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* TEMPORARY MONUMENTS. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1992-93
 
* TEMPORARY MONUMENTS. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1992-93
 
* 1:43. Karlheinz Meyer Gallery, Karlsruhe, 1994
 
* 1:43. Karlheinz Meyer Gallery, Karlsruhe, 1994
* RUSSIAN UTOPIA: A DEPOSITORY. Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale / Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam 1996-2000
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* RUSSIAN UTOPIA: A DEPOSITORY. Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale / Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, 1996-2000
 
* A. S. PUSHKIN AND MONEY. XL Gallery, Moscow, 1999
 
* A. S. PUSHKIN AND MONEY. XL Gallery, Moscow, 1999
 
* GAMES. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, 2007                         
 
* GAMES. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, 2007                         

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Architect and photographer Yuri Avvakumov (born 1957 in Tiraspol) graduated from the Moscow Architecture Institute (1981) and taught at Moscow Architecture Institute (1983-88). In 1984, reintroduced the term PAPER ARCHITECTURE to describe the genre of conceptual design in the USSR of the 1980s. Since 1984, Avvakumov curated exhibitions of PAPER ARCHITECTURE in Moscow, Ljubljana, Paris, Milan, Frankfurt, Antwerp, Cologne, Brussels, Zurich, Cambridge, New Orleans, Austin, Amherst, Volgograd, Venice. He taught at Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, 1993-94. In 1993 he established UTOPIA FOUNDATION, Moscow. Between 2000 and 2003 hecurated series of 36 architectural photography exhibitions at the Moscow House of Photography / State Museum of Architecture, Moscow.

Personal exhibitions

  • AGITARCH. Linssen Gallery, Cologne, 1989
  • WALLS AND LADDERS (with Alyona Kirtsova), State Museum of Architecture, Moscow, 1991
  • ILLIQUID ASSETS (with Sergey Shutov), 1st Gallery, Moscow, 1992
  • TEMPORARY MONUMENTS. Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, 1992-93
  • 1:43. Karlheinz Meyer Gallery, Karlsruhe, 1994
  • RUSSIAN UTOPIA: A DEPOSITORY. Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale / Netherlands Architecture Institute, Rotterdam, 1996-2000
  • A. S. PUSHKIN AND MONEY. XL Gallery, Moscow, 1999
  • GAMES. Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, 2007
  • MANEGE. Central Exhibition Hall Manege, Moscow, 2012

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