MuHKA, Antwerp, Belgium
    StarZ, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow Biennial, Moscow
    7 Sins, Moderna Galerija Lubljana

    2004Expander, Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.)
    Candyland Zoo, KIAD, Canterbury (cat.)
    Moscou - Berlin, Berlin – Moscou, Berliner Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
    Oopsa! Contemporary Russian Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo
    Tretiakov National Gallery, Moscow, Russia

    200350-th Venice Biennale, Russian pavilion. Venice
    Moscow-Berlin. Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
    Deitch Projects at The Armory, New York
    XL Style, XL Gallery, Moscow
    Neue Ansatze, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
    Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
    Work In Progress, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
    Festival Artkliazma, Moscow

    2002Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo (cat.)
    Work In Progress, Inaugural Show, Galerie Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris
    Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
    The Galleries Show, Royal Academy of Art, London
    Urgent Painting, Musee d’Art Modern de la Ville de Paris, Paris
    Bizarre, (curated by Luca Beatrice), 3G Art Contemporanea, Udine, Italy
    Contemporary Russian Painting 1992-2002, XL Gallery, Maly Manege, Moscow
    Davaj! Davaj! - Russian Art Now, Aus dem Laboratorium der Freien Kunste in Russland, Berlin

    2001I hate you in June, Ein Harod Museum, Israel
    In & Out, 1st Tirana Biennale, Albania
    Shivers, Cesare Manzo gallery Pescara Italy
    Vilnius Painting Triennale, Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius
    Fuori Uso 2000, The Bridges, Pescara
    Guelman’s Collection, State Russian Museum, St Petersburg
    Made in Italy, Palazzo della Triennale, Milan
    Russian Madness, Valencia Biennale Spain
    Moscow Workshop, Art-Moscow, Moscow
    Warhol week in Moscow, L Gallery, Moscow
    Players, Watermill Center of Robert Wilson, USA
    Russian Artists in Vienna, Schloss Grafenegg, Vienna
    Escape, 2nd Tirana Biennale, Albania
    Dream Team, XL Gallery, Moscow

    2000Made in Italy, Palazzo Della Triennale, Milan
    I Hate You in June, Museum of Art Ein Harod, Israel

    1998P.S., Guelman Gallery, Moscow

    1997Moscow - Uriupinsk. To Russia with Love, Uriupinsk (catalogue)
    Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists, Moscow
    Topical Art of Russia, Secession, Vienna
    History Presented in Persons, Samara, Perm, Novosibirsk
    Verbal Line in Contemporary Russian Art, Russian Cultural Center, Budapest
    It’s a better World, Secession, Vienna
    3rd Biennial of contemporary art. Cetinje, Montenegro

    1996Moscow Forum of Art Initiatives, Small Manege, Moscow

    1995Russian Beauty, TZSI/ Centre for Contmporary Arts, Moscow
    Walks Behind the Sky-Line, 100 Beliaevo Exhibition Hall, Moscow
    Action Artists Against Sex, Manhattan-Express Club, Moscow
    Palto Gallery, Moscow
    Home, 100 Beliaevo Exhibition Hall, Moscow
    An Artist and his Model, Moscow Fine Art Gallery, Moscow
    INTERREGNUM, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg, Germany

    1994May Exhibition, House of Artists in 20, Kuznetskii Most, Moscow
    Reproduction Mon Amour, Laboratory Gallery, Moscow

    1992Humanitarian Aid, Trekhprudnii Lane Gallery, Moscow

    1987Spring Exhibition, Moscow Department of Artists’ Union, Moscow

    Museum collections

    Museum of Contemporary Art of Valencia, Spain
    Scheringa Museum voor Realisme, Spanbroek, Netherlands
    MACI Museo Arte Contemporanea Isernia, Italy
    Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, USA
    Huston Museum of Contemporary Art, Huston, USA
    Yaroslavl Museum, Yaroslavl, Russia
    Ivanovo Museum, Ivanovo, Russia
    New Rules Foundation, Moscow, Russia
    Moscow House of Photography, Moscow , Russia
    Cultural Foundation “EKATERINA”, Moscow, Russia
    Cultural Foundation “New”, Moscow, Russia
    Art4.ru Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
    National Russian Museum, Petersburg, Russia
    The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
    Bonn Historical Museum, Bonn, Germany
    Museum Of Contemporary Art, Avingnon, France
    Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne, Paris, France
    Secession, Vienna, Austria

    Selected Bibliography

    Publications

    2012‘Dubossarsky and Vinogradov: Retrospective’, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
    ‘Dubossarsky and Vinogradov: X.Ten, Mystetskyi Arsenal

    2011‘On the Block’, Exhibition Catalogue, Triumph Gallery, Moscow

    2009‘Dubossarsky and Vinogradov’ Painting a better Present, Pinturas de la Coleccion Diezy7, Barcelona (cat), 2009.

    2004‘Expander’, Royal Academy of Arts, London (cat.), 2004.
    ‘Candyland Zoo’, KIAD, Canterbury (cat.), 2004.

    2002‘Vitamin P’, New Perspective In Painting, published by Phaidon, 2002.
    Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo (cat.)

    Articles

    2009Misiano, Viktor, Vladimir Dubossarsky and Aleksandr Vinogradov: “the artists of a generation”
    Dr. Turkina, Olesya, Whay is Contemporary in Contemporary Russian Art, Res, No. 3, May

    2008Fitzgerald, Nora, Sex, Money, Glamor, Tractors, Art News, January
    Life & Arts: Dubossarsky and Vinogradov, Financial Times, January 26-27

    2006Irving, Mark, The Next Revolution, Art Review, March
    Robinson, Walter, Hello Moscow, Artnet, 13 June

    2004Interview: dialogue conversation idle chat confrontation, Art Margins
    Herbert, Martin, Eastwood Ho, Art Forum, November 11

    2003Vetrocq, E Marcia, Venice Biennale: “Avery Idea But One”, Art In America, September
    Art, Time Out New York, March 6-13
    Bollen, Christopher, Alexander Vinogradov and Valdimir Dubossarsky, “Our Best World”, Time Out New York, April 10-17
    Johnson, Ken, Alexander Vinogradov and Valdimir Dubossarsky, The New York Times, Friday April 4
    Galleries-DownTown, The New Yorker, April 14

    2001de Cruz, Gemma, Painting For London, Art Review, Vilma Gold, London, Aug
    Painting For London, Time Out, London, Sept
    Osmolovsky. A, Russian Inertia, Flash Art International, Jan.-Feb. p.84-85
    Juliet, Ciara Guidi, Dubossarsky e Vinogradov, Italian edition June p.52
    Lewisohn, Cedar, Two White Russians Please, Sleazenation, Aug p.84-86
    Osmolovsky.A, Art is as simple as mooing, Umelec International edition 4 p.54-63

    1997Backstein, Joseph, Russian actionism, It’s a better world, Wiener Secession[
    Esteticheskie otnosheniia (Aesthetic Relations), Moscow Forum of ‘Artistic Initiatives’, August 1-15
    ‘Moscow – Uriupinsk’. To Russia with Love, Uriupinsk (cat)

    1996Argumenty i facty, No. 49
    Tupikin, Vald, Radosti Chestnoe Zertsalo (The Honerst Mirror of Joy/, Latinskii Kvartal (Latin Quarter), December, 1996.
    Romer, Fedor, Obrechennye na uspekh (Doomed to Success), Nezavisimaia Gazeta (Independent newspaper), January 4
    Heft, Bunter, Diese Kohl-Allegorie wird im Reichstag hangen. Der Kanzler fand sie so schon/, No. 46, November 7
    Shpakov, Yurii, Germania - schastlivyi den (Germany - A Happy Day), Berlin Newspaper, No.9. November 01 - 07
    Shpakov, Yurii, Berlin - bolshoe novoselie, (Berlin - A Big House-Worming Party) Moscow News, No.42, October 20-27
    Der Tagesspiegel, November 19
    Andre Petzer, Von, Monumentalkitsch, und feinste Popart auf Bestellung, Sonntag, November 3
    Degot, Ekaterina, Zhazhda zakaza (Last of Commission), Kommersant Daily, December 11
    Pevtzy bolshoi khaltury (Singers of a Great Potboiler) Playboy, July-August
    Alexsandr Dubossarskii, Vladimir Vinogradov, “Torzhestvo” (Alexandr Dubossarskii, Vladimir Vinodradov Selebration), Art Magazine, No.12
    Na prostorakh rodiny Chudesnoi, ( In the Open Space of Our Wonderful Motherland) Literatur naya Gazeta (Literary Newspaper) No. 28, June 10
    Spetzakaz dlia khudozhnikov-konjunkturschikov, (Special Commission for Opportunist Artists), Ekaterina Drobiazko, (Novoe Vremia (New Time Magazine), No. 21