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Molochnikov Mikhail

Born November 19, 1963.

In 1984 he graduated from the Moscow Architectural College.
In 1996 he became a member of the International Union of Artists.
Since 2004 - a member of the German Union of Artists VVK.

Born November 19, 1963.

In 1984 he graduated from the Moscow Architectural College.
In 1996 he became a member of the International Union of Artists.
Since 2004 - a member of the German Union of Artists VVK.

The graphic artist Mikhail Molochnikov splits his life between Berlin and Moscow. His works include handmade books, sculptures from cardboard and series of graphics.
In his works the artist starts out from avant-garde ideas, first and foremost Malevich  theory or art, combining them with Eastern Gnosticism and Tibetan mediation practices.

Mikhail Molochnikov comments on his works: „In my creativity I always rely on meditation. It helps me to see the object in its „archaic” form. A world of pure forms where space becomes part of the object and element of creativity.

PERSONAL EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2020 - Untitled ArtFair,  San Francisco, USA.
  • 2020 - Volta ArtFair, NY, USA.
  • 2020 - Fractals of Molochnikov, Ingallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2019 - Reconstruction des Universum, Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany
  • 2019 - Volta Fair, Basel, Switzerland
  • 2019 - Journey through dreams, Artstory gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2019 - ProstoKosmos, NCCA in Kaliningrad, Russia
  • 2019 - Between Heaven and Earth, Museum of Decorative Arts, Moscow, Russia
  • 2019 - Between Thoughts, personal, Krokin gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2019 - Abstraction at the forefront, Center for Contemporary Art Sergei Kuryokhin, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 2018 - Metro, Open Club, Moscow, Russia
  • 2017 - Anniversary, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven
  • 2017 - Structures, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2017 - Art marathon Kiefer -Velimir Khlebnikov, Hermitage, St. Petersburg
  • 2016 - Formula Krug, Open Club, Moscow
  • 2016 - Birds and Figures, Erarta Museum, St. Petersburg
  • 2016 - Red Black, gallery on Kashirka, Moscow
  • 2015 - Birds and Numbers, MMOMA, Moscow
  • 2015 - Another Reality, Central House of Artists, Moscow
  • 2015 - Yellow Submarine, A3 Gallery, Moscow
  • 2015 - Gallery Triumph ZERO personal exhibition, Moscow
  • 2014 - This Leads to Fire: Russian Art from Non-Conformism to Global Capitalism. Selections from the Kolodzei Art Foundation, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York, USA
  • 2014 - Art Apart Fair 4th ”, gAZE Gallery, Singapore
  • 2013 - "Dance-dance", gallery "Rietumu Banka", Riga, Latvia
  • 2006 - "22". Gallery GAD, Berlin, Germany
  • 2005 - "Objects and Drawings 1999-2005". Gallery "GAD", Berlin, Germany
  • 2000 - "Dances of Kali Yuga". Gallery "Dom", Moscow
  • 1999 - Sensual Penetration. Hotel Grand Marriott, Moscow
  • 1997 - "M-16". Gallery "Velta", Moscow
  • 1996 - "Birds-fish". Gallery "Velta", Gallery "Dar", Moscow
  • 1995 - "House of Shchukin". Municipal Gallery "Helikon", Moscow
  • 1994 - "Insects and People". Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • 1994 - "Untitled". Gallery "Salon", Moscow
  • 1992 - "Secret Signs". Gallery "A 3", Moscow

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

  • 2020 - ENTER Art Fair. Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 2014 - 25 years of Russian artist books from the LS collection Van Abbemuseum (1989-2013), Van Abbemuseum, Netherlands (catalog)
  • 2014 - "Sub ROSA", THE STATE DARWIN MUSEUM, Moscow, Russia
  • 2014 - "Paper Sculpture". State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (catalog)
  • 2014 - „KÜNSTLERBÜCHER_ARTISTS 'BOOKS. Internationale Exponate von 1960 bis heute “will open in Stift Admont, Styria, Austria
  • 2014 - “Bringing a World of Art to Hong Kong”, gAZE Gallery, Hong Kong, China
  • 2013 - Artgeschoss, Wolfenbüttel, Germany (catalog)
  • 2013 - ART SOUTHAMPTON 2013, New York, USA
  • 2013 - ART PALM BEACH 2013, Palm Beach County Convention Center West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • 2013 - 5th International Artists' Book Exhibition, King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary (catalog)
  • 2013 - "The book on an edge of the modern art", 5 Moscow biennial of the modern art, Russian State library of arts, Moscow, Russia (catalog)
  • 2013 - "25 Jahre russische Künstlerbücher" LS Collection Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Carl von Ossietzky, Hamburg, Germany (catalog)
  • 2013 - "ARTBOOK BERLIN 2013", in der Kunstfabrik Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany
  • 2013 - "Russian Berlin" at the Museum of Modern Art PERMM, Perm, Russia
  • 2013 - "First Book", Tsaritsyno Museum, Moscow, Russia (catalog)
  • 2012 - Shanghai Art 2012, Shanghai, China
  • 2012 - Regeneration of the mind, Black Dog Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • 2012 - Artists' Books on Tour - Artist Competition and Mobile Museum, International Center of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • 2012 - Artists' Books on Tour - Artist Competition and Mobile Museum, Museum of Decorative Arts, Prague, Czech Republic
  • 2012 - ART ELYSEES 2012, Paris, France
  • 2012 - "The Experimental Art of Russian Children's Books", New York, USA
  • 2012 - Mikhail Molochnikov & Vladimir Sulyagin. Dialoges ", CENTRAL HAUSE OF ARTISTS, Moscow, Russia
  • 2012 - "Mede in Berlin", AGENCY: ART RU, Moscow, Russia (catalog)
  • 2012 - “7. EDITIONALE Köln ", Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
  • 2012 - "Magie der Vielfalt - Das MAK als angewandter Raum der Zukunft", MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
  • 2011 - The London Art Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  • 2011 - Auktion Fischer “Russische Kunst“, Lucerne, Switzerland (catalog)
  • 2011 - Artists' Books on Tour - Artist Competition and Mobile Museum, MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts / Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria (catalog)
  • 2011 - "Exhibition of contemporary Russian artist's books in Marseille." Atelier Vis-à-Vis, France
  • 2011 - "Collection VERMES Julia", Vízivárosi Galéria, Budapest, Hungary (catalog)
  • 2011 - “das alphabet von a bis z“, MEWO Kunsthalle, Memmingham, Germany
  • 2011 - "KNYZHKOVYJ ARSENAL" is the first international book fair and the promising project endeavored by The National Art, Culture & Museum Complex “ARSENAL”, Kiev, Ukraine
  • 2011 - "Distortion. Earth", Gallery Agency Art.Ru, Moscow, Russia (catalog)
  • London Book Fair, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
  • Book Fair 2010, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2010 - "ALLA GLORIA MILITAR", gallery "AIRCRAFT", Bratislava, Slovakia (catalog)
  • 2010 - "The origin of Darwin through the eyes of contemporary artists", State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
  • 2010 - "Moscow Printed Author's Graphics 1961-2009 from the Kolodzey Collection" Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, USA
  • 2009 - Book Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
  • 2009 - 20th Book Fair, Mainz, Germany
  • 2009 - "BOOK OF THE ARTIST'2009", All-Russian State Library for Foreign Literature named after M. I. Rudomino, Moscow, Russia
  • 2009 - "Dmitry Kavarga and Mikhail Molochnikov", Barbarian-Art Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • 2009 - "0.5", gallery "POP / OFF / ART", Moscow, Russia.
  • 2009 - "Architecture: ad marginem", Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • 2008 - Book Fair. Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2008 - "RE". Northampton University Gallery, UK.
  • 2008 - “On the Mortal in Art. In memory of Nikolai Konstantinov ". Rostov-on-Don.
  • 2008 - "Kaliningrad - Konigsberg 2008" (International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
  • 2008 - "The Power of Water". State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
  • 2008 - "Moscow - New York = Parallel Pla" y. From the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art. Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA.
  • 2007 - Book Fair. Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 2007 - Book Fair "Page's 11". Paris, France.
  • 2007 - NCCA "Moscow - New York = Parallel Pla". From the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art", Moscow.
  • 2007 - 19th book fair. Mainz, Germany.
  • 2007 - "Utopian architecture". State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
  • 2007 - "Russia, the homeland of elephants." Gallery "Pop / off / art", Moscow, Russia.
  • 2007 - "ABC". Northampton University Gallery, UK.
  • 2006 - Library of Alexandria. International Biennale "Artist's Book". Alexandria, Egypt.
  • 2006 - Historic MADI: Its Roots. Art of Arginina and Russia in the XX century ”. MADI Museum, Dallas, USA.
  • 2006 - "Confrontations". Berlin and Krakow, Germany and Poland (catalog).
  • 2006 - Transport. MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopi, Macedonia.
  • 2006 - "New Russian Avant-garde". Gallery "Pop / off / art", Munich, Germany.
  • 2006 - "Pictures from paper: Soviet and Russian art 1955-2005". Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art, Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, USA.
  • 2005 - "Moscow Graphics: Works of Artists 1961-2005" / International Print Center New York and the Kolodzei Art Foundation. New York, USA.
  • 2005 - Collage in Russia. State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.
  • 2004 - The Leepa-Rattner Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Kolodzei Art Foundation, presents Finding Freedom: 40 Years of Soviet and Russian Art Selections from the Kolodzei Collection of Russian and Eastern European Art / USA.
  • 2004 - "THE ARTIST'S BOOK AS AN IMAGE". NCCA, Moscow.
  • 2003 - "PARADIES". Bunker Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany.
  • 2003 - "Liebe und Flügel". Galerie "Belabush", Berlin, Germany.
  • 2003 - "Moscow abstraction". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
  • 2003 - Collage in Russia. Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
  • 2003 - "3 INTERNATIONALES KUNSTFESTIVAL". Magdeburg, Germany.
  • 2001 - "Art Moscow". 5th International Art Fair, Central House of Artists, Moscow.
  • 2001 - "Abstraction in Russia in the twentieth century." State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
  • 2000 - "SUPREMBYT". Gallery "Dom", Moscow.
  • 2000 - "Kaliningrad - Konigsberg 2000" (International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
  • 1999 - "The doby politic". Long Island University, USA.
  • 1999 - "BOOK OF THE ARTIST". Museum of Private Collections, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
  • 1999 - "The Living and the Dead". Gallery "ESCAPE", Moscow.
  • 1998 - "Gifts to M'ARS". Gallery "M'ARS", Moscow.
  • 1998 - "The Book of the Artist and the Poet". Center for Contemporary Art, Nizhny Novgorod.
  • 1998 - "Kaliningrad - Konigsberg 98" (International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
  • 1998 - "Winter Kaleidoscope". Gallery "PAN-DAN", Central House of Artists, Moscow.
  • 1998 - "Art Manege 98". Manege, Moscow.
  • 1997 - International Art Fair "Art-Manezh". Gallery "Pan-Dan", Manege, Moscow.
  • 1997 - Book Fair 97. Frankfurt, Germany.
  • 1997 - "The world of sensual things in pictures - the end of the twentieth century." Gallery M'ARS, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, Moscow.
  • 1996 - Selections from the Colodzei Collection. Atrium art gallery, Morristown, New Jersey, USA.
  • 1996 - Sotheby's. Hotel Baltschug Kempinski, Moscow.
  • 1996 - "New Russian Art" Colodzei Collection. Georgetown university art gallery, Washington, USA.
  • 1996 - "Galleries in the Gallery". Gallery "Nina", State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
  • 1995 - "Collection of Tanya and Natasha Kolodzey". Downtown Oklahoma City, USA.
  • 1995 - Carnival. Central House of Artists, Moscow.
  • 1995 - "A-1, A-2, A-3". Gallery "A-3", Moscow.
  • 1994 - "The Kolodzei Collection". City Arts Center, Oklahoma City, USA.
  • 1994 - "Kaliningrad - Konigsberg" (III International Biennale of Graphic Art). Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad.
  • 1993 - "New Names". Traverse Center, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • 1993 - "Image and Symbol". Art College, Edinburgh, Scotland.
  • 1993 - "Art Expo 93". Gallery "Arka", Tokyo, Japan.
  • 1993 - "Exhibition of Graphics". Gallery "Moscow Fine Art", Moscow.
  • 1993 - "ART MYTH 3". Gallery "Nina", Gallery "Moscow Fine Art", Manege, Moscow.
  • 1992 - "Neue Russische Buchkunst", Lyrik Kabinett. Munich, Germany.
  • 1992 - "In Richtung zu Malewitsch". Karenina Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
  • 1992 - “Malevich Center in the Paleontological Museum”. Paleontological Museum, Moscow.
  • 1991 - "Contemporary Artists - to Malevich". State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.
  • 1991 - "Book-Art", Youth Palace, Moscow.
  • 1990 - The first exhibition of the "M'ARS" gallery. Moscow.
  • 1990 - "Moscow in Cambridge". King's College, Cambridge, UK.
  • 1990 - Jalokivia Mudassa / Jewels in the mud. Tampere Art Museum, Tampere, Finland.
  • 1990 - "Art London 90". The Russian Collection, London, UK.
  • 1990 - "Principle of Ki", Central House of Artists, Moscow.
  • "Guide", a museum Tsarina's, Moscow, Russia

WORKS ARE IN COLLECTIONS:

  • State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
  • State Museum of Fine Arts. Pushkin, Moscow, Russia
  • State Kaliningrad Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russia
  • Kolodzei Art Foundation, NY, USA
  • Special Collections Librarian, Joan Flasch Artists' Book Collection, Chicago, USA
  • The State Museum-Kupferstichkabinett, Berlin, Germany
  • State Library. Lenin, Moscow, Russia
  • The Alexandria library, Alexandria, Egypt
  • National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
  • Ford fund, USA
  • Reinhard Grüner, Munich, Germany
  • Museum MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art), Skopje, Macedonia
  • Gutenberg-Museum, Mainz, Germany
  • Julia Vermes Collektion, Basel, Switzerland
  • Museum "ART 4", Moscow, Russia
  • Boris Fridman collection, Moscow, Russia
  • Collection of Mikhail Kaminsky, Moscow, Russia
  • Yafim Blakher Collektion, Berlin, Germany
  • Nadja Brykina Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
  • Mikhail Karminsky, Frankfurt, Germany
  • Nikolai and Clair Savoretti, Moscow, Russia
  • Vis-à-Vis, Marseilles, France
  • Mikhail Kamensky, Moscow, Russia
  • Alexander Smuzikov, Moscow, Russia
  • Anton Belov, Moscow, Russia
  • Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso, Paris, France
  • Staatsbibliothek, Berlin, Germany
  • Museumsbibliothek, Köln, Germany
  • MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art, Vienna, Austria
  • International Center of Graphic Arts, MGLC, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Bibliothèque nationale de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Friedrich C. Heller Private Collection, Vienna, Austria
  • KollerArtHouse, Moscow, Russia
  • Anna Azarnova, Moscow, Russia
  • Michael Alshibaya, Moscow, Russia
  • King St. Stephen Museum, Hungary
  • LS Collection Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

AWARDS

  • 2006, Grant from the European Association for Jewish Culture, Paris, France
  • 1994, Prize-winner in the category "Unique graphics", 3rd International Biennale of Graphic Art, Kaliningrad Museum of Art, Kaliningrad, Russia

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