Moscow Conceptualists
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Groups, artists[edit]
- Collective Actions (Коллективные действия)
- The Nest (Гнездо: Gennady Donskoy (Геннадий Донской), Mikhail Roshal (Михаил Рошаль), Victor Skersis (Виктор Скерсис))
- Erik Bulatov (Эрик Булатов)
- Rimma Gerlovin (Римма Герловина) and Valery Gerlovin (Валерий Герловин)
- Ilya Kabakov (Илья Кабаков)
- Vitaly Komar (Виталий Комар) and Alexander Melamid (Александр Меламид)
- Andrei Monastyrski (Андрей Монастырский)
- Pavel Pepperstein (Павел Пепперштейн)
- Viktor Pivovarov (Виктор Пивоваров)
- Dmitry Prigov (Дмитрий Пригов)
- Vadim Zakharov (Вадим Захаров)
Publications[edit]
For publications on individual artists and collectives see their respective pages.
- Books
- Andrei Monastyrsky (Монастырский Андрей), Slovar terminov Moskovskoi kontseptualnoi shkoly [Словарь терминов московской концептуальной школы], Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1999. (Russian)
- Dictionary of Moscow Conceptualism (An Adaptation), trans., annot. & illustr. Octavian Eşanu, Contimporary, 2010, 161 pp, PDF, HTML. (English)
- Sylvia Sasse, Texte in Aktion. Sprech- und Sprachakte im Moskauer Konzeptualismus, Munich: Fink, 2003. (German)
- Moskauer Konzeptualismus. Sammlung Haralampi G. Oroschakoff : Sammlung, Verlag und Archiv Vadim Zakharov : Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Cologne: Walter König, 2003, 176 pp. [1] [2] (German)/(English)
- Moskovskii kontseptualizm [Московский концептуализм], eds. Ekaterina Degot and Vadim Zakharov, Moscow: WAM, 2005, 415 pp. Special issue of World Art Музей (WAM) journal, 15/16. (Russian)
- Victor Tupitsyn, The Museological Unconscious: Communal (Post)Modernism in Russia, intro. Susan Buck-Morss and Victor Tupitsyn, MIT Press, 2009, x+341 pp. (English)
- Boris Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, MIT Press, 2010, 224 pp. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)
- Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 336 pp. [3]. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)
- Moscow Symposium: Conceptualism Revisited, ed. & intro. Boris Groys, Berlin: Sternberg, 2012, 176 pp. With essays by Claire Bishop, Keti Chukhrov, Ekaterina Degot, Jörg Heiser, Terry Smith, Anton Vidokle, and Sarah Wilson. [4] (English)
- Collective Actions: Audience Recollections from the First Five Years, 1976-1981, ed. & trans. Yelena Kalinsky, Chicago: Soberscove Press, 2012, 116 pp. A volume of audience recollections from early Collective Actions performances. Excerpt. [5]. Review: Gerber (Mute). (English)
- Octavian Eşanu, Transition in Post-Soviet Art: The Collective Actions Group Before and After 1989, forew. Boris Groys, CEU Press, 2013, xvii+357 pp. (English)
- Victor Agamov-Tupitsyn (Виктор Агамов-Тупицын), Vechnost vechna, potomu chto bespechna. Andrey Monastyrskiy i gruppa “Kollektivnyye deystviya” [Вечность вечна, потому что беспечна. Андрей Монастырский и группа “Коллективные действия”], Moscow: Garage, 2019, 184 pp. Dialogue between Andrei Monastyrsky and Victor Agamov-Tupitsyn. [6] (Russian)
- Catalogues
- Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, ed. David A. Ross, Tacoma, WA: Tacoma Art Museum, Boston: Institute of Contemporary Art, and Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1990, 206 pp. Catalogue. Exh. curated by David A. Ross, Elisabeth Sussman, Margarita Tupitsyn, and Joseph Bakshtein. (English)
- Die Totale Aufklärung: Moskauer Konzeptkunst, 1960-1990 / Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990, eds. Boris Groys, Max Hollein and Manuel Fontán del Junco, Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 423 pp. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition held at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, June 21-Sept. 14, 2008 and Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Oct. 10, 2008-Jan. 11, 2009. (German)/(English)
- La Ilustración total: arte conceptual de Moscú, 1960-1990 / Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow, 1960-1990, Madrid: Fundación Juan March, and Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008, 424 pp. [7] (Spanish)/(English)
- Field of Action: The Moscow Conceptual School in Context 1970s-1980s, eds. Aleksandra Danilova and Elena Kuprina-Lyakhovich, Moscow: Ekaterina Collection, 2010. (English)
- Empty Zones: Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions / Пустые зоны. Андрей Монастырский и Коллективные действия, ed. Boris Groys, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011, 127 pp. The Russian Pavilion at the 54th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia, 2011. [8] [9] (English)/(Russian)
- Moscow Conceptualism in Context, ed. Alla Rosenfeld, Munich: Prestel, and New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum, 2011, 496 pp. [10]. Review: Audureau (Critique d'art 2012). (English)
- Moskovskii kontseptualizm. Nachalo [Московский концептуализм. Начало], ed. Yuri Albert (Юрий Альберт), Nizhny Novgorod: NCCA, 2014, 271 pp. Catalogue of the 2012 exhibition at NCCA Arsenal curated by Yuri Albert. (Russian)
- Thinking Pictures. The Visual Field of Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Jane A. Sharp, New Brunswick: Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, 2016. [11] [12]
- Thinking Pictures: Conceptual Art from Moscow and the Baltics, eds. Anu Allas and Liisa Kaljula, Tallinn: Estonian Art Museum, 2022, 208 pp. Exhibition. Exh. review: Janušová (Artmargins). [13] (Estonian)/(English)
- Journal issues
- Iskusstvo [Искусство] 5: "Moskovskii kontseptualizm" [Московский концептуализм], 2008. Special issue of journal. (Russian)
- Iskusstvo [Искусство] 2: "Kontseptualizm. Obraz zhizni" [Концептуализм. Образ жизни], 2011. Special issue of journal. (Russian)
- e-flux 29: "Global Conceptualism Revisited", ed. Boris Groys, Nov 2011. (English)
- Essays, interviews
- Boris Groys (Борис Гройс), "Ekzistentsialnyye predposylki kontseptualnogo iskusstva" [Экзистенциальные предпосылки концептуального искусства], 37 (samizdat) [Машинописный журнал "37"], No 12, Leningrad, 1977.
- Boris Groys (Борис Гройс), "Moskovskii romanticheskii kontseptualizm / Moscow Romantic Conceptualism" [Московский романтический концептуализм], A-Ya [А-Я] 1, Paris, 1979, pp 3-11; RU repr. in Moskovskii konceptualizm, eds. Degot and Zakharov, 2005; EN repr. in Groys, History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, 2010, pp 35-55. First published in the samizdat magazine 37, Leningrad, 1979. (Russian)/(English)
- Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь), "Другое чтение других текстов. Московский концептуализм перед лицом идиоматического документа", NLO [НЛО] 22 (1996). (Russian)
- Victor Tupitsyn, "Moscow Communal Conceptualism", Parachute, Montreal, Apr 1996, pp 24-29. [14] (English)
- "Moskovskiy kommunalnyy kontseptualizm" [Московский коммунальный концептуализм], n.d. (Russian)
- Margarita Tupitsyn, "About Early Soviet Conceptualism", in Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, eds. Jane Ferver, et al., New York: Queens Museum of Art, 1999, pp 99-107, JPGs. (English)
- Ekaterina Degot (Екатерина Дёготь), "Kontseptualnyy proyekt" [Концептуальный проект], in Degot, Russkoye iskusstvo XX veka [Русское искусство ХХ века], Moscow: Trilistnik, 2000, pp 154-209. (Russian)
- Victor Tupitsyn (Виктор Тупицын), "Moskovskiy partizanskiy kontseptualizm" [Московский партизанский концептуализм], Stella Art Foundation, c2009. (Russian)
- Isabelle Després, "Le conceptualisme moscovite: art progressiste ou dissidence idéologique?", ILCEA 16 (2012). (French)
- Emanuel Landolt, Michail Maiatsky, "Une philosophie dans les marges: le cas du conceptualisme moscovite", Cahiers du monde Russe 53:4 (2012). [15] (French)
- Yelena Kalinsky, "Drowning in Documents: Action, Documentation, and Factography in Early Work by the Collective Actions Group", ARTMargins 2:1, 2013, pp 82-105. (English)
- Ksenya Gurshtein , "Utopia by Mail: Komar and Melamid’s A Catalogue of Superobjects: Supercomfort for Superpeople", Getty Research Journal 6, 2014, pp 203-213. (English)
- Olga Martin, "Moscow Conceptualism in the 1980s: Interview with Sabine Hänsgen (Zurich)", ARTMargins, 28 Aug 2015. (English)
- Mary A. Nicholas, "Rereading Moscow Conceptualism", Slavic Review 75:1, Spring 2016, pp 22-51. (English)
- Yuriy Leyderman (Юрий Лейдерман), "Razgovor s A.Monastyrskim o 'khudozhestvennoy situatsii'" [Разговор с А.Монастырским о 'художественной ситуации'] , Prostory, 13 Dec 2016. (Ukrainian)
- John Roberts, "After Moscow Conceptualism Reflections on the Center and Periphery and Cultural Belatedness", ARTMargins 9:1, Feb 2020, pp 47-57. [16] (English)
- Dissertations
- Adrian Barr, Archaeologies of the Avant-Garde, Rutgers University, 2011, xiv+279 pp. Dissertation. [17] (English)
- Bibliographies
- Bibliographies on Moscow Conceptualism page, ed. Sergey Letov.
- Bibliography on Conceptualism-Moscow.org
Resources[edit]
- Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Vadim Zakharov.
- Moscow Conceptualism, ed. Sergey Letov.