Vadim Gushchin

Vadim Gushchin
Born	1963 Novosibirsk, Russia
Occupation	Photographer
Website	http://vadimgushchin.ru/en/

Vadim Gushchin (Russian: Гущин, Вадим Витальевич) (Novosibirsk in 1963) is a Russian art-photographer.

Biography

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.

«Russian art photographer Vadim Gushchin, who combines minimalist, conceptualist, and abstract strategies, is also entwined with two crucial aspects of Russian art that are inseparable from the nation’s identity and history. He photographs the most mundane objects from his (and our) daily life, each in series: books, envelopes, pills, packages, bread. Photographers from Stephen Shore to Gabriel Orozco have also photographed the least imposing elements in our homes— a plate, a pail, a table mat— but Gushchin manages to transpose the globally recognizable, inconsequential, disposable fragments of life into pristine artifacts of art, more beautiful in their spare perfection than reproductions of his work suggest.» - Vicky Goldberg, writer, photography and art, Boston.^[1]

«Vadim Gushchin 's elegant photographs pay homage to the dignity and richness everyday objects both in their very materials and in their roles as repositories of a collective culture. In the tradition of Russian supremacism his compositions are reduced to their most essential aspects of geometric form and color, however, his luxurious treatment of surface textures brings a warmth to the work that is completely his own». – Jennifer Norback, gallerist, Chicago.^[2]

«When constructing a composition out of objects, Gushchin experiments with abstract colour relationships – in the gaping emptiness of the space of soaring, the heroes in his still-lifes are estranged from all earthly things, like the colour planes of Suprematist compositions. Gushchin’s photography reveals the fundamental duality of culture: the abstract nature of objects in it and the specificity of colour». – Konstantin Bokhorov, PhD, Moscow.^[3]

«Vadim Gushchin balances on the thin edge of the object-objectless. The world of ideas – is the world of Malevich. The space of objects – is the space of consumerism. By putting objects from the supermarket into Malevich’s cosmos, Gushchin returns them to that place from whence they once came. To the primordial void. To the space of pure ideas».

«This is an image that does not constrain us in any particular way, it does not overwhelm us with many details, but you see some very small thing and this little thing is capable of triggering in you large volumes of memory. That is, they are photographs that work with that cultural memory and that time which we envelop». – Mikhail Sidlin, Art-critic, Moscow.^[4][5][6]

Colored envelops 3 2010

Gypsum 1 2001

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, Мoscow, 1999.
• «Personalismus des Dinges», Kultur Bahnhof Eller, Duesseldorf, Germany.^[7]
• «Bread and Wood», International Photo-Biennial FotoFest, Houston, USA, 2006.^[8]
• «Breаd», Johannes Larsen Museum, Odense, Denmark, 2006.
• Exhibition in Museum of the History of Photography, Sankt-Petersburg, 2009.^[9]
• «Aestetik der Statik» Alexander Grinberg/Vadim Gushchin in Viktor Grray» Gallery, Duesseldorf, 2010.^[10]
• «Inventory of a Private Library», Blue Sky Gallery, Oregon Center for Photographic Arts, Portland, Oregon, USA, 2013.^[11]
• «Object. Function. Image.», Lumière Brothers Photography Сenter, Moscow, 2013.^[12][13][14]
• «Vadim Gushchin. Passed», Month of Photography, Bratislava, Slovakia, 2013.^[15]
• «Cultural Treasures», International Photo-Festival «Lianzhou Foto 2014», Lianzhou, China, 2014.^[16][17][18]
• «Subject Interpretation», 7th International Photofestival «PhotoVisa», Krasnodar, Russia. 2015^[19]

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, USA.^[20]
• 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.^[21]
• «Leben elementar», Trier, Germany, 2010.^[22]
• Contemporary Russian Photography, Biennial FotoFest, Houston, USA, 2012.^[23]
• «Museum, look of Photographer», The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow, 2012.^[24]
• «Contemporary Russian Photography: From Mystery to Poetry and Back», 5th Seoul PHOTO 2013, Seoul, Korea, 2013.^[25][26]
• «Tarantel 2», Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany, 2013.^[27][28]
• «Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion.» The Russian Museum, Sankt-Petersburg. 2013 – 2014.^[29][30]
• “Neue Russische Avangarde. Kunst als Bruecke zwieschen Ost und West.” (New Russian Avangarde. Art as Brige between East and West.) Kellermann Gallery, Duessldorf, Germany. 2015^[31]
• “Soviet Photo”, Lumiere Brothers Centre for Photography, Moscow. 2015^[32][33]
• “Russian House”, Schilt Publisching Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland. 2015^[34]
• «New Acquisitions. 1998-2014», The Russian Museum, St.Petersburg.^[35]

2007 - «The Silver Camera»- Award, received 1st place for best report on Moscow in the category of Architecture Moscow^{[36] [37]}

Public Collections

• The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.^[38]
• The Russian Museum, St. Petersburg ^[39]
• Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.^[40]
• Museum House of Photography, Moscow.^[41]
• National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow.^[42]
• Museum of Moscow, Moscow.^[43]
• Museum of Photographic Collections, Moscow.
• Lumiere Brotherth Photography Center, Moscow.^[44]
• 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, USA.
• Museum of Fine Art, Houston, Texas, USA.^[45][46]
• Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, USA.
• Museum Albertina, Vienna, Austria.^[47][48]
• Museum fuer Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany.
• Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark.
• Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• «Boghossian Foundation», Brussels, Belgium.^[49]

Private collections in Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Great Britain, USA, South Korea, Belgium.

Book and Catalogues (selected)

• "Potovisa. Language of Memory", The 7th International Festival of Photography in the Krasnodar Region^[50]
• «Staging Encounters» Lianzhou Fotofestival, 2014.^[51]
• Monography «Everyday Objects/Cultural Treasures», Schilt Publishing, Amsterdam, 2013.^[52]
• «Contemporary Russian Photography». FOTOFEST 2012, Houston, USA, 2012 .^[53]
• «Doors open day» Russian art 1989-2009, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow.^[54]
• Monography «Photographs. Vadim Gushchin», Moscow, Publish House Artist and Book, 2008.^[55]
• FOTOFEST 2006, Houston, USA, 2006.^[56]
• «Odense Foto Triennale 2006», Odense, Denmark, 2006.
• «Photoestafeta. From Rodchenko to our days», Moscow, 2006.^[57]
• «Valery Stigneev Century of Photography», 1894-1994, Moscow, 2005.^[58]
• «Idea Photographic after Modernism», Santa Fe, 2002.^[59]
• «Wadim Gutschtschin Meine Dinge», Braunschweig, 1999.^[60]
• «Aufbruch. Die neue russische Fotografie», Kоеln, 1998.
• «A la recherche du pere», Paris, 1994.^[61]

Video about artist and artist's interview

• «Interview in the «Bleek-Magazine», october 2014 ^[62]
• «Vadim Gushchin: still-life», made in November 2011 to the opening of the Vadim Gushchin's ehxibition Kultural treasures» in the Gallery Glaz, Moscow.^[63]

References

1. Vicky Goldberg «More History in Russian Photographs»
2. «Cultural Treasures»
3. Vadim Gushchin «Cultural Treasures»
4. «THE OBJECT AS A SCULPTURE. Vadim Gushchin: between the supermarket and the void»
5. Video «Vadim Gushchin: «Still-life»
6. «Vadim Gushchin: Still-life
7. «Personalismus des Dinges»
8. «Bread and Wood»
9. Exhibition in Museum of the History of Photography
10. «Aestetik der Statik»
11. «Inventory of a Private Library»
12. «Object. Function. Image.»
13. Vadim Gushchin Turns Household Items Into Art
14. Vadim Gushchin «Object. Function. Image»
15. «Vadim Gushchin. Passed» Bratislava, Slovakia
16. «Lianzhou Foto 2014»
17. Liandzhou Foto, China
18. «Cultural Treasures»
19. "PhotoVisa / Открытие выставки "Интерпретация предмета", Вадим Гущин, Россия". www.photovisa.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
20. «Idea Photographic after Modernism»
21. «Doors open day»
22. «Leben elementar»
23. Contemporary Russian Photography
24. «Museum, look of Photographer»
25. Guest Country : Russia.
26. Contemporary Russian Photography in Seoul
27. «Tarantel 2»
28. «Der Biss Der Spinne»
29. «Dinner is Served. The Russian Museum Culinary Companion.»
30. «Dinner is Served»
31. "Ausstellung “Neue Russische Avantgarde”, 11.01.2015 – 21.02.2015". galerie-kellermann.de. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
32. "Советское фото". www.lumiere.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
33. Iskakova, Yana; Zueva, Ekaterina (2015-06-23). "Seven decades of Soviet photography – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
34. Publishing, Schilt. "Exhibitions & Spotlight: Schilt Publishing". www.schiltpublishing.com. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
35. "The Russian Museum". rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
36. «SPRING. outskirts LANDSCAPE»
37. «Moscow» FACE
38. The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts
39. "The Russian Museum". www.rusmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
40. "Московский музей современного искусства". www.mmoma.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
41. Museum House of Photography
42. National Centre of Contemporary Art
43. "English / Музей Москвы". mosmuseum.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
44. Lumiere Brotherth Photography Center
45. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts,. "MFAH | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". collections.mfah.org. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
46. Houston, The Museum of Fine Arts,. "MFAH | The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston". collections.mfah.org. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
47. Albertina kauft zum Auftakt der VIENNAFAIR mehrere Kunstwerke von Sevda Chkoutova und Wadim Guschtschin
48. Albertina
49. «Boghossian Foundation»
50. "PhotoVisa / PhotoVisa 2015". www.photovisa.ru. Retrieved 2016-01-26.
51. «Staging Encounters» Lianzhou Fotofestival
52. «Everyday Objects/Cultural Treasures»
53. «Contemporary Russian Photography»
54. «Doors open day»
55. Monography «Photographs. Vadim Gushchin»
56. FOTOFEST 2006
57. «Photoestafeta. From Rodchenko to our days»
58. Valery Stigneev «Century of Photography»
59. «Idea Photographic after Modernism»
60. Wadim Gutschtschin «Meine Dinge»
61. «A la recherche du pere»
62. «Interview in the «Bleek-Magazine»
63. «Vadim Gushchin: still-life»

External links

• Webpage of the artist
• 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