Lebedev, Rostislav Evgenievich

Born in 1946 in Moscow . In 1969 he graduated from the art and graphic department of the Moscow State Pedagogical Institute . Since 1994, a member of the Moscow Union of Artists .

• State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
• State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
• State Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin , Moscow
• Cremona Foundation, Minnesota, USA
• Rutgers University , New Jersey, USA
• Staatliches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
• Andrei Sakharov Museum and Community Center , Moscow
• Private collections in the USA, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Italy, France, England, Sweden, Australia, Russia

• 2016 - “This is just a text” (shared with V. Kozin), New Museum , St. Petersburg
• 2016 - “Kitsch Concept” , pop / off / art gallery , Moscow
• 2011 - “There is no better bird in the world than pork sausage” , pop / off / art gallery , Moscow
• 2009 - “Treasured Tales” , pop / off / art gallery , Moscow
• 2008 - “Russian Pantheon” , pop / off / art gallery , Moscow
• 1999 - “Marginal Pseudo-Improvisations”, Zverev Center for Contemporary Art , Moscow
• 1990 - Eduard Nakhamkin Fine Arts, New York, USA

• 2014 - Decoration of the beautiful. Elitism and kitsch in contemporary art, Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok
• 2013 - Decoration of the beautiful. Elitism and kitsch in contemporary art, Art Museum. I.N. Kramskoy, Voronezh, gallery 16thLINE, Rostov-on-Don, NCCA, Vladikavkaz
• 2013 - Art Paris Art Fair , Paris
• 2012 - Decoration of the beautiful. Elitism and kitsch in contemporary art, State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
• 2012 - “A complete lie. The Art of Political Metaphor ", Moscow
• 2008- “100% Black Square”, pop / off / art gallery , Moscow
• 2008 - Art-Moscow, Central House of Artists , Moscow
• 2006 - “Art Moscow”, Central House of Artists , Moscow
• 2006 - Second Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
• 2006 - “The Adventures of the Black Square”, State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
• 2006 - “Word and Image”, NCCA , Moscow
• 2006 - “Sots Art. Political art in Russia from 1972 to today”, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
• 2005 - First Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Warsaw-Moscow, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
• 2005 - “THE ARTCARD”, Sharjah Art Museum, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
• 2005 - Russian Pop Art, State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
• 2004 - “Erotica, sex ...”, gallery on Solyanka, Moscow
• 2004 - “Warsaw-Moscow”, National Gallery “Zahenta”, Warsaw, Poland
• 2001 - The Sakharov Era, Andrei Sakharov Museum and Community Center, Moscow
• 2000 - ART-MOSCOW, International Art Fair, Central House of Artists , Moscow
• 1999 - “Museum of Modern Art”, exhibition of the Contemporary Art Collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Central House of Artists , Moscow
• 1999 - It's the real thing. Soviet and post-soviet sots art and american pop-art. Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
• 1999 - Exhibition-Laboratory "The Idea of ​​the USSR Museum", Andrei Sakharov Museum and Public Center, Moscow
• 1999 - Post-war Russian avant-garde from the collection of Yuri Traisman, USA, State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
• 1999 - State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Miami University Art Museum, Oxford, Ohio
• 1999 - “Born, married, walked ... Pushkin in Moscow”, Zverev Center for Contemporary Art , Moscow
• 1999 - Book of the artist, Pushkin Museum im. A.S. Pushkin , Moscow
• 1999 - "ART-MANEZH-99. EURASIAN ZONE", Manege , Moscow
• 1999 - “Workers in the fine arts and in photo documents”, gallery on Solyanka, Moscow
• 1998 - Forbiden Art, Art Center, College of design Alyce de Roulet Williamson gallery, Pasadena, California, USA
• 1997 - “History in the Faces of 1956-1996”, Nizhny Novgorod, Samara, Perm, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg
• 1997 - Cetinjski Bienale 3, Cetinje, Montenegro
• 1997 - Art of undegraund in URS, Center exibition hall, Budapesht, Hungary
• 1995 - Kunst im verborgenen. Nonconformisten Russland 1957-1995. " The contemporary art collection of the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve Wilchelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein; Documenta-Halle, Kassel; Staatiches Lindenau Museum, Altenburg, Germany
• 1994 - May Exhibition, Moscow Gallery, Kuznetsky Most, 20 Moscow
• 1994 - “An artist instead of a work”, Central House of Artists , Moscow
• 1994 - “Adresse provisoire pour l'art contemporain russe”, Musee de laPoste, Paris, France
• 1994 - Cetinjski Bienale 2, Cetinje, Montenegro
• 1993 - “Philosophy of a Name”, CSI, Moscow
• 1992 - Sots Art (Collection of Contemporary Art at the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve), Lenin Museum, Moscow
• 1992 - "Gorby in Images", Traveling Exhibition at US Universities
• 1991 - “Back to square one”, Berman gallery, New York, USA
• 1991 - 3-rd International Print Fair, Sydney, Australia
• 1991 - “In de USSR en Erbuiten”, Stedejlik Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
• 1991 - “Contemporary Soviet Art: From the Thaw to Perestroika”
• 1991 - Tsaritsyno Museum's Contemporary Art Collection, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• 1991 - After Perestroika, Irving Galleries, Sydney, Australia
• 1991 - “Contemporary Artists - to Malevich”, State Tretyakov Gallery , Moscow
• 1990 - “Towards the Object”, “Kashirka”, Moscow
• 1990 - “Traditions of Russian Painting”, Moscow Museum , Moscow
• 1990 - Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago, USA
• 1990 - “Absolut Glasnost”, exhibition of Absolut Vodka, New York, USA
• 1989 - “Expensive Art”, Youth Palace, Moscow
• 1989 - Showroom gallery, London, United Kingdom
• 1989 - “New Soviet Art”, Cologne, Germany
• 1989 - "Dialogue", "Avant-garde" Russe et Art Contemporain Sovietique "
• 1989 - Center Boris Vian, Ville des Uliss, Paris, France
• 1989-1990 - "Transformaition", The Legacy of Authority ", Camden Art Center, London, Middlesburg, Burnsley, Colchester, UK
• 1988 - "Geometry in Art", "Kashirka", Moscow
• 1988 - Labyrinth, Youth Palace, Moscow
• 1988 - “Exposition of today's artistic consciousness”, MARS Gallery , Design Center, Moscow
• 1988 - “Ich lebe - ich sehe”, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
• 1988 - "Festival of Contemporary Art", DC "Meridian", Moscow
• 1988 - The 2nd exhibition of the First Creative Association of Moscow Artists. House of artists on Kuznetsk bridge, Moscow
• 1987 - “Artist and Contemporaneity”, First Creative Association of Moscow Artists, Kashirka Exhibition Hall, Moscow
• 1987 - "Retrospection of the work of Moscow artists, 1957-1987" L / O "Hermitage", Profsoyuznaya ul. 100, Moscow
• 1981 - “Nouvelles Nendances de l'art Russe non officiel, 1970-1980”, Le Center de la Villedieu, Ellancourt, France
• 1979 - “Color, Space, Form”, Exhibition Hall of the City Committee of Graphic Artists, Moscow
• 1975-1983 - One-day creative evenings-exhibitions, House of Artists on the Kuznetsk bridge, Moscow
• 1976 - “Spring apartment exhibitions” (preliminary expositions for the upcoming exhibition in the halls on Begovaya Street), Moscow
• 1976 - “Exposition au Musee en Exil” (collection by A. Glaser), Montgeron, France
• 1975 - "Preliminary apartment views for the All-Union Exhibition", Moscow
• 1975 - "Exhibition of works by Moscow artists", VDNH , pavilion House of Culture, Moscow.
• 1968-1983 - Annual group exhibitions of young Moscow artists, House of Artists on Kuznetsky Most, Moscow

• “I have always been interested in the line where life ends and art begins. Sometimes you get tired and go to the side of art, then again you come back to life. Such, you know, movement, flanneling. I can’t do one thing. Even with repetitions, I get bored. I would rather not work than repeat myself. In the 1990s, I did not work much, I did mostly repetitions, I did not have enough strength for new ideas. I thought that social art left with the Soviet Union, and began to look for new moves. But what’s most interesting, as a result, I realized that nothing went anywhere - all the same. And somehow it became calm and good. On the one hand, it’s bad that nothing has gone, and on the other, it’s good - because the material remains for art! And in Russia it will probably always be like this forever ” ^[1] - Rostislav Lebedev, 2011 .
• “Rostislav Lebedev is one of the inventors of the direction, those artists who at first tried to consistently reproduce the sweet foreign pop art, and somewhere in the mid-1970s they made a revolutionary gesture - transplanted it to the soil of Soviet ideology and its surroundings. Lebedev is not among the stars like Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, or at one time socially-minded Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov and, in general, is not felt in the status of a classic like Boris Orlov, Leonid Sokov or Grisha Bruskin. However, he is one of the most consistent artists of the direction, so far almost without hesitation, without fear of old-fashionedness, developing social-artistic techniques. And this loyalty to yourself is very charming. Lebedev began with painting, then, in the early 1970s, he began to experiment with assemblages expanding the space of the picture (the passion for pop art in the spirit was probably not Warhol, but Raushenberg intersected here with an interest in the Russian avant-garde, constantly ironically mentioned in Lebedev's things). A little later, he began to do his most famous things - strange campaign objects that did not have any perceptible purpose, only solemnly representing themselves - like a big red parallelepiped with the inscription "Made in the USSR" ” ^[2] - Igor Gulin, 2011