vladimir arkhipov
Born in 1961 in Ryazan, Russia. Graduated from the Medical Institute. Worked as an engineer, was engaged in construction business. Has been started exhibition activity since 1990. Since 1994 the author collects homemade household items, is the author of the website www.folkforms.ru where the database of exhibited items is stored. In 2013 was nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (Moscow, Russia). Author of the art objects and installations. Lives and works in Moscow, Russia.
Resident of BIRUCHIY in 2014.
Selected exhibitions and art-projects:
- solo:
| 2014 | Post-folk archive/Maastricht, Bonnefaten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands. |
| 2012 | Self-made Russia, Red October Gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| 2011 | Expedition, Michigan, New York, USA. |
| 2010 | He is an artist! VP-studio, Moscow, Russia. |
| 2009 | Functioning forms/Zurich, Natasha Akhmerova's gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. |
| 2008 | Folkforms.ru, Foundation-Era, Moscow, Russia. |
| The design of the people, the gallery of Nina Lumer, Milan, Italy. | |
| 2006 | The functioning forms of Ireland, the Barren College of Art, Belliowogan, Kohler, Ireland. |
| 2005 | What have you done, Kolomentsy?!, A special project of the 1st Moscow Biennale, gallery League, Kolomna, Russia. |
| 2004 | National Sculpture, Kunstverein, Rosenheim, Germany. |
| I make a museum, the State Museum of Architecture named by Shchusev, Moscow, Russia. | |
| 2003 | FORCED/NOTWEHR Russian household items from the collection of V. Arkhipov, FACTORYkunsthallekrems, Krems, Austria. |
| Post-folk-archive of Wales, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales, UK. | |
| 2002 | Post-folk-archive, Ikon-gallery, Birmingham, UK. |
| Post-folk-archive, Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, UK. | |
| 2001 | Expedition to the West Midlands area, Great Britain. |
| Themselves, the gallery M.Gelman, Kyiv, Ukraine. | |
| 1999 | Welded, M.Gelman Gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| Expedition, Yaroslavl Region, Russia. | |
| Yaroslavl. Forced art, YAHM, Yaroslavl, Russia. | |
| 1998 | Expeditions: Oryol Region, Tambov Region, Nizhny Novgorod, Vulcania Region, Australia. |
| 1997 | Museum of homemade things (project for the magazine "Project Russia", 1997-2005). |
| Expeditions: Ryazan and Arkhangelsk regions, Russia. | |
| 1996 | Post-folk-archive. MHM-gallery, Prague, Czech Republic. |
| Expedition, Tver Region, Russia. | |
| 1995 | Forced things, L-gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| 1991 | Announcement, a gallery in the Trekhprudnoy Peninsula, Moscow, Russia. |
- group:
| 2014 | BIRUCHIY 014, international symposium of contemporary art, peninsula Biryuchiy, Ukraine. |
| 2013 | Reality is not enough, MMSI, Moscow, Russia. |
| VIII Biennale of Contemporary Art in Shiryaevo, Samara Region, Russia. | |
| 2012 | 4th Triennial of Contemporary Art, Guangzhou, Сnina (PRC). |
| Silence, New Museum of Modern Art, Monaco. | |
| Russian archives, Natasha Akhmerova's gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. | |
| 2011 | Ostalgia, New Museum, New York, USA. |
| Under, Polytechnic Museum, Moscow, Russia. | |
| If only I knew, MMCI, Petrovka 25, Moscow, Russia. | |
| 2010 | The art of wasting time, the Mars Gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| If only I knew, MMCI, Petrovka 25, Moscow, Russia. | |
| 2009 | Not toys?!, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia. |
| Own resources, the Center for Contemporary Art Bolit, Girona, Spain. | |
| Insiders, Museum of Contemporary Art Bordeaux, France. | |
| The Russian Poor, Perm, Russia. | |
| 2007 | Memory return. New art from Russia, Kumu art museum, Tallinn, Estonia. |
| Progressive nostalgia, the Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pechi, Prato, Italy. | |
| The 8th Biennale of Contemporary Art in Sharjah, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. | |
| 10th Triennial of Sculpture, Felbach, Germany. | |
| 2006 | 27 Biennale of Sao Paulo, Brazil. |
| 2005 | Tirana Biennale of Contemporary Art, Albania. |
| In another world, the Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland. | |
| Functioning forms, AFI, Linz, Austria | |
| 2004 | Berlin-Moscow/Moscow-Berlin 1950-2000, State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia. |
| At the resort! Russian art today, Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany. | |
| Seven Sins/Ljubljana-Moscow, Gallery of Contemporary Art Ljubljana, Slovenia. | |
| 2003 | Horizons of reality, MNKA - Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium. |
| 2002 | The center of attraction. The 8th Baltic Triennial of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania. |
| 2001 | International Forum of Art Initiatives, MGVZ New Manege, Moscow, Russia. |
| 2000 | Art 2000, Kunstverein, Rosenheim, Germany. |
| Poor art, the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. | |
| 1999 | Fauna, MHVZ New Manege, Moscow, Russia. |
| The 3rd Krasnoyarsk Biennale Museum, Krasnoyarsk, Russia. | |
| 1998 | Every day. 11th Biennale of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia. |
| 1997 | Open Museum 9ART-MOSCOW, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia. |
| Vodka, gallery of M.Gelman, Moscow, Russia. | |
| 1996 | Visiting a fairy tale, CSI, Moscow, Russia. |
| 1995 | Results, Scholarship Berlin Academy of Arts, Berlin, Germany. |
| 1994 | Europe-94, Munich, Germany. |
| Festival of Contemporary Art, Sochi, Russia. | |
| 1991 | 20th exhibition of young artists, Kuznetsky Most 11, Moscow, Russia. |
| 1990 | The logic of the paradox, MDM, Moscow, Russia. |
| ART-MYTH 1, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia. |
