Artist's works - Erik Bulatov
1990, Russia
Erik Bulatov is one of the key figures in contemporary Russian art, one of the reformers of the painting in the second half of the 20th century. Its formation and fame in the 1960 – 1980’s were connected with the circle of non-conformism, “other art” in which he was perceived by one of the authorities, along with his closest friends – Ilya Kabakov, Oleg Vasiliev and others. Bulatov’s name is usually connected with such stylistic trends as “pop art”, “sots-art” and “photorealism”, but it is obvious that the artist’s works are not limited to them. An exceptional combination of skill and analytics made Bulatov’s art recognizable all over the world – one of the first among contemporary Russian artists.
Erik Vladimirovich Bulatov was born on Sepember 5, 1933 in Sverdlovsk (now Ekaterinburg), where his father was sent for work from Moscow. Bulatov’s family came back to Moscow in 1936, where he lives since then (from 1989 to 1991 he lived in New York, from 1991 to the present – mostly lives in Paris). In 1952 – 1958 Bulatov studied at Surikov Art Institute. Throughout the 1950s he regularly worked with Robert Falk and Vladimir Favorsky, whom he considers his teachers. In 1967 he became a member of the Union of Artists of the USSR (as an illustrator of children’s books, on which he worked in collaboration with Oleg Vassiliev). He was practically not exhibited in the USSR (the exhibition at the Kurchatov Institute in 1964 was immediately closed by the authorities, in 1968 there was a one-day exhibition in the Blue Bird cafe). His first solo exhibition took place in 1988 at the Museum of Fine Arts of Zurich, immediately after it at the Center Georges Pompidou (the first among Russian contemporaries). Bulatov took part in the Venice Biennale, in the Biennale of Gwangju where he was award in 1997. His art has been repeatedly shown in European museums. The most large-scale exhibitions were held at the State Tretyakov Gallery (2006) and the Moscow Manege (2014). Bulatov’s works could be found in dozens of museum and important private collections all around the world.
2019 Black Horizon. Galerie BPS22. Musée d’art dela Provincede Hainaut. Charleroi. Belgium
2018 Erik Bulatov. Freedom exists. Graphics of 1955-2018. Yeltsin Center. Yekaterinburg
2017 “A painting and visitors” in the exposition of the State Tretyakov Gallery. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2016 Erik Bulatov. Skopia gallery. Geneva. Switzerland
2015 Come to Garage! Garage Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2015 Vot. Erik Bulatov. Kulczyk Foundation. London. UK
2014 I live – I see. Moscow Manege. Moscow
2013 Art Paris. Galerie Piece Unique. Paris. France
2013 Eric Bulatov: Our time has come. Arndt Berlin. Berlin. Germany
2013 Erik Bulatov. Paintings and Drawings 1966-2013. The Nouveau Musée National de Monaco. Monaco
2011 Eric Bulatov: Recent works. Galerie Piece Unique. Paris. France
2009 Eric Bulatov: O. Arndt & Partner. Berlin. Germany
2009-2010 Erik Bulatov: 1971-2008. Musée d’art modern et contemporain. Geneva. Switzerland
2008 Erik Boulatov: la voute celeste. Galerie Piece Unique. Paris. France 2007 Eric Boulatov: ICI. Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris. Paris. France
2007 Train-Train. Galerie Arndt & Partner. FIAC. Paris. France
2007 Day – Night. Skopia gallery. Geneva. Switzerland
2007 Art Unlimited. Skopia gallery. Basel. Switzerland
2006 Vot. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2006 Freiheit ist Freiheit, Kestnergesellschaft. Hanover. Germany
2004 Danger. Eric Bulatov. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2003 Erik Bulatov. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
2003 Erik Bulatov. Galerie Dany Keller. Munich. Germany
2003 Drawings. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2003 VOT. Paintings, Drawings, Illustrations. National Center for Contemporary Art. Moscow
2002 Erik Bulatov. FIAC. Galerie Dina Vierny. Paris. France
2001 Erik Bulatov. Blomquist Kunsthandel AS. Oslo. Norway
1999-2000 Erik Bulatov. Musée Maillol – Fondation Dina Vierny. Paris. France
1998 Erik Bulatov. Das Bild ist tot. Es lebe das Bild! Galerie Berndt/Galerie Reckermann. Cologne. Germany
1997 Speed. Space. Hybrid. Power. Becoming. Kwangju Biennal. Korea. Prize in “Power” category
1996 Nicht verbindbare Räume. Galerie Renee Ziegler. Zurich. Switzerland
1995 Nicht verbindbare Räume. Galerie Berndt. Galerie Reckermann. Кeльн. Германия
1994 Erik Bulatov. Phyllis Kind Gallery. Нью-Йорк. США
1992 FIAC. Galerie Dina Vierny. Париж. Франция
1991 Erik Bulatov. Galeria Fernando Duran. Madrid. Spain
1989 Erik Bulatov. Dany Keller Galerie. Munich. Germany
1989 Erik Bulatov. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
1988 Erik Bulatov, Moscow. Kunsthalle Zurich. Zurich. Switzerland; Kunsthaus Zürich. Zurich. Switzerland; Kunstmuseum Bonn. Bonn. Germany; De Appel Arts Centre. Amsterdam. The Netherlands; Centre Pompidou. Paris. France; Institute of Contemporary Arts. London. UK; Center for the Visual Arts. Boston; Newport Art Museum. Newport Beach; The University of Chicago. Chicago. USA
1968 Erik Bulatov. Ilya Kabakov. One-day exhibition. Blue Bird café. Moscow
1965 Eric Bulatov. Vyacheslav Kalinin. The Kurchatov Institute of Nuclear Energy. Moscow
2019-2020 A cradle of styles. 80th Anniversary of Moscow Academic Art Lyceum. Moscow
2019 Geo-metry in culture of XX-XXI centuries. 100th Anniversary of Bauhaus. NCCA. Moscow
2019 And shadows of childhood will disappear…Anniversary exhibition of Vitaly Patsukov. «Na Kashirke» gallery. Moscow
2018-2019 Victory Over the Sun. Russian Avant-Garde and Beyond. Israel Museum. Jerusalem. Israel
2018-2019 Premonition of space. NCCA. Москва
2018 Painting of words. Between text and image. Belyaevo gallery. Moscow
2017 Silk Road. Book of artist. NCCA. Москва
2017 In the beginning was the Word. Poet and context. To Lev Rubenstein Anniversary. NCCA. Москва
2017 We were taught to live. Gallery “Dolgorukovskaya 29”. Moscow
2017 Kollektsia! Art contemporain en URSS et en Russie. 1950–2000. Un don majeur. Centre National d’Art Et de Culture Georges Pompidou. Париж
2017 Red Horizon. Contemporary Art and Photography in the USSR and Russia, 1960-2010. Columbus Museum of Art. Ohio. USA
2016 Always contemporary. Art of XX-XXI. ROSIZO gallery. Moscow
2016 Contemporary Russian Artists– participants of the Venice Biennale. Selected works. Manege Exhibition Hall. St. Petersburg
2016 Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection. Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. New Jersey. USA
2015 Storytellers. Museum of private collections – The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Moscow
2014 VIDEO/PAINTING. Solyanka VPA. Moscow
2013 Lost in Translation. Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Parallel project of the Venice Biennale. Venice. Italy
2012-2013 No Barriers. Russian Art 1985-2000. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg
2011-2012 Passion Bild. Russische Kunst seit 1970. Kunstmuseum Bern. Bern. Switzerland
2011 Hostages of Voids. Aesthetics of empty space in Russian Art during XIX-XX centuries. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2010-2011 Contrepoint. L’art contemporain russe. Musee du Louvre. Paris. France
2010 Field of Action. Moscow Conceptual School in Context 1970s – 1980’s. Ekaterina Foundation. Moscow
2010 GLOB(E)SCAPE. Artplay. Moscow
2010 Glasnost : Soviet non-conformist art from the 1980s. The Haunch Of Venison. Saulsberry. UK
2009 Anatoly Brusilovsky. Pantheon of Russian Avantgarde. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Moscow
2009 Cinema Painting. NCCA. Moscow
2009 Russian lettrism. Artists dealing with words from conceptualism to actual art. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2008 +7(495)… Russian artists abroad from NCCA collection. NCCA. Moscow
2008 Die totale Aufklärung. Moskauer Konzeptkunst 1960-1990. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Frankfurt. Germany
2009 Days & Decades. 20th Anniversary. Skopia gallery. Geneva. Switzerland
2008 Drawing Now – Drawing Then. Junge Meister – Altmeister. Arndt & Partner. Zürich. Switzerland
2007-2008 Sots art. Art politique en Russie de 1972 a aujourd’hui. La maison rouge. Paris. France
2007 Word and Image. NCCA. Moscow
2007 Movement. Evolution. Art. Эволюция. Искусство. Ekaterina Foundation. Moscow
2007 Thinking Realism. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2007 Life as a legend. Marilyn Monroe. Dayton Art Institute. Ohio. USA
2007 Texere II, Skopia gallery. Geneva. Switzerland
2006 RUSSIA! Guggenheim Museum. Bilbao. Spain
2006 Artists Against the State. Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. New York. USA
2006 Essence of Life — Essence of Art. Moderna Galerija. Ljubljana. Slovenia
2005-2006 – RUSSIA! Guggenheim Museum. New York. USA
2005 Essence of Life — Essence of Art. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2005 Angels of History. Moscow Conceptualism and its Influence. Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen (MuHKA). Antwerp. Belgium
2004 New Arrivals. NCCA. Moscow
2004 Beyond Memory: Soviet Nonconformist Photography and Photo-Related Works of Art. Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. New Jersey. USA
2004 Passage Europe. Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint–Etienne Métropole. Saint–Etienne. France
2004 Moi! Autoportraits du XX-ème siècle. Musée du Luxembourg. Paris; Galleria degli Uffizi. Florence
2004 Berlin–Moscow / Moscow–Berlin. The State Historical Museum. Moscow
2003-2004 Berlin–Moscow / Moscow–Berlin. Martin–Gropius–Bau. Berlin. Germany
2003-2004 Traumfabrik Kommunismus. Die visuelle Kultur der Stalinzeit. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt. Frankfurt. Germany
2003 Painting: from Rauschenberg to Murakami, 1964–2003. Museo Correr. Venice (in conjunction with the 50th Venice Biennale)
2003 Traumfabrik Kommunismus. Die Visuelle Kultur der Stalinzeit. Schirn Kunsthalle. Frankfurt. Germany
2003 Orel Art presenta. Orel Art Gallery. Paris. France
2002 Malevich and Film. Centro Cultural de Belém. Lisbon. Portugal; Fundación La Caixa. Madrid. Spain
2001 Atelier Landschaft. Gedachte, gemalte, photographie. Landschaftsbilder. Galerie Reckermann. Cologne. Germany
2000 Samizdat. Alternative Kultur in Zentral- und Osteuropa: Die 60er bis 80er Jahre. Akademie der Kunste. Berkin. Germany
2000 Left, Left. Russian Avantgard of 1910s and 1960s. New Hermitage. St. Petersburg
2000-2001 Hypermental. Rampant Reality. Kunsthaus. Zürich. Switzerland; Kunsthalle. Hamburg. Germany
2000 Cosmos. Palazzo Grassi. Venice. Italy
1999-2000 Contemporary Russian Artists. Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi
Pecci. Prato. Italy
1999 -2000 Kunst im Untergrund. Nonkonfromistische Künstler aus der Sowjetunion. Albertina. Vienna. Austria
1999 Forbidden Art. The Postwar Russian Avant–Garde. History Museum of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg; The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1999 Europe in Motion. The Berlin Wall Artists for Freedom. The Nicosia Municipal Art Centre. Nicosia. Cyprus
1997-1998 Selection from the Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union. Culturgest Festival. Lisbon. Portugal
1997 Speed. Space. Hybrid. Power. Becoming. Kwangju Biennal. Korea. Prize in “Power” category
1996-1997 Nonconformists. The second Russian Avant–Garde. 1955-1988. Bar–Gera Collection. The State Russian Museum. St. Petersburg; The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1996 Flug – Entfernung – Verschwinden. Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof. Kiel. Germany; Haus am Waldsee. Berlin. Germany
1996 Contemporary Art in the Ludwig Museum. Museum Ludwig. Cologne. Germany
1996 Face à l’Histoire. 1933–1996. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. France
1995 Nonconformisten, Rußland. 1957-1995. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum. Kassel. Germany
1995 Staatliches Lindenau-Museum. Altenberg. Germany
1995 Manege Gallery. Moscow
1994 Phyllis Kind Gallery. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
1994 Das Jahrhundert der Avantgarde in Mittel- und Osteuropa. Kunst- + Ausstellungshalle. Bonn. Germany
1994 Art Cologne. Galerie Berndt Cologne. Germany
1994 Humanisme and Technology. The Human figure in industrial society. National Museum of Contemporary Art. Seoul. Korea
1993 Do all roads lead to Rome? Palazzo delle Esposizzioni. Rome. Italy
1993 The Russian Art Avant-Garde in the 20th Century. Museum Ludwig. Cologne.
Germany
1992 Phyllis Kind Gallery. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
1992 Russian Art from V. Nekrasov’s Collection. Bochum Museum. Germany
1992 a mosca…a mosca. Museum of Modern Art Bologne. Italy
1991 Gallery Fernando Duran. Gallery Fernando Duran. Madrid. Spain
1990 Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam. The Netherlands
1990 Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
1990 Columbus Museum of Art. Columbus. USA
1990 Another Art. The State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1990 Contemporary Russian Artists. Auditoria de Gallicia. Santiago de Compostela. Spain
1989 Institute of Contemporary Art. Institute of Contemporary Art. London. UK
1989 List Visual Art Center. List Visual Art Center. Boston. USA
1989 The Newport Harbor Art Museum, The Newport Harbor Art Museum. Newport Beach. USA
1989 The University of Chicago. The University of Chicago. Chicago. USA
1989 Galerie Dany Keller. Galerie Dany Keller. Munich. Germany
1989 Les Magiciens de la Terre. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. France
1989 Phyllis Kind Gallery. Chicago. USA
1989 Photography and Painting. First Gallery. Moscow
1988 Biennale Venedig. Biennale Venedig. Venice. Italy
1987 The Artist and His Era. Moscow
1987 Direct from Moscow. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
1986 Erik Bulatov. CIAE. Phyllis Kind Gallery. Chicago. USA
1986 Group Exhibition. Moscow
1986 Sots Art. The New Museum of Contemporary Art; Glenbow Museum. New York. USA; Calgary. Canada
1986 Everson Museum of Art Syracuse. New York. USA
1984 Sots Art. Semaphore Gallery. New York. USA
1982 Photography and Painting. Moscow
1982 Photography in Painting. Tartu Museum. Tartu. Estonia
1977 Biennale Venedig. Biennale Venedig. Venice. Italy
1973 Russian Avant-Garde. Moscow; Gallery Dina Vierny. Paris. France
1957 International Festival of Young Artists. International Festival of Young Artists. Moscow
1956 School of Young Moscow Artists. Moscow
The Albertina Museum. Vienna. Austria
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst. Aachen. Germany
Deutsches Historisches Museum. Berlin. Germany
Kestnergesellschaft. Hannover. Germany
Galerie Neue Meister. Dresden. Germany
Museum Ludwig. Cologne. Germany
Fondazione Sandretto. Turin. Italy
Mudam Luxemburg. Grand Duke Jean Museum of Modern Art. Luxemburg
Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. New Jersey. USA
Kolodzei Art Foundation. Highland-park. USA
Korban Art Foundation. Highland-park. USA
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’art Moderne. Paris. France
Fondation Dina Vierny – Musée Maillol. Paris. France
Manufacture nationale des Gobelins. Paris. France
Musée nationale de Céramique. Sévres. France
Kunstmuseum Basel – Emanuel Hoffman Foundation. Basel. Switzerland
Kunstmuseum. Bern. Switzerland
The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, Russia
The State Hermitage Museum. St. Petersburg
The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
ART4.RU Contemporary Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Ekaterina Cultural Foundation. Moscow
Nizhny Novgorod State Fine Art Museum. Nizhny Novgorod
