Boris Mikhailov

Born in Kharkov, Ukraine.
Lives and works in Kharkov, Ukraine and Berlin, Germany.

Solo Exhibitions (Selection)

Dusk, DEWEER gallery, 2009, 

Moments/Monuments, Bereznitsky Gallery, Berlin, 2006
Yesterdayʼs Sandwich, Shugoarts, Tokyo, 2006
Butterbrot, Galerie Ilka Bree, Bordeaux, France, 2005
Look at me I look at Water, Centre de la Photographie, Geneve, Switzerland, 2005
Look at me I look at Water / If I were a German / I am not I, Suzanne Tarasiéve Paris, Paris, 2005
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, 2004
In the Street, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, 2004
TV-Mania, Kunstverein Arnsberg, 2004
Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid, 2004
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston MA, 2004
Boris Mikhailov: private Freuden, lastende Langeweile, öffentlicher Zerfall, eine Retrospektive, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2003
TV Mania, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, 2002
The Insulted and the Injured, Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, 2002
TV Mania, Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, 2002
Boris Mikhailov: Case History & Heiner Müller Projekt, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, 2001
Bild Museet, Umea, 2001
Orchard Gallery, Derry, 2001
The Photographic Museum, Helsinki, 2001
Saatchi Gallery, London, 2001
Boris Mikhailov, Hasselblad Award Winner, Hasselblad Center, Göteburg, 2000
Boris Mikhailov, The PhotographersʼGallery, London, 2000
Dvir Galerie, Tel Aviv, 2000
Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, 2000
By the Ground, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubliana, Slovenia, 1999
Boris Mikhailov, Museo Querini Stampalia, Venice, 1999
Case History, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 1999
Case History and Dance, Scalo Galerie, Zurich, 1999
Boris Mikhailov, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris, 1999
Boris Mikhailov, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1998
Boris Mikhailov, Les Misérables (About the World), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, 1998
Peri Center of Photography, Turku, 1998
Photomania, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 1997
Crimean Grafomania, Galerie in der Brotfabrik, Berlin, 1997
Hippolyte Photographie Galerie, Helsinki, 1997
Boris Mikhailov, Kunsthalle Zürich, 1996
Boris Mikhailov, A Retrospective, SCCA, Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Kiev, 1996
Boris Mikhailov, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, 1995
After the Fall, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 1995
Hotel Europa, Foto Festival Rotterdam, 1994
Perspektief Photographic Center, Rotterdam, 1994
Boris Mikhailov: Werke von 1970-1991, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, 1992
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, 1990
Boris Mikhailov, Arles - Paris 1989, Signalhallen, Armémuseum, Stockholm, 1990
The Missing Picture, Alternative Zeitgenössische Fotografi e aus der Sowjetunion, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge (MA), 1990
Union Bank Collection, Helsinki, 1990

Group Exhibitions (Selection)

Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, 2007
Der Kontrakt des Fotografen, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, 2007
In the Face of History: European Photographers in the 20th Century, Barbican Art Gallery, London, 2007
Twilight-Photography in the Magic Hour, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2007
Circa Berlin, Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, 2005
Minimalist Kitsch & Visionäre Sammlung Vol.1, Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, 2005
Verworpenen en Zondaskinderen, De Hallen Harlem, 2004
Social Creatures, How Body becomes Art, Sprengel Museum Hannover, 2004
The Beauty of Darkness, Refl ex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam, 2004
Berlin-Moskau, Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Staatliche Tretjakow-Galerie, Moscow, 2004
Photo Exhibition, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich, 2004
Fotografi a Verbal: Ilya Kabakov, Boris Mikhailov, Museuserralves, Museu de Arte Contamporanea, Porto, 2004
Privatisierungen. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Osteuropa, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, 2004
Channel Zero, Netherlands Media Arts Institute/Montevideo TBA, Amsterdam, 2004
Dorf in die Metropole - Rohkunstbau in Berlin, Studio 1, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, 2004
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Biss zu Gast in der Berlinischen Galerie, Berlinische Galerie, 2004
Witness, Contemporary Artists document our Time, Barbican Gallery, London, 2003
Cruel + Tender, The Real in the Twentieth-Century Photograph, Tate Modern, London, 2003
Warum, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2003
Berlin-Moskau, Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, 2003
Mircro Politicas (3), Arte Y Cotidianidad, Espai DʻArt Contemporani De Castello, Castello, 2003
Traumfabrik Kommunismus, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, 2003
Auf der Suche nach Identität, Boris Mikhailov und Studierende der Hochschule für Grafi k und Buchkunst, Leipzig, 2003
Architektur der Obdachlosigkeit, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2003
cruel + tender / zärtlich + grausam. Fotografi e und das Wirkliche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2003
Sand in der Vaseline, Künstlerbücher II, 1980-2002, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefekd, 2002
From the 60 until now..., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001
The Citibank Private Bank Photography Prize 2001, The Photographerʼs Gallery, London, 2001
Remake Berlin, DAAD Galerie, Berlin, 2001
Home/Homless, Bo01 City of Tomorrow, Malmö, 2001
Remake Berlin, Internationale de la Photographie dʼArles 2001, Arles, 2001
Trade, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2001
Autowerke, Franz Hals Museum Haarlem, 2001
Remake Berlin, Fotomuseum Winterthur, 2000
12th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, 2000
Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Ljubiljana, Slovenia, 2000
Positions Attitudes Actions, Social and Political Commitment in Photography, Foto Biennale Rotterdam, 2000
How you look at it. Fotografi en des 20. Jahrhunderts, Sprengel Museum, Hannover and Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, 2001
BMW Collection: Autowerke, Hamburg, Munich, 2001
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT, Cambridge, 2001
After the Wall, Kunst und Kultur im postkommunistischen Europa, Ludwig Museum Budapest and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, 2001
Future is Now, Ukrainische Kunst in den Neunzigern, Museum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Zagreb, 1999
After the Wall, Kunst und Kultur im postkommunistischen Europa, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1999
Ich und die Anderen, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Karlsruhe; Münchener Stadtmuseum, Munich, 1999
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, New York, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis: Miami Art
Museum, Miami; Vancouver; MIT, Cambridge, 1999
Nobuyoshi Araki & Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Satani, Tokyo, 1998
Richard Billingham & Boris Mikhailov, Galerie Barbara Gross, Munich, 1998
Russian Jewish Artists in a Century of Change: 1890-1990, The Jewish Museum, New York, 1996
10th Biennale of Sydney, 1996
If I were a German..., Galerie in der Brotfabrik und Galerie Andreas Weiss, Berlin, 1995
Zeitgenössische Russische Fotografi e, Akademie der Künste, Berlin and Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, 1995
Photo-reclamation, PhotographersʼGallery, London, John Hansard Gallery and University of Southhampton, 1994
New Photography 9, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1993
Herbarium, The Photographic Experience in Contemporary Russian Art, 1992
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, 1992
Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, 1991
Photo Manifesto, Museum of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, 1991
Internationale Biennale der Photographie, Turino, 1990
Ny Sovjetisk Fotografi , Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, 1989