Boris Groys
Boris Efimovich Groys is an art critic, media theorist, and philosopher. Born 19 March 1947 in East-Berlin (GDR); 1965-71 studies of Philosophy and Mathematics at the University of Leningrad (RUS); 1971-76 scientific collaborator of various scientific institutes in Leningrad and 1976-81 collaborator for the Institute for Structural and Applied Linguistics of the University of Moscow; 1981 emigrates to West-Germany and 1982-85 receives various scientific stipends for Germany; 1986-87 freelance writer living in Cologne (D); 1988 visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (USA); 1991 visiting professor at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles (USA); 1992 Ph.D. in Philosophy at the University of Münster (D); since 1994 Professor for Art History, Philosophy and Media Theory at the Hochschule für Gestaltung Karlsruhe (D); member of the Association International des Critiques d'Art (AICA); publications (selection): «Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin», Munich, 1988; «Über das Neue. Versuch einer Kulturökonomie», Munich, 1992; «Logik der Sammlung», Munich, 1997; «Unter Verdacht. Eine Phänomenologie der Medien», Munich, 2000; «Politik der Unsterblichkeit. Vier Gespräche mit Thomas Knöfel», Munich, 2002; lives in Karlsruhe.
Works
- Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, Munich and Vienna: Carl Hanser, 1988.
- The Total Art of Stalinism: Avant-Garde, Aesthetic Dictatorship, and Beyond, trans. Charles Rougle, Princeton University Press, 1992. Log (English)
- Igor Sacharow-Ross: Apotropikon, 1991.
- The Total Art of Stalinism, 1992.
- Dream Factory Communism, 2004.
- Post-scriptumul comunist, Cluj: Idea, 2013. (Romanian)
- Ilya Kabakov: The Man Who Flew into Space from His Apartment, trans. Fiona Elliott, Afterall, 2006.
- The Total Enlightenment: Conceptual Art in Moscow 1960-1990, 2008.
- Art Power, Cambridge, Massachusetts and London: The MIT Press, 2008. Log [1]
- Going Public, 2010.
- History Becomes Form: Moscow Conceptualism, 2010.
- The Communist Postscript, 2010.
- Google: Words Beyond Grammar, Publisher Hatje Cantz, English/German edition 2011. Log
- Introduction to Antiphilosophy, 2012.
Literature
- Special issue of A2 on Groys and Gesamtkunstwerk Stalin, July 2011 (Czech)
