Vadim Gushchin Explained

Vadim Gushchin
Birth Date:	1963
Birth Place:	Novosibirsk, Russia
Occupation:	Photographer
Website:	vadimgushchin.com

Vadim Gushchin (Russian: [[:ru:Гущин, Вадим Витальевич|Гущин, Вадим Витальевич]]) (born 1963) is a Russian art-photographer.

Biography

Gushchin was born in Novosibirsk in 1963. He is known primarily for his work, made in the genre of post-conceptual still life. In 1986, he graduated at the Moscow Energy Institute. He has been creating artistic photography since 1988. He lives and works in Moscow.

Books and catalogues (selected)

• A la recherche du pere, Paris, 1994.^[1]
• Aufbruch. Die neue russische Fotografie, Kоеln, 1998.
• Wadim Gutschtschin Meine Dinge, Braunschweig, 1999.^[2]
• IDEA Photographic: After Modernism, Santa Fe, 2002.
• Valery Stigneev Century of Photography, 1894-1994, Moscow, 2005.^[3]
• Photoestafeta. From Rodchenko to our days, Moscow, 2006.^[4]
• Odense Foto Triennale 2006, Odense, Denmark, 2006.
• FotoFest 2006, Houston, TX, 2006.^[5]
• Monography Photographs. Vadim Gushchin, Moscow, Publish House Artist and Book, 2008.^[6]
• Doors open day Russian art 1989-2009, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.^[7]
• Contemporary Russian Photography. FotoFest 2012, Houston, TX, 2012.^[8]
• Monography Everyday Objects/Cultural Treasures, Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2013.^[9]
• Staging Encounters, Lianzhou Fotofestival, 2014.^[10]
• Potovisa. Language of Memory, The 7th International Festival of Photography in the Krasnodar Region^[11]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

He has participated in art in exhibitions since 1991 and his first solo exhibition was held in 1995. He has more than 30 solo exhibitions including:

• Meine Dinge, Museum fuer Fotografie, Brunswick, Germany, 1999.
• Exhibition in ROSIZO Gallery, Moscow, 1999.
• Personalismus des Dinges, Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Duesseldorf, Germany.^[12]
• Bread and Wood, International Photo-Biennial FotoFest, Houston, US, 2006.^[13]
• Breаd, Johannes Larsen Museum, Odense, Denmark, 2006.
• Exhibition in Museum of the History of Photography, Sankt-Petersburg, 2009.^[14]
• Aestetik der Statik Alexander Grinberg/Vadim Gushchin in Viktor Grray Gallery, Duesseldorf, 2010.^[15]
• Inventory of a Private Library, Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon, US, 2013.^[16]
• Object. Function. Image., Lumière Brothers Photography Сenter, Moscow, 2013.^{[17] [18] [19]}
• Vadim Gushchin. Passed, Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2013.^[20]
• Cultural Treasures, International Photo-Festival Lianzhou Foto 2014, Lianzhou, China, 2014.^{[21] [22] [23]}
• Subject Interpretation, 7th International Photofestival PhotoVisa, Krasnodar, Russia. 2015^[24]
• Inventory of the Private Library, Lumière Brothers Photography Сenter, Moscow, 2018-2019.http://photography-now.com/exhibition/136126
• Exhibition in the PDNB Gallery, Dallas, Texas, USA, 2019. https://www.facebook.com/PDNBGallery/posts/10156846827722858?comment_id=10156854689087858

Group exhibitions

He has also participated in more than 50 group exhibitions in galleries and museums in Russia and abroad. His works have been presented in the international and Russian сonceptual group projects, such as:

• A la recherche du pere, 1993—94, Paris, France.
• Neue Fotokunst aus Russland, 1994—95, tour of five German cities.
• Aufbruch. Neue russische Fotografie, 1998, Leverkusen, Germany.
• IDEA Photographic: After Modernism, 2002, Santa Fe, US.^[25]
• Odense Photo Triennial, Denmark, 2006.
• In Box of Dreams, (Contemporary Russian Photography), International Photography Festival, Pingyao, China, 2009.
• Doors open day Russian art 1989-2009, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, 2009.^[26]
• Leben elementar, Trier, Germany, 2010.^[27]
• Contemporary Russian Photography, Biennial FotoFest, Houston, US, 2012.^[28]
• Museum, look of Photographer, The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 2012.^[29]
• Contemporary Russian Photography: From Mystery to Poetry and Back, 5th Seoul Photo 2013, Seoul, Korea, 2013.^{[30] [31]}
• Tarantel 2, Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2013.^{[32] [33]}
• Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion. The Russian Museum, Sankt-Petersburg. 2013 – 2014.^{[34] [35]}
• “German: itali=no|Neue Russische Avangarde. Kunst als Bruecke zwieschen Ost und West.” (New Russian Avangarde. Art as Bridge between East and West.) Kellermann Gallery, Duessldorf, Germany. 2015^[36]
• “Soviet Photo”, Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography, Moscow. 2015^{[37] [38]}
• “Russian House”, Schilt Publishing Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland. 2015^[39]
• New Acquisitions. 1998-2014, The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg.^[40]
• After Glamour. An artistic analysis of current developments in Russian society. KIT, Düsseldorf, Germany. 2016.http://www.verymagazine.org/very-issue-19/199-overview-issue19/794-after-glamour-moscow-style
• Artist as Hero. International Photography Festival, Pingyao. China. 2018.
• Stillife in Photography, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. 2018. http://www.rusmuseum.ru/stroganov-palace/exhibitions/still-life-in-photography/#rmPhoto[gallery7972]/1/

Award

• 2007 - The Silver Camera- Award, received 1st place for best report on Moscow in the category of Architecture Moscow^[41]

Collections

Gushchin's work is held in the following permanent public collections:

• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.^[42]
• The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg^[43]
• Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.^[44]
• Museum House of Photography, Moscow.^[45]
• National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow.^[46]
• Museum of Moscow, Moscow.^[47]
• Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow.
• Lumiere Brotherth Photography Center, Moscow.^[48]
• State Russian Museum of Photography, Nishny Novgorod, Russia.
• Collection of Photograph's Union, Moscow.
• Surgut's Museum of Fine Arts, Surgut, Russia.
• Museum of Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico, US.
• Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, US.^[49]
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, US.
• Museum Albertina, Vienna, Austria.^{[50] [51]}
• Museum fuer Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany.
• Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark.
• Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, Belgium.^[52]
• Spallart Collection, Salzburg, Austria. https://www.sammlung-spallart.at/en/

Private collections in Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, the US, South Korea, and Belgium.

Video about artist and artist's interview

• Interview in the Bleek-Magazine, October 2014^[53]
• Vadim Gushchin: still-life, made in November 2011 to the opening of Vadim Gushchin's exhibition Kultural treasures in the Gallery Glaz, Moscow.^[54]

External links

• • Artist's YouTube-chanel. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCF5T9lPnrxnl57QvDorL_tw/
• Vicky Goldberg in Aperture-Blog, 2014
• Internet-Exhibition on the Lens Culture 2014
• Webpage of the artist on the Art Photo Index, 2015
• Michael Weinstein, Review: Vadim Gushchin/Jennifer Norback Fine Art
• Webpage of the artist Marina Bondarenko, Investment in the Russian conceptual photography
• Webpage of the artist Artsland
• Vadim Gushchin Turns Household Items Into Art by Christopher Brennan. The Moscow Times 13 September 2013 | Issue 5212

Notes and References

1. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/29184332 A la recherche du pere
2. Web site: Wadim Gutschtschin Meine Dinge . 2012-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140803000736/http://www.fotobuchseite.com/themen/2011/01/Vadim-Gushchin.html . 2014-08-03 . dead .
3. https://books.google.com/books?id=wWApAQAAIAAJ Valery Stigneev Century of Photography
4. http://www.mamm-mdf.ru/books/fotoestafeta Photoestafeta. From Rodchenko to our days
5. Web site: FOTOFEST 2006 . 2012-09-18 . 2011-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110107163828/http://www.fotofest.org/ff2006/exhibitions_gushchin.htm . dead .
6. http://www.foto-video.ru/art/albums/41278/ Monography Photographs. Vadim Gushchin
7. Web site: Doors open day . 2012-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100418041335/http://www.mmoma.ru/exhibitions/petrovka/osobnyak_gimnaziya_klinika_muzej/ . 2010-04-18 . dead .
8. Web site: Contemporary Russian Photography . 2012-09-18 . 2012-09-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120923094003/http://2012biennial.fotofest.org/catalogue.aspx . dead .
9. Web site: Everyday Objects/Cultural Treasures . 2013-03-24 . 2013-11-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131107104543/http://www.schiltpublishing.com/all-titles/item/terug/144/titel/everyday-objects-cultural-treasures/ . dead .
10. Web site: Staging Encounters Lianzhou Fotofestival . 2014-12-13 . 2022-02-02 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220202190913/http://www.lianzhoufoto.com/ . dead .
11. Web site: PhotoVisa / PhotoVisa 2015. www.photovisa.ru. 2016-01-26.
12. http://www.kultur-bahnhof-eller.de/archiv/alle/2003/ArchivWadimGuschtschin.html Personalismus des Dinges
13. Web site: Bread and Wood . 2012-09-18 . 2011-01-07 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110107163828/http://www.fotofest.org/ff2006/exhibitions_gushchin.htm . dead .
14. http://photohismus.spb.ru/about01_eng.html Exhibition in Museum of the History of Photography
15. http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/news/?ELEMENT_ID=160 Aestetik der Statik
16. Web site: Inventory of a Private Library . 2013-03-24 . 2013-10-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131018042133/http://www.blueskygallery.org/exhibition/vadim-gushchin/#1 . dead .
17. http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/news/?ELEMENT_ID=1243 Object. Function. Image.
18. http://www.themoscowtimes.com/arts_n_ideas/article/vadim-gushchin-turns-household-items-into-art/485993.html Vadim Gushchin Turns Household Items Into Art
19. Web site: Vadim Gushchin Object. Function. Image . 2013-10-21 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131021215720/http://www.5th.moscowbiennale.ru/en/program/special_projects/guschin_en.html . 2013-10-21 . dead .
20. http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/news/?ELEMENT_ID=1251 Vadim Gushchin. Passed Bratislava, Slovakia
21. Web site: Lianzhou Foto 2014 . 2014-12-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141216205439/http://www.lianzhoufoto.com/exhibition/international.aspx?fid=22&id=187 . 2014-12-16 . dead .
22. http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/news/?ELEMENT_ID=1413 Liandzhou Foto, China
23. http://www.mask9.com/node/184132 Cultural Treasures
24. Web site: PhotoVisa / Открытие выставки "Интерпретация предмета", Вадим Гущин, Россия. www.photovisa.ru. 2016-01-26.
25. Web site: IDEA Photographic: After Modernism . Museum of New Mexico . https://web.archive.org/web/20170228075126/http://www.museumofnewmexico.org/mfa/ideaphotographic/artists_guschin.html . 2017-02-28.
26. Web site: Doors open day . 2012-09-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20100418041335/http://www.mmoma.ru/exhibitions/petrovka/osobnyak_gimnaziya_klinika_muzej/ . 2010-04-18 . dead .
27. http://www.piclet.org/festivals/91721 Leben elementar
28. Web site: Contemporary Russian Photography . 2012-09-18 . 2012-09-04 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120904082231/http://2012biennial.fotofest.org/exhibitions/perestroika.aspx . dead .
29. http://www.arts-museum.ru/events/archive/2012/07/photographers_view/index.php Museum, look of Photographer
30. Web site: Guest Country : Russia. . 2013-09-05 . 2014-05-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140509082944/http://www.seoul-photo.com/guest2013_en.html . dead .
31. Web site: Contemporary Russian Photography in Seoul . 2013-09-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140903103757/http://www.photovisa.ru/news/69?locale=en . 2014-09-03 . dead .
32. http://www.bethanien.de/en/exhibitions/tarantel-2/ Tarantel 2
33. Web site: Der Biss Der Spinne . 2013-09-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140904110016/http://www.globe-m.de/de/boulevard/der-biss-der-spinne . 2014-09-04 . dead .
34. Web site: Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion. . 2014-12-13 . 2015-09-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150924092935/http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/exhib/lenta/exhibitions_2013/dinner_is_served_the_russian_museum_culinary_companion/ . dead .
35. http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/news/?ELEMENT_ID=1272 Dinner is Served
36. Web site: Ausstellung "Neue Russische Avantgarde", 11.01.2015 – 21.02.2015. galerie-kellermann.de. 2016-01-26.
37. Web site: Советское фото. www.lumiere.ru. 2016-01-26. 2015-09-15. https://web.archive.org/web/20150915071845/http://www.lumiere.ru/exhibitions/archive/id-170/. dead.
38. News: Seven decades of Soviet photography – in pictures. The Guardian. 2015-06-23. 2016-01-26. 0261-3077. en-GB. Yana. Iskakova. Ekaterina. Zueva.
39. Web site: Exhibitions & Spotlight: Schilt Publishing. www.schiltpublishing.com. 2016-01-26. Schilt. Publishing. 2014-03-11. https://web.archive.org/web/20140311030417/http://www.schiltpublishing.com/gallery/exhibitions-spotlight/. dead.
40. Web site: The Russian Museum. rusmuseum.ru. 2016-01-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20160126113030/http://rusmuseum.ru/eng/exhib/lenta/exhibitions_2015/new_acquisitions_19982014/. 2016-01-26. dead.
41. http://mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/vadim-gushin-spring-suburban-landscape Spring. outskirts Landscape
42. http://www.arts-museum.ru/museum/structure/departments/nfo/photography/index.php?sea_val= The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
43. Web site: The Russian Museum. www.rusmuseum.ru. 2016-01-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20130705082447/http://www.rusmuseum.ru/eng/home. 2013-07-05. dead.
44. Web site: Московский музей современного искусства. www.mmoma.ru. 2016-01-26.
45. http://mamm-mdf.ru/exhibitions/vadim-gushin Museum House of Photography
46. http://www.ncca.ru/colitem?filial=2&id=1275&aid=454 National Centre of Contemporary Art
47. Web site: English / Музей Москвы. mosmuseum.ru. 2016-01-26.
48. Web site: Lumiere Brotherth Photography Center . 2012-09-18 . 2020-07-28 . https://web.archive.org/web/20200728050926/http://www.lumiere.ru/search.html?search=%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD+%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD%EF%BF%BD . dead .
49. Web site: Books of Leo Tolstoy . The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston . 2018-07-24.
50. http://www.ots.at/presseaussendung/OTS_20131010_OTS0184/albertina-kauft-zum-auftakt-der-viennafair-mehrere-kunstwerke-von-sevda-chkoutova-und-wadim-guschtschin-bild Albertina kauft zum Auftakt der Viennafiar mehrere Kunstwerke von Sevda Chkoutova und Wadim Guschtschin
51. http://www.albertina.at/ Albertina
52. http://www.villaempain.com/ Boghossian Foundation
53. http://bleek-magazine.com/interviews/vadim-gushchin/ Interview in the Bleek-Magazine
54. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezK8IDKilr8 Vadim Gushchin: still-life