EUGENE YUFIT (b. 1962, Leningrad — 2016, Peterhof) - Artist, photographer, director, necrorealism founder. His paintings show humanity’s gloomy side, it runs counter to the bright socialist future. Heroes are creatures between the living and the dead. Painting is dynamic, like frames from a movie or animation. The photos are close to abstraction, laconic in composition. Works are black and white, color is a rarity.
More detailsAwards
2012
- Sergey Kuryokhin Award in the nomination "Work of Visual Art", St. Petersburg, Russia
2003
- Hubert Balsa Foundation Grant, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands
2001
- Grant from the Pro Arte Institute and the Ford Foundation, St. Petersburg, Russia
1999
- Grant from the Montecinemaverita Foundation, Locarno, Switzerland
- Hubert BAls Foundation Grant, Rotterdam International Film Festival, The Netherlands
1994
- Grant from the George Soros Center for Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg, Russia
1992
- Grand Prix, Rimini Film Festival, Italy
Primary solo exhibitions
2020
- "Evgeny Yufit. Necrorealism with a Human Face", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2017
- "Evgeny Yufit and Necrorealism", film retrospective, Underground Music and Film Festival in Lausanne (LUFF), Switzerland
2015
- "Positive Regression", Freud's Dream Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- "Positive Regression", Name Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011
- "Mute Horizon", Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
2010
- "Evgeny Yufit", Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2008
- Full Film Retrospective, Arsenal International Film Forum, Riga, Latvia
2005
- Evgeny Yufit: Full Film Retrospective and Photo Exhibition, "World premiere of Bipedalism, Filmmaker in Focus", Rotterdam International Film Festival, the Netherlands
2003
- New York premiere of "Killed by Lightning", Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
2002
- "Necrorealism at Yale University: the films of Evgeny Yufit", Full retrospective, premiere of the film "Killed by Lightning" in North America, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1997
- "Films and Photographs of Evgeny Yufit", State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Screenings of the films "Papa, Santa Claus is dead", "Wooden Room", Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
Public exhibitions
2018
- Mad House, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2017
- "The Desire for Eternity" Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2014
- Crystallizations, Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg" — Waino Aaltonen museo, Turku, Finland
2013
- «Заклинание, отгоняющее тьму: III. Феноменология, или воплощенный опыт настоящего», показ фильма “ЛЕСОРУБ”, МоМА/Музей современного искусства, Нью-Йорк, США.
2012
- "Those who don't hear the music think that the dancers have gone crazy," Marina Gisich Gallery at Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
- "International Photography Biennale – FotoFest 2012", Houston, USA
2011
- "Necrorealism", retrospective exhibition, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2010
- "A brush stroke. "New Artists and Necrorealists", Marble Palace, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009
- "Letter from the Island", Orel Art UK Gallery, London, United Kingdom
2007
- "The Storm and the Harbor. We are waiting for changes", An exhibition within the framework of the 52nd Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, Venice, Italy
2006
- "Russian art. Part 1", Sotheby's Auction House, New York, USA
2004
- MANIFESTA, San Sebastian, Spain
1999
- "Film Festival: Modern Films from the Soviet Union", Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA
1997
- The Cabinet, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1991
- "Soviet Art 1990", Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
