May 15, 2012
Upcoming Group Shows in NYC and Thessaloniki, Greece
Please join my for a group show at 601Artspace in New York City entitled Open::Closed. This show will include my Kimgjongilias painting.
Exhibiting: May 17-September 29, 2012
Opening reception: May 17, 6-9pm
I'm happy to announce that It’s the political economy, stupid!, a group show curated by Greg Sholette and Oliver Ressler that debuted earlier this year at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, will travel to the Center of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece. This group show includes an update to my project, Reading Lenin with Corporations.
Exhibiting: June 27 to August 10, 2012
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Please join my for a group show at 601Artspace in New York City entitled Open::Closed. This show will include my Kimgjongilias painting.
Exhibiting: May 17-September 29, 2012
Opening reception: May 17, 6-9pm
I'm happy to announce that It’s the political economy, stupid!, a group show curated by Greg Sholette and Oliver Ressler that debuted earlier this year at the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, will travel to the Center of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki, Greece. This group show includes an update to my project, Reading Lenin with Corporations.
Exhibiting: June 27 to August 10, 2012
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April 25, 2012
Modern Painters Review
Vladislav Davidzon, Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Sator, Modern Painters, May 2012
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Vladislav Davidzon, Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Sator, Modern Painters, May 2012
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April 23, 2012
CALL FOR ARTIST PROPOSALS: Monument to Cold War Victory
www.coldwarvictorymonument.com
The Committee for Tacit History is issuing a call for proposals for a Monument to Cold War Victory, an open-call competition for a public monument commemorating the outcome of the Cold War. Artists from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals by November 1, 2012.
Monument to Cold War Victory is a conceptual project by the artist Yevgeniy Fiks, taking the form of an open-call, international competition for a public, commemorative work of art. For over two decades, public signifiers of the Cold War, such as the Berlin Wall, have been framed in terms of destruction and kitsch. A monument created at the moment of its own destruction, the Wall encapsulates the continuing geopolitical imagination of the conflict as linear, continuous, binary, and terminal: the culmination of a now-historicized narrative of competing empires. But while the impact of half a century of sustained ideological conflict still reverberates through all forms of public and private experience—from Middle Eastern geographies of containment to the narrative structures of Hollywood—it has yet to be acknowledged through a public and monumental work of art. The Cold War, the longest and most influential conflict of the twentieth century, has no publicly commissioned commemoration in the United States.
This project examines the enduring genre of war monuments, memorials, and institutionally framed and commissioned artworks. How might the legacy of the Cold War, in all its complex material, social, and cultural forms, be visually articulated? In what ways might the notion of “victory,” implicit in all retroactive commemorations of conflict, be interpreted? Can the traditional, formal structure of the monument, and the historical revisionism endemic to that form, be redefined?
Artists are invited to participate in this project by submitting a proposal for a public monument commemorating the outcome of the Cold War by November 1, 2012. All submissions must be made through the website: www.coldwarvictorymonument.com. Submissions should include: a one-page narrative text on your proposed work and its relationship to the legacy of the Cold War, the notion of “victory,” and its reevaluation (if any) of the monument form; a visual schema in the form of three images; and an artist CV. A select number of finalists will be awarded a stipend and the opportunity to further develop their proposal for an institutional exhibition. The submitter of the winning proposal will be awarded a cash prize, and their concept will be implemented and installed in a publicly accessible location, to be determined, in the United States.
Monument to Cold War Victory will be juried by a distinguished panel of cultural and intellectual figures, including Vito Acconci, Susan Buck-Morss, Boris Groys, Vitaly Komar, Viktor Misiano, and Nato Thompson.
For further information, contact curator Stamatina Gregory, stamatina@coldwarvictorymonument.com
This project is initiated by The Committee for Tacit History, an international curatorial collective and research body dedicated to furthering interdisciplinary, practice-based investigations in history and visual culture.
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www.coldwarvictorymonument.com
The Committee for Tacit History is issuing a call for proposals for a Monument to Cold War Victory, an open-call competition for a public monument commemorating the outcome of the Cold War. Artists from around the world are encouraged to submit proposals by November 1, 2012.
Monument to Cold War Victory is a conceptual project by the artist Yevgeniy Fiks, taking the form of an open-call, international competition for a public, commemorative work of art. For over two decades, public signifiers of the Cold War, such as the Berlin Wall, have been framed in terms of destruction and kitsch. A monument created at the moment of its own destruction, the Wall encapsulates the continuing geopolitical imagination of the conflict as linear, continuous, binary, and terminal: the culmination of a now-historicized narrative of competing empires. But while the impact of half a century of sustained ideological conflict still reverberates through all forms of public and private experience—from Middle Eastern geographies of containment to the narrative structures of Hollywood—it has yet to be acknowledged through a public and monumental work of art. The Cold War, the longest and most influential conflict of the twentieth century, has no publicly commissioned commemoration in the United States.
This project examines the enduring genre of war monuments, memorials, and institutionally framed and commissioned artworks. How might the legacy of the Cold War, in all its complex material, social, and cultural forms, be visually articulated? In what ways might the notion of “victory,” implicit in all retroactive commemorations of conflict, be interpreted? Can the traditional, formal structure of the monument, and the historical revisionism endemic to that form, be redefined?
Artists are invited to participate in this project by submitting a proposal for a public monument commemorating the outcome of the Cold War by November 1, 2012. All submissions must be made through the website: www.coldwarvictorymonument.com. Submissions should include: a one-page narrative text on your proposed work and its relationship to the legacy of the Cold War, the notion of “victory,” and its reevaluation (if any) of the monument form; a visual schema in the form of three images; and an artist CV. A select number of finalists will be awarded a stipend and the opportunity to further develop their proposal for an institutional exhibition. The submitter of the winning proposal will be awarded a cash prize, and their concept will be implemented and installed in a publicly accessible location, to be determined, in the United States.
Monument to Cold War Victory will be juried by a distinguished panel of cultural and intellectual figures, including Vito Acconci, Susan Buck-Morss, Boris Groys, Vitaly Komar, Viktor Misiano, and Nato Thompson.
For further information, contact curator Stamatina Gregory, stamatina@coldwarvictorymonument.com
This project is initiated by The Committee for Tacit History, an international curatorial collective and research body dedicated to furthering interdisciplinary, practice-based investigations in history and visual culture.
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April 6, 2012
Washington Post Reviews
Mark Jenkins, Making Begonias Oppressively Brutish Washington Post, April 6, 2012
Nora Fitzgerald, Roll Up for a Radical History Tour, Russia Now in Washington Post, April 4, 2012
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Mark Jenkins, Making Begonias Oppressively Brutish Washington Post, April 6, 2012
Nora Fitzgerald, Roll Up for a Radical History Tour, Russia Now in Washington Post, April 4, 2012
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March 28, 2012
Art in America Magazine Review of It's the Political Economy, Stupid
David Marcus, It's the Political Economy, Stupid,, Art in America, March 28, 2012
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David Marcus, It's the Political Economy, Stupid,, Art in America, March 28, 2012
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February 17, 2012
Solo Show @ Galerie Blue Square, Washington D.C.
Please join me at my first solo show in Washington D.C., which will feature my work, Kimjongilias, and two new projects.
Kimjongilias a.k.a. “Flower Paintings” and Magnitogorsk Guide to the National Gallery of Art
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3rd,
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Magnitogorsk Tour of the National Gallery of Art
Saturday, March 24th, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Galerie Blue Square
1662 33rd Street, NW
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 20007
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Please join me at my first solo show in Washington D.C., which will feature my work, Kimjongilias, and two new projects.
Kimjongilias a.k.a. “Flower Paintings” and Magnitogorsk Guide to the National Gallery of Art
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3rd,
4:00 – 7:00 pm
Magnitogorsk Tour of the National Gallery of Art
Saturday, March 24th, 3:30 – 5:00 pm
Galerie Blue Square
1662 33rd Street, NW
Georgetown, Washington, D.C. 20007
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February 7, 2012
Communist Tour of MoMA on ARTNews
Carolina A. Miranda, Seeing Red at MoMA, ARTNews, February 2012
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Carolina A. Miranda, Seeing Red at MoMA, ARTNews, February 2012
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February 4, 2012
Le Monde Review of Modern Art Shackled to Communism @ Galerie Sator, Paris
Philippe Dagen, Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Sator, Le Monde, Sunday, February 5 to Monday, February 6, 2012
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Philippe Dagen, Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Sator, Le Monde, Sunday, February 5 to Monday, February 6, 2012
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January 25, 2012
More Press for Corporations Are People Too @ Winkleman Gallery
Jennifer Weiss, After Romney's 'corporations are people too' -- the exhibit, AFP, January 22, 2012
Dan Tarnowski, January 2012: Corporations are People Too @ Winkleman Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, January, 2012
Doug McClemont, Doug McClemont's Top Ten New York Shows in January, Saatchi, January 19, 2012
The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, Art in America, January 19, 2012
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Jennifer Weiss, After Romney's 'corporations are people too' -- the exhibit, AFP, January 22, 2012
Dan Tarnowski, January 2012: Corporations are People Too @ Winkleman Gallery, Whitehot Magazine, January, 2012
Doug McClemont, Doug McClemont's Top Ten New York Shows in January, Saatchi, January 19, 2012
The Lookout: A Weekly Guide to Shows You Won't Want to Miss, Art in America, January 19, 2012
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January 16, 2012
Performance @ MoMA
I will lead a performative tour of the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art and other artworks in the Museum’s collection as part of a discussion of modern artists’ leftist politics.
Please join me on the officially sanctioned Communist Tour of MoMA on February 15, 2012.
More information here.
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I will lead a performative tour of the exhibition Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art and other artworks in the Museum’s collection as part of a discussion of modern artists’ leftist politics.
Please join me on the officially sanctioned Communist Tour of MoMA on February 15, 2012.
More information here.
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January 11, 2012
Press for Corporations Are People Too @ Winkleman Gallery
Emily Nathan, "Gallery Shows NYC: The New York List, Corporations Are People Too" Artnet.com, January 9, 2012
Noah Dillon, "Taking the Corps Out of Corporation," ArtSlant, January 9, 2012
Critics' Pick, Time Out New York, January 5, 2012
Carolina A. Miranda, "This Week: Must-See Arts in the City," WNYC's Arts Datebook, January 4, 2012
Kathleen Massara, "Are Corporations People? Winkleman Gallery Weighs In," Huffington Post, January 4, 2012
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Emily Nathan, "Gallery Shows NYC: The New York List, Corporations Are People Too" Artnet.com, January 9, 2012
Noah Dillon, "Taking the Corps Out of Corporation," ArtSlant, January 9, 2012
Critics' Pick, Time Out New York, January 5, 2012
Carolina A. Miranda, "This Week: Must-See Arts in the City," WNYC's Arts Datebook, January 4, 2012
Kathleen Massara, "Are Corporations People? Winkleman Gallery Weighs In," Huffington Post, January 4, 2012
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January 1, 2012
January 2012 Exhibitions
I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012! Please join me in my exhibitions openings this January.
I have a solo show at Galerie Sator in Paris entitled, Modern Art Shackled to Communism.
Opening: Saturday, January 14, at 17- 20 h
Exhibiting: January 14 to March 3
Also, Winkleman Gallery in NYC will open a group show entitled, Corporations are People Too. The show will exhibit my project, Lenin for Your Library?
Opening: Wednesday, January 4, 6-8pm
Exhibiting: January 4 to February 4
Proteus Gowanus will open a group show entitled, Migration. The show will include my project, Lily Golden, Harry Haywood, Langston Hughes, Yelena Khanga, Claude McKay, Paul Robeson, Robert Robinson on Soviet Jews.
Opening: January 11
Exhibiting: January 12 to April 7
And finally, Greg Sholette and Oliver Ressler are curating a show at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC entitled, It's Political Economy, Stupid. The show will exhibit an update to my project, Reading Lenin with Corporations.
Opening: Monday, January 23, 6-8pm
Exhibiting: January 24 to April 22
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I wish you all a happy and healthy 2012! Please join me in my exhibitions openings this January.
I have a solo show at Galerie Sator in Paris entitled, Modern Art Shackled to Communism.
Opening: Saturday, January 14, at 17- 20 h
Exhibiting: January 14 to March 3
Also, Winkleman Gallery in NYC will open a group show entitled, Corporations are People Too. The show will exhibit my project, Lenin for Your Library?
Opening: Wednesday, January 4, 6-8pm
Exhibiting: January 4 to February 4
Proteus Gowanus will open a group show entitled, Migration. The show will include my project, Lily Golden, Harry Haywood, Langston Hughes, Yelena Khanga, Claude McKay, Paul Robeson, Robert Robinson on Soviet Jews.
Opening: January 11
Exhibiting: January 12 to April 7
And finally, Greg Sholette and Oliver Ressler are curating a show at the Austrian Cultural Forum in NYC entitled, It's Political Economy, Stupid. The show will exhibit an update to my project, Reading Lenin with Corporations.
Opening: Monday, January 23, 6-8pm
Exhibiting: January 24 to April 22
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November 12, 2011
Press for Mass MoCA's The Workers, Moscow MoMA's Impossible Communities, and the Moscow Biennale
Kristen Chappa. The Workers, Frieze Magazine, Issue 143 November-December 2011
Dmitry Volkosh. The Impossible of Any Community, Russian Journal, September 23, 2011
Innokenty Grekov. Moscow Biennale Art Performance Brings Attention to Victims of Racist Violence. Human Rights First, September 8, 2011
Tamara Baranenkova The exhibition "Impossible community" tells how to be together, RIA Novosti. September 8, 2011
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Kristen Chappa. The Workers, Frieze Magazine, Issue 143 November-December 2011
Dmitry Volkosh. The Impossible of Any Community, Russian Journal, September 23, 2011
Innokenty Grekov. Moscow Biennale Art Performance Brings Attention to Victims of Racist Violence. Human Rights First, September 8, 2011
Tamara Baranenkova The exhibition "Impossible community" tells how to be together, RIA Novosti. September 8, 2011
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September 21, 2011
Living as Form's Market, New York City
On October 9, I will be exhibiting Communist Guide to New York City in Market, a project by artist collective Temporary Services, as part of Creative Time's Living as Form.
Market's Schedule
Living as Form's Schedule
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On October 9, I will be exhibiting Communist Guide to New York City in Market, a project by artist collective Temporary Services, as part of Creative Time's Living as Form.
Market's Schedule
Living as Form's Schedule
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August 28, 2011
MMoMA and the 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
My project, Portrait of 19 Million, will be part of Impossible Communities, curated by Viktor Misiano at the MMoMA.
Venue: State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts (10 Gogolevsky Boulevard)
Exhibiting: September 8, 2011 to November 6, 2011
4th Moscow Biennale
The Grenelle Agreements, a project by Learning Film Group (Yevgeny Fiks, David Riff, Ilya Budraitskis, and Nikolay Oleynikov), will be featured at the main Moscow Biennale show, Rewriting Worlds, curated by Peter Weibel.
Exhibiting: September 23, 2011 to October 30, 2011
Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art
One of the special projects of the 4th Moscow Biennale, Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art, curated by Tatiana Volkova, will feature an installation of my works:
1.Lily Golden, Harry Haywood, Langston Hughes, Yelena Khanga, Claude McKay, Paul Robeson, Robert Robinson on Soviet Jews
2. Soviet Russia and the Negro. Kaddish.
Venue: ARTPLAY Design Center
Exhibiting: September 24, 2011 to October 10, 2011
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Moscow Museum of Modern Art
My project, Portrait of 19 Million, will be part of Impossible Communities, curated by Viktor Misiano at the MMoMA.
Venue: State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts (10 Gogolevsky Boulevard)
Exhibiting: September 8, 2011 to November 6, 2011
4th Moscow Biennale
The Grenelle Agreements, a project by Learning Film Group (Yevgeny Fiks, David Riff, Ilya Budraitskis, and Nikolay Oleynikov), will be featured at the main Moscow Biennale show, Rewriting Worlds, curated by Peter Weibel.
Exhibiting: September 23, 2011 to October 30, 2011
Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art
One of the special projects of the 4th Moscow Biennale, Media Impact. International Festival of Activist Art, curated by Tatiana Volkova, will feature an installation of my works:
1.Lily Golden, Harry Haywood, Langston Hughes, Yelena Khanga, Claude McKay, Paul Robeson, Robert Robinson on Soviet Jews
2. Soviet Russia and the Negro. Kaddish.
Venue: ARTPLAY Design Center
Exhibiting: September 24, 2011 to October 10, 2011
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July 18, 2011
July Exhibitions @ the New Museum and Abrons Art Center
July 6, 2011 to September 25, 2011
Vysocany Congress, a film that I worked in collaboration with Nikolay Oleynikov and Ilya Budraitskis, is part of Chto Delat's installation at the New Museum's Ostalgia.
July 21, 2011 to September 3, 2011
My work, American Cold War Veterans Association, will be part of the Miguel Amado-curated show at Abrons Art Center entitled, Image Wars.
Opening Reception: July 21, 6-8 pm
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July 6, 2011 to September 25, 2011
Vysocany Congress, a film that I worked in collaboration with Nikolay Oleynikov and Ilya Budraitskis, is part of Chto Delat's installation at the New Museum's Ostalgia.
July 21, 2011 to September 3, 2011
My work, American Cold War Veterans Association, will be part of the Miguel Amado-curated show at Abrons Art Center entitled, Image Wars.
Opening Reception: July 21, 6-8 pm
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PORTRAIT OF 19 MILLION: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
For updates, go to Portrait of 19 Million Blog (English and Russian)
Portrait of 19 million is an open participatory project organized by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. This project will be curated by Viktor Misiano and presented in the exhibition, The Impossible Communities, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art from September 2011 to October 2011.
According to official Soviet statistics, 19 million people were members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the Perestroika period. These were people who joined the Party at different times and under different circumstances. CPSU was not homogeneous with regards to its social make up nor ideology. Who were the members of the Party then? What united them and what could alienate them from each other? Who are they now? Portrait of 19 million focuses on the fates of concrete individuals, using purely artistic and sociological tools in an attempt to understand the Soviet and post-Soviet subjectivity.
Everyone is welcome to participate in this project regardless of profession. Participants are invited to submit a portrait (or self-portrait) of any person who was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the last years of the USSR. Age, occupation, social status of the portrait's subject doesn't matter. The portrait can be done in any style and technique: amateur photography, studio portraits, mobilography, video, painting, drawing, collage, etc.
Resources:
Read the Conditions of Participation in English or Russian.
Read the FAQ in English or Russian
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For updates, go to Portrait of 19 Million Blog (English and Russian)
Portrait of 19 million is an open participatory project organized by artist Yevgeniy Fiks. This project will be curated by Viktor Misiano and presented in the exhibition, The Impossible Communities, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art from September 2011 to October 2011.
According to official Soviet statistics, 19 million people were members of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) during the Perestroika period. These were people who joined the Party at different times and under different circumstances. CPSU was not homogeneous with regards to its social make up nor ideology. Who were the members of the Party then? What united them and what could alienate them from each other? Who are they now? Portrait of 19 million focuses on the fates of concrete individuals, using purely artistic and sociological tools in an attempt to understand the Soviet and post-Soviet subjectivity.
Everyone is welcome to participate in this project regardless of profession. Participants are invited to submit a portrait (or self-portrait) of any person who was a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the last years of the USSR. Age, occupation, social status of the portrait's subject doesn't matter. The portrait can be done in any style and technique: amateur photography, studio portraits, mobilography, video, painting, drawing, collage, etc.
Resources:
Read the Conditions of Participation in English or Russian.
Read the FAQ in English or Russian
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May 15, 2011
Group Exhibition @ MASS MoCA
I'm participating in a group show where curators Susan Cross and Carla Herrera-Prats will feature my Communist Party USA portraits, among others, at MASS MoCA.
What: The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility at MASS MoCA Looks at Conditions of Contemporary Labor
Where: MASS MoCA
When: May 29, 2011 to March 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 5:30 pm
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I'm participating in a group show where curators Susan Cross and Carla Herrera-Prats will feature my Communist Party USA portraits, among others, at MASS MoCA.
What: The Workers: Precarity/Invisibility/Mobility at MASS MoCA Looks at Conditions of Contemporary Labor
Where: MASS MoCA
When: May 29, 2011 to March 15, 2012
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 28, 2011, 5:30 pm
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May 2, 2011
Solo Performance @ The Museum at Eldridge Street, New York City
On May 15, I will have a performance in the form of a guided tour entitled, Red Kaddish (Roitn Kaddish). This performance, hosted by the Museum at Eldridge Street, maps the Lower East Side of Emma Goldman via the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Abraham Cahan's via Nikolai Chernyshevsky's, Morris Hillquit via Mikhail Bakunin, etc.
This project is a joint commemoration of the 19th century Russian Revolutionary movement and turn of the 20th century Jewish radicalism in New York. In incorporating texts in English, Yiddish and Russian, this project is a Kaddish for the unrealized dream of a better world, universal social justice, and a common seeking of happiness.
What: Red Kaddish (Roitn Kaddish)
Where: Starting at The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
When: May 15, 2011 starting at 2pm
RSVP here
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On May 15, I will have a performance in the form of a guided tour entitled, Red Kaddish (Roitn Kaddish). This performance, hosted by the Museum at Eldridge Street, maps the Lower East Side of Emma Goldman via the writings of Peter Kropotkin, Abraham Cahan's via Nikolai Chernyshevsky's, Morris Hillquit via Mikhail Bakunin, etc.
This project is a joint commemoration of the 19th century Russian Revolutionary movement and turn of the 20th century Jewish radicalism in New York. In incorporating texts in English, Yiddish and Russian, this project is a Kaddish for the unrealized dream of a better world, universal social justice, and a common seeking of happiness.
What: Red Kaddish (Roitn Kaddish)
Where: Starting at The Museum at Eldridge Street, 12 Eldridge Street, New York, NY 10002
When: May 15, 2011 starting at 2pm
RSVP here
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May 1, 2011
Performance @ The Kitchen, New York City
I am part of The Kitchen's Out of Print, organized by Ugly Duckling Press (UDP). I will hold a performance, which is an extension of my book, Moscow—a memoriam of the October Revolution's failed promise towards the queer community. Moscow will be published by UDP in the fall.
What: Out of Print, An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse
Where: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
When: May 9, 2011 starting at 7pm
Admission is free
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I am part of The Kitchen's Out of Print, organized by Ugly Duckling Press (UDP). I will hold a performance, which is an extension of my book, Moscow—a memoriam of the October Revolution's failed promise towards the queer community. Moscow will be published by UDP in the fall.
What: Out of Print, An Evening with Ugly Duckling Presse
Where: The Kitchen, 512 West 19th Street, New York, NY 10011
When: May 9, 2011 starting at 7pm
Admission is free
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April 14, 2011
Solo Exhibition @ Palazzo Panichi, Pietrasanta, Italy
Prometeo Gallery will debut my Leniniana series at the Palazzo Panichi in Pietrasanta, Italy.
Opening: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Exhibiting from April 23 to May 29, 2011
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Prometeo Gallery will debut my Leniniana series at the Palazzo Panichi in Pietrasanta, Italy.
Opening: Saturday, April 23, 2011
Exhibiting from April 23 to May 29, 2011
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March 24, 2011
Group Show @ Flux Factory
I am participating in Flux Factory's The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, an exhibition of new works through which artists contemplate four specific “artifacts” of war and how their original purposes are transformed through integration into larger society.
The show will feature Kimjongilias which serve as a response to the show's North Korean Hell March.
Opening reception: April 1, 6 pm and on
Exhibition dates: Saturday, April 2 through Sunday, May 8
Hours: open weekends, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment
Location: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens
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I am participating in Flux Factory's The Typhoon Continues and So Do You, an exhibition of new works through which artists contemplate four specific “artifacts” of war and how their original purposes are transformed through integration into larger society.
The show will feature Kimjongilias which serve as a response to the show's North Korean Hell March.
Opening reception: April 1, 6 pm and on
Exhibition dates: Saturday, April 2 through Sunday, May 8
Hours: open weekends, 12 – 6 pm or by appointment
Location: Flux Factory, 39-31 29th Street, Long Island City, Queens
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March 23, 2011
Speaking Engagements
Please feel free to join me this April in two speaking events in which I will be participating:
The first will be at Stony Brook University's Philosophy and the Arts Conference in New York City.
When: April 2, 2011 at 4:20pm
Where: Stony Brook Manhattan, 387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor. Please enter at the 101. E. 27th Street entrance, below the Stony Brook flag.
The second will be at the CUNY Graduate Center where I will be part of a panel entitled, Postwar Debate II: Constructing Cultural Identity in the Postwar Period.
When: April 11, 2011 at 6:30p
Where: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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Please feel free to join me this April in two speaking events in which I will be participating:
The first will be at Stony Brook University's Philosophy and the Arts Conference in New York City.
When: April 2, 2011 at 4:20pm
Where: Stony Brook Manhattan, 387 Park Avenue South, 3rd Floor. Please enter at the 101. E. 27th Street entrance, below the Stony Brook flag.
The second will be at the CUNY Graduate Center where I will be part of a panel entitled, Postwar Debate II: Constructing Cultural Identity in the Postwar Period.
When: April 11, 2011 at 6:30p
Where: 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
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February 28, 2011
VOLTA NYC
Please join me this year at VOLTA NYC. BARBARIAN ART GALLERY / by Natasha Akhmerova will debut my work, American Cold War Veterans Association. The event starts on Thursday, March 3 and ends on Sunday, March 6, 2011.
I will also participate in Open Forum 2011 in a panel with Postmaster Gallery's Magda Sawon and curators Elena Sorokina and Stamatina Gregory called Communism’s Afterlives. We will investigate specific moments of revisited history in contemporary art practice two decades after the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: Volta NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7th Floor
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Please join me this year at VOLTA NYC. BARBARIAN ART GALLERY / by Natasha Akhmerova will debut my work, American Cold War Veterans Association. The event starts on Thursday, March 3 and ends on Sunday, March 6, 2011.
I will also participate in Open Forum 2011 in a panel with Postmaster Gallery's Magda Sawon and curators Elena Sorokina and Stamatina Gregory called Communism’s Afterlives. We will investigate specific moments of revisited history in contemporary art practice two decades after the collapse of the Soviet bloc.
Time: 4:30 - 5:30 PM
Location: Volta NY, Club 7W Talks Lounge, 7th Floor
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February 13, 2011
Reviews from Art in America and Moscow Art Magazine
Read a review from Art in America of last Fall's Engineers of Soul at Postmasters Gallery, NYC.
Read a review from Moscow Art Magazine of last year's Communist Tour of MoMA (guerrilla performance at MoMA).
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Read a review from Art in America of last Fall's Engineers of Soul at Postmasters Gallery, NYC.
Read a review from Moscow Art Magazine of last year's Communist Tour of MoMA (guerrilla performance at MoMA).
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December 13, 2010
Engineers of the Soul featured on ArtonAir.org (Radio)
Listen to an interview that I did with Tamas Banovich and Magda Sawon.
From the website:
Host Michael Rush speaks with Hungaran-born Magda Sawon, Polish-born-Tamas Banovich, founders of Chelsea's Postmasters Gallery, and Russian-born artist Yevgeniy Fiks onsite at the exhibition Engineers of the Soul, now closed.
Listen here or via Itunes.
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Listen to an interview that I did with Tamas Banovich and Magda Sawon.
From the website:
Host Michael Rush speaks with Hungaran-born Magda Sawon, Polish-born-Tamas Banovich, founders of Chelsea's Postmasters Gallery, and Russian-born artist Yevgeniy Fiks onsite at the exhibition Engineers of the Soul, now closed.
Listen here or via Itunes.
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November 29, 2010
Group Show @ Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City
En Cada Instante, Ruptura (In Every Instance, a Rupture)
After reviewing the file of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Curator Carla Herrera-Prats was interested in exploring the conversion and fragmentation has been the iconic vision of the worker through the years. To this end, selected pieces of contemporary artists who reflect on the question of migration and workers' representation within the global economy, emphasizing the relationship between Mexico and the United States, as well as the effects of NAFTA.
This exhibition will feature works from Communist Party, USA.
For more information, visit the SAPS website.
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En Cada Instante, Ruptura (In Every Instance, a Rupture)
After reviewing the file of David Alfaro Siqueiros, Curator Carla Herrera-Prats was interested in exploring the conversion and fragmentation has been the iconic vision of the worker through the years. To this end, selected pieces of contemporary artists who reflect on the question of migration and workers' representation within the global economy, emphasizing the relationship between Mexico and the United States, as well as the effects of NAFTA.
This exhibition will feature works from Communist Party, USA.
For more information, visit the SAPS website.
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October 17, 2010
Reviews @ ARTFORUM and ArtMargins
Two reviews of my work came out today! The first is for the Temple Gallery exhibition of Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums and another for this summer's Ayn Rand in Illustrations at Winkleman Gallery.
ARTFORUM
Critics Pick 10.17.2010
by Miguel Amado
Read online or pdf versions.
ArtMargins
Yevgeniy Fiks, Ayn Rand in Illustrations (Exhib. Review)
by Olga Kopenkina
Read online or pdf versions.
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Two reviews of my work came out today! The first is for the Temple Gallery exhibition of Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums and another for this summer's Ayn Rand in Illustrations at Winkleman Gallery.
ARTFORUM
Critics Pick 10.17.2010
by Miguel Amado
Read online or pdf versions.
ArtMargins
Yevgeniy Fiks, Ayn Rand in Illustrations (Exhib. Review)
by Olga Kopenkina
Read online or pdf versions.
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October 16, 2010
Group Show @ Postmasters Gallery
Engineers of the Soul
Postmasters Gallery, NYC
October 23 - December 4, 2010
Opening: Saturday, October 23, 6 - 8 PM
Featuring my work entitled, Kimjongilias, please check out our group exhibition curated by Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich about communism and artists’ relationship to power.
Read the press release.
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Engineers of the Soul
Postmasters Gallery, NYC
October 23 - December 4, 2010
Opening: Saturday, October 23, 6 - 8 PM
Featuring my work entitled, Kimjongilias, please check out our group exhibition curated by Magdalena Sawon and Tamas Banovich about communism and artists’ relationship to power.
Read the press release.
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October 2, 2010
Solo Performance @ The Philadelphia Museum of Art
Communist Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 15, 2010, 5:30 pm
Free with museum admission*
Taking the form of a tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's permanent collection, this performance uncovers connections between Modern artists and the twentieth century Communist movement. Meet in Gallery 161, first floor (Resnick Rotunda), at the entrance of the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries.
Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art or Temple Gallery websites for more information.
This program is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We would like to thank Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, for her support.
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Communist Tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 15, 2010, 5:30 pm
Free with museum admission*
Taking the form of a tour of the Philadelphia Museum of Art's permanent collection, this performance uncovers connections between Modern artists and the twentieth century Communist movement. Meet in Gallery 161, first floor (Resnick Rotunda), at the entrance of the Modern and Contemporary Art Galleries.
Visit the Philadelphia Museum of Art or Temple Gallery websites for more information.
This program is supported in part by the Friends of Temple Gallery, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. We would like to thank Adelina Vlas, Assistant Curator for Modern and Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, for her support.
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September 29, 2010
BOOK LAUNCH CABARET!
Please join us at the performative and multi-media launch for The Studio-X NY Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation (GSAPP Books, 2010), a book in which I am featured and edited by Gavin Browning .
The event will take place on Friday, October 8, 7pm, at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NYC.
Click here for a preview of the book.
Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University
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Please join us at the performative and multi-media launch for The Studio-X NY Guide to Liberating New Forms of Conversation (GSAPP Books, 2010), a book in which I am featured and edited by Gavin Browning .
The event will take place on Friday, October 8, 7pm, at Storefront for Art and Architecture, 97 Kenmare Street, NYC.
Click here for a preview of the book.
Studio-X is a downtown studio for experimental design and research run by the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation of Columbia University
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September 26, 2010
Philadelphia Inquirer reviews Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums
'Communist Conspiracy' gets the space it deserves (pdf, 4.8mb)
by Edith Newhall
Philadelphia Inquirer
9/26/2010
Also, read the gallery guide with essay entitled, "Cold War Canon," by Curator Stamatina Gregory.
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'Communist Conspiracy' gets the space it deserves (pdf, 4.8mb)
by Edith Newhall
Philadelphia Inquirer
9/26/2010
Also, read the gallery guide with essay entitled, "Cold War Canon," by Curator Stamatina Gregory.
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August 1, 2010
Solo Show @ Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art
Gallery Show:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums
Curated by Stamatina Gregory
September 8 – November 6
Opening with the artist and curator: Friday, September 24, 6 - 8 pm
Lecture:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Post-Soviet Without Shores
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Lecture and discussion with artist begins at 5 pm.
Taking its title from a 1952 quote by former Michigan Congressman George A. Dondero—best known for his widely publicized claims that modern art was a Communist plot hatched to bring down the US—this exhibition explores the historical ties between modern art and twentieth-century communist movements. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture, and reenacted speeches, my installation imagines an artistic trajectory located between fact and fiction, between accusations from Washington and directives from Moscow, posing questions on the fundamental relationship between Communism and Modernism.
This show will also include my new work entitled, "Stalin's Directive on Modern Art."
Temple Gallery
12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 777-9144
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Gallery Show:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Conspiracy in Art Threatens American Museums
Curated by Stamatina Gregory
September 8 – November 6
Opening with the artist and curator: Friday, September 24, 6 - 8 pm
Lecture:
Yevgeniy Fiks: Post-Soviet Without Shores
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Lecture and discussion with artist begins at 5 pm.
Taking its title from a 1952 quote by former Michigan Congressman George A. Dondero—best known for his widely publicized claims that modern art was a Communist plot hatched to bring down the US—this exhibition explores the historical ties between modern art and twentieth-century communist movements. Comprising prints, drawings, sculpture, and reenacted speeches, my installation imagines an artistic trajectory located between fact and fiction, between accusations from Washington and directives from Moscow, posing questions on the fundamental relationship between Communism and Modernism.
This show will also include my new work entitled, "Stalin's Directive on Modern Art."
Temple Gallery
12th and Norris Streets, Philadelphia, PA 19122
(215) 777-9144
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June 4, 2010
Solo Show @ Winkleman Gallery
I am pleased to present my new series of work entitled, Ayn Rand in Illustrations, to be debuted at Winkleman Gallery in New York City.
June 18 - July 30, 2010
Reception: June 18, 6 to 8pm
Click here for the press release.
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I am pleased to present my new series of work entitled, Ayn Rand in Illustrations, to be debuted at Winkleman Gallery in New York City.
June 18 - July 30, 2010
Reception: June 18, 6 to 8pm
Click here for the press release.
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June 3, 2010
Group Shows
I have two group shows coming up in June:
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Curated by Miguel Amado, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection (Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: O político na Colecção Berardo) will feature my Communist Tour of MoMA works on paper at the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibition will run from June 8 to September 12.
From the website:
Alluding to a famous passage from the Communist Manifesto (written by Marx and Engels in 1848), the words "All that is solid melts into air" brings a sense of change in society. In the artistic context, the importance of this observation it appears on the awareness of the primacy of media in modern culture, a necessary condition for the existence of art as an instrument of emancipation of mankind. It is in this light that the Berardo Collection presents this exhibition, gathering works that call every day problems, spell out a critique of reality or reflect utopian visions of the world.
Enjoy Art Gallery, New Zealand
I am also participating in Gregory Sholette's Wellington Collaboratorium: An Imaginary Archive at Enjoy Art Gallery in Wellington New Zealand. The show will run from June 9 to June 26.
From the website:
A public art project, An Imaginary Archive of novels, brochures, catalogues, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publications and material will infiltrate Enjoy and other Wellington locations during Sholette's residency. Inserted into a number of second-hand bookstores and other public places, this archive moves to present an alternative vision of the realities our society might inhabit, had the world been shaped differently.
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I have two group shows coming up in June:
Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal
Curated by Miguel Amado, All That Is Solid Melts Into Air: The Social at the Berardo Collection (Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: O político na Colecção Berardo) will feature my Communist Tour of MoMA works on paper at the Museu Colecção Berardo in Lisbon, Portugal. The exhibition will run from June 8 to September 12.
From the website:
Alluding to a famous passage from the Communist Manifesto (written by Marx and Engels in 1848), the words "All that is solid melts into air" brings a sense of change in society. In the artistic context, the importance of this observation it appears on the awareness of the primacy of media in modern culture, a necessary condition for the existence of art as an instrument of emancipation of mankind. It is in this light that the Berardo Collection presents this exhibition, gathering works that call every day problems, spell out a critique of reality or reflect utopian visions of the world.
Enjoy Art Gallery, New Zealand
I am also participating in Gregory Sholette's Wellington Collaboratorium: An Imaginary Archive at Enjoy Art Gallery in Wellington New Zealand. The show will run from June 9 to June 26.
From the website:
A public art project, An Imaginary Archive of novels, brochures, catalogues, pamphlets, newsletters, and other publications and material will infiltrate Enjoy and other Wellington locations during Sholette's residency. Inserted into a number of second-hand bookstores and other public places, this archive moves to present an alternative vision of the realities our society might inhabit, had the world been shaped differently.
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April 16, 2010
Book Launch: SHIFTER 16: PLURIPOTENTIAL
Please support and buy a book to which I contributed:
SHIFTER 16: PLURIPOTENTIAL
Book Launch at Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, New York, NY
Saturday, April 24th, 5 - 7 pm
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Please support and buy a book to which I contributed:
SHIFTER 16: PLURIPOTENTIAL
Book Launch at Printed Matter, 195 10th Avenue, New York, NY
Saturday, April 24th, 5 - 7 pm
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April 1, 2010
Group Show @ Postmasters Gallery, NYC
I have several paintings from the Communist Party, USA, series in a group show entitled, Mirror, Mirror at Postmasters Gallery. The show will run from April 2, 2010 to May 8, 2010.
The opening is on Friday, April 2, 6-8 pm.
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011
Click here for press release.
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I have several paintings from the Communist Party, USA, series in a group show entitled, Mirror, Mirror at Postmasters Gallery. The show will run from April 2, 2010 to May 8, 2010.
The opening is on Friday, April 2, 6-8 pm.
459 West 19th Street (at 10th Avenue)
New York, NY 10011
Click here for press release.
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March 27, 2010
Feature @ Idiommag
Post-Soviet Traumas: Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks
Idiom
3/25/10
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Post-Soviet Traumas: Interview with Yevgeniy Fiks
Idiom
3/25/10
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March 15, 2010
Communist Tour of MoMA Coverage
Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Tour of MoMA
Bloggy
3/3/10
Yevgeniy Fiks names names in Communist Tour of MoMA
James Wagner
3/4/10
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Yevgeniy Fiks: Communist Tour of MoMA
Bloggy
3/3/10
Yevgeniy Fiks names names in Communist Tour of MoMA
James Wagner
3/4/10
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February 17, 2010
Group Show @ Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France
Artistes Russes: Un art au superlatif
Abbaye Saint Andre Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France
March 13, 2010 to July 13, 2010
Gallery Opening: March 13 at 18:00
Organized with the help of Galerie Blue Square, my Song of Russia paintings will be featured at this show. Click here for more information.
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Artistes Russes: Un art au superlatif
Abbaye Saint Andre Contemporary Art Center, Meymac, France
March 13, 2010 to July 13, 2010
Gallery Opening: March 13 at 18:00
Organized with the help of Galerie Blue Square, my Song of Russia paintings will be featured at this show. Click here for more information.
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February 13, 2010
Communist Party USA at the Fountain Art Fair
What: Galerie Zeitgeist will be representing me at the 2010 Fountain Art Fair.
When: March 4 to 7, 2010
Where: at Pier 66 @ 26th Street and the West Side Highway, New York NY
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What: Galerie Zeitgeist will be representing me at the 2010 Fountain Art Fair.
When: March 4 to 7, 2010
Where: at Pier 66 @ 26th Street and the West Side Highway, New York NY
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February 12, 2010
Group Show/Performance @ Winkleman Gallery
I will participate in a show entitled, #class, organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. They will transform Winkleman Gallery into a ‘classroom’ in which they will work with the public audience, guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, and collectors to discuss the role of class in the art world and to identify and propose alternatives/reforms/solutions to the current market system. The notion of the gallery as a work space will be explored aesthetically, socially, critically, and academically.
Lecture/Performance: Communist Modern Artist and the Market
Friday, March 12, 2010
2:00 p.m.
Winkleman Gallery
I will be presenting a slide-lecture titled "Communist Modern Artists and the Art Market," showing how many of the the most highly valued art of the 20th century were produced by artists who considered themselves communists (Picasso, Leger, Kahlo, Rivera and more).
Click here for more information about #class and a list of scheduled events.
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I will participate in a show entitled, #class, organized by Jennifer Dalton and William Powhida. They will transform Winkleman Gallery into a ‘classroom’ in which they will work with the public audience, guest artists, critics, academics, dealers, and collectors to discuss the role of class in the art world and to identify and propose alternatives/reforms/solutions to the current market system. The notion of the gallery as a work space will be explored aesthetically, socially, critically, and academically.
Lecture/Performance: Communist Modern Artist and the Market
Friday, March 12, 2010
2:00 p.m.
Winkleman Gallery
I will be presenting a slide-lecture titled "Communist Modern Artists and the Art Market," showing how many of the the most highly valued art of the 20th century were produced by artists who considered themselves communists (Picasso, Leger, Kahlo, Rivera and more).
Click here for more information about #class and a list of scheduled events.
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February 7, 2010
News Feed: Low Road Gallery and DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Deconstructing Art History
DePauw University
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Deconstructing Art History
DePauw University
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January 17, 2010
Solo Show @ Low Road Gallery, DePauw University
In an installation that consists of works on paper, reenacted speeches (circa 1950s) by former US Congressman from Michigan George A. Dondero, and modified MoMA publications, I will feature Modern Artists who identified as Communists or had Communists ties in a show entitled, “Communist Tour of MoMa.” This project departs from the history of Modern Art and MoMA as subjects of investigations during the McCarthy era and essentially brings to our attention the role of MoMA in defining Modern Art away from the modern artists' political ideologies.
In my talk entitled, "Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist," I will discuss the conceptual framework of addressing the Soviet experience today--after the collapse of the Soviet bloc--and highlight the question of historical responsibility as fundamental to the construction of the post-Soviet discourse. A special focus on the historical context of "Communist Tour of MoMA" will be given.
Lecture: Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Room: Auditorium, Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media (PCCM)
DePauw University
Art Exhibit: Communist Tour of MoMA
March 5 - March 26, 2010
Low Road Gallery
Opening Reception: March 5th at 7pm.
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In an installation that consists of works on paper, reenacted speeches (circa 1950s) by former US Congressman from Michigan George A. Dondero, and modified MoMA publications, I will feature Modern Artists who identified as Communists or had Communists ties in a show entitled, “Communist Tour of MoMa.” This project departs from the history of Modern Art and MoMA as subjects of investigations during the McCarthy era and essentially brings to our attention the role of MoMA in defining Modern Art away from the modern artists' political ideologies.
In my talk entitled, "Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist," I will discuss the conceptual framework of addressing the Soviet experience today--after the collapse of the Soviet bloc--and highlight the question of historical responsibility as fundamental to the construction of the post-Soviet discourse. A special focus on the historical context of "Communist Tour of MoMA" will be given.
Lecture: Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist
Thursday, March 4, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Room: Auditorium, Eugene S. Pulliam Center for Contemporary Media (PCCM)
DePauw University
Art Exhibit: Communist Tour of MoMA
March 5 - March 26, 2010
Low Road Gallery
Opening Reception: March 5th at 7pm.
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November 4, 2009
UPCOMING SHOW: International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP), Brooklyn, NY
MIGUEL AMADO PRESENTS
Works by Ana Cardoso, Carolina Caycedo, Jeanette Doyle, Yevgeniy Fiks, Runo Lagomarsino, Michael Mandiberg, Kaeko Mizukoshi, and Miguel Ângelo Rocha
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 7 - 9PM
(shuttle to ISCP available at the Grand St stop, off the L train)
Opening Hours: Saturday, November 7, 2 - 6PM
Sunday, November 8, 2 - 6PM
Monday, November 9, 12 - 8PM
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MIGUEL AMADO PRESENTS
Works by Ana Cardoso, Carolina Caycedo, Jeanette Doyle, Yevgeniy Fiks, Runo Lagomarsino, Michael Mandiberg, Kaeko Mizukoshi, and Miguel Ângelo Rocha
Opening Reception: Friday, November 6, 7 - 9PM
(shuttle to ISCP available at the Grand St stop, off the L train)
Opening Hours: Saturday, November 7, 2 - 6PM
Sunday, November 8, 2 - 6PM
Monday, November 9, 12 - 8PM
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October 13, 2009
UPCOMING SHOW: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Beyond the Instance of an Ending: projects and events organized by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia
Herter Art Gallery
November 5, 2009 to December 10, 2009
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Beyond the Instance of an Ending: projects and events organized by Susan Jahoda and Jesal Kapadia
Herter Art Gallery
November 5, 2009 to December 10, 2009
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October 13, 2009
NEWS CLIP: "American Communists in Moscow" Tour at the 3rd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Moscow Biennale Beats Odds (in English)
09 Sept 09
ArtInfo
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Moscow Biennale Beats Odds (in English)
09 Sept 09
ArtInfo
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October 5, 2009
NEWS CLIPS ROUNDUP: "American Communists in Moscow" Tour at the 3rd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
What's in the Biennale (in Russian)
02 Oct 09
Kommersant
Walking around Moscow (in Russian)
28 Sept 09
Itogi
All together, without exception, Opens third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (in Russian)
25 Sept 09
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Five outstanding Biennial Exhibitions (in Russian)
24 Sept 09
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Drum painting and melted keyboard (in Russian)
22 Sept 09
Snob
Art demands legs (in Russian)
21 Sept 09
MK
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What's in the Biennale (in Russian)
02 Oct 09
Kommersant
Walking around Moscow (in Russian)
28 Sept 09
Itogi
All together, without exception, Opens third Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (in Russian)
25 Sept 09
Nezavisimaya Gazeta
Five outstanding Biennial Exhibitions (in Russian)
24 Sept 09
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Drum painting and melted keyboard (in Russian)
22 Sept 09
Snob
Art demands legs (in Russian)
21 Sept 09
MK
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September 5, 2009
UPCOMING SHOW: 3rd Moscow Bienniale of Contemporary Art
American Communists in Moscow: Walking Tours with Yevgeniy Fiks
September 28, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
September 29, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
September 30, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
October 1, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
Ultra New Materiality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 23rd, 2009-October 30th, 2009
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American Communists in Moscow: Walking Tours with Yevgeniy Fiks
September 28, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
September 29, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
September 30, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in Russian
October 1, 2009 12:00 p.m. tour in English
Ultra New Materiality, Moscow Museum of Modern Art
September 23rd, 2009-October 30th, 2009
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September 5, 2009
Responsibilities of the Post-Soviet Artist
by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Progressive Nostalgia Exhibition Catalog, Centro per L'art Contemporanea Luigi Pecci--Prato, 2007 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 65-66, June 2007)
The programmatic and conscientious rejection of responsibility as instrumental in the process of cultural production constitutes perhaps the most characteristic feature of post-Soviet art. In the countries of the former Eastern bloc, a tendency of the 1990s and 2000s has been to deny responsibility operational legitimacy in artistic practice and violently push it out as incompatible with and foreign to the post-Soviet context, eagerly privileging its diametrical opposition – irresponsibility – as the only appropriate and fitting for the contemporary moment. READ MORE
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by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Progressive Nostalgia Exhibition Catalog, Centro per L'art Contemporanea Luigi Pecci--Prato, 2007 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 65-66, June 2007)
The programmatic and conscientious rejection of responsibility as instrumental in the process of cultural production constitutes perhaps the most characteristic feature of post-Soviet art. In the countries of the former Eastern bloc, a tendency of the 1990s and 2000s has been to deny responsibility operational legitimacy in artistic practice and violently push it out as incompatible with and foreign to the post-Soviet context, eagerly privileging its diametrical opposition – irresponsibility – as the only appropriate and fitting for the contemporary moment. READ MORE
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September 5, 2009
Post Diaspora: Statement and Premonition
by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Moscow Art Magazine, English Digest 1993-2004, 2005 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 56, 2004)
Over the last six months, the term "post-diaspora" has often been applied to the generation of post-Soviet artists and intellectuals who had moved to the West in the 1990s after the collapse of the Berlin wall in the age of discussions on globalization and the general demoralization of the local. The post-diasporic generation is highly inhomogeneous: the representatives of post-diaspora include both subjects that have "settled-for-good" in the West (the post-Soviet version of the local Western Other) and "temporarily-displaced" nomadic individuals, who are at times virtually indistinguishable from traditional colonial travelers. READ MORE
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by Yevgeniy Fiks
(Published in Moscow Art Magazine, English Digest 1993-2004, 2005 and Moscow Art Magazine, No. 56, 2004)
Over the last six months, the term "post-diaspora" has often been applied to the generation of post-Soviet artists and intellectuals who had moved to the West in the 1990s after the collapse of the Berlin wall in the age of discussions on globalization and the general demoralization of the local. The post-diasporic generation is highly inhomogeneous: the representatives of post-diaspora include both subjects that have "settled-for-good" in the West (the post-Soviet version of the local Western Other) and "temporarily-displaced" nomadic individuals, who are at times virtually indistinguishable from traditional colonial travelers. READ MORE
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February 11, 2009
NEWS CLIPS ROUNDUP: "Adopt Lenin" Solo Show at the Winkleman Gallery, New York City
De-fetishizing Lenin Kitsch
03 Feb 09
Thing Theory
Yevgeniy Fiks
Jan 09
Art in America
Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery
02 Oct 09
Art Fag City
All in One Day: The Gallery Give-Away in Changing Economies
29 Sept 08
Catherine Spaeth Blog
The Russian Soldier
19 Sept 09
ArtCat Zine
Lenin Re-commodified
14 Sept 09
ArtSlant
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De-fetishizing Lenin Kitsch
03 Feb 09
Thing Theory
Yevgeniy Fiks
Jan 09
Art in America
Yevgeniy Fiks at Winkleman Gallery
02 Oct 09
Art Fag City
All in One Day: The Gallery Give-Away in Changing Economies
29 Sept 08
Catherine Spaeth Blog
The Russian Soldier
19 Sept 09
ArtCat Zine
Lenin Re-commodified
14 Sept 09
ArtSlant
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February 10, 2009
NEWS CLIPS ROUNDUP: "Song of Russia" Solo Show at Galerie Blue Square, Paris
Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Blue Square
09 Feb 09
Le Monde
La Metro Goldwyn Mayer épinglée par un artiste russe
23 Jan 09
20 Minutes via DELIREDELART
Yevgeniy Fiks, the Song of Russia
Jan 09
L'Officiel
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Yevgeniy Fiks, Galerie Blue Square
09 Feb 09
Le Monde
La Metro Goldwyn Mayer épinglée par un artiste russe
23 Jan 09
20 Minutes via DELIREDELART
Yevgeniy Fiks, the Song of Russia
Jan 09
L'Officiel
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