Artist

Yuri Albert

Born in Moscow, 1959

Yuri Albert was born in Moscow in 1959. Since the late 1970s he is active in the circles of Moscow Conceptualism. Studied at Ekaterina Arnold and at Pedagogical Institute, Moscow. In the 1980s he participated in the Apt-Art-exhibitions and became member of the Moscow Club of Avantgardists (CLAVA). Since 2008 he is member of the group Kupidon. In 2011 winner of the Kandinsky Prize for his work Moscow Poll. In 2012 he curated the exhibition Moscow Conceptualism. The Beginning in the Arsenal, National Centre for Contemporary Art, Nižnij Novgorod.

Exhibitions

Spirit Labor: Duration, Difficulty, and Affect

The exhibition reflects on the effects of time on human beings and on their traces.

10 Sep 2021 - 30 Jan 2022
Garage Museum of Contemporary Art

Moscow

Exhibitions

Yuri Albert: What did the Artist mean by that ?

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents the first comprehensive retrospective of Yuri Albert, one of...

22 Nov 2013 - 12 Jan 2014
Moscow Museum of Modern Art

Moscow

Exhibitions

Kollektsia! Contemporary Art in the Urss and Russia 1950-2000

The Centre Pompidou is showing an extraordinary donation of more than 250 works of Soviet and Russian...

14 Sep 2016 - 27 Mar 2017
Centre Pompidou

Paris