Alexander Ponomarev

Born in Dnepropetrovsk in 1957.
Graduated from art school in 1973 and the Nautical Engineering College in 1979.
Lives and works in Moscow.

Solo exhibitions:

2006
"In the Garden of Wolf Packs," installation in the Tuilleries Fountain, Louvre, Paris
"Narcissus Backwards," Granite Center for Contemporary Art, Belfort, France

2005
"Le vent en rose," Rabouan-Moussion Galerie, Paris
"Nemo-Verne," monument to Jules Verne in the Somme Harbor, Crotoy Exhibition Hall, Le Crotoy, France

2004
"Alexander Ponomarev," TNT Center, Bordeaux, France

2003
"Utilizing Packs," Phase 1: "Base," residence of the French Ministry of Culture, Calder Atelier, Saché, France
"Cruise," Art Klyazma festival of contemporary art, Moscow
"Utilizing Packs," Phase 2: "What Depth! What Depth?," happening on the Loire River, Tour, France
"Utilizing Packs," Phase 3: "Mobile in Mobile," happening in the Mediterranean Sea, Saloniki, Cassis, Marseilles, Sagunto and Valencia
"Utilizing Packs," Phase 3: "What Depth? What Depth!," Tour Exhibition Hall, France

2002
"Smoke without Fire," Andrei Sakharov Center, Moscow
"Memory of Water," Museum of Science and Technology, Paris

2000
"Maya. A Lost Island," happening in the Barents Sea

1998
"The Breath of the Ocean," installation, Expo-98, Lisbon / George Soros Center of Contemporary Art, Moscow

1996
"Ship Resurrection," State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Group exhibitions:

2007
"I Believe," in conjunction with the 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Winzavod Art Centre, Moscow

2006
"ARS 06. Sense of the Real," Kiasma Nykytaiteen Musee, Helsinki

2005
"Topology of Absolute Zero," part of the special project "Invasion," Multimedia Complex of Actual Arts, in conjunction with the 1st Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow
"Under the Bridges-2," Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
"Alexander Ponomarev, Video," firstRun, art media festival, Ivri, France

2004
"Passage d'Åurope," Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne, France
"Rivages," Museum of Art and History, Saint-Brieuc, France
"Art and Politics," Center of Modern Art, Strasbourg, France
"Lessons of Happiness," Center of Contemporary Art, Yaroslavl, Russia
"Artconstitution," Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

2003
"Moscow Abstraction," State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

2002
"Out of Moscow," Center of Contemporary Art, Campair, France
"Moscow Time," Center of Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

2001
"Abstraction in Russia - 20th century," State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg

1993
"Russische Kunst der 60-90 Jahre," Resnabruck, Germany
"Ideal City. Trends in Contemporary Russian Art," National Museum, Singapore
"Postmodernism and National Traditions," State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

1991
"New Circle," Martin Luther King Center, Washington, D.C.
"Contemporary Artists Respond to Malevich," State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow