Vadim Zakharov
Illustration — Vadim Zakharov Vadim Zakharov (Russian: Вадим Арисович Захаров; born 1959 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is an internationally exhibited Russian conceptual artist living and working in Moscow and Cologne, Germany. He created the work for the Russian pavilion at the 2013 55th edition of the Venice Biennale. His installation therein marked the first time an artist's work occupied both levels of the structure.
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Vadim Zakharov
Valerij Ledenev from Moscow, Russia · Вадим Захаров / Vadim Zaharov · CC BY-SA 2.0
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- 1959 · Dushanbe.
- Nationality
- Soviet Union · Russia
- Occupation
- artist · photographer
- Fields
- conceptual art
- Education
- Moscow Pedagogical State University
- Honours
- Kandinsky Prize
- Languages
- German · Russian
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Illustration — Vadim Zakharov Vadim Zakharov (Russian: Вадим Арисович Захаров; born 1959 in Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is an internationally exhibited Russian conceptual artist living and working in Moscow and Cologne, Germany. He created the work for the Russian pavilion at the 2013 55th edition of the Venice Biennale. His installation therein marked the first time an artist's work occupied both levels of the structure.
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Zahkarov is a graduate of the Moscow State Teachers Training Institute.
Vadim Zakharov studied at Moscow Pedagogical State University. The recorded working language is German and Russian. The field of work recorded is conceptual art. Places of work recorded in the authority are Moscow and Cologne. Distinctions recorded are Kandinsky Prize.
Vadim Zakharov - Russian artist. 2009
Valerij Ledenev from Moscow, Russia · Вадим Захаров / Vadim Zaharov
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1959
Vadim Zakharov born at Dushanbe.
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scholarly publication
- Moscow Conceptualism through Collective and Private Memory. The Archive as an Artistic Self-historicising Practice in Vadim Zakharov, Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Historia, 2021
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2021
- Zakharov, Vadim Arissovich, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2011
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q1245495: Vadim Zakharov
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- “Vadim Zakharov”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1036341712, Exhibition Vadim Zakharov: Danaë (2013 : Venedig).
General reference · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Zakharov, Vadim Arissovich, Benezit Dictionary of Artists, 2011Crossref registry
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 1036341712, Exhibition Vadim Zakharov: Danaë (2013 : Venedig).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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Vadim Zakharov is recorded as having received Kandinsky Prize.
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