EUGENE YUFIT (b. 1962, Leningrad) - 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.
Awards
2012
- Sergey Kuryokhin Prize for Contemporary Art, nomination “The work of visual arts”, St. Petersburg, Russia
2003
- Hubert Bals Fund Grant, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2001
- PRO ARTE Insitute and The Ford Foundation Grant, St. Petersburg, Russia
1999
- The Foundation Montecinemaverita Grant, Locarno, Switzerland
- Hubert Bals Fund Grant, International Film Festival of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
1994
- George Soros Center for Contemporary Arts Grant, St. Petersburg, Russia
1992
- Grand Prix, The Rimini Film Festival, Italy
Primary solo exhibitions
2017
- "Evgeny Yufit and necrorealism", film retrospective, Lausanne Underground Music and Film Festival (LUFF), Switzerland
2015
- "Positive regression", Freud's dream museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- "Positive regression", Name Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2011
- “Silent Horizon”, Orel Art Gallery, Paris, France
2010
- “Evgeny Yufit”, Marina Gisich Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
2008
- Complete film retrospective, International Film Forum Arsenals, Riga, Latvia
2005
- “World premiere of Bipedalism Filmmaker in Focus: Yevgeny Yufit, Complete film retrospective and photo exhibition”, International Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
2003
- New York premiere of “Killed by Lightning”, MoMA/Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2002
- “Necrorealism at Yale: The Films of Yevgeny Yufit, Complete film retrospective, North American premiere of “Killed by Lightning”, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
1997
- “Films and Photographs of Yevgeny Yufit”, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
- Screenings of “Daddy, Father Frost Is Dead” and “The Wooden Room”, MoMA/Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Public exhibitions
2018
- "Mad House", Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia
2017
- "Желание Вечности", Ural Vision Gallery, Екатеринбург, Россия
2014
- "Crystallization, Contemporary Art of St. Petersburg" - Waino Aaltonen museo, Turku, Finland
2013
- «A Spell to Ward off the Darkness: III. Phenomenology, or the Embodied Experience of the Present», screening of “LESORUB”, MoMA/Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2012
- FotoFest 2012 Biennial - Contemporary Russian Photography», Houston, USA
- “Those who don't hear music think that the dancers are crazy”, Marina Gisich Gallery at Ural Vision Gallery, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2011
- “Necrorealism”, retrospective exhibition, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
2010
- “A blow of the brush. "New Artists" and Necrorealists ", Marble Palace, State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
2009
- “Letter from the Island”, Orel Art UK Gallery, London, UK
2007
- La Biennale di Venezia, 52nd International Art Exhibition, “The Storm and the Harbor. We are waiting for the change”, Venezia, Italy
2006
- “Sotheby’s Russian Art, Volume 1”, New York, USA
2004
- MANIFESTA, San Sebastian, Spain
1999
- “FilmFest: Recent Films from Soviet Union”, MoMA/Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1997
- “Kabinet”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
1991
- “Soviet Art in 1990“, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Collections
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
- The Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
- The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
