Ilya Kabakov

Ilya Kabakov (Илья Иосифович Кабаков; born 30 September 1933) is a Russian-American conceptual artist, born in Dnipropetrovsk in what was then the Ukrainian SSR of the Soviet Union. He worked for thirty years in Moscow, from the 1950s until the late 1980s. He now lives and works on Long Island.

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/