Genia Chef (f. 1954)

Genia Chef er opprinnelig fra Kazakhstan, men bor og arbeider i Berlin, Tyskland. Han arbeider som billedkunstner og grafiker.

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Genia Chef (f. 1954)

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. 

Born 1954  in Aktjubinsk, Russia.

Lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

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:

• 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.