Artist, curator, engaged in artistic research of the non-conformist art and the memory of other creative currents of the past. Mostly works with the installation or collage. Also works as the invited consultant for Garage Museum of Contemporary Art (Moscow) (working with archives) and Moscow Museum of Modern Art (education center).
Ian Ginsburg was born in Moscow, graduated from Russian State Social University and from The British Higher School of Art and Design (Moscow department). Studied at the ICA (Institute of Contemporary Art Problems), Moscow.
Also did the course at Goldsmith Academy (London) and Unlimited Residency (New York) (2019).
Laurate of the Moscow Art Prize (2020), nominee of the Kandinsky Art Prize and Innovation (the state prize for contemporary art).
Currently lives and works in Moscow.
Artworks were exhibited at multiple exhibitions and museums, foundations, such as:
The State Tretyakov Gallery, GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, The State Ethnographic Museum, Manezh Central Exhibition Hall (St. Petersburg) and others.
Engaged in artistic research of Moscow conceptualism and the memory of other creative currents of the past. Mostly works with the installation or collage.
The work of Ian Ginsburg (real name - Tamkovich) is closely associated with non-conformist Iosif Ginzburg, whom he met in 2014. The latter becomes the central character of Ian Ginsburg's projects, embodying the tragically forgotten, underground art.
Ian Ginsburg’s artistic practice is a remarkable example of actualization of the archival impulse, important for the international art context of recent years. Ginsburg’s method combines the experience of material production with the procedure of simulationistic deconstruction: by entering into a dialogue with a particular artist, investigating the mode of their existence and the everyday context of their practice, the author makes the process of artistic production visible and demonstrates the manipulative power of images.
More detailsAwards
2021
- Innovation, The State Prize for Contemporary Art. Short-list. "The Closed Fish Exhibition. Reconstruction". (The artistic director: Ian Ginsburg, curator: Dmitry Khvorostov).
- Kandinsky Art Prize, nomination "The Project of Year" for the "Closed Fish Exhibition. Reconstruction")
2020
- Moscow Art Prize
Primary solo exhibitions
2023
- Atelier Paradis, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg
2022
- Sewing-writing Ed. Prolog", ISSMAG gallery, Moscow
2019
- «Sovpis», «Osnova» gallery, Moscow
2018
- «The Room of Geniuses, Aphorisms of Joseph Ginzburg», «Ugly Swans» gallery, Moscow
2017
- «Mechanical beetle», «Osnova» gallery, Moscow
2014
- «Autonomic speech», Creative industries center «Factory», Moscow
Public exhibitions
2023
- catalog, Contemporary Art Fair supported by Russian Association of Galleries, former Sytin Printing House, Moscow
- “A Brief History of Absence”, GES-2 House of Culture, Moscow
2021
- “The Raw and Cooked”, The show in terms of First Komi Biennale, The State Museum of Ethnography, St. Petersburg, Russia
2020
- “Closed Fish Exhibition. Reconstruction". Ommage to the classical artists of Russian conceptualism. Andrey Voznesensky Cultural Center. Moscow
2019
- Sans (T)Rêve Et Sans Merci, Сube, Moscow, Russia
2017
- "Hooray... sculpture!", Manezh Central Exhibition Hall, St. Petersburg
2016
- "One inside another. The new and analogue media art at the age of high-speed internet", ММОМА, Moscow, Russia
2015
- "Notation", Creative industries center "Factory", Moscow
2014
- Here the other side, APT Gallery, London, UK
- Moscow International Binnale for Contempoary Art
2013
- “Past Imperfect. Today’s art festival”, The Hague, The Netherlands
2012
- “It seems that something is missing here”. Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Moscow, Russia
2011
- Mapping the possible, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- «From the space of practical knowledge», 4th Moscow Biennale for Young Contemporary Art
Collections
- Andrey Malakhov private collection
- Pierre Brochet Private Collection
- Sergey Limonov Art Foundation
Education
- British Academy of Design. Studied at the Institute of Contemporary Art Problems
