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Ilya & Emilia KABAKOV

Ilya Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in 1933; Emilia Kabakov was born in Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine, in 1945.

lIya and Emilia Kabakov live and work in New York, USA.

Curriculum

Ilya Kabakov

1945 -1951
Art School, Moscow, Russia

1951 - 1957
V. I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow, Russia

1957
graduated at V. I. Surikov State Art Institute, Moscow, Russia, Department Graphic design and book iIIustration.

Emilia Kabakov

1952-1959
Music School, Moscow, Russia

1962-1966
Music college, Irkutsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Ukraine

1969-1972
University, Moscow - Spanish Language and Literature

1973
emigrated to Israel from USSR

works with lIya since 1989

Awards

1900
Kunstpreis Aachen, Germany

1995
Chevalier des Arts et de Lettres, Paris, France

2002
Oscar Kokoschka Preis, Vienna, Austria

Solo shows

(since 2001)

2019
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Design for different projects, Museum for Architectural Drawing, Tchoban Foundation, Berlin, Germany
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, The Museum of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
The Eminent Direction of Thoughts, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy

2018
15 Historical Drawings, Keteleer Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov - Not Everybody will be Taken into the Future, The Tretjakov Museum, Moscow, Russia
Ilya and Emilia Kabakov - Not Everybody will be Taken into the Future, The Hermitage State Museum, St.-Petersburg, Russia
The Ship of Tolerance, The city of Rostock, Germany

2017
Quotations, Sprovieri, London, UK
New Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
The Ball, Kistefos Foundation Sculpture, Oslo, Norway
Concert for a fly (Chamber Music), Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
Paintings 2012-2015, Kewenig, Berlin, Germany
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov - The Utopian Projects, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
NOT Everyone Will Be Taken Into The Future - Ilya & Emilia Kabakov Retrospective, Tate Modern, London, UK

2016
La Collezione Giancarlo e Donna Olgiati, LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano, Switzerland
The Ship of Tolerance + Paintings, Zug, Switzerland
The Arch of Life, Long House Deserve, East Hampton, USA
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov - Concert for a Fly, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne, Germany

2015
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov - New Paintings, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov - The Dream City, Power Station Of Art, Shanghai, China

2014
Dreaming & Flying, Ilya Kabakov for children, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
I'm beginning to Forget, Ilya Kabakov in Swiss Private Collections, Kunsthaus Zug, Switzerland
Ilya y Emilia Kabakov - Angelología: utopía y ángeles, Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Ciudad de México
El Lissitzky - Utopia and Reality, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Monumenta 2014 : Ilya & Emilia Kabakov : The Strange City, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Pace Gallery, London, UK

2013
Museum Sztuki Wspotczesnej MOCAK, Krakau, Poland (until January 26th 2014)
The Ship of Tolerance, with Garage and The City of Moscow, Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia
El Lissitski_Ilya & Emilia Kabakov, Multimedia Museum, Moscow, USA
The Red October Factory, Moscow, Russia
The Ship of Tolerance, Dumbo, New York, USA
Pace Gallery, New York, USA
Two Mountains, Sprovieri Gallery, London, Great Britain
The Happiest Man, Ambika P3, London, Great Britain

2012
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov – El Lissitzky – Utopie en Werkelijkheid, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Ilya Kabakov. Eine Rückkehr zur Malerei. 1960-2011, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany & Henie Onstad Art Center, Hovikodden, Norway

2011
The Man Who Never Threw Away Anything, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Norway
The Ship of Tolerance, Shariah, Arab Emirates

2010
Vertical Opera, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
The Ship of Tolerance, Kunsthaus Zug, Switserland

2009
Ilya & Emilia Kabakov: Under The Snow, Niccolo Sprovieri, London, Great-Britain (until 16 Jan 2010)
The Labyrinth. My Mother’s Album, Berardo Museum of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal
1989: The End Of History or The Beginning of The Future, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
The Tennis Game, Galeria Continua, Le Moulin, France
Under The Snow, Museo d’Art Modern I Contemporanide Palma, Baluard, Spain
Galeria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
The Labyrinth. My Mother’s Album, Musée d’Art moderne et contemporain de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
Entre Libre, Galerie Dourven, Domaine de Dourven, France

2008
I Sleep in the Garden, Sprovieri Progetti Gallery, London, Great-Britain (until 14 Febr. 2009)
The Moscow Retrospective, CCC The Garage, Moscow & The Gates, The State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
Under The Snow, Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

2007
The Museum of Modern Art, Hayama
52. Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Under The Snow, CAC Malaga, Malaga, Spain
Under the Snow, Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
TR3 in participation with Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

2006
Schaulager, Basel, Switserland
The Theatrical Projects, Munich, Germany
Wiesbaden Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
The Thaw – Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem Belgium
Atlas Sztuki, Lodz, Poland

2005
The House of Dreams Serpentine Gallery, London, Great-Britain
Install./Performance The Ship of Siwa, with Egyptian children, Siwa, Egypt
Morning, Evening, Night - 200 years since H. C. Andersen birthday, Nicolaj Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark
Where is Our Place?, Musee Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
The Utopian City and Other Projects / Die Utopische Stadt, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug, Switzerland / Kunsthaus Bielefeld, Germany (2004) / Albion Gallery, London, Great-Britain / Graz, Austria

2004
Where is Our Place ? MAXXI, Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy
The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia, org. Guggenheim
The Teacher and the Student, Charles Rosenthal and lIya Kabakov , Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, United States
Incident in the Museum and Other Installations Foundation Museum, New York, United States
Where is Our Place?Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2003
Where is Our Place?, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
50th Venice Biennial. / Museo Nazionale dell’ Arte del XXI Secolo, Roma, Italy

2002
llya Kabakov Children’s Books and Related Drawings, 1956-1987 The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, United States
Universal System of Depicting Everything, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany

2001
20 Ways to Get an Apple, Listening to the Music of Mozart, with Emilia Kabakov. Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus/OH, United States
llya Kabakov presents: The Life and Creativity of Charles Rosenthal 1898-1933), installation: The Life and Creativity of Charles Rosenthal, Das Städel, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Group Shows

(since 2000)

2019
Bye, Bye and Hello - 40 Years Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
An Opera for Animals (Curated by Cosmin Costinas, Hsieh Feng-Rong, Claire Shea, Billy Tang), Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Glasstress 2019 (curated by Vik Muniz and Koen Vanmechelen), Fondazione Berengo, Venice, Italy

2018
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennale 2018, Tokamachi City, Japan
Avatars. The artist and his double. Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Toulouse, France

2017
The Raft. Art is (not) lonely, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
The Szechwan Tale: Theatre and History (curated by Marco Scotini), Today's Yesterday @ The 1st Anren Biennale, Ning Liang Old Factory, Sichuan Province, China
Collector's Room # 16: Landscapes of the mind, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Revolution is Dead. Long live the Revolution! From Malevich to Judd, from Deineka to Bartana, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Collector's Room # 15: A Show, Inside Out (Buitensculpturen / Outdoor Sculptures), Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

2016
White Cube... Literally (curated by Amanda Abi Khalil), Gallery Isabelle Van Den Eynde, Dubai, UAE
Collector's Room # 11: Graphic Chic, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium

2015
Follia Continua! 25 años de Galleria Continua, Centro Wifredo Lam, Habana Vieja, Cuba
Outside the Lines: Modernist drawings, The National Arts Club, New York, USA
Constructeurs d'absurde, bricoleurs d'utopie, Abbaye Saint André - Centre d'art contemporain, Meymac, France
No Joke, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany
The Arch of Life, Echigo Tsumari Art Trienale, Niigata, Japan
Glasstress 2015, Venice, Italy
Europa, Die Zukunft der Geschichte (Cutated by Cathérine Hug), Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
Deweer Gallery - Het Portret van een familie, de Directeurswoning, Roeselare, Belgium

2014
Eurasia. A view on Painting, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2013
Coup de Ville 2013, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Lost in Translation (curated by Antonio Guesa), Project by Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA) as part of the Collateral Events of the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

2012
Breaking The Ice: Moscow Art 1960-80s, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (until 24.02.2013)
Re-Opening, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Drawing Room, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium

2011
Art of the Loom - 32 Tapestries woven on the looms of Mark Deweer’s factory, Otegem, Belgium, 1985-2010, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Man Who Never Throws Anything Away, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
Prague Quadrennial Of Performance, Design And Space, Prague,Czech Republic

2011
Art of the Loom - 32 Tapestries woven on the looms of Mark Deweer’s factory, Otegem, Belgium, 1985-2010, DEWEER gallery, Otegem, Belgium
The Man Who Never Throws Anything Away, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
Prague Quadrennial Of Performance, Design And Space, Prague,Czech Republic

2010
Perm Biennial of Graphic Arts, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Germany
The Melancholy of Resistance, Centre of Contemporary Art Znaki Czasu, Torun, Poland
Field of Action. The Moscow Conceptualist School in Context 1970s-1980s, Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow, Russia
Take Me To Your Leader! The Great Escape Into Space, The Museum of Contemporary Art / Museet for samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
Contrepoint, l’art contemporain russe – De l’icône à l’avant-garde en passant par le musée, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
1st Ural Industrial Biennial, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Isole mai Trovate – Islands never found, Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki, Greece
Things evoke feelings, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Spazio. The Scene and the Imaginary., MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Starter Works from the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection, ARTER - space for art, Istanbul, Turkey
Changing The World, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany
Funktionen der Zeichnung, Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Isola mai trovate / Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy
Star City - The Future Under Communism, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, Great-Britain
Quartet–Four Biennials Reflected in Prints, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia
Thaddeaus Ropac Gallery, Paris, France
The Two Cabinets, Nottingham Gallery of Contemporary Art
Die Tragödie des Teufels, Munich State Opera, Munich, Germany

2009
1989, Villa Schoningen, Berlin, Germany (until 14 Febr. 2010)
Heart in Heart, Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Between Metaphor and Object: Art of the 90th from the IMMA collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Holbein To Tillmans – Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel, Switserland
Muthologies, Burlington Gardens, London, Great-Britain

2008
20 Ways To Get An Apple, Listening To The Music Of Mozart, Maribur, Slovenia (until 22 Febr. 2009)
UPDATE, Deweer Art Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
Medals of Dishonour, The British Museum, London, Great-Britain (until 27 Sept. 2009)

2007
Yapi Kredi Kültür, Istanbul, Turkey
Museo di Arte Contemporanea del Sannio – ARCOS, Benevento, Italy / Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma – MACRO, Roma, Italy
La Maison Rouge – Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France

2006
Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Canada
The Grand Promenade, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
The Fallen Sky, Beaufort 2006, Ostend, Belgium
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Russia
ULA Fowler Museum, Long Angeles, United States
Neo-Sincerity: The Difference between the Comic and the Cosmic is a single letter, Apex Art, New York, United States

2005
Flashback. Revisiting the Art of the 80’s (painting: Gastronom), Kunstmuseum, Basel / Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Install. The Man who flew into Space from his Apartment, Guggenheim Museum, New York, United States
Interaction – Carl Friedrich Claus and International Art, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany
A (Re)Construction of the History of Contemporary Art in Eastern Europe, Eastern Art Museum, Hagen, Germany
Künstler Archiv Stiftung Archiv der Academie der Künstler, Berlin, Germany
Open Systems: New Art in the 1960’s and 1970’s Tate Modern, London, Great-Britain (Album “Sitting in the Closet – Primakov”)
My Private Heroes Marta Herford Museum, Herford, Germany
Monument for the USA California College of the Arts, San Fransisco, United States
Art in Chocolate Museum Ludwig and Imhoff-Stollwerk Museum, Köln, Germany
The Giving Person; Il Dono Dell’Artista Palazzo Delle Arti, Napoli, Italy
Mouton Rotschild Paintings for the label The Hermitage Museum, St.-Petersburg / Pushkin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye (install. The Artist’s Despair, lIya and Emilia Kabakov), Chicago, United States
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago – IIIinois, Unites States
16 Strings (install. lIya Kabakov), 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2004
l’Artiste éditeur, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
Characters by lIya and Emilia Kabakov Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach – Florida, United States
The Man Who Flew into Space From His Apartment The Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia

2003
The Ideal City (video by lIya and Emilia Kabakov), Arsenale, Venice, Italy. 50th Venice Biennial: Utopia Station

2001
Not Everyone Will Be Taken Into the Future (installation with Emilia Kabakov) 49th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venezia, Italy. Plateau of Humanity

2000
Visions of the Future: A History of Fears and Hopes of Mankind (installation: Incident at the Museum or Water Music - music by Vladimir Tarasov), Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Paris, France

Public & Private Collections (Selected)

MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerp, Belgium
S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Musée Maillol - Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris, France
Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens, Greece
MAXXI - Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, Rome, Italy
Art4.ru - contemporary art museum, Moscow, Russia
Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow, Russia
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Moderna Galerija - Ljubljana
Kunstmuseum Basel
Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
Tate Britain, London (England)
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY

Works permanently installed in the public space

2010
Bakun Azerbajdjan
Angelologica, The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Lia Rumma Gallery, Milano, Italy
Louvre, Paris France
Castello di Amo, Italy
Project for the preservation of natural resourses, Ruhr Atoll, Essen, Germany
Memorial to Life, Marl, Germany

2009
Monument To The City Of Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
How To Meet An Angel, Jellinek Mentrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2004
The Shining Circus and its Spectators. Neubau Giesing, Munich, Germany

2003
The Drinking Fountain. Train station, Zug, Switserland
How to meet an Angel. Gutspark Böckel, Germany
Pianist and Muse. Alcobendas, Spain

2002
The Egg (Two Faces). Sculpture Park, South Korea

2000
The Rice Fields. Niigata, Japan
The Fountain City of Middelburg, The Netherlands
The Golden Apples Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany
The Old Bottle, Como, Italy
The Palace of Projects Kokerei Zollverein, Essen, Germany

1999
Thev Are Looking Down, City of Nagoya
Borders and Otherness, inst.The Bridge Northorn, Dialogue (“Wordless”) Pont de l’Europe, Strasbourg, France

1998
My Grandfather’s Shed. Mönchehaus Museum für Moderne Künst, Gösler, Germany
The last Step. Monument to the Emigrants from Europe to America Bremerhaven, Germany
The Old Bridge Hannover Münden, Germany
We Are Free! San Gimignano And I Was Like You Esslingen Kunsthalle, Cafeteria,
The Old Column Colle di Val d’Elsa, Monument to the Lost Glove Basel, Switzerland

1997
Looking at the Sky, Reading the Words Sculpture Project, Münster, Germany
The Fallen Chandelier Hochhaus zur Palme, Zürich, Switserland

1996
The Wings Nazionale Deutsche Bibliothek, Frankfurt, Germany
The Music on the Water Landeskulturzentrum, Salzau, Kiel, Germany

1995
Fallen Sky, Geneva, Switserland

1992
The Blue Dish Seville,

1991
Nemen Orly, Memorial Normandie, France
Who’s are those Wings? Utrecht, The Netherlands