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Fig 1. Kirill Gluschenko, Self-portrait in Yerevan, 2023
Kirill Gluschenko (b. 1983, Kaliningrad) is the head of a fictional publishing house called ‘Gluschenkoizdat Press,’ of which he is also the sole employee—a reporter of sorts—who spends his time visiting towns in Russia and the former Eastern Bloc to take photographs and publish books about them. Project took its final form in the exhibition ‘Our Days are Rich and Bright’ (2016) and received the Innovation Prize (Moscow, 2017). Over the years, his practice has developed into artistic research and working with archives. His project ‘Venets,’ first shown in Venice in 2017, was awarded the Marion-Ermer Prize (Leipzig, 2018) and nominated for the Kandinsky Prize (Moscow, 2019). Its accompanying publication ‘Venets: Welcome to The Ideal’ received the Deutsche Architekturmuseum Architectural Book Award. In 2020, Gluschenko directed his first film, ‘Moscow Lights’, for the 2nd Garage Triennal. Gluschenko holds an MA in Photography from Academy of Fine Arts Lepzig.

Exhibitions. Solo

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

Exhibitions. Group show

2019
Kandinsky Prize
Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
2018
Museum der Bildenden Künste, Leipzig
2018
Moscow Museum of Modern Art & V–A–C, Moscow
2017
V–A–C Dzattere, Venice
2017
The Innovation Prize
Shchusev Museum of Architecture, Moscow

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 (unfinished)
Estonian Academy of Arts • Eesti Kunstiakadeemia
2020
Meisterschüler Fotografie.
Professors: Peter Piller, Clemens V. Wedemeyer
Academy of Fine Arts Leipzig • Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst
2011
Master of Fine Art (unfinished)
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

Print Publications

2021
Venets. Welcome to The Ideal (Russian edition)
ISBN 9785600029699
1970 copies. Gluschenkoizdat Press
2019
Benign Duplicates. Diaries (1962) & Photographs from The Archive of Nikolai Kozakov
10 copies. Gluschenkoizdat Press
2018
Marion-Ermer Preis. Kirill Gluschenko. Works
ISBN 9783860600436
Museum der Bildenden Künste Leipzig
2017
Venets. Welcome to The Ideal
ISBN 9785990951914
500 copies. Gluschenkoizdat Press (Funded by V–A–C)
2016
1962. Nikolay Kozakov Diaries
ISBN 9785990625532
1000 copies. Gluschenkoizdat Press (Funded by V–A–C)

Films

2020
Moscow Lights. ...on the Moscow Avenue
2.66:1, 5K, 23 min 30 sec
2017
Venets. Welcome to The Ideal
16:9, HD, 7 min 2 sec

Radioplays

2022
Radio ‘Venets.’ Price of the Ideal
57 min 46 sec
2016
1962. Nikolay Kozakov Diaries
Vinyl 2×LP, 300 copies. Podcast. 3 h 34 min 46 sec

Collections
Garage Museum, Gazprombank, V–A–C Foundation & Private collections
Design Atelier ‘Nowinka’ selected clients & Work experience

Esquire Magazine Russia (Art Director) • Port Magazine Russia (Art Director) • L’Officiel Magazine Russia
Tselinny Art Center, Almaty • Moscow Philharmonic • Museum of Vadim Sidur, Moscow
Snegiri Records • Zima Magazine • 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.
Kirill Gluschenko. Portfolio. June 7th, 2024 (1.6)
︎ Download PDF, 60 pp.
  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.


• 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—2024, Kirill Gluschenko
Leipzig-Moscow-Pionerskiy—Tallinn