Boris Mikhailov est l un des grands photographes vivants de l ex-URSS. Né en 1938 en Ukraine, il s installe à Berlin à la chute de l Union soviétique, où il vit actuellement.
Interview «Un photographe, c'est un bâtard» : avec Boris Mikhailov au cœur des marges de l'ex-URSS Actualité Les finalistes du Prix Pictet dévoilés ! Livre Boris Mikhailov - Yesterday's Sandwich Livre Boris Mikhailov Yesterday's Sandwich Livre Boris Mikhailov: Suzi Et Cetera Vente Auction : Modern and Contemporary Photographs Festival 3e édition du Tbilisi Photo Festival Exposition Exposition : «KOLLEKTSIA !» au Centre Pompidou Exposition Festival : « PhotoEspana 2016 » Exposition Exposition : Boris Mikhailov's Men's Talk at Galleria Guido Costa Exposition Exposition : Yesterday’s Sandwich de Boris Mikhailov Exposition Exposition : Boris Mikhailov Exposition Deutsche Börse Prize Exposition Primrose: Russian Colour Photography Exposition Boris Mikhailov « Four Decades » at Dominique Levy Gallery Exposition « This Infinite World » : Set 10 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Exposition ART PARIS ART FAIR fait entrer la Russie au Grand Palais Exposition Exposition « Primerose » au Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam Exposition The virtuell exhibition « The Face of Freedom » at Deutscher Reichstag Exposition Young people Exhibition at the Fotomuseum Winerthur Exposition Boris Mikhailov à Paris ; turbulences d'un anti-héros de l'ex URSS Exposition Boris Mikhailov - Case History Exposition Der Zweite Blick. The Second Glance Au deuxième regard Второй взгляд Zeitgenössische Fotografie Contemporary photography Exposition Aires de Jeux, Champs de Tensions, Figures de la Photographie urbaine en Europe depuis 1970 Exposition Arbeit/Labour - Set 7 from the collection and Archive of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Exposition PRINTED MATTER Exposition Boris Mikhailov - At Dusk Exposition SWITCHER SEX-Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection Exposition Boris Mikhailov - Sandwich Exposition BORIS MIKHAILOV If I were a german Exposition Boris Mikhailov à la galerie Suzanne Tarasiève Exposition Boris Mikhailov - Look at me - I look at water Modifier l'image
A l'occasion de ses multiples expositions en France (http://actuphoto.com/20834-boris-mikhailov-a-paris-turbulences-d-un-anti-heros-de-l-ex-urss.html), nous avons choisi de nous pencher sur le cas de Boris Mikhailov, photographe ukrainien de soixante quatorze ans connu pour son travail documentaire sur l'ex empire soviétique. Les équipes de la galerie Suzanne Tarasieve ont partagé avec nous leurs connaissances sur un artiste hors-norme, qu'elles suivent depuis des années.
La première question qu'on peut se poser c'est celle du caractère tardif de la notoriété de Boris Mikhailov. Il semble n'être apparu dans le monde de l'art qu'au début des années 2000, à environ 60 ans. Qu'en est-i...
Les onze finalistes de la cinquième édition du Prix Pictet, qui a pour thème « Consommation », ont été dévoilés à Paris pendant l’ouverture de Paris Photo, Mercredi 13 Novembre 2013.
Les photographes sélectionnés sont :
Adam Bartos (États-‐Unis, 1953) Sélectionné pour la série Braderie de jardin, 2008
Ernie & Mattress 2008, New York State 70 x 47 cm, Archival Pigment Print
Series: Yard Sale Adam Bartos © Prix Pictet Ltd 2013/14
Motoyuki Daifu (Japon, 1985) Sélectionné pour la série Projet de famille, 2007 –2011
Project Family #10 2007, Kanagawa, Japan 50.8 x 61 cm, C-Print
Series: Project Family Motoyuki Daifu © Prix Pictet Ltd 2013/14
Rineke Dijkstra (Pay...
Yesterday s Sandwich est une série photographique créée entre la fin des années 1960 et le début des années 1970. Il s agit d une juxtaposition de deux diapositives projetées par inadvertance dont le résultat offre un univers double, extraordinaire, où le quotidien soviétique se mêle à la sexualité, à la beauté, à la politique et à la poésie.
Le travail de Boris Mikhailov s inspire du langage cinématographique. À l instar d un montage « à la soviétique », la série « Sandwich » est un assemblage d éléments aux significations antagonistes, reflétant les contradictions de la société de l ex-URSS mais aussi l...
First Book Ever Published on the Early Work of Russia's Most Influential Living Photographer
Russian photographer Boris Mikhailov (b.1938) described the political climate of his homeland in the late 60s and early 70s as "a period of hidden meanings and coded messages." Inadvertently he produced a body of work during that time that parallels that encrypted reality--an assemblage of conflicting elements that reflect the dualism and contradictions of Soviet society. The simple act of overlaying two slides created a scene in which fact and fiction could interplay, concealing an extraordinary double world of soviet drudgery juxtaposed with sex and beauty.
Phaidon Press is pleased to announce the publication of YESTERDAY'S SANDWICH (Hardcover, April 2007, $59.95), a unique collection of Boris Mikhailov's Superimpositio...
In the early 1980s, before Glasnost and Perestroika, Boris Mikhailov made this series of photographs in his home town of Charkow, in the Ukraine. Mikhailov is best known for his ruthlessly honest documentation of the problems of Soviet and Russian daily life; this work, which has never been published before, is sometimes gentler.
About the Author
Boris Mikhailov was born in 1938 in Kharkov, Ukraine and still lives in his hometown when not teaching at Harvard. His work has been widely shown throughout Europe and the United States, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, the MIT List Center, Cambridge, the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Photographers Gallery, London, the DAAD Gallery, Berlin and the Sprengel Museum, Han...
On Wednesday 26 November over 250 lots of modern and contemporary photography will be auctioned at Villa Grisebach in Berlin.
The modern photography selection is lead by two vintage pigment prints by the Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol, dating from the mid-1920s. Depicting scenes typical of Drtikol’s output, "The Movement" and "Akt" work with elements of art deco, the theatre and of abstraction; only very rarely do works of this quality appear on the market (each €15,000/25,000). Two outstanding examples of early twentieth century pictorial photography are provided in the form of works by Rudolf Koppitz ("Esche", bromoil transfer print, c. 1912, €15,000/20,000) and Heinrich Kühn ("Pustertalerinnen", bromoil transfer print on Japan paper, 1913-1914, &eur...
Pour sa 3ème édition, le Tbilisi Photo Festival, se place sous le signe du témoignage et de l’engagement. Avec, une exposition inédite consacrée à la Syrie plongée dans le chaos. Et la venue du photographe de guerre Stanley Greene, en invité d’honneur. Le festival a pour ambition de montrer le meilleur de la photographie mondiale mais aussi de se poser comme le rendez-vous incontournable des photographies des mondes qui se rencontrent dans le Caucase, couloir à la croisée des univers asiatique, iranien, turc, européen, russe, arabe.
Nuit de la photographie - La Nuit de l’Année des Rencontres d’Arles hors les murs
Comme pour ses deux premières éditions, la Nuit de la photographie, en pa...
Communiqué de presse du Centre Pompidou
À partir du 14 septembre 2016, le Centre Pompidou expose l’extraordinaire don de plus de deux cent cinquante oeuvres soviétiques et russes contemporaines réunies avec le soutien exceptionnel de la Vladimir Potanin Foundation. Cet ensemble d’oeuvres a pu être offert au Musée national d’art moderne grâce à la générosité de la Vladimir Potanin Foundation, des collectionneurs, des artistes et leurs familles. Inscrit dans une année 2016 placée sous le signe d’un hommage aux donateurs de tous horizons, ce projet rappelle l’importance cruciale de ces gestes engagés pour le développement des institutions patrimoniales. L’ensemble ainsi constitu&eacut...
PHotoEspaña 2016 will take place from June 1st to August 28th
The 19th edition of PhotoEspaña, the international festival of photography and visual arts will be dedicated to European photography.
After covering photography in Spain as well as Latin-American, PHotoEspaña is now –in its nineteenth year– aiming to provide a panoramic view of photography on the European continent.
© Juana Biarnés
The artistic programme for the Festival will include exhibitions commissioned from a range of specialists which seek to analyse the very concept of Europe; what it is, what it has been and how the continent as a whole is configured in social, geographic, political, economic or creative terms.
© Shirley Baker
Among the exhibitions to be included in the 201...
Entering Galleria Guida Costa's diffusely lit gallery from their front reception room to see "Men's Talk" feels like entering some kind of illicit and profane chapel. Whilst the space—which occupies an old print workshop a stone's throw from Turin's main railway station—bears distinct traces of its past, felt through its concrete floor and yellowing walls, its current exhibition invites contemplation on works of iconographic scale.
©Boris Mikhailov
The exhibition of Boris Mikhailov (b.1938) is the first in a series on the work of the Ukrainian photographer who came to prominence when he moved to East Germany from the Ukraine shortly after the collapse of Soviet Union. His social realist images portraying drunkenness and destitution both before and after the end of Sov...
Deweer Gallery est ravi de pouvoir annoncer pour la deuxième fois une exposition individuelle du photographe ukrainien Boris Mikhailov. Pour cet exposition l’artiste lui-même, qui jouit d’une très grande réputation internationale, fait une sélection d’œuvres de sa série ‘Yesterday’s Sandwich’.
©Boris Mikhailov
La série ‘Yesterday’s Sandwich’ fut établie dans les années 1960-1970; chaque œuvre de la série est le résultat d’une photomontage. Les montages sont nées en superposant d’une manière spontanée et presque hasardeuse plusieurs images photographiques. Au sujet du technique utilisé l’artiste déclare e.a. deux ch...
Une exposition sur le très célèbre photographe ukrainien Boris Mikhailov à la galerie Suzanne Tarasieve.
© Boris Mikhailov
Ce dernier a photographié les événements de la place Maïdan pendant la contestation des pros européens à la fin de l'année 2013.
Il utilise le photomontage ou peint sur ses photos pour produire un effet décalé ou mettre en exergue certains éléments de la composition.
Boris Mikhailov
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Since being established in 1996, each year the Prize has celebrated the best in photography, whether a publication or exhibition. It is one of the largest art prizes in the UK, proving a pivotal point in many photographers’ careers. Past winners include Richard Billingham, Broomberg & Chanarin, Andreas Gursky, Boris Mikhailov and Juergen Teller.
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Featuring artists as diverse as Alexander Rodchenko and Boris Mikhailov, Primrose: Russian Colour Photography explores colour experiments and developments in Russian photography.
Colour photography began in the early 1850s, almost simultaneously with the discovery of the new medium itself. Early colouring techniques were based on the traditional methods of craftsmen who added colour into the image by hand, the popularity of this technique defined an independent trend in the history of photography in Russia.
This exhibition includes 'postcard' landscapes and portraits as well as Soviet propaganda, avant-garde and reportage photography, and contains works by renowned photographers and artists such as Ivan Shagin, Dmitry Baltermants, Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky, Alexander Rodchenko, Vladislav Mikosha and Boris...
I am interested in people and the things they do; and I feel I am part of a wider social process. -- Boris Mikhailov
New York, NY…Dominique Lévy is pleased to announce the second exhibition at her gallery’s new home at 909 Madison Avenue. Opening to the public on November 23, 2013, Boris Mikhailov: Four Decades will explore the full career of one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, Ukranian-born Mikhailov has investigated the fate of the individual within the framework of history, making life-size color photographs that reveal the ever-widening gulf between public ideology and private existence in post-communist Eastern Europe. Deeply rooted in the tradition of social study and commentary, Mikhailov’s work locates its power in deep engagement with...
For this second anniversary exhibition the British artist and photographer Paul Graham has selected photographers and photographs that are assembled in his investigation of the infinite world of potential images.
© Bieke Depoorter. Untitled, 2012
With This Infinite World Fotomuseum Winterthur presents in this anniversary year its tenth Set exhibition, which captures the 20-year history of the museum in a very special way. None other than the New York-based photographer Paul Graham was invited to curate this second anniversary exhibition following Concrete – Photography and Architecture. With 21 selected works by artists ranging from Diane Arbus to Bertien van Manen, from Lewis Baltz and Luigi Ghirri to Bo...
Du 28 mars au 1er avril 2013, ART PARIS ART FAIR accueille 140 galeries de 21 pays sous la nef du Grand Palais. Rendez-vous printanier pour l’art moderne et contemporain, ART PARIS ART FAIR affirme son identité singulière de foire européenne orientée vers la promotion des scènes de l’Est (Europe Centrale et Orientale, Moyen-Orient et Asie) et met pour la première fois un pays à l’honneur en invitant la Russie.
UNE SÉLECTION PROFONDÉMENT RENOUVELÉE ET PLUS INTERNATIONALE
Avec 61 nouvelles participations, la sélection 2013 est profondément renouvelée. Elle se distingue par une internationalisation croissante avec 21 pays représentés (contre 16 en 2012) et 43% de participation étrangère. De nouveaux pays font leur entrée comme l’Arabie Saou...
L’exposition au nom métaphorique de Primerose est consacrée à la naissance et au développement de la couleur dans la photographie russe de 1860 à1970, mais elle est en même temps une Histoire en photos de la Russie. Les oeuvres des classiques de la photographie russe tels que P.Pavlov, K.Bergamasco, A.Eikhenvald. A.Rodtchenko, V.Mikoch, G.Petroussov, D.Baltermants, B.Mikhailov et autres, ainsi que celles d’auteurs inconnus, nous permettent de suivre pas à pas les changements survenus au cours d’un siècle dans la vie d’un pays qui a connu des catastrophes historiques, politiques et sociales, et témoignent du rôle que joua la photographie pendant toute cette période.
La couleur fait son apparition et se propage largement...
The Teutloff Collection goes Virtual!
"The Face of Freedom"
A virtuell Exhibition at Deutscher Reichstag curated by Prof. Klaus Honnef
The fruit of 40 years of collecting and many decades of collaboration with international museums, the exhibitions of the Teutloff Photo + Video Collection can now be viewed, browsed and enjoyed in our new virtual museum by people all over the world!
Leading international curators create exhibitions presented in settings appropriate to the subjects they engage with. It’s a highly democratic and socially committed way to open up the Teutloff Collection to a wide global audience.
In an unprecedented innovation, individual exhibitions will be staged in public buildings with a close connection to the part...
Growing up is a time of self-searching. Who am I and who do I want to be? It is a time of trying to ground oneself in the world and build a relationship with one’s own persona. Each individual must personally undergo the experience of transition from a protected childhood into a social system of relationships and responsibility, finding one’s role in group dynamics, identifying, and testing possibilities and boundaries. Artistic photography has repeatedly examined this phase of life, from at least two different perspectives. One is the viewpoint of actual experience – a young adult who shares the lives of the protagonists with whom he or she is involved. Then there is the adult perspective on the phenomena of youth, which takes a different form of expression due to a certain distance and life experie...
Les deux espaces de la galerie Suzanne Tarasiève à Paris, à Belleville et dans le haut-marais (Passage de l'Atlas et rue Pastourelle respectivement), présentent deux séries du photographe ukrainien Boris Mikhailov, aujourd'hui âgé de soixante-quatorze ans.
La série Tea, Coffee, Cappucino, à voir rue Pastourelle et réalisée entre 2000 et 2010, est présentée pour la première fois en France ; on y voit les carrefours de la ville ukrainienne de Kharkov et leur faune. Mikhailov documente, à la volée, les mutations du régime soviétique : tout devient business à l'arrachée, tout se vend, du café à la criée ("Avant cette date, personne ne buvait d...
Ukrainian-born Boris Mikhailov is one of the leading photographers from the former Soviet Union. For over 30 years, he has explored the position of the individual within the historical mechanisms of public ideology, touching on such subjects as Ukraine under Soviet rule, the living conditions in post-communist Eastern Europe, and the fallen ideals of the Soviet Union. Although deeply rooted in a historical context, Mikhailov’s work also incorporates profoundly engaging and personal narratives of humor, lust, vulnerability, aging, and death.
This exhibition is the first in-depth presentation of Mikhailov’s seminal Case History series (1997–98) in an American museum. This body of work explores the deeply troubling circumstances of people who have been left homeless by the collapse of the Soviet Uni...
Artistic photography is far removed from just imaging the real world. The emotionally „naive „ first glance that trusts the documentary character of a photo, has been widely made obselete by technical and artistic developments. The photo is able to create surreal or virtual worlds, to produce visual angles, that have no adequate equivalent in the empirical world. This is the moment for the „Zweiten Blick“ (second glance), that leans towards the principles of design and method, that can unsettle our seeing habits, irritate or intensify, and will, undoubtably give our visual perception in its rational function towards realisation, a jolt. The artistic quality of photography can rarely be ascertained at first glence – the aesthetic intensity and sensitivity of the artist demand extra attenti...
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La Ville de Montpellier accueille au Pavillon Populaire du 25 février au 24 avril 2011, l’exposition « Aires de jeux, champs de tensions : figures de la photographie urbaine en Europe depuis 1970 ».
C’est Monika Faber qui a été choisie par Gilles Mora pour être la commissaire invitée de cette 1ère exposition présentée dans le cadre de la programmation 2011 centrée sur la photographie urbaine. Monika Faber est conservatrice en chef de la collection photographique du musée de l’Albertina, à Vienne (Autriche).
Enregistrer les sensations corporelles au travail dans les espaces urbains : voici le lien unissant les 14 artistes photographes ou vidéastes présent&...
We each relate to work in our own personal way. We may be employed or self employed; we may have just entered the workforce and have specific goals or we may be enjoying well-earned retirement. Working to earn a living is a salient feature of bourgeois society. It defines social status and belonging, while unemployment and not working bears the menace of being ostracized. From its earliest beginnings, photography has captured how, where and under what conditions people work – not only by in-house photographers, adhering to the perspective and specifications of the management but also by freelance photographers with an open-ended, unfiltered approach to places of production and trade. In both content and motif, the exhibition “Arbeit/Labour” traces the transition from physical labour to automa...
The exhibition Printed Matter - Set 6 from the Collection of the Fotomuseum Winterthur focuses on small publications, artists' posters and photographic books from the past 40 years and sets a counterpoint to the large photographic cycles and tableaux that are the mainstay of the Fotomuseum Winterthur Collection.
It was only a matter of time before photographers and artists began to explore the aesthetic possibilities of the print media by deploying the visual structures of newspapers and books in their own works. Initially the preserve of conceptual artists such as Ed Ruscha or Hans-Peter Feldmann with their small, unprepossessing publications, now there are many photographers and artists who produce such "printed matter". Michel François and Lidwien van de Ven, for instance, reproduce their photograp...
'At Dusk' (1993) consists of 13 panoramic photographs, tinted with blue ink. They remind us of the second World War. It is a dark and very dramatical series about some of the artist's personal recollections of world war II, during which Mikhailov was evacuated to the Ural. He remembers being woken up brutally in the middle of the night by the wailing sirens. The dark blue tints refer to these traumatic experiences and also to the upcoming capitalist system that was rapidly taking control of his post-communist country at the time he made the series. 'At Dusk' is one of Boris Mikhailov's most striking series....
Slought Foundation, Philadelphia is pleased to announce the first exhibition of works from the Teutloff Collection, Germany, featuring a selection of international artists whose film and video works examine the varied manifestations of the human body in contemporary society. The exhibition will be on display in the galleries at Slought Foundation from December 12, 2007 - February 9, 2008; the opening reception will take place on Saturday, January 19th, 2007 from 6:30-8:30pm. The works featured in this exhibition will be selected by Osvaldo Romberg, Senior Curator at Slought Foundation;
featuring video works by donigan cumming, tracey emin, sigalit landau, bjørn melhus, patricia piccinini, michael rees, una szeemann, zhou xiaohu, and peter weibel; photographs by diane arbus, matthew barney, katharina bosse, hen...
Boris Mikhailov is one of the most important photographers of our time. Since the 1960s he has been developing a visual cosmos in which the lives of simple people in Communist Russia are penetratingly recounted. In those days, photography was controlled by strict rules. Mikhailov turned against these rules and pointed his camera in the direction of the private and the personal, the lives of his friends and acquaintances, sexuality, and the creeping decay of his home town, Kharkov.
Almost four decades after its creation, we are presenting an exhibition of the Sandwich series. Created during the late 1960s and 1970s, this series represents the poetic side of Mikhailov's early conceptual work.
Overlapping motifs lead to multifaceted interpretations, in which ironic allusion to food shortages, gloomy living situations...
Boris Mikhailov a choisi de ne pas choisir son camp ; aussi son oeuvre est-elle la plus riche des photographes ayant émergé de l'ex-Union Soviétique. En près de quarante ans de carrière, il a toujours vacillé entre l'art et le documentaire. Ses images ambivalentes sont extraordinairement conceptuelles, tout en constituant parallèlement un témoignage visuel incontestable, notamment de la vie quotidienne sous le régime communiste. Un témoignage d'autant plus précieux que ses photographies contournent agilement le style réaliste-socialiste grâce au refus systématique du photographe de devenir un photojournaliste à part entière et d'enregistrer un documentaire social à la gloire du régime.
La galerie Suzanne Tarasiève présente une sélection de ces images ambiguës, propose un éventail de styles ...
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Boris Mikhailov a choisi de ne pas choisir son camp ; aussi son œuvre est-elle la plus riche des photographes ayant émergé de l'ex-Union Soviétique. En près de quarante ans de carrière, il a toujours vacillé à la frontière entre l'art et le documentaire. Ses images ambivalentes sont extraordinairement conceptuelles, tout en constituant parallèlement un témoignage visuel incontestable, notamment de la vie quotidienne sous le
régime communiste. Un témoignage d'autant plus précieux que ses photographies contournent agilement le style réaliste-socialiste grâce au refus systématique du photographe de devenir un photojournaliste à part entière et d'enregistrer un documentaire social à la gloire du régime.
Mikhailov a également jonglé avec les styles et les thèmes. Il est im...
"My horror is that my enemy has no face..."
this notation of Heiner Müller gives the title for the keywork of our exhibition.
Rarely has anyone photographed reality in such an unprettified way as Boris Mikhailov. Empathy is the other obvious aspect of his approach to all his subjects. He captures the unadorned and the natural; in pictures devoid of aesthetic exhaltation, he concentrates on people and their living conditions. On his journeys through Russia, Germany, and his Ukrainian homeland, Mikhailov has equally observed the poor, the well-to-do, the outcasts, and the homeless. >Look at Me, I Look at Water< was composed in 1999 at the suggestion of the Heiner Müller-Society when Boris Mikhailov's name was found in one of Heiner Müller's notebooks. With this book Mikhailov is continuing, thematically and conception...