• Born in the Trialeti village, Georgia in 1943
• Studied at the Moscow secondary art school from 1955 to 1962
• Studied at the art faculty of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography from 1962 to 1968
• Worked as an artist on Central Television from 1968 to 1971
• In 1970 he was working with book illustration, designed theatrical productions.
• In 1984 he was awarded the title Honored Artist of the RSFSR
• In 2012, he became a laureate of the VII Russian contest in the field of contemporary visual art “Innovation” in the nomination “For creative contribution to the development of contemporary art”
• Lives in Moscow
2016 Only paper. Igor Makarevitch/Elena Elagina. “Peresvetov Lane” Gallery. Moscow
2015 Makarevich – Elagina: analysis of art. State Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val. Moscow
2013 Igor Makarevitch. Elena Elagina. Unknown intelligent powers. Stella Art Foundation. Moscow
2010 Manifestations Conceptuelles. Galerie Blue Square. Paris. France
2010 House of Erastovs. XL Gallery. Moscow
2009 In Situ. Kunsthistorisches Museum. Vienna. Austria
2008 Mushrooms of the Russian Avant-Garde. Together with Elena Elagina. ART Iculate Foundation, Rochelle School. London. Great Britain. Galerie Sandmann. Berlin. Germany
2007 Russian idea. XL Gallery. Moscow
2007 Russian idea. “DomArt” Gallery. Moscow
2005 Within the beautiful. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2003 HOMO-LIGNUM03. State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2003 Pagan. XL Gallery. Moscow
2002 Iron fly. XL Gallery. Moscow
2002 Masters of Contemporary Russian Mythology. K Gallery. Washington. USA
2001 Book of Radiance. Hand Print Workshop International. Alexandria. USA
2001 The prodigal daughter. “Station Caretaker’s House” Museum. Vyra
2001 Zoo anthropomoses. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2000 Graphics 1993—2003. Pinacoteca. Moscow
2000 Pests. Central House of Artists. Moscow
2000 Three glances. Art Museum. Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk
2000 NOMAZH. Museum of Pathological Animal Anatomy. Saint Petersburg
2000 Drawings of old Soviet masters. XL Gallery. Moscow
2000 Visionary Borisov. Within the beauty. Center of Contemporary Art. Nizhny Novgorod
2000 Borisov’s museum. Edsvik Konst. Sollentuna. Sweden
2000 Shwedagon. Cultural Center “HOUSE”. Moscow
1999 Homo Lignum 99. Spider & Mouse Gallery. Moscow
1999 Chosen places from the notes of Nikolai Ivanovich Borisov or The Secret Life of Trees. XL Gallery. Moscow
1998 Selections from the Diary of Nikolai Ivanovich Borisov. Hand Print Workshop International. Alexandria. USA
1998 Looking for paradise. XL Gallery. Moscow
1997 Homo Lignum. XL Gallery. Moscow
1997 Partial change. Obscuri Viri Gallery. Moscow
1996 Lignomania. XL Gallery. Moscow
1995 How to survive in the summer snow. “Coat” Gallery”. Moscow
1995 Croquet game. Obscuri Viri Gallery. Moscow
1994 Seagull. ArtIII Gallery. Berlin. Germany
1994 The writer’s story. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1994 Life in the snow. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
1993 Closed piscine exhibit and other installations. Together with Elena Elagina. Krings-Ernst Galerie. Cologne. Germany
1993 Between abandonment and hope. “Velta” Gallery. Moscow
1992 Three glances. State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1992 Within the beautiful. L Gallery. Moscow
1990 Freedom-Liberty. Phyllis Kind Gallery. New York. USA
1990 Closed Fish Exhibition. «MANI» Museum. Moscow
1979 Abramov. Chuikov. Makarevitch. Centre Georges Pompidou. Paris. France
2019 Collective symptom. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2018 Tour. Ludwig Museum. Collection of the Russian Museum in MAMM. Multimedia Art Museum. Moscow
2016 Collector’s apartment. Maple Dom. Moscow
2016 Thinking Pictures: Moscow Conceptual Art in the Dodge Collection. Jane Voorhees Zimmerly Art Museum at Rutgers University. New Jersey. USA
2015 Oven and imperishability. Fragments from life. Moscow Museum. Moscow
2014 Underground. Earth apple. MOSCOOP. Moscow
2014 Actual drawing. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2013 Lenin breaks ice. Icebreaker “Lenin”. Murmansk
2013 A book on the cutting edge of contemporary art. Russian State Library of Arts. Moscow
2013 Russia XXI. Contemporary Russian sculpture. Beeldenaan Zee. Hague. Netherlands
2013 Translation problems. Ca’Foscari University of Venice. Venice. Italy
2012 I was here! Open gallery. Moscow
2012 Limited edition. Open gallery. Moscow
2011 Looking for a masterpiece. Open gallery. Moscow
2011 Counterpoint, Contemporary Russian Art—From the Icon to the Avant-Garde by way of the Museum. Louvre Museum. Paris
2010 The male principle. Open Gallery. Moscow
2010 Memories and dreams. Open Gallery. Moscow
2009 Different Mythology. State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2009 Collages Russes. Galerie Blue Square. Paris. France
2009 Secret Body Life. Open Gallery. Moscow
2009 The crisis of self-identification. Open Gallery. Moscow
2009 Temptation. Open Gallery. Moscow
2008 Collection of Russian and East European Art from the collection of the Wells Fund. The Chelsea Art Museum. New York. USA
2008 Total Enlightenment. Conceptual Art in Moscow 1960–1990. Schirn Kunsthalle. Frankfurt am Main. Germany; Fundación Juan March. Madrid. Spain
2008 Russian poverty. Marat Gelman Fund. Perm
2008 Art Index. Latvian National Museum of Art. Riga. Latvia
2008 Altars of the Avan-guard. Contemporary Art Museum. Zagreb. Croatia
2008 Russian art. Paradoxes of history. National Academy of Art. Sofia. Bulgaria
2007 Architecture of Ad Marginem. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2007 The journey of the black square. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2007 Word and image. State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2007 Learning from Moscow – Positions of current art from Moscow. Stadtischen Galerie. Dresden. Germany
2006 Origin of species. Toyama Prefectural Museum of Artand Design. Hiroshima. Japan
2006 Russia! SolomonR. Guggenheim Museum. New York. USA
2005 Moscow – Warsaw 1900–2000. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2005 Russian pop-art. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2005 Collage in Russia. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2004 Esotericum. Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
2004 Moscow – Berlin. State Historical Museum. Moscow
2004 Warsaw – Moscow 1900–2000. National Art Gallery “Zahenta”. Warsaw. Austria. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
2003 Berlin–Moskau/Moscow–Berlin 1950–2000. Martin-Gropius-Bau. Berlin. Germany
2001 Mysterious relative. Mineralogical Museum in the name of Fersman. Moscow
2000 Art versus geography. State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
2000 Personal opinion. International Center of Hand Printing. Alexandria. USA; State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1999 The book of the artist. State Museum of Fine Arts in the name of A.S. Pushkin. Moscow
1998 World of these eyes 2. Chuvash State Art Museum. Cheboksary
1998 Body and East. Contemporary Art Museum. Ljubljana. Slovenia
1997 World of sensual things. State Museum of Fine Arts in the name of A.S. Pushkin. Moscow
1996 From Gulag to Glasnost. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum. New Jersey. USA; State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1995 Kunst imverborgenen. Nonkonformisten Ruβland1957–1995.Wilhelm-Hack- Museum. Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Рalle. Кассель; Staatliches Lindenau- Museum. Altenburg. Germany
1995 Zeichnungender Moskauer Szene. Galerie Hohenthal & Littler. Munich. Germany
1995 A private opinion of the war. House on the waterfront Museum. Moscow
1995 Flug, Entfernung, Verschwinden. Konzeptuelle Moskauer Kunst. Galerie Hlavniho Mesta Prahy. Prague. Czech Republic; Haus am Waldsee. Berlin; Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof. Keel. Germany
1994 Fluchtpunkt Moskau. Ludwig Forum. Aachen. Germany
1993 Humanitarian Aid – Parcels for Germany. Central House of Artists. Moscow
1993 Monuments. Transformation for the future. Institute of Contemporary Art. Moscow
1993 National postmodern traditions. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1992 Perspectives of Conceptualism. North Carolina Museumof Art. North Carolina. USA
1992 aMosca…aMosca. Villa Campoleto. Herculaneum. Galleria Comunaled’Arte Moderna. Bologna. Italy
1991 Different Art. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1991 MANI Museum-40 Moskauer Künstler. Karmeliter kloster. Frankfurt am Main. Germany
1991 Soviet contemporary art from the Thaw to Changes. SetagayaArt Museum. Tokyo. Japan
1990 Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Artin the Era of Late Communism. Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma; Institute of Contemporary Art. Boston; Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines. USA
1990 Towards the object. State Museum-Reserve “Tsaritsyno”. Moscow
1990 Inde USSR en Erbuiten. The Stedelijk Museum. Amsterdam. Netherlands
1990 Exposition. State Museum-Reserve “Tsaritsyno”. Moscow
1990 Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art. Connecticut. USA
1984 Les Russes au present. Centre Cultureldela Villedieu. Elankort. France
1980–1981 New Tendenciesin Russian Un official Art: 1970–1980. Museum of Soviet Unofficial Art. New Jersey. USA
Museum collections and funds
Museum of Modern Art. Berlin. Germany
Kupfertstich-Kabinett. Berlin. Germany
Museum Ludwig. Cologne. Germany
Museum Wurt. Kunzelsau. Germany
Silkeborg Museum of Arts. Silkeborg. Denmark
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington. USA
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. North Carolina. USA
J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles. USA
Museum of Contemporary Art. Denver. USA
Jane Voorhees Zimmerly Art Museum at Rutgers University. New Jersey. USA
Library of Congress. Washington. USA
Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’art Moderne. Paris. France
State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
State Center of Contemporary Art. Moscow
Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. Moscow
ART4 Museum. Moscow
AZ Museum. Moscow
Cultural fund “Ekaterina”. Moscow
State Russian Museum. Saint Petersburg
New Museum of Aslan Chekhoev. Saint Petersburg
Private and corporate collections
Oywind Johanssen. Oslo. Norway
Andrew Solomon. New York. USA
Collection of Vladimir Nekrasov. Moscow
Collection of the Evgeniy Nutovich family. Moscow
Collection of Vladimir and Ekaterina Semenikhin. Moscow
Collection of Mikhail Alshibaya. Moscow
Collection of Boris Friedman. Moscow
Elena Elagina and Igor Makarevich. Within the beautiful. Moscow, 1992
Olga Abramova. Yuri Basov. Andrey Kostin. Igor Makarevich. Moscow, 1979