Emilia Kabakov

Emilia Kabakov studied at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is music, visual arts and exhibition curation. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are conceptual art. Places of work recorded in the authority are New York City. Residence is recorded at Israel and Irkutsk. Works named in the authority record are Not Everyone Will Be Taken into the Future. Distinctions recorded are Order of Friendship.

• Birth Name — Emilia Lekakh (Эмилия Григорьевна Леках) • Born — 3 December 1945 • Birthplace — Dnepropetrovsk, USSR • Education — Moscow University, Music College of Irkutsk • Known for — Installation art • Website — http: www.kabakov.net

Emilia Kabakov (nee Lekakh) was born in 1945 in Dnepropetrovsk, Soviet Union. She studied Spanish literature and the Spanish language at Moscow University, and piano performance at the Music College of Irkutsk.

In 1973 she emigrated to Israel, after which she settled in New York City in 1975 to pursue a career as a gallerist and curator. In 1988 she began collaborating with Ilya Kabakov, who was her uncle, and later her husband. He emigrated from the USSR in 1987 to Graz and in 1988 relocated to New York.

Her work has been exhibited at the Tate Modern, the 1993 Venice Biennale, where they represented Russia, the Hirshhorn Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, among many other museum venues. In 2014 Emilia Kabakov was awarded the Commandeur l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the Ministery de la Culture of France, in recognition of her contributions to contemporary art. In 2000, the Kabakovs were commissioned by the Public Art Fund to create a major installation, The Palace of Projects, at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City consisting of 65 separate projects within a large spiral configuration 80 feet in diameter by 40 feet high.

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Kabakov's work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp, the British Museum, among others.