Kremenchuk, Andrey

Kremenchuk Andrei was born in 1973 in Gorky . Art education began at SPbGUKI, at the faculty of “Restoration, conservation and storage of works of DPI from the museum metal”. After the third year, he enters the Vladimirsky Musical College at the faculty of "folk choral conducting." There begins to collect folklore of Vladimir and Nizhny Novgorod regions. From 1992 to 2002 engaged in expeditionary activities and collecting folklore of the village of Vladimir, Nizhny Novgorod region on Lake Svetloyar . During this period, portraying the carriers of folklore and their place of residence, shows interest in photography.

In the late nineties, enrolling in one of the German universities, he moved to Germany, where he lives to this day. Continuing ethnographic research, Kremenchuk studies Slavic studies at the University of Greifswald , after which he devotes himself to the visual arts and transferred to Hamburg to the Higher School of Applied Sciences - HAW Hamburg to the faculty of kommunikationsdesign. There he studies photography with Professor Uta Mahler. A graduate of the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig (HGB) Tina Bara photography class.

Recognition abroad received the work "No Direction Home", the Russian name "Near your house", published in 2009. The works of Kremenchuk are characterized by a narrative, emotional style of presentation, a conceptual study of topics, their national character. From 2009 to 2011, he is a member of the Berlin Photo Agency OSTKREUZ .

It is published and collaborates with leading world publications. In 2011, he acts as a book publisher.

• 2008—2012 Chernobyl Zone
• 2006—2010 COME BURY ME
• 2005—2007 No Direction Home

• 2018 - "Endless", Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
• 2016 - "Russians", Salzhof, Freistadt
• 2012 "Die Zerbrechlichkeit der Zweige", Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
• 2011 "No Direction Home", Blue Sky, the Oregon Center for the Photographic Arts, Portland USA
• 2011 “Chernobyl. Motherland Territory, Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, Mannheim
• 2011 "Chernobyl", Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
• 2011 “No Direction Home”, Studio im Hochhaus - Kunst und Literaturwerkstatt, Berlin
• 2009 “Andrei Kremenchuk, Photography”, Reklingnausen Art Community, Recklingnausen
• 2009 “No Direction Home”, Gallery Clara Maria Sels, Düsseldorf
• 2009 “No Direction Home”, Filipp Rosbach Gallery, Leipzig

• 2014 - "HEIMAT" - art collection DZ BANK, NRW-Forum Düsseldorf
• 2013 - "The look behind / Der Blick dahinter", Märkischen Museum Witten, Witten
• 2013 - CROSSING VIEWS - Photography from Leipzig, Marburger Kunstverein, Marburg
• 2012 - “Religion und Riten”, art collection DZ BANK, Art Foyer, Frankfurt am Main
• 2011 - “The City. Becoming and Decaying ", Lindenau Museum, Altenburg
• 2011 - “Street enthusiasts”, an exhibition tour organized by the Heinrich Bel Foundation and the Morat Institute, Berlin, Kiev, Warsaw, Brussels, Hamburg, Gartov, Freiburg
• 2010 - "City - from birth to death", Bayrischen Versicherungskammer, Munich
• 2010 - F / STOP 4, International Photofestival, Leipzig
• 2010 - FotoDoks 2010, Documentary Photography Festival, Munich
• 2010 - “City - from birth to death”, C / O Berlin, International Forum For Visual Dialogues, Berlin
• 2008 - “good prospects - young german photography 2007—2008”, House of Photography, Hamburg., Martin Gropius Bau and the Berlin Museum of Photography
• 2008 - “Friction and Conflict”, Museum of Art, Kalmar, Sweden
• 2006–2007 “FASHION”, Museum of Applied Art, Hamburg, Germany

• 2013 DZ BANK Art Collection - Project Scholarship
• 2012 Robert Bosch Stiftung - Grenzgänger
• 2011 VG Bild-Kunst - books of Chernobyl I Zone and Chernobyl Zone II
• 2010 PDN Photo Annual 2010 - “No Direction Home” in the photobook category
• 2009 German Photobook Award (Deutscher Fotobuchpreis 2010), silver for “No Direction Home”
• 2008 VG Bild-Kunst
• 2007 "Good prospects - young german photography 2007—2008"

• 2018 Der Tisch, Roman. Translated from Russian Christine Auras. Osburg Verlag, ISBN 978-3-95510-153-4 . ^[3]
• 2014 "drei Tage im Winter", Andrej Krementschouk, German., Revolver Publishing, ISBN 978-3-95763-233-3
• 2011 “Chernobyl Zone II”, text: Wolfgang Kil, Thomas Schirmböck, Andrey Kremenchuk., English / German., 120 pages, 60 color photos. KEHRER Heidelberg - ISBN 978-3-86828-210-8
• 2011 “Chernobyl Zone I”, 96 pages, 64 color photos. KEHRER Heidelberg - ISBN 978-3-86828-200-9
• 2010 “COME BURY ME” text: Andrey Kremenchuk., English, 104 pages, 47 color photos. Kehrer - ISBN 978-3-86828-120-0
• 2009 “No Direction Home” text: Boris Mikhailov, Andrey Kremenchuk., English / Russian / German., 120 pages, 81 Color - and 2 b / w photos. Kehrer - ISBN 978-3-86828-056-2

• 2014 heimat? Osteuropa in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie, Kerber Verlag - ISBN 978-3866789647
• 2010 "Die Stadt - Vom Werden und Vergehen" Hatje Cantz - ISBN 978-3-7757-2659-7
• 2010 “Im Verborgenen” F / Stop Vol 4. Zeitgenössische Fotografie aus Leipzig und International, ISBN 978-3-86828-186-6

• 2011 Alexander Chekmenev - DONBASS, Kehrer Verlag, German / English / Russian - ISBN 978-3-86828-185-9

• author's site
• Dana Jennings, Pastorals of the Atomic Age
• the book "No Direction Home"
• Dragonflies in red hot air
• review of Chernobyl Zone (I)
• review of No Direction Home
• review of No Direction Home
• Bibliography in the German National Library