Joseph Backstein archive

Joseph Backstein’s video archive features documentation of around seventy important Russian art events from the 1980s to the early 2000s. These include events organized by the Avant-Garde Club and Collective Actions group, the exhibition at Butyrskaya Prison (1991), the first exhibitions of Soviet nonconformist artists abroad (such as Between Spring and Summer: Soviet Conceptual Art in the Era of Late Communism, USA, 1990–1991), and artists’ visits to the UK, Germany, Italy, and France in the early 1990s. The archive also contains footage of interviews, lectures, conferences, visits to artists’ studios and apartments, discussions, and installation of exhibitions and art fairs. Backstein’s video archive allows viewers to trace the life of the artistic circle associated with Moscow Conceptualism and pinpoint the emergence of new names and movements on the Moscow art scene.

About Joseph Backstein

Joseph Backstein (b. 1945, Moscow) is a curator, art historian, and critic who has been active on the Russian art scene since the 1980s. The head of the Russian Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA, Moscow) since 1991, he was also among the founders of the Moscow International Biennale of Contemporary Art, which he co-curated in 2005 and 2007 and headed as artistic director from 2009 to 2016.

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Tikhaya Studio, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

  • Tikhaya Studio Archive

Victoria Gallery, Samara, Russia

  • Victoria gallery archive

Yeltsin Center

  • Marina Sokolovskaya Archive

Centre for Culture CC19

  • Centre for Culture CC19 Archive

Nizhniy Tagil State Museum of Fine Arts

  • Nizhny Tagil Museum of Fine Arts Archive
  • Nizhny Tagil Artists’ Foundation

Togliatti Museum of Fine Art, Russia

  • Togliatti Museum of Fine Arts archive

Museum of contemporary art PERMM

  • Museum of contemporary art “PERMM” foundation

Archive of Contemporary Art in Krasnodar Krai

  • Archive of Contemporary Art in Krasnodar Krai
  • Sochi Art Scene Archive

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Russia

  • Alexei Shchusev archive (The Archive of the All‑Russia Agricultural and Artisanal Industrial Exhibition)
  • Andrei Erofeev archive
  • Margarita Masterkova‑Tupitsynа and Viktor Agamov‑Tupitsyn archive
  • Francisco Infante‑Arana Archive
  • Archive of the New Drama movement (1990–2010s)
  • Open Systems project
  • Garage Video Documentation
  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art institutional archive
  • Garage Interviews
  • L Gallery archive
  • Art Projects Foundation archive
  • Andrei Khlobystin archive
  • Vadim Zakharov archive
  • Viktor Pivovarov archive
  • Vladislav Mamyshev‑Monroe archive
  • Vyacheslav Kuristyn library
  • George Kiesewalter archive
  • Igor Makarevich archive
  • Igor Palmin archive
  • Joseph Backstein archive
  • Irina Aktuganova and Sergey Busov archive
  • Leonid Talochkin archive
  • Mikhail Nazarov archive
  • Garage Museum of Contemporary Art archive
  • Nina Zaretskaya (TV Gallery) archive
  • Sergey Chubraev archive
  • Stanislav Savitski archive
  • Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
  • Moscow Pallete Gallery archive
  • Shkola Gallery archive
  • Street art archive
  • Trips Out of Town archive and MANI Buchgalterium Anthology
  • Moscow Art Magazine archive
  • The archive of Artem Loskutov and the action Monstration
  • Boris Sveshnikov Archive
  • Vasily Sitnikov archive
  • Vladimir Nemukhin Archive
  • Vladimir Supik Archive
  • Janos Mácza Archive
  • Ivan Sotnikov Archive
  • Igor Pyatkin archive
  • Lena Popova Archive
  • Lyalya Kuznetsova Archive
  • Muza Yegorova (Yegorova‑Troitskaya) archive
  • Olga Danilkina archive
  • Archive of Sergey Borisov
  • Serge Sédrac archive
  • Sofya Adlivankina Archive
  • Tatiana Volkova archive
  • Meyerhold Center Archive
  • Yakov Butovsky archive
  • Art Activism archive
  • ZIP Group Archive
  • Archive of Evgenii Garkusha’s project I Am Not An Artist
  • Andrei Monastyrski's video diary
  • Anthologies of the Moscow Archive of New Art (MANI)
  • XL Gallery archive
  • Galeev Gallery Archive
  • Articles on the subject of art from Russian newspapers, 1900s‑1920s
  • Vlad Chizhenkov archive
  • Galina Osetsimskaya archive
  • Galina Smirnskaya Archive
  • Gennady Prikhodko collection
  • Elena Kovylina archive
  • Institute of Contemporary Art and Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art Archive
  • Lyubov Gurevich Archive
  • Margarita Gromova archive
  • Natalia Kamenetskaya archive
  • Natalia Ovsyannikova Archive
  • Natalia Samkova archive
  • Navicula Artis Gallery Archive
  • Aidan Gallery archive
  • Factory of Found Clothes Group/FFC archive

The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, USA

  • Moscow Archive of New Art

The Research Centre for East European Studies (Forschungsstelle Osteuropa), Germany

  • Boris Groys and Natalya Nikitina archive
  • Igor Golomshtok archive
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