Leonid Tishkov
Born in 1953, Nizhniye Serghi (Ural), Russia. Lives and works in Moscow
ENG Leonid Tishkov’s poetic and metaphysic oeuvre is realized in a diverse range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography, works on paper and books.
He started his artistic career making cartoon like works in the 1980s that focused with ironic, black humor and political aspects. Then, his work is oriented towards large scale installations and performances on the themes of memory. In 2003 the artist begins his famous series "Private Moon" which since has been travelled all over the world.
FR L'œuvre poétique et métaphysique de Leonid Tishkov est réalisée dans de plusieurs mediums : installation, sculpture, vidéo, photographie, dessin et livre. Il commence sa carrière avec des dessins axés sur l’ironie et l'humour noir. Puis, son travail s'oriente vers des installations et performances sur la thématique de la memoire avec les aspects mystiques et romantiques. En 2003, il commence sa célèbre série "Private Moon" qui depuis a traversé le monde.
ENG Leonid Tishkov’s poetic and metaphysic oeuvre is realized in a diverse range of media, including installation, sculpture, video, photography, works on paper and books.
He started his artistic career making cartoon like works in the 1980s that focused with ironic, black humor and political aspects. Then, his work is oriented towards large scale installations and performances on the themes of memory. In 2003 the artist begins his famous series "Private Moon" which since has been travelled all over the world.
FR L'œuvre poétique et métaphysique de Leonid Tishkov est réalisée dans de plusieurs mediums : installation, sculpture, vidéo, photographie, dessin et livre. Il commence sa carrière avec des dessins axés sur l’ironie et l'humour noir. Puis, son travail s'oriente vers des installations et performances sur la thématique de la memoire avec les aspects mystiques et romantiques. En 2003, il commence sa célèbre série "Private Moon" qui depuis a traversé le monde.
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Personal exhibitions (selection):
2021 Private Moon's Journey. Arctic Diary. Norilsk Museum, Norilsk, Russia Mythology. Artist's Library, TIAM, Tula, Russia Leonid Tishkov: Premonition of Space. Innovative Cultural Space, Kaluga, Russia How Pushkin stayed in Boldino, Pushkin State Museum, Moscow, Russia 2019 Cosmism of Leonid Tishkov, NCCA, Vladikavkaz, Russie 2018 Private Moon, Savina Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea 2017 Private Moon, Lipetsk Applied Art Museum, Lipetsk, Russia Private Moon, Astrakhan State Art Museum, Astrakhan, Russia Look Homeward, NCCA. Nizhny Novgorod, Russia Light All Around, Historical Architectural Museum of Tula, Russia 2016 Look Homeward, Perm State Art Gallery, Russia Look Homeward, Krasnoyarsk Museum Centre, Russia 2015 Journey of the Private Moon in Romania, National Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest, Romania Look Homeward, Ekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Russia 2012 Ladomir. Objects of the Utopia, gallery Juri Svestka, Berlin, Germany Group exhibitions (selection): 2021 Maisons, Fondation La Ruche Seydoux, Paris, France 100 years of the Stars, Alpine Garden, Megève, France The First Avant-guard Factory Festival, Ivanovo, Russia Space Oddity, Ploschad Mira Museum Centre, Krasnoyarsk, Russia Flight as a Dream, A.A.Bakhrushin State Central Theatre Museum, Moscow, Russia Space is Ours!, Artstory Gallery, Moscow, Russia 2020 Luna Festival, Leeuwarden, Nitherlands Moon without Borders, Savina Art Museum, Seul, South Korea Premonition of the Cosmos, Alexandra de Viveiros gallery, Paris, France Luna Festival, Leeuwarden, Nitherlands Ichihara ArtMix Triennale, Japan Minus 20 degrees, Flachau, Austria Walls, Urban Spree Galerie, Berlin, Germany The Missing Planet, Museo Pecci, Prato, Italy The Moon, Royal Museums Greenwich, London, UK Walls, Huberty & Breyne gallery, Brussels, Belgium Russia. Timeless, DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic 2019 Power of Dreams, Ichihara Lake Side Museum, Japan Ticket to the Moon, Krems Kunsthalle, Austria Setouchi Triennale, Japan Fjord Oslo Light Fest, Oslo, Norway La Lune. Du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires, Grand Palais, Paris 2018 Human condition. Searching for the Place, Judish Museum, Moscow Premonitions of the Space. NCCA, Moscow, Russia |
2017 Human condition. Haunted House. Ekaterina Foundation, Moscow, Russia
Art-Ovrag, Vyksa, Russia Man as Bird, Special project of Pushkin Museum as the Collateral Event of the 57th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 2016 Russian Space. Moscow Multimedia Art Museum, Russia Birds and Figures. Astrakhan Museum of Art, Russia Around The Square. Yaroslavl Museum of Modern Art, Russia 2015 Balagan!!! Nordwind Festival, Kuhlhaus, Berlin, Germany Shards of the War. National Centre for Contemporary Arts, Kaliningrad, Russia Birds and figures. Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Real in Inreal. Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Gyeongju, Korea Big Urals. Ural Vision Gallery, Ekaterinburg, Russia The Victory as New Epos. Gallery of the Arts of Russian Academy of Arts, Moscow, Russia Private Moon. Erarta gallery, London, UK Kafka. The Pushkin State Museum, Moscow, Russia The Ability of Flight. The National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia The Promise of Landscape. Museum of Contemporary Arts Permm, Perm, Russia Private Moon in Milan. Porta Romana, Milan, Italy The Coordinates of Sound. RAM radioartemobile, Rome, Italy 2014 Ichihara Art-Mix, Festival of Contemporary Art, Japan The Actual Drawing. The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia Waking Dreams. Nanjing, China Ready to fly? Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia Lenin: icebreaker. Lentos Museum, Linz 2013 Nuits blanches, video and sound installations, Gaîté Lyrique, Paris, France 2010 Manifestes. Oeuvres de la collection du NCCA, Moscou, Passerelle, Brest, FRAC Bretagne, France 2008 Russian Dreams, BASS Museum, Miami, USA 2006 Eye on Europe, MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA Video art of the seven continents. ArteBA 2006, Black box/white cube video-space, by The Project Room N.Y., Buenos Aires, Argentina Message, Nanto Cultural Centre, Japan 2005 Street, Art and Fashion, Europalia, Antwerp, Belgium Seven Sins, Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia Beyond the Red Horizon, The National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Moscow Breakthrough. Contemporary Russian Art, Bargehouse, London, UK |
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Collections (selection) :
MoMa, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA MoMa, Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA Nasher Museum of Art, NC, USA Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL, USA Contemporary Art Centre Uyazdovsky Castle, Warsaw, Poland Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan Wooyang Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia National Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Russia Hermes Collection, Paris, France Klingspor-Museum, Offenbach, Germany Ekaterinburg Museum of Art, Ekateringurg, Russia Presse (selection) : 2021 Russian Art Focus, "Newsmakers of the Month: Leonid Tishkov", issue 29, April 2021 2019 The Guardian, "A Celebration of our Celestial Neighbor - in pictures" Radio Svoboda, "Private Moon de Leonid Tishkov", Dmitriy Volchek Telerama, "La Lune, réelle et imaginaire...", Bernard Merigaud, 12/04/19 Le Monde, "Lune", une exposition en apesanteur au Grand Palais" Beaux Arts Magazine, "La Lune. Un objet de fascination » Le Parisien, "De l’Antiquité à Tintin, la Lune s’expose au Grand Palais" FAUXQ, "Lunes. Leonid Tishkov" 2018 ARTFORUM, "Ladomir of Leonid Tishkov", Christanna Bonin, 5/11/2018 2013 Calvert Journal, "Waxing lyrical: Leonid Tishkov’s Moonlit Odyssey", Mark Kelner Calvert Journal, "Artist Leonid Tishkov joins anti-Gazprom protests », Maryam Omidi Huffpost, PHOTOS. "Leonid Tishkov: l'artiste russe qui parcourt le monde avec sa "lune privée", Alexis Ferenczi, 26/04/2013 Bibliographie (selection) : 2020 "Look at Your Home", Leonid Tishkov, book, NLO, Moscow, Russia 2019 "The Moon Exhibition Book: A Celebration of our Celestial Neighbor », Exhibition catalogue, Royal Greenwich Museum, London, GB "La Lune. Du voyage réel aux voyages imaginaires. », Exhibition catalogue, RMN - Grand Palais, Paris, France “Histoire d’art Solidarité”, RMN - Grand Palais, France "Power of the Dreams", Catalogue of the Russian contemporary art in Ichihara Lakeside Museum, Japan 2018 "Moon: The art, science and culture of the moon", Alexandra Loske & Robert Massey, Hachette UK, UK 2012 "Boy and the Moon", Leonid Tishkov, Russia, Ukraine, Japon 2011 "Dabloids", Berlin: Svestka Gallery, Prague, Check Republique 2010 "In Search of the miraculous, "Boy and the Moon", Leonid Tishkov, Russia, Ukraine, Japon Krokin gallery, Moscow, Russia 2007 "How to become a genius artist without having a drop of talent, Leonid Tishkov, Gayatri, Moscou, Russia 2006 "Eye on Europe: Prints, Books, and Multiples, 1960 to Now", Wendy Weitman and Deborah Wye, Exhibition catalogue, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, NY, USA "Dabloids, Boy and the Moon", Leonid Tishkov, Russia, Ukraine, Japon Gayatri, Mosow, Russia 2004 "Divers", Leonid Tishkov, 3 volumes, Gayarty, Russia 1994 "Dabloids", Leonid Tishkov, Duke University Press, USA 1993 "Creatures", Leonid Tishkov, Duke Museum of Art, Durham, USA |
Art Books :
Leonid Tihkov, "Dabloids", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1990, Edition: 150 Leonid Tihkov, "The simple actions of D.", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1990, Edition: 200 Leonid Tihkov, "Littleman’s life, Dablus", Moscow, Russia, 1991, Edition: 200 Leonid Tihkov, "The fisherman's dream", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1991, Edition: 200 Vladislav Otroshenko, "Eastern haiku’s", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1991, Edition: 222 Leonid Tishkov, "New songs", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1992, Edition: 31 Leonid Tishkov, "Still lives," Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1992, Edition: 10 Leonid Tishkov, "The simple actions of D.", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1992, Edition: 21 Leonid Tishkov, "Stomachs", IMA press-Dabus, Moscow, Russia, 1993, Edition: 500 Leonid Tishkov, "Fathermother," Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1994, Edition: 22 Leonid Tishkov, "Stomach in Sorrow", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1994, Edition: 36 Leonid Tishkov, "La route du coeur", Alain Buyse, Lille, France, 1994, Edition: 300 Leonid Tichkov. "Le foie en fleurs", Alain Buyse, Lille, France, 1994, Edition: 300 Leonid Tishkov, "Lumps", IMA press-Dabus, Moscow, Russia, 1995, Edition: 500 Leonid Tishkov, "Pièces 9", Alain Buyse, Lille, France, 1955, Edition: 200 Leonid Tishkov, "Creatures", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1995, Edition: 500 Leonid Tishkov, "Dabloids", Hand print workshop international, Alexandria, Vg, USA, 1997, Edition: 100 L. Tishkov, A. Suzdalev, O.Khan, "Drawings of the Wind", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 1998, Edition: 15 Leonid Tishkov, "O live tree", Scopelos Art Foundation, New York, USA – Scoplelos, Greece, 1999 Leonid Tishkov, Andrei Suzdalev, Olga Khan, "Creatures of air", Alcool, Moscow, Russia, 2001, Edition: 50 Leonid Tishkov, "The diver's cosmogony", Dablus, Moscow, Russia, 2004, Edition: 200 Leonid Tishkov, "The angel's crystal stomach", The State Center of Contemporary Art, Moscou, Russia, 2004, Edition: 50 Leonid Tishkov,. Ladomir, Alcool, Moscow, Russia, 2006, Edition: 50 Leonid Tishkov, "The life of littleman", Alexandria (VG): Hand Print Workshop International, 2007, Edition: 48 Leonid Tishkov, "Cosmogony. Deep sea divers", Hand Print Shop, Alexandria, Vg, USA, 2007, Edition: 48 Lewis Caroll, "The hunting of the snark", Rabin, Chelyabinsk, Russia, 2010, Edition: 500 Leonid Tishkov, "Deep sea divers", HPWI Editions, USA, Edition: 26 |
"Private Moon", 2003 - ...
ENG “Private Moon”is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In the upper world, in fact in the attic of his own house, he saw the Moon falling off from the sky. Once she was hiding from the Sun in a dark and damp tunnel. But the passing trains frightened her. Now she came to this man’s house. Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. He descended into the lower world dressed in the clothes of his deceased father and then returned from there lighting up his path with his personal Moon. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in a real world as in a fairytale. Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right. Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse, which I wrote when I drew my sketches for the photographs. So it turns out that the Moon overcomes our loneliness in the universe uniting many of us around it.”
FR « Private Moon » est un poème visuel qui raconte l’histoire d’un homme qui a rencontré la Lune et qui est resté avec elle pour le reste de sa vie. Dans le monde supérieur, en fait dans le grenier de sa propre maison, il a vu la Lune tomber du ciel. Une fois, elle se cachait du Soleil dans un tunnel sombre et humide. Mais les trains qui passaient l’effrayaient. Maintenant, elle est venue à la maison de cet homme. Après avoir enveloppé la Lune avec des couvertures chaudes, il l’a traitée avec des pommes d’automne, lui a donné une tasse de thé, et quand elle s’est rétablie, il l’a emmenée dans sa barque à travers la rivière sombre à la haute rive envahie de pins lunaires. Il descendit dans le monde inférieur vêtu des vêtements de son défunt père et en revint en illuminant son chemin avec sa Lune personnelle. Traversant la frontière entre les deux mondes à travers un pont étroit, plongé dans un rêve et prenant soin de cette créature céleste, l’homme est devenu un être mythologique vivant dans un monde réel comme dans un conte de fées. Chaque photographie est un conte poétique, un poème à part entière. Par conséquent chaque image est accompagnée de mon propre vers, que j’ai écrit lorsque j’ai dessiné mes croquis pour les photographies. Il s’avère donc que la lune surmonte notre solitude dans l’univers en unissant nombre d’entre nous ».
ENG “Private Moon”is a visual poem telling the story of a man who met the Moon and stayed with her for the rest of his life. In the upper world, in fact in the attic of his own house, he saw the Moon falling off from the sky. Once she was hiding from the Sun in a dark and damp tunnel. But the passing trains frightened her. Now she came to this man’s house. Having wrapped the Moon with warm blankets he treated her with autumn apples, gave her a cup of tea, and when she got well he took her in his boat across the dark river to the high bank overgrown with moon pine-trees. He descended into the lower world dressed in the clothes of his deceased father and then returned from there lighting up his path with his personal Moon. Crossing the borderline between the two worlds across a narrow bridge, immersed in a dream and taking care of this heavenly creature, the man became a mythological being living in a real world as in a fairytale. Each photograph is a poetic tale, a little poem in its own right. Therefore each picture is accompanied by my own verse, which I wrote when I drew my sketches for the photographs. So it turns out that the Moon overcomes our loneliness in the universe uniting many of us around it.”
FR « Private Moon » est un poème visuel qui raconte l’histoire d’un homme qui a rencontré la Lune et qui est resté avec elle pour le reste de sa vie. Dans le monde supérieur, en fait dans le grenier de sa propre maison, il a vu la Lune tomber du ciel. Une fois, elle se cachait du Soleil dans un tunnel sombre et humide. Mais les trains qui passaient l’effrayaient. Maintenant, elle est venue à la maison de cet homme. Après avoir enveloppé la Lune avec des couvertures chaudes, il l’a traitée avec des pommes d’automne, lui a donné une tasse de thé, et quand elle s’est rétablie, il l’a emmenée dans sa barque à travers la rivière sombre à la haute rive envahie de pins lunaires. Il descendit dans le monde inférieur vêtu des vêtements de son défunt père et en revint en illuminant son chemin avec sa Lune personnelle. Traversant la frontière entre les deux mondes à travers un pont étroit, plongé dans un rêve et prenant soin de cette créature céleste, l’homme est devenu un être mythologique vivant dans un monde réel comme dans un conte de fées. Chaque photographie est un conte poétique, un poème à part entière. Par conséquent chaque image est accompagnée de mon propre vers, que j’ai écrit lorsque j’ai dessiné mes croquis pour les photographies. Il s’avère donc que la lune surmonte notre solitude dans l’univers en unissant nombre d’entre nous ».
Leonid Tishkov
"Ladomir" album, 2006
ENG "Ladomir" is devoted to an important futurologist and poet of the 20th century, Velimir Khlebnikov, as well as other avant -guardists: artist Kasimir Malevitch, scientists Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Chizhevsky and finally philosopher Nikolai Federov. In 1921 Chlebnikov wrote the utopic poem Ladomir about a world of perfect harmony. Drawings from "Ladomir" album represent Malevitch’s “Architectones”, Tatlin’s towers and Popov’s aerials; the town is surmounted by the golden nest house, planes and “flying Tatlins”. It is a fragile, poetic world which may remind us a possibility of ideal future.
FR "Ladomir" est consacré à un important futurologue et poète du 20ème siècle, Velimir Khlebnikov, ainsi qu'à d'autres avant-gardistes : l'artiste Kasimir Malevitch, les scientifiques Konstantin Tsiolkovsky et Alexander Chizevsky et enfin le philosophe Nikolai Federov. En 1921, Chlebnikov a écrit le poème utopique Ladomir sur un monde de parfaite harmonie. Les dessins de l'album " Ladomir " représentent les "Architectones" de Malevitch, les tours de Tatline et les antennes de Popov; la ville est surmontée du nid doré, des avions et des " Tatlins volants ". C'est un monde fragile et poétique qui peut nous rappeler la possibilité d'un avenir idéal.
ENG "Ladomir" is devoted to an important futurologist and poet of the 20th century, Velimir Khlebnikov, as well as other avant -guardists: artist Kasimir Malevitch, scientists Konstantin Tsiolkovsky and Alexander Chizhevsky and finally philosopher Nikolai Federov. In 1921 Chlebnikov wrote the utopic poem Ladomir about a world of perfect harmony. Drawings from "Ladomir" album represent Malevitch’s “Architectones”, Tatlin’s towers and Popov’s aerials; the town is surmounted by the golden nest house, planes and “flying Tatlins”. It is a fragile, poetic world which may remind us a possibility of ideal future.
FR "Ladomir" est consacré à un important futurologue et poète du 20ème siècle, Velimir Khlebnikov, ainsi qu'à d'autres avant-gardistes : l'artiste Kasimir Malevitch, les scientifiques Konstantin Tsiolkovsky et Alexander Chizevsky et enfin le philosophe Nikolai Federov. En 1921, Chlebnikov a écrit le poème utopique Ladomir sur un monde de parfaite harmonie. Les dessins de l'album " Ladomir " représentent les "Architectones" de Malevitch, les tours de Tatline et les antennes de Popov; la ville est surmontée du nid doré, des avions et des " Tatlins volants ". C'est un monde fragile et poétique qui peut nous rappeler la possibilité d'un avenir idéal.