Bogdan Mamonov is a Moscow artist whose activities began in the context of actual art in 1987 and passed through the periods of easel painting, actionism and slide-film, being performed both individually and together with other authors. His work experienced the times of silence and safely lived till its new period beginning from 1996.

A member of "No Title Group" whose provocative policy can be definitely called successful (besides Bogdan, its participators were Alexander Brener and Anton Litvin), as it used the most radical genre that for the first time was discovered in Moscow art of the 90s, i.e. action ("Dedicated to Mao", GUM; "Tongues", McDonalds; "Plagiarism", Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts).

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1964   born in Moscow

1982-87   Graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1994   "Conformists" (together with A. Brener). Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

1993   Solo Exhibition. M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1992   Solo Exhibition. M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia
"Soon after the War with Eskimos". Museum of Revolution, Moscow, Russia
"Ahasverus". Palace of Youth, Moscow, Russia

1991   "Ahasverus". Sadovniki Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1988   "Herdsmen Named after Mikhail Khuchid" (together with Yu. Sobolev)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1996   "Autumn Exhibition" (M. Guelman Gallery’s 5^th Anniversary). Kuznetsky Most, Moscow, Russia

1993   "777 Distance Communication". Aspex Gallery, Porstmouth, England; Kunstnernes Hus, Arhus, Denmark; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Island; Storm Gallery, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Galeria Nova, Bratislava, Slovenia; "Nostalgia". American Trade Center, Moscow, Russia; Art Fair, Hamburg, Germany
"New Territory for Arts". Krasnoyarsk, Russia
"Conversion". Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
"Dedicated to the 7^th Congress of the People’s Delegates…" Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

1992   "Triad". Leipzig, Germany
"6 Unknown Men". M. Guelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1991   "Personal Mythologies". House of Artists, Moscow, Russia; Alten Gloster Gallery, Moscow, Russia

1990   XIX Youth Exhibition. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
"Young Soviet Art". Kassel, Germany
"5+1", Borghause, Germany
"Moscow – Leningrad". Palace of Youth, Moscow, Russia

1989   17^th Exhibition of Book Artists. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
"Glasnost in Zundorf", Alten Closter Gallery, Cologne, Germany

1988   "Box Games", together with World Champions Group, Oleg Tabakov Studio, Moscow, Russia
"5+1", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
"Eidos". Palace of Youth, Moscow, Russia
18^th Youth Exhibition. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

1985   17^th Youth Exhibition. Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

ACTIONS

1994   "Dedicated to Mao". Moscow, Russia
"Tandis". McDonalds, Moscow, Russia

LINKS