VADIM GUSHCHIN
b.1963, Novosibirsk
Vadim Gushchin, Magnits #2, 2015
Russian artist and photographer Vadim Gushchin, born in 1963, has been active since the 1980s and is known for his minimalistic still life photographs. His work has been shown in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and is held in many museum collections worldwide. Gushchin lives and works in Moscow.
In 1986 he graduated at the Moscow Energy Institute.
Has been creating artistic photography since 1988. Lives and works in Moscow.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2018 "From the Private Library," The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia
2015 "Fragments of private space", Glaz Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
"Subject Interpretation", in programm of the 7th International Photofestival PhotoVisa,
Krasnodar, Russia.
2014 "Cultural Treasures", in programm of the Lianzhou Foto 2014, Shoe Factory, Lianzhou, China.
2013 Passed, in programm of the 23th Month of Photography, Franziskanska Kaplnka, Bratislava, Slovakia
-Vadim Gushchin. Photographs 2000 — 2013», Gallery Beckel-Odille-Boicos, Paris, France
- Object. Function. Image.», The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia.
-Inventory of a Private Library», Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center of the Photographic Arts,
Portland, Oregon, USA
-Books, In Focus Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2012 -Cultural Treasures, Jennifer Norback Fine Art Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA
-Kulturelle Schaetze, Stadtbibliotek, Brunswick, Germany.
2011 -"Cultural treasures", Glaz Gallery, Moscow
2010 -“Aesthetik der Statik” Alexander Grinberg/Vadim Gushchin, “Viktor Grray” Gallery , Düsseldorf,
Germany.
2009 -"Russian Landscape", "Glaz" Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
-"Photographs" Museum of History of Photography, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
2008 -"Cloak Room" Lumière Brothers` Photogallery, Moscow, Russia.
2007 -“Typology” (with J. Galert) State Russian Museum of Photography. Nishny Novgorod, Russia.
-"Reflex" Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2006 -“Tasty and healthy”, Glaz Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
-Odense Foto Triennale 2006, Johannes Larsen Museet, Kerteminde, Denmark.
2005 -“Rotta ad Est” (with M. Koulakov), Sala yachting club. Porto della Marema, Italy.
2004 -“Il tempo mai andante”, Contarte Gallery, Rome, Italy.
-“Geometrie der Hygiene”, Etage20 Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany.
-Studio Domenico Gioia, Jesi, Italy.
2003 -“Personalismus des Dinges”, Kulturbahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf, Germany.
-“Reflex” Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2002 -“Art Attributes”, Art café Pirogi, Moscow, Russia.
-Glaz Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2001 -“Im Regal”, P Gallery, Wittingen, Germany.
2000 -“Bread and Wine”, Fenix Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1999 -“Meine Dinge”, Museum of Photography, Braunschweig, Germany.
Adam Opel AG Exhibition Center, Ruesselsheim, Germany
-“My Things”, ROSIZO Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1998 -“Still Life on a Shelf”, Na Peshchanoy Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1997 -11th International Photoszene (with S. Ivanova), “EXIT-ART”, Cologne, Germany.
1996 -Moscow Historic Museum, Moscow, Russia.
1995 -“Double Meaning”, 21 Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia.
-“Dove” (with D. Pilikin), 1.0 Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 "Red Starts" RTR Gallery, Arles, France, within the Arles Photo Festival.
Dallas Art Fair, Booth of PDNB Gallery, Dallas, USA
"Photo Trauvee - Die Wahrheit uber das flashe Objekt in der Fotografie,
Atelier Thomas Kellner, Siegen, Geermany
2018 "Still Life in Photography", The State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia.
2017 "Fotofever", Booth of the Chris Boicos Fine Arts, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France.
"Art Karlsruhe", Booth of the «In Focus Gallery», Karlsruhe, Germany.
2016 "After Glamour", An artistic analysis of current developments in russian society. KIT, Duesseldorf, Germany.
"Evolution of Sight. 1991-2016", Central Exibitional Hall Manege, Moscow, Russia.
"Space Veggies and Earth Plants", Tsereteli MOMA Tbilisi, Kolga Tbilisi Photo 2016, Georgia.
"XX Part Two" - 20th Anniversary Exibition, Anya Tisch Gallery, Houston, Texas.
"The Lives of Books", Dina Mitrani Gallery, Miami, Florida.
2015 "New Acquisitions. 1998-2014", The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia.
"Russian House", Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Netehrlands.
Soviet Photo, The Lumiere Brothers Center for Photography, Moscow, Russia.
Neue Russische Avantgarde. Kunst als Bruecke zwieschen Ost und West, Kellermann Galerie,
Duesseldorf, Germany.
2014 Homage to Domestic Familiarity III, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Paris Photo 2014, Booth of the GLAZ Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France.
Auction Exhibition at HCP, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Texas, USA.
2013 Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion., Russian Museum, Sankt-Petersburg.
ART.FAIR KOELN 2013, Booth of the «In Focus» Gallery, Cologne, Germany
VIENNAFAIR 2013, Booth of the GLAZ Gallery, Vienna, Austria.
Expansion of an Object, Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.
Tarantel 2, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.
Expansion of an Object, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
Contemporary Russian Photography: From Mystery to Poetry and Back», 5th Seoul PHOTO 2013,
Seoul, Korea
2012 Homage to Domestic Familarity», Anya Tisch Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
Articifes, Beckell-Odile Boicos Gallery, Paris, France.
The Collector's eye», Collection of Frazier King, FotoFest Headquarters, Houston, Texas, USA
Art-fair «Fotofever», Stand Beckell-Odile Boicos Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Museum, look of Photographer»,The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.
Contemporary Russian Photography», FotoFest 2012, Spring Street Studio, Houston Texas, USA.
2011 Art-fair «Fotofever», Stand Beckell-Odile Boicos Gallery, Paris, France.
“Fotografias - Coleção Joaquim Paiva», Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
“Natura Morta”, Pobeda Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2010 “Doors open day” Russian art 1989-2009, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia.
“Photographie russe historique, moderne et contemporaine 1850-2010”, Beckel-Odille-Boicos Gallery Paris,
France.
“Foto Tage Trier 2010”, Bischoefische Dom- und Dioezesanmuseum, Trier, Germany.
2009 "Art-Moscow", Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
"In Box of Dreams", International Photography Festival, Pingyao. China.
2008 "Before and after", Ost Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
2007 “Bread is life”, Kreml, Palace of Congresses. Moscow, Russia.
"Silver Camera" Central Exibition Hall Manej, Moscow, Russia.
2006 “The Earth”, FotoFest 2006, Winter Street Studios, Houston Texas, USA.
Photobienalle 2006, Photocenter, Moscow, Russia.
2005 “Photogram, projection, silhouette”, National Сentre of Сontemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
“Author's book”, National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia.
2004 “Russische Fotografie 1920 – 2000, Moskau in Fotos”, Stadtmuseum, Innsbruck, Austria.
“Photo Relay: from Rodchenko to today”, House of Photography, Moscow, Russia.
2003 “Russian Autumn”, Kunstbruecke 2000 e. V., Wuppertal, Germany.
2002 “Idea Photographic: after Modernism”, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe New Mexico, USA.
2001 “15 Jahre Galerie Lichtblick”, Lichtblick Gallery, Cologne, Germany.
2000 “Wolfgang Freitag, Wadim Guschts, Russia.
“Photogram”, “Manezh” Gallery, Moscow, Russia.
1998 “Die Dinge und die Stille – fuenf Fotografen aus Moskau”, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Düsseldorf,
Germany.
“Aufbruch – die neue russische Fotografie”, Erholungshaus der Bayer AG, Leverkusen, Germany.
Vestisches Museum, Recklinghausen, Germany.
1997 “Coincidence”, Kulturzentrum “IGNIS”, Cologne, Germany.
“Rosije” national exhibition, Beogradskog Sajma, Belgrade, Serbia.
1996 "Photopage 4", Museum of the Cityhistory, Saint-Petersburg, Russia.
1995 “Neue Fotokunst aus Russland”, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe. Galerie im Karmeliterkloster,
Frankfurt. Kunsthalle Faust, Hannover. Museum Volk und Wirtschaft, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Exibition of 11 Russian Photographers. Teatro Metropol, Moscow, Russia.
1994 “Certain Aspects of Contemporary Photography”, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia.
“Jeunes Photographes Russes”, Centre Pouchkine, Paris, France.
1993 “A la recherche du père”, Forum des Halles, Paris, France.
1992 "Young talents", Photocentre, Moscow, Russia.
1991 "Invisible world", Russian House, Tallinn, Estonia (USSR).
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow
The State Russian Museum, Saint Petersburg
Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
Museum House of Photography, Moscow
National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow
State Russian Museum of Photography, Nishny Novgorod, Russia
Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography, Moscow
Collection of Photograph's Union, Moscow
Surgut's Museum of Fine Arts, Surgut, Russia
Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, USA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, USA
Museum Albertina, Vienna, Austria.
Boghossian Foundanation, Brussels, Belgium
Museum fuer Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark
Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Collection of Herbert Locher, Koeln, Germany
Collection of Hermann Praeger, Wittingen, Germany
Collection of Lahmann-Schulze, Braunschweig, Germany
Collection of Joshua P. Smith, Washington, USA
Collection of Judy Nyquist, Houston, USA
Collection of Frazier King, Houston, USA
Collection of Bohnchang Koo, Seoul, South Korea.
And more private collections in Russia, Belgium, Great Britain, Germany, USA, France, Italy,.
AWARDS
2007 -The "Silver Camera"- Award, received 1st place for best report on Moscow in the category of
“Architecture" Moscow
