Svetlana Kopystiansky

1950
Born in Voronezh, Russia
1988
Immigrated to New York
1990
DAAD artists-in-residency grant in Berlin, Germany
2000
Käthe-Kollwitz-Preis 2000, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
2008
Residences Internationales aux Recollets, Paris, France
 
Lives in New York
Exhibitions
2011–2012
Erre, variations labyrinthiques, Center Pompidou Metz, France (cat.).
2011–2012
Wunder (cur. by Hürlimann | Lepp | Tyradellis). Deichttorhallen Hamburg and Siemens Stiftung. (cat.)
2011
From Trash to Treasure, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany
2011
Incidents, Energy and Process. Presentation of the collection (cur. by Stuart Comer). Tate Modern London.
2011
Aether. Centre Pompidou Paris
2010
The Lucid Evidence – Photography from the collection of the MMK, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010
Igor e Svetlana Kopystiansky - Opere video, GAMeC, Bergamo, Italy (solo)
2010
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky, Musée d’Art Moderne de Saint-Etienne Métropole, France (solo)
2010
Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
2010
New Installation of Recent Media Art Acquisitions, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., USA
2010
Radical Conceptual. Positions in the MMK Collection. MMK Frankfurt/Main, Germany
2010
Image by Image. Film and Contemporary art from the collection of the Centre Pompidou, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2010
Renouer les fils, Musée d’art Contemporain de Marseille, France
2010
Object, Line and Light, Screening, Starr Auditorium Tate Modern, London, UK
2010
La Ciudad Moderna / La Ville Moderne, Alianza Francesa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010
La Ciudad Moderna, Films de la colección del Centro Georges Pompidou, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina
2010
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky,(cur. Philippe-Alain Michaud), Cinema 2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
2009
Igor and Svetlana Kopystiansky: Incidents, Fog, Architecton, Steps Sole Sound, 16X, White Line. Works from the collection, Cinema 2, Musée National d'Art Moderne Center Pompidou, Paris, France (solo)
2009
Lisson Presents 1, Lisson Gallery London, UK
2009
False Twins. S.M.A.K. Gent, Belgium (cat.)
2009
Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery London, UK
2009
From the permanent collection, AGNSW, Sydney, Australia
2009
KunstFilmBiennale 2009, From the collection of the Center Pompidou Paris, Medienkunstraum der Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Germany
2009
Irreversible. Dobre cara da colección Sánchez Ubiría, Pazo da Cultura de Pontevedra, Spain
2009
Visione del Mondo, Art Forum Würth Capena, Rom, Italy
2009
No one needs the Needy, Sandra Buergel gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009
Drawn from the Collection, Screening. Magdalen Auditorium, Oxford, UK
2008
A Mind at Play. Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2008
Taking Time, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo. MARCO, Spain (cat.)
2008
From the permanent collection. AGNSW, Sydney, Australia
2008
Smoke and Mirrors, Birmingham, UK
2007
EMMA, Museum of modern art, Espoo, Finland (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2006
Lisson gallery, London, UK (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2006
Flic Flac, Presentation of the Collection, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2006
La Collezione permanente del Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in mostra al Moca, Museum Contemporary Art Shanghai, China
2006
Word and Image, DuBrow Gallery, J.V. Zimmerli Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
2006
Sequence and Consequence, Steven Kasher gallery, New York, USA
2005
From the permanent collection: Kopystiansky, Roth, Orozco, Cahn, Muniz, AGNSW, Sydney, Australia
2005
Nothingness, (cur. Neil Wenman): traveled to Galerija Gregor Podnar, Ljubljana, Slovenia (cat.)
2005
Poles Apart / Poles Together, An outdoor installation on the Grand Canal for the 51. International Art Exhibit Venice biennale. A project of the International Artists’ Museum Lodz
2005
Sandglass, Scottsdale Contemporary Art Museum, USA (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2005
Fine Arts Centre University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2005
The Day Before Tomorrow, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2004
Distrito cu4tro gallery, Madrid, Spain (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2004
Photographic Works. Goethe Institute, London, UK (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2004
Art originated in Berlin. Masterpieces from the collection of the Berlinische Galerie. Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
2004
Strangers to Ourselves, George Rodger Gallery, Maidstone; Zandra Rhodes Gallery, conference centre, 201 St. John Street, Clerkenwell, Rochester, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, UK
2004
The Distance Between You and Me, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2004
Collezione Permanente, Centro per L’arte contemporanea, Prato, Italy
2004
9th Triennial of Small Sculpture, Curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, Fellbach, Germany
2004
Video Time: Darren Almond, Ceal Floyer, Svetlana & Igor Kopystiansky, Richard Serra, Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2003
Strangers to ourselves, The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Zandra Rhodes Gallery, Rochester, England (cat.)
2003
Switch, Dhondt-Dhaenens Museum, Belgium
2003
Collezione Permanente. Opere Storiche, Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy
2003
The Distance between Me and You, Lisson gallery, London, UK
2003
Up: An Evening of Films and Videos on Flying. Screening organized by the Cabinet Magazine, White Box Gallery, New York, USA
2003
Der Text ist eine Lüge, Dany Keller Galerie, Eichelhardt, Germany
2003
Incidents, The Art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2003
Christine Burgin gallery, New York (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2003
Play in two Acts, Central Public Library, New York, USA (solo)
2002
Fog, Sprengel Museum Hanover, Germany (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2002
Lisson Gallery, London, UK (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2002
Au regard du paysage. Regarding Landscape II, Galerie Liane et Danny Taran du Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal (Québec), Canada (solo)
2002
Refuge, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikodden, Norway (cat.)
2002
Inaugurazione, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Italy
2002
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany (cat.)
2002
Regarding Landscape, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada
2001
Places in the Mind, Photographs from the Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2001
Forbidden Art of Post-war Russia, The Bruce Museum, USA (cat.)
2001
Din Art4, Museum für Post und Kommunikationen, Frankfurt, Germany
2000
Video Work, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2000
Children of Berlin, Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
2000
Moment, Dundee Contemporary Arts, UK
2000
SansSouci, Baadischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
2000
Incidents, Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, Germany (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2000
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky, Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
2000
Svetlana Kopystiansky, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1999
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, The Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1999
Examining Pictures: Exhibiting Paintings, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (cat.)
1999
Chronos & Kairos, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (cat.)
1999
Trace, The Tate Gallery, Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art (cat.)
1999
Wait, Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany
1999
Szenenwechsel XVI, Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
1999
War - Artists Bulletin Board, Postmasters Gallery / Thing.net, New York, USA
1999
Opere in Forma di Libro, Museo Virgiliano, Museo Pecci Prato, Italy
1999
The Garden (El Jardî), The old Botanical Garden, Barcelona, Spain (cat.) (solo)
1999
The Play in Seven Acts. International Reading Room, Central Library Liverpool, UK (solo)
1999
The Golden Age of Painting, The Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK (solo)
1999
Double Lives/Double Vides, Interventions at Barcelona Museums: Antoni Abad, Braco Dimitrijevic, Martin Kippenberger, Tony Oursler, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Jean-Michel Othoniel, Félix Gonzalez-Torres, Jana Sterbak, Gabriel Orozco, Damian Ortega, Barcelona, Spain
1999
Brent Sikkema Gallery, New York, USA
1998
Bilder für den Himmel, Victor Hugo Hall, Luxemburg
1998
Dialogue, IFA Gallery Berlin, (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
1998
Contemporary Sculpture, Europe Africa. 7. Triennale der Kleinplastik 1998, SüdwestLB Forum Stuttgart, Germany (cat.)
1998
Shifting Focus, Art Incorporating Photography. Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
1998
Sarajevo 2000, Museum of Modern Art, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
1998
Wort-Welten Schrift-Bildern, Berlinische Galerie, Lapidarium, Berlin, Germany
1997
Sculpture projects in Münster 1997, Münster, Germany (cat.)
1997
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa (cat.)
1997
L'Autre. 4e Biennale de Lyon, Art Contemporain, Lyon, France (cat.)
1997
From the permanent collection, Metropolitan Museum, New York, USA
1997
In Medias Res, Dolmabahce Palace, Istanbul, Turkey
1997
Paper Trail, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1997
Sequences, As You Can See: Conceptual Works from the Norton and Nancy Dodge, J. Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
1997
Kabinet, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1997
Collages, Frank+Schulte Gallery, Berlin, Germany (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
1997
Workers Library, 2nd Johannesburg Biennale, South Africa (solo)
1997
Fiction, Wooster Gardens Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1997
Bilder für den Himmel, Fliegenhorst Hohenlohe, Detmold, Germany
1997
Landscape as Abstraction, James Graham & Sons, New York, USA
1997
New Faces and Other Recent Acquisitions, (cur. David Travis and Sylvia Wolf). Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1996
Pictures for the Sky, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Argentina
1996
Some Assembly Required, (with Vik Muniz and Michiko Kon) The Art Institute of Chicago, USA (cat.) (solo)
1996
Original Copy, Kunsthalle Helsinki, Finland
1996
Monumental Propaganda, Muckenthaler Art Center, Fullerton, California, Travelled to: Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida, USA (cat.)
1996
Metaphern des Entrücktseins, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany (cat.)
1996
Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen, Art Gallery; Mount Saint Vincent's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Center, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (cat.)
1996
New Presentation of the Collection. Berlinische Galerie, Martin- Gropius- Bau, Berlin, Germany
1995
ORIENTATION, The Vision of Art in a Paradoxical World, The 4th International Istanbul Biennial (cat.)
1995
Club Berlin, Venice Biennale, Italy
1995
From Gulag to Glasnost, Nonconformist Art from Soviet Union, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA (cat.)
1995
Monumental Propaganda, Dunlop Art Gallery (cat.) Travelled to: Regina Public Library, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, Smithsonian Institution, International Gallery Washington D.C., USA
1995
Towards a Grand International Collection 2, Trevi Flash Art Museum, Italy
1995
Co-Existence, Construction in Process, Mitzpe-Ramon, Israel (cat.)
1995
Fuori Uso '95, Ex Aurum, Pescara, Italy (cat.)
1995
Non-conformists, Russia 1957-1993, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany (cat.) Travelled to: Documenta-Halle, Kassel, State Lindenau-Museum, Altenburg, Germany, Manez-Gallery, Moscow, Russia (cat.)
1995
The Art of Installation, Räume über Räume, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
1995
Memento, Haus am Wannsee, Berlin, travelled to Stadtgalerie im Sophienhof, Kiel, Germany (cat.)
1995
Women Artists in the Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (cat.)
1995
After perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA (cat.)
1995
Allegorie de la Richesse, St. Luis de la Sapetriere, Paris, France (cat.)
1995
Landscape, Mittelrhein-Museum Koblenz, travelled to: Museum Schloss Burgk an der Saale, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
1995
In eigener Sache Materialien zur Kunst, (cur. Jürgen Harten), Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
1994
The Big Painting, Berlinische Galerie, The Museum of Modern Art in the Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1994
Portrait and Self Portrait, (cur. Helena Kontova). Trevi Flash Art Museum, Italy (cat.)
1994
Bilder für den Himmel, Darling Harbour Exhibition Hall, Sydney, Australia (cat.)
1994
The Museum, the Library,Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (with Igor Kopystiansky) (solo)
1994
Kunsthalle, Helsinki, Finland (cat.) (solo)
1994
The Library, Berlinische Galerie im Martin- Gropius- Bau, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1994
Oulu Art Museum, Finland (solo)
1994
22 nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo, Brazil (cat.)
1994
Cocido y Crudo, Museo National Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (cat.)
1994
JETZTZEIT, Kunsthalle Vienna, travelled to De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
1994
Di Carta e d'Altro, Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (cat.)
1994
Memento, State Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic (cat.)
1994
Biennale Balticum 94, Rauma Museum, Finland (cat.)
1994
Great Gifts, Great Patrons, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (cat.)
1994
Allegorie de la Richesse, Bibliotheca di Storia Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy (cat.)
1994
After perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen, Travelled to: DePree Art Center and Gallery Hope College Holland, Michigan, traveled to: Western Gallery Western Washington University; Bellingham, Washington; Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery college of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
1993
Future perfect, Heiligerkreuzerhof, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
1993
Monumental Propaganda, World Financial Center, New York, Travelled to: ICA Moscow; Tallinn, Estonia; Lubljana, Slovenia (cat.)
1993
Adresse Provisoire, Museé de la Poste, Paris, France (cat.)
1993
After perestroika: Kitchenmaids or Stateswomen, Travelled to: Center international d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada, Picker Art Gallery colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA (cat.)
1993
Allegorie de la richesse, Humboldt University Library, Berlin, Germany
1993
The Purloined Image, (cur. Christopher. R. Young). The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, USA (cat.)
1993
A la découverte…de collections romandes I (cur. Chantal Michetti-Prod’Hom), FAE Museum of Contemporary Art, Pully, Lausanne, France (cat.)
1993
Pictures for the Sky, Documenta Halle, Kassel, traveled to Musee des Beaux Arts, Montreal (cat.)
1992
The Boundary Rider, 9th Biennale of Sydney, Australia (cat.)
1992
Dialogue in the Bode Museum, Bode Museum, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
1992
Landscape as Stage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA (cat.)
1992
37 Rooms, Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany (cat.)
1992
In the Whole House, Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art in the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
1992
Head trough the Wall, Block's Collection, Steaten Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark (cat.)
1992
Word-Image in Contemporary Art, James Howe Gallery, Kean College of New Jersey, USA (cat.)
1991
Binationale 1991, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany (cat.) Travelled to: The Israel Museum, Jerusalem and The Central Artist's House, Moscow
1991
Kunst, Europa, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshafen, Germany (cat.)
1991
La Collezione 1988-90, Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy (cat.)
1991
Kunst der Gegenwart, Schloss Plön, Germany (cat.)
1991
Ostkunst-Westkunst, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany (cat.)
1991
Anni Novanta, (cur. Renato Barilli). Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Bologna; Musei Comunali, Rimini; Ex colonia Le Navi, Catolica, Italy (cat.)
1991
Kunst Europa, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Germany (cat.)
1991
In the Tradition, DAAD / Berlinische Galerie, Museum of Modern Art, Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany (with Igor Kopystiansky) (cat.) (solo)
1991
Universal Space, (cur. René Block). DAAD, Installation in the Café Einstein, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1991
Art against Violence, Starke Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany
1990
Adaptation and Negation of Socialist Realism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA (cat.)
1990
Castelli Graphics, New York, USA (cat.)
1990
Contemporary Russian Artists, Center for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy (cat.) Travelled to: Centro Atlantico d'Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Spain
1990
Construction in Process, Lodz, Poland
1990
The Quest for Self Expression, Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio, USA (cat.)
1990
Curt Marcus gallery, New York, USA
1990
Pictures for the Sky, Deichtorhalle, Hamburg. Traveled to: Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Haus der Kunst, München, Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris, National Gallery Berlin, Museu Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, Musee de Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Charlottenburg, Copenhagen, Denmark, Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Torino, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (cat.)
1990
Art from the Ludwig Collection Today Staatsgalerie Bamberg. Traveled to: Villa Dessauer; Konsthall Stockholm (cat.)
1990
Ironed Books, (performance by Svetlana) Studio DAAD, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1990
A Play without words for one actor, (performance by Igor) Studio DAAD Berlin, Germany (solo)
1989
A Play without words for one actor, (performance by Igor) Studio DAAD Berlin, Germany (solo)
1989
Art from the Ludwig Collection Today, Art Museum Luzern, traveled to: Musee d'Art Moderne de St. Etienne, Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain (cat.)
1989
Momentafnahme, Altes Stadtmuseum Münster Traveled to: Stapelhaus Frankenwerft, Cologne; Ravensberger Spinnerei, Bielefeld, Germany (cat.)
1989
Kunsthalle Innsbruck, Austria (solo)
1989
Dany Keller Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
1989
Torch Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
1989
What is Contemporary Art?, (cur. Dan Cameron): Fischli-Weiss, Katharina Fritsch, Georg Herold, Rebecca Horn, On Kawara, Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Sherrie Levine, Tatsuo Miyajima, Walter Obholzer, Meret Oppenheim, Perejaume, Haim Steinbach, Bill Taylor, Jeff Wall. Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden (cat.)
1988
Cable Gallery, New York, USA (with Collier Schorr) (solo)
1988
Aperto, XLII Biennale di Venezia, (cur. Dan Cameron). Venice, Italy (cat.)
1988
Galerie de France, Paris, France (cat.)

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Svetlana Kopystiansky, Igor Kopystiansky
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London
United Kingdom
 Svetlana Kopystiansky, Igor Kopystiansky Ausstellung – London United Kingdom
Svetlana Kopystiansky, Igor Kopystiansky
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Hannover
Germany
 Svetlana Kopystiansky, Igor Kopystiansky Ausstellung – Hannover Germany