Vadim Zakharov

BORN IN DUSHANBE, TAJIKISTAN, 1959
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany and Moscow, Russia

EDUCATION
1979 Moscow State Teachers Training Institute

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘No Distance’, GMG Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2009 ‘Collection and Archive by Vadim Zakharov’, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2008 ‘Black Birds’, Municipal Museum of Contemporary Arts Larissa, The Peristyle of the Athens Conservatory, Greece
2007 ‘Caramel in the Botanic Garden’, Contemporary City Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2006 ‘Vadim Zakharov. 25 Years on One Page’, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 ‘Lessons in the Boudoir’, Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 ‘Author - Monument to the Utopia’,The State Russian Museum, St Petersburg, Russia; Museum of Private Collections, Moscow, Russia
2005 ‘Moscow Conceptualism’, WAM Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 ‘Mouse Hunting’ (with Andrey Monastyrsky), Stella Art Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2004 ‘The Group SZ’ (with Victor Skersis), E. K. ArtBureau, Moscow, Russia
2003 ‘Nothing New’, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2003 ‘Projekt und Errichtung Theodor W. Adorno Denkmals anlasslich seines 100’, Geburtstages, Theodor W. Adorno Platz, Frankfurt, Germany
2002 ‘Die Ekstase eines Zuschauers gebiert den Autor’, Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Brandenburg, Germany
2002 ‘Reading in the Dark’, Literaturhaus Koln, Cologne, Germany
2001 ‘Cults, Prophets, Image’, TV Gallery, Moscow, Russia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 ‘Another Mythology’, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
2008 El Pabellon de las Artes, Expo-2008, Zaragoza
2008 ‘Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow 1960-1980’, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany; Fundacion Juan March, Madrid, Spain
2008 ‘Medium Religion’, ZKM Museum for New Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 ‘Eurasia: Geographic Cross-Over in Art’, Museo d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
2008 ‘Suspended (Georgia / Russia - Begegnung auf unbekanntem Terrain)’, Neues Kunstforum, Cologne, Germany
2007 ‘Believe’, WINZAVOD Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2007 ‘Through the Painting’, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia
2007 ‘Black Birds’, 1st Thessaloniki Biennale, Thessaloniki, Greece
2006 ‘Territories of Terror’, Boston University Art Gallery, MA, United States
2005 ‘What’s New, Pussycat?’, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 ‘Angels of History. Moscow Conceptualism and Influence’, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Belgium
2005 ‘RUSSIA!’, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, United States
2004 ‘Privatisierungen (The post-communist condition)’, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany