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Kirill Gluschenko’s (b. 1983, Kaliningrad) work sees him as head of a fictional publishing house called ‘Gluschenkoizdat Press’, of which he is also the sole employe — a reporter of sorts — who spends his time visiting towns in Russia and former Eastern bloc, to take photograph and publish books about them. This project took its final form in an exhibition ‘Our Days are Rich and Bright’ (2016). Over the years his practice developed into artistic research and working with archives. In 2020 he directed film ‘Moscow Lights’ for 2nd Garage Triennal. Gluschenko holds an MA in Photography from Lepzig Academy of Fine Arts. Currently he is a PhD candidate at the Estonian Academy of Arts.

Exhibitions. Solo

2016
Gluschenkoizdat Press, 3a, Polkovaya str., Moscow

Exhibitions. Group show

2018
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
2018
Moscow Museum of Modern Art & V–A–C, Moscow
2017
V–A–C Dzattere, Venice
2014
Detective
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2012
V–A–C Casa Dei Tre Oci, Venice
2011
Curated by Vest
Greta Insam Gallery, Vienna
2011
From the Realm of The Practical Knowledge
GMG Gallery, Moscow
2009
Junk
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow

Education

2022
PhD candidate
Estonian Academy of Arts • Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
2020
Meisterschüler (Master of Fine Art)
Professors: Peter Piller, Clemens V. Wedemeyer
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig • Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
2011
Master of Fine Art (drop out)
Valand Academy • University of Gothenburg
2009
One-year programm ‘Strategies and Tactics of Contemporary Art’
2007
Bachelor of Existing markets, financial and information flows, industrial and research processes
Modern University for the Humanities. Kaliningrad, Russia

Awards, Residencies & Scholarships

2023
Book Design Competition ‘Zhar-Kniga’, Diploma
Moscow, RU
2022
Artist-in-Residence and one year scholarship
Garage Museum, Moscow, RU
2020
‘Best Book Design from All Over The World’, Honorary Appreciation
Stiftung Buchkunst, Frankfurt, DE
2019
Deutsches Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, DE
2019
Book Design Competition ‘Zhar-Kniga’, Grand Prix
Moscow, RU
2018
Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig, DE
2018
Kulturstiftung des Freistaates Sachsen (Project scholarship)
Leipzig, DE
2017
The Innovation Prize, ‘New Generation’
Moscow, RU

Published Books

2021
Venets. Welcome to The Ideal (Russian edition)
Gluschenkoizdat Press
2019
Benign Duplicates. Diaries (1962) and Photographs From The Archive of Nikolai Kozakov
Gluschenkoizdat Press
2017
Venets. Welcome to The Ideal
Gluschenkoizdat Press (Funded by V–A–C)
2016
1962. Nikolay Kozakov Diaries
Gluschenkoizdat Press (Funded by V–A–C)

Design Atelier ‘Nowinka’ selected clients & Work experience
Esquire Magazine Russia (Art Director) • Port Magazine Russia (Art Director) • L’Officiel Magazine Russia (Art Director)
Tselinny Art Center • Moscow Philharmonic • Museum of Vadim Sidur
Snegiri Records • Zima Magazine UK • Ivan Limbakh Publishing House • Nosorog Literature Magazine
Books Distribution
Beirut: Papercup. Berlin: Do You Read Me?!, Pro QM. Leipzig: mZin. London: Calvert22.
Moscow: Garage, Falanster, Moskva, Ozon. Paris: Tailorbooks. Rotterdam: NAi Boekverkopers.
Tallinn: Lugemik. Vienna: Salon für Kunstbuch, Walther König.
  Exhibitions

• Tuning–3.
  GES–2

• 2nd Garage Triennial
  of Russian
  Contemporary Art.
  Garage Museum

• Marion-Ermer Preis.
  MdbK Leipzig

• General Rehearsal.
  MMOMA & V–A–C

• Space Force
  Construction.
  V–A–C Dzattere

• Our Days are Rich
  and Bright.
  Gluschenkoizdat,
  3a, Polkovaya str.
  Works

• Installation Venets
  and radioplay Radio Venets.
  The Price of The Ideal

• Just a Hum of Nothingness
  Between Me and You.
  Moscow Branch
  of Gluschenkoizdat Press

• Venets. Welcome to The Ideal.
  Russian Edition
  Exemplary Novel-Newspaper

• Moscow Lights. Film

• Benign Duplicates. Diaries (1962)
  and Photographs (1954–1993) from
  The Archive of Nikolai Kozakov.
  Edited by Kirill Gluschenko

• Benign Duplicates. Photographs
  (1954–1993) from The Archive
  of Nikolai Kozakov.
  Series of manual offset prints

• Venets. Ascension to Olympus.
  Series of manual offset prints

• Venets.
  Welcome to The Ideal
• Our Days are Rich and Bright.
  Series of manual offset prints


• Riga. Salaspils.
  Dzintari

• Dresden

• Pskov

• Ulyanovsk

• Eesti: Pärnu,
  Tartu, Tallinn

• Radioplay 1962.
  N. Kozakov Diaries.
  Vinyl (2×LP)
  and Podcast series

• N. Kozakov.
  1962. Diaries

• Leningrad, Gorkiy,
  Minsk, Palanga, Dubna

☺ 2017—2023, Kirill Gluschenko
Leipzig-Moscow-Pionerskiy—Tallinn-Tbilisi