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		PUSENKOFF George

Biographical information: 1953 - born in Krasnopolje, Belorussia
1963 - the family moves to Moscow
1976 - graduation from the Moscow Institute of Electronic Technology, Moscow
1983 - graduated from the Moscow Institute of Polygraphic Design
working for different publishing houses in Moscow
since 1984 - participation in group exhibitions in Moscow, USSR and abroad
1987 - membership in the art association Ermitage, Moscow
membership in the Union of Artists, USSR
1988 - membership in the Group 88 (with six Moscow Artists)
1989 - for six month staying and working in London and Edinburgh
since 1990 - the artist has been living and working in Cologne and Moscow
Personal Website: http://www.pusenkoff.de/
Collections where works are held: Daimler Benz Collection, Stuttgart, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum of Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow
State Russian Museum of St. Peterburg
Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXIBITIONS:

2008 La condition humaine (1:1), Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum, Germany
Who is afraid, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
pARTner project, Moscow
2007 Mona Lisa und das Schwarze Quadrat, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
2005 Between Digital and Analog, Sacral and Profane, 1. Biennale of Contemporary Art, New Manege Hall, Moscow
Mona Lisa Goes Space, 51. International Art Exhibition / La Biennale di Venezia
2004 Mona Lisa 500, Staatliche Tretjakow Galerie, Moskau / State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2003 Erased or not Erased, Jüdisches Museum Westfalen, Dorsten, Germany
2002 Mona Lisa Goes Russia, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg / Städtische Galerie, Iserlohn
Erased Malewich, Kulturgeschichtliches
Museum / Felix-Nussbaum-Haus, Osnabrück;
Painted and Erased, Märkisches Museum, Witten / Museum Korbach
Digital Field Paintings, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
2001 Erased Dreams, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne
Art & Pixel, Espace Ernst Hilger, Paris
2000 Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart
1999 Frühstück im Grünen, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
Simply Virtual, Ludwig Museum in the State
Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Digital Expressionism, Galerie Brigitte Schenk
1998 Simply Virtual, Mannheimer Kunstverein
Erased Rauschenberg, Galerie Benden & Klimczak, Cologne
Mona Lisa in Russia, Gallery Guelman, Moscow Galerie Brigitte March, Stuttgart Homage to the Pixel, kulturallianzen, Allianz- Versicherungs AG, Cologne
Mona Lisa in Russia, Gallery Guelman, N. Novgorod
1997 Mannheimer Kunstverein
1996 Brigitte March Gallery, Stuttgart
1995 Ursula-Blickle-Foundation, Kraichtal
States Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
1994 Gallery Berndt, Cologne
TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne
1993 Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Toronto
State Tretiakov Gallery, Moscow
Hans Mayer Gallery, Art Hamburg, Hamburg
1992 Fernando Quintano Gallery, Bogota
1991 Hans Mayer Gallery, Dusseldorf
1989 Hill Gallery, London
Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh

GROUP EXIBITIONS:

2007 I Believe, 2. Biennale of Contemporary Art, Vinzavod, Moscow
2006 Der gestohlene Blick, Art Loss, Cologne
2005 Square, Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch, Germany
2005 EXPO 2005, Russian Pavilion, Aichi, Japan
2004 Stella Art Gallery, Moscow
2004 Moskau–Berlin, Staatliches Historisches Museum, Moskau / State Museum of History, Moscow
2003 Life of a Legend, County Hall Gallery, London;
Das Recht des Bildes, Jüdische Perspektiven in der modernen Kunst, Museum Bochum
Das Quadrat in der Kunst, Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter, Museum Ettlingen
2002 Das Rote Haus, Städtische Galerie Villa Zanders Bergisch Gladbach / Schloß Auerstedt, Sammlung Bierfreund;
Mythos Marilyn, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna
Kunst nach Kunst, Neues Museum Wesserburg Bremen
2001 Warhol Connections, Guelman Gallery and L-Gallery, Moscow
Abstract Art in Russia, XX Century, State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg
2000 Art against Geography, Museum Ludwig, St. Petersburg
Nicht Ruhe geben, bis die Erde quadratisch ist, Sammlung Marli Hoppe-Ritter in Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim
Jäger und Sammler, Galerie Brigitte Schenk, Cologne
1999 Hans Mayer Gallery, Düsseldorf; Espace Ernst Hilger, Paris
1994 Grün beruhigt, Galerie Löhrl, Mönchengladbach; Europe – Europe, The Century of the Avant-garde in Central and Eastern Europe, Kundeskunsthalle, Bonn
1993 Adresse provisoire pour l`art contemporain russe, Musée de la Poste, Paris
Joung Art 93, Daimler Benz Collection, Stuttgart
1989 Rock-Art Parade ASSA, Moscow
Labyrinth, Hamburg
Breakfast on the Glass, Todd Gallery, London
1988 Labirinth, Palace of Youth, Moscow
Group 88, American Embassy, Moscow
Labirint, Warsaw, Cracov
1987 Visial Art Culture, Ermitage Exhibition Hall, Moscow
Petrospective 1957-1987, Ermitage Exhibition Hall, Moscow
Rock – Art Parade ASSA, Moscow
Autobiographical notes
What the critics say: In George Pusenkoff’s project, abstraction is not only form, but also plot. This story of abstraction is a meditation on the career of modernism, on the transformation of monochromatic painting, geometric abstraction, and spontaneous gesture. It also asks what happened to the idea of art’s autonomy, how creative work was industrialized.

Like Malevich in his day, Pusenkoff announces his move beyond the zero of forms. This transition revolves around the computer pixel. The fundamental graphic element and building brick of the new digital reality, the pixel also recalls the most important geometric figure in the history of abstraction: Malevich’s Black Square. Moreover, for Pusenkoff the pixel is not a metaphorical figure, but a “unit of action” (to invoke the idiom of the avant-garde) and the sign of a genuine interaction with technology.

The new technologies lead him to the discovery of this color effect, and he then transfers his observations to canvas. The future of abstraction is reflected on the computer screen in order to return in the guise of formal painterly experiments. Pusenkoff fuses abstraction and the computer interface, the virtual and the real. He performs a loop in time: he goes back into the past in order to meet himself. He returns to us from out of the past in the words of Barnett Newman, who once asked the question Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?: “They say that I have advanced abstract painting to its extreme, when it is obvious to me that I have made only a new beginning”.

Olesya Turkina
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