Haim Sokol is an artist and he teaches at the Alexander Rodchenko Moscow School of Photography and Multimedia and is a member of the editorial board of the Moscow Art Magazine. Graduated from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Moscow. He is also a recipient of the professional award “Soratnik” and has been nominated for the “Innovation” prize and the Kandinsky Prize.
Haim Sokol creates works in the installation, sculpture and video genres. He addresses in his work the topic of alienation, isolation and broken ties in the modern world. Working with archival materials and private documents, the artist reveals the history of the XX century through the prism of private destinies, explores the problems of historical memory and the modern socio-political situation.
Haim Sokol’s one-man exhibitions were held at the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Fabrika CTI, Stella Art Foundation, M&J Gelman, Triumph and Anna Nova galleries. He has participated in numerous group shows in Russia and abroad, including the 2nd Kiev Biennale (2015), the 1st Indian Biennale at Kochi-Muziris, India (2012), Mediations biennale (Poznan, 2010), the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (2009), II Biennale of Contemporary Art in Thessaloniki (2009).
The artist’s works are in the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, the Multimedia Art Museum, the State Center of Contemporary Art, PERMM, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Perm, Stella Art Foundation, Collection of Loushy: Arts & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel.
2019 – “In some sense, I become them, and they become me”. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2018 – “Testimony”. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2017 – “Paper memory”. Fabrika CTI, Moscow, Russia
2011 – “Witness”. M&J Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2010 – “Dead letters”. Triumph Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2008 – “Earth” (collaboration with A. Kuzkin). Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia
2018 – “Places: one after another”, IV session of the project by Victor Misiano “Human condition”. Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, Moscow, Russia
2018 – “2000s Art”. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2017 – “Birobidzhan. International Art Research of the Jewish Autonomous Region of the Russian Federation”. Birobidzhan, Russia
2016 – Meanwhile, what about socialism? AV Festival, Newcastle, Great Britain
2016 – Russian Contemporary: Drawing. No Limits. Center of Russian Culture “Pushkin House”, London, Great Britain
2015 – “Pieces of War”. State Center of Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad, Russia
2015 – Balagan. Contemporary Art from the Former Soviet Union and Other Mythical Places.
Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany
2015 – “Kiev School”. II Kiev Biennale, Kiev, Ukraine
2014-2015 – “Stories of two cities”. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Jewish Museum in Vienna, Vienna, Austria
2014 – “Performance in Russia. Cartography of History”. Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2014 – “Actual drawing”. State Russian Museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia
2014 – BRICS Program. Oi Futuro Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
2014 – Les Rencontres Internationales. Gaîté Lyrique and Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2013 – “Museum of Contemporary Art: Department of Labor and Employment”. State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2012 – TheRussianArtShow. 22 Calvert Gallery, London, Great Britain
2011 – “Homeland”. PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
2011 – “Moscow Auditorium”. Special project of the IV Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
2010 – Erased walls. Mediations Biennale, Poznan, Poland
2010 – Lesson of History. Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2009 – “Against exclusion”. III Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
2008 – Lost & found. The New Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
2008 – “Russian Poverty”. Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
2008 – I Biennale of Young Art, Moscow, Russia
2008 – @60.artisrael.world, Judah L. Magnes Museum, Berkeley, USA
State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia
Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
State Center of Contemporary Arts, Moscow, Russia
PERMМ, Perm, Russia
Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Stella Art Foundation
Collection of Loushy: Arts & Projects, Tel Aviv, Israel
