Alexander Povzner
Born 1976 in Moscow, Russia. Based in Berlin.
Education
2008–09 The Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA Moscow), Moscow, Russia
1997–99 V. Surikov Moscow State Academy Art Institute, Faculty of Sculpture, Moscow, Russia
1993–97 Russian Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture, Faculty of Sculpture, Moscow, Russia
Residencies
2023 The Cultural Foundation Schloss Wiepersdorf, Wiepersdorf, Germany
2021–22 Cooperativa Scultori di Carrara, Carrara, Italy
2015 Symposium Alanica, Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia – Alania
2014 LIA Leipzig International Art Programme, Leipzig, Germany
2014 Museum-reserve Divnogorie, Hamlet Divnogorie, Voronezh region, Russia
2009 Land art festival Zabota, Hamlet Divnogorie, Voronezh region, Russia
Solo shows
2023 Untitled Messages, Theater im Palais, Berlin, Germany
Zuletzt, Theater im Palais, Berlin, Germany
Berlimbo, Gotisches Haus, Berlin, Germany
2022 Luggage, Appendix exhibition space, Moscow, Russia
Hermitage, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2020 Appendix. Sasha Povzner’s Studio, within the Art-Space-Hopping event, Moscow, Russia
kusstvo, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Drawings on Margins, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 Guests, (part of Glenmorangie Signet Land Art program), Gorky Park, Moscow, Russia
2016 Fools, The Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia
Only Paper, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Little Resistance, Little Pathology, Tapir Kunstraum, Berlin, Germany
2015 Art Experiment. In the Studio, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Progress Report, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2014 Brutto 2, NCCA, Voronezh, Russia
ZDES V ETOM DOME V 2014 GODU ZHIL I RABOTAL HUDOZHNIK ALEXANDER POVZNER. Buero fuer kulturelle Uebersetzungen, Leipzig, Germany
2013 Gone Shoppin’ Be Back in 5 min, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 Brutto, XL Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 Artworks, Fabrika Project, Moscow, Russia
2009 Present Perfect, Armyansky 13 exhibition space, Moscow, Russia
Biennale and Triennale
2018 Simple Figures, VIII Tashkent International Biennale, Tashkent, Uzbekistan
2017 Garage Triennial of Russian Contemporary Art, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2015 No Time, 6th Moscow Biennale (Special project), Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Progress Report, Krasnoyarsk International Museum Biennale, Krasnoyarsk, Russia
2014 Not a Museum. Laboratory of Aesthetic Suspiсions, Parallel program of Manifesta 10, New Industry Art Space, St.-Petersburg, Russia
2013 Three Days in October (1993), 5th Moscow Biennale (Special project), Historical Memorial Museum Presnya, Moscow, Russia
Modern Art Museum: The Department of Labour and Employment, 5th Moscow Biennale (Special project), The State Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia
Lenin: Icebreaker, 5th Moscow Biennale and the Austrian Cultural Season in Russia 2013/14 (Special project), icebreaker Lenin in Murmansk, Russia; D.E.V.E. Gallery Brugge‑Moscow, Russia; Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria.
Weightlessness, 5th Moscow Biennale (Special project), Museum and Exhibition Association “Manege”, Moscow, Russia
2011 Contra Mater, 4th Moscow Biennale (Special project), Exhibition Hall of MGHPA named after S.G.Stroganov, Moscow, Russia
We are Building the City, 4th Moscow Biennale (Parallel program), Art People Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Gute Aussichten, 4th Moscow Biennale (Special project), Apartment exhibition at the House on the Embankment, Moscow, Russia
From the Realm of Practical Knowledge, 4th Moscow Biennale (Special project), Gallery GMG, Moscow, Russia
2010 Intimate Capital, 2nd Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Armyansky 13 exhibition space, Moscow, Russia
2008 Stop! Who Goes There?, 1st Moscow Biennale of Young Art, Armyansky 13 exhibition space, Moscow, Russia
Painting. Well Forgotten Old, 1st Moscow Biennale of Young Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery at Krymsky Val, Moscow, Russia
Selected group shows
2023 City Committee of Graphic Artists, ART4, Moscow, Russia
Tuzhi Land Art Park, Zabaykalsky krai, Russia
Heroic Indifference, Diehl Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Beauty, Stranger, Sylvester Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
2022 DAS DACH, Neuer Kunstverein Mittelrhein, Neuwied, Germany
DNA, Pro Art`s Gallery, Kaluga, Russia
The Black Book and Schwambrania: the Place Where the Earth Rounds Off, Dom Tvorchestva Peredelkino, Moscow, Russia
CRACK! festival, the stand of Tabula Rasa, Rome
Biography in volume. A sculptural portrait, NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
2021 Due to (Un)foreseen Circumstances, New Wing of Gogol House, Moscow, Russia
2 Moscow Art Prize, Zaryadye Park, Media Center, Moscow, Russia
To the Right is a White Forest, Dom Tvorchestva Peredelkino, Moscow Region, Russia
Spring Breakers, Sreda Gallery, Cube.Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Pavilion Russia 2021: Coziness (post-pandemic), Elektrozavod Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Tap the Shutter, MMOMA at Ermolaevsky lane, Moscow, Russia
15 Minute Break, NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
It Will Work if You Close Your Eyes, ART4 Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2020 Museum of Self-Isolation, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Peresvetov Pereulok. Analysis of Archives, Peresvetov Pereulok Gallery, Moscow, Russia
15 Minutes Break. Part 1, All-Russian Decorative Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
GENERATION XXI. Donated by Vladimir Smirnov and Konstantin Sorokin, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
A Human Made of Bones, Flesh and Blood, Ivan Tsvetaev Educational Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2019 THIS IS NOT A BOOK: Dmitry Volkov Collection. The Story of a Man, His Art, and His Library, MMOMA at Ermolaevsky lane, Moscow, Russia
A New Materialism: from Instrument to Sculpture, Omelchenko gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 Fragile Things, Osnova gallery, Moscow, Russia
At the Fringes, Department of Research Arts, pavilion “Optics”, VDNKh, Moscow, Russia
Through the Eyes of a Collector, Cosmoscow Contemporary Art Fair, SmartArt, Moscow, Russia
Accommodation Inventory, Project “Richter”, Moscow, Russia
2017 Against All, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow
All about “Nu, Pogodi!” and Contemporary Art in Rush, Solyanka State Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Terrible Fairy Tale for the Night, GROUND Peschanaya gallery, Moscow, Russia
Foolproof Feelings, NCCA Arsenal, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
Hurrah! Sculpture!, Central exhibition hall Manege, Saint Petersburg, Russia
The Next Conversation, Galerie ABTART, Stutgart, Germany
2016 Drink/Bite, Too Much Gallery, Central House of Architects, Moscow, Russia
Play Ground, Ground Peschanaya Exhibition Hall, Moscow, Russia
Small Size, XL gallery, Moscow, Russia
Root of the New, Moscow State University’s Botanic Garden, Moscow, Russia
VII Permanent Collection Display Interaction: Contemporary Artists Respond to MMOMA Collection, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Primates, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
Alternative Theories of Evolution, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow, Russia
From the Ground, The Moscow State Vadim Sidur Museum, Moscow, Russia
2015 Hurrah! Sculpture!, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
The Worker and Kolhoz Woman. Personal File, Worker and Kolkhoz Woman Museum and Exhibition Center, Moscow, Russia
Open System, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Museum of Modern Art: Department of Labor and Employment, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Ekaterinburg, Russia
Between the Volga and the Danube, Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow — Bratislava
The Sculptures Which We Do Not See, Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia
Thinking out Loud, Zverev center, Moscow, Russia
2014 Moscow. Barocco, Triumph gallery, Moscow, Russia
Detective, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Shadow of a Doubt, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2013 TodaysArt Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
No Water Tomorrow, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Tverskoy blvd. 9, Moscow, Russia
2012 Reload, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia
It Seems Something Is Missing Here, gallery 12, Center for Contemporary Art Winzavod, Moscow, Russia
Stalker, All-Russian Research and Design Institute of Metallurgical Engineering (VNIIMETMASH), Moscow, Russia
The Way of Enthusiasts, V-A-C Foundation, Casa dei Tre Oci, Venice, Italy
Counterillusions, Former Culture House of Factory ZIL, Moscow, Russia
School of Freedom, Paperworks gallery, Moscow, Russia
Toasting to the Revolution, Family Business gallery, New York, USA
I’ve Been Here, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2011 A Close Look Changes the Object, Open Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Phantom Monuments, Garage Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2010 Living Museum of Performance, Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, Voronezh, Russia
Time Forward?, business center “Soyuz”, Moscow, Russia
Interpolare, Ve.Sch, Wien, Austria
Rare Species, Fabrika Project, Moscow, Russia
2009 Save As, Armyansky 13 exhibition space, Moscow, Russia
We’ll Take Action from Now On, Voronezh Center for Contemporary Art, Voronezh, Russia
Art after the End of History, Central House of Artist, Moscow, Russia
Let Me Think, Red October, Moscow, Russia
2007 Genius Loci, Typography Original, Moscow, Russia
War without Special Reasons, Armyansky 13 exhibition space, Moscow, Russia