Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Iosifovich Kabakov (Илья Иосифович Кабаков; 30 September 1933, Dnipropetrovsk, Ukrainian SSR, USSR – 27 May 2023) was a Ukrainian–American conceptual artist. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. After that he lived and worked on Long Island, United States.

Publications

• with Boris Groys, Die Kunst des Fliehens, Munich: Hanser, 1991. (German)
  • Dialogi (1990-1994) [Диалоги (1990—1994)], Moscow: Ad Marginem, 1999. (Russian)
  • Dialogi [Диалоги], Vologda, 2010, 346 pp. (Russian)
• Ueber die "Totale" Installation/On the "Total" Installation, Stuttgart: Cantz, 1995, 398 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (German)/(English)
• with Boris Groys, Die Kunst der Installation, Munich: Hanser, 1996, 169 pp. (German)
• Sobre la instalación total, trans. Luis Gárciga, Mérida, MX: Cocom, 2014, 173 pp. [1] (Spanish)
• On Art, ed. & intro. Matthew Jesse Jackson, trans. Antonina W. Bouis and Cynthia Martin with Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago Press, 2018, 432 pp. (English)

Catalogues

• Installations 1983-1995, Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou, 1995, 259 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (English)
• Auf dem Dach / On the Roof, Dusseldorf: Richter, 1997, 191 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (German)/(English)
• The Palace of Projects: 1995-1998, London: Artangel, and Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 1998, 132 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (English)
• with Emilia Kabakov, Monument to a Lost Civilization / Monumento all civilta perduta, Palermo: Cantieri Culturali alla Zisa, and Milan: Edizioni Charta, 1999, 248 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (English)/(Italian)

Interviews

• with Margarita Tupitsyn and Victor Tupitsyn, "About Installation", Art Journal 58:4, Winter 1999, pp 62-73. (English)

Literature

• Amei Wallach, Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Never Threw Anything Away, intro. Robert Storr, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996, 255 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (English)
• Boris Groys, David A. Ross, Iwona Blazwick, Ilya Kabakov, London: Phaidon, 1998, 160 pp. Review: Schlegel (Art Journal). (English)
• Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from his Apartment, trans. Fiona Elliott, London: Afterall, 2006, 43 pp, IA. (English)
• Matthew Jesse Jackson, The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes, University of Chicago Press, 2010, 336 pp. [2]. Review: Weibgen (ArtJournal 2011). (English)

See also

• Moscow Conceptualists

Links

• https://ilya-emilia-kabakov.com/
• Tributes
• Wikipedia