download cv (pdf) - Galerie Forsblom

AFRIKA 

1966 Born in Novorossisk, on the Black Sea, Russia 

Lives and works in St. Petersburg, Russia 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2008 Sergei Bugaev Afrika, I-20 Gallery, New York 

Afrika, Forsblom Projects, Helsinki, Finland 

Sergei Bugaev Afrika,, curated by Walter Smerling. Museum Kuppersmuhle Für 

Moderne Kunst, Duisberg, Germany 

2005 Sergei Bugaev Afrika, State Tratyakov Gallery, The National Russian Museum of Fine 

Art, Moscow, Russia 

2002 Stalker 3, I-20 Gallery, New York 

2000 Mir: Made in the XX Century, I-20 Gallery, New York (cat.) 

1999 Russian Federation Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (cat.) 

Space Day (with Adam Bartos), Space Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 

Sergei Bugaev Afrika. No Name Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (cat.) 

Sergei Bugaev Afrika, Galerie Vedovi, Brussels, Belgium 

1998 Sergei Bugaev Afrika: New Photographs. The New Academy, St. Petersburg, Russia 

1997 Sergei Bugaev (Afrika). Rebus II: Works on Copper. I-20 Gallery, New York (cat.) 

1996 Evolution of an Image: Light, Sound and Material. (with Tommi Gronlund and Peteri 

Nisunen, Finland). State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. Curated by Olessia Turkina. 

(cat.) 

Afrika. Peter Schuengel ACP Gallery, Salzburg, Austria 

Doctor and Patient: Memory and Amnesia. (With Bracha Lichtenberg-Ettinger). Pori Art 

Museum, Pori, Finland. (cat.) 

1995 Sergei Bugaev Afrika. Krimania: Monuments, Icons, Mazafaka. MAK-Austrian Museum 

of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria. Curated by Peter Noever. (cat.) 

1994 Afrika. l'Espace Montjoie, La Plaine St. Denis, Paris, France. Curated by Paul Judelson 

and Emanuel Javogue. 

1993 Method (one-room installation). The Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland. (cat.) 

1992 Afrika. Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. Travelled to 

Queens Museum of Art, New York; Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, 

Alabama; the Wolfsonian and New World Galleries, Miami-Dade Community College; 

and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Curated by Louis Grachos. (cat.) 

1991 Donaldestruction. Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco. Travelled to 

Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), the Clocktower Gallery, New York (curated by 

Rebecca Quaytman); the Power Plant: Contemporary Art at Harbourfront, Toronto; and 

CRDC, l'Espace Graslin, Nantes, France. (cat.) 

1990 Donaldestruction. The Lenin Museum, Leningrad. 

1989 Afrika and Timur Novikov. The Raab Gallery, London. 

1986 Afrika. Gallery "ASSA," Leningrad 

1982-1985 Apt-Art Exhibitions. Studio of Timur Novikov, Leningrad. 

Lönnrotinkatu 5, 00120 Helsinki - Finland, tel. +358 9 680 3700, fax +358 9 680 37070, www.galerieforsblom.com, info@galerieforsblom.com

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2008 VIBE, RNA Foundation at the Louise Blouin Institute, London, England 

The Future Depends On You. New Rules, Vladivostok, Krasnoyarsk, Khabarovsk, 

Ekaterinburg, Samara, Krasnodar, Kaliningrad, Russia 

2007 Russia Miami 2007, curated by Julie Sylvester, Miami Design District, Miami, FL 

The Storm and the Harbour, curated by Oxana Maleeva. 52nd Venice Biennale: 

collateral event, Venice, Italy 

Petroliana, curated by Elena Sorokina. 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 

Moscow, Russia 

2006 Naked Life, curated by Manray Hsu & Maren Richter. Museum of Contemporary Art, 

Taipei, Taiwan 

Modus R, curated by Yevgenia Kikodze & Olesya Turkina. DACRA, Miami Design 

District, Miami, FL 

The Nature of the Cosmos, organized by Sergei Bugaev Afrika. Russian Ethnographic 

Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia 

2005 Russia!, curated by Valerie Hillings, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 

NY. 

Traveled to: 

The Guggenheim Museum Bilboa, Spain, 2006. 

Ars Digital. Curated by Joulia Strauss. The 1 st Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia 

2004 Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000, State Tretyakov Gallery, The National 

Russian Museum of Fine Art, Moscow, Russia (cat) 

Lacoon Devoured. Curated by Daniel Eguskiza. ARTIUM, Basque Center-Museum of 

Contemporary Art, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain. (cat.) 

Channel 0. Curated by Katerina Gregos. Netherlands Video Art Institute, Amsterdam, 

The Netherlands. (cat.) 

Watch Out! Art from Moscow and St. Petersburg, Curated by Kari J. Brandtzaeg. The 

National Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway. (Cat.) 

2003 The American Effect: A Look at how America is seen by Artists from around 

the World, Whitney Museum of American Art,New York (Cat.) 

Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany. 

(cat.) 

Traveled to: 

the Tretyakov Gallery, Mowcow, 2004 

Attack! Art and War in the Media Age, Vienna Kunstalle, Vienna, Austria (cat.) 

art03, dlux Media Arts, 50 th Sydney Film Festival, Sydney, Australia 

Stalin's Choice: Soviet Socialist Realism, 1932-1956, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, 

New York 

2002 Cutting Edge (curated section), ARCO, Madrid, Spain 

2001 The1st Valencia Biennial, Valencia, Spain (cat.) 

2000 Mare Balticum, Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.) 

Seeing Isn’t Believing: Russian Art Since Glasnost, The Lamont Gallery at Phillip 

Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH. Curated by Gail Roman (cat.) 

2000 Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.) 

1999 New Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. 

1998 It's the Real Thing: Soviet and Russian Sots Art, Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum at 

the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled through 1999 to the Weimar 

Collection, Weimar Festival, Germany. (cat.) 

1997 Kabinet, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Curated by Rudi Fuchs and Guert Imanse. 

(cat.) 

St. Petersburg Festival, World Financial Center, New York. 

Red, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg 

1996 Strangers in the Arctic: 'Ultima Thule' and Modernity. Rundetarn, Copenhagen. 

T 

Travelled to: 

Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland 


Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland 

the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada (cat.) 

Metaphern des Entrucktsteins: Aktuelle Kunst aus St. Petersburg. Badischer 

Kunstverein, Karlsurhe, Germany. (cat.) 

Self-Identification: St. Petersburg Art, 1970s-1990s, the Sophienholm, Copenhagen, 

Denmark. (cat.) 

1996 Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York 

1995 Layers: Contemporary Collage from St. Petersburg, Russia. Fine Arts Gallery, University 

of Maryland, Baltimore County, Maryland. Curated by Alla Efimova. (cat.) 

From Gulag to Glasnost. Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union: The Norton and 

Nancy Dodge Collection, The Jane Voorhees Art Museum, Rutgers, State University of 

New Jersey, Rutgers, New Jersey. (cat.) 

Self-Identification: St. Petersburg Art, 1970s-1990s Kiel City Art Gallery, Kiel, 

Germany 

Travelled to: 

Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany 

State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg. (cat.) 

On Beauty, Regina Gallery, Moscow. (catalogue) 

Cocido y Crudo. Centro National Cultural Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. Curated by Dan 

Cameron. (cat.) 

1994 New Russian Art: Paintings from the Christian Keesee Collection, Oklahoma City Art 

Museum. Oklahoma City. (cat.) 

Renaissance and Resistence. The Marble Palace, State Russian Museum, St. 

Petersburg, Russia 

The Third World War. The Stroganoff Palace, St. Petersburg, Russia 

1993 Drawing the Line Against AIDS: 41st Venice Biennale. The Peggy Guggenheim 

Museum, Venice, Italy. Travelled to the Guggenheim Musuem in Soho, New York. 

(cata.) 

After Perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen. Centre d'Art Contemporain, Montreal 

Travelled to: 

Picker Art Gallery, Colgate Univeristy, Hamilton, New York 

DePress Art Center and Gallery, Hope College, Holland, Michigan 

Western Gallery, Western Washington University, Bellingham, Washington 

the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, 

Massachusetts 

Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan 

the Art Gallery of Mount Saint Vincent's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 

Canada 

Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, Gorgia 

Method. the Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland. (cat.) The Aesthetic Arsenal: Socialist 

Realism under Stalin. Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), PSI Museum, New York. 

Curated by Alana Heiss. (cat.) 

The Exquisite Cadaver. The Drawing Center, New York From Chaos to Creation: Soviet a 

nd Russian Art, 1972-1992. The Rye Arts Center, Rye, New York. (cat.) 

St. Petersburg Alter. Le Manoir del la Ville de Martigny, Martigny, Switzlerland. (cat.) 

1992 Art Meets Ads, Dusseldorf Kunsthalle: 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Dusseldorf, 

Germany 

1991 Binationale: Soviet Art Around 1990. Dusseldorf Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany. 

Travelled to: 

the Israel Museum, Jerusalem 

Central House of Artists, Moscow. (cat.) 

The Problem of the Individual Body in the Era of Late Totalitarianism: Recent Art of 

Leningrad. Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico. Curated by Teresa del Conde 

and Alla Mitrofanova. (cat.) 

The Coldness and the Beauty: New Art from Leningrad. The Helsinki Festival, Gallery 

Vapauden Aukio (Square of Liberty), Helsinki, Finland. (cat.) 


Soviet Contemporary Art: From Thaw to Perestroika. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, 

Japan 

Geopolitic. State Museum of Ethnography of the Soviet People, Leningrad, USSR 

Exhibition of Neo-Academism. The Lenin Museum, Leningrad, USSR 

New Generation, State Art Museum of Kramskogo, Voronich, USSR 

1990 Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism. 

Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington 

Traveled to the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston 

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa 

1990 In the Soviet Union and Beyond. The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 

Le Territoire de l'Art, Institute des Hautes Etudes en Arts Plastiques, Paris 

Travelled to: 

State Russian Museum, Leningrad. (cat.) 

The Friends of Mayakovsky Club: Exhibition II, Paul Judelson Arts, New York 

The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika. Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York 

1989 The Green Show, Exit Art, New York. Travelled to the Dunlop Gallery, Regina 

Public Library, Saskatchewan, Canada; and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 

Canada. (cat.) 

The First North American Exhibition of the Friends of Mayakovsky Club. Paul Judelson 

Arts, New York 

Selected Works from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation. Wright Art Gallery, 

University of California, Los Angeles. (cat.) 

Red Wave. West Sawtelle Gallery, Los Angeles 

From Unofficial Art to Perestroika. Exhibition Pavillion on the Harbour, Leningrad, 

USSR 

Soviet Art from Leningrad. The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, UK. 

Budka: Exhibition of Leningrad and Finland Artists, Grafiart Gallery, Turku, Finland 

Four Artists from Leningrad, Kaj Forsblom Gallery, Helsinki, Finland 

1988 The New Ones from Leninrad. The Kulterhuset, Stockholm, Sweden 

80 Talents of the Russian Avant-Garde. Art Atrium, Stockholm, Sweden 

Forty Years of Leningrad Non-Official Art. Exhibition Hall on the Harbour, Leningrad, 

USSR 

The New Artists. The Culture House, Aarhus, Denmark 

Da Da Mayakovsky. Dionysius Gallery, Rotterdam, The Netherlands 

The Leningrad Show: 21 Artists from the Fellowship of Experimental Art. Memorial 

Union Art Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA. 

7 Independent Artists from Leninfrad. Young Unknowns Gallery, London 

Exhibition in Honour of the 95th Birthday of Mayakovsky. Club NC/VC, Leningrad, 

USSR 

1987 Exhibition of the New Artists on the Premiere of the Film "ASSA." Palace of Youth, 

Leningrad, USSR 

Exhibition of the New Artists: Dedicated to the Closure of the Gallery "ASSA." 


New Year Exhibition. House of Culture of Workers of Art, Leningrad, USSR 

Exhibition of the New Artists. United Museum of Creative Community, Leningrad, 

USSR 

Exhibition of "Bez Oreoloa." Gdansk Kantor Sztuki, Gdansk, Poland 

1987 The Friendship of Independent Art. Palace of Youth, Leningrad, USSR 

Forum "Tvorcesko Molodezi Leningrada" of the New Artists in the Program of the 

Forum. Palace of Youth, Leningrad, USSR 

Art Connection. The 'New Artists' in the 'Days of Art' Festival, Riga, Latvia 

The Friendship of Independent Art. Exhibition Pavillion in the Harbour, Leningrad, 

USSR 

Exhibition of the "New Artists" on the First Celebration of the City. Peter and Paul 

Fortress, Leningrad, USSR 


Sixth Exhibition of the New Artists in the Program of the 17th Youth Exhibition. The 

House of Artists, Kuzneckij Bridge, Moscow, USSR 

1986 Autumn Exhibition of the Friendship of Independent Art. Palace of Youth, Leningrad, 

USSR 

New Forms: The New Artists. Vodocanal Club, Leningrad, USSR 

Societ y of Experimental Art Exhibitions. The Palace of Youth, Kirov Palace of Culture, 


1985 Fourth and Fifth Exhibitions of the New Artists. Gallery "ASSA," Leningrad, USSR 

Happy New Year Exhibition of the New Artists. The New Theatre, Leningrad, USSR 

Society of Experimental Art Exhibitions. The Palace of Youth, Kirov Palace of Culture, 


1984 Third Exhibition of the New Artists. Gallery "ASSA," Leningrad, USSR 

Society of Experimental Art Exhibitions. The Palace of Youth, Kirov Palace of Culture, 


1983 Second Exhibition of the New Artists. Gallery "ASSA," Leningrad, USSR 

1982 The New Artists. Gallery "ASSA." Leningrad, USSR 

PROJECTS 

1999-1997 Three Piglets. Founded the weekly radio program in St. Petersburg, until censured by 

Russian Federal Security Bureau (1999) 

Yablanka (Apple). Worked as an advisor to a parliament member of this liberal political 

party, Russian State Parliament, Moscow 

1996 Short Stories Around Russia. Create this program for Vzjliyad (Look), Russian State 

Television, Russia 

1993 Kabinet. Co-founded and edited this biannual journal of science and arts, St. 

Petersburg. An English anthology published in 1997 by the Stedelijk Museum 

Amsterdam, in conjunction with the exhibition, Kabinet 

1990 August Pace. Set and Costume Designs. The Merce Cunningham Dance Company. 

Organized by John Cage and Merce Cunningham. Performances in 1990 and 1993 at 

the University of California, Berkeley; the City Center, New York; and the Paris Opera 

1985 –1993 Popular Mechanics. Performances with the Lenignrad-St. Petersburg experimental 

orchestra. Founded by Sergei Kuyokhin, director and composer (died 1997) 

1987 ASSA. Played the main role in the landmark film from the new Russian cinema. 

Directed by Sergei Solovjev. Screened in 1996 Russian Film Festival at Lincoln 

Center, New York. 

1984 Anna Karenina. Set and costume design. Performances by the New Theatre, Leningrad

download cv (pdf) - Galerie Forsblom

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?