Artist Vladimir Yankilevsky died

On January 4, in Paris, at the age of 80, the artist Vladimir Yankilevsky, who is considered one of the founders of Moscow conceptualism, died. His death was announced by the scientific director of the Center for the Study and Development of Contemporary Art Alec Epstein.

• Vladimir Yankilevsky was born in Moscow on February 15, 1938 in the family of the artist Boris Yankilevsky. He studied at the Moscow secondary art school at the Institute. V. I. Surikov and the Polygraphic Institute.
• The first exhibition of Yankilevsky took place in the House of Folk Art on Taganka in 1962, where the works of the Eliy Belyutin studio were exhibited. In the same year, Yankilevsky participated in the infamous exhibition "30 Years of the Moscow Union of Artists" in the Manege, where Nikita Khrushchev sharply criticized his work.
• After that, the artist did not have the opportunity to publicly exhibit his work for many years. Only in 1975 did Yankilevsky take part in an exhibition in the Beekeeping pavilion at VDNKh. Three years later, his first retrospective took place in Moscow. In 1988, his works were exhibited at the famous Moscow auction Sothebyʼs. Since the late 1980s, the artist has lived in exile, in New York and Paris.
• Yankilevsky's works are kept in the collections of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin, the State Russian Museum, the Georges Pompidou Center, the National Gallery in Prague, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne.
• In 2018, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art will host a retrospective “Vladimir Yankilevsky. Existential box”, dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the artist.