Sergey Borisov
Exhibition “Time for changes”
14-31.03.2019
Vernissage 14.03, 18:00-20:00
Exhibition 15-31.03, Wednesday-Saturday 11:00-18:00
8001 Zurich, Marktgasse 9, 2 floor, RossArt gallery.
Sergey Borisov is world famous for his photographs that became symbols of Perestroika. The exhibition is dedicated to Moscow and St. Petersburg underground culture since the 1980s. Sergey Borisov's photographs are sold in different galleries and auctions in Europe, including Sotheby's, Christie's and Phillips, and represented at Russian and European museums.
The exposition includes "ideological nude” and street photographs, in which Sergey Borisov's unique photographic language accurately transmits the irony and protest of Perestroika time. Based on these photographs, published in Le Monde, Face, Tempo, Actuel, Interview, and Photo magazines, astonished Europe studied life in a rapidly changing Russia.
A separate part of the exhibition is dedicated to Sergey Borisov's famous studio Studio 50A, one of the epicentres of the Soviet behind-the-scenes intellectual and artsy life in the 1980s. Borisov's studio was often compared to Warhol's Factory, meaning that Studio 50A also attracted informal people as its American equivalent. There were held exhibitions, presentations and meetings of those who remained in the shadow of official culture, and 10 years later became a symbol of the New time.
Sergey Borisov was born in 1947 in Moscow. Since 1977 he has been shooting popular musicians. Having received the Grand Prix in the competition for the design of records, he designed about 70 records for popular musicians at the time. But the main Borisov’s merit is photo chronicle of Moscow and St. Petersburg counterculture. Working with magazines, he introduced the world to punk and underground Soviet culture in the 1980s and 1990s.
In 1985 he acted himself in the movie "Dancing on the Roof". Since the late 80's he has paid more attention to exhibitions and exclusive projects, less work on orders and in the press.
Since 1976, Borisov has participated in various exhibitions, which were held not only in his homeland, but also in Paris, Zurich, Berlin, London and many other cities around the world. Here are some of them:
2019 Raw power. Group exhibition. Zurich, Switzerland. Photobastei
2018 Zeitgeist. Plovdiv. Personal exhibition
2018 Zeitgeist. National Gallery. Sofia, Bulgaria. Personal exhibition
2017 Sergey Borisov. Kinotavr Film Festival. Sochi. Personal exhibition
2017 Zeitgeist. Moscow Museum of Modern Art. Personal exhibition
2017 Girls Girls Girls! Gallery RuArts. Moscow. Personal exhibition
2016 Against the stream. Russian Academy of Arts. Moscow
2016 Encyclopedia of Photography (1891-1991). VDNKH. Moscow
2016 Evolution of vision. 1991-2016. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. Moscow
2015 Glastnost and Perestroyka in Moscow. AKKA Zurich Gallery. Personal exhibition
2014 Zero object. Moscow Art Media Museum
2013 Beauty without glamour. State Russian Museum of St. Petersburg
2013 Moscow XX century stories. Part II. Lumière Brothers Center for Photography. Moscow
2012 Icons of the 90s. Loft Project ETAGI. "Fifth Floor”. St. Petersburg
2012 Naked bohemian. Ruarts Gallery. Moscow
2011 Passion Bild. Russische Kunst seit 1970. Kunst Museum. Bern
2011 Icons of the 90s. Lumière Brothers Center for Photography. Moscow
2011 Mikhail Gorbachev. Perestroika. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. Moscow
2010 La Lecon de l'histoire. Palais de Tokio. Paris. France
2010 Icons 1960-1980. Lumière Brothers Center for Photography. Moscow
2007 People and time. Central Exhibition Hall Manezh. Personal exhibition
2007 Social art. State Tretyakov Gallery. Moscow
1999 GOLDEN CANON. State Kremlin Palace. Moscow. First Prize
