(f. 1954)
Genia Chef
Genia Chef er opprinnelig fra Kazakhstan, men bor og arbeider i Berlin, Tyskland. Han arbeider som billedkunstner og grafiker.
Genia Chef - historiske fremstillinger
Som grafiker arbeider Genia Chef med litografi som teknikk. Han er kjent verden over for sine realistiske fremstillinger av elementer i surrealistiske settinger. Hans mest kjente verk inkluderer fremstillinger av historiske figurer som Lenin, Stalin og Mussolini.
Genia Chef er representert i samlingen til blant andre det Russiske Statsmuseum i St. Petersburg, Samtidskunstmuseet i Skopje samt Checkpoint Charlie Museum i Berlin.
Vi gjør vårt ytterste for å gjengi bildene mest mulig korrekt, men gjør oppmerksom på at enkelte bilder kan variere noe i farger fra skjerm til skjerm. Vi tar forbehold om mulige skrivefeil og utsolgte bilder.
EDUCATION
1972-77 Polygraphic Institute Moscow (painting and graphic art).
1977 First place citation for his 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.
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).
WORK IN COLLECTIONS
Works in numerous international official and private collections.
Among them are
Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
Zimmerly Museum of Art, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
La Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporeaneo della Reppublica de San Marino.
Hofstra Museum Collection, Hofstra University Hempstead, USA.
Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje, Macedonia.
Museum Haus am Checkpoint Charlie, Berlin, Germany.
Freud`s Dreams Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
Italian Culture Institute Berlin, Germany.
Museum of European Art, Buffalo, New York, USA.
Kolodzej Art Foundation, Oklahoma City, USA.
Church of Cadaques, Spain.
St.Georg-Church, Ulm, Germany.
Ministery of Post and Communication, Ulm, Germany.
EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2012 "Glory of a New Century", Sloane Gallery of Art, Denver, USA.
2011 "Glory of a New Century", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2011 "Famous and Infamous", Albemarle Gallery, London, UK.
2010 "Metamorphosis And Mimicry", installation in the butterfly garden of Palace Friedrichsruh, Germany.
2008 "Metamorphosis And Mimicry", installation in the butterfly garden of Château de Goulaine, Loire-Valley, France.
2007 "Metamorphosis And Mimicry", installation in the butterfly garden of Palace Sayn, Germany.
2006 Natsoulas Gallery, Davis/California, USA.
2005 Experimental Art Foundation, Adelaide, Australia.
2005 La Galleria d`Arte Moderna e Contemporeaneo della Reppublica de San Marino.
2002 Freud`s Dreams Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
2001 Galerie Eikelmann, Düsseldorf, Germany.
2000 "The Myths of King Ludwig II of Bavaria", Novaja Akademija, St.Petersburg, Russia.
1999 Computer-Panorama for the foyer of the King-Ludwig II- Musicaltheatre, Füssen, Germany.
1999 Galeria Maria Salvat, Barcelona, Spain.
1997 Italian Culture Institute, Berlin, Germany.
1994-95 Stuart Levy Fine Arts, New York, USA.
Group Exhibition:
Group Exhibitions
2014 "The Blinding Light of History: Genia Chef, Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vassiliev: Russian Paintings and Drawings from the collection of Wayne F.Yakes MD, UNM Art Museum, University of New Mexico Art Museum Albuquerque, USA.
2013 "Personal structures: Time, Space and Existence", Palazzo Bembo, part of the official 55th Venice Biennale, "Born To Fly ... And Crawl, State Russian Museum St.Petersburg, Russia.
2011 "Points of View", CUA Museum of the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA.
2011 L`Arte Contemporaneo in Russia 1950 - 2011, Palazzo Caetani, Fondi, Italy.
2010 "The Sky In Art", State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2010 10th International Biennial Of Miniature Art, Gornji Milanovac, Serbia, First Prize in the section painting for "Tropical Wesp".
2010 "Polemically Small", Charlie Smith, London, UK.
2010 "Heimat", Radierwerkstatt 30links and Willy-Brandt-Haus, Berlin, Germany.
2009 "Born In The USSR - Russische Kunst aus Deutschland", Auswärtiges Amt, Berlin, Germany.
2009 "Berliner Positionen", Museum Of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia.
2009 "Krieg der Engel", Kunstverein Talstraße, Halle.
2008 "Macht des Wassers", Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2008 "Contempahrt" (Kunst und Wein), Burgbrohl, Germany.
2007 "I believe", Vinzavod Moscow, Special project of the II Moscow Biennale, curator Oleg Kulik.
2007 "Mailartissimo", A.S.Popov Central Museum of Communications, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2006 "Meditazione sulla Realta", Palazzo della Ragione, Mantova, Italy.
2006 "Times of change", Russian State Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2005 "Bellum bellum", Galerie Sandmann, Berlin, Germany.
2004 Na kurort", Kunsthalle Baden-Baden .
2004 "Gods becoming men", Frissiras Museum, Athenas, Greece.
2003 "Remembrance - Russian Post-Modern Nostalgia", Yeshiva University Museum, New York, USA (catalogue).
2003 "Fiction of History", Museums Biennale, Krasnojarsk, Russia.
2003 "Foreign Visions", Foundation Starke/Berlin and Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje/Macedonia (catalogue).
2003 "Berlin-Berlin", German Ministery of Foreign Affairs, Berlin, Germany (catalogue).
2003 "Naked before Gods", Parnu Museum of New Art, Parnu, Estonia.
2002 "Shock and Show" - Festival of International Contemporary Art, Triest, Italy (catalogue).
2002 "A brief history of collage and assemblage, Zimmerly Museum New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA (catalogue).
2002 "Artists of the Ideal", Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy, (catalogue).
2001 "Between Earth And Heaven", Museum of Modern Art, Ostende, Belgium (catalogue).
2000 – 2001 "Jesus Christus", Russian State Museum Sankt Petersburg and theVatican Museum, San Marino (catalogue).
1999 "Play and Passion", Russian State Museum, Sankt Petersburg, Russia (catalogue).
1999 "A 25 Year Retrospective on Nonconformist Russian Art - The Kolodzei Art Foundation", Kennan Institute, Washington DC,USA and The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC (catalogue).
1998/99 “American Pop Art - Russian Sots Art“, Frederick Weisman Art Museum, Minnesota University, Minneapolis, USA (catalogue).
1998 “Neo-Academism and Elektronic Art“, Novaja Akademija, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalogue)
1996 Permanent exhibition of the Norton Dodge Collection at the Zimmerly Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.
1994 "Monumental propaganda", Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, USA.
1994 "Ideal Landscapes", de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, USA.
1994 "Post World New Order: Restructured Myths", Stuart Levy Fine Art, New York, USA.
1976-85 Participates in numerous exhibitions of the Association of nonconformist artists, Moscow, Russia.
1976 "First exhibition of the avantgardists", Malaja Gruzinskaja, Moscow, Russia.