Boris Mikhailov: Photographs 1966 - 2003

Venue details

Berlinische Galerie
Landesmuseum für Moderne Kunst, Fotografie und Architektur
Alte Jakobstraße 124-128
10969 Berlin
T: +49 30 78 90 26 00
www.berlinischegalerie.de

Event details

Boris Mikhailov, a very influential visual artist, began working with photography in the mid-1960s. Since then he has produced a wide, impressively complex and multifaceted oeuvre. Over the years, he has exhausted the medium’s full range of possibilities with great virtuosity and drawn a merciless yet ironically humorous picture of his direct surroundings. His continuing investigations into photographic techniques, as well as his work with a wide range of cameras and stylistic means, and frequent alternation between conceptual works and a documentary approach make him one of contemporary art’s most interesting proponents. 

The exhibition celebrates his large oeuvre and brings together a selection of works encompassing the experimental images of his earlier years as well as works more recently produced in Berlin. This is the first extensive exhibition of Mikhailov’s work hosted in Germany.

Boris Mikhailov has been featured on GUP before here.