YURI AVVAKUMOV

1957_________born in Tiraspol

1981_________graduated from the Moscow Architecture Institute

1983-88______taught at Moscow Architecture Institute

1984_________reintroduced the term PAPER ARCHITECTURE

_____________to describe the genre of conceptual design in the USSR of the 1980s

since 1984____curated exhibitions of PAPER ARCHITECTURE in Moscow,

____________ Ljubljana, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt, Antwerp, Cologne, Brussels, Zurich,

____________ Cambridge, New Orleans, Austin, Amherst, Volgograd, Venice

1993-94______taught at Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe

since 1993____established UTOPIA FOUNDATION, Moscow

2000-03______curated series of 36 architectural photography exhibitions at the 

                         Moscow House of Photography / State Museum of Architecture,

                         Moscow

Selected personal exhibitions:

1989_________AGITARCH. Linssen Gallery, Cologne /

_____________LA CUPOLA, LA GONDOLA. DC MELZ, Moscow

1991_________WALLS AND LADDERS (with Alyona Kirtsova).

_____________State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

1992_________ILLIQUID ASSETS (with Sergey Shutov), 1st Gallery, Moscow

1992-93______TEMPORARY MONUMENTS. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg /

_____________State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

1994_________1:43. Karlheinz Meyer Gallery, Karlsruhe

1996-2000____ RUSSIAN UTOPIA: A DEPOSITORY. Russian Pavilion, Venice

                          Biennale / Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam / State

                          Museum of Architecture, Moscow / Museum and Exhibition Center,

                          Volgograd / State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

1999_________A. S. PUSHKIN AND MONEY. XL Gallery, Moscow

2000_________MiSCeLLaNeouS. State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

2005_________La SCALA. Krokin Gallery, Moscow

2006_________RED CORNER. Stella Art Gallery, Moscow

2007                  GAMES. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow

Selected group exhibitions:

1982-83______ DOLLS HOUSE. RIBA, London

1984                  PAPER ARCHITECTURE. Yunost magazine house, Moscow

1986_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY.

____________  SKUC Gallery, Ljubljana

1988_________FANTASY VS. UTOPIA. Palazzo dell' Arte, XVII Triennale di Milano

1989_________ARCHITECTURE AND IMAGINATION. De Tien van Fort Asperen,

                          Leerdam

1989_________ARCHITECTURE ET UTOPIE. Pavilion de l' Arsenal, Paris/

1989_________PAPIERARCHITEKTURE. NEUE PROJECTE AUS DES

                          SOWJETUNION. Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main

1990_________AVANTGARDE 20/90. Manege, Moscow / IN DE USSR EN

                          ERBUITEN. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam /

____________  CONSTRUIR! Fondation pour l’architecture, Brussels

1990-91______ BETWEEN SPRING AND SUMMER:

____________  SOVIET CONCEPTUAL ART IN THE ERA OF LATE COMMUNISM.

____________  Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA / ICA, Boston, MA /

____________  Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

1991_________VISION VON RAUM. FIAC, Paris / Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne

1991                  AVVAKUMOV/BRODSKY/UTKIN: CONCEPTUAL

                          SOVIET ARCHITECTURE. Spectrum Gallery, San Francisco

1992_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. ALMA MATER.

                          Moscow Architectural Institute

1991_________3-rd INTERNATIONAL BIENNALE. Istanbul

1993-94______ ASPECTS ACTUELS DE LA MOUVANCE CONSTRUITE

____________ INTERNATIONALE. Musee des Beaux-Arts de Vevriers /

____________  Centre de la Gravure et de l’Image Imprimee, La Louviere

1994_________UTOPIA FACTORY. RUSSIAN VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE.

_____________State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

1995_________ARTE RUSSA. Villa Zorn, Sesto San Jiovanni /

_____________EINBLICKE. WERKSTATT MOSKAU II. Akademie der Kunste, Berlin

1996_________DIE KUNST DES FLIEGENS. Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen

1996_________THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE FUTURE CITY.

_____________Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo / Hiroshima Museum of Art /

____________  Gifu Prefectural Museum

1996_________SENSING THE FUTURE. ARCHITECT AS SEISMOGRAPH.

____________  VI International Exhibition of Architecture, Venice

1997_________LIVING BRIDGES. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

1999                  EASY BREATHING. Moscow Centre for Art, Moscow

2000_________VIEW FROM HERE. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2000_________FIFTH ELEMENT–ART OR MONEY. Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf

2001_________FAMILY ALBUM: BROOKLYN COLLECTS,

____________  Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

2002_________ART MOSCOW STUDIOS. Central House of the Artist, Moscow

2002_________MELIORATION. Klyazma, Moscow region

2003_________FORM SPECIFIC. Moderna Galerija Ljubljana

2003_________UTOPIA STATION. Venice Biennale

2003-04______ BERLIN-MOSCOW. MOSCOW-BERLIN. Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin /

_____________State Historical Museum, Moscow

2004_________IMAGINE LIMERICK. City Gallery of Art, Limerick

2004_________MALIGN MUSES. Mode Museum, Antwerp

2004_________CRITIC'S CHOICE. Lodz Biennale

2005_________ACCOMPLICES, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2005_________I CLICK, THEREFORE I AM.

                          M’ARS Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow

2005_________RE:MODERN. Kunstlerhaus, Wien

2005_________ESSENCE OF LIFE. Ludwig Museum, Budapest /

_____________State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2005_________BARBIEZONE. RuArt Gallery, Moscow

2005                  MIRACLE OF LIGHT. New Manege, Moscow

2006_________ARTISTS AGAINST THE STATE: PERESTROIKA REVISITED.

_____________Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

2006_________ARCHSTOYANIE. Open-air festival, Nikola-Lenivets village

2006                  DEPOSITORY OF DREAMS. White Space Gallery, London

2007                  DESIGN OF SIBERIA. 7th Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk

2007                  BAROCCO. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art

2007                  10 TRIENNALE KLEINPLASTIK FELLBACH, Fellbach

2007                  KANDINSKY PRIZE. VinZavod, Moscow

2008                  DISCOVERY OF LIGHT.

                          State Museum of Modern History of Russia, Moscow

2008                  KULIBIN. Krokin Gallery, Moscow

2008                  PERSYMPHANS. State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

2008                  TUNGUSKA EXPLOSIVE. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center

2008                  BORNHOUSE. XI International Exhibition of Architecture,

                          Chiesa di San Stae, Venice

2008                  RUSSIAN DREAMS... Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach

2008/09              DIESE OBSKURE OBJEKT: KUNST.

                          Kunshistorische Museum, Wien / Ca Rezzonico, Venice

2009                  MOSKVAPOLIS. Perm Museum of Contemporary Art

2009                  FALL OF BERLIN WALL. Manege, Moscow

2009                  2009  EXPANSE. Krasnoyarsk Museum Center

2009                  DOORS OPEN DAY, MMOMA, Moscow

Selected curatorial projects:

1984_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. YOUTH Magazine Editorial House, Moscow

1986_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. IN SEARCH OF IDENTITY.

                          SCUC Gallery, Ljubljana

1988_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. FANTASIES AND UTOPIAS.

                           La Villette, Paris/

____________ PAPER ARCHITECTURE. FANTASY VS. UTOPIA.

                          Palazzo dell'Arte, Milan

1989_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. NEW PROJECTS FROM THE USSR.

____________ Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt

1990_________NEW ARCHITECTURAL FANTASY. Linssen, Cologne/

____________ CONSTRUIR! Foundation pour l'Architecture, Brussels /

1990_________AVANTGARDE 20/90. Manege, Moscow

1990-91______ PAPER ARCHITECTURE. Architekturforum, Zurich /

                          List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge / Contemporary Arts Center,

                          New Orleans / Huntington Gallery, Austin / Fine Arts Center, Amherst

1992_________PAPER ARCHITECTURE. ALMA MATER.

                          Moscow Architectural Institute

1994_________UTOPIA FACTORY. RUSSIAN VISIONARY ARCHITECTURE in XX

                          CENTURY. State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

1998_________EPOPEE OF THE GREAT EPOCH. Pavillon des'Arts, Paris

2000_________BEYOND THE FALL. Royal Festival Hall, London

2000-03______ PHOTOPROGRAM 24. State Museum of Architecture /

_____________Moscow House of Photography

2002_________VANISHING POINT. Moscow House of the Artist

2005_________PLAYGROUND. ArtPlay Gallery, Moscow

2007              BORNHOUSE. Vkhutemas Gallery, Moscow / Peter and Paul Fortress, Saint Petersburg

2007                  ARABESQUE(s). Pirogovo, Moscow suburb

2008                  GARAGE. Introductory Exhibition, GCCC, Moscow

2008                  BORNHOUSE. San Stae, Venice Biennale of Architecture

2009                  BORNHOUSE, église Sainte Marie-Madeleine, Lille

2009                  PAPER ARCHITECTURE. MAUSOLEUM.

                          State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2009                  ZODCHESTVO-2009. Manege, Moscow

2009                  DOORS OPEN DAY, MMOMA, Moscow

Selected exhibition design:

1983_________KISHO KUROKAWA (with Eugene Asse).

                          House of the Architect, Moscow

1985_________YOUNG ARCHITECTS EXHIBITION. Central House the Artist, Moscow

1989_________LYUBOV' POPOVA. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

1990_________TOWARDS THE OBJECT. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1991_________OLGA ROZANOVA. Tverskaya 25, Moscow

1993-94______VLADIMIR TATLIN. RETROSPECTIVE. Stadtische Kunsthalle

                          Dusseldorf / State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

1995_________MIKHAIL VRUBEL'. RETROSPECTIVE. (with Alyona Kirtsova).

_____________Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf

1996_________MOEBIUS HERMES. Paris. Travel exhibition

1997_________CRIMEAN WAR (with Alyona Kirtsova). New Manege, Moscow

1999_________16 STORIES ABOUT MOSCOW. Staatskanzlei, Munich

2000_________FIFTH ELEMENT. ART OR MONEY. Stadtische Kunsthalle Dusseldorf

2000_________BEYOND THE FALL. Royal Festival Hall, London

2002_________HISTORY OF THE GARDNER’S FIGURE. Moscow Art Center

2002_________PHOTOBIENNALE (with Alyona Kirtsova), Manege Central

____________ Exhibition Hall, Moscow

2004_________JACK OF DIAMONDS (with Alyona Kirtsova).

                          Salle Expo Antoine 1er, Monaco

2005_________1418 (with Alyona Kirtsova). Moscow House of Photography, Moscow

2006                  LIGHTNESS OF BEING. Pirogovo resort, Moscow suburb

2007                  ARABESQUE(s). Pirogovo, Moscow suburb

2008                  RED ARMY STUDIO. InterRos, Moscow // FRAGILE. Museum of

                          Applied Arts, Frankfurt/Main // MEANDER. Pirogovo, Moscow suburb //

                          RUSSIAN DREAMS... Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach //

                          NAIVE (HI)STORY, State Museum of Architecture, Moscow

2009                  INNOVATION PRIZE, NCCA, Moscow

2009                  ART WITHOUT BORDERS, Palace of Nations, Geneva

2009                  ZODCHESTVO-2009. Manege, Moscow

Selected architectural projects:

1984                  MATRYOSHKA-HOUSE. UNESCO Competition 'Cities and Dwellings

                          for Tomorrow’, Bronze Medal, (with Igor Pischukevich).

1984_________CLUB-CITY. А+U Competition 'Style for the Year 2001’,

                          Tokyo, 1st prize, (with SACB of MARKhI).

1986_________GAGARIN CENTER. (with Igor Pischukevich & Totan Kuzembaev).

                          UA USSR Competition, 1st prize

1993_________CENTRAL PARK OF SCULPTURE, Moscow

1993_________FIRST GALLERY OF THE UTOPIA FOUNDATION.

                           Moscow, (with Georgy Solopov).

1997_________KRASNAYA GORKA BRIDGE, The British Council Competition                     __  _________  ‘Living  Bridges’, 1st prize

2002_________MAJOR PRONIN restaurant, Moscow

2003_________K. Malevich - SUPREMATIST ARCHITECTURAL MODEL.

____________ reconstruction project

2007                  ABU DHABI GUGGENHEIM BIENNALE PARK PAVILION.

                          Concept design, (with Andrei Savin).

2008                  MUSEUM of ORGANIC CULTURE. Kolomna

Selected public collections:

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg / State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow / State Museum of Architecture, Moscow / Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt-on-Main / Victoria & Albert Museum, London / ZKM Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe / Moderna Galerija, Ljubljana / National Center for Contemporary Arts, Moscow / Moscow House of Photography / Stella Art Foundation, Moscow / Alberto Sandretti Foundation, Milan / Krasnoyarsk Museum Center / Kaliningrad Art Gallery / Moscow House of Photography  etc.