Yuri Leiderman

1963 Born in Odessa
. 1987 Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology
. 1987-91 member of the Inspectorate "Medical Hermeneutics"
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. Collections where works
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. Collection of Contemporary Art State Museum Tsaritsino, Moscow
. MANI Museum, Moscow
. The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
. Museo d `Arte Contemporaneo Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
. Neue Galerie - Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
. National gallery Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
. Fonds National d `Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
. P. Sprovieri, Rome, Italy
. FRAC, Paris, France
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. Participation in exhibitions and auctions
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. SOLO EXHIBITIONS

. 1989 Museum of ASP
. Warsaw; Tarabula Gallery, Krakow, Poland
1991 "Stabilisierung der psychodelische phantasmata". Krings-Ernst Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1992 "The best and the very questionable". Shkola Gallery, 1.0 Gallery, Moscow
"Joseph Kosuth and Civilization Tlinov". Gallery Vita Nova, Minsk
"The Pit and the Pendulum," "Hound of the Baskervilles". Festival "Animalistic Projects. Regina Gallery, Moscow
"West in Space" (with A. Andora). Baikonur Cosmodrome
1994 "The best and the very questionable". Galerie Inge Baecker, Cologne, Germany
"World Cup". Shkola Gallery, Moscow
"La route Jura-Paris (fragments)". Gallery Michel Rein, Tours, France
1995 "Les equipes perolues". Art 3, Valence, France
1996 "Apperendre l` historie de l `Europe a un chat", FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
1997 "Inuit". Gallery "Coats", Moscow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1982-84 Exhibitions APTART in Moscow and Odessa
1987 First Exhibition of Avant-gardists Club (CLAVA). Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
1989 "Three children". Gallery of the young, Prague, Czechoslovakia
Dear Art. Youth Palace, Moscow
"Perspectives of Conceptualism". Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
"Moskau-Wien-New York / Kunst zur Zeit". Messepalast, Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria
"UdSSR Heute". Sammlung Ludwig. Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany
"Furmanny zaulek". Dawne Zaklady Norblina, Warsaw, Poland
1990 "The orthodox obsosy. Covers and endings. Two installation of MG ". Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
"The Green Show". Exit Art, New York, USA
"Artisti russi contemporanei". Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci. Prato, Italy
"The Work of Art in the Age of Perestroika". Phullis Kind Gallery, New York, USA
"Mosca, Moskva, Moscow". Sala Umberto Boccioni, Milan, Italy
"Catalog". Palase Youth, Moscow
"Fro". Peresvetov Lane., Moscow
"Shizokitay". Avant-gardists Club. Exhibition Pavilion on Frunze Embankment, Moscow
"For a cultural holiday". Kashirka, Moscow
1990-91 "Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism". Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; ICA, Boston, MA; Des Moines Art Center, De Moines, IA, USA
"MANI Museum - 40 Moskauer Kunstler im Frankfurter Karmelitenkloster". MANI. Frankfurt, Germany
"In de USSR en Erbuiten". Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1991 "Contemporary Soviet Art: From Thaw to Perestroika". Collection of contemporary art museum Tzaritzyno. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
"With Hovym, tovapischi, a year!". Showroom Fund kultupy, Moscow
"Mother-to-space. Propeller Gallery. 100 Profsoyuznaya St., Moscow
"Perspectives of Conceptualism". The University of Hawaii Art Gallery, Honolulu;
Clocktower Gallery, Public School 1, New York, USA
"V izbah / in the room;. Dom kultury, Bratislava, Slovakia
1991-92 "Sowjetische Kunst um 1990" (Binazionale). Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Central House of Artists, Moscow
1992 "a Mosca ... a Mosca ... ". Villa Campoleto, Ercolano; Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
"The Art of the One family puk, apology or embarrassment". Regina Gallery, Moscow
"3rd International Istanbul Biennale". The Greater Istanbul Municipality Nejat F. Eczacibasi Art Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
1992-93 "Perspectives of Conceptualism". North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA
1993 "Trio acoustico" (Osmolovski, Gutoff, Lejderman). Centre de Creation Cont., Tours, France
"Exchange / Exchange, Moscow
La Biennale di Venezia. "Passage de oriente". Venice, Italy
"Sonsbeek'93". Arnheym, Netherlands
"VII Congress of People's Deputies is dedicated". Gallery M. Gelman. Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Fontanelle". Kunsthalle, Potsdam, Germany
"Identity - Selfhood". Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
"Hotel 48 std.". Modernhotel, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Adresse provisoire pour l'art contemporain russe". Musee de la Poste, Paris, France
"Avant-garde and tradition. Books by Russian artists of the 20 th century. Russia State Library, Moscow
1994 "Fluchtpunkt Moskau". Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany "Hamburg Project". Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
"The artist instead of the product". Central House of Artists, Moscow
"Workshop of Visual Anthropology". Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
Cetinjski Bienale II. Cetinje, Montenegro
"Exchanged head". Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
"Exchange II / Datsja" (Sharing II / Cottage). Almere, Flevopolder, Netherlands
1995 "No Man's Land". Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center "Nikolaj". Copenhagen, Denmark
"Kunst im verborgenen. Nonkonformisten Russland 1957-1995 ". Collection of Contemporary Art Museum Tsaritsino ". Wilchelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
"in Moskau ... in Moskau ... ". Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, Germany
"Kraftemessen". Munich, Germany
Galerija Anonimus. Ljubljana, Slovenia
"Beyond the Borders". Kwangju Biennale 1995, Korea
"Fly, Leaving, Disappearing". Galerie hlavniho mesta Prahy. Prague, Czech Republic
"Media Mundi", Britswert, Netherlands
1996 "Interpol". Fargfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
Pan European Art Manifestation "Manifesta". Rotterdam Netherlands
"The boundaries of interpretation". Russia State Humanitarian University, Moscow
"Visiting a fairy tale!" (curator O. Sargsyan). Contemporary Art Center, Moscow (catalog)
1997 "Verbal number in the Russian art of postmodernism". Cultural Center, Budapest "Ecology of Emptiness". ISI Moscow
Moscow Forum of Art Initiatives ( "Take off, get dressed, never take off"). New Manege, Moscow
"Division of the latest trends - the first five years". SRM, St. Petersburg
"Mystical correct", Hohenthal & Bergen gallery, Berlin, Germany
1998 "Renovation". Exhibition Hall in the Cultural-historical center of "Slavic", Moscow
Criticism

Intellectual biography of Yuri Leiderman at different stages brought him as a poetics of the archive, and with the poetry of reality. He was involved in the Moscow conceptual school Ilya Kabakov and Andrei Monastyrskoye, . was a member of their most istyh followers ( "Medical Hermeneutics"), . but then distanced himself just at the moment, . when the work of this circle of artists began to take the contours of the poetics of the archive,
. Later, he shared with Oleg Kulik, Anatoly Osmolovsky etc.. efforts to update the value horizons of the Moscow art scene, but distanced himself from them and when their work was to take the contours of the poetics of reality. It is absolutely obvious exhaustion of underground tradition: pointless to revive the past, fetishiziruya its texts and tenets. Traditions have to return it to the original status, ie. it must become a fact of history. But at the same time, it is obvious that with the reduction of the tradition disappears last system that made the ontological status of being. The scale and drama of this disaster must be grasped thoroughly and responsibly: it denies the reality of blind faith in the distance and, consequently, the possibility of comprehension.
As a result, poetics Leiderman aims at acquiring a new post-catastrophic identity and can be determined by the negative ontology. Meaning of this poetics in a constant appeal to the universalistic horizon, a constant building of ontological structures. Confronting the lapidary poetics of reality, Leiderman sees particular value in speculative sophistication, impeccable logic of causal processes, architectonic harmony of its ontological models. However, it has consistently based his designs laid semantic vacuum: one of the links in their semantic chain is disconnected. Thus, poetics Leiderman reconstructs ontological values and simultaneously dismantles them. Thus, in times of crisis ontologies, striving to avoid the ideological ghosts or conservative orthodoxy, he is trying valorizirovat the process of recovery of the ontology.
. In this particular value for the poetics Leiderman have just these zones redemption meaning, so striking in the context of the crystal Cartesian logic
. After all, they seem fraught by some new measurements, it appears there is the possibility of other values. Thus, in contrast to the poetics of the archive, absolutizes past, and the poetics of reality, Absolutized net present, the poetics of negative ontology opens potential future time. In contrast to the perception of a fetish archivists, . turned to the texts of the tradition, . or greedy privatizers perception of reality, . turned to a new property, . poetics of negative ontology offers a completely different, . disinterested perception,
. Experience pure vision - it is the only value that can be learned from the process of ontological collapse, it is the only basis on which to build a post-catastrophic identity.
. Obviously, the poetics of looking for a pure vision, completely uninterested in representation: it does not need it either tactically or strategically
. After all, if the tactical calculations invariably brings art to a professional routine, the strategic focus inevitably leads him to the identity of showbiz. The true meaning of today do not lend themselves to communication: they retain the character is deeply intimate and inexpressible. Therefore the only possible representation is one that fully makes its ineffectiveness and simultaneously attaches to the submission of the possibility of another, nereprezentiruemoy communication. Only by inertia or naivety can still perceive the significance of art: its only value is that it gives more opportunity for gaining experience, the art does not have a direct relationship.

V. Misiano. "Yuri Leiderman` s Negative Ontology ". Catalog of the exhibition "La route Jura-Paris (fragments)". Gallery Michel Rein, Tours, France, 1994